Long time no see?

Hello hello.

Blog time? Haha, long time no blog, my apologies.

Not gonna write about much, but I'll just update on life.

Uni is getting more and more hectic. *sigh* I can't wait until next semester when we do better stuff... at the moment we're doing all the small science-y stuff and it is quite off-putting. Hopefully I'll pass this semester... and next so that I can move on and do fun stuff. =)

My brother's wedding was purrtiful, but wayyy too much drama on the wedding night. o_o Exciting, but totally unnecessary.

I'm going back to Melbourne on the 17th of December and flying back up to Gold Coast on the 14th of January. Somewhere in that span, I'll be going to Sydney for a couple of days, possibly my birthday. I hope I'll be able to catch up with everyone. *sigh*

New York trip is in the planning. Possibly next April/May if not, a year from now (December break).

I really need to call people, because I have not been talking with people recently, and I apologise for that. =(

Anyways. That will be all for my lame excuse of a blog post. Biochemistry beckons.

-jmah

Ba-donka-donk. Dead blog, much? Much, much?

"Good afternoon, I'm John. I'm a first year medical student at Bond University and I'll just be asking you a couple of questions today. Do you mind if I call you..."

That's my first line to my history taking... I'm scared that one day I'm going to accidentally blurt that out when I first meet someone. *sigh*

Well... exams are coming up and I feel so screwed. I'm studying week 2 stuff and we're about to be in our 12th week with exams just around the corner. Oh. Shite. This coming week, I also have a history taking assessment. Double shite. Haha, oh wells.

I'm heading back to Melbourne on the 18th next month just after my exam and I'll be back for a bit less than a month. =) Yay.

Ooooh! I'm changing cap at the moment. I've already got the phone and stuff but my number is still porting over to Crazy John's. =) Unlimited cap, so if you wanna call me, just prank me and I'll call back =D Whee. N900. Double whee!!!

Okay. I really should study. When I have something meaningful to say, I'll blog again.

-jmah

When on the Gold Coast...

Lahh! Hello hello, my lovelies.

I've been in a generally good mood in the past couple of weeks and all. Uni is pretty cool and the workload is still surprisingly light. This coming week is a 3 day week. We're thinking probably going to Movie World and on Friday we're gonna go for PHO for lunch! Whoooo!!! I'm excited. I'm sooo excited for pho.

For PBL on Friday, I presented on mitosis and meiosis and I got really nice feedback =) I was pretty happy with it, but it was like the only PBL I've actually PREPARED PREPARED for....that's why I volunteers. Hehe.

I've found this guy on youtube (khanacademy) and I'm actually watching on of his videos right now and it's really cool. It's all educational and stuff, so I'm watching one on DNA, chromosomes and stuff. Whoo. Fun fun. Not.

Gotta learn the amino acids. *sigh*

ANYWAYS. AWAY FROM THE BORING STUFF.

Life has been really good. I've been really enjoying the company of the people I've met up here. But the thing is I think I'm not talking to Melb peeps often enough. =\ Sorry if I haven't talked to you for a while...

AND EJ AND NATHAN. FREAKING. A. We're an hour away from each other and we STILL haven't met up. THE HECK. Geeeez. =P

-jmah

=)

I'm happy. Very very happy.

-jmah

To be conventional or to break the mold...

Closer to confusion...

Again, this is going to be a really random short-ish post.

Today was first clinical skills and I had a clinical consultation skills session.... FAILED SO HARD. ZOMGOSH. Got fully pwned by this tutor/lecturer dude. ZOMGOSH. ZOMGOSH. Yeah. I only had 2 minutes of actual history taking....when it's expected to go for around 9ish, with a limit of 10min. PSH. Everything about me was corrected, my posture, my speech, where I sat, the questions I asked... EVERYTHING. RAWR. I was under so much pressure, I just blanked by the end. >_<;; Fail.

Blah.

-jmah

Getting closer and closer with no idea where I'm going.

REALLY? MAYBE? YES?

Wooooah.

Hi.

Random blog. =)

For no reason.

Back to assignment.

Bye.

-jmah

This is a first.

LOCKED OUT ON MY 3RD DAY.

So this is what happened.

In the morning, I woke up at 7:15, got up 7:20 to eat, take a shower, brush my teeth and bum till my 8am lecture. I was skyping with a friend until around...7:55 and decide to leave for class...I make it there at 7:59 and there are a couple of other people there who are about to walk in.... They try and they are told to leave?! WHAT THE HECK. NOT EVEN LATE. OMGOSH. *sigh* So yeah, I got locked out of my like...2nd or 3rd real lecture. UGH. 8am's how I detest you right now.

Oh well. Today has been a generally good day other than that...just chilled with friends and tried studying the lecture notes instead during the lecture time, but ended up facebooking/youtubing. We're going boxing at 5! Whee. So I'ma try and nap for like...30 min then get up and get ready. =)

-jmah

Med school??

Omgosh. It still hasn't sunk in that I'm a med student. I will wait until prac and see.... maybe it won't hit me until I graduate, assuming that I will, of course.

It's actually really good. Pretty fun. Not too hard on the workload (yet?), but it's really cool. Yesterday was an intro lecture in Scientific Basis for Medicine (SBM) and some other admin stuff. Today was TB screening part 1 and Clinical Skills (CS) intro. The two other themes of the program is Personal and Professional Development (PPD) aaand...um... Health and Society (HS).

Today we two CS lectures, one which was like and overview thing and the other actually about doctor-patient relationship and stuff. The 3 things that I got out of that lecture is:
1) Med school teaches to you be good liars.
2) Never cry in front of your patient.
3) Never disclose personal information to your patient.

Whoo. Med school is cool. XD Depending on my group, I'ma get to see simulated patients (SPs, I know a lot of acronyms...) and actually take a history. Whoo!

Thursday is gonna be a really good day. No classes! Haha. Who would've thought, yeh? I have my second part of TB screening and a doctor's appointment, but apart from that no lectures, no tutes, no labs, nothing. Whoo.

Haha and today during out CS intro lecture, me and a friend were skype video calling each other... when we were sitting next to each other and I had to try SO hard to keep from laughing. But one of the lecturer's kept looking at us and I think we might be in the "bad" books. Eek, but we'll see. He's actually a really cool lecturer, who is gonna teach us to lie. =)That's right folks. Doctors are trained liars. (Not necessarily liars, but are trained to.)

