After all the initial excitement and mix feelings while preparing myself for a whole new chapter in my life, I'm finally in Perth! And though I've been here for a week or so and have gradually adapted myself to this new place, there are still moments when I still do feel overwhelmed with the whole thing. There are still moments where I feel being in Perth is just so surreal. Sometimes, my mind still needs to adjust itself to think that I'm already in Perth, especially in the mornings.
The sun rises earlier here in the morning. Whereas back in Malaysia, the sun usually rises around 7 something in the morning and is fully rise by 8 plus. There were so many times where I was sleeping and somehow woke up jumping out of bed thinking that I was late for classes (my brain thinks that it was 8 plus in the morning). But a look at the time tells me that it's only 6 plus or 7 in the morning, to which I would fall back to bed with relieve and tried to continue to sleep.
First week of classes had been a flurry activity of desperately trying to sign up for tutorials. And although I've already planned out my units carefully months before I come over, I find myself changing one my units. I'd decided not to take Cultural and Media policy because 1)it's very, very dry 2) one have to be very familiar with the Australian institutions and their policies for the past 4-5 years 3) I don't think I'm able to cope with it and 4) I don't understand some of the assignments that were asked from us.
It took me nearly 2 whole days to decide whether to change and what unit should replace it if I were to change. After much thinking, I came up with the conclusion that I do not want to stress myself out on my final year doing an elective, instead I should have fun doing an elective that's interesting and more relaxing. Hence, in the end, I changed from the policy class to Documentary. I've missed the first class and tutorial due to the much thought I put into deciding whether to change. But I hope in the following week or so, I'll be able to make up for it. I'm going to study during the weekdays and enjoy myself during the weekends by going out and exploring Perth.
Yesterday was a day of boredom partly because nobody's around to accompany me and I didn't really want to go out alone. And so, alone I stayed at home the whole day. The only thing that could redeem the day itself was the idiot box. Yes, it was desperate measures. It was either the idiot box or the Internet again and frankly, after hours and hours of going online for the past week or so, I'm sort of relieved taking my attention somewhere else, even if it's in front of another but different screen. Hopefully next week, things will get better for me than continuous boredom!
Well, not much things had happened the whole week I'm here save for some cat fights and drama. I don't know why but it seems that people love to drag me into cat fights no matter how hard I stay away from there. I didn't do anything or say anything and before long, I'll be getting feedbacks from others telling me that so-and-so had backstabbed me in the back. Or, I'll get questions like "why you're not on ok terms with so-and-so anymore?". Often times, these questions tell me that I'm the bad guy in the whole scenario which doesn't surprise me anymore, nor did it piss me off. I've grown so accustomed to it all that I'm just indifferent to it. Of course there are times when it does get on my nerves. Isn't it amazing knowing the more you avoid conflicts and confrontations, the more they like to visit you? I wonder if it's something in Leos that attracts drama or if it's just me.
Well, it's 33 degrees now. It's not super hot, yet I'm wondering if I should still go to Freo. And I wonder if ML is up to it. Oh well, we'll see how it goes.
