Dreams

Filed under: by: Jin


It's such a strange phenomenon, dreams. Is it really true that its just a way for our subconscience to communicate with the conscience mind? And why is it that we don't remember as many of our dreams as we did as children? Have we slowly lost sense of this subconscience of ours? Doesn't this entire concept sound all too familiar? Has 'expert opinions' affected our way of thinking, generalising all our thoughts into the same one? Perhaps we have opinions/beliefs that we think others would accept just to fit in. (Phew, that put an end to all those continuous questions. Do I ask this many questions?)

Going back to the point... I've experienced a few de javu moments in dreams. Some that are not exactly the same as I have dreamt but in an otherwise similar context. Things like how in the dream you'd be sitting on the right of said person but when it happens you're on the left. It's strange really.


Then there is the case where you only remember what you dreamt about in the first 10 seconds after you wake up... then you forget. And then, when a situation reminds you of the dream, you recall. This begs the question, do we still dream just as much as we did in our childhood days but just not remember them as vividly like we did before? I suppose someone might have come up with an answer to that by now. Hmm... maybe I should get a book on dreams... would be interesting.


Anyways, something else that I've heard alot about is that sometimes you know that you're in a dream and in a way try to alter how the dream world works. Well, to be honest, I've never experienced that before. I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out that when a shark chases me on air I was dreaming -.- What more can I say to that? Haha... sometimes I'm glad that dreams turn out to be just that, dreams. I've had bizarre dreams that are in a way connected to what was happening in my life. The first few weeks I came to the UK I dreamt about being in a car with my dad... except it crashed... and i died... and watched the aftermaths as a ethereal entity in the sky. Not the most fun dream I've had. I asked my dad to get a new a few days after that. When I got back he bought two :) Hmm... what do you know... that dream might have actually resulted in a most pleasant surprise!


So yea, it's my 4th week in uni and things have been going well. Liking this new house and my kind landlord. Apparently, for 300 quid a month (excluding gas and electricity bills) it's quite a good deal. Phrases that people have used to describe the house are 'massive', 'big', 'is it just for four people?', 'nice' and, have i mentioned massive? Living with an indian and two hongkies. All guys this time. You seriously don't wanna hear your female housemates moan with their doors open and look them straight in the eye like half an hour later... So yea, there you have it. A post from me in a very long time. I've better catch some shut eye, dream a lil bit and hopefully get up in time for lectures. Did i mention that I have four 9am lectures and a 10am one? Sigh... how I wish they'd be sensible next semester and change it so that we don't just have a lecture at 9am in the morning and the second one starting at 2pm in the afternoon. Then again, their responce would most likely be what the aerosmiths made into a hit record:


'Dream on!!!!'




Jin out

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Coming saturday..

Filed under: by: Becky



My University's football team will be playing against James Madison University this Saturday.



Their student body's 20k, ours is 9k.
Their Band has 400 individuals, ours has 190.
I'm excited!!
It's pretty neat for our 38-year-old Uni to be at its current level.
Hosting this game is definitely a milestone.
Can't wait!
Tomorro's our last practice and Saturday we do our Show facing the Home side.
Here's me having a grand time!
becks out*

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The building isn't blue

Filed under: by: Becky



L'immeble ne pas bleu.
The tonsilly voice of my Livemocha French 101 teacher reveberates in my eardrums.

I had a really good first summer break. Both in Brunei and Malaysia.
It's incredible that so little has changed during my absence of over a year.
It lifts my spirits to see that my parents and my granny haven't aged a day either. In fact, they look healthier because they've grown tanner after the drives to and from KB.

My summer was good because:



1. I did not upset my parents. Nor did I argue with them. I was such a good girl I didn't even ninja.

2. I was able to bond with my sister and we've only been at each others' nerves twice. Thats a record. Over clipped toenails and ignition turns.



3. I was given the oppurtunity to teach piano! On a Shigeru Kawai Grand. And the setting couldn't have been better. It was with my former piano teacher. My rewards were twofold. Not only was I paid more than expected, what I've learned from my students, their parents, my former teacher and about myself was an authentic experience. There was not other way I could've taken all of that in doing anything else.

4. I was healthy.

5. It wasn't THAT hot and humid. Really I was bracing myself for something more. And I left Brunei when it started to get really hazy.

6. I caught up with friends who mattered. Jessica R, Pei, Sheeling, Yan, Vui, Christina. Uni friends might be with me 24/7 (dorms) but friends from home have known me for at least 7 years.

7. Shopping and eating spree in KL with Pei.



Pei, or SPY rather, is one of my closest friend. I'm really glad she still is. Having gone as far as she had, she showed no inflated ego. If anything, she came through the lights, camera and action a more matured and grounded young woman.
Also, retail therapy, tastebuds tickled, cravings satisfied, ALL in RM!! Things I really appreciate after coming to the states.

7. No heartbreaks. No boyfriends. No drama. And I've never felt more love.

My flight back was horrible. The turbulence and crowd with babies really did me in.
But I recovered after 2days thanks to my Taiwanese friends here. The dorms aren't open yet so I'm currently chilling at their chic and cozy suburban Parkside Grande apartment until Saturday when band camp starts.

Such joy it is to not live by a schedule.
To laze around like a phython, catch up on soaps, update playlists, read, meditate, chat on msn with people on different timezones, and stroll by the park outside lit by fireflies.

Its times like these I find out that Paddington Bear is from Peru



and that Stephen King ate 7 plates of scrambled eggs all at once when he was four. His baby-sitter locked him up his mom's closet and puked all over her shoes. Needless to say, the baby-sitter was fired. I'm reading his master class entitled In Writing.

*becks out.

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Yo!

