Jumper

Hello guys.... once again i'm updating my blog..
Ann Gee's boyfriend reached my place at around 11.45am this morning..... went down to greet him, he gave me a pack of peaches... thank you... haha...

Off we go, straight to the NAB, national bank, den to repair his Tag Huer watch.... after that we just walk around the big city.... and ate a full lunch at the Red Roosters..... pretty delicious...it's like KFC but it's actually roasted chicken... so i guess it's healthier....

I watched Jumper with Andrew today... coz the whole afternoon walking will be tiring, so go get a movie will be nice... the whole cinema was empty... only me and Andrew... hehehe.... the movie effects is great... amazing... but i really do not like the ending...

After that we went to Myers.... ( some sort of Isetan , but higher class hehe )... den to JB-HiFi..... and on our way to China town... we need to pass through Melbourne Central.. we saw these guys.. building something... went near and they are actually building a sand castle in ... the mall ? haha... :



And in another angle :



So after that we went to walk around China Town, and ended up eating Malaysian Food pulak hehe....

First time out in town till late night... I'm tired..... 0.0 sorry, can't blog much about today.... hehe...
Thank you marvin for getting me the TTDS, thanks dad for the TT....

The rest of you, take good care of urself... dont do anything silly and make sure you study well marvin and beatrice...

Regards,

Bryan

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

Another example of my day....

Today, i have an orientation to attend in my campus, i was rigidly excited since i've been doing nothing these past few days, so i wanted to see how things are in campus. Woke up early in the morning at 8, on my msn and made myself a Milo again, for breakfast... So after washing up, took a brief chat with Eric through MSN and i take my step out...

One step out and i was standing there.... like a stone ..... thinking '' Oh god it's Freezing ''

I need to head right back to my room, grab my jacket and i have 5 minutes to rush to my campus... and i got there in time.. Started off pretty silly, alot of introductions and all... just for 1 hour, 10.30 to 11.30am .... orientation ended.... =.= i was like WhAt? what can i do after orientation? I took a walk, went into an Asian grocery shop, got myself some chopsticks since i do not have'em.... and a Chocolate Milk for Lunch...

I went home and started onlining again...added Andrew ( Ann Gee 's Boyfriend ) to my MSN, and we're going to meet up in the City tomorrow..... he's a friendly guy and he talks ALOT... had a great time Msn-ing mom and dad today.. around 3 hours... hehe.. or even more....Deciding to return home during my June Holiday because most people will go back that time and there's basically nothing to do here unless u're a shopaholic.. :D

I went to the Thai restaurant at Elizabeth street.. reminds me of the time when dad is still here with me in that same restaurant, eating together... i teared a little while eating my tom yam and fried rice.... no one was there, the weather was cold, and good food just turns bad when you feel extremely lonely....the restaurant was Silent and i dont feel warm in there..... So... to freshen things up and make sure i do not think negatively.... i'm happy that i've a bunch of people back home that loves me, and care for me, so i guess i'm very lucky.... and i went for a walk around melbourne central, so that i wont be overly homesick... haha....

So that's all there is, don't think i'll be too lonely tomorrow, since Andrew here talks so much.. haha...

Cheers All....

Lots of love, Bryan

Interesting ?

Is my blog THAT interesting that it can actually moves you ? Hahaha.........

Welcome everyone, again, to my blog. Today i'll be just writing down a few stuffs i encountered today... I woke up early in the morning, rather than having Juice, i made myself a milo for a small breakfast because i will be heading down to Bourke Street today and meet up with Eric and Maylee again for lunch.... I need some fresh air... so i guess going out is the best medicine. Since it actually releases my home sickness and stress...

Eric drew a map for me which is pretty funny.. haha.... since i do not know how to get to bourke street... =.= and it turned out pretty easy !! :



We had chinese for lunch, so after that, May Lee went back to work and Eric brought me around for a while.... Thank you for bringing me around...

After that, i walked around the city and bought myself some food and a mini kettle because it's kinda hard sharing 1 small kettle with like 12 people here? Everytime i boil the water, and take a rest to wait for it to cool down, i come back and someone uses up all the water... so i get one personal one so it's easier for me to drink.... But from what i see... my room mates use boiled water for only cooking, for drinking? they just take their cup and drink it from the tap water... from what i heard, it's clean, but still, better not take the risk.

I went to my campus today to proof my citizenship in Australia, this is the ground floor of my campus, there's 4 elevators and it's called the lobby.... :



It's pretty modern ... i have my orientation tomorrow morning, hope i can get some friends... :D a girl friend i hope... haha
After that i went to another campus that has ''THE HUB'' which is a service Info for all students to proof my citizenship... :



The Que was pretty wicked, it's like half a KM...... it doesnt look very long in the picture but from my view, it's like from yuhua primary school to yuhua secondary school.... and it's a QUE... :D

So after getting all things done, i went to Melbourne Central to buy.. dumplings again, but not fried coz fried is slightly unhealthy... so i bought steamed dumplings... one thing good is that you get very cheap dumplings when it's 5 o clock, it's only 4.80 AUD for 12 dumplings... and you can eat it for lunch and dinner.... wow...

