TaMyNovember 20th Female Brisbane
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TaMy |
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20/NOV/82 |
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AUSTRALIA |
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UNI STUDENT |
| MAJOR: |
MEDICAL SCIENCE |
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Sep 25, 2005
Japanese --> Cantonese --> Malay
After exams on Thursday and Friday, I had a Japanese gathering party
on Friday night. That's the one we were working hard to set up the Japanese
association group at QUT (our uni). I was the MC for the night, but honestly
I was sooo upset with my exam and report results, as bad as I might get my first
'zero' so far... uhm... Anyway, I couldn't prepare enough for the party either,
but I was told to speak both in Japanese & English... OMG! It's really hard to
shift one language to the other... Well, I tried my best but I'm sure everyone
could feel how nervous I was! Well, after all it was good we could successfully
finish our party and enjoyed meeting new friends there. phew...
On saturday night, in turn, I met some friends from foundation course.
As same as foundation times, I was surrounded by Cantonese all the time!
Some of them couldn't come yesterday and no one brought their girlfriends
as they did last year so it was only 8 people at total... We went to sunnybank and
had Shanhai cuisine, home-made style(?). It was ok. The fact that I was
hearing only Cantonese was ok too... I mean, it was what happen all the
time before so I didn't really care about that. The only difference now is that
I can speak English! hahaha. Anyway, it was good to hear what everyone is
doing because we could hardly see each other on campus.
Then this morning... my flatmate was going back to Brunei to spend a holiday
with her family. One of my friend from last night was saying that he could
help us to go to the airport so we appreciated his kindness and asked him to
send us there. It's only 10 days but that's my fairy GREAT mother and
I'm gonna miss her... hehe. Anyway, my friend was from Malaysia, and
they could speak in Malay language. Once again, I was hearing what they say,
but unfortunately I couldn't understand at all... haha. (Well, at least better
than yesterday as they mix English as well.)
These three days, I could feel being in what to call 'multicultural' country...
It was a bit funny indeed. It is something you won't see if being in Japan, at least.
Well, I would like to learn some foreign languages if I can, but maybe I need to
improve my English a little more first...
Posted at 07:31 pm by TaMy
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Sep 17, 2005
My old friend from junior high school found me on mixi
(Japanese version of Hi5/friendster-like) and sent me a message.
Not so many Japanese are keen on computes as they can use
mobile instead, so I was really surprised and happy to hear from her.
Most of my friends are now working... She is also one of them.
I thought 22 yo. is old enough to call a 'big sister' but I don't find
myself mature enough as I imagined... Maybe I need to experience
more things until I feel so. I'm now like a little girl, but my ideal is
actually a 'intellectual sexy', a woman who looks good in a suit and
give an impression that "she can make it!" but also sexy & positive at
the same time. phew... still so far far far away... but I will make it
no matter how long I have to pass through to find my way.
Posted at 10:44 pm by TaMy
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Some people thinks that I'm such girlish type and get surprised when finding I'm not.
I like to be with a mature person (I mean 'mature' by mentality, not real age), or say,
I dislike to be with those people who are childish in terms of being irresponsible
for their own action and can't get serious when they are required to be. I still like
people with a young heart though. Being honest, having a fun, feeling happy...
of course that's a good thing. We need to have some jokes to laugh as well.
I'm not saying that they are all wrong...
It may be contraductory but sometimes I miss such days in a childhood
when you can ask 'why?why' or ' what's that?' to everything you wanna know or
you are interesting in, all just for curiousity. You may also cry or argue with
"grown-up" or little friends because you cannot understand the point of 'why not?'.
Some grown-ups are so fake. Surely you cannot just do everything you want,
when you want. Life is not that easy and that's why you need to put some effort and
try to find the way out of the labyrinth. Sometimes I feel tired trying to act nicely to
everyone... especially if they are those 'childish' ones making fun of others.
Then my stresses (especially those associated with my own poor English &
poor understanding in university contents in my everyday life) help me enough
to start avoiding people sometimes. That's when I escape to the virtual world
and start to write my blogs. One good reason to avoid to talk to a real person
is because I know many of them misunderstand me and doesn't realise I
require totally different way of encouragement. Hearing people saying,
'Oh, my poor little girl... that's ok. You don't have to push yourself too hard
nor worry about it too much. You are a good girl, you can make it... etc etc'
after my dozens of excuses, I feel really annoyed. Surely those warm words
can make me relaxed and confident sometimes, but it depends I think...
I'm a person who works with 'reverse psychology' and prefer to be scolded in such
times when being down. I feel sick of myself when start to seek excuses,
trying to justify myself of being lazy and not working hard as I supposed to.
