Ahh...Melbourne, the city of delights
Well...here I am in the four seasons city of Australia. I would like to thank everyone for chipping in on the photo album. I really appreciate the amount of time and effort that has gone into it, especially over the last week! I showed it to __happy__ and he thought it was very cool. I also showed him the "AHEM" and he just shook his head.
Yesterday was interesting. I still have to get used to the Melbourne campus being so incredibly small compared to ANU. Very weird when everything is so compact. Remember the days where we had to walk from Baldessin to Physics to Law, wolfwarrior and kasneeze? It took about 5-10 mins. Well, to get from Admin to Engineering to Medicine in Melbourne, it takes a 2 minute quadrangle and walkway. Either they laid out this university really well (which they probably did) or ANU campus is alot bigger than I thought. It was really amazing to get all my academic, textbooks and admin stuff done within an hour. I was very much impressed. Last night, finally met up with __happy__ and went out for dinner. We had a very nice toufu dish, with dried chilli beef and chicken hot pot. T'was very nice.
Currently, it is 23 degrees and brilliantly sunny here and after a day of walking up and down the streets of this vibrant city, my feet are sore, my eyes are tired and I now have a rice cooker and travel iron. Why? Because I am not talented enough to boil rice in a saucepan and even though an ironing board sounds tempting, it's a small apartment. So I got one of those small-ish travel irons with an ironing mat that was sold to me by a civil engineering student. I also got my hair cut (yes, I know again) and this time it's short enough for me to just wash'n go. The lady who was doing it actually knew what she was doing and was able to take alot of the bulk out of my hair and make it look pretty.
What was interesting today though was that an Asian lady came up to us and she couldn't speak a word of English and she started speaking Mandarin in a REALLY thick accent and mum and me both could not understand her. I couldn't because I'm no Mandarin speaker by a long stretch and mum couldn't because she spoke Cantonese. It was really funny because when she spoke Mandarin to mum, mum spoke back in Cantonese and they both had really blank looks! It was funny. In the end, we understood what she meant and so directed her to the electronics sectionin broken Mandarin, English and Cantonese. SIGH! If only I learnt to speak and not write...
Anyway, tomorrow is the big day and just looking at my enrolment record it looks like there's a lot of things I'll be studying. I'm looking at some of the textbooks and two of them are like 1st year physics books!
Hope everyone is well and enjoying themselves in their new jobs or just having fun!
Yesterday was interesting. I still have to get used to the Melbourne campus being so incredibly small compared to ANU. Very weird when everything is so compact. Remember the days where we had to walk from Baldessin to Physics to Law, wolfwarrior and kasneeze? It took about 5-10 mins. Well, to get from Admin to Engineering to Medicine in Melbourne, it takes a 2 minute quadrangle and walkway. Either they laid out this university really well (which they probably did) or ANU campus is alot bigger than I thought. It was really amazing to get all my academic, textbooks and admin stuff done within an hour. I was very much impressed. Last night, finally met up with __happy__ and went out for dinner. We had a very nice toufu dish, with dried chilli beef and chicken hot pot. T'was very nice.
Currently, it is 23 degrees and brilliantly sunny here and after a day of walking up and down the streets of this vibrant city, my feet are sore, my eyes are tired and I now have a rice cooker and travel iron. Why? Because I am not talented enough to boil rice in a saucepan and even though an ironing board sounds tempting, it's a small apartment. So I got one of those small-ish travel irons with an ironing mat that was sold to me by a civil engineering student. I also got my hair cut (yes, I know again) and this time it's short enough for me to just wash'n go. The lady who was doing it actually knew what she was doing and was able to take alot of the bulk out of my hair and make it look pretty.
What was interesting today though was that an Asian lady came up to us and she couldn't speak a word of English and she started speaking Mandarin in a REALLY thick accent and mum and me both could not understand her. I couldn't because I'm no Mandarin speaker by a long stretch and mum couldn't because she spoke Cantonese. It was really funny because when she spoke Mandarin to mum, mum spoke back in Cantonese and they both had really blank looks! It was funny. In the end, we understood what she meant and so directed her to the electronics sectionin broken Mandarin, English and Cantonese. SIGH! If only I learnt to speak and not write...
Anyway, tomorrow is the big day and just looking at my enrolment record it looks like there's a lot of things I'll be studying. I'm looking at some of the textbooks and two of them are like 1st year physics books!
Hope everyone is well and enjoying themselves in their new jobs or just having fun!