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Yea, the fateful day have finally arrived... the last day of my stint in Australia! Caught the sunrise at Mt Cootha with Defoe and Jolene in the morning! It was awesome! In about an hour time, I will be on my way to Brisbane International Airport... I guess I have mixed emotions now... Coz I definitely missed Aussie but yet I know I have to return to a new phase of my life... I have achieved most

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Stanford Report, June 14, 2005 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is

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Oooo yea, I pass all my modules!!! (1 distinction, 3 credits and 1 pass)... So freaking happy that I passed Peter Sutton module which focuses on C programming in Unix ... Yucks... No more of such stuff for the rest of my life... =)Went city with Edward in the afternoon and did some final shopping...=) As he wanted to head to some xxx shop in Taringa...hahaz... I headed back to Indooroopilly alone

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Yea, results are finally out and yea I passed all the modules with 1 distinction, 3 credits and a pass... Yesh, I passed Peter Sutton module despite the insane labs! Thank you Nicholas for helping me out with the labs!!! It is 6:32am in the morning right now; the results were stipulated to be released at 8am but I saw my msn blinking with messages from my friends while I was on the way to the

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Singapore takes centre stage for 2012 vote By Geert De Clercq SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Royalty, heads of state and sporting celebrities are flooding into Singapore for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting on Wednesday that will chose the host city for the 2012 Summer Games. The 3,000 to 5,000 visitors, including Spanish Queen Sofia, French president Jacques Chirac and boxing great

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Oooo... Today marks the 135th day of my stint in Aussie!!! Just back from Milton to search for the musical box that Cat & Plene want; but they do not have those songs at Milton either... I went Roma Street to make a booking for my day tour to Fraser Island tomorrow; rather excited but a felt a little 'ke3 xi1' coz the day tour will not be bringing me to the Maheno Shipwreck... but will be

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I realise that I love to be in the middle of no where... In the semi-deserts in Adelaide (South Australia) where the long winding roads are never ending... It is there where you will be surrounded by majestic mountain ranges... It was a humbling affair.... They tell me straight in my face that I am nothing more than a dot in their eyes... I am at their mercy... I have to respect them and be in

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Yea... it has been three days since my final paper (Peter Sutton's paper to be exact)... =)... Took photo with Yeow Meng and Serina outside the main library to mark the completion of the module!!! Hahaz... Headed to Macdonalds for a deli sandwich before heading back to the lodge... Met up with Iskandar and Winson to go to a pub called Embassy in the city... =) It was my first time to an Aussie

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Yea, it 1:43PM in Brisbane right now and the sun is blazing outside... But is kind of cold now as I guess the temperature now should be around 16 - 17 degrees now. I had my Operating Systems paper today; it went on pretty fine fortunately... I prepared much more for this module than all the other modules (apart from the Peter Sutton's module) as there is no base marks from assignments or lab work

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Brr...It should be around 10+ degrees now...Just check the weather service in uq site:Brisbane7...22FineBrrr...Winter commences... but no snow... haiz... (but we did have hail a couple of weeks a go but I missed it as I was in the train back from Dreamworld)First paper tomorrow in the evening... Not very worried for it... the real challenge is next tuesday and wednesday... *pray pray*. I must

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Defoe told me last night that there is actually a bus strike in Brisbane last year coz the drivers want their buses to be air-conditioned... It is actually the unions that coordinate the strikes in Australia... Guess what... it works... the government promptly added more air-conditional buses thereafter... This brings me to the point that some of the free postcards they have in Australia actually

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Just gotten an email in my UQ mail, it goes like this: Subject Possible Rail Strike - Wednesday 15 June 2005 Queensland Rail has announced that a rail strike may disrupt allsuburban services on Wednesday 15 June. The strike is due to beginat midnight on Tuesday 14 June and will affect services in Brisbane,the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and west to Ipswich.Students who attend all three

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Before I went out for breakfast this morning, I realised that my msn dialog boxes are blinking... haz... One was from Nic who is now in San Francisco; he's having flatulence now... Ahhh..Hate that... Next was Wilbert's msg box which enquire about the place I am living at now... He will be on SEP in UQ next semester... We are going to experience very different things of Australia; looking forward

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It was my first dream in Australia... More often then not, I will promptly fell asleep till the next morning in Auz; but the dream this morning really jerked me up from my sleep... And I still remember the details now... Hope it does not happen; and anywway, people always say those that you dream of in your dreams will not turn into reality....Past few days has been pretty busy... Finishing up

