Winter Holidays 2011

Hello,

Despite it being Winter Holidays, I'm somewhere that's quite hot right now....

That's cause I'm in Malaysia actually ahaha
We're all very hot here (forgive the pun)
Been home since the 29th of last month XD
The journey home was a long one....
My flight was early in the morning  so I had to start my journey the evening before. Reached Gold Coast during the night around 10 but then I found out that they close down the airport at 11.30pm so I had to find a place to spend the night so I spent the night here

Didn't sleep the whole night since if I fell asleep I might oversleep and miss my flight ahaha.
For some reason I was "randomly selected" for a bomb check twice in the airport~~~ so much for being random. Bullshit~~

First thought on the plane~~ SLEEP!! but then they announced that they are gonna serve the food soon. OH YEAH FOOD!!! NASI LEMAK!!!!
I was fortunate enough that I got the entire row to myself ahaha. There was two empty seats next to me so I was quite comfortable despite the small sizes of AirAsia X's individual seats. Spent my time trying to get to sleep, reading the in-flight magazine, playing my 3DS, playing and watching stuff on my Galaxy S2 and also watching movies and videos on my laptop which helped me finish a bulk of my time on the plane =D

Arrived in LCCT and it was damn hot ahaha. Imagine I cam from Queensland where it was winter and the temperature had been constantly under 10°C and suddenly going to Malaysia where it's hot and humid lol. Took a bus from LCCT to KL Sentral and got home from there ^^
Not telling anyone I was going home generated the surprise and reaction I wanted ahaha. Though since my holidays is quite short I won't be able to meet some of my friends.

Almost done with holidays~~ Will be heading back to Brisbane on Saturday night and gonna arrive in Gold Coast by Sunday morning so gonna get home by the afternoon XD

Anyway watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 last Saturday with Yun,Jon,Wei Jie and Sze Hui.
Honestly speaking I was very disappointed though maybe if I didn't read the novel I could have enjoyed it. Won't write much about it or it will change into a rant post and it'll be full of spoilers.

Oh I also got to watch Green Lantern \0/ here. It'll be a while before it'll be released back in Aussie ahaha and I watched before everybody else (Well at least everybody who's still in OZ) XP
Maybe I'll watch it again in 3D with the guys when it's finally out in 3D in the South Bank Cineplex with it's 25 meter screen

One thing I like about being home would be my family, friends and obviously the FOOD XD

This was my dinner last night ahaha. Finally went and banked in Emily's money just now that I held for her after helping her selling her CAL books and papers while receiving 20% commission just now XP

Anyway I still got a lot more stuff to do and enjoy here at home so gonna still be busy in the next few days.

Semester's gonna start next Monday and I'm gonna be back in Brisbane by Sunday.

So until next time ok guys ^^

Good bye,

さよなら。（＾＿＾）。

Coming Soon

The End of Semester 01/2011

Hey guys,
I'm finally done with finals and that officially ends my first semester at UQ. Time to party

drank a lot lol ahaha kidding, those aren't mine. I don't drink those stuff. That was how the living room looked like before I left for uni this morning. Craig had some friends over last night.

Had my Final Exam in the Connell Gym where the indoor basketball court was.
It was freaking cold on the way there. It was 4°C and freezing. I went there aat 6.50 and was thinking that I was screwed if they haven't unlocked the door to the building....... The good thing was it was unlocked and they already had the heater on ^^

Did the paper for an hour and 15 minutes and went out to the smell of freedom 45 minutes early XD

Anyway was damn sleepy afterwards since I didn't sleep the night before though since exams are over, went out to hang with a few people for a while first ahaha.
Went with Janet and Roseanne to Garden City for breakfast/lunch. Waited for eagle there for a while.

Then we went to the CBD to continue hanging out lol. Was dragged to this korean karaoke lol......the place was like just opening.... who goes to karaoke at that hour in the morning ahaha

I obviously had no idea what was what. I just saw weird ancient alien writing on the screen lol. Roseanne seems to know some and Janet's korean so that place was pretty much her space ahaha. Learned something today, koreans don't sing the songs until their done, they sing halfway then go to the next song lol apparently to be able to get to sing more songs ahaha.

