Year of the Tikus

"May STUART LITTLE brings you comfort; MICKEY MOUSE brings you joy; RATATOUILLE brings you abundance of good food; most importantly MINNIE MOUSE brings you ultimate beauty & pleasure. Year of Rat with lots of laughter, love & optimism. Gong Xi Fa Cai."

I almost forgot it's the year of the Rat until I get the text above from my ever funny buddy kok hang. And so it's CNY again - my 2nd CNY abroad. I wanna be back! I wanna eat yee sang; I want ang pow; I wanna go visiting; I wanna gamble!!!! :p

It's the first day of CNY today and I'm sitting at home! Palat siew called and asked, "Australia got holiday meh?" I simply answered, "Self-declared la!" Hehe.. So I was home cleaning stuff and got ready for my 2nd road rules test. I wonder if it's CNY gift or what but they gave me the same set of questions as my first test. So if I fail this, I can jump into a well. Guess what! I'm not in a well right now. I passed! Not surprising la.

By the way, it's also my friend's graduation today. Here are some photos.

brian, sam, me

brisbane city background

brian, yvonne, sam, omega, me

so hiiiiiiiiigh!

yvonne, omega, me, brian, sam, sam, mrs. sam, sam

How come so many Sam? Sam is not first name. Sam is family name.


new found friends

poser!

After those never-ending photo sessions, we went to a Taiwanese restaurant on a back lane - it is really called Backlane literally. I had a "Three Cups Chicken with rice" (direct translation) and a large lemon pink guava drink.

Next, time for movie! I went to watch Fool's Gold - some guy getting a divorce from her wife but somehow went on to hunt for the Queen's Dowry sunk in the Bahamas together. It's not too bad but my friend fell asleep in the cinema. Haha.. Worth a watch on pirated DVD la. :p

That was it! My CNY in Brisbane! Kung Hei Fat Choy la!

I'm fucked!

I failed my road rules test!

How dumb is that?

Why?! What did I tell you about confidence? A little/moderate confidence is good to make you shine but not when it’s all over you. That’s over-confidence and you will tend to look down on your opponent or task. Didn’t they tell you about the rabbit and tortoise story?

I was over-confident and thought that I don’t really need to study everything. I have been driving for 8 long years anyway and I scored a perfect 50 out of 50 in my Malaysian theory test. How could this hinder me from passing? I just need to pick up a few things here and there in the road rules booklet and it should be fine. In fact, I only spent about 45 minutes browsing through the 183-page-booklet. Minus the cover, table of contents, introduction, indexes, and all the irrelevant stuff, there are still about 160 pages. So I was like going through 3.5 pages per minute and that’s 16.875 seconds per page. Smart huh?

And the result is… “Kevin, you didn’t make it” said the test invigilator.

In other words, “You suck!”

And do you wanna know what my mistakes were?

Here are the culprits. Look at these and see who should give way

Q1.

A) Vehicle 1
B) Vehicle 2



Q2.

A) Vehicle 1
B) Vehicle 2 & 3
C) Vehicle 1 & 3

Tell me your answers.

Life

Life should not be taken too seriously all the time. I'm not saying we should take things for granted. I do believe that we should appreciate life and enjoy it while we can. That is why I think sometimes (or most of the time) we need more bullshits than we can actually handle to move on and stay happy. This is especially true if we are in a community where we need just each and everyone around us to help each other.

Compromise. It's a strong word but sometimes we just need to take things more lightly. Cheer up and remember that someone who give you bullshits is not necessarily harming you and someone who pull you out of shit is not necessarily helping you.

So let's chill and live life unto the fullest together!

Hari Kebangsaan Australia

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

hehe...

Actually it's not for that! Coz Australia never kena colonized! So it's not about independence.

It's actually to commemorate the establishment of the first European settlement on the continent of Australia.

But to me, it's a public holiday and another day to see fireworks in Brisbane. I might soon get sick of fireworks!


While waiting for traffic light to turn green!


Brisbane Nightline


Fireworks


More fireworks


Housemates


Friends in Brisbane


Dinner at Cyber City


Who's the Monopoly?


Show me the money!