It’s a lazy Sunday. It feels great.

It’s been so long since I’ve been able to sit down on a Sunday and not run up and down or worry about an impending assignment due/examination to sit for. It just feels relaxing. Heh.

I think my Sydney post has gone into the drawer to gather dust. It’s been nearly a month since I’ve gone and the emotions/sensations for that trip has someone dwindled. I still remember it as a vibrant city, with lots of energy and chaos to it. It’s a fun city to visit, to see things. Sydney is about grandeur and you have a feeling that there is no expense spared into the construction of things. The Sydney Harbour bridge was an immense engineering feat when it was built in the early 20th century. The Sydney Opera house is the icon of Australia, and the initial budget spiralled out of control to become a 100 over million dollar project back in the late mid 20th century. In contrast to Melbourne, which tries to be orderly and practical (most of the time anyway), Sydney just stretches out and doesn’t really need to try, as it impresses you with the bustling activity, be it people on the streets, the traffic jams or the ferries going back and forth between the various places.

It is definitely more urban, with larger concentrations of diverse cultures, thus making it feel more like a melting pot than Melbourne does. There is an abundance of food here, and if you are willing to spend around $15-$25 per head, you’d get some really decent restaurants serving great food. Heh, thinking of that black sesame ice cream I had not too long ago. Mmmm.

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So there you have it, a short concise description of Sydney. Heh, it definitely warrants more description than this, but I think it was too ambitious to describe too much, as I’d get lost in a sea of words.

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Been spending time playing around with web design. The brain’s been more actively thinking lately, and thinking is like oil, and acts as a lubricant to help smooth the operation of the mind. Decided to end my run of Sydney photos, as I’ve been too dependent on them as posting material that I haven’t taken the opportunity to go out taking pictures on my own. Having visited Sydney, it made me realise that there’s plenty left in Melbourne to explore in terms of photoshoots. As long as you look at things in a different perspective, there’s plenty of picture opportunities waiting to happen. Like I also mentioned to my friend, if you have a macro lens and take closeups of the world around you, you double the things readily available to be captured as light on a canvas. Heh.

So here is my last photo of Sydney. Strawberries and chocolate!

Haven’t written anything for a few days and it’s like I’ve already forgotten how to pen anything.

My exam was as expected. It was as expected as what I’d thought would come out for the exam. The first number of questions I felt quite confident, as they were the sort of questions I was expecting, and had prepared thoroughly for. Then I dwelled deeper into the paper only to find some questions from obscure parts of the notes that I knew I had only glanced through but decided it was not possibly examinable. Typically wrong was I when it comes to knowing what is put on the exam paper. These questions that were theory based I sort of vaguely remembered what I read and put answers in based on that vague memory. Struggled with the practical ones as I couldn’t decide which assumptions were correct in order to answer those questions. Just a hairline away from being able to answer the question and giving it away entirely.

Anyway, hope to pass the paper, as with any subjects I have done so far. Would like to take it easier next trimester by taking the compulsory subject which is sort of like a Finance/Economics 101 hybrid subject. Hopefully work and previous uni experience have given me enough knowledge to at least struggle less with the subject. Foreign exchange (the paper I just sat for) took a while but was interesting to learn and know.

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Been missing a few days from celebrating birthdays, watching Asian movies and testing out World of Warcraft. Caved in to temptation and bought a $2 trial version of WoW that had 14 days to test the product out. So far, the experience is similar to Maple Story with fancier graphics (although that is a harsh comparison indeed). Heh, you basically run around killing creatures collecting stuff in the earlier bits of the game, which I’m at now, to complete quests and be given items. The pace is a bit slow so maybe the fun factor isn’t as great, although I must say these simple qualities can still make a game addictive. Will play a little more to figure out the game mechanics a tad.

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Pre exam, I had to allocate time to study. With no restrictions on the type of activity now, I have to figure what activities to give priority to. At the immediate, the obvious thing is to go to work or I’ll be running real late. Heh.