About the topic...... people cry when reading my blog? i didn't know that it was SoOoOo TOUCHING...well ok.. it's normal to cry, you wont be normal if you actually dont cry... A '' si zai bao '' like me can make people cry, very geng oh.... :)

Hsu Pei '' xie xie '', thank you for reading my blog, i miss you alot too.... When you were in New Zealand, i felt very sad as well because you're so close to us, playing with us, bringing us around, splashing your face with water when you can't wake up.... i love waiting for your hand-written letters because it always makes me feel warm again and sending back letters on how you spell '' jie jie as xie xie ''... I wanna tell you that, you're always been my inspiration, i was inspired by you when i first saw you designing The Simpsons poster, it was amazing and i was like '' how did you do that ? '' From that day on, i got interested in Art.... and now i'm on my way learning to be a designer, who knows? One day i'll open a chain of restaurants... HAHAHA..... but what does it have to do with design? =.= Don't cry so much ah... later Foo Jong Tau scold you '' sam pat '' again... :D All you have to know is that i love you ^^ I can't wait for you to come over during April....

Mom and Dad, beatrice marvin jin song jin yen, Miss the times with you, miss mom's cooking, miss malaysian Food.........miss you all.. hope to see you all in the near future !!

Lots of Love

Bryan

P/s : Please put some thoughts in the '' comments '' word, click it and write something on it so that i can feel that people are reading my blog and it's not so lonely and empty ..... THANK YOU

Lonely

Dad woke up pretty early today, in fact he doesn't need my alarm... So after scribling some thoughts, sadly i need to wake up because today's the day i start to grow up. . . . .Today's the day i become lonely, and Today's the day Dad leaves me.

I felt really bad but yeah.. this is life, sooner or later i'll still need to spread my wings, What i miss is the presence of actually having someone beside me, all the time i never experience being '' REALLY '' lonely before, well i do , last year in my hostel , but at least there's Friends.... but for this time? Nope, it's the solitary type of lonely where people around you is just not the people you actually see, or talk to, or even love.... People you see here are just strangers. '' hi, good morning , bye, good night ''

My Hostel here is pretty lousy, there is it's good ways and there are also it's bad... but from what i see here is that the bad is more than the good :P The security here is very very low and people can just walk right in and out and leave without a trace, There are people here with Master Room Keys and i cannot guarantee my stuffs in my room will be still here when i go to school perhaps... But i am happy that it is very small and things wont get lost easily, and the place here is pretty cold when it's cold out there... still.... i prefer one which is Lousier but at least with maximum security..... So far Dad got a 87 Franklin street apartment...so that my whole family can stay in the apartment rather than staying in the Hotels here.. which are VERY expensive....

Dad left at 6.15am, with a taxi that's already waiting downstairs....it's pretty dark and gloomy, windy, chilly and misty... Gave dad a hug and it's like '' hop '' into the taxi and drove away....

I took a walk after having an early coffee Msn with Mom at 7.20am just now..... and bought back some food and instant cup noodles ...after coming in my room, i look around and it's like '' where's dad ? ''.... again... EMO... i crawled to my chair and started weeping a little, den i need to REALLY focus and think the positive way, or not i'll never learn.....

I went for a takeaway at the Melbourne Central for 10 ( huo tie ) - Chinese FriED Dumplings, and ate 5 for lunch, and now i'm waiting for dinner to eat the other 5.......

Oo..... let me give you a tip, i bought something black and shiny, comes with a pen and it has two bright screens......

So currently i'm playing that ** so ..... yea and skyping as well ... Hope i can find a job to repay what i bought ... buahaha....

Dad, thank you for coming here with me, i'll do fine, please take care of your health and be strong.

Love you all always..

Cheers,
Bryan

Coffee

Why Coffee? Dear readers, thank you once again for coming in my blog. Today, i had a wonderful day, sis's friend , Eric and his wife May Lee brought us out for a slight tour around Melbourne. Very Nice of them. First of all, Thank you Eric and May Lee for taking your time showing us what is and what's not. :P

Woke up early this morning, 8 a.m to get ready to meet up with Eric and Maylee. at 10.10am, I made Milo 'Gao' for myself and for dad for our morning breakfast. After that, we head right down Anthony Street. Oh yea, a picture of the street i stay in, AS promise, haha :



Oooo pretty scary huh ? Yea, dangerous for girls to walk on this street. . . heard that it's haunted... Buahahaha

Oh, where am i ? hmm ... Ok, we head right down Anthony street and turn to our left, there's a bench and dad needs to rest. Couple of minutes later, we walked down again and we saw someone waving at us. Oh !! It's May Lee !! =.=
They showed us so many things today. From sitting trams all over to Brunswick, Lygon, King's, William, Queen's, Elizabeth And mostly Smith street. First of all, we needed to get Winter Wears, Eric and Maylee took us down to Smith Street that sells LOTS of Factory Outlet clothings, and mostly branded at a VERY affordable Price !!

I bought a Windbreaker, a Fleece Long Sleves, a Toque, and dad got a Sleeping bag, from all sorts of brands like Nike, Adidas, Timberland, Mountain Design, etc. I bet Denise will like it here !!