Anyways. Off to study like a good little boy and then I'm going out for dindin. Whee. I should exercise too. I'm so lazy and unfit. Ugh. I'ma thinking of doing boxing classes with some friends or swimming at the pool between classes. =)

This blog was all over the place. Oh well. I'll try to stick to a topic next time. =\

But for now... stay cool and in school. ;)

-jmah

Sydney wrap-up, Bond O-week, Med camp and stuff

Whoo. This is gonna be quick... 8am start tomorrow =(

Wrapping everything up in Sydney was sad. *sigh* but it was really great meeting such awesome people and getting to spend time with them and learning little bits and pieces are uni as well.

Bond o-week has been okay. Quick run through of my time here:
TUESDAY: Night time arrival, hour late pick up, arrived in the room past 12 only with the help of like 3 different people throughout the night, knocked out.
WEDNESDAY: Woke up, showered, bummed around, cleaned and unpacked, organized enrollment stuff, hung out in Amy's (a friend's friend, whose also doing med), ate nachos, watched TV, went to trivia/comedy night.
THURSDAY: First day of real orientation! Met more people. Mock Problem-based learning (PBL) with our PBL groups to get to know each other and figure out how PBL works. Went out for dindin with the rents.
FRIDAY: Day two of med orientation. More PBL and also signed up for insurance as a med student. WHOO. Free of charge. With 4 different providers. Got freebies. SCORE. Had dindin with the rents.

This weekend was med camp and it was pretty cool getting to know people. I feel like I've sorta settled with a group of friends already, but it's a little bit clique-ish and I'm hoping that I won't get too comfortable in that. But it was really cool at med camp, 'cause there are 4 of us from Melbourne and we had a like massive weird/funny/serious deep and meaningful in the night. The day was okay, nothing special. Getting bossed around by 2nd and 3rd years and doing random activities. Haha. There was a bit of drama last night as well, but I think everything turned out okay. No one's holding grudges, no one's hurt, so it's all good.

Today, we came back from camp, spent the rest of the day with the rents and now I'm about to sleep to be able to get up for my 8am class. By the way, I like like...2 minute walk from the lecture theater. No probs there. Haha.

BACK TO SCHOOL! Whoo.

Big news, small news and interesting things...

Let us begin with interesting things.

Well today in bible study, I realized a couple of things. DIDJU KNOW THAT THE PARTING OF THE RED SEA HAPPENED IN THE NIGHT???? Yeah, I thought that was amazing in itself. Because imagine: you're freaking out 'cause 1) you just left the only life you knew... being a slave 2) you're following a freaking cloud/fire pillar?! 3) Egyptian army on your tail.... 4) cloud/fire pillar leads you to be sandwiched between the Red Sea and a desert...not to mention an enemy army 5) cloud/fire pillar thing blocks your view of the Egyptians, but you can probably still hear them and their weapons ready to kill you! 6) during the night, the water parts as Moses lifts his hand and staff after God's command... this also means because it's dark, you probably can't exactly see what is happening 7) in a massive crowd of Israelites, you make your way INTO this passage created in the water... YET YOU CAN'T EXACTLY SEE IT VERY WELL! 8) Egyptians are STILL on your tail 9) you're walking in this passage and suddenly chaos and confusion hits the Egyptian army and it's still dark... so you just hear babies crying, women crying, people shuffling along, the water on either side of you and chariots falling apart behind you with the clanking of weaponry and war cries of bloodthirsty Egyptians 10) you reach the other end and by daybreak, you see the water return, only to the cries and screams of the confused Egyptian army.

SCARY SHIT, RIGHT? I would be scared shitless. Honestly, I would totally be fearing God at that point. And I'd be so drained... BTW, this is all from Exodus 14ish. =) Read it. And imagine you're an Israelite. Scary scary scary. Anyways, that was just a random thought. It's good to compare God in the OT and the NT because I think there are more similarities than people usually make it out to be. OT God isn't all that harsh compared to NT God when it's probably because of the Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. And a very obvious constant is God's promised salvation and His rescue. Also a parallel between Christians (post-Jesus believers, if I may) and the Israelites is that we both forget the promises of God.

I found this especially true the other day, when I had found out I had got the BIG NEWS. I was thinking when was the last time I could pinpoint what God has done in my life? Well... I really can't pick out a time. Sure, I could say when I became a Christian or something (somewhat) generic, but really I can't pinpoint anything. But this BIG NEWS. I won't forget. I won't. I can't. It's life-determining. MASSIVE. So yes. It's sad that it's really easy to forget the miracles that God does, but I think it's good to journal these things or to share them or to write them down somewhere so that we don't forget.

This also relates to the passage I was talking about before... 'cause despite God's wrath on the Egyptians before (plagues and stuff) and God freeing His people... they still doubted when the Egyptian army was hot on their trail... ALSO WHEN THEY WERE FOLLOWING A PILLAR OF CLOUD/FIRE. HOW COULD YOU DOUBT IN THAT SITUATION? Habituation. Desensitization towards God working in our lives. YES. FIGHT IT. =)

But yes. That was interesting. Now onto small news.

I've realized that movies can really affect me. For example, The Interpreter really made me want to focus on languages. And today I watched Proof, I quite liked it, and it makes me want to study math for fun. D= I know. It's crazy. But cool. I actually do. Hahah.

OKAY. BIG NEWS. If you haven't heard already...

I got offered a place at Bond University to study Medicine. Whoo. Yeah. But honestly, it's only by God's grace. Any of you who knows my high school results (i.e. ENTER and UMAT score) would know the validity of that statement. And if you DON'T know my ENTER or UMAT score, it is either because you, like me, don't care too much and don't remember, or that I never told you because it didn't matter between us, you never asked or if our relationship seems really superficial and all you do is ask about my ENTER, I probably didn't tell you because of that fact.

Everything has worked out really well so far with Bond as well, so my discontinuation from USyd was fast and painless and my enrollment and confirmation for a place AND accommodation at Bond was really easy to sort out, so I really do feel that God has His hand on this decision.

I'm flying up on Tuesday night to make orientation on Thursday and Friday, then it's off to med-camp for the weekend, hopefully. Whoo. A friend gave me an awesome idea for a costume (the theme is medical emergency/I need medical attention)... I'ma try to get/make an eyeball and an eyepatch...and walk around with an eyeball on a fork. =) And cover one side of my face with fake blood. and shirt. WHOO. Hahaha. Yeaaaahhhh... let's see if I can pull this one off, yer?

