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Time: 9.39 am
I wake up, scratch my butt. Plonk down in front of my laptop and check my email (My daily ritual for the pass 3 weeks)

(Typing in username and password)
Me: C**bai… internet soooo slow….
(Waits ages for the damn thing to load. Rub my eyes and scratch my ass again)

…

Me: New mail from Michelle Suhr… I hope its my offer letter.. pleaseeee be my offer letter….

and lo and behold, I’m presented with this:

FINALLY!!! After weeks of agonising wait… I literally jumped up with joy… pumping fist ala Rocky and then pranced downstairs like a gay lesbian in pink frocks to print it out.

After a long and agonising wait University Tasmania has sent me an Offer of Enrolment. My dream of actually studying in Australia is one step closer. So I have to pay how much?

Wahlan eh…

AUD$14,000 for my studies….*OUCH* a huge blow indeed.

So here’s the checklist for next few things to do before actually going there:

1. Payment of first semester fees to obtain what is called a Certificate of Enrollment

2. Obtain Certificate of Enrollment identification number

3. Go to Australian Immigration website and utilise what is called their eVisa system where students can apply for their student visa online. That means there’s no endless queueing, no travelling. All the items that are needed are your passport particulars and a credit card (another AUD$500 blow…). For citizens of Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia the visa application is hassle-free so those who are planning to further their studies in Australia can take note of their eVisa system here

4. Obtain a medical checkup return form from the eVisa system.

5. Do a medical checkup at their approve medical centres.

6. Mail the medical report to the Australian Immigration Department. (Perth / Sydney)

7. Issuance of a student Visa electronically.

8. Purchase my ticket from Brunei to Sydney and Sydney to Tasmania.

9. Spend countless hours in an airplane.

Today is a good day and what better still to wind down with some nice tea

Thanks to my girlfriend Victoria… her gift to me. So nice rite my girlfriend… jealous or not?

Its expensive but its worth every cent.

After a hiatus.

Seipokai is finally back!

This so called writer’s block of mind is seriously an understatement. So to kickstart things…

Finally I’m home. After spending two years in Kuching. Time spent was bitter sweet, some things went awry and in admist of being late for class, sleepness nights working on assignments and studying for examinations, I’ve made many friends. Most close and some even closer.

Had the most beer in a single seating…

Just the first tower…

Met one of the best guy (with ridiculously good looking hair that I always eye with jealousy) that saw me through the worst and best of my times.

You wait Dheem! I’ll be joining you there soon!

And of course

She is one of the best things that has happened to me. And I’m thankful for it.

After mom met Victoria…

Mom: She is a nice girl. Very pretty! how did you tackle your girlfren? How you cheat her???
Me: Dun say like that lah ma… no confidence with your own son meh???
Mom: Not confidence… but realistic mah… you so ugly. But your girlfren so pretty??? Got logic meh you say???
Me: Ngaiti~
Mom:You see!!! Her eyes so big… your eyes small-small…
Me: . . .
Mom:She have nose.. you dont have nose… etc~ etc~
Pa, Doris and Jessica laughing in the background…

There are many things I’ll miss in Kuching like the careless life, yum cha sessions and of course THESE BABIES:

Sitting down at McDonald’s and munching on these boooootifuulllll preeeecccciiiooouuuussss fries done to perfection!

I’ll definitely not miss the days of class timetable mix-ups…

After climbing four stories up to copy the wrong timetable

Pant Pant (Going back down four stories then rush all the way to the other side of college (Since I’m 20 mins late)
Me: A306… should be the right class… (Knocks… Open’s door and enter…)
Lecturer: … So the aspects of… (Stares at me in bewilderment) Who are you??
Me: err… this is CSCI 212 right?
Lecturer: This BMT 312… Business… Are you a business student?
Me:err no… (Confused and bewildered and just stares at my timetables)
Lecturer: Let me see your timetable… (Suddenly my lecturer opens the door!)
Me: Sir!
Sir: I knew I find students here… Alex its A308 not A306… Got typo sorry!