Sydney

I hate group work at USyd

terra — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:55:10 -0500

Seriously, group work at USyd is such a pain. 80% of the people I have dealt with are one of the following:

Pure incompetent,
Apathetic to their studies and can’t give a damn about putting effort,
Last minute people who think they can actually produce quality work just before deadlines,
People who always tell me they are busy with this and that but can find time to have full day of entertainment and plenty of sleep (when there I am slogging till 2-5 AM in the morning)
Irresponsible freeloaders.

Pseudo blogger

terra — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:47:06 -0500

I guess it’s not hard to figure out that my ‘blogger’ status is more of a semi-hobby than a passion :p The truth is ever since I graduated from university in Singapore the desire to pen my feelings doesn’t come as naturally anymore. Even though I set up this pretty nice-looking (I hope!) blog, frankly I’m more interested in the design and implementation (Drupal) of it rather than the actual content. I could spend hours tweaking this functionality and adding this plugin and that but frankly the actual usage doesn’t justify the effort taken to implement. ^^

Nevertheless, I think the start of my Masters course in Sydney should warrant at least a couple of posts so here I am, more than a month since I reached here. To be fair to myself, I didn’t actually get internet connection till the end of last month (thanks Telstra, geez)..

Moving to Sydney

terra — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:28:26 -0500

As some of you already know, I will be taking up a Master in Commerce course in Sydney that would last 18 months. The course will commence mid-July. Exciting and a bit scary at the same time. I’m quite attached to my family and have never been away from them for more than a month before. I guess it’s time I became more independent. In the last month I’ve been (re)learning how to cook (pasta, sweet sour pork, chicken with sesame sauce etc.)— a basic need for survival!