-jmah

Yet another day...

Another day of waiting. They said that they will let me know by tomorrow lunch time. So until then...

I think there's a reason for this. But it is quite the embarrassing, but if we talk in person, I'll tell you. XD I'd rather not post it up here for ALL THE (quite small population, but anywhos) WORLD to see.

In the meantime, I have to get an essay done by tomorrow. *sigh* Word count: 0.

I really dislike coffee AND I don't think that caffeine really keeps me up... I think it could be a placebo effect... the first time I had to pull an all-nighter, coffee (supposedly) kept me up reasonably (til like 5? but that was like...2 cups of coffee and like... 2 or 3 glasses of berocca.... cannot be good for me), but last week I tried again. I knocked right out (one glass of conc. coffee.). >_< Stupid. Hopefully tonight shall be productive. =) And tomorrow, when I get the call, I'll be too drained to know whats actually happening! YAY!

Good night and farewell. If any one of you sees me on facebook from here on in, please slap me. kthxbai.

-jmah

Till Tuesday... Tomorrow.

So I have to wait for tomorrow to come when I get the call. *sigh*

In other news, uni has been pretty crap.

And again in other news, I have like.... 50+ gigs of dramas to get through now =)

I'm starting with the Taiwanese ones, cuz at least I can work out the meaning through the audio and the Chinese subs. Whereas the Japanese ones are harder to understand, 'cause I'm not fluent in Japanese... obviously. And the subs are in Chinese. So it's hard to keep up with both. >_<

I<3>

=D

Van, I hope I make you proud. XD

Not. Again.

I sorta hit something today.

It made me turn to God and ask WHY?

But... it also made me appreciate everything just a little bit more.

It also reminded me that it is a daily decision to give up my life for God, who has given up so much more for me.

It is all in His hands.

Every.

Single.

Thing.

-jmah

Lord,
My future is in Your hands. Let my hands do what You want, my feet go where You want. Use me as You desire without my wants getting in the way. I thank You that I can be assured that You have things in store for me and that my life isn't for nothing. I give it all up to You. In the midst of all of this, You alone know what has happened, what is unfolding and what is to come. I pray for peace and stillness of my heart and mind as You let Your will be done. You are the sovereign Lord, the only one worthy of praise.
Amen

UPDATE ON WORK!

STUDY AGENDA:
+Biology
-HBonline work + preprac quiz CHECK! I skimmed some of the material, but its so TEDIOUS!
-Biology report. Fix it up up up up up up. About to...
-Biology presentation Tomorrow with group mates =)
+Bioethics Actually, all three dot points are reliant on the previous... so, I'll start tomorrow
-Research
-Begin annotated bibliography
-Major essay
+Psychology Bottom priority right now
-SUMMARIZE FIRST THREE LECTURE SERIES!! D= (Not today)
+Math Second bottom priority
-HAH. Right. Like I study math. But no, seriously. I don't. I should and will. But not today.

Revived, refreshed and ready to take another week on.

I've decided to use part of my blog as a study accountability tool. If you choose to read it, you'll either see me epic fail my studies or me getting on top of things. I hope for the latter.

Well! It's the long weekend and I just sent in my (overdue) bioethics essay! Whoo! I feel good.

Since the last time I blogged, not much has happened. Oh! I'm hoping to go back to Melb-melb next weekend, but my parents don't have a consensus. =_= So I'm waiting the maternal unit to reply in the affirmative. *sigh* until then I won't know.

Today, I went to church in the morning, but I missed my bus stop so ended up at the other end of the street at some park. Luckily I have a map app on my touch, so I could find my way back! Whew. I was a tad late, but it was all good.

Now I'm at uni (I KNOW! ON A SUNDAY!), waiting outside a library for it to open in like 11 minutes. I'm at uni, 'cause I don't like studying at home and 'cause I'm going out later and uni is closer to North Sydney than home.

I'm excited because I may have a living arrangement! Hopefully it works out. And thanks for miss Tang =)

I hope all of you have a wonderful long weekend, enjoy the weather and eat healthy. =)

-jmah

STUDY AGENDA:
+Biology
-HBonline work + preprac quiz
-Biology report. Fix it up up up up up up.
+Bioethics
-Major essay
-Research
-Begin annotated bibliography
+Psychology
-SUMMARIZE FIRST THREE LECTURE SERIES!! D= (Not today)
+Math
-HAH. Right. Like I study math. But no, seriously. I don't. I should and will. But not today.


HOLY CRAP. My laptop's battery is going to die in an hour, how the heck am I supposed to study?! Uni library computers... You're mine.

Post-mortem

Well, I finished my report at around 4:30 last night.

And now its 4:06AM of Monday night/Tuesday morning and I just finished studying up math. BUT I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED MY BIOETHICS READINGS/RESPONSE! ARGH.

So I resorted to emailing my tutor saying that I won't be able to hand it in tomorrow, and if I could possibly get a day or two extra, if not, what are the penalties and whether she will still accept it late. =(

I'm going to bed.

3 nights in a row. UGH. Tomorrow's not gonna be any better if she gives me another day. But at least after that, I'll be freed up a bit more. *sigh*

Procrastination.

-jmah

SOTM:
Jesus Culture - Your Love Never Fails
Michael Morrow - We Belong to the Day

Quick quick quick quick post.

So the week of hell (not literally) begins.

Monday:
-Human Biology report draft due (currently completed 0%)

Tuesday:
-Bioethics worksheet 2 due (-60%, assuming that every reading is worth 30%. That's right. I'm behind)
-Differential Calculus mid-sem (worth 15%, studied around....20% of topics. Or at least I'd like to think that I've studied around 20%...)

Wednesday:
NOTHING DUE. Just cramming.

Thursday:
Also nothing due? Odd.

Friday:
-Human Biology test (-100%, considering I barely know anything and am behind on 4 weeks of online modules)

Ho-flying-fudgecakes-from-France.

The week after I have an annotated bibliography due for bioethics which is a part of my major essay. HO-CRAP. That just means more readings that I have to do this week, in the midst of all that crap.

Sorry, don't have much to say apart from that, because I can't really think about much else. Ugh.

Talk about trying to honor God in my studies =\ NOT EASY. Rargh. I will get a move on.

