Sunday, February 23, 2003

whoa. more and more each day my life in aus seems to have been pre-empted in my dreams. ahhhhh deja vu. i should really start a seperate blog called dreamz or something but my life seems to b so intertwined with the so called...haiya my brain is so fried nowadays that i dun even know wat the word is. supernatural? no. un something. this is bad. i m supposed to go to uni to get smarter not stupider. = ) must b coz i m missing my weekly 12 hour sleep fest on saturdays being busy wif other things. aniway its sorta freaking me out but not so much coz its happened to me b4. but only rarely. dreamt something then stored it in the far reaches of my mind wondering wat in the world dat was all about esp when its abt pple and places i haf never seen b4 and almost forgetting it until much later, a few months, years even. BANG. the exact same scene plays out, in real life and i go "whoooaaaa" i c...but since i m used to it i juz carry on as normal then ponder abt it later. wat does it really mean? if anything at all. is God showing me something? confirming the plan he has for me? preparing me in advance as to wat will happen in the future? or is it juz dat in a weird sorta way i time travel into my own future in my sleep? life is one big mystery but i m enjoying the ride! but this kinda thing has never happened in such quick succession and in such frequency. 3 times within days of each other. dat is definitely not a normal phenomena for me even though the phenomena in itself is not normal. the first was being lectured in this theatre which i haf never been in b4. it didn't hit me very hard, juz had sum inkling of wat was gonna happen and sure enuff it did. but i juz brushed it off. the second time was when i first met andrew, brian's potential housemate and i had lunch wif him coz the others were free already and wanted to go celebrate jiamin and samantha's bdaes which coincidentally fell within 24 hrs of each other. cool. the scene dat played out was me turning out after getting my sandwich and him waiting for me. bang! deja vu. again! i dreamt dat scene b4! and i onli found out a few days later dat he wld b moving into the room next to mine. how much of a coincidence is dat? and he LIKES to cook for large gps of pple and i will pay him $2 a meal to cook haha i lazy no time to cook myself... and the 3rd one juz happened when the entire student village blacked out and i had nothing better to do but visit val. but things like this really bring out the village pple together. juz hanging outside the flats and bumming wif neighbours. i drew val a cat on her board coz i was bored,then AGAIN! the same scene, same action, same place, dreamt b4. i tink i juz haf to deal wif these things myself. or mayb not at all coz i dunno wat they mean! but it is really interesting to me when it happens. i sorta live in a time warp of my own.

Sunday, February 16, 2003

hey guess what? it rained for the first time since i touched down here. it wasnt fantastic more like a drizzle but it RAINED. i noe it sounds silly but its a big relief after all the hot days wif no clouds to block the searing sun. went to zion praise harvest church in curtin 2day. it was no joke and quite an experience squeezing in the back of church member's 2nd hand cars wif jialin, wengyan, jasmine tan (who's not christian but still comes to church, will pray for her. she's a nice gal but quiet compared to REALLY NOISY jialin and wengyan) not to mention a 7 mth old but dunno how heavy golden retreiver stepping on the not so convenient but strategic parts of our laps when we went to the dog walk at dog beach which eventually was a wash out coz of the rain and the cold cold winds! zph worship was a bit more charismatic than riverview which was good i think frm wat i saw frm the zph members but the tech aspect not as gd...but the heart of worship is more impt is it not? but i haf to go beyond the exterior show, onli God can know wat is in their hearts. the sermon was really on the surface, left me hungering 4 deeper stuff. but they did that wif the bible study b4hand but it was really rushed so didnt absorb much. will check out their cells. zph is smaller than riverview so can actually know ple sorta like aspc but wanna c their ethos and stuff. pray for me in my church search. then bummed around and finished my unicorn bk in bed coz there's no light at my table yet. then i looked at unit readers and found out that i really like my foundation unit coz it involves a lot of science-fiction reading! it will b like a hobby doing this unit. then my heart fell when i realised all over again how scary chem was coz i haf to take it as a unit. o well as least its better than full blown a-level chem which wld probably gif me a heart attack during the exam. then valerie called abt the bbq @ rec rm. i was completely blur and totally 4got abt it. frm then on i tell whoever i noe. GOT FREE FOOD MUST TELL EACH OTHER! ate the vegan stuff there but veggie burgers were so salty! then not full enuff ate the normal stuff. oops tink i ate too much. stomach felt weird when i joined valerie and jas tan on the dance floor (to malu myself onli, i haf 2 left feet and dunno wat to do wif my hands, no coordination sigh) but it was fun. fren fren join lah 4 a spot of fun onli. everything felt better when i burped. hee. but music was too loud 4 anione to hear. i tink both me and valerie r partially daef already. = ) kelvin juz stoning in one corner refusing to dance, can tell us theory of dancing but don't want to do practical haiz. looking at pretty gals tink i dunno.= ) ok gotta go sleep 1st day of sch in the morning.FUN.= )

