Laser Tag experience

My clock reads 1.00am.

It was 4 hours since I had my dinner.

It was 5 hours since I woke up.

It was 15 hours since I slept.

It was 16 hours since I came back.

It was 18 hours since laser tag ended.

It was 25 hours since it started.

And that's the story of my first laser tag experience.

The end.














































Joking!! LOL!!

If you had trouble counting, it went from 12am till 7am on Sunday morning. When Jia Yeng first asked me, I thought she had a typo. She said "12-7am" and I was like "am?". But I still agreed to it since I wanted to try laser tag for quite some time now.

Tai came with us as well. The place was called DarkZone at Box Hill. Since the last bus was about 9pm, we had to go there early to have dinner then wait till 12am.

This was organised by Jia Yeng's lab partner, Alex. He also invited lots of his friends from South East Flats. So there were more than 30 of us altogether. In some games, everyone will play but in other games half will be playing and the other half can kill time at the free arcade.

To be honest, laser tag has its own characteristics that makes it interesting but I was constantly comparing it with paintball. So I wasn't that excited to have killed a person and have him walk right past me and shoot me in the back once he was alive again.

The thing is, once a person is tagged, they only need to wait about 10seconds before they are re-activated and able to kill again. There was this mode where the dead time was just 3seconds and everyone went crazy!! If you killed a person, you have to keep an eye out or just keep shooting him even when he's dead so he doesn't get the chance to backstab you.

It was fun until my eyelids started to drop, so I bought a can of RedBull. But I had to finish the entire can in 10seconds because the next game started shortly afterwards. It kept my mind going but my body was beginning to ache.

After the whole thing ended at 7am, we checked the bus schedule and the first bus on a Sunday morning was 8.50am. So we walked around town and found a nice chinese restaurant to have breakfast. By that time, Jia Yeng was practically dead tired and was found sleeping on the table even after her meal was served.

Eventually, we boarded the bus home and as for the rest of the story, you can read from the top again. =)


Enjoy!! =D

Juwita Concert

I just came back from the Juwita Suwito concert and I'm feeling pretty good about it.



I've only recently heard about her when Tse Han invited me to the event. Then I started listening to her songs and found that her voice is really good!! One of my favourite songs so far is "Breathe Again". But then again, I've only heard 3 of her songs. =p

Tse Han was part of the organising committee as well as playing the violin in the live orchestra. Yes you heard me, a LIVE ORCHESTRA!! My first time seeing an orchestra live!! EVER!!



Alarice Thio was the opening act for the concert and she was quite good as well! With just a guitar, a drum and her voice, it was amazing how good it sounded! Her songs are quite good as well. I particularly liked the one she described to be easy-going and similar to Jason Mraz/Colbie Caillat songs. If I could only remember the title... =/




Apart from my favourite song, Juwita even performed her new single live for the first time, "Stand", which was really good!! She also sang "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus which was absolutely beautiful.

Basically I like her voice which is really powerful and steady. And I wouldn't expect less from the mentor of Malaysian Idol season 1 and 2. Check out her website.

Throughout the concert, I kept trying to concentrate on the singer, thus, practicing my mindfulness. Nevertheless, I can't help noticing the conductor of the live orchestra. In fact, it was more interesting than the singer coz his body movements had more emotion and feeling compared to the singer. LOL

Oh I forgot to mention that I went there with Qi Liang and Wai Wai, then bumped into E-Lyn and Weng Yu there...



Only 1 photo taken before my camera's battery died. T_T


After the concert, we went to Koko Black for some drinks. When I said I haven't tried it before, they all went like "you've been in Melbourne for 7 months now and you haven't tried Koko Black?!" Well yeah, I've heard of it but never actually tried it. Not a big deal to me though.

It was supposed to be better than Max Brenner but when I feel that their Belgian Hot Chocolate was just okay. THEN they tell me that Koko Black is famous for their iced chocolate. Lame =_=

By the time we finished chatting, it was already 11pm and I had a train and a bus to catch. I was supposed to leave at 10.30pm to be safe, but I guess I was enjoying the company of my secondary school friends. I managed to get on the last bus from Huntingdale, which I now know is 12.10am on Saturdays.

Lets all pray I can keep a promise to myself and go for a jog/exercise tomorrow morning...

Nothing much happens...

As most of my loyal readers would have must have noticed, I've been a lazy bum with updates for almost a month now...

The fact is... MY LIFE IS BORING!!

Nothing much happens to me anymore, and there isn't much to talk about.

Well today I went to a bhuddist talk and realised how short my attention span became. I could hardly concentrate on what the nun was talking about and yet she's talking about mindfulness. Which means concentrating on what you're doing when you're doing it. Something that my mum always reminded me about.

I also meditate very much less often now that I'm in Australia since my mum was also the reason I meditate. And now it proves that meditation can actually increase my attention span. By concentrating on my breathing and ignoring my other thoughts, I use it to focus my attention on 1 single thing, my breathe. And that's how I used to train my mind to be mindful.

Nowadays I'm like a zombie, playing DotA till late at night and skipping all my morning lectures sometimes. It's like I'm wide awake but still feel the urge to continue lying on my bed till I fall asleep again and occasionally have a short dream.

Things aren't used to be what it was. But I guess it will soon be when I return to Malaysia. My diet, my activities, my studies... A change of habits would be good, but I don't think I can make that change in such a short period.

For me, it's always been "new environment, new habits". But once I went back to my old environment, all my old habits would return as well.

During the first semester when I came to Australia, I was actually motivated, excited, and very happy to be overseas and living independently. But when I got used to it, it felt a little boring with no siblings to fight with, or parents to nag at you.

So for this semester I'm feeling very very lazy to do anything at all. This would probably be one of the few updates you will see in the coming months. That's unless I decide to change for the better.

Cheers and thanks for reading. =)