Short Circuit 短路

Last Friday, I went home earlier since I had nothing to do at the library (I simply did plan to study any more). Hot weather had made my room so warm. The worst thing was the fan suddenly stopped working. Initially we thought our electricity supply had been cut off since the house lord always forgot to pay the bill.

After my friend checked the circuit breaker, he found that the electrical circuit in my room had problem. Of course, they chose to switch the power supply to my room. They called the warden, but he could not do anything except passing the problem to his college. So, my room remained lightless for nights.

Compared to the study stress (as mid-year exam is just around the corner), I just feel too tired to bother the situation. I have to study, still, even without the power supply.

周五，我总在冷冰冰的藏书阁里度过。可这回，我却背叛了一言不语、知识渊博的她。我承认，我选择了酷热的家，陪伴诱惑。

也许是一种惩罚，每每我避开她时，她嫉妒的心，尝试把我身边的一切带走。这次，赌气的她与光明离去了。说明了，卧室的电源被截断了。灯管的休息，让黑暗肆无忌待地吞噬房里的每一个角落。

不知何故，这不便只在我疲惫的心上掠过。她就是看准了我不会因为这类问题让我们之间的关系疏远。考试的火苗已烧上眉梢！无论她怎么闹，我总得哄她回来，让她回来陪伴我左右。

Study Log

Be frankly, I am asked by Ms Chan to write somethings on study as preparation for the speaking test end of this month. The following is the detail of my study in this month.

Basically, I found Ms Chan always can make the class alive. I admit that sometime I find other lectures are quite boring, but not the EALD classes!

However, discussion of culture and language becomes more and more abstract. We were focusing on multiculturalism in the beginning of this month. Ms Chan explained about the diversity of culture in Australia and racism occurred there. Australia as an international country, has all the immigrants from all around the world. It is just like a mini global village where you can find a wide range of people here.

However, this complex society has its own problems. They practise 'melting pot', that is, all the Australians practise a national lifestyle and have their own identity. But this arises the problems of race discrimination. The diversity of culture will die off, and the minorities will be discriminated. Discrimination is obvious through the White Australian Policies (Europeans were encouraged to immigrate to Australia). The selective of the immigrants is due to the facts that 'alien race' might be dangerous to their culture.

Then, it came to the discussion of status of refugees. Refugees are totally different from the legalized immigrants. Some of them are victims of war and natural disaster, but the other are 'queue jumper'. Due to this, there exists a issue (a important topic of discussion) whether government should allow them to settle down in the host country.

Finally, we have a lecture on sexual harassment. By definition, sexual harassment is unwelcome disturbance (mentally or physically). We have a fun time talking about 'pun' and how different intonation and expression which may cause misunderstanding.

I think this should be the end of this post. Thank for reading.

Borderless loneliness 空虚的寂寞

It is so simple to know a friend, but not a friend who know you. Same thing goes to my emptiness, who know? I was trapped in this expanding world, challenges is getting more complete each day. The extraordinary pressure already misshapes my soul. I travel on uneven path numbly, never care about the surrounding. Until I reach the junction, I simply fail to make a decision where to go, yet more choices are coming.

Reality is just like an illusion. I rather busy with other things, but not face the reality. I just want to be alone, being preoccupied by emptiness, just the eye of heaven chooses to continue to shine, and even the people feel too hot. I admit that I am selfish, because I am human too.

I will go, until the end of the day.

朋友易寻，知己难求。心底的空虚，谁知？迷失于迅速膨胀的世界里，挑战日益艰辛，却谁知我的心已被压力挤压得变形？麻木，行于崎岖的路上，路边的景色已模糊。分叉路口间踌躇，可这只是千万个转捩点之一啊！

现实麻醉了自我。我情愿荆棘遮蔽了视线，也不想面对那残酷的未来。我选择了独处，选择了寂寞，选择了空虚，俨如烈日让温度计里的水银长高，也不理会冷气室里的人的毒骂。是啊，我选择了自私，就像那些自私的人受不了烈日一样。

我会一直走下去，直到终点。

因果

Hot weather, warm air,
Stared the table fan,
My mind started stirring,
Looking into the past.

I am rather like a observer,
watching what was happening surrounding me.

Busy,
I came closer to myself,
Loneliness preoccupied my soul.
One way to escape:
Doing endless homework and assignment.

Evil April
At the first day being fooled,
'Don't fool people as you will be fooled!'
Yes, we change things, but things change too.

We are close to our friends,
Makes influenza closer to us.
Illness is just unavoidable,
Because we are under one roof.

We want to be strong,
God makes us even stronger.
Incident happens,
Accident is the consequence.
Who will be the next unfortunate one?

Do appreciate yourself, your family,
And your friends.
Because you care, you are cared.

Week 11: Oscar in IT World

12 March 2009 seemed to be an important date for some IT friends. For those who play strategy game, they will be anticipating the latest version of Red Alert 3 expansion. Edward has waited for months just for this moment. And for those who are fanatic of the latest technology development, this is also the day the latest version of Windows 7 (Built 7057) available on the net. (It is released earlier, but torrent and direct download are available on this day).

Oscar Awards were given out currently, Joel has downloaded the whole ceremony. He has currently turned to a download mania, who continuously sucking bandwidth just to fulfill his endless desire for movies and games. You should understand that life will be boring without these digital stuffs. Moreover, we have too little homework after we done the documentary (I wonder how Ms Chan influence other lecturers, they all said we need time to relax and postponed all our homework).

What I feel both exciting and nervous was the result of our documentary. It is just like a mini Oscar. We all wanted to see who get the Best Documentary Award. Keoh Ying always says our documentary is the best. I has faintest confidence about it. There are 3 groups of students who are doing tattoo as their title. I watched others' documentaries. They are all up to the world standard. I shall give all 50 over 50 if I were Ms Chan.