Went home after that and slept the whole day until around 11PM just now ahahaha.
and that was pretty much how the official last day of semester 1 ended for me before winter holidays start.

That's it from me for now fold,

till the next time I feel like writing something.

さよなら。（＾＿＾）

Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-i9100)

Hello,
As some of you might know I got myself a new phone recently as a birthday present to myself. cause my old phone has been acting up,lagging and some other small defects on me and also greed.

Oh and before all the apple fanboys come in and say iPhone 4 are the best go look up the spread sheet. The only thing it's better with is the screen and Super AMOLED + is already nearly as good and Samsung supplies most parts for Apple XP
oh and I got tired watching this add and it's variants on TV and in cinemas.

If you don't have an iphone, well you don't have an iphone. Of course I don't have an iphone if I don't have an iphone........WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY!!!! OR YOUR OUT OF IDEAS SO YOU START STATING THE OBVIOUS.

Or is this what your trying to say?
 

Or this?

So behold the Android Parody as a counter XD

Oh look at what "new innovations" Mr Job has announced for iOS5 and their comparison to Android here XP
To quote the man himself 
"2011: Year of the Copycats  " - Steve Job, 2nd March 2011 


I have very few complains about my new phone. One thing is I miss HTC's Sense UI but I guess I'm getting used to Samsung's Touchwiz. Don't really want to try all those custom launchers out there. The phone is fantastic, battery is a bit not so great after heavy usage but I guess any phones will deplet faster while watching HD videos, even my laptop does ahaha. I totally love the colours on the Super AMOLED plus screen XD
My two biggest complain about the phone is unlike HTC phones they don't have LEDs to tell you that you have missed calls and sms to read like the iphone so you have to turn on the screen constantly to check if you haven't noticed it. Though this problem is easily fixed with an app called noLED which puts a dot at the corner of the screen like an LED if you receive those things and the good thing about the screen of the S2 is pixels that are displaying black are actually off so you see real black and those pixels don't consume energy as they are off so unlike on other devices noLED won't consume much power by using the screen like that ^^
The other thing is the position of the speaker but I guess just like how I got used to the awkward position of flash on my camera, I'll get used to that as well.
Here's some pics I tried to snap with the phone's camera though this are noob photos and I'm a consumer after all not a pro XP

 Parts of the University of Queensland's Great Court.

 Some pics from the Hartley Teakle building where I have my ECON1010 and ACCT1101 tutorials.

 Some random pics I took at UQ Lakes while being bored waiting for some of my friends doing Engineering preparing to start their presentation of the water filters etc. that they made.

Oh this one is a pic from Cinema 5 from Southbank's Cineplex. It has a 25 meter screen and this picture was taken from the middle so imagine the size of the place XD went to watch X-Men : First Class there.

Oh it's STUVAC right now,.....

finals start on Saturday....

The hated ECON1010..

So that's it from me for now

So until next time,

Hobey-ho let's go.

さよなら。。（＾＿＾）

Going to be broke soon T_T

おひさしぶりだね、=D
Hey guys,
It's been a very long time since I last updated this thing.
Truth is I wanted to write a lot since kak sara's wedding but well, being busy and lazy is not such a great combination after all =D
Therefore I'll skip those parts and just don't write about them maybe I'll write about some of them when I look back in the far distant future XP

Oh it was my 20th birthday last Sunday, thanks to all my friends and family who wished me ^^

My laptop was being weird yesterday and won't detect it's webcam during the night for two days OTL

It would be ok during the day and during the night when I was trying to skype with my family it won't detect my webcam so I became sound only OTL

So for now this post shall be about a number of stuff that has depleted my bank account since the time when I just arrived in Australia till very recently.