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My days in Australia are diminishing day by day...haz... In the process of finishing up my assignments and studying for exams... My first paper is a "statistics and probability" paper which will be held next Friday. This week is the study week for UQ but I went back to school to get the forking done for my lab... YM and Mike have slogging out in the lab for the past few days... Australian marine

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Transvetites in Changi Village are nothing compared to Fish... They can be born a male and change to a female or vice versa (as they grow up) And yea, different fishes mate differently (but I think sting ray actually rape rather than mate; they BITE the pectoral fins of the female counterpart to mate, hazzz)... and have different ways of delivering their kids...hahaz... Some 'spit' them out the

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Is done. Is completed. Is final... No more meetings with the British girl... And yes, we handed in the assignment before the submission site closes... It was like this for all 3 assignments (except for the 2nd one which we submitted late)... The 2 aussies and I were grinning with joy after we left the lab... =) And now it leave this module with a final personal essay... =) Teamwork is never easy

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At some point in time, there will be sometime in our lives when we will like to take a step back and view our lives from the 3rd person perspective... It has been 3 months plus ever since I arrived in DownUnder... It was my first trip abroad via plane to a country that is an ocean away... It wasn't a smooth journey applying for this exchange program as I was juggling a lot of stuff when the

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This is one of the days I feel paralysed without my camera... The clouds above the school is really beautiful... They are big pieces of cirrus clouds today, spilling out from the horizon... It is like a giantic fan across the whole sky... I shall register it in my mind...=)One of my fencing partner, Anthony actually won a car from the Duck race in Australia!!! We were all stunned when he told us

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Ate a lot these couple of days after they left... I guess I have blend into their eating habits... All is well for them...=) Except for that eccentric Iranian guy living near them... All should be fine if they do stuff in a pair... 4 more days for them in Melbourne...=)Had a project meeting with 'her' in the afternoon... Luckily all went well unlike the previous one which ended awkwardly...

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Missed the operating lecture today coz I thought it was at 1 pm instead of 3 pm... Arghzzz.. Went to grab a book on Computer Networks before heading off to heat up my sandwiches and consuming them at the rooftop cafe. Met Cindy and Shuwei there who were chatting there too... Meeting for CSSE 3002 will be at 3PM later and I can see that a considerable amount of work has been done... I think I will

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Suddenly thought of the analogy that Plene has said with regards to the Aussie's version of Burger King... In Australia, there is no Burger King but only Hungry Jack even though the logos for both are the same... She said that it was King in Singapore but when it comes to Australia, it got demoted 2 ranks and become a Jack... I thought it was quite a comical analogy... =)They are on the way to

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It was a pity that I missed the hail in the evening yesterday evening... Fortunately, Defoe and Jolene managed to capture them on camera... Cat, Plene and I were amazed by the ice on the sides of the roads in the photos; I guess this is the closest thing next to snow... Eric commented that this was the first time there was hail for the past 2 years he was in Brisbane... This spelt extreme cold

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Time is running out and I need to make a major decision... After gathering some views, it seems that some action should be taken... I guess I will take one step at a time... but will I be too late then... Arghz... There are simply too many concerns that need to be taken into account... But I know sometimes opportunity only knocks once...The 3 ngee ann girls majoring in Mass Communication came

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Weather is turning cold... One can easily find people wrapped up in jackets and coldwear in school... I guess the temperature is still manageable; but it is only when the wind blow that the coldness sink in... hahaz... Yesterday's meeting for the final merging of Assignment 2 for CSSE3002 was disastrous... All of us were rather pissed off with 'her'... We submitted late anyway... But the lecturer

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I was bogged down by flatulence last Friday... And it lasted till this very moment but I am feeling much better now. I have already finished Chee Meng's charcoal pills... Thank you, Chee Meng! He has been a very nice person and even kept breakfast for me and passed me his herbal tea when I am sick. Attempted to visit the doctor on saturday with my OSHC card but the lady at the counter advised me

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Anzac day (25 Apr 05, Monday) was a significant event in the Australian calendar... Apart from it being a public holiday, thee was also dawn service (which Hong Ee went at 330am in the morning) and also a 2 hour long parade along Adelaide street. From my understanding, Anzac day is to commemorative those who have died in World War 1 & 2... I read from the 'The Courier Mail' that there are

