Wide Opened Eyes

I can't sleep. It's 2:42 AM Perth time, and i just can't seem to rest my brain even though my body is desperately begging for some. So here I am...

I went to the beach today(well technically, yesterday) since I don't have uni on Fridays, and that was GOOD. It's been too long since I last payed any beach a visit. The last time would be somewhere in January while I was in Bali. And since summer just ended, me and my two friends decided to beach it out before it's too late. Don't you just love having nice conversations when floating in the ocean like rice puff cereal on milk? I DOOO. But don't get me wrong, I love winter. I mean food taste better and sleeping under a thick blanket just feels like heaven. And I think the sound and smell of rain are very mind and body peacefulling :)

Oh and in case you don't already know, on Monday Perth just got stormed. Like big time. It was a crazy experience and a sad day for many. After the violent hail, there were countless dented cars without windows, houses with holed roofs and no electricity, flooded buildings and floating dead birds. My university was wrecked too, so bad that it was on telly and classes were cancelled the next day. Not to mention the underground library on campus turned into a swimming pool! Oh those poor books.... From my observation it is fair to say that Mother Nature was obviously having a severe mood swing cus it's been summer all morning and lunch time, and the golf-ball-sized hails was ended with a beautiful sunset and a perfect half-circled rainbow. So it's not "the rainbow after the rain" anymore, now it's "the rainbow after the hailstorm". It's actually much more powerful too as a saying, don't you reckon?

Well anyway, I don't really have anything substantial left to say. Oh and my dad is leaving tomorrow after checking in for 2 weeks basically just keeping me company(a more polite expression for checking up on me :p), and doing all the cooking and cleaning, as well as being my private driver :-) And he put up a swingy fabric chair on the verandah(which is looking out to a lake) for me too, which is so so soy nice!

And about my previous post, I complained that the people in my uni are such snobs and geeks but actually I'm getting along fine and many of them are nice. Maybe we've finally found some common grounds. Or maybe I've turned into a snobbish geek. Well either way, I'm enjoying classes a lot more nowadays even though model making and technical drawing have kept me up most nights. And by the way I have Wednesdays as a mid-week holiday now after dropping that friking Art History unit impulsively :p which btw IS a core unit, but you know, I'll just deal with that some other time :) And now with Wednesdays and Fridays off, I might actually catch up on uniwork and some sleep, be more organize and look for a part-time job! And pick up painting and sewing again. And apply for that Spanish class I've always wanted to take. Or maybe learn how to play the guitar. Ahhh so many things I want to do, so excited!!!!

Ok now I really gotta sleep, or play dead, which I personally think sounds funner :)

Sweet dreams peeps.

my 2010 so far

Holiday is long over. Family catch ups were great and Bali with my best mates was super funnnnn. So here I am, 2 weeks in into my 1st year Architecture degree, being a normal uni student. And still I'm not sure if it is for me. Neither am I sure of what the thing is that I really want to do if not Architecture. Fashion? Let's just say I don't feel like it is something I want to do seriously as a career. Fine Arts? Nope, I think that would give my dad a heart attack.

Being a uni student is fine I guess, but I don't find it as fun as high school. The university that I am attending is what most people name the best in the state. I applied just for fun because I didn't think I would get in as well as because my friends were applying into this university. And so I got in and currently attending the so called great university only to find that most of the people here are either nerds or snobs. Great. And I wonder why I don't feel like I fit in.

Another unpleasant surprise I got was that I have to do an Art History unit as one of the three units for Semester 1 Architecture. I remember in the end of Year 12  thinking I'm so glad I don't have to deal with anymore of this shit. But no, no I have to do it for ARCHITECTURE! And after 3 lectures, I still don't see the connection between Art History and Architecture, neither do I understand what the lecturers are babbling about, Aboriginal painting? Ancient Egypt? What, what Architecture unit? HUH.

And no, that is not it. Just 2 days ago, Friday night to be exact, I had a major car CRASH. I was driving with no legitimate Australian license. Using my sister's car. The car is not insured. And I am currently still under 18 and living alone. Frankly, if the police was involved I surely am dead by now. "Luckily" the driver of the other car was a Malaysian student and she does not have an Australian license either and so we agreed not to report the accident and resolve it ourselves. Complicated much? YES. Who's fault was it? Not mine. Apparently the other girl does not know the street rules over here and so she went on when she wasn't supposed to, to then crashed into my car which was just going on straight at a green light. Say whaaaa?!

So now I just have to find a way to explain to my parents why my sister's car is pretty much in a coma so to say. Plus some nagging so that the girl would pay for the damage done to my sister's car. However at the end, I still feel like I am so lucky to have not a scratch on me and my 2 friends who were in the car as well as the girl from the other car. Thank you God for protecting me even after the much complaining I've done lately. Thank you. And I hope this marks a new beginning for the better rest of 2010 to come! Amiiiiin