Da Road of Life

Alrighty. time to blog again after god-knows-how-long. Second year first semester in melbourne uni. what can i say? this semester is super-duber CRAZIIIIIEEEEEEE~ The siao workload has already worn me out even there is still one month to the finals. 3 team assignments, countless individual assignments (every week got 1 or 2 due), 3 Mid semester test (each comprises 20% of the total assessment), and not to mention few presentations in tute. ArggHHHHhhhHHh~ think it’s still not enough for me, family problems and some other problems which seem to be petty but I couldn’t help but to be bothered by them. Finals coming and I am now way behind my business finance because i paid too much attention to the 2 other management subs I am doing. One 5 % assignment due next monday and haven’t even started. going to start doing it after this. yeah i will….

I understand that everyone has mood swings. I do have it all the time, but I know that other people do not deserve to be affected if not victimized by my own moodiness, that’s why if it’s not necessary I will hide it to myself. However, I am taken for granted and somebody thought that his or her mood swings are of such big deal and everyone around him or her should get the signal and shoo away. Sometimes it’s because of his or her moodiness, my own mood was affected and he or she will come to me and say I am very moody sometimes as well. Therefore, I choose to run away. X always wears a happy face when he or she is outside with friends but once home, face is totally changed to th black and tired one and expected everyone to know that he or she is tired and therefore should be more forgiving. I don’t like being taken granted for. seriously hate the feelings.

My grandma is in critical situation now, might leave us anytime. My dad was dead worried for her and at the same time has to pay attention to his business. Mom was very busy at her work, had to help my dad out sometimes, was worried about me from time to time ( no matter how many time I assure her that I am safe and healthy here in melbie).

On another note, I was happy yesterday after a long long month of mid sems and assignment. I got my OB team assignment back yesterday, the mark we got was much much better than what I expected due to some issues with my other team mates. My team consists of 2 aussie ang mohs, 1 malaysian (me) and 1 china guy. I think I work pretty well with the 2 ang mohs and the china guy is the problematic one. He claimed that he just came to melbourne uni after his first year in china and therefore wasn’t used to the way we work here. Obviously he knows nothing about plaigirism and referencing. The draft he submitted to us not only was way after our agreed due date, but also was copied words to words from our text and case study.The other ang moh guy got so pissed off and asked him why is this happening and explained to him that if we were to submit the work he did, for sure we would get a big F for our assignment because it was plaigirism. and then he went like " Ohh I thought we are supposed to refer to theory in text and answer quest based on it" Then we decided to not depend on him anymore and started to do his part of the assignment all over again one day before it was due. the ang moh was very angry because he had to work extra 12 hours on this because of the china guy’s incompetencies and suggested that we should talk to our tutor and see if we could exclude him from our team. I said we should give him a chance as it wuld be difficult for him to adapt to the way we do assignment here straightaway after one month he arrived at melbourne so alright we decided to give him another chance. everyone in our team will take turn to complete the weekly assignment for tute and it was his turn to complete last week and I changed my mind about giving him another chance completely when I read his work that he sent around to us before submission. It was a total crap, obviously he made no blardy effort or whatsoever to read the text and lecture notes at all before he attempted the questions. comon where got uni student in any camous answer a question in 2 sentence???!!!! that wasn’t even PMR standard. Not only that he answered 3 questions in less than half a page long, he wasn’t answering the questions at all!!!! I was damn pissed as he sent his work at like 12-ish midnight and it was supposed to be handed in the next mornning so I panicked, and called him to change the whole thing and told him exactly what he need to put down as answer for the questions. He said Yes Yes, I understand over the phone but right after 5 mins we hung up, he smsed me and said " I am still confusing (dun mind the bad grammar) about the questions, i thought we only need to answer the questions based on the case study" This pissed me lagi more and said I would take over from there and he NEED NOT to worry bout it. and cos of that I stayed up till 4 am to finish his work and submitted it in our 9am tute next day. Memang I tak boleh tahan d and talked to our tutor after talking to both my other team mates and the tutor called all of us to a serious meeting after class to discuss bout our issue. Obviously he is breaching the team contract that we signed at the beginning of team formation and in the contract we clearly state that we reserve the right to bring any issue to our tutor or even exclude anyone who is not abiding to the terms from the team. Moreover this sub was 50% assignment based and we wouldnt wanna let him free-ride on us and get the mark eventhough he put in NO input at all. In the meeting when the tutor asked him why is this happening, he gave lame excuses like his laptop was stolen, he has no text book etc… then we were like "duh there are comp labs everywhere in the uni and state lib, and right u dun have a text book but I believe u DO have your lecture notes with ya and I am sure u do ATTEND the lectures right." He said nothing after that. we so wanted to kick him ut but our tutor said we shouldn;t do that and that we must try to bring his ability up to our standard. WTH!!!??? Not fair Not fair. HOWEVER, after a long story, we still got a pretty good mark and that made my day!!!

Another thing that made my day, I was elected as the incoming Treasurer of MUOSS uncontested. Wahahahaha I was the only nominee for the position (actually there was only one nominee for each of the Exco positions). And yeah, I won the position without having to worry about policy speech and campaigning.

Okla…thats all for now la, to all my dah-lings back home. Miss you all as always. sorry I couldn;t be there for all of your birthdays and am glad that u all had such a fabulous time bcak home!!! I missshhh home and you guys`~! Couldn’t wait for winter break to come~ lalalala

Love ya all peeps~!

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