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I know I will sound anal but there goes one module. Coz I chose an essay topic which has relatively fewer research papers and didn't write a balanced essay. Either that I just didn't search enough. All the "good" comments on my paper didn't even match up to the mere pass marks that I've got. 

Oh well, it's just one mod. I will still graduate with 3.94 with this one D. Uhhh, yes I am ranting. 

Kinda in the final stages in the planning of our mini road trip. Glad that everything is going well and everyone is agreeable. It was kinda last min (Dennis brought it up last Wednesday and the trip is on 29th May!) and impromptu when Dennis suddenly brought it up and it was proposed to be in the middle of study break before exams some more! I agreed at first thinking that it would not materialize but glad that it did. I must say Dennis is quite an efficient and thorough planner. 

So we are driving 9 hours to the East but only staying there for a night. I know right, it's quite a waste of time to drive so far to a location just to stay there for a day or 2 there are just a lot of factors that led us to consider this very short trip. I am looking forward to the horse riding along the way and exploring Kalgoorlie. I wonder what are we gonna do on the car though. There is like full 18 hours (to and fro) in the car. I hope Dennis don't 逞强 and drive all the way even when he's tired. There are 3 of us who can legally drive on the trip!

This is my first road trip with a bunch of friends. I hope it turns out well! Looking forward to it! 

I thought by now I would have gotten used to how people just go in and out of my life. I haven't.

I haven't felt this way ever since sec 4 graduation about how I would lose a very important group of friends. I'm feeling the same way now towards Vanessa, William and Dennis. I've spent the past week on little outings with them, laughing, joking and poking fun at each other. Every time we part I will think of when I would meet them again and there's this sense of emptiness all the time when they're not around. The sad thing is I've only just got to know them and I have 1+months more to hang out with them before I needa get my life back to Singapore while they would be continuing their studies in Perth. I'm feeling worse now than when I was in sec 4 because we would be in 2 different countries! 

I seldom feel this way but when I do I form a very deep attachment and dependence on these people. Vanessa, Dennis and William, if anyone of you is reading this, just to let you know that you guys are special to me and I treasure the 3 of you!!!!

Watched the movie today. It's one of the few movies that premieres here earlier than in Singapore. It's super duper awesome! I try not to be a spoiler though.

It's one of my most anticipated movie of the year because I've watched like 4 movies leading up to this, of which I enjoyed Thor and Captain America the most. I just thought Stark was too big-headed and arrogant for his own good. But it turned out that that's sorta the theme for this movie. Hawkeye was a disappointment though. He lacks the costume and he was a bad guy for about 60% of the movie. :( And the Hulk was cute. Really cute. He managed to keep his anger under check! Thor's just doing his big brother thing again. Captain America is the true leader and the most flawless one out of them all in spite of just being out of sync with the current world and technology.

The animation and effects in the movie were really good and I like the fact they put in cute little crackpots everywhere which are totally unrelated to the plot or even suit the characters. They are just there for laughs. And as of all Marvel movies, stay for the credits and watch out for cameo appearance of Stan Lee and the Easter eggs! 

It's an awesome awesome movie! Watch it even if you aren't a Marvel fan! :)

P.S.: Cap A didn't really shout "Avengers Assemble" in the movie, which was quite a let down. :(

  

It was a long await trip to explore an abandoned house up at Claremont. It was kind of Dennis to drive us there. 

This was a mental asylum a long time ago. And so we arrived at the location and this is what it looks like from outside. 

I guessed I made it look spooky but it's actually not that bad.


This was how we got in: through a huge hole in the fence. It's apparently an over-explored place.

We could see that the place has been over-explored as there are graffiti all over the place. BUT the frustrating thing was we could find an entrance to the inside of the building and all that we could do was circle around the outside. 


We are always on the outside, wondering what's goes on on the inside. 
As you can see from this pic that the windows were covered up with metal boards. The windows on the second floor has an opening to get in but obviously we couldn't get up there. 

We were so frustrated that we resorted to this. 


Climbing a ledge to get over to the other side. 


Though he did get over, the corridor led to a dead end. 


When all else failed, we decided to try this window. At first, Dennis climbed in and said that it was just a room with no links to other rooms. When we were going to pack up and go back, William suggested that we should try again coz maybe "there's a switch/key inside that can unlock all the doors". (The guys keep thinking that it's a RPG game. -.-") And he was somehow right. We missed an opening that we were luckily small sized enough to crawl through. And that opening led us to the inside of the hospital.


