Prince of Persia

I just watched this move yesterday, because the movie I wanted to watch was too late. I am not really a big fan of super heros movie so I wasn't carrying much of a high expectation with me when my friends chose this movie instead.

However, to my surprise, the plot managed to catch my attention throughout the whole session. Although the movie was predictable but the story line was more focused on some really valuable lessons in life such as family love, humbleness and respect. I think the director has managed to capture the audience by instilling some humanitarian values and I think that is really important apart from good looking characters and good graphic.

Overall, I will rate it a 4 star out of 5.

what a bad ending to the month of May

Lately, there has been alot of drama happening around me. Close friends arguing, backstabbing, boycotting and ignoring each other. And me? Trying to get everything back to normal and fixing the mess. Why? Because I don't want to be caught in the middle. I hope and really hope they will see every small fight are caused by misunderstanding which are flamed by accusations. I never actually experienced that much drama in KL until I come to Melbourne. I really don't know why life here can be so dramatic when I thought Melbourne is such a peaceful place. Maybe my home is the place where I really belong to.. I still don't have that sense of belonging here.

What's worst is today my "supposedly" family web cam session turned ugly, my parents had an arguement in front of me and they just cut of right after that leaving me in dazed of what happened.

After all the drama that happened I thought I could find comfort form my family but it seemed to just made things worst.

How am I supposed to hold on when I am the only person left to stand alone to face all this by myself. I have to admit I am very much stronger and wiser than many of those who are older than me. I can say that for sure because after every incident which happened around me since I came to Melbourne. I just realised that people do foolish decisions for stupid things. I do laugh at them in my heart, amazed by how one can be when they are so naive and irrational..Hahaha.. Guess this is the evil side of me, sad but true.

I still thank God for giving me the wisdom and courage to not end up like how those fools did :)

Disconnected from the World.

Lately, it's just been me, me, me and more of me. It's so amazing I've been surviving with just socialising with my laptop and iPhone for the past 1 week. And I start thinking life is so boring here and I am drop dead lonely.

I start wondering where is everyone else? Why is my life so routine? Wake up-Go Class-Home-Dinner-Revision-Sleep and continue on the next day with the same thing. And at this time I start thinking back how interesting life is in KL even when I am doing the exact same thing here. And then I started thinking about my friends...my family...my car....shopping malls..almost everything I had when I was in KL.

I was so lonely and bored I even went to the beach for a walk to see sunset by myself. I look at people bringing their dogs for a walk on the beach. Maybe I wont be lonely if I have a 'man's best friend'?

Finally after a web cam session with my parents, I felt so much more better like at least I have spoken to someone literally chatted with human beings.

Sigh.. I have to admit life in Melbourne is really boring and lifeless.. :(

Overspending and can't control.

S.O.S needed!
Now I finally understand the feeling of eating out often in Melbourne. It just burns a big hole in your pocket..
Well the pocket in my hole is getting bigger by the week and there don't seems to be a stop to that anytime soon.

Last week, I had to spend for Kei's birthday present and the freaking overpriced taxi fare for the after party. And not to mentioned during the times when Yoyo visited us from Brisbane. In order to accompany a good old friend, we ate out almost everyday during his few days. And the worst part we went to fancy restaurants and I even shopped like 300 AUD in one day.

And today I went for movie with Carissa, luckily I made a wise decision to watch on Tuesday as it only cost 10.50 AUD. However, I felt so unsatisfied with the oh-so-fancy-yet-so-worthless-dinner at Lygon, Carissa mentioned that the Italian restaurant was rated high in the Melbourne Food Guide but honestly I find nothing special about it at all and it cost us like total 41 AUD for a pasta marinara and small pizza. TOTALLY UN WORTH IT!. Here are the pictures of the food we ordered.




Geez, and I still have a dinner with Nisha and friends this Thursday, and from the sound of "seafood" as the mains in the menu, I have a strong feeling it's gonna cost me a fortune again.. but because I hadn't catch up with Nisha for such a long time, I think the dinner was quite necessary.

AND AND AND.. another phone call from Denis for another formal dinner this Friday. And I need to get a black dress for the event as it is held in a hotel. Ok... there goes another part of my money for shopping again... YES and it's necessary too. Cuz Denis won't talk to me for the rest of his life if I'm gonna bumped out last minute...


I am officially making a vow here, I am not gonna eat out starting next week onwards for at least 2 weeks. Great, I hope I can sleep tonight.. :)

My Personal Haunted Adventure.

