Hawa's World

Officially, I'm working over the summer holidays. where? At a school canteen near IIUM.

Working at the school canteen doesn't means I'm off during the weekends.. Neither do we free during the school holidays. Private school. They have additional classes like everyday during holidays and they kinda run their school throughout the year. Fortunately they don't have anything on Sunday.
Moreover, this company accepts catering orders. due to Malay's nature, of course we have lots of catering works during weekends for weddings.
Thus, Goodbye holidays! (seb baik my mom supervisor situ. Boleh mintak cuti ikut suka. hish, ambil kesempatan betul dak sorg ni.tak baik, tau!)

Hari ni, 16 Dis, badan da mula rasa berat nak gi kerja. Haih, baru mula kerja kurang dari seminggu, dah mula bosan. Parah betul. Seb baik otak terbayangkan gaji yg bakal diperoleh. Baiklah. Jom bersiap!


16 Disember 2011, 6.01 a.m.

Hawa.Latip

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Such a lazy day. Spent my whole day at the house where I spent the whole night for the movie. It is sunny outside but it's gloomy inside my heart. Could not explain why. We (Me and Aishah) waited until its around 5pm before walking back home at Hawken Drive.

I don't think I really sleep that night. Worried?? Yes. I did. Suddenly I felt afraid to go to Japan. Lots of things in my head.

Started my day with walking tour from Macquarie St to Hawken Drive ie, from rumah kakak-kakak back to rumah Aishah. I always believe that to know a city and get used to it, we always need to explore on our own feet. With the help of Google Maps, everything is easy.

After changing my wardrobe, Aishah and me headed to Princess Alexandra (PA) Hospital. For what? PA is a teaching hospital, where Pharmacy students of University of Queensland has their lectures and labs and training. On that day, I was following Aishah to meet her supervisor for her honours years. For pharmacy students in UQ, they need to fulfill 2 years of honours, concurrent with their 3rd and 4th year of their bachelor course in order to get bachelor with honours.

Getting to Pharmacy school at PA Hospital requires around 40 to 45 minutes from Hawken Drive. We first needed to walk and passed through the UQ St Lucia campus to take a bus and proceed to PA hospital. Truthfully, PA hospital doesn't looks like typical hospital in Malaysia. The building architecture is really interesting and the landscape could heal any patients. so refreshing and stress-free looking. To think of it, a hospital should always be like this so that it is parallel with the aim of hospital to provide quality hospitality to the patients of all sorts.

Before going back to the main campus, we went to eat at a chinese halal restaurant nearby. this restaurant is unique because it offers a buffet-plate lunch. Simply choose you plate size and stuff up your plate with anything from the pre-cooked menu with choices of fried rice, curries, vegetables, etc. A small plate costs you around $7, medium size is approx $9 and the largest plate is ~ $10. Don't worry about the taste. The foods could satisfy our Malaysian tongue, except that they are not spicy.

Back to University of Queensland. Only one word could I use to described it: Magnificent! As I walk through, I started to wonder my own decision of choosing ANU over UQ. I never feel this kind of depression and regretfulness for Uni Melbourne before, or any other universities that I visited. The compound is big with several lakes within the campus, the buildings are smart-ancient-looking. Compared to ANU that are in big compound but buildings are less likely to be high and compact, UQ proved to be on the contrary. The student union complex is really lively, even though the school period has ended. Their co-op bookshop really captured my attention. It is spacious and looks like "mini library" and not like a bookstore. Their libraries are filled with macs with dual OS for individual preferences - mac or microsoft windows. they even have reading spaces filled with pillows for more relax environment. And the rule of eating is less rigid. Foods are allowed provided that they are packet foods and not in plates or bowls. for prayer, their multifaith prayer space might not be as good as in UniMelb but it is more comfortable than in ANU. Enough said, I recommend UQ for students that love peaceful study environment but still has choices for entertainments in the city. (alright, suddenly my trip diary has become university review.)

Back to the travel point. In the uni, we went to UQ Art Museum. Most out the paintings are less understandable by us. Too abstract for sciences students. Really, It was an eye opener of my own ability. I will never be able to fit into the world of visual arts. my mind will always belongs to science, no matter how hard I try to deny it.

At night, we went to Tafsir class by the muslim community here at the university. I wish we have it at ANU as well. But first, we need to work on strengthen the muslim student association and play active roles in muslim students life in Canberra. Too much to do, I hope that, the newly elected ANUMA committees would be able to do so.
from the class, I followed my sisters back to their house in macquarie st again for movie night session 2. This time, we watched 3 idiots. change the mood to laughing session plak :D

Finished the movie at 1.40am, some of us didn't sleep for another 1 and 1/2 hours to wait for fajr but I simply can't. Rely on them to wake me up for fajr, then. Zzzzz