Looking up..

A day with a graceful cloud in the sky from my house....

A Start of a New Year.

Time passes and things are done gracefully. The time has come for me to embrace new challenges, the start of a new phase of life when I finish my studies by end of February.

Doing Business Capstone and Finance Introductory in Summer is no joke. Heavy workload with lots of readings to catch up with. But whatever it is, I hope that I can get through this well and conclude my period of studies in Curtin, Perth.

As for my new year resolution, frankly, I'm still in a dilemma now due to certain issues. So I wont set it until I sort it out by the end of January or perhaps mid February.

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman

Happy New Year!

Melbourne-Sydney Trip Day 10-12

Day 10 - the day was gloomy around Sydney and Wollongong. It rained the whole day and we had to drive down to Sydney instead of taking the train. We went to Market City to shop for heaps of souvenirs, then proceeded to Chinatown to get some other stuffs, before heading back to Wollongong again for a simple dinner. As we had to catch the 6am flight the next morning, the 2 of us decided not to sleep and talked the whole night. End up, i really need to pull my eyes open when driving early 4am in the morning down from Wollongong to Sydney Airport. Guess what? I was so damn tired until I fell asleep as soon as I sat down in the plane seat without having the sense to know that its taking off!. THe next thing I woke up, its 3 hours passed already in flight time..!

Day 11 & 12 - We were in Perth but due to everyone being so tired after a hectic rush around, we just went around city, beaches and a Macadamia Nut factory. The last day was spent with Chee Shing shopping for a box of chocolate to be shipped back home to Malaysia.

I guess there are no pictures worth posting during these few days as the places we went are places that I've been countless time..

With this, concludes the long awaited and wonderful trip!!.. Total spending including fines and other misc brings it to an amount of AUD1700. I guess with all the places and the distance I've travelled, the grass plains, farms, cities and all other marvellous things I've experienced, its worth more than that!..

Till then..!

Melbourne-Sydney Trip Day 9 @ Chee Shing's Graduation

Its no more in 2010 when I am posting this. The great year of 2009 has passed and I'm now embracing the new year of 2010 with high spirits!!.. I'm currently packed up with summer semester, pushing through my final 2 units for my undergraduate before I am officially done with studies as an undergraduate. However, graduation ceremony wont be in time in February and I'll need to get back by late September to attend my graduation.

Things are working out pretty fine for the new semester. Though busy, but life felt pretty satisfying. Everyday was like quite well spent! I was even recommended by the one of my lecturers to the post of Logistics Improvement Analyst in DuluxGroup. Went to the informal interview, meeting Anthony, the Logistics Manager of the company in WA and he was pretty happy with my resume. Fingers crossed for being shortlisted for interview. Being curious, I asked him about the annual pay as I'll need to weigh things out as in either to stay in Perth until next May when the contract ends or pack my bags and go back. Surprisingly, I was told an approx figure of annual salary of AUD47-50k!!..I guess that's pretty high for a fresh graduate!.. I'm in a dilemma though!..I wonder what would be my final decision should I'm granted the position!

Well, coming back to the trip photos. This post is mainly on my brother, Chee Shing's graduation ceremony. He was graduated in the University of Wollongong, in NSW. We were blessed with a clear sky that day, although its hot. Lots of shooting was done although I arent that professional...too bad. But it was on that day I handled both Canon and Nikon and it feels really great!.. I wish I could have a D300s with a 70-200mm f2.8. With that, I could have shot the stage ceremony sharply!

Here are some of the shots of the day..

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