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Oh my god... I haven't update my blog for 40 days. In fact it wasn't that I'm too busy to update, but because of the slow internet.

Actually, it has been customary that I used up our download quota before the next month. Just that the day reached more and more early from few days before and then a week. Finally last month my download-holic seem to be overwhelmingly gone insane that our download quota of 20GB finished in just 1 week time. Leaving ZhengWei and me basically a Dial-Up speed internet for the next 3 weeks. It's so slow that I even lazy to check my student email!

Seriously, sorry to my beloved roommate. I promise that won't happen anymore. Maybe we should subscribe a 100Gb/month internet plan when we moved to new place next year, kool? XD

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1 more thing, I lost my room key 2 weeks ago. The key is security acts protected, cannot and not possible to make a copy. So I had paid 150AUD to Unilodge to change a new lock. Seriously...

Zennway & Me

Zw^^ (Aug09)

Both as the victims of the "Heat Problem" brand - HP, ZhengWei's laptop also burnt last week exactly same symptoms as mine back in March. Also he decided to buy a Dell desktop, which is budget and decent. :D

Me^^ (Mar09)

Despite all the similarities of the situation we shared, there is one solid difference between us - which is FORTUNE.

Me: Burnt exactly 1 year, 2 weeks after my global warranty expired. Further Wasted $300 by sending it to a mob-shop to repair and ended up worse.
Zw: Burnt after optimum lifespan of 2 years for a laptop. Seriously 2 and 1/2 years is kinda acceptable.

Me: Burnt few days after I 'cut and paste' all data from harddisks borrowed from friends after reformatting my laptop. Everything trapped in laptop.
Zw: Burnt after he bought a new portable harddisk and transferred most data into it.

Me: Missed Dell's $200 rebate promotion by 2 days. And Can't even get a decent promotion after waiting for 3 weeks. (Dell's promotions refresh every week)
Zw: Dell gives a price slash by RM500 for the desktops the day before he buy.

Well, I bet his order will also arrived within 3 weeks or even much earlier. Rather than my 3 estimated + 3 delayed = 6 weeks of waiting before my order arrived.

This is a post of jealousy.

The Day The Sink Strikes

For a year, our sink took everything we poured into it. We brush teeth, wash cups and rinse feet on it. But one day, it can't compromises anymore and refuses to accept our water. Having its revenge, it started to flood our room by vomiting stinky water.

Here's another little side story in our room. Last Friday, our sink suddenly got stuck after Zhengwei brushed his teeth before sleep. Initially we thought it's the U-pipe that stucked, but the next day we realised the situation was worse. stinky and dirty water started to flood out from the sink. It wasn't the U-pipe but the main pipe. Since our room is in the lowest floor, the waste water from upper floors was trapped and flooded out from our sink... How disgusting!

A repairman came when I went to class, but he recognized a pipe specialist is needed for the task and hence leaved us without any help. Luckily he left his spanner in our room.

So I removed the U-pipe so that the waste water can directly drop into a bucket instead of splitting everywhere wetting the carpet when the sink flooded.

In past few days, me and Zhengwei gained a full-time job as cleaner as we have to discharge the waste water from other rooms to toilet whenever the bucket is fulled.

Fortunately, the pipeman came today and finally fix the pipe. Phew... What a screw up experience...

Adelaide Too

Thanks to zw, I was able to tag him to Adelaide last week visiting his friend Szeyin. My very first impression of Adelaide on flight is flat, as there aren't many high buildings around. Harmonic and leisure, definitely a city to be loved.

Zw said he hardly able to describe our trips around Adelaide. That's for sure because we spent most of our time there hanging and fooling around. In fact we only visited half of the places I heard we 'planned' to go... Zw said it was a friend visiting instead of touring, and I'm totally agree with him. However I did enjoyed this relaxing and spontaneous trip.

Well of course you can't really reach destination in a rural place with just few lines on a paper. I still no idea how a such "without directional senses" me ended up being the navigator with a book of maps that I didn't even know how to read. I can't deny that this was the reason we went endless detours on our journeys. But, had fun though...

A memorable moment, not because of zw's peeing in the wild. But I almost lost our map and destinations list here, 60km away for city being too excited taking this photo. Thankfully zw found it opposite the road...

And my choice of best trip will be Victor Harbor. The main attraction of the island is observing penguins, which we only saw one (still unsure is it really penguin or a bird) because the penguin tours only available night and we have to leave before dark for safety. But we had fun trekking around the little graphite island, climbing rocks and taking photos.

Lastly, thank so much to Szeyin for accommodated me even just as a friend of friend. She is really a good host, who keep asking me do I have enough food every meal. I promised I'll promote her...

ps: They are not couple. I was looking forward for some showdown between the boyfriend and bestfriend but nothing happened. Too bad...