Saturday, February 15, 2003

argh wat happened to the whole load of stuff i wrote this afternoon? haiz coms can really make me cry. jus came back frm riverview chrch wif lisa and kelvin (the 1st year vet student frm spore under ava scholarship, apparently offered astar too but phillip yeo gave him a real bad time abt murdoch so he was so surprised i managed to convince him hee.) it was ok sort of like perth's version of hillsongs. william didn't want to come once he heard it was charismatic. o well he's quite conservative anyway. its ok. i tink he go check out the bible presbyterian church tmrw. heh looks like i m one of the youngest in the batch. not till we discovered jasmine(spore) and maiyo (japan) who came from murdoch college. wow super fast track. making lots of frens during o week. fun! the norwegians r nice! there's ellen and christine (who can speak cantonese but i cant and i'm supposed to!aniwae her mum's frm hong kong so...) dun really know the locals yet coz they seperate orientation. but aniwae there are 8 sporeans doing vet 1st year, quite surprised got guys too coz the course is female dominated hee. they all frm top 5 jcs i so extra hee. sandra and rach i found wengyan and jialin they are superbly CRAZY! and fun. my goodness did not know mgs gals could b so MAD. evan u hearing this? also there's eric who's OLD,24 lah but engaged! wow! i duno how he's gonna keep it dat way for 5 years. batty hint hint...theres brian frm vj, looks a bit ang moh his bdae today! har har. the bunch of us sang him bdae song in rec rm malu him. valerie's frm vj too she's so sweet. who else? jasmine aka jiamin frm hcjc, want to get to know her more, dun c her around much but sch hasn't started yet so will haf plenty of time. my flatmates r nice compared to other flats pple. 2 australians sam (2nd year vet) and tara (she just got drunk 2nite and started blabbering about how nice we were to put up with their wild noisy parties aiya she so cute.) there's travis frm US but dun c him much i tink he go out wif frens. abd there's steffi frm msia so nice like big sista to me. also went a bit mad joining a lot of societies during o week, christian orgs, soccer, theatre, organ donation oops then i found out onli 4 aussies, green orgs...then i thot i better stop. but i want to support so many things! haiz just like me to get overinvolved. but i like to b involved!hah hope this can get published then i won't cry. tmrw go zion chrch wif vet pple. u noe y? coz apparantly bringing dogs go swimming after dat at cottesloe beach. walk further on and theres the nudist beach hee. they r going 4 the dogs the dogs! we r vets, animal lovers?= )

Monday, February 03, 2003

ahh so touched, al and sam arranged this whole surprise farewell party thing which i knew practically almost all about it anyway. they r quite obvious o well was really surprised at the number of pple dat turned up at tani anyway. so touching! also a bit hazardous. when i opened the youth rm door in an already pitch black tani yan exploded not one but TWO party poppers in my face. i could actually feel the hot sparks on my face argh! o well it was done wif good intentions. i love the YMers! a lot of cute farewell gifts. like the praying bunny sandra got me, its name is grace! nearly the same birthday as my flight date. then haf a doggy frm sam tan, yvonne and cheryl with a heart out of its mouth which al sez looks like a tongue. sam lim, josh and leonard got me a dog watermelon hybrid pencilcase. looks kooky. hey its great the j1s haf continued the mugger legacy in exactly the same room! i want them to multiply the muggers when i get back. evan sez the smell of the mugger's rm reminds her of me?! o well at least its a woody smell not sum BO or wateva. eddie sez he will get me sumthing long and hard... wat were u tinking? a nalgene bottle lah, indestructable. really! haf some photostickers taken wif the bunch of gals and xtra bro @ heeren. the machine would not cooperate and simply spouted jap to us which was completely un understandable to us. the result did not turn out too bad. maybe bcoz only the top of my head turned out on the first one and the others were so miniscule u couldn't tell how not pretty i looked. tried to drag sandra, jun xiong my uncousin and paul into the pic but their butts were made of lead. = ) ooh ooh there was food frm chomp chomp. i tink they were trying to get me to haf a last taste of spore food b4 i leave. i tink a bit too bad coz getting the scary cough that won't stop. hope i get well in time. my flight is in 3 days! just doing last minute repacking coz i m 8 kg over the airline limit. and dats even when i passed a whole heavy bag to lisa to help me carry over to perth. al's getting super kan cheong and squeezing all the hugs out of me he can get but it sorta feels more like he's crushing me but o well wat r sistas 4? al chew also v cute. greeting me 5 years worth of hellos b4 i go. wanted to stay longer at tani but dads getting to b his usual self. his way or the highway. he's not getting that 2day was possibly the last day sum pple wld eva c me for a long long time. but i didn't cry or get overemotional. maybe its because i am already spiritually prepared to leave my comfort zone and go all the way for God in missions anyway. and maybe its because i know i'll be back.