Sunday, September 30, 2007
A 60 year old man finds his son love letter and tries to find love again amidst the clutter, a 5 year old boy's first funny feelings inside.This is their ordinary journey. An independent movie by Linus Chung supported by N*KIA.
tRAILER
anyone know what song is the background music from? really familiar...
tHE mAKING oF
pART 1
pART 2
oST- nEVER mINE
i want to watch (starring sharifah amani, daniel lee & 4 non-professional actors)........but i don think can lo...independent movies hard to get
Dunno wat to do now…jus finished work (I suppose I should be sleeping)
super sien can?
Exam’s coming as in comING….noooooooo
Seriously lah sien ok?
Tomoro got mcw meeting…
Just feel like lying on the bed and just go to sleep while leaving everything on (music, lights)..but still hv to brush teeth (sigh..)
MCW that we’ve been planning for so long hv finally arrived…do come ppl if u can
Details:
Opening ceremony on Tuesday (2/10)12pm in UWA Guild courtyard
Talent Night on Wednesday (3/10) 7pm? in Utopia
Spring Feast on Thursday (4/10) 7pm? in UWA Guild courtyard
Movie Night on Friday (5/10) 6pm? in UWA LTs
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
全世界不庆祝，独我庆祝也罢。I told myself… Ppl say no atmosphere to celebrate it. It’s not the surrounding which matters( in my case all angmohs (who obviously don’t celebrate it)) but yourself. If you make it special, then it will be special. Anyway it was nothing special – no feeling of 中秋节 until some frens sent sms wishes…started to hv the feeling of CNY, the festive mood where everyone celebrates it together. So dat day, I brought 2 mooncakes to uni to share (I bought four from northbridge- cost me $20 if not mistaken),…so caring rite?or mayb jus the festive mood got the better of me.
cauliflower, broccoli, snowpeaginger, garlic, carrot (cut in restaurant style- got flower one), mushroom
chicken meat
yummm...lolSaturday, September 22, 2007
Tapestry of Culture
chinese ochestra
brazilian carnival drummer
And there was several awards given out.
After that there was the Irish Riverdance performance. Quite amazing. They really need a lot of strength to dance and you can really see them breathing quite heavily. Go youtube or sth to see samples.
And after that, after much self-encouragement and persuasion, I finally had the courage to ask random people (and some not so random people) to let me take a photo of their cultural costume that they are wearing. Eh, not easy k. I have to sort of stress that it’s the costume I want, and not them so as not to sound like a pervert.
Malay -baju melayu & Thai
Chinese-qipao & Vietnamese 
Malay/Indonesian-baju kebaya
Indian-kurta
(West) African & Kenya
Chinese-qipao, Japanese-kimono, dress & Indian-saree
And this one, I thought one of them was a cultural dress so I was like ‘so which country is this dress from?’ and she was like ‘oh, this is just a dress’ ‘oh (shit)..*fake laughs…looks cultural though (wth am I saying)…and wat about you?’ points to next person..=.=
Dutch
African
Indian & Malay-baju kurung
Indian, Pakistani-Salwar kameez? & Indian
Indian
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(Information from wikipedia- THE encyclopedia).
After that, some of us from UWA went to eat dinner at Northbridge. On the way there, took some photos…the city was packed (it’s a Friday night).
Now, ‘wagged’ work coz somehow I got sick…
Sunday, September 16, 2007
无题
刚工作完，心情糟透了，明年就不能和他一起值班，没人送我到vic park transfer station等bus，没人给我那么多自由给我用自己的方法做好我的工。不要辜负他！
整个假期，怕考试，只想读书，可是又不见得有读到什么。。考试我也不知道要怎样死。
现在只想睡觉，可是最怕睡觉醒来时是‘明天’了，又不见了一天。
陈家凯-《我可以看见》给我repeat 到腻了，可是找不到更适合心情的歌了。他不再出歌了。。转到幕后了。遗憾 。。
现在很饿，可是懒惰想要吃什么，懒惰煮。天气很冷。。
还是照样要念。。。还有20个lecture 要念，两天给我赶。
真的很想放弃。。
Friday, September 14, 2007
14/9
And I found this blog. He’s a photographer, wedding photographer to be exact. So cool. Makes you want to
Anyway, cooked this:
Nestum Butter Prawns…
hehe...