Oh and those of you who haven't read my facebook status, this is what happened last night while I attempted to study. So, I was doing some prep readings to write my report for biology and I fall asleep. WITH A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY HAND. I wake up with purple patches on my body and on the bed sheets. Rawrgh. At least none on my face. Hmmm. Yes. Oh, and I woke up at 8 realizing that it's light out and that my lights and my glasses were still on.... took glasses off and turned the lights off and went back to sleep. Missed church. ._.;; Went to Gracepoint in the evening though. After a quite unproductive study session in the library.

OH! Talking about the library. I saw this asian mother fully asian-parent-bashing her kid, because he didn't write a good err... "essay", if you like. I was like, GEEZ. GIVE HIM A BREAK! HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S IN YEAR 6 OR SOMETHING... HIS LIFE DOESN'T DEPEND ON WHAT YOU THINK OF HOW HE WRITES! SO WHAT IF HE WANTS TO WRITE ABOUT THE GRANDPA OF THE MAIN CHARACTER?! WHO ARE YOU TO NOT LET HIM BORROW BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY?! Psh. I felt soooo sorry for him... Got a major thrashing in the library, and after his mom just went back to reading the paper, while continuing to throw random comments about how shit his writing is and how its impossible to justify any good in it. Talk about ENCOURAGEMENT.

OKAY. This quick quick quick quick quick post is getting longer and longer, and I think it has just become procrastination. LOVEYOUALLTOBITS.

-jmah

EDIT:
Sorry, I lied about my Human Biology report. I had one word down... "Introduction" =) And I had numbered pages and a header (which I don't think I need) WHOO.........

Fob glasses

I somewhat desperately want fob glasses. And I want to master some asian languages. THEN I CAN BE THE ULTIMATE FOB. whoo, awesome. I aspire for the highest, yerr.

hahah I had stuff to blog about, but I really can't be bothered and I have an assignment due tmr. SO I CONTINUE WITH IT!

oh, i do remember something i wanted to blog about!

i know i dont talk about relationships very much or whatever, but i think i've developed a really bad defense mechanism where I nit-pick at bad qualities to the point where, in my mind, the person seems very ______, when there is the remotest chance of liking them. ugh. BAD. BAD. BAD. and the ______ isn't actually a word, it's just a blank because I have no word to describe it. i pick at things which annoy me and also things that make me think that they don't like me as a person. whoo. a little less known fact about john.

-jmah

oh and ive realized, ive started to sign off emails with -jmah as well. hahaha, it's just the easiest thing to write and john is too common.

Oh! Things to blog about

I forgot to mention my biology lab on Monday. I'll explain later when I will properly blog later tonight.

And explain my goals.

And. OMGOSH. I really want to put up my bioethics essay, but then i betchu that they'll find my essay with a plagiarism finder and fail me. ugh. but its interesting. i did it really last minute, so its kinda bull, but its still pretty interesting. im really glad i finished, and the logic actually made sense... i think. =)

I'm in the library at uni right now, supposed to be studying but facebook and email and blogger attract my attention more than human movement and digestive fluids. ugh.

UNI ATM:

Trying to get stuck into work! I'm really behind on math worksheets and stuff as well as human biology online modules. Also my bioethics readings... half a week behind. RAWRGH. we're doing eugenics atm. Psych is really chill at the moment, just one online quiz a week and they can be done as many times as we like, so its pretty cool.

now im actually considering putting up with a dip lang as well... but i'd seriously take like...5-6 years to finish this. ho-shit. im thinking if i do honors, maybe during my honors year ill do part time studies as well to finish off either dip lang units or my second science major units... hmmm......... so much to do in so little time. RAWRGH.

ok, back to biology.

-jmah

GOALS:

So to list my goals:

GET STUCK IN THE BIBLE

LOSE WEIGHT

LANGUAGES

STUDY HARD

To-do list:

FIND A PLACE TO RENT OR STAY

FIND A CAR... AND CONVINCE PARENTS TO BUY IT FOR ME D=

GET ORGANIZED

GET ON TOP OF WORK!

FIND A JOB?

I can't be stuffed now, but I'll put exact goals up later. whoo.

GOTTA SLEEP. NOT ENOUGH SLEEP RECENTLY UGH.

-jmah

Hi!

Sorry, long time no blog.

Well, it looks like I didn't get a place in Bond medicine =) which means I stay in Sydney! =D

I'm slightly, but only ever so, disappointed that I didn't get it, which is silly, because it's based on self-centered expectations and what not. But it seems that God has placed me in Sydney, and this is a confirmation of that. It's strange, because I think as it was the time when the offer day was coming up that I was most conflicted about it my potential decision. I must say, my heart is in Sydney right now (and before the 18th) and to leave would have made me even more disappointed than I am now. So I am glad. =)

OMGOSH. Now I'm decided how to strategically plan my degree. I don't know whether I want to try to transfer to medicine still, because I've spent ages planning my degree and I have a pretty good idea what I think I want to do. I'm trying to double major (which is actually gonna force me to overload for the next 5 semesters of my degree, 4 of which I'll have to balance against clinical placements!) Then for my 4th year I'll be back to a normal load of pure nursing subjects. ALTHOUGH! I am considering doing an honors year in psychology just to open up the doors of becoming a psychologist as well. So I'd take 5 years in total to come out and the pathways that I could follow at that point in time would be one (or a combination) of the following:

-practice as a nurse

-complete two years of further psychology education (+hours of supervised practice) to be registered as a psychologist

-go for post-grad med

-apply for military service (or maybe even during my studies...)

I've decided that to put languages on TOP of that, is a bit too much, because it would take me 6 years and I would come out with a bachelor of science major in psychology (honors) and history and philosophy of science, master of nursing, diploma of languages. HAH. yeah, right. That's not gonna happen. I'm not going to spend 6 years to do that... I won't "study" languages as part of uni, but I'll definitely try and study in my own time. Goals for the moment:

-maintain Chinese conversational skills

-pass JLPT level 3

-learn basic Korean (maybe score between 161-200 on the B-KLPT, if I can be bothered taking the test)

AND another goal: GOTTA LOSE WEIGHT BEFORE OCTOBER FOR BROTHER'S WEDDING. FREAK. OUT.

=)

Oh and my church hunting has come to a very sticky situation. I've found 3 churches that I like... but can only go to MAXIMUM 2... unless I pick and choose between bible study, uni groups and service. Haha. Don't think that that is really possible. I think my deciding factor right now will be distance from home. So when I move, maybe my churches will too. It's weird using church in the plural form. Hmm. I would actually go to 3 if it didn't kill to much time and I could make it to all three and manage to do some study... but it's really because there are clashes between some stuff. So, no.