First up, one of the basics, a new external hard disk. The 2.5" 1TB I brought with me was almost full (pushing your high speed internet quota over it's limit will do that). So I bought this from JB HiFi. Was pondering whether to get a a 1TB 2.5" or 2TB 3.5" and I wanted one that supported USB 3.0. So finally after going around a few shops and standing in them for more than an hour I decided to buy this one. A 3.5" WD My Book Essential 2TB HDD

Next thing the list of stuff that depleted my bank account is this.

 

It's a Nikon COOLPIX S8100. You can read a review of it here.  I don't know where my previous camera went OTZ I hope I accidently left it at home or with my mom.Hopefully none of my sisters read this. Ying, Nana, if you two read this remember if you tell mom I'll have a bone to pick with you guys, I got stuff on you guys as well >_< Anyway that gave my concious a good enough excuse to get myself a new camera and though it doesn't have a touch screen like my previous one, it has better specs ^^ though the position where the flash pops out is really awkward as most people would have their left hand there though you'll get used to it. ^^

Next up is this little critter, the Nintendo 3DS

Honestly, who doesn't know what this thing is. Anyway you can read a review about it here . I actually got mine a $100 cheaper than prices in store. Thank you ebay \0/ though I haven't been playing that much due to assignment due dates and finals coming soon. Just you wait winter holidays XD

and finally the most recent culprit putting me on a very tight budget. A birthday present I bought for myself (sound so sad and lonely lol). The smarphone that many reviewers have crowned as the current King of Smartphones  (even with it's greatest rival the HTC Sensation coming around the corner) beating the crap out of Apple's Iphone 4 and even whatever 5 or 4S they gonna release as Android pawns iOS (Apples model is they do things one way and everybody will have to suit themselves to it and then it's easy to be comfy, android on the other hand allows a lot of tinkering and customization according to how you want to use  the device). The Samsung GT-i9100 Galaxy SII. You can read some some round up reviews here. In Hardware terms it effectively kicks almost every phone out in the market now and also the soon to be released HTC Sensation don't know about the fruit company as they everything also secretive. Though if only HTC Sense 3.0 UI is in this phone, would have been perfect  XD It's also the current thinnest smartphone in the world (well actually it's the second thinnest, there's this phone in Japan which is thinner and there's also some with greater specs but that phone is not released internationally and only limited to the Japanese market so the Galaxy S2 takes the tittle) ^^

 I ordered one last week, bought it outright as I don't want to be locked in a contract and I don't want to get a locked phone where you can't use with any other network unless you pay an unlocking fee. The thing should have been in my hands by now though tracking shows that it arrived at the Brisbane Airport after the the Fedex Courier have dispatched so my new super phone will be spending the night in a warehouse in the Brisbane Airport before it gets sent to me tomorrow >_<" If only they had DHL I would have used that instead of Fedex..... DHL goes straight to the Brisbane Airport instead of Fedex who brings stuff into Aussie through Sydney first and then only dispatching it to other states through local flights effectively adding one or two days into the equation with about the same price.... Good thing I don't have any classes tomorrow so hopefully it'll come early then I can go out to Toowong and pick up some mail or I have to delay that chore.

Well guys that's it from me for now,

been a very long time and finals are coming next month ahaha.

Hopefully I won't be as lazy as I've been the rest of the year and update this place once in a while again, maybe after finals and the winter holidays start or something.

So until next time guys,

hobey-ho lets go,

さよなら。（＾＿＾）

Happy 2011

新年明けましておめでとうございます！！！
Happy New Year 2011
&
Selamat Pengantin Baru to Kak Sara and Aizuddin.

Australian Student Visa Approved

My Aussie student visa was approved today \0/
That was surprisingly fast considering I just finished my medical examination last Tuesday.
The Aussie Immigrations sure do a fast job. If only our government do jobs as fast as them ^^

Anyway UQ here I come =D
Now to get some flight tickets. Should I take MAS and go straight to Brisbane or the cheaper Air Asia to Gold cost and take the train to Brisbane.
and to look for accommodations, why are all residential colleges catered T_T
and the only on-campus accommodation that is self-catered seems pretty good but damn expensive AUD $285 per week T_T

Oh well, we'll see how things go, till next time ^^