1st week in brisbane

after so much of "i'll blog soon", i finally have the time to do it now.

sunday:
- landed in brisbane
- jean's friend, dylan drove to pick us up (we rent a car for few days).
- took sometime to find 'sunnybank' for dinner, a place where asian hang out.
- drove dylan home then followed by a long searching trip to my place
- almost got into a car accident.
- room has nothing but a bed and a small drawer
- tested out the internet to game (1 sec delay is shit)
- ant killing session
- put up bedsheet and rest
- live alone (housemate back on fri)

monday:
- walk to school with wl
- get my si-net username and password (at last!!)
- tried to use it in school
- walk to wl's home for lunch (not prepared)
- walk back to school to attend BEL's orientation
- jean drove us to toowong to shop some grocery
- cook dinner with wl (gg not cooked pasta)
- enrol into courses online in order to apply for student card

tuesday:
- drove to ikea by jean to shop for wardrobe, table, chair.
- lunch at ikea (typical ikea lunch -> meatballs)
- had a hard time fitting everything into the car.
- drove back home and put everything down
- rushed to school to meet some sort of advisor
- queue to get student card
- get a GO card (ez-link card)
- get a prepaid phone card
- cook dinner with wl at my place
- assembled wardrobe, chair and table

wednesday:
- took bus to school
- attend biz mgt orientation
- open commonwealth bank account
- wl and lj cook dinner at my place
- carry on to assemble my chair
- walk both of them back and get oven cleaner from lj, a better screw driver as well. (had a hard time assembling the table)
- walk home to carry on assembling my table
- enrol course (realise the enrollment loop bug)

thursday:
- go to school to explain and ask for help for enrollment bug
- reply to the email for enrollment bug
- attend some workshop
- pack my room
- cook dinner with wl at my place
- try to solve the enrollment bug
- settle bank account
- laundry (hand wash)
- pack my room

friday:
- chelsea arrived
- try to solve enrollment bug in school
- go home and try to email about the bug again (yes, simply to imba)
- travel to indooropilly
- bought printer, fan, and other grocery
- dinner at lj's place
- walk wl home and carry lots of stuff back (damn the rain and plastic bag)
- assemble printer and fan

saturday:
- go to westend market with chelsea and kai wen by city cat (ferry)
- bought vegetable and meat
- went back home to stall the food
- travel to the city
- bought stationery and more grocery
- pack room
- took a short nap
- chelsea cooked dinner
- blog and watch live football on laptop

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further details

lots to buy:
- fan
- table
- wardrobe
- chair
- printer
- grocery
- and other stuff~

things to do:
- get school username and password
- enrol course (problem continues)
- attend orientation
- get go card
- open bank account
- get phone number
- oshc card (still not done)
- alot more...

anyway, regarding the house. it's in sub-urb.
it has 2 levels, 3 bed rooms, 1 garage and bla bla bla...
shared with 2 other people.
walking distance to school, less than 30min walk.
there's this long steep slope to the main road, good exercise!
at night, it's dark, really, very. lol.
lots of ants, technically dead ants. pool of dead ants? lol
when i 1st reached, i look at the bathroom, i see pools of them. after i use a cup to flush them away, more will appear. and as i flush, ants were flushed out. but slowly it's getting better day by day. (as promised, no gross pic!)
there're all sort of creatures, cockroaches, ants, spiders, bat, bla bla bla. and bush turkeys! they always invade my backyard. very noisy~ oh yeah, there was this fat crispy worm in the living room, i picked it up and it breaks into pieces, and it continues into many pieces. just simply to crispy. and thank god, no fucking frogs!
i'll post pic of the place and my room soon as things get more complete.
and of course pics in school.
next post: explain about the enrollment loop bug.

more assembling~

ants

ants

wl names the turkey "joanna" (name of jeff's another cousin) LOL

this table has given lots of problem

pro at work

hello brisbane

2nd day is brisbane, gonna post about it in the next post.
didn't really sleep for 2 days, tired...