Wat? Brag oso cannot meh?
To cook,
Ingredients:
Nestum (if you don’t have this you can stop reading this post and get back to whatever you are suppose to be doing like STUDY)
(or you can jus substitute it with garlic and cook Garlic Butter Prawn)
Prawn
Butter
Egg
Sugar and salt to taste
Prepare the prawn. I bought cooked ones. I think uncooked ones better cause you’ll get more taste in.
don't simply think can...
Heat butter. Fry egg. Make sure you scramble your eggs until it’s very fine. (I still cant figure out how they can make it like coconut shreds)
Pour in Nestum and fry.
Put in prawn and fry until the smell ‘keluar’ (come out). Make sure you cook the prawns well.
Add sugar and salt to taste
Serve.
shot by reflecting the flash towards the ceiling...not too bright, not too dark..:)
Filled yourself with love.
And make sure ask someone to clean up for you.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
难爱
不知道为什么就是不想读书，现在残咯！
本故事纯属虚构，若有雷同，只是巧合。
本故事不代表本部落格或本人的立场，也更不是本人的经验。
再加以强调：本故事纯属虚构。
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The following is a random story that i have been wasting my time on. I have the english version but it's quite sh*t to be posted up.
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难爱
为什么佩丽还没来啊？明明说好是一起去买衣服的嘛。。。
还记得她曾对我说过
‘哇，当晚一定很多‘帅哥’美女。我们有眼福咯。’
‘拜托，你把你男朋友当成什么了啦？’
‘知道啦知道啦。只是说说罢了。很期待我的‘王子’的出现哦。’说完她对我笑
‘你少做梦。’ 我轻轻的推了她的头。
不知道当晚梁伟会出席。这毕竟是我们的毕业典礼嘛。又在想他了。。。要学控制一下。。。
已经饿到不耐了。早餐都没吃就冲了出来。还是先吃吧。
也不知道怎样会开始暗恋他的，简直就是自找麻烦。他长得是挺帅的，可是并非喜欢他这一点。他给人的感觉就是很‘完美’。他的那种自信，那种男人气概。我就是缺少这种自信，所以仰慕他。他也很会社交，来到不久，朋友就一大堆了。我也仰慕这样的人。他读书厉害，运动不赖，简直是一等学生，更是学校的校草。
没想到他中四那年转来我们的学校，就喜欢他了，相信很多其他女生也一样 。不是不是，我只是仰慕，还是仰慕，哪里可能喜欢他。他是。。。他叻。
老板，鼎边糊一碗。
真的有点难相信梁伟他会煮鼎边糊。我妈是福州人都不会煮，他不是福州人却会煮，还会煮枣菜面、煮干面，全部都煮得不错的。如果不是亲眼看着他煮，然后吃他煮得，也不知道原来他厨艺那么高。真是多才多艺的！
从别人听说过，他有大志。那就是在学校社立一个华乐团。他常埋怨传统华乐渐渐被遗忘，还说希望我们的学校可以成立这县最优秀的华乐队。在他的耳濡目染之下渐渐喜欢了华乐。可是他并不是光说而已。还记得他曾好几次举办了华乐演奏会，邀请了州内州外著名的团体与音乐家前来表演。虽然有几次反应都不怎么热烈，可是他都不气馁。真的被他的坚决、与大志所感动。人应该有梦想，才有存在的意义。 我也要像他一样。有时很想提起勇气对他说‘干的好。我会永远支持你的。需要什么的话，尽管开口，我愿意帮。’可是我就是天生胆小如。。。
嘟嘟。。。
短讯！
我把汤匙筷子放下，取了手机出来。
‘sry. hv 2 wait 4 my mum. Will b 15 mins l8. I’ll buy lunch:).’
