The evolution starts here

I shall make a statement for all Chong Hwa High School KL student (or even allumni):
Before we graduated from CHKL, often asked by peers around us, where do you want to go next??? We will have an imaginary vision in our mind, and wish ourself to be in a very huge campus, with full of campus life (wonderfully this phase 'campus life' is cited many many times but not everyone know what is its full defination, ranging from the university scenery, to activities even the way the lecture should be conducted). I don't about other CHKL guys, maybe you feel like denying it, but it was truely how we felt last time. If not, then I felt it last time.

I wish to go to a campus with good scenery, with fun activities and etc etc. However, I never had enter any of these 'wonderful before' until now...... So The evolution stars here, when i arrived in the University of Melbourne campus.



















This a main gate for University of Melbourne, and the fun part is there is no fence for University of Melbourne. If you are skillful enough to find your path in and out from any corner, then you might enter the campus area. Then you might ask, it is a safe place to go to, my answer would be yes. Let me walk you through some campus shot and we will discuss the security problem later.

In my fantasy university, a university should have a lake in the campus, so that it could be a most romantic and 'economic' dating spot for couple to date or just look into sky and draw shapes with fingers pointing to the clouds. Or the guy could just play guitar to the girl he likes all day beside the lake (maybe Ley Yee could do this to his gf in University of Malaya).


There is small water pond beside the lawn of University of Melbourne. I don't know how deep it is, and don't feel like trying the water anytime soon. The water pond just blend nicely to the whole scenery just like kaya and butter combination.

When I was here last year for my interview, I was totally shocked, as students in groups will just seat on the lawn, discussing and talking during lunch hours. I guess over here is cooling enough for you to seat all day long. Back home in Malaysia, I will never do this, and also never will encourage friends to sit on the lawn during lunch hours, unless, you want to get yourself roasted like Char Siu (n. Hong Kong style roasted meat, the best quality of this roasted meat should have a layer of lean meat and a layer of juicy fat to keep the meat texture sinfully juicy and tasty haha).



This time around, haven't encounter the crowd yet, maybe because the orientation week start from this week onwards, so more people will come in and I shall let you guys see how crowded it is to be in the lawn during lunch peak hours.

There are even people just lying down on the lawn. I rather do that on my bed, as my mom always say lying on the floor will get 'arthritis or fung sap(in cantonese). Well, I am not really worried for my arthritis problem anyway, just because I am lazy with washing another dirty shirt without the luxury of free washing machine like i am used to in my home.




















In conclusion, the photo shows that University life can be relaxing, comfortable and it is like a heaven in the campus (even birds like to rest on the lawn). But any science student will be very alert that graph, figure and statistic can be deceiving when you only try to show those "wonderful and nice" result.

I will have to keep myself on the ground and keep reminding myself that I have owe all Malaysian Tax Payer 300K ringgit for my PhD in Unviersity of Melbourne. And my buddy Eng Tat who is very anxious about this fact, as he has started to pay income tax will keep me alert everytime i see him hehe.

During the orientation, those Prof. keep on telling us that it is not easy to get into University of Melbourne. But I have another type of interpretation, which is it is not easy to get into the University of Melbourne, and it is also not easy to get out from University of Melbourne with the old mind set which I have attained from previous place. I need to keep up my pace with my research, I need to change my lazybum attitute, and I need to have better time management.

So, I shall end this blog with my title" THE EVOLUTION STARTS HERE"