I mean, having such warm words is not enough for me. I like to be progressive,
need to see some improvement through whatever I'm doing. I think it applies
in a relationship with friends, especially to those who you want to share your
life more in deep. Some thinks that I want to be led to achieve something, but
I'd rather like to be inspired, I say.
Uhm... this entry is getting too long... what I wanna say is that actually
I'm not those mature person I wanna be with, but maybe that's why I wanna
be with them to be inspired... a person who is just ahead of me, a little enough
that won't make me feel inferior to, and who can scold me througho his (her) jokes
to inspire me would be great... but surely it's hard to meet such person, or
a person who can realise that I want to meet these kind of people...
Posted at 10:36 pm by TaMy
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Sep 13, 2005
I can't believe this... I took caffeine around 8pm after my dinner last night.
Then around 11pm, I was already sleepy sitting in front of my pc, trying hard
to keep me awake. I was supposed to study for my practice exam today
and finish up my ppt slides etc for my group seminar... but I think I wasn't
alert enough... I couldn't actually concentrate on my studies much and decided
to take a nap... I set all my alarms, mobiles, not to miss the time...
but once again, I couldn't make it...
eeeerrrrr, I feel like skipping my class today... (ToT)/
Good luck to myself, hope I can have enough courage to face the fact that
I'm not able to answer many questions so far... not kidding man.
I'm a bit lost and the exam is 100% short answer questions.
Nothing to rely on my luck as we usually do for multiple choices...
What I know about immunology? about antigen? about antibody? about....
Maybe this is my most confident answer ---Nothing!
Should I seek for doctor's advice??? Yeah... coming up this point, I think yes.
Now it's the time to back to reality... sad sad reality... not as bad as any
disasters happening in the world, but bad enough for a student who is
trying to survive another semester... The saddest thing might be the fact
that I can't cope with these all things and started to rely on tablets...
Posted at 07:40 am by TaMy
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These days, I'm sleeping too much... just like a little child.
My friends are now saying I'm like 'KOALA'...
I'm sleeping for hours and hours, but still sleepy enough...
I don't know what's wrong with me. I think I'm rather tired than
sleepy actually... maybe I should go and see a doctor to check my
haemoglobin (iron) level. I might be a bit anaemic, as some of my friends suggest.
By then, I decided to take caffeine to keep myself awake. Every week
my works are accumulating and coming to the point I'm far left behind.
I don't even know when I should start working on them all...
Well... it seems that caffeine is not strongly working on me either...
What can make me awake then??? OMG, that's too bad!!!
Posted at 12:10 am by TaMy
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Aug 29, 2005
All about Japan... from Australia
My last few weeks were pretty much about Japan.
Firstly, I contacted some hopistals over there to see if I can arrange my professional
practice. As I guessed, most of the places weren't pleased about my proposal.
Since medical systems and qualifications differ from country to country and Japan
is one of those conservative ones, they couldn't just accept me. Some couldn't
afford taking students because of their busy daily routines, others because of
different several reasons. I was very surprised of knowing that training schools
(including university courses) have to pay the hospital to send their students...
It's treated as such education fee and required to pay per days. It's just unbelieavable!
Everything eats money out there! uhm... As far as I tried, there were some places
which would accept me once I'm paying them or doing for a shorter period. I'm still
waiting for 2 more places to give me the answer, but I wonder their possibilities too...
The other thing I was working out, which is related to Japan, is to organise the
next Japanese gathering party. I'm in charge of doing MC for the day, and the
website construction with a help of my IT friend. My uni QUT doesn't have any
Japanese association at the moment, so we are trying to establish one. It seems that
QUT did have one before but it disappeared a few years ago...
Well, I'm a bit under pressure at the moment, but hope I can enjoy doing all these stuffs.
It's a good chance for me to make new friends and rebuild my confidence anyway!
Posted at 09:10 pm by TaMy
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Aug 21, 2005
I've been to Ekka on last Wednesday. Ekka is an annual agricultural event
held at the beginning of August, where we can enjoy many international
foods, rides, games, animals, etc. Some of my friends told me it worth
going there once because it's a very Aussie-like event, but others said
it's pretty boring... I missed my last two chances, so I was pretty happy
going there this year!!!
Ekka holiday is said to be the most crowded day, but comparing to the
crowdness of themeparks in Japan, it was nothing for me actually.
I & my friends bought many showbags and we enjoyed playing some
games & rides. I was pretty excited like a child!!! Who said it's boring???
It was very enjoyable and indeed I could have much of fun!!!