OKAY. SLEEP TIME. UNI TMR. YAY. LAB. DON'T FORGET. SHOES. OR LAB COAT. OR. STUFF.

-jmah

15 minutes to the big day

Although I have no freaking idea what time it'll be published.

At uni I'll be constantly checking whenever I get the chance. Whoo. Awesome. I'll be so distracted.

BY THE WAY. The other day I ate this thing called the meat box, which is like chips and fatty meat. YUMM. Hahahha. Sooo greasy, but yum. A tad salty. Hahha, had a major headache afterwards. >_>

Oh well.

I'm so behind in work, it's not even remotely funny. First essay due next week! D=

SOW has this thing called REAP (hahah, awesome yes?) which stands for "Reading the Bible - Encourage - Accountability - Prayer" and I started today with this really awesome guy, James. We basically just caught up and then went through the first chapter of James (coincidence?) and talked about it and stuff.

OH. HAVE I BLOGGED ABOUT LAST THURSDAY! OMGOSH. I'll be doing it again tomorrow, but Student Life has these survey hours where we go out and talk to people on campus and ask them about spirituality, Christianity, Jesus and a whole buncha stuff. It was really interesting, but 'cause it was my first time I didn't say anything. It got pretty intense near the end, when another person had joined the convo and was like "AND WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ABORTION? OR SAME SEX MARRIAGE" o_o scaaary.

Okay, I should at least finish my readings and do some biology learning from my textbook. Ugh.

Less than two days away.

RAWRGH. RAWRGH. RAWRGH. Not looking forward to it, apart from the fact of getting the decision over with.

I'm so behind in work, that I really shouldn't blog.

Sorry Mish, I lied. I didn't blog last night. Facebook consumed my life.

Sorry, no big news. Just a lot of work to do and catch up on.

-jmah

loves yous all. =) gl/hf and KICK ASS. =D

AHH. I'M GETTING FATTER D=

SHIIIIIITE.

NO MORE FOOD. D= hahahha. No, but RAAWRGH. Gotta start swimming again. Or running at the clubhouse gym o_o or biking. or something. RAWRGH.

John not so happy bout weight.

uni + life + everything = hectic

Everything is moving so faaast. I kinda don't want the 18th to ever come. I want time to just develop a void on that date and anything and everything that is supposed to happen on that day disappears. YAY.

University is funfunfun. People are coolcoolcool. My classes are really busy!! I feel really behind, slowly getting on top of things. I'm still really behind in biology, but I'm sorta where I'm supposed to be in bioethics and linear algebra. And the other two I haven't really done anything, because we haven't really been asked to do anything yet. Maybe that means I'm behind...? Shit.

Omgosh, I haven't really been writing about what I've done...

OKAY WELL.

Last Thursday I checked out Student Life. Coooool beans. Awesome group, loving the vibe, loving the people. Pretty cool. Later on the same day, went out with SOW people for some BANG BANG laser skirmish and err... bowling. Where I displayed my really unco bowling skills, but SUPRISINGLY I broke 100. XD By like... 2 points.

Friday, not much.
Saturday, my supposed "study day". FAIL. Drama-ed and ate the whole day. And chatted. Die.
Sunday, WENT TO A PRETTY AWESOME CHURCH. It was just what I needed with the whole situation in a Catholic home and stuff. THE MESSAGE WAS ON SALVATION THROUGH GRACE THROUGH FAITH. It was really good, and I must say that it was one of the most stimulating messages I've heard in a while. Although, I sorta heard it AGAIN on Tuesday, because it was the same pastor, but it's cool. It drives the point home. =) And some of the ideas were fleshed out a bit more.

Monday. O.M.GOSH. I totally forgot I had a lab and I wore thongs. *takes out gun and shoots self* Haha, so I decided to run to Broadway (a shopping place near uni) and buy shoes. Two friends came along, and guess what I found? VOLLEYS FOR $10 AT REBEL SPORT. HAHA. Yeah. It was great. And thankfully I made the decision to buy shoes, because they were kicking people outta the lab for wearing thongs. Eek. I was actually so unprepared for that lab... The things I needed to bring were LAB COAT, LAB MANUAL, SHOES, DISSECTION KIT and GLOVES. I bought shoes and gloves from broadway (although gloves weren't needed and I paid 2 dollars for them!! RIP!!) I had only brought my lab manual. UNIFAIL.

Tuesday, Student Life and SOW!! Whooo. Yeah. Started the morning with in the BEST way possible. I went to a prayer/worship meeting with some Student Life peoples and it was so awesome. It was held in one of the parks on campus and it was just so beautiful with the sun shining and the sky so bluuuue. Later, I went out for lunch with some SOW dudes where we had $3.5 dollar subs! D= Promo, buy one get one free! Insane. But the friend that took us, treated us too. D= hahah. Such a nice guy =D I was soooo tired and drained after that though, got so ticked off in my lecture later. After all my lectures, we had a SOW meeting, which is where I heard the same message on salvation through grace through faith. An analogy which Pastor Steve used that I really like was this: imagine a you're drowning. A man with a stick saves you by reaching the stick out to you, which you grab hold of and are pulled to safety - rescued. The stick is faith. The faith isn't what is saving us, but the (Son of)Man who has given us that faith. So essentially it's not any characteristic of the faith itself that saves us, except for who the faith is in. And the only right answer to that question is JESUUUUS.

Today, enrolled in the math learning centre, because I suck at math. BUT! BUT! BUT! I did my prep work for tomorrow, AS WELL AS THE WORK THAT WE ARE GONNA DO IN THE TUTE TOMORROW. Which means I'm ahead. I deserve a pat on the back for doing math in my own time.... no? no pats? FINE. *pats self* =DD

Ho'crap. This blog is long. I shall sleep soon. =) Goodnight!!

Hope all of you are well and truly well. =D Study hard people and enjooooooy.
-jmah

Pros/Cons

I desperately need to do pros and cons for Sydney VS Bond. I'm so conflicted about it... I kinda don't want to get in, because then I don't have to make the decision. And if I do get in, I don't know what decision I'd make. So rawr rawr rawr...

UGH.

