I feel like I have been submerged under water for the past 2 weeks and only now am I given the chance to take a gulp of fresh air before having to go under again in a few days. Yes, school's busy.
Had two midterms in the last two weeks. Got 25/30 for my ECMT exam, which was surprisingly lower than my prediction. I'm not so confident for my ECON exam, which I barely had enough time to complete. More recently, I have been working rigiously day and night [I practically 'lived' in the computer lab] on my psychology essay and yay, I'm finally done! But the semester never stops and I currently have a sociology essay due next week and an econ essay due a few weeks later. Don't think either one would be harder than the psych one though. Oh by the way, I love university libraries because they have so many resources! Right now I think I'm borrowing something like 12 books and it's totally fine! Most of these books smell good too haha!
With the prospect of staying in Sydney for winter break, I have been thinking about the future. Last Saturday, Jamie, Tim and I went job hunting: walking around the city just offering resumes to people who are more likely than not not going to reply anyways. Made me realise how tough it is to find a job, even a simple low paying job such as waitering. Just have to wonder how life's going to be like after I graduate =S. I also found a place with a friend (Dave) to stay during the winter break, costing only $100 per week! Sweet deal eh?
Bought an old but fast tele-zoom model from Ebay recently. Cost me a grand! It was such a tough decision to make, what with all the negative arguments from family and friends. But in the end, I'm still happy I got it. Simply said, it is an investment and because it's such an old and rare lens anyways, it probably won't depreciate in value by much over the next decade or so. But because I got the lens, my parents are not paying for my winter expenses -- hence the desperation for a job. Everytime I go online and check my bank account balance, I'm met with the realisation that I've only got so much to spend for so long a time period (3-4 months!)! But it's only going to make things more interesting =) Was going to find a job related to photography but the industry's so competitive I haven't got any replies from my applications so far. The closest one I got offered to pay $250 for 13 corporate headshots and a group photo! How sweet a deal was that? But in the end I didn't get it. A shame, but life moves too fast to linger on it. Was the official photographer with Tim for the IH Harbour Cruise event last week. Thought I caught some pretty nice stills [see below]. Was also interviewed on photography for the coming IH newsletter.
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| Realisation that I have NO MONEY! |
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| And then realising that all your money went to this piece of black metal... You question yourself WHY WHY WHY but only one reason can justify it: because it's worth it, and it is! |
In university, everyday feels like a weekend. I mean, right now it's like 12.17am and the last few hours haven't been the most productive from me -- it was getting ice cream from Broadway, playing piano, talking to a friend... In other words, no work done! No one cares about you. You could skip lectures, tutorials and it's not like anybody cares. Which is why university requires so much motivation to study. Personally I don't have problems with that. I'm motivated by so many people everyday and I keep trying to improve my study efficiency daily. That includes waking up at 6.30am in the morning to work! (Don't think if I can wake up that early tomorrow since it's already 12.19am!
Most of the friends that I've made so far are from IH. No, I take that back. All of the friends I've made so far are from IH. There will come a time when I'll need friends outside of IH, but right now I'm not making any particular effort to find friends. Well, recently, I've been trying to but sometimes I simply don't see a point of doing so. I've got good friends at IH. That's all that matters since I spend my time in IH like 90% of the week?
Oh at the moment, I'm starting a personal project [nothing big] for myself and for all my friends across the globe: I'm going to record down a video diary of my everyday this week. I've already recorded 2 days (3, including today) but haven't had time to edit and compile them yet because my computer's broken and nobody has been nice to enough to lend me their computers... =( These videos are actually really badly filmed because the audio's horrible (internal mics), the focus is usually off (I'm manual focusing all the time), and it's always bumpy (since I'm always walking around). These videos are also meant to be true depictions of my life and the world around me, and is in no way intended to be funny or entertaining. It's just a diary. Once I'm done editing, I'll post them one by one up on Youtube of Facebook and share it around. So... stay tuned for some awesome (NOT) videos of my life!
I haven't got any photos of my own to post up right now... So just a boring blogpost update filled with lines and lines of text... Well, if it makes anything better, here's an emoticon --> =D
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