Sunday, April 09, 2006
OZ: Part 1
Feels great to be back =) No, actually I'm lying >P Kinda forgot what's blogging and how to blog. Even as I type this now... I'm having
content constipation - dunno what to write and how to express... Yep,
I KNOW I haven been updating my blog since dunno I came here. Got couple of complains from friends about this... sorry guys!!
busy lah... bo bian =(Let's see... I'm in Adelaide for nearly 2 months already. I see some shocked faces: for those who dunno what's going on, I am studying in Australia now. Yours truly has already left the Lion City for further studies =P
Anyway where was I? Yep... in Adelaide. 2 months only... but feels like
forever. I'm doing pretty fine. My first 2 days were horrible though. Terrible experience - got sick on the plane, sick in Adelaide, no water to drink... =( will relate some other time. Other than that, life's good over here =) 6 weeks of school had just passed by. Right now, I'm having
2 WEEKS of MID-SEMESTER BREAK!!! Take that, NUS ppl!!! Crazy system here...
Lessons officially started at the end of February. I'm taking 3 modules this semester: Chemistry, Biology and Interpersonal Skills to Health Care. Before you jump the gun and say
"song bo!!!", I have to say I'm not having an easy time here.
Chem n Bio each have 3, 1-hour lectures each week. Throw in tutorials, lab work, assignments, weekly tests... Then I have to do grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning up etc etc. There u have it...
where got time to blog n blog. >P I was attending lectures, rushing assignments, trying to finish readings etc etc. Even lectures must also rush there early. Which
bugger said that westerners are all very
relac wan ah? Who said that
ang mos stroll in leisurely into the lecture hall 10 mins after it has started? That's an overstatement man... 15 mins before lecture starts, the hall is already thronging with people
liao lor... talk bout kiasuism.... -_- Perhaps people here are
kiasu for education and
relac for life in general. Vice versa for us back home, eh? =)
Imagine having to attend 3, 1 hour lecture each week for every module. And every lecture, the lecturer will be talking about totally new stuff.
Welcome to my world :P This is what I face here. It's challenging stuff. Lucky I had some background knowledge in Chemistry so still not so bad but Biology is a total new ball-game to me. I've never studied Bio before and the lectures are going at a very fast pace. Therefore, I'm panicking. -_- Have to use the 2 weeks wisely to catch up on my studies.... =(
Labwork, until now in Chem n Bio is simple stuff. Test for CO2, O2, H2.. got 'pop' sound anot, does the lighted splint glow etc etc. But I throughly enjoyed the entire process. It's fun to do experiments and observe, what happens when you add this substance to that. Even though the experiments are what we've done in the labs during sec sch, the feeling of being back there is
wonderful =)
1 thing I observe about australian students differing from s'porean students: When the lecturers talk, there will be TOTAL silence - nobody talks. So unlike back home when people can be chatting away the entire lecture, where lecturers have to stop talking and ask people to shut up. In addition, people here are more vocal, they really will stop the lecture and ask anything they don't understand, be it a simple question. How different from education back home!
Shall pause right here for the day. It's 10.30 pm, Sunday night and here am I, blogging on campus :) Can't think of anymore to write for now... Dun worry, couple of events coming up that deserves space on my blog. This coming Easter, 15th April 2006, will be a very important day. I won't say why now... just wait n hope... in anticipation :P
Just a little more time! [*] 8:34 PM
