Well, so we meet again after one long hiatus from me. Was I lazy to post? No I wasn’t. I knew I didn’t have the time to post until I knew I would find myself posting again and the fact that I was trying to recover my lost of Danny. So, I will be posting of my first semester this year and my holidays spent in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. Now, I’m back home in Brunei and its HM Sultan’s birthday (15th July 2008). The weather at this point is critically wet (raining)!
How first semester has been like to me? Well, I must say it’s a bit laid back and I love the subjects I’ve done but I did struggle on Organisation Design and Technology but overall I got a distinction for that subject and got a pass for Contemporary in HRM which for me I thought it was easier. I’m thankful that my result came out well and I passed all four subjects. 3 distinctions and 1 pass. Not bad!
Throughout my studies, I was bonding with a lecturer who used to work in Malaysia. He’s very helpful and thoughtful. I would miss him dearly if he left Swinburne although I may at times tend to be speechless through some of our conversation. I would like to thank him, Dr. Harch Thandi, for all his guidance and faith in me. He’s the first lecturer to make me feel at ease in Uni. Dr. Harch taught me Strategic HRM. If anyone who will be his student I will guarantee you that he’s the best lecturer to teach you!
Then there’s Bryan Kidd. He’s such a funny lecturer and understanding. In his class, it was more of psychology kind of study because the subject is called Organisational Behaviour. I also struggled on understanding some of the theories but I managed once I did the assignment. He gave us many examples which made me understood the situation. Not only that, I made quite a couple of friends in this class since we were a small class and did a group work together.
John Annakiss. He keeps pulling my strings by saying how I could get away because my country is rich of oil and gas. John, you’re one hilarious lecturer but mumbles a lot. He’s taught me Organisation Design and Technology. This subject might get you thinking that it has to do with design and technology (in other words something to do with computers) but in actual fact it’s all about how to manage the organisation chart when external and internal factors are affecting the organisation.
Lastly, Viknesh. He’s a Singaporean born but PR in Australia. His class is really laid back and as if we were in the 5th grade doing our work. Seriously, felt like a kid back there but still had fun. Too bad I didn’t participate much in his class and well, most of my class. *LoL*
Throughout the weeks, working with groups has been up and downs. The worst experience was working with someone who always does their work last minute but they are actually smart people. Procrastinating is fine with me as long as they don’t procrastinate till submission! I was so annoyed about that especially when I’m the one to compile the work.
Anyhow, love life on campus? Well, I’m not sure if I did mention in my previous post regarding a guy “c-dude” that I bumped everyday (as in lecture classes) in my 2nd semester of 2007. This semester, I didn’t bump into him till the final week of class! Everything happened at the library AND NO! I didn’t go to the library because of him but I had to finish up my assignment by getting references.
So, there I was talking on my cell phone with my dad outside the library entrance, and BOOM! He came out with his friend. He took one glimpse of me and then took a longer one when he noticed it was me. I’m not exaggerating. Seriously, not at all. The reason why I went to the library that day was to meet up with Nee and Huile for Huile’s radio interview assignment.
As we went down the library steps to go to Huile’s building for recording, coincidently, C-dude and his friends were at the bottom of the steps talking but paused when they saw us coming down the steps. This made me freaked out that I watched every step so that I don’t trip over and fall. Oh gosh! They make it so obvious when they look at people. Another weird vibe was #10 (known as C-dude’s best friend or probably close friend), who has some sort of thing for Nee (don’t worry Nee doesn’t even have any affectionate feeling for this poor dude).*ROFL*
Today I got off the phone with Nee and she told me that she saw them last week at the Atrium sitting. When they saw her, they kept quiet and look at Nee as she went in the Library. How freaky is that? I mean so obvious that there’s something going on with their bunch. Anyway, enough about that. I don’t really expect to have c-dude to be mine but it’s fun to have the motivation for expecting something to happen in University. Just to lighten up the stressness *LOL*
Speaking of which; the happy minds lies in the secret lives. Meaning to say; when there’s that specific someone for me, let my happiness shine to myself. Sorry for being greedy but that’s how I live my life. *LOL* Peekaboo!!
So that’s done about life at Swinburne University and waiting for next semester to reopen which is on 10th August 2008. I’ll be returning to Hawthorn on the 8th August 2008. I checked up on my Allocation+ site and this time I can’t cram it up for two days but to 3 days unless the actual timetable will give a good time for my subjects to be laid out. My next semester will consist of two exams. I keep having a feeling that I’ll dread semester two compared to semester one. Oh well! May I continue to be hard working and gain another good result.
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