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I had a test last Friday for the 'Operating systems and network principle module'... It was 20 mcqs (each with 5 choices) and is supposed to be completed in 45 minutes... This implies that one will only have 2 minutes and 25 seconds for each qn... When I was looping thru the loop in the codes at qn 11-12, I basically had about 12 minutes left... Random picking seem to be the rule of the game

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During dinner a moment ago, Peiro came back and narrate his interesting hair-cut session at the salon just down the street... Firstly, he told me that they charge him AUD$21; but he told them that his frens at the lodge told him that is was just AUD$15... And yea... the salon charged him the latter thereafter... However, I think that the highlight of th session was that he looked like that the

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Listening to FIR new album now... I like their 'soft-rock-styled' kind of songs... More often than not, they advocate freedom... Have you ever wondered what kind of freedom are you searching for in life? Freedom from things that are holding us back? Freedom to do things we really wanted to do? Financial freedom? Freedom from our past, be it relationships or friendships? Personally, I feel that

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Just came back from Indooroopilly shopping mall after making a call back home... Dinner looks fine today (actually it is fine whenever it is not Shepherd Pie). Just drop a short entry before I get my dinner, bathed and get down to work (school work)... =)Fencing was great yesterday; it was my first fencing after 3 weeks (1 week for hols, 1 week I was too tired and last week was due to the fact

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Yea, I am now in the computer lab waiting for fencing to commence at 6pm... Supposed to meet Sylvia (one of my fencing partner studying in QUT for coffee) but she hasn't sms me yet... Past 2 days was spent on coding the lab for the "Operating Systems & Network Principles" module... I officially gave up last night after spending a tremendous amount of time on it... Will not pass for this lab but

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When one is away from home, many things will start to become clearer... Goals, family, friends relationship, money etc... Not everyone will be able to excel in each of these... One need to strike a balance... By finding one's niche area will make one happy and feel 'rich'. I am sure everyone wants to find this equilibrium point... Have you thought about it? Or already in the process? It is never

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Hong Ee called me while I was in my room; all I heard was Avril Laringe (I dun even know if I spelt correctly, haha) screaming her head off att he other side of the phone... The atmosphere in Brisbane Entertainment Centre sound pretty high... hahaz... There is one key reason why I did not go for the concert: Coz I did not even attend SHE concert in S'pore and how could I attend Avril Laringe

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My room mate, Defoe had just broken his personal record of eating 7 eggs (out of 10) for dinner... I took out the egg box just now and announced officially ot him that if he do not consume by tomorrow; the eggs will be expired... ahhaz.... Bless him to have a good stomach till the next morning... =) I was reading up for my Australian Marine Environment test scheduled on next wednesday when I

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Yeap... I am still alive and kicking... Being on a short trip to South Australia (Adelaide) and Melbourne over the one week Easter break holidays... It was a fantastic trip; we did not spent much coz we visited mainly the natural attractions (we dun have time for more aniwei)... A brief list of ths places we have went are as follows:Day 1: Adelaide Domestic Airport, Adelaide City: Riverbank,

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Australian football - A hybrid of ruby and traditional football...

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BBQ at the lodge!

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Studying French...

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Weather is really cold today... It felt warmer in the air-conditioned library than the outside. As it was drizzling moderately in school today, it felt like iced water falling on your skin... Suddenly, I felt lucky that I did not signed up for the Strathbroke Island field trip for the course MARS 2005: Australian Marine Environment (which will cost me AUD$175)as they left for the island this

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Currently in the rooftop cafe now... 10 more minutes to comp2303 lab... It seems that work usually comes in bulk in all tertiary institutions; especially in modules that are programming-intensive... The title of this blog are the 2 lab assignments that needs to be done soon...I shall take in a deep breathe....Everything will be fine....Programming will not haunt me....I will conquer it....Time to

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Yesterday was a day spent pretty much alone in school... After attending the operating systems lecture, I proceeded to the printing shop to get my notes printed... Upon printing the 40 pieces of notes, I walked out of the shop forgetting that I need to pay at the counter... Back in NUS, cashcards were used; hence, it means "No money, No prints"... But things at UQ were different, one will print

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It is good to stay back in the lodge and recuperate once in a while... Did my math assignments and pack up my stuff a little... Cleared emails.... Create the new collages... And dinner will be from Sub-way... =)I will be having my first project meeting with my software engineering project group members... They are really a diversified bunch of people:Christine Double (may an australian? haha)