‘不好意。等我妈下。会迟十五分。 午餐我请：）’
手机挂着的哈罗吉啼猫好像在代她向我微笑。
实在真巧。上次和梁伟买做project材料时，我也发过同样的短迅给他。咳，真的不可以再想着他了。他有他的朋友，都不理睬你。你只不过是一个毫不起眼的6B班同学。可是不可能啊。生物科全中六只有我、他和铭佑修读。班上只有我们仨，他哪里可能会不注意到我。难道，他。。。他整天都与铭佑一起，有时真的令我怀疑他会不会是那一类的。这种想法好像不是太健康，可能是吃太多醋，喊葡萄酸吧。有时希望他是那种人，可是心里又希望他不是，好矛盾。如果知道了该多好。要嘛就表白，不然就死了我的心算了。整天拖拖拉拉。咳，心里真的好难受，总是在自我安慰与这种奢望之间徘徊。啊！不要再想了。
桌上报章的头条新闻：〈中一女孩暗恋跳楼，父母朋友毫不知情〉
报纸天天报道的不是杀人、强奸就是跳楼、打劫，都屡见不鲜了
中一罢了。何必呢？暗恋有那么痛苦吗？
是的话，我不是苦上加苦吗？
这种不可能发生的恋情，我又舍不得遗忘。过了今年，毕业后我们就分道扬镳，我走我的，他走他的。希望时间可以冲淡一切记忆。会有可能吗？那些回忆，仿佛都已被烙印在脑海中了。希望这不是奢望。毕业晚会，找个借口拥抱他，再好好与他拍照留念就够了。
当晚一定要记得，不然以后一定会后悔。之前都没好好把握机会跟他讲话，现在真的很后悔，恨自己为什么当时那么没勇气。已经发生几次了：中四、五运动会和他一起当红新月会急救员，06年文艺晚会一起演过一场短剧，羽球会无数次的练习，或有时在图书馆借书时他是当日的图书管理员。这么多次接触到他，可是每次和他说话都十句不过，每次都是从角落偷偷看他的一举一动，企图在脑海中录下他的每一刻，也许是要成为另一个他吧！现在想起来，若不是要和他在一起而参加了这一些活动，中学生涯一定是没什么好留念的。留念、回忆。。。照片再加上他在我纪念册里写的那一番话，将会是我最美好的回忆。我已经有责任了，一定要这一切抛在脑后，也一定要改我。。。
‘仲得！’
我转头看，佩丽已在我身旁，笑眯眯的看着我。
我立刻摆了一副黑脸给她看。
‘对不起，迟了点。原本想请你吃午餐赎罪。可是看来你已经吃了，那就too bad 咯。’
‘那是我的早餐，午餐一样还可以吃。你别耍赖。’我轻轻推她的头。
‘快走了。要去找你的王子服装。我要当晚每个女孩子都羡慕我有那么帅的男朋友’
‘你来真的啊？你送我的这只kitty猫还不够令我尴尬吗？还硬要我随身携带。现在还要我。。。做你男朋友真的够‘幸福’’
‘不管不管。。。老板收钱’
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
er...
Holidaying now…but sadly got an exam coming up
Ok I know u all also hv exam but mine is harder ok…no, no…jus shut up, mine's the hardEST…
Merdeka celebration
Was held on 8 Sept , a week after the actual merdeka day. I think coz the consulate was having an official one, so they didn’t want to interfere with it…or that’s wat I thought it is.
Sigh, since picture tell a thousand words, and since i m lazy to type (hv been typing like mad to finish my group work )
i hv no idea why either...it's good tho i suppose
malay dance
wat i thought was the best performance...silat
they were not play-playing k..
patriotiknya...
aku pun sama...
cute can...tug of war at the background
and i left before it ended...got work..:)Thursday, September 06, 2007
sad sad story
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Got a lecture on special needs dentistry the other day. It’s quite a new specialisation in Australia and jus only started in 2002. It deals with the oral heath of disabled people- intellectually, physically, mentally, medically and psychologically. So, it’s not only the disabled people but also the old people and even young children that falls in this group. However, it’s sad to know that general dental practitioners are not capable of handling that group of people.
