Philosphy of Life.

Ok folks, so heres how it is…There were plenty of boring orientation lecturers during the orientation. These are some of the topics covered but I won’t elaborate coz I nearly fell asleep at all of ‘em!

Day 2:
Boring.

Day 3:
Faculty Orientation, Multicultural Issues for International Students, Cultural adjustment, Communication Skills to Secure casual Employment. (See, told you it was boring…next time i won’t even bother you with the titles)

Day 4:
Boring stuff then go to Grand Central (the city centre) mall to open bank account and buy some stuff.

Day 5: 
Boring lecturers and then at night there was a bushdance and everyone joined in dancing to australian country songs and we had a blast! The best one was a progressive dance where you change partner every 20 seconds or so and you keep going until the music stops!

Day 6:
Boring stuff and then BBQ for all new USQ students…the BBQ’s here are the best!

Day 7:
Here’s where it gets interesting! We went down to Gold Coast to visit Dreamworld!!! To those of you how don’t know, dreamworld is like Genting but 3 times bigger and better! Entrance to Dreamworld is around AUD70. Transportation is around AUD60. We got the whole package for AUD56!!!

1830hrs:
lepak until sleep.

My Room:

My Room View:

0600hrs: Wakie wakie…forced myself up early in da morning…see. I made my bed!

0640hrs: Finish getting dressed and ready for breakfast!

0700hrs: Breakfast at Concanno College Dining Hall. I was the first to arrive!!! woohoo!

0740hrs: Go back to room, relax and lepak on computer trying to get online.

0900hrs: Give up trying to get online. Decide to go out jalan-jalan and met Denni on the way out.

0930hrs: Go into the Japanese Garden with some of my new friends after talking crap for half an
hour…

impressed with the Japanese garden and the ducks which aren’t
afraid of people.

1000hrs: New Hope Church starts and we happen to be at the right place at the right time so we go in and join worship.

1030hrs: BBQ in the outback! Didn’t manage to stay for the whole church
service because of orientation plans which involved taking a coach full
of international students somewhere in the outback near Perseverence
Lake. Also took a bushwalk where we saw kangaroos!!! No koala’s
though…*sigh*

Forgot to take picture of the Kangaroo but got a pic of a bird…

1350hrs: Head back to USQ

1500hrs: Go house visiting and look for prospective places to rent
because my current accomodation is only for the orientation period.

1800hrs: Meet up with Denni for going to a West Presbyterian (however you spell it) church.

1830hrs: Go scouting for church. Brought by Byron but the church he
attends started too early and we missed it so we look for any services
that start at 7pm.

1910: Give up looking for churchs…saw plenty on the way, at least 6
but all either started way earlier or doesn;t have eveing service.

1930: Go dinner instead at a chinese restaurant. Pig out and the bill
was 82 Aussie Dollars!!! Divided by 5 people was AUD16.60 per person.
*gulp*

2130hrs: Arrive back at Uni…proceeds to online after being given directions from Denni.

2300hrs: Fed up with trying to log into skype through the university’s
network. Can get thru to MSN but Skype seems to have problem.

2355hrs: Current time and done with online-ing. Going to sleep now because have to get up at 6 something again tomorrow…*sigh*

**reasons for trying so hard to log into skype was because wanted to
call my dad and tell him that everything’s gone alright and tell Linzhi
that I accidentally took the Touch & Go card with me to
Australia…hehe…I figured this will be the best way to tell you. If
you don’t read this than tough luck.

More Pics Here!

After all the application processes and documents, it’s all finally done. I’ll be leaving Malaysia on the 15 July, 2006 at 9.40am. I will be taking a 7 1/2 hour flight to Brisbane and arrive at Brisbane local time 7.10pm (Brisbane is Msia+2). From there a coach will bring me and 5 others to the University of Southern Queensland where I will be exiled to for the next 12 months. There will be many new things, new customs, new challenges, new hurdles, new friends, basically a new life. I am definitely going to miss all my friends here in Malaysia and will never forget you. A special THANK YOU to those of you who have been with me through tough times. I will be calling some good friends throughout the week, those who have deeply impacted me and left an impression in my life.

In preperation for studying abroad, I have purchased a notebook PC. A pretty ASUS A8J which comes with a T2300 1.66GHz Duo Core processor, an 80GB HDD, 2GB DDR2 667Mhz, Nvidia Go7300 256MB, DVD Writer along with a wide array of built in features like webcam, microphone, speaker, Wifi, Bluetooth, and stuff like that. I bought it on Tuesday (4/7/2007). Four days later, it’s competely destroyed. It won’t even boot up Win XP. I’m heading down to the shop on monday to get a 1 to 1 replacement. If I broke it in 4 days, I have no idea how it;s gonna last me 1 year in australia *gulp* (wish me good luck!!!) I e-mailed my parents already…If they were here I’m sure they would kill me…*sigh*

Lastly, I am switching MSN Messenger accounts. The current one if getting kinda messed up. Please add me.

My new MSN address is: me@jiarenlau.com.

It will work, trust me. I’ll will be slowly phasing out from my current account and shift to the new one. Thank you.

-JiarenLau.