And living in this family friend's house ain't easy either. I'm finding it pretty challenging in terms of faith, 'cause my aunty is a devout Catholic and we don't really see eye to eye on everything. But I'm not very forward about what I believe, I just listen and question her POLITELY. I try to be anyways. It's good that it's challenging too though, I guess. It means I gotta be digging deeper. =)

STUDYING BIOETHICS...

zomgosh. Tis INTENSE. =(

My whole day today is supposed to be study study study. But haven't really "hit the books" yet... UGH. It took me around... around 3 hours to finish one reading yesterday!! (Fitty Tang made it enjoyable... at least half of it =D hahaha <3) and the reading is like 3 pages long. XD

BIOLOGY IS HARD. Ugh.

Psychology is fun fun fun.

LINEAR ALGEBRA AND DIF CALC ARE FREAKING INTENSE AS WELL. But it's okay. John can take it. xD Actually, I dunno about that.

I had something to blog about... now I can't remember. Ugh. Whatever.

Loving yous all. =) Mostly. Depending who you are. But oh well. =D

-jmah

John is happy happy happy.

Because I bought textbooks textbooks textbooks. Yay!

I had a biology lecture today... which was STREAMED from the lecture hall next to me! WTH. As if there are THAT many students and THAT few lecturers!! Man... It makes Bond look sooo much better. Haha, but I'm not complaining, I want to study psychology and bioethics anywhosers.

So many people in my bioethics class are really smart! Haha. I feel so... small! But it's still really interesting.

I bought a lab coat today o_o and dissection kit. Whoo. Haha. I bumped into a couple of guys that I met last night and we ran around doing errands xD The line outside the bookstore was MASSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE. I like repeating my words... hmm. hmm. hmm. hmm.

I was thinking of going to a Hillsong service thing tonight or a Kareoke thing with the Japanese club... but I feel guilty from spending so much money today, so no kareoke, and my feet kill from waiting in line for everything so I decided to come home and DRAMA. =) Oh and examine my sexy textbooks =D

-jmahmahmahmah

P.S I'm liking uni =) <--- if there was a happy content face, I would put that, but I can't think of one. HOPE YOU GUYS ARE TOO! =)

I want a carrrr =(

Haha, SAVING UP FOR A CAR. 'Cause if I stay here or move to Gold Coast, I'd still want a car. It takes me an HOUR to get to uni and on Tuesdays I have a 9am start D=

Okay, I'll quickly go through my days since last Thursday.

Friday! I lied about swimming. Or I just got lazy. Haha. I went to uni in the arvo and met two people from a group called SOW (Students Outreach for the World). Also got a few things organized.

Saturday was the picnic with Studentlife. It was pretty cool. It's funny though, because I met so many people who are studying science and I could not stop thinking about Big Bang Theory. XD Later one of the guys took me and a girl around Sydney for a tour. We went to the Lindt Cafe and I got two scoops of ice cream and OH MY GOSH it was good. 70% Excellence ice cream <3 The cookies and cream was good, but not as good. =) After, me and Sarah went to Mardi Gras!! HAHAHA. Yeah. She was asking around if anyone wanted to go, and since I'm new to Sydney as well, and she didn't have anyone to go with, I went. Also 'cause I thought it would be an experience. It was a little boring... just standing there. >_< But oh well.

Sunday, I spent the whole day watching TV... until around dinner, when I went out for $10 steak with all-you-can-eat sides! Whoot. It's also a cook your own steak type of thing. Someone stole my steak off the stove thing D= So I grabbed one which was "unclaimed" and it was way overdone and a little burnt. Ugh. Oh well. After, we had Korean ice cream (they are almost all Korean =D) and gathered at a Woolworths loading dock where the pastor of the group had a short word and prayed for all of us for uni and everything. I must say, it was the first time I've ever prayed in a Woolworths loading dock. xD Some of us then went to watch Shutter Island, which was an alright movie. Interesting, but very reminiscent of Whose Reality? Got home at around 12:40ish.

And woke up for class at 8ish to get to my first Psychology lecture! Twas okay. But what was a major shock was my Linear Algebra lecture! The lecturer introduced the class for the first 5-10 minutes and then got straight into the math! ZOMGOSH. INSANE. Ugh. I still cannot believe that I'm studying math. After, I went for lunch with SOW peoples. Then to my Bioethics lecture, which was quite boring, because it was just an introduction on the subject. Nothing interesting.

Now I'm home and gonna get some TV and sleeeeep.

I'm thinking I'm gonna buy some of my textbooks anyways, because they would be interesting reads anyways, if I do get into Bond, I'd keep em. Like my psych book, bioethics reader and probably my human anatomy book as well. *sigh*

HOPE YOU GUYS ALL OVER ARE DOING WELL AND STUDYING HARD! =)

-jmah

Boring day...

Today I stayed home. I went out for lunch, but that's about it. There were a few events at uni, but I couldn't be stuffed going.

Tomorrow there is a Bible study on at campus held by one of the Christian groups, but I dunno if I can be stuffed going to that either. Haha. As bad as that sounds. Not that I don't want to go, just I don't know if I can be bothered travelling to go for an hour? Haha. Maybe I should. Yeah, I think I will.

This Saturday there is a picnic on held by another Christian group, and I'm looking forward to that, because the people from that group seem very friendly. And it seems like a good bunch. =D

I'M JUST WAITING FOR THE 18TH OF MARCH ALREADY!! D= rawrgh. Then I can either go full on with joining clubs and buying textbooks and settling in OR I'll be packing up and leaving! RAWRGH. Oh well... I'll just have to wait.

Haha, after I wrote about the picnic, I began searching for picnic food I can make and bring, 'cause it's a bring-a-dish sorta thing. Ahhh, can't decide... OH! MAYBE. I'll just make some chicken wings... marinate with stuff and then grill and bring. That's easy. Maybe...

-jmah

PLAN FOR TOMORROW!
Swim in the morn morn morn.
Uni in the arv arv arv for Bible study and more scouting of clubs to join. Whoo.
And I don't have anything planned for tomorrow night. Maybe prepare for making whatever I'll make for Saturday. Humm.. Plan. =)

En Rolled

YAY! I AM OFFICIALLY A STUDENT AT UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY! Whoot.

My subjects for semester 1 (officially) are:
Bioethics (to count to a major in History and Philosophy of Science)
Differential Calculus
Psychology 1001 (to count to a major in SI-KO-RO-JEE)
Linear Algebra
Human Biology (FREAKING 6 CONTACT HOURS A WEEK???)