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12 Mar 05 (Saturday) An Effiel Tower in Brisbane (Milton)!Today was a short trip out to Fortitude Valley for St Patrick's Parade... Afterwhich, we proceeded to Milton for the tower... Thereafter, we headed to Toowong Village to have our lunch before going back to the lodge...What ensued in the lodge was: conditional probability, Baye's Law, Total Probability Law etc...This is my second brush

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12 Mar 05 (Saturday) St Patrick Church...Something I found out about St Patrick Day from the net:Praying with St Patrick by Canon John W. Stewart The Editor has made the suggestion that from time to time this column might examine the life of one of the saints and see how their lives instruct our own prayer. In March I am naturally drawn to St Patrick

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12 Mar 05 (Saturday) The Pope and the SEPians from NUS!

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12 Mar 05 (Saturday)St Patrick Parade (but it is not St Patrick Day coz it is actually on 17 March 05 (Thursday)

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11 Mar 05 (Friday) Sunset @ Habour Town...

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11 Mar 05 (Friday) I think I've gotten darker...

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11 Mar 05 (Friday) Walking through Habour Town...

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11 Mar 05 (Friday) Flowers at Habour Town - where the factory outlets are... (Nike, City Beach ... girls will love it!)

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11 Mar 05 (Friday) Appel Park...A waterfront park we passed by as we walked to the bus stop to catch a bus to Habour Town...

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11 Mar 05 (Friday) A quick tour of Surfers Paradise...

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11 Mar 05 (Friday) Certificate of Attendance... =)

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11 Mar 05 (Friday) Posing with Cindy's Surfboard!!!

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11 Mar 05 (Friday) Riding the wave @ Surfers Paradise...I did not go for classes today... =) I promise it will just be today that I will skip the lessons.=) We woke up early in the morning and headed for Surfers Paradise to learn how to surf. Hong Ee and Jolene had attended the first lesson before and they led us to the surfing school at Cavill Park at Surfers Paradise. The weather was pretty

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Breakfast is the same everyday but it seem to taste better this morning... Maybe 'coco pop' is finally back after the stock ran out a few days back. I had orange juice, 'coco pop' cereals with milk, yogurt with peaches and a piece of toasted margarine bread spread with rich nutella. =)There is in influx of emails from Mr Aaron Tan and Dr Pan SL with regards to my application for my UROP (

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8 Mar 05 (Tuesday) Making full use of a day...It is now 8am in the morning (09 Mar 05)!!! I am feeling a little groggy now as I slept at 4am last night due to the caffeine in the Cuppachino I took at Milton last night. Spent some time telling my friend about the stuff she need to know for the Australia trip... (My Hello prepaid was used up!) I thought I can skip breakfast today and have a good

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7 Mar 05 (Monday)Beach Volley Ball in UQ. (There is no ocean but the sand is like those in Gold Coast)The first and only lecture of the day was Operating Systems. Cindy sat in for the lecture and she mentioned that she did not understand a sentence of what the lecturer was talking about... Hahaz... Well, I am not better off... I think I only get about 30% of what the lecturer was speaking about

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6 Mar 05 (Sunday) A brief pictorial summary of the day...Discovery of the day1.) Drank my first Heineken (half a bottle) - bitter... =2.) Had my first uncooked oyster soaked in lemon juice...3.) Collected seagull feathers from King's beach4.) Realised that Toni's Merc bears my favourite numbers (9 and 3)[My favourites are 3, 6, 9]We almost did not made it back to the lodge as Toni's petrol

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6 Mar 05 (Sunday) Kings Beach @ Sunshine Coast!Kings Beach seems to be a better beach to surf and play in compared to those beaches in Gold Coast... The waves are higher and you get the companionship of numerous seagulls in the sky... Sunshine Coast is not as commercialise as Gold Coast where the backdrop is cast with high-rise commercial buildings... Hence, it is a much better place to

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6 Mar 05 (Sunday) View from the top of Glass House Mountains ... If I have read correctly, those humps in the panormic photograph above are actually volcanic plugs... =) It is really a breath-taking view up there... Thanks to Toni for driving us up this mountain... =)

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Our chef...I stayed back in the lodge today to work on a thesis (Jolene, Cindy & Hong Ee went to the City)... The readings have made me a little groggy but I managed to see some of the keys points in the journals... I am now left with a final article to comment on... Just had free pizza (again) for dinner from the really friendly lodge mates... I am to get 'paiseh' already; I think I need to get