Week 12: Irony behind the Earth Hour

Will the power generator in the electric plant stop generating power for one hour because there are no body using it? 28 March 2009 8.30pm, will the miracle happen?

I think I am just too naive to think so. I waited for days, hoping that the light polluted City would be swollen by the darkness even just 3600 seconds. I remembered that there was once a black out in my home town and the sky was so beautiful. All stars were so bright and well decorating the lonely sky. I was in the paradise. 'Earth Hour' seemed to be the best opportunity for the grey sky above the city to change its grown.

8.25 pm, I offed all the light and went to the playground. Heavily rained a few hours before, cozy and moisturised air freeze the place. Sadly, visible light still shined the night scenery. I comforted myself that the planed time was not reach yet, but it made no different even an hour later.

Why there are still so many stubborn people, so occupying with their own business until they have no time to accompany the mother earth in the real darkness? Have they watched 'Wall-E'? Do they think that one day they will all migrate out the earth and enjoy life in outer space, forgetting about the earth? Think over it yourself.

Week 6: Laziness and dizzyness

If you are observant, you will notice that I write this post 8 days after this 'Week 6'. Well, I only can say that I was infected by the 'laziness' disease. I wonder why I am so weak always get attacked by all sort of diseases. Maybe I am just too thin and malnutrient.

Don't forget that I am a big disease bin that will suck up every illness that surrounding me. Constantly, I suffering from runny nose and feel unwell at all time. This came the time that I have killed all the feeling to do homework. Procrastination cause me to finish homework at eleventh hour. Luckily it is not too late to pay it up.

Anyway, sorry that I have to at least report some incident that happened during EALD class. I just think that is something that is essential to state in every post (as the purpose of the blog is actually as a log for study, and is so called study log). First, we discussed some questions that related to 'Japanese Story' and then how a documentary is presented. The main idea in the movie must be subjective and cover the opinion of all range of people. We did our first assignment (essay-reinforce or challenge culture). We watched a bit of a documentary regarding how harmful the fast food is. Unfortunately, we have no time to finish it. When will we continue?

Week 5

1 Feb 2009, Sunday


After the one-week Chinese New Year break, I was on my way back to Petaling Jaya. In fact, the whole bus was fully occupied by boarding students. Some of them really had some hard time saying goodbye to their families before departure. We understood that this might be the last opportunity to be with our dearest families before the next reunion. I feel touched by the scene.


I think luck was not with me when I reach Pudu Bus Station, but I did not realize that. As usual, I just rushed to the nearest LRT station, hoping that I can reach home (student house) as soon as possible. But the idea vanished when suddenly I found my hand phone missing. I traced back but fail to allocate my phone.


It was a very cheap phone, but I knew it would still cause a lot of troubles. Luckily, before it was too late, I bought back my old hand phone number. So, you still can call me use the number that you have.


4 Feb 2009, Wednesday


Bad luck continued hunting me. I was muted because of my sore throat. Junk food, mandarin oranges and fried food were the main contributors of the illness.


Unable to even say a word, I remained silent for hours. Even during the group discussion of our documentary, I just listen. However, my condition went worse at the end of the day. I felt just extreme cool and dizzy when all my friends paying attention on the sample documentary related to our topic. I guess nobody notice that I might fell unconscious at any time. I just managed to escape to my bedroom before it was too late.


5 Feb 2009, Thursday


It is really a shock for me after viewing 'Japanese Story' (You will know how if you watch it). I never realize that Australians are so 'open' and yet 'dangerous'. How would I face the 'culture shock' when I fly to there? I never know. What I know is literature is a matter of understanding and imagination. You are unable to understand the shade of meaning of some abstract and boring subject if you just touching the surface. Kindly, Ms Chan was still able to make fun of the boring stuff.

Week 4

What? It is time to write summary for week 4 again? And guess what, tomorrow is school day again! I still in the holiday mood...

In short, I really enjoy this Chinese New Year. Even the economy is tumbling, my parents still managed to buy a lot of things especially food. I have endless supply of junk food this time. Even I continuously eat them throughout the holiday, I still can find some more in the store room! But pity, I still is 54 kg only...

Unfortunately, we only have a short break 4 months later. I wonder I can survive without any rest...

Week 3

Ingredient:

• Boy: Tales of Childhood
• Handout-Themes, plot, characteristics
• Literature test paper
• Projector and laptop
• Stick
• Balloons
• Paper and markers

Procedure:

• The answers of our first literature test were discussed.
• The handouts were distributed.
• The literature component of Boy: Tales of Childhood were analyzed using projector and laptop.
• An acting of a scene in Boy was performed. Balloons were used to make up the big bosom of the Matron. (We acted out the scene which Roald received his first strike. It was rather a success because we actually put a lot of efforts into it. But other groups too were able to make the scene alive. Ms Chan was unable to judge which group was the best, subsequently divided the prize, the liquorices bootlace, equally among us.)
• A review of the book was written in the class. (But unfortunately water leaked out from the ceiling, Ms Chan classified it as very dangerous as short circuit might happen at any time. We evacuated to another classroom.)
  

P. S.
This week was really eventful. I got food poisoning at the beginning of the week. I just want to highlight that people surrounding me are so caring and concerning about me. They constantly asked me if I felt unwell. Then follow the incident described above. We attended afternoon classes so that we can have an earlier holiday. I felt exhausted after one-whole-day lectures. The most ‘wonderful’ thing is that we have a lot of homework. Luckily I have done all before my holiday starts. At least I can really enjoy my Chinese New Year.