Apparently we were not welcomed. It was kinda creepy being inside the building bcoz an old hospital is so close to dead. And this instance, to sanity. There were rubbish, pigeon feathers, graffiti and dead pigeons everywhere. 


Clutter of rubbish inside.


Ok this is the stupid part. This is the small window on the wall where you can slide it close or open. Then Dennis seemed to have an idea and asked everyone to look through it. So I naively inched forward and looked through while he went over to the other side jumped up and ROAREDDDD! omg.. I SCREAMED I tell you. Friends will know that I seldom scream, even on a roller coaster ride. I can't believe he managed to scare me just like that. I think it's the atmosphere of being in that dilapidated place too. >-<


There were lots of graffiti around and we could access all the floors. 


The third floor is mainly just a small toilet.

So apparently I was cheated on during the course of my past relationship, and I had no idea about it till last night. It happened apparently 2 years ago. Read

Initially, I was overcame by anger, then as I read on disgust. Disgusted at how he wrote the entry as if he's not sorry at all. It just gives a (I must say) justification of why it had happened and the victims involved are just supposed to move on as if it was supposed to happen this way and we are just victims that fell to your charms with no fault of yours. I say, it's a completely egoistic entry, justifying your own actions of cheating, hurting and being irresponsible to women as if its your birth right. 

Then I was perplexed at how it had escaped my suspicions, my grasp. I had always been careful to hold on tight (and that was where he complained I was possessive) but guess I gave him too much trust which he misused.  

Despite the fair share of lies I gave merely to gain attention, I had NEVER and would never go to the extend of CHEATING. So knowing this, I know I can never turn back or look at you in the same light again despite whatever honey-coated words or twisted logic you might have. Now, I'm truly glad we ended. 

To the little lamb who willingly fall into his embrace despite this knowledge: if you manage to tame the beast within, that's good for you, both of you. But if the leopard doesn't change its spots, do remember that you had all the knowledge that I was denied of before making the choice.

Disclaimer: All the above are my own views. You are free to judge. 

So the photography club adviser who is the international office's liaison officer decides to use a photo every fortnight for the newsletter's letterhead. I have to admit that my photo look quite good up there combined with the font and school logo. As in it's all placed properly and lucky for my rule of thirds in the photo. Haha.. I asked a few people which one between the 2 I had chosen and most chose this one. I was rather hesitant to submit this at first because of there was an annoying flare in the middle. So I photoshopped it away before submitting and wondered why I had not done it months ago. Do tell me if I did a bad Photoshop job. 




And after the whole news updates, there's a section about ME! I thought it was a competition and that I wouldn't win, so I didn't put much thought into constructing the paragraphs. OTL. If I had known, I would ask someone with better English to proof-read or even type something nicer for me. After I pasted the link on FB, my annoying friend whatsapp me about a mistake I had typed and laughed at it. Argh! See if you can spot it though. And knowing that it would be published, I would have put my portfolio onto sites with better sounding and nicer looking domain names (those were created rather long ago, again without much thought put into them). I am rather hesitant on buying a domain to put my photos though. I mean it's not a job that earns me bucks (it's just a hobby) but yet, I'm paying money to maintain it. I know I match dollar to dollar and is very calculating. :(

Finally, here's the link to the full newsletter if you are interested (pdf file).

So I spent the afternoon tweaking my phone instead of studying for my exams. Apparently, my phone might be too old for the new Android OS 4.0.

 

I first installed a custom ROM called MythICSLite. What is really important to me is that it should have battery percentage and haptic feedback which it doesn't! (But the camera does work.) So I turned to ICS CyanogenMod 9.

 

ICS CM9 is perfect (with battery percentage and haptic feedback) except for the fact that the camera doesn't work. zzz. And with the new Instagram for Android, I really want the camera to work! So I am now back on CM7. T-T still waiting on new betas for CM9 for my Samsung Ace. Hope they fix the camera problem soon.

 

Other than all that, I like the colour, font and theme of ICS. I like it that even when the phone is locked, the status bar can still be pulled down. When my phone was on the ICS the screen somehow look so clear, fresh and brand new. And I like the new in-built browser. But haiz~

 

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Feeling out of sorts today. Maybe because I've so much work and the mid-semesters are close. Maybe I'm not feeling good about my interest in Cosplay photography being doubt by people in the club. Just not one isolated reason...

 

You know that doing sonething (like cycling or watching a funny movie or anime) or talking to someone might make you feel better. But once all that's done, you're back to square one again.

 

I don't know how to make myself feel better today. Argh! Just emo nemo elmo today. Hope tomorrow will be better.

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...is Anzac Day! So many public holidays this semester. /yawns

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