anyway, thank you for those who send me off on a early sunday morning.
very touched T_T
even alex sent me off~ LOL

sTe: "where is your fan who wore 'i <3 max'?" (this is epic)

last week

finally flying off tmr... and everyone is snatching me for the last night. >_< all wanna ask me out.

still packing my stuff now, and i even bring my keyboard and mouse. LOL, more gaming.
i decided not to bring my ps3. anyway, i brought wire to link my laptop to router to enhance my gaming study.

i realised that i forget to indicate in earlier post, that i'm flying off at terminal 3. and if you're sending me off, please don't try to give me a surprise. because if i happen to go into the gate early, then u'll have alittle surprise early in the morning at changi.

this week, i've so many farewell dinner and meetng etc... tiring~ and i still don't get to meet many though.

and again, during lunch today.
father: “玩什么都好，一定要安全。"

i remember years ago, i give my father a lucky charm with condom in it. he now gives it back to me and hang it on my luggage. and well, the expiry date is 2011 jan. lol...

Chinese new year

happy chinese new year.

no plan for today at all, probably stay home to play games? emo lol.
things will be so different if i'm in HK, the hong bao money for instance >_<
probably i can cover by air ticket if i fly back.

but the last chinese new year was clear in y mind still, seems like 2nd half of 2009 is 'too short' =)
i can still remember my 7x extra during last chinese new year. amen.

my hong bao count is still $0 to this moment.

miss the annual new year firework in HK.

roller coaster season

months ago, when arsenal lost 0-3 at home to chelsea, everyone says it's gonna be a 2 horse-race. few weeks ago, arsenal was top of table...

last week, when arsenal suffered back to back defeat to manu 1-3 at home and 2-0 to chelsea at the bridge. 9 points gap, and again all said it's 2 horse-race.

now arsenal won livepool 1-0 last night, and with manu drew with villa, everton beat chelsea (again >_<). the race is open again.

most exciting season i've ever seen.

flight details

although i've never planned for anyone to send me off, but after kelvin insisted to send me off, i shall post the details here.

date: 21/02/2010
time: 0955
flight: SQ245

so i'll be checking in 2 hrs before 0955.
if anyone of you is willing to crawl out of bed at that timing and travel to changi airport in the morning on a sunday, you're welcomed.

back to basic

look back at january's tournaments, the result is far from satisfying.

a poor run of swiss in jurong on 30/01 to sum up the month. (i didn't join 31/01 in jurong)

just to summarised things that i've overlooked and can be improved.

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1. miss out possible otk chance

being known to be a conservation and control player, i often miss out a possible way to win the game in 1 turn. my mind will auto pilot to predict what opponent will and can do, while i try to get the better side of it. but so often i just miss out simple way of winning the game. another main reason is that i didn't pay enough attention to opponent's hp, but more often looking at my own hp. maybe it's a sign of having "lack of confidence". i know it sounds very weird to come from me. lol.

regarding this, i must talk about alex. he always says i'm being too conservative after i lost. sometimes he just tried to force the idea over, e.g. after searching wih ww through shura, i just set a book of moon a done (not knowing opponent's deck). and he said i should set everything e.g. icarus etc. because opponent later just do lots of summoning and push the board, and it's considered a mistake not to set more to him. how about i may just get heavy storm-ed? he argued that opponent will not dare because of starlight road running in my deck. but it's too big of risk. i saw him did that before and he got heavy storm-ed which cost him the game, he went on to complain that opponent draws into that 1 and only heavy storm in deck.



2. over concern with card advantage

technically same as above. i did that just on saturday in swiss 3 2nd game, when probably i should just use hurricane to ensure it's safe before i proceed to do brain control while opponent has 1 set card. because i've body as shield, i planned to do a 1 for 1 trade if necessary which i later learnt my lesson that it's a book of moon.

well... jeff is good in this, often see his deck runs cards that will loss card advantage, but will give him more options.



3. "functional fixedness"

click and read more to know the title means. i don't really have much of this nowadays though, learnt from past mistakes. sometimes i even make use of this to my advantage, e.g. i just get trap dust shooted by opponent. i start playing mind games and in a way control opponent. but of course, i need to have a hand that can allow me to do so after i get trap dust shooted to begin with.