Filed under: by: Muizz M

I've started my driving lessons about a week ago now. Its going well. A few hiccups here and there. I'm learning with Shak driving school, a place in Batu Bersurat under the care of instructor Bernard. Though, just call him Bernard. Interesting name I must say. Hes chinese but I suspect that there is a hint of Philipino somewhere in him. His Bahasa Melayu is mariculously fluent, nothing like any other Chinese person I've met before except maybe for the fish monger at pasar Gadong.


Now heres a surprise, I got a my exam results a while back. I failed one of my modules so I have to go for a resit. So far I've been revising for this exam. Statistically speaking, I think its one of my traits to fail during my first year of anything whether it be Sixth Form or University. I get better as time progreses, Statistically speaking.

However I don't study constantly every hour, sometimes I go play golf. I've been playing frequently nowadays, I would say 3 or 4 times a week at empire golf course. I also practice my swing at home. My goal is to bogey every hole by the end of summer holidays. Now its no secret that Brunei has its own Professional Golf Champioship. One of my dreams is to participate in this event sometime in the next few years I would say when I'm 24. Though I've pared some of the holes at empire I lack consistency though I do feel like I'm getting better, I remember the days when I would lose 6 or 7 balls in one round of golf at empire, quite embaressing. Since the Brunei Open is in a weeks time, the empire golf course management team as per usual, have been letting the grass grow i.e longer roughs etc.. I went to play there a few days ago and had a tough time finding my ball though I could see it clearly when I wasteeing off. Its very annoying.

Anyway, Me and the family have decided to spend 2 weeks in Indonesia i.e Jakarta and Bandung for holiday so thats going to set my driving lessons back thus my friend Huda will surpass me in driving experience but its all good since I started earlier albeit a few lessons earlier. So until I get back... Be Cool and Stay Cool.

Regards
Muizz


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The recovery

Filed under: by: Jin

AHHHH CHOOO!!!!! Phew, don't worry. It's not swine flu. I'm just allergic to dust and the digital cobwebs are really starting to pile up in this blog :p So yea, Jin's back in Brunei. And yes I may not have any obligations to meet but going out everyday whether to pick up your sisters from school or work, meeting up with friends or going poker-ing at night leaves you tired when you finally get back home. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason why I've not been blogging much. Hope thats enough of an apology to our hard posting blogmaster Rebecca :p

So lets see, whats new in Brunei...





Yea...




Its the same old same old. Some new structures are being built but other than that nth much has been going on. Almost all our yellow ic-ed Chung Hwa friends (e.g. Chung Sun, Ing Siang, Cai Yen, Yen Lu, Derick to name a few) have gotten scholarships from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Defense but sadly none were fortunate enough to get the prestigious Sultan's scholarship. Not that thats a cause for concern, getting any type of scholarship is fine by me. So congratulations to all of you who managed to work hard and getting your ridiculous 4 or 3 or 2 As for A level. You deserve your scholarships.

Alright, I know for a fact that people's attention span for a post is short and to make a post long will only serve to bring boredom. Since more and more people seem to be environmentally aware, I'll end with an interesting fact on what type of solutions scientists have come up with to reduce the effects of global warming.


The following is just what i remembered from a Discovery channel episode (so there might be some mistakes) :

Huge icebergs all over the world such as Arctic and Greenland makes up for almost 10% of the worlds surface and as they melt from greenhouse effects, water levels will rise. This will mean land that are close to sea level will be sunk. A solution to this problem would be to slow the melt rate of the icebergs. How? That is the genius of whoever came up with this answer:

Cover the icebergs with reflective materials to stop sun light from melting it.

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It was a cold autumn day...

Filed under: by: Josh B.


A friend and I decided to visit the Shrine of Remembrance. This is the view of Melbourne's CBD atop the viewing balcony of the shrine.

I admit, it was a bad day for shorts.

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Miss Cali, we've got your back. -LU

Filed under: by: Becky

“I think that in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”

-Carrie Prejean



Carrie Prejean, the reigning Miss California, made a special appearance at our uni on Wednesday convocation (our last convocation of the semester) in a sit-down interview with Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr.

After making it to the top five in the pageant, Prejean was asked a question from guest judge Perez Hilton, a homosexual activist blogger, about her beliefs on the topic of legalizing same-sex marriage in each state.After expressing her personal beliefs, Miss California Carrie Prejean's chances of winning the Miss USA 2009 pageant came to an end.


Prejean finished runner-up in the pageant.
Second place!!


Jerry Falwell Jr asked Prejean, a student at San Diego Christian College, how she felt on stage that night.


“As I was standing on that stage I felt so alone, I felt like I was up against the world. I saw Donald Trump sitting there in the front row, my family, my friends were nearby — millions of people were watching it on national television. I was so nervous …” Prejean said. “They instructed the question to Perez Hilton and he then asked the question, and from there I just knew that I was either going to please man or please God.”



“To me, it’s scary that we’ve come to a point in this country where somebody like you is castigated for supporting the institution of marriage between a man and a woman — something that most Americans support — and it just shows all of us what our challenge is in this next generation to turn this country around. We deeply appreciate what you did and for standing up for what you believe,” Falwell said.

She did a talk on our school's radio station with some Law undergrads after her appearance at convocation.
http://www.afr.net/.

Oh...Also Perez Hilton called her the B*word as seen in this video.


The precious Prejean's response to that is, "I'm praying for him."
and we all should pray for him.

Nevertheles, after convocation, a throng of boys hit backstage to try to get her photography and her autograph. A classmate (an aviation major who drove her in the jet she arrived in) is head over heels in love with her.

Must suck to be in love with someone unattainable.

Time to go back to my books!
Wish me luck for COMS, American History and English exams!

becks out*

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