During the recent weekends, my super "adventurous" friend, Edwin wanted to visit the Melbourne Goal (another word for jail) so badly, and coincidentally we had a buy 1 free 1 admission ticket voucher from the entertainment book, so I had no reason to reject him. I was pretty sure why Edwin wanted to go this kind of places badly, it's definitely not because of sight seeing purpose. Well, he wanted to "see" or "feel" "other things". He has always been into this kind of supernatural paranormal stuffs. Well, I think I am one of the bravest friend he had which will accompany him to do crazy stuffs like this. Anyways I myself was quite interested in historical buildings but definitely not for the same reason as him.

Basically, this goal has centuries of history if I'm not mistaken since World War II. During the war, many illegal immigrants which were caught were placed in this jail and there were from all over the world although mainly from Australia. Not only that, there were males and females prisoner as well. What's astonishing about this goal is that out of around 200 prisoners held, approximately 130 of them were hanged and executed here.

Okay back to my experience, when I first step into the jail, I felt a sense of eeriness surrounding and the air was damp and cool. It was quite tightly secured with only metal grills and bars all over, and just a slight ray of light managed to shine into the jail floor from the windows. Seriously, it's really spooky ok? Given there weren't many people inside the jail at that time. It was 3 stories high and every floor has around 30-40 cells. Every cells have its own story of the occupant. We walked from cell to cell and read about the crimes they committed and how they were punished. Unfortunately most of them were hanged and some were even proven to be innocent after their death. In addition, we even walk past the place where the gallows were and the site of execution. Honestly, throughout the whole tour, my hair was standing on my back and I seriously did not wanted to snap any photos inside because I don't want to capture any "unknown" objects. Long story cut short...

While Edwin was at the second floor he said he say some apparition floated across and it was white but weird thing was at that moment there weren't anyone or anything there. But thank God I didn't see anything. But I definitely felt something, I felt really heavy and dizzy while I was inside the jail. I didn't feel well I just felt I wanted to get out of that place as soon as possible.

In another story, while Edwin and I were visiting this one cell with another local woman, one of her friend came dashing in telling her friend she captured something on the camera and it looked like "ghost". Immediately I felt goosebumps all over.

Then we went downstairs and wait for a short show which is scheduled on that day about the story of some prisoners. As we sat down, Edwin felt bored and took out his iPhone and played with the compass function, his compass detected some interference and couldn't function. I didn't believe so I took out my IPhone as well and the same thing happened! Oh My Gosh! What was it.. I didn't dare think twice and immediately without even waiting for the show to commence , we took off and left that place.

After getting out of the prison, we found out the prison is only open for tourism purpose during the day, However during the night, there are also some night tour which are for those who wish to experience the paranormal activities and they even posted some images with a shape of a human floating pass. I won't even dare to think about joining that kind of tour.

As for that day, I had enough and I think Edwin learnt his lesson as well. For the first time I saw this daredevil showing his coward side...all I can say is What An Experience.

Am I Mean or Not?

Hi people, I am Elaine, and I am Miss Meanner and I hate you and I don't want to be your friend.

Sometimes I feel that I am a really terrible person, feeling guilty after each mean act. For example, earlier on I had an issue with one of my coursemate. We used to be quite close because we're stucked with the same group when it comes to assignments and all. Initially I thought she was really friendly but slowly I felt she is more like the kind who only make friends for one purpose - to leech on your assignments and tutorial answers. At first I still can tolerate such act but slowly I begin to feel she is so rude even when she wants something from you. A "please" seems such a hard word from her even when she needs the answer desperately. But she is also that kind which is "kiasu" always wanna know what you're studying, how's your work going so I thought she is like that because she just wanna be better than the rest. Until one of our mid sem tests, she literally copied another guys answer next to her throughout the test. She made it so obvious, she was copying word by word IN FRONT OF ME! I thought she said she studied hard for it?! And when I attempted to advise her not to copy during the test, she turned a deaf ear. And on the second attempt, I even shouted in class to her so she would stop copying. Lucky for her, the lecture let her go. After the test, she even dare to tell me she didnt copy at all and pretend all innocent and the guy who let her copy his work even scolded me why I made such a big fuss because I could get both of them into trouble. I WAS UP TO THE VERGE OF EXPLOSION. Immediately after that I walked out of the class and since then I never bother talking to them anymore, and I think they got the message. So from now on I have less one close coursemate and to be honest I don't have more than 5 close coursemate.

In another separate case, while I was attending one of my lecture, I was trying my vesy best to pay attention to the lecture, but this chinese girl kept talking non stop to her partner next to me and she just couldnt stop and lower down her volume. Eventually I couldnt take it anymore and I told her to keep her volume down. Although after that I enjoyed a moment of peace during the lecture but I felt guilty for being so mean to her so during the break I said sorry for asking her to tone down and she was nice enough to admit she was wrong and said sorry back in return. After a moment of reflection, I felt I am mean and bad, or just plain rude? Did I do the right or wrong thing?

