Last post in Miri

I should be having lots of posts since it's already the holidays, but there was barely anytime to be sitting in front of my laptop to surf the net other than my emails.

It's my last week in Miri and this will be my last entry here.

The whole week was a blast! Packing, planning and farewells...

Monday and Tuesday were about packing. I didn't expect to have 2 luggage bags, 4 boxes (mostly books and one Sonic Gear speaker), a bicycle and a guitar (with a badminton racquet, a pingpong bat and a camera tripod). In between the packing, I had dinner with the 'Geo' girls - Ming Yi, Li Ming and Shae Nee - on Monday after their exams. Had a good chat with the girls in Canada Hill.

...taken at Canada Hill...

(after four takes)

Tuesday was supposedly a meeting but it ended up with lunch, window shopping, Starbuck'ing, sunset'ing.

...my Signature Hot Chocolate...

...wannabe Charlie's Angels...

(Li Ming, Ming Yi, Karen)

I had to send my things down to the transport company on Wednesday morning. Thank you so much to Catherine and Adrienne for helping me out that morning. Had a long meeting with Student Wall in the afternoon and had a short walk around campus to take pictures. Dinner was at Miri Cafe but my dish wasn't that great :(

...I was in time to use this building...

Thursday was so random. Went for a swim at 9.30am! Sun was so hot... After the swim was a long walk in the city. It was a walk to the chicken rice shop in town but we ended up in Taman Bunga, lunch at a shop that sells good lunch and snow flakes. We continued the walk to WZT Cafe but the coffee wasn't as nice as we thought. Too bad the chicken rice shop was closed so we headed to Imperial and bought some DVDs and headed back home to freshen up before meeting up the girls for kite flying in Tanjung. Cut myself pretty bad while trying to save the kite but had we all had fun!

...Catherine and the smiley face kite...

...half way flying the kite still can syok sendiri...

...Amy, Ray, Jason, Yuki, Ruby, Catherine and I...

...taken at Bintang Megamall carpark...

Now, it's Friday and it's time to cut off the Internet at home. Two more days and I'll be off from Miri!

All that is left here with me is my laptop and a backpack filled with a week's clothes.

Will be back three weeks from now for updates~!

Happy Holiday everyone!

Exams are over!

Yes. Indeed I'm flying in the air now with all my exams -DONE!

But not as happy to leave so soon.

Lots of things to do: lepaking with friends, packing all the treasures collected for the past 2 years, planning for my long holiday, saying the 'goodbyes' to everyone I've met here in Curtin.

One more week before leaving a place I called 'home'.

But for now, exams are over! It's time to celebrate!!!

Miri [Paranomic - Part 2]

...picture taken from the Photoshop Workshop...

- Curtin University Campus -

*click picture to enlarge*

The Study Week

I bet all Curtin'ians spent their whole one week studying for their finals which is starting...tomorrow!

My first paper will be on Tuesday and one on Thursday and another on Friday this week. Which means, another 5 days to the day I finish my degree! :)

The study week...this time, I'm glad to actually have 3 papers coz the past 3 semesters killed me a lot where I had to wait for a week to two for just 1 paper! At least I spent my study week this semester wisely with three units to revise on...and to add a little more 'study stress' before finishing my study life.

The study week started off with two days of public holidays - for Gawai. Monday was a blast coz we were at Rumah Ampik for Gawai and drank lots of tuaks and beers and liquor. Tuesday was another day of rest for most working people but it was the day of revision for Curtin'ians. Started my revision on Wednesday and continued on Thursday. Friday was a chill out session again (...not sure what I can do to revise more, so I watched drama series the whole day...). Saturday morning was a great one - tiring for sure - but fun, volunteering to help the cleanups at Mercy Malaysia office in Piasau. There were bags and bags of clothes, shoes, toys, bags. It was a sweaty morning but later, we had a good meal at MarryBrown before going back home for an afternoon nap which later extended to the evening. Sunday was another day in church and lunch with Uncle David after the service. Had a short meet up with the house owner and the new tenants who will be renting Lot 3946 next month...and now, it's back to study!

Exam starts tomorrow!

All the best to everyone in Curtin!

Miri [Paranomic - Part 1]

...taken at Bintang Megamall carpark...

*click picture to enlarge*

Gawai 2009

This will probably be my last year celebrating Gawai with my foster family in Rumah Ampik. We had another Gawai visiting this year with Gerain and 7 other guys. It was an early morning visiting and it ended at about 1pm with a few of us tipsy and a few of us drunk.

...taken before more tuaks and beers...

Met Tuai Rumah and his wife and other relatives in the longhouse. It was sad to know that Uncle Simon met with an accident last year and was in a long coma until recently and his wife passed away just a month ago. He barely remember us but he was there, sitting and chatting with us.

...looooook! tuaks and food!...

We were brought to perform a ceremony and OMG~! they gave us tobacco leaf to eat!!! It was horrible! and there goes our drinking session. We were served with three different types of beer, lots of tuak and pure Label 5. 

...a part of the ceremony...

...all of us had to turn this chicken around for 7 times...

Lucky us that we managed to leave half way through the visit because one by one started to get drunk... *thanks to that guy who basically got all of us drunk during our first visit*

...the chicken that we all turned it 7 times...

It was a great visit and it was great indeed to be back home in Rumah Ampik.

Hope to have another visit sometime in the future.

John Curtin Leadership Academy...the Friday

The last day in John Curtin Leadership Academy.

...just a short brief...

A FRIDAY MORNING WITH JCLA

Date: 29th May 2009

Time: 10am-1pm

Venue: LT Foyer, Curtin University

It was supposedly a 'Telematch with the Blind' but it went a little bigger than expected. We grouped everyone (all 22 JCLAs) together from different group; Project Care, Golden Ambassador, Vision, Friends of Society and I have a Dream. It was a whole morning of telematch~ 5 hampers were given out for all the telematches.

...the team...

JCLA POSTER PRESENTATION

Date: 29th May 2009

Time: 2pm-5pm

Venue: REC Hall, Curtin University

It was the last poster presentation for our batch. This time is was organized in Curtin with some corporate companies. We were given 30 minutes presentation for all groups. One thing's for sure, the food is nice~ :) Worst part of all...we had to move all the poster boards from REC Hall to AL Building, and deng! those stuffs were heavy!

...the advance batch with the facilitators; Haslina, Serina and Terence...

-as for now, it's time to wait for the announcement of our graduation-

It's been great working with everyone in JCLA! 

All the best to everyone in the final exams and all the future undertakings~