This is Dad, Maylee and Eric resting on the Bench on the Smith Street tram stop. waiting for our tram :



And this is Maylee. Eric and Me while dad sits down and take our photo.... :



After all those hustling in and out of various shops, we got little tired as we used up all of our energy, it's time... FOR LUNCH!!
Eric and Maylee told us about the Brunswick Street which is REALLY famous for Greek Food. So they brought us to a Greek restaurant named '' The Real Greek Souvlaki ( Kebabs ) of Tasty Lamb & Chicken Gyros ( Kyros ) '' , it's located on 315 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. We took the tram there and Oh.... take a look at the place :



I ate a Chicken Salad Gyros Souvlaki ( Means a Chicken Kebab ) while dad had his Mixed of Lamb and Chicken Kebab, and Eric, a Lamb kebab, and since Maylee has a small stomach, she ordered a delicious beef pasta lasagna. The kebab is SO LARGE, it took me like more than 50 bites of 30 chews EACH bite to finish my kebab. I can't explain how big it is, but you can guess :) it's as big as a plate. As the serving here is prety ALOT, so it's kinda normal for the people here.

I took a picture while walking pass the food :



Hmmm yummy.... makes me feel hungry... hahaa.... would like to bring my family here when they come over......

After that, we head down to Swanston street...... where shopping is the main activity here..... THere are lots of famous designer items here, from Prada to Louis Vuitton to Channel, and SO much more..... :



This is me, Dad and Eric on the side of the street :



And it's Dad, Maylee, and Eric on the side as well :



After all that.... we went indoor to Melbourne Central and had a delicious CUP of coffee at Gloria Jean's :



Speaking of Coffee, the coffee here is so amazing. It is so delicious, that you'll never forget how addictive it is.... it's so Smooth and it actually losens your throat, and buying coffee here is like a takeaway, everyone needs a fresh start drinking coffee, either to work or to study or even relaxing. In Malaysia, the Coffee here Is lousy, for example, Starbucks, it actually tastes like CRAP for RM11..... i don't mind spending RM11 for a 3AUD coffee here, coz it is REALLY worth it. You all MUST try the coffee here, tastes so great, you'll NEVER let it go........ :P ( something special ) and oh... the Starbucks here, it's different, as in BETTER.

We had Gloria Jean's Coffee in the Melbourne central. Which is like a mall in the CENTER of Melbourne :



So basically i am done here, i'm tired of typing and i hope to see my family once again. My dad's leaving the day after tomorrow, so i hope i wont cry again...... haha.... I love all of you all, things will gradually get better, i'm almost settled, i hope you all wont get worried about me..... All the best to you who's studying ! All the best to those who's Working, and mom, love you always !!

Best regards. * Cheers *

Bryan

Wings to Soar

This is my first post for my new blog. Hello everyone. Hope all of you guys are doing great. I've just arrived here ( Melbourne ) on the 19th of February 2008. I didn't get to sleep well on the plane. It's just pretty uncomfortable. Air Asia really sucks but i have NO choice because of Late Applications. So the day before i left, it was really sad, i hate to leave my family but i think it's time for me to leave the nest.

Mom and me were like holding hands in the car on our way to the airport. I was deeply saddened. Tears came rolling down my cheeks because i am so close to her. I really love her and i'll always do, she's the best thing that's ever happened to me in my life. Of course i do love the rest of my family members. Especially Marvin, Beatrice, Jin-Song, Hsu Pei and Jin-Yen that brought happiness into my life, showing me around, going out for Mc.Flurry, eating in restaurants together. I'll certainly miss all of those times. I love all of you. These are the pictures before i left Malaysia :

Dad, although sometimes you can talk ALOT, as in ALOT. But i know there is Always HAVE a reason in your words. I respect it, and i thank you alot for always being there with me, solving my financial difficulties and so on. Without you i do not think that i am here right now, perhaps i would be working as a salesman, you brought my future for me, to actually understand WHAT'S OUT THERE, thank you Dad, Love you LOTS !!!!!!

Me hugging mom for the Last time ( for the moment ) :



Look at Hsu-Pei's face.. it's so RED... love you :



Owh beatrice is here :P :



My Whole Family :



Denise ''xie xie'' and me again hehehehe :



Me and the Boys ( Jin Song Jin yen and Marvin ) :



So i am OFF..... Good bye Malaysia, and Hello Melbourne.
My elder sis ( Denise ) will be coming over that's what i heard for her Honeymoon with my brother-in-law ( Foo Jong Tau ). But i don't think my apartment here is big enough, but they can come to see it, if they want i don't mind them staying with me. Sorry for posting this a little late because i do not have the internet till now. Mr. Eric which is Denise's Friend will be bringing me and Dad around to buy some winter clothing tomorrow.

Dad made an apointment with a housing estate agency, for the 1 bed room apartment @ 87 Franklin Street. Which is REALLY near to my University. And it's the same apartment as Edwin's. And it's a single room apartment. My dad came with me to Australia since i never travelled alone before......

Anyway... i'll keep all of you guys updated. So do not stop reading !!
Love all of you ALWAYS.

Cheers,

Bryan