Sadly I have a math subject everyday of the week. How annoying. I still have to sort out my Diploma of Languages...

Today was just enrolling and walking around checking out the O-week stands and joining a few clubs here and there. I don't really see the point, if I'm not sure if I'm staying yet, so I'm keeping it to a minimum. I'll wait till Bond gets back to me. *sigh* It feels very "in between" at the moment.

-jmah

BOND

So I had my interview today!

Have a good feeling about it. Thanks guys for your prayers and support!! =)

So now I await offer dates... *sigh*

Today has been the most hectic day EVARR!!

I missed my tiger flight in the morning to Gold Coast, so I caught the next Virgin Blue flight.... Arrived on time still. I was actually still an hour early for the interview. MY GOSH QLAND IS HOT.

Interview was rather enjoyable =)

After, took a cab to airport, flew back. Now I'm back in Sydney.

BUT! On the plane, I met some amazing people. Kim and Glen. I mostly talked to Kim and it was very interesting. They flew to GC to visit Glen's dad who just had a heart operation done yesterday... and he's up and about today!! Haha. We talked a bit about everything I guess. During the flight I got a prompting or an urge to share with her and so I kept reciting to myself the first line I would say "SO DO YOU GO TO CHURCH??" hahaha. At one point I thought to myself "No, I don't have the courage for this..." And I think God placed me in the specific situation for that, because when I did sum up the courage to ask her, she said yes. Haha. And so we talked about missions, Hillsongs and creation/creator. I think my prompting was because there was the most spectacular view from the plane. If you looked out the left window, there would be lighting (we were above the clouds) and if you looked right you could see a rich orange sunset that resembled the Aborigine flag. It is this sort of scene and view that makes it impossible to deny that there is a creator. Only something or someone who was incredibly creative with an appreciation for such aesthetics could make something like that be.

On top of that, there is so much that we see, but also so much we don't. In the same way, there is only so much we know, and there is so much more that we don't. It's not like we, humans, are all knowing. Again, how can you deny there is a creator when there is so much in the world that we don't see, know or even understand? That is uninformed denial!! But being uninformed and still believing, is faith. =D

-jmah

You Knee Verse Itty

Yeah, went to uni today.

I'm now doing Science/Nursing. Whoot.

First year subjects:
PSYCHOLOGY!
BIOETHICS!
HUMAN BIOLOGY!
MATH...puke.
MATH...double puke. (Something like Calculus and something else...)

PSYCHOLOGY!
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED SCIENCE?!
ASTRONOMY!
MATH...
MATH... (One stats and integral modelling or something...)

Okay. Post end. Sleep time, 'cause interview tomorrow arvo!! EEK!

I'm prompt too.

Today was rather impromptu. Got up with nothing really planned except for meeting up with a friend to visit a church in the evening. And then an Aunty called to invite my for lunch and chill time, so I went over and hung around, chatted, played some games... the usual. After that I went to church, which was a bit of a let down, but I'm thinking it could be just the wrong day to go.

I've found that for me olfaction, or sense of smell, brings about the strongest nostalgia. This happens when I smell very distinct smells that are attached to certain memories. This fact was emphasized when I was deciding what colognes to bring to Sydney and I took a whiff of one given to me on a special occasion. It was from Vanessa for the MHS formal. It not only brings back memories of the night, but an emotional state of mind as well. It is a very odd sensation. Not to say that it is bad or uncomfortable, but it is quite an out-of-this-world experience. Thanks Vanessa =)

Ahoy there!

Yay! I'm in Sydney!

Day 1! Whooot.

Well, nothing really happened. Arrived at around 7:10 and picked up my bags and took a cab to my family friends house. Got to their place with guests over for dinner, so I had dinner and goodies for dessert and got to listen to good chats.

The cab ride was actually quite interesting. I find when placed in situations which can get awkward very easily, it's also easier to make it not awkward. If that made any sense at all. Because I managed to have a really good chat with the driver as well, about Sydney, iPhones, driving a cab, GPSs, student accomodation and stuff. Haha.

Dinner convo was even more interesting! One guy was a priest or something from my aunty's church and he used to be a prison chaplain. He was telling us all these stories and it was really cool to hear. I have quite a vivid image of the night before a hanging spent with the inmate... The guy had funny stories to tell and I was rather amused. =)

Well, I'm sleeping in tomorrow, so I don't really have to sleep early, but I'm really drained, so I'ma sleep soon. It is already 1:30...

Hope you all are settling in your places or getting ready for uni back in Melbourne. =)

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you...

Just something interesting that I've found.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is a very tricky statement. I had a nice long talk to my youth leader about it a long long time ago and we deduced that it was NOT a biblical statement, because some of the arguments that I constructed based on that statement were definitely not biblical. We decided that it was rather a skewed variation of biblical truth. BUT! Then I found it in the Bible.

Matthew 7:12
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Honestly, I cannot remember what arguments I had eventually constructed, but I just remember my youth leader saying that I was probably basing my ideas off a secular "belief", if you like, that had been a biblical statement construed by society.

Some food for thought.

Anywhos. Long time no post, so here is my past few weeks in dot point form:
-did stuff
-got Ps (praise God, and on the way home from my test, mambo number 5 was on the radio... how fitting)
-is now somewhat broke

YAY. Life is good. =)

I don't think it has sunk in that I'm moving to Sydney. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing... Oh well, I'll figure it out when I get there.

Things I gotta do:
-catch up with peeps before I leave
-clean room
-buy shit
-pack shit
-go swim
-love life (not that I'm not...just a reminder to do so)

I really don't think I should be getting into any games at the mo, but I'm installing Dragon Age: Origins on my computer now. Hehe.

-jmah

PS. As a side note... last night was my night of awkward misunderstandings.... Here is an example... there was another one, but that was WAYYYY too awkward to write here. xD

[On the topic of the legality of incest, after pumping up the car at the petrol station]
Friend: So how does that affect you?
Me: WHAT?! I HAVE TWO BROTHERS. WTFSDKALGRLKERG?!?
Friend: o_o I was talking about the petrol... but your brothers ey?

(Before that we were also talking about how my family writes down the odometer reading every time we pump)

I think I should really be sleeping more, then maybe I won't make things so awkward by not understanding people.

For the longest way round is the shortest way home...