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4 Mar 05 (Friday) A truly singaporean dinner...A really hearty dinner... =) It was before this dinner that I realised that Regina's hubby is actually from my NS camp. This is really a small world... Michael, the manager got into a traffic accident in the afternoon... He's not injured but the car has bumps both at the front and back... I heard from him that it was a ''domino" kind of collision -

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4 Mar 05 (Friday) Cards I have in my wallet...The latest cards I had today is the UQ laborartory swipe card and the BIT(Bachelor of IT) membership card... =) I got the latter coz I will get free hotdog bread every fortnightly outside the faculty and it just coast AUD$ 6! =) (Oh ya, I got my favourite numbers on my card; it is number 39!!! I was really pleasantly surprised!)

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4 Mar 05 (Friday) Why 8 AM? ..... .....Operating systems lecture is at 12PM on Monday, 9PM on Tuesday, 8AM on Friday... !!!!!!!!!!!Had my little indulgence at the rooftop cafe in in the business department... It cost AUD$2.80... Cheapest I see so far from the places I have visited...Home brand all the way!!!

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As I will not be visiting the islands with the class, I guess I will have to 'visit' the islands through the eyes of a fellow MARS2005er who have visited both North Stradbroke Island & Heron Island in 2004... I will be visiting Fraser island, a heritage island with my lodge mates...Meanwhile enjoy the photos taken by Kathy Stech...North Stradbroke IslandHeron Island

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I did laundry this morning after breakfast and headed to 'Students Flights' to get our air tickets to Adelaide. We will be leaving on the 25 March from Brisbane domestic airport to our destination. After 1-2 days there, we will be driving via the Great Ocean Road to Melbourne. We will be getting free accomodation from Cindy's friend in Melbourne.=) Finally, I can see one of seven wonders of the

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2 Mar 05 (Wednesday)I woke up rather late this morning at about 810am just in time for breakfast... But before I could even brush my teeth, Michael asked me if I could do a favour for him... He asked me to go down to the 7 Eleven store down the street to get him 2 litres of milk... Being a groggy state, I agreed and promptly went to grab the milk from the store... I've heard of stories about him

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1 Mar 05 (Tuesday)The Great Court in UQ!Most people in UQ will gather in the Great Court during lunch hours. Some will munch on their sandwiches while others take a short nap, lying on the grasses. Unlike Singapore, the grasses here are pretty dry (but yet they look luscious) and hence it is pretty safe to lie down on the grasses. There is a great difference being in the shade and being out in

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28 Feb 05 (Monday)First day of school ... =)After breakfast, I came across a slightly drenched parrot perched on the edge of a plastic box. It was busy pecking on a left-over peach seed in the box. In order to capture this beautiful parrot, I ran in to grab my camera and begin snapping shots of my new found subject. Out of a sudden, it started flapping its wings and chased me into the lodge… A

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27 Feb 05 (Sunday) A dollar a day at Fitness First for the month of February ...

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26 Feb 05 (Saturday) G Race in the Brisbane City ...

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25 Feb 05 (Friday) Experience how Brisbane City exudes its beauty when night falls...

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25 Feb 05 (Friday) SexPo 2005 in Brisbane City ...

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25 Feb 05 (Friday) Awesome City!

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24 Feb 05 (Thursday) Thank you Toni,our lodge owner for driving us to Mt Cootha!

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24 Feb 05 (Thursday) Warning: DO not walk to UQ from Indooroopilly via the train routes...

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23 Feb 05 (Wednesday)Absolute neatness in library... (Click on the pic to enlarge)

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23 Feb 05 (Wednesday)Market Day - An open concept... (Click on the pic to enlarge) [Details of the Day will be uploaded soon...]

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22 Feb 05 (Tuesday)Mr Moon ... Come out, come out, whatever you are ...

