I am still alive!!

Wow… so long never update my blog liao… hehe… I had been busy with my work in school that I have not much time to type anything but my essays and drawing sketches. At last, today was my presentation and I am very happy with my results. There is just one thing left, tomorrow is the Law test. Oh man… I am already in my holiday mood and I does not have the motivation to study.

Here is 2 photos I took just now. The Lunar eclipse. For those who missed it in Singapore or Australia or any part of the world, here is how it looks like. Apologies for the poor quality coz I did not bring my other further zoom lens.

The Lunar Eclipse



End of Lunar Eclipse

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Back in Action

It has been long since I updated my life story. Yesterday, a group of the year 3 and 4 had a potluck dinner in the School of Architecture building. It was also part of the farewell dinner for April who is leaving for Singapore tomorrow. I made Chee Cheong Fun, but it was quite a failure last night because I did not get the correct wrong mixture which is the perfect proportion I made on Friday night. It turned out to be too soft. Luckily, I did not eat the nicely done Chee Cheong Fun, if not, I will have nothing to bring over.

We had a game of mahjong, and also there are 2 tables playing poker and UNO each. Suddenly, the School of Architecture 3rd year studio becomes a gambling den, without money involve. We were rebellious. Our homework not done, work left aside, and was playing till after midnight. But it was fun. It feels so good to stay away from our work once in a while.

I watched the Singapore National Day 2007 on youtube in school yesterday. And to my surprise, and also proud of, my cousin-in-law was the Parade Sergeant Major of this year’s NDP. Watching the parade marches into the stage, it reminded me of the good old times when I was in the army. Sometimes, it is not a bad idea to stay in the army. I am still proud of going through the tough training during my Officership course which thought me a great deal of leadership.

tata…

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Back from Hobart Site Visit

It was a very tiring trip down to Hobart for our semester 2 site visit. But it is very interesting and interactive in the way Helen had organized us for our group discussion. I learnt a lot of issues from different perspective. Then, we came out with different proposition and possibility from our analysis to our site. I am lucky that this semester I have a good team to work with.

Yesterday, the last day, my usual friends and I decided to walk through the underground drainage to the other end. There was a portion where a dam was created across forcing us to walk along a narrow curb at the side. There is a pipe protruding out of the wall at my forehead height. The first cross, I managed to duck to avoid it. But during the return trip, I was walking so fast and didn’t duck low enough, my head hit it hard. It was so painful! Till now, I can still feel the pain when I bend down or pull my facial skin backwards.

There are lots of thing happened during the trip. We got a $50 summon over unauthorized parking in a permit holder lot carpark. 2nd, our lodge, the Couch House, got a blackout while we are preparing dinner. We got a refund for one night and free stay in 2 other smaller units for that night, but minutes after we moved, the electricity came back.

It was lucky that we did not lose anything. The refund get us each back at least $6.40 back in our pockets.







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Blackout

It was a bad night 3 days ago. I woke up in the middle of the night and went to the toilet. Then, I had a very uncomfortable feeling in my chest. The next time I notice, I was on the floor beside the toilet bowl. I had a blackout. My nose had a small cut and there is bruises and a jelly bean size scratch below my lips. It bleeds. What a night. I do not know how long I laid there.

tata…

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Winter Trip and Good News!!

I had a great time at Cradle Mountain last Friday and I will like to go back one more time during summer. Also, we visited the Tasmazia and the Village of Lower Crackpot. It’s the best maze I ever went and it is huge!


A group photo before the walk around Dove Lake, Cradle Mountain.


Fishing house in Dove Lake.


Enchanted walk around Dove Lake.


Cradle Mountain scenic view.


Broadwalk from Ronny Creek to Cradle valley.






Panaroma view to Cradle Valley before Marion’s Lookout.


Alone on top one of the mountain.


At the Peak.


Marion’s Lookout, 1223m ASL.


Know who’s poo this is? Its Wombat’s poo.


I have forgotten where this lake was.


Tasmazia.


Which way to go?


Inventor of the water closet.


A different perspective of The Great Maze from above.


The 3 bear cottage.


Pa Pa Bear.


Ma Ma Bear


Baby Bear


Confusion Maze.




The Village of Lower Crackpot.


Hampton Court Maze.




The Hexagonal Maze.

Lastly, I had good news to announce. Yesterday, it was my first day for Winter Elective. But that’s not the good news. The good news is that I found m 6 years long lost friend! Finally he tried to contact me on my Singapore Woodlands home and called for my youngest sister and asked about me. I can’t believe he still has my MSN address. He is really some true friend who still keeps my home number and MSN address.

tata…

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Snow and Fun

I had a extremely fun and exciting weekend touring the southern part of Tasmania. We head off to Port Arthur. Along the way, we stopped by Richmond and visited the Old Hobart Town Historic Model Village.




What are they doing? O.o

Then, we went further down the road to challenge the Maze. I had trouble getting out of the 2nd maze. In the end, I took a short cut by crawling under the divider.


Maze 1

Port Arthur penal station was established in 1830 as a timber-getting camp, producing sawn logs for government projects. After 1833 it became a punishment station for repeat offenders (at least 2 twice) from all the Australian colonies.






A pathetic small cell.


A glimpse of light at in a Separate Prison cell.


The Chapel in Separate Prison.




It is so narrow I have to walk sideways to get in.


The Church (1837)

Saturday morning, we head down to Hobart Salamanca Market and Mt Willington. To our luck, there is snow up there! It was so crowded with cars and people and cars are anyhow parked along the road up to the tip. We managed to slot into a “lot”.

We had lots of fun throwing snow balls at each other. We made snowman and chicken and some animals. I wish I could spend more time playing in the snow!









Later next day, we head to the Airwalk and swinging bridge. Not for the faint hearted to cross the swinging bridge. No la… its not that scary actually. Hehe. It is nice to revisit these places since I last visited them 4 years ago.




The Airwalk Cantilever.


Swinging Bridge.





Lastly, the Moon during the afternoon. We also missed the last tour to Hasting Cave at 3pm by just 10mins. Went all the way there and that’s the last tour. It is just not our luck that day. We should do our homework before any trip.

tata…

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