He showed photos of old people in old folks home who all had very poor oral health because they can’t brush their own teeth and the nurses are often too busy to do it as they ‘apparently’ have more important things to do. So their teeth start to rot and decay until unimaginable state, pass the 'point of no repair'. Everyone in class was really shocked to all the pictures- some had pus covering the whole tooth, some might have even decayed so much that you can jus pull out using your finger (normally you need pliers and muscle).
only roots left
Sadly though, even the latest biggest old folks’ home in WA (somewhere near UWA) does not have a dental surgery room.
It made us really wonder why this is happening. Apparently, some dentists are not really into the 'helping people' thing. They are just more concerned with their money. It’s a fact though, like one of my friends said, that dentistry is now regarded as a cosmetic industry. But it’s not. Did you know that oral examination is paid the lowest ($20-30) but a normal tooth extraction can cost three times as much? So I suppose some dentists prefer to just ignore that and do whatever they need to do (extract, crowning, braces) regardless whether the mouth is healthy enough. I mean, since you are working on a patient, you might as well and should (by law) to check their general oral health. This is how small thing gets worse.
The lecturer told us (not in class though, after the lecture when some of us went to talk with him about the issue after class) about a dentist who saw this patient whose teeth are already beyond treatment and he just gave up. He (my lecturer) actually went to complain this to the Australian Dental Association but they sided the dentist. He then went to court to sue this dentist and only then they apologised (how true this is I don’t know). But the issue of special needs dentistry in Australia is still very controversial as some of them are not wiling to accept it. In the whole of Australia, only Melbourne and one other uni which I forgot offer this specialisation course, and in UWA the amount of lectures on this specialisation (we learn all the basics of all the specialisations) is jus five hours in five years. It’s quite sad.
Thanks to medicine, people now are able to live much longer but the medicine people never actually look into how they are going to sustain these people (thanks again!). In the old days, they would just die and the problem will be solved, but now we have to take care of these old sick people. I am not saying that they should die, but there’s not enough manpower and knowledge to actually take care of them. Even though there are courses offered to teach the nurses to take care of the old people’s oral health, most of them still can’t. And now with old people having their own teeth instead of fake teeth like how it would be twenty years ago, oral health is just so much harder to take care.
plaque (yellow stuff on your teeth) on dentures (fake teeth)
So now the latest news is the labour party is trying to allow (as in legally allow) dental technicians to make prosthetics because dentists don’t seemed to care. But the problem is they can’t diagnose!
So how did my lecture got into this activistic thing? He, being bored of what he see in the clinic (mild dental problems), actually went to Tibet to look for more interesting (read: serious), and when he showed us the pictures, mind you, they are ‘interesting’. But when he got back to Australia, and was asked to visit an old folks' home one day, he was shocked that the same thing (if not worse) is happening in Australia and it’s just 300 metres away from his office. So now, he takes one day off to visit these homes, with his portable dental clinic in a (travel) bag (he brought it but didn’t show us what’s inside- apparently there’s everything-mirror, lights, cutting instruments, anaesthetics and the only thing that he cant bring is amalgam packer-but he uses GIC). That’s how he got started. Anyway, apparently there’s only one other person that does the same thing as him in WA.
tooth decay on the roots of teeth
My lecturer tried to make this (special needs dentistry) a unit on it’s own but sadly got rejected. He and another of my lecturer tried to do something (I think it was something like having fifth years or forth years to visit the old folk’s home weekly and give them examination and cleaning along with nurses and therapists).It seemed like he’s sort of in a losing battle.
It was a sad but inspiring lecture. We (represented by one of the students) even thanked him for making us realise how important and serious it is.
When we asked him what we can do, he just asked us to pass and graduate. Then when we are in practice make sure we do proper and thorough examination and not be blinded by money.
And my message to you all, clean you teeth PROPERLY.