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21 Feb 05 (Monday)UQ International Students Orientation Day - Look at the 2 bigger insets ... Interesting! (Click on the pic to enlarge)

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20 Feb 05 (Sunday)She really made my day!!! On the way back to the lodge from Buranda, I met this little girl called Katly on the train. I was on a side seat while shes sitting in front of me with her mum. She was fascinated by my digi camera and I started taking photos of her; her mum will ask her to pose for us too… I will never forget the look on her face when she saw her own face in the

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20 Feb 05 (Sunday)A cosy town called Buranda... (Click on the pic to enlarge)We headed for Buranda after a disappointing visit to Chinatown… We saw on the train map that this station have access to a place called “Stone Corners”. We thought it was some sort of a tourist attraction area; however, when we reach there, we realized that the place around the Buranda station is known as Stone Corner…

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20 Feb 05 (Sunday)Vibrant it may look; but Chinatown in Brisbane is just a street no longer than 100 metres... (Click on the pic to enlarge)Chinatown was really disappointing… I thought Chinatown in Brisbane would be as lively as the one we have in Singapore; but alas, it was only a street no longer than 100 metres. We were told that they have the Flea Market every Sunday but it wasn’t bustling

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19 Feb 05 (Saturday)A place called South Port ...We headed for Habour Town after eating our home-made sandwiches in the food court. I bought a cup of cappuccino & it comes along with free 2 doughnuts too! The price was reasonable: AUD 3.10. =) But it is a luxury to me coz I need to save the $ for more important stuff. =). After lunch, we headed for Habour Town to get cheap sunglasses. On our way

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19 Feb 05 (Saturday)Look at the waves @ Broad Beach!!!Before our arrival at the beach, we played for a while in a large playground that is near the beach. I saw families having their picnics and enjoying their private moments with their loved ones. This is something that Singaporeans seriously lack… Everyone seems to be racing for time in Singapore while the pace in Australia is slower.

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19 Feb 05 (Saturday)We are going to the beach beach beach !!!We woke up pretty early in the morning & embark on our journey to Gold Coast! I’ve always heard about from documentaries & travel guides but have never been there personally… The journey briefly goes like this: Indooroopilly Train Station à Roma Street Train Station (change train) à Nerang Train Station à Took a bus to Pacific Fair à

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18 Feb 05 (Friday)Experience the serenity @ South Bank We headed to South Bank at about 5pm to meet up with Jolene, Cindy & her friend, Jasmine. The Flea Market was held there tonight… South Bank was a beautiful place: It has a passage way with artistically winding metal structures blooming with bougainvillea. The man-made river at South Bank was bustling with activities too; families were

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18 Feb 05 (Friday)Brisbane City Alive!!! (Click on the pic to enlarge) As we were walking along one of the passageways in school, we bumped into Meifang & Zhihong (both navy combat officers) and decided that we should go to the City since orientation is postphoned. In addition, there is also a Flea Market on at the South Bank every Friday which will open till late at night. In Brisbane, late

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18 Feb 05 (Friday)UQ in different perspectives... I had a good night sleep to make up for the jet lag yesterday (retired to dreamland at approximately 9pm). The day break pretty early in Brisbane; rays of sunlight started pouring into the room slightly after 6 plus in the morning… Hong Ee, Jolene, Cindy & I headed to UQ in the morning for the stipulated compulsory orientation; however, to our

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18 Feb 05 (Friday)A pictorial tour around the bus-stop outside Indooroopilly Shopping Mall... (Click on the pic to enlarge)

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17 Feb 05 (Thursday)Day 1 Picture Collage!

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17 Feb 05 (Thursday)Upon arrival at the arrival hall, Cindy & I headed to the duty-free department store to purchase cigars (Villiger 7) for the lodge owner, Toni. It cost AUD$56.50 for 50 sticks. We were informed by an email a couple of weeks ago to help Toni buy some cigars at the arrival hall. Toni must be a happy man coz he’s able to enjoy cigars at such a cheap rate whole year long… =)After

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Experience the flight on SQ 235 visually!

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Sending off @ S'pore Changi Airport T2... =)

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16 Feb 05 (Wednesday)Time really flies when one is busy. I started the morning with the purchasing of the demand draft from UOB bank and changing some of the remaining S’pore dollars into Aussie dollars. Mum gave me a few lucky charms; some are mean to be hung on my key while others in my pocket & wallet. Rest assured I will carry them wherever I go in foreign land. It wasn’t long when late

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15 Feb 05 (Tuesday)Yesh! – It was one day before my departure and I have yet to install all the necessary software into my laptop. I do feel a tinge of excitement at the thought that I am leaving for Brisbane the following day; however, I think the element of nostalgia is very much stronger. Being meeting out with friends and catching up for the past 1-2 week; I guess this is human; when one

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