One of the attracting stuffs in Ekka is to buy a funky hat & to get big prize
dolls! After considering to get a funky wig with devil horns or angel's
wings & ring, or anything else, we decided to be a cowgirl! My friend got a
brown one, so did I a white. We couldn't won the games & ended up with
little ones,,, maybe we needed some guys to play for us... hehe :P
Anyway, it was fun with girls only & we might go there next year too!!!
Here is my photo with the cowboy hat!
The right is the same hat on my friend TOTORO! haha.
 
Posted at 10:51 pm by TaMy
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Aug 11, 2005
I have been spending my last few months pretty busy and
didn't bother writing this blog at all but once again, it's alive!!!
Firstly, telling what happened during these all days, I could manage
to pass all the subjects last semester and survived!!! I seriously
worried about that, but God seems not to abandon me. :D
Now, semester2 has started and I'm getting busier again.
All the subjects are now major-specific and getting more interesting,
but also tougher and tougher. I'm trying to organise my time well
enough to cover all the things I have to do, including playing time
or just relaxing time, but always end up with falling in sleep...zzZZ
I'm already too exhausted to concern all those things!!! Ooooops!
Another thing, I need to organise my clinical replacement for
summer holiday. I want to do it both at local and overseas, if possible,
but it is really difficult to find a hopistal/lab that would accept me
and ready to communicate in English in Japan... Uni needs to contact
them IN ENGLISH, but not so many Japanese can actually
communicate and understand it. My lecturer couldn't believe me,
as Japan is one of the leading country in new technologies, etc,
but that's the fact... lol.
Anyway, my must-things are now piling up... Hope I can still cope
with everything and survive another semester!!! By then,
try hard and see you soon!
Posted at 08:47 am by TaMy
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May 15, 2005
I know it's cool having a tattoo in Chinese characters but
just be careful when choosing them! Some characters might have
several meanings and totally different from what you actually expecting!
What I recommend, is to check both Chinese & Japanese meanings
and always make sure that you and the artist know well about it.
I can't express this enough because it's quite embarrassing to see
people with wrong characters in their arms, legs, etc.
One common tattoo character, for instance, is '  ' meaning
' peaceful or serenity' in Chinese. It sounds pretty good and no wonder
if someone goes for it, but I won't recommend this character to be used.
It has exactly the same meaning in Japanese except one extra ' cheap'.
The addition of this meaning does make a big difference... How will you
feel if you got this tattoo on you, or if you see someone with this tattoo
right in front of you??? Now you know how I felt when I found a girl with
this tattoo sitting in front of me, hah?
Well, the reason why I suddenly brought up all these tattoo stories is
because my flatmate Kaylee intends to have one and asked me some
questions. She wanted to know the difference between the two characters
standing for LOVE that appeared in her dictionary (ie. AI  & KOI
in Japanese). That's a tough question. Even explaining in Japanese wouldn't
be easier for me. I know the difference by feelings, but they are not
always in the same manner to be expressed in western cultures. Most
Japanese don't express their feelings torwards LOVE as strong as Westerns
do and it makes harder sometimes. I couldn't find any Japanese words that
fit 'true love' nicely either. I don't know how the meanings differ in Chinese,
but I hope she could get some idea after all.
I always find myself terrible in translating stuffs. I gained all the three
languages ( Portuguese, Japanese, and English) mostly by feelings, so it's
hard to find the word/s that exactly matches the other. I can tell them if the
proposal word/s fits well or not, but I can't express them nicely. I wish
I were a well-balanced multi-lingual and make a use of it. Well, this is
another long long story so I talk about this later. Bye!
Posted at 10:22 am by TaMy
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May 14, 2005
All about the LaZyCrAzY GiRl++
Hi Guys,
I'm TaMy, the LazyCrazy girl.
I was born in Brazil, lived in Japan, and now studying in Australia.
I will reveal myself gradually so please keep checking this out!
Find out some of my LazyCrazy stuffs happening in my life too!
Studying abroad is not that easy, but there are so many things that
started to make a difference in my life. There are always some friends
and events that you can never forget throughout the life, and that's
what I want to keep recording here.
Honestly, this is my worst pessimistic period in my life though...
I'm down, lost, and losing confidence in myself, but somehow I felt
writing and keeping all those memories with me. That's all about how
I survive and how my life looks like. Still not that bad, hah?
Please feel free to leave a comment or question if you have any.
I am happy to discuss and share some experiences with you.
(BUT NO SPAM AND/OR UNRELATED COMMENTS PERMITTED!)
New entries will come up soon! Be aware of it!
Thank you.
Posted at 02:55 pm by TaMy
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