The past few days in Sydney have been interesting. The place is nice, but I don't think as nice as Melbourne. Still a nice change of scene though. It looks like I'm enrolling in linuistics, Japanese, philosophy and pyschology. Yay! The USyd campus is beautiful!! The quadrangle is absolutely amazing. It's like a little town of it's own with a range of new and historical buildings. Very purty indeed.

That's not all that has made this trip exciting. I've scoped out one church which I quite like called Grace Christian Church. A family friend of mine brought me and I enjoyed it. Went out for lunch with people after then toured campus with anoher churchie friend. Then today I ran around campus AGAIN to do stuff necessary for enrolling. Did that for almost 6 hours. Ugh. Was in a pretty bad mood afterward, but I'm over it.

Then again, that's not all that made this trip interesting. Tonight after dinner, I was playing Magic: Battlegrounds on the fam friends comp with we chit chatted. Then we heard an outburst from the kitchen and soon realize that Chris was, yet again, stirring trouble. I explained to the fam friend the situation and everything and we had a really good long talk cross bible study about it all. After, she prayed for me and then got told off by her dad for keeping me up so late. Haha. Good stuff.

(NIV) 1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

God, let me see through your eyes for just a moment to see him in your glory.
Give me compassion to see his circumstances and see through his eyes.
Change me and work through me to change his life. Refresh my mind and let me forgive past hurts to let you use me.
Amen.

Jmah

More on offers and shit...

I forgot to mention my offer xD

Yeah, for those of you interested, I got arts at Melbourne. But I'm not taking it, 'cause I'm probably going to Sydney. I'm glad I got arts, because it gives me more reason to go to Sydney. If I stay I'd do arts at Melbourne and nursing externally with UniSA, but that would take around 5 years I reckon, while if I go to USyd I can do the arts/nursing program which is 4 years and I graduate with masters! Whoot.

Yes. =)

I'm hungry. I should eat something.

Offers and shit...

Oh yay! Offers today. Hope everyone got what they wanted, congrats congrats. =)

The weekend has been pretty busy, because a family friend from Perth is visiting.

Yeah, I wanted to talk about something, but SHHET! I can't remember what.

Okay, well I will post when I remember. Or maybe I'll remember when I post next...

Oh, the irony...

只怕我自己會愛上你
不敢讓自己靠得太近
怕我沒什麼能夠給你
愛你也需要很大的勇氣

-jmah

I am happy.

I was talking to a friend and also the rentals on the way home from a friend's place tonight and I said that I am happy with the way my year 12 went.

And I am. I am very happy. I spread my wings and tested the waters, while trying (perhaps not as much as I might have if I hadn't experienced everything that I did, but that said, I definitely gained more from these other experiences than anything that could contribute to my ENTER)

I'm glad 2009 has ended positive and that I can say in retrospect that I most probably wouldn't have it any other way. Thank you all for making my final year of high school one of the best years of my life so far. =)

This year is another step forward into the unknown, a place outside my comfort zone where comfort and familiar faces are scarce! Oh, but the excitement!! I will tackle this year head-on and get stuck into it. Because it is going to be another awesome year.

Yayy! Okay. I need sleep.

=)

OMGOSHNESS I'M 18!

Oh yeah! Today was a busy day.

Spent most of it at hospital with him, because he had a procedure done at Epworth. While he was actually getting it done, she and I went shopping on Bridge Road to find a dress for her to wear at Nick's wedding. YAY. Didn't get one, but looked around. I bought a t-shirt from a store called EcoWear. It's made out of bamboo fibres! How cool. It is quite the comfortable.

Later we got back to the hospital and had to wait another 2+ hours, because he had to recover from going under and so we just bummed around the hospital.

Then I went uber late to meet some friends at Crown, where we met up and went to play a bit of pool... then ate gelati... then I exercised my right as being no longer a minor and GAMBLED!!! *gasp-shock-horror* yes. I played with a great amount of $2 and sadly lost $2. Actually I lost $3 because I invested $1 in Jessie, who ALSO lost my money. MEH!

After I also went uber late to dinner to meet up with Chinese school friends. I'm so sorry I went so late!! Ahh. Didn't even do anything. Just ate icy poles and sat outside the toilet. When we finally decided to try to get into the bowling alley to play pool, we barely had enough people to sneak in an under-18. >_< We had 1 person who was under 18 and 3 not, but they checked us all for ID. It was open bar...that's why no under 18s. It's not like we were drinking or anything... just wanted to play some pool, damnit! Rargh!

Tomorrow is somewhat busy too...
Swimming
Baking
Driving lesson
Doctor's appointment
(NOTE TO SELF!! Write a plane letter for Jessie and EJ.)

OH. And offers from SA and Queensland come out. Yipee?

Okay. GOODNIGHT.

NEW YEAR!

Okay, this post is WAY overdue.

And I apologize for somewhat giving up on the daily thing, but let me explain. When it got to Christmas period, I was working unearthly hours and didn't want to stay up any later to blog. And I apologize for that.

Anyways, MERRY CHRISTMAS.

GOOD LUCK SHOPPING ON BOXING DAY!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Welcome 2010. A new year.

=)

So much (sort of) has happened in the past few weeks. I know there is stuff that I want to update on but can't exactly remember.

He is doing well and being discharged next week and on Wednesday he has a minor (I think) surgery. His hand was a bit more swollen than usual today, but I sat down and helped massage it for him. She started work again. I'm not getting shifts at Big W, so I'm applying for another job.

Oh, my ankle swelled up the other day. Couldn't walk very well afterward, so I went to see the docs, who couldn't find anything wrong, so just did some tests and made an appointment for next week.

New years resolutions:
-Exercise everyday... (Sorta? Not really. Just got a exercise bike from a friend, so on the days I don't swim, I'll just bike while I watch some TV show....when my ankles feeling up to it. XD)
-READ A BOOK A WEEK. (Starting on Monday... xD)
-Clean ROOM. Reorganize room. Hopefully/maybe getting a couch in room. =D
-WORK MORE. MAKE MONEY.

In terms of university courses, I'm just gonna say I'm somewhat undecided about where I'm going. I've made up my mind, I think, but it's now just a white elephant in my home. Hmm. Don't know what to make of it, and don't know how to talk about it, because it just makes everything tense. I feel tense whenever university is brought up by or in front of my parents... I'm just waiting for offers, then I'll announce my decision. From everything I've been saying about university, it seems like I've been jumping back and forth from different ideas and I think I'm probably going to stick to my guns. =)

OKAY. FAREWELL. GOODNIGHT.