All those actions mentioned above seems to be the right thing for me to do, but maybe I am a symphatetic person so my guilty consience kicks in really fast. I wanna be nice to everyone and a friendly person because I can't live without friends but am I chasing them away by being like this? Sigh. I really need advice on this. How to be a "Nice" Girl.

- Eclipse - The Twilight Series

June 30, 2010 marks the official date of the release of Eclipse, the third movie following the Twilight and New Moon series. Honestly, I wasn't really a big fan of Twilight until I read all four books. and I just realised I am just as crazy as any other Twilight fan. It felt as though the author has stirred up a world of fantasies and romance in my mind whereby I started imagining every scene mentioned in the books. No wonder Stephanie Myer is one of the world's best selling author. Check out more about Stephanie Meyer on http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilight.html Did you know Stephanie actually submerged herself in a world full of vampire romance and fantasies so that she could portrait those imaginations into words. She even went to the real Forks Town (the major scene where the story took place) to get more inspirations for her story.

Okay back to the story, let me warn you guys, I am going to write some spoiler here so if any of you do not wanna be "spoiled" by me. Please do not read ahead.

And the story in New Moon ended like Edward went to Rome when he thought Bella was dead and wanted to suicide by revealing his identity to the public so he will get prosecution from the Volturi and blah blah blah and finally got saved by Bella.

However, there would be a little twist in the Eclipse series. You will witness the battle between Jacob and Edward for Bella's love, and I can tell you there is so many love hate scene which kinda annoy me. P/s: Jacob and Edward kept getting jealous of one another, but good thing they eventually became friends towards the end. There is also how Victoria got killed by Edward and how the Volturi gave Bella a dateline to become a vampire. And ultimately how Edward proposed to Bella...woohooo Good Ending!

Yes. Let me proudly introduce you the official Eclipse Trailer:.

Nature's Beauty

Do you know who makes the seven colour of rainbows?
Do you know who gives the Volcano lava a bright red?
Do you know who makes the ocean blue?
Do you know who gives the flowers its beauty?

Nature's ultimate creator - the Almighty God!











p/s: All this pictures are captured using my iphone by me around Melbourne ;)

Disappointed

Today I received a bad news from my course coordinator, my application to study in France during January has been unsuccessful as it is only offered for undergraduates and not for postgraduates (which is what I am doing now). Seriously, I am utterly dissapointed to the core. I have had so much expectations and planning ahead that I even imagine myself at Paris already. Alternatively they offered me to Denmark instead. I don't really know what is in Denmark but it definitely does not feel as appealing as France. Its just so unfair! Why can't postgrads go France?!


AHHHH i'm going crazy my going back plan for end of this year has just been screwed. Lets hope my appeal to go France will be successful or maybe I will just go Denmark. sigh!

Happy birthday daddy and happy mothers day

Okay..my last resort to the birthday surprise came out to be not so surprise at all. Yeah this year I'm going the old school way.... Well not so old school.. With abit of help from technology I've managed to resolved to sending e greeting cards to my parents. This is my very first time sending virtual birthday and mothers day card. Honestly I feel only people who are desperate for some last minute plan or insincere will do such thing. Now I understand the 'desperateness'.

Mother's Day + Daddy Birthday (Without me)

Dang, mother's day is coming again and how coincidently my dad's birthday falls around the same date as well.

I remember every year I never fail to surprise my parents, either by making "milo agar agar", handmade cards, a surprise dinner, or a perfume etc. ONE THING for sure is I never missed celebrating with them for the past 22 years. At around this time every year, I will definitely be cracking my head for their presents and surprised.

But this year me being around 6360km away from home, what can I do to make my presence there with them during their special days. Okay this is officially more challenging than thinking about whatever present or surprise that I need to give them on that day.

Better start googleling for any "long distance surprise" now..!

A Date On A Saturday Evening...

My long awaited date has come...with someone so special. All along there was so much anticipation for the conversation and laughters.

Hey hey, it's not a date with some prince charming o' mine or some hot guy next door. Its just a web cam session with my grandma, grandpa and my beloved aunty. My parents had made an effort to arrange a web cam session with them. The session lasted for around 1 hour + and I was pretty sure it would be longer if it wasn't for their dinner time.

Oh well, it was well worthy thou. I hadn't spoke to them since I last went back during my graduation. They seems excited to know how well I'm doing here and were very much concern about my well-being. But surprisingly majority of the topics involved were about food. They were more curious about how my cooking skills have progressed.

And my grandpa was even in a mood to joke with me about how fat and round my face has been and how old he is getting as days by pass. Not foregetting my aunt which kept stirring in the cheerful atmosphere by teasing how my english has improved (obviously not). Oh how I miss them so much. I really wish I could have a longer catching up session with them in reality rather virtually. But I think it's gonna be a long long time until Chinese New Year for 2011. That is going to be my well anticipated moment....