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this is probably one of the most eventful months yet in my stay in oz land.


it all started with me getting to play in Richmond AOG's super band! It's just great hanging out with those good ol musos once again and learning so much from them. and apparently i'm not a drummer anymore. (i still am) I am now on the bass kicking phat grooves... right




But i guess it is true that a drummer-bassist grooves better with the band and the drummer than a bassist-bassist. WHY? I have found the reason why... after drumming for so many years alongside countless bassists, i have always had MY WAY in my head about how the bass should be played "i'm playing this BEAT. So groove like THIS with me..."






but for such tolerant ppl like me *gags* i never voice out how i would've liked the bassist to play. cos that would be... BOSSY. and ARROGANT. and I-THINK-I-KNOW-IT-ALL-ish. so i keep quiet. (no offence to the bassists i have played with.. i've played with many amazing bassists, u guys rock, u know who u are..)






I'm not meant to be blogging about this, but since i havent blogged for a while. i'll just let WTV flow.






SO i played with the band a number of times now and the last time i played was for celebration weekend. It's just a weekend that we celebrated the end of 40 days of Community project. It was a great time going through the book by Rick Warren and putting it into practice by helping the community and stuff. which i didnt go for. whoops.






We, the band managed to nail a song by Kirk Franklin - Hosanna. Fun song and our choir did an excellent job. The music was a bit crazy.. but after listening to it a million times and practicing half a million times, it went perfect! Have a listen! http://youtube.com/watch?v=-8P72S8E230





So many kicks and pushes in the songs. Why do blacks have to be so good at music.. gives us asians and whites a tough time.





After the last celebration ended on sunday morning, i saw my aunt run on stage while the band was doing after-church-jams. she was frantically pointing to the front of the stage with a big smile. I looked to the front and saw a familiar face... Lyn!!!!!!!!!!! and her little sister..





My jaw dropped and grace(lyn's little sister) snapped a photo that was called "the million dollar look".





it's a pity i dont have any photos, cos they're all in lyn's phone. the only one i have is this one of lyn and i doing something that u cant do in malaysia cos u'll be bitten by killer ants and dangerous animals/people. Just lying down on the grass randomly in a park, and enjoying the breeze.

i did as many things as i could with lyn, because distance makes the heart grow fonder. omg so cheesy... it was kinda true though, time felt precious and like it was moving really quickly. went to the royal melbourne show, around the city, melbourne aquarium, yarra cruise, 10 thousand million walks and just kicking back to watch a movie by the fire place. Sounds too good to be true? well it was, cos she left for adelaide. Good times!

More people should visit me. My parents will be here in november so that should be good!

I applied for a job at my sisters firm Saward Dawson for summer vacation work because her boss told me to send in an application. Heck yea i'd take ANY position they would want to give me. Dont even have to pay me JUST EXPLOIT ME! lol.. righto... but work experience like this is extremely rare and would've been awesome. So i put lotsa effort into the application and they came back to me saying that they had no positions for my qualifications. Cos i'm only in first year. oh well, better luck next time!

Now i have nothing to do in summer, and i think it's a bit too late to get tickets to fly home. so... hehe.. i'm stuffed. MAYBE if i can get cheap flight home i'll go.. if not i'll be here alone. dont even know if i have a job!! ><

after lyn left, i spend almost 4 days cooped up in my room and house. withdrawal symptoms haha. i almost went crazy.. didnt go anywhere, just stayed at home and tried to study, facebooked and youtubed.

Friday came, and i went for a KPMG lunch cos my ching-ee works there. It was good, the theme was footy cos everyone is in footy mood for AFL grand final. There was the grand final parade right outside KPMG where the players of the 2 footy teams (port adelaide and geelong) paraded down the streets and thousands of ppl just stood there to wave them by!

Friday night, my cuz jeremy, some aussie mates, and i went to Telstra dome to watch Melbourne Victory(our soccer team) play Queensland.it's 12 bucks a ticket. quite decently priced, We get to choose lvl 1, field level or level3(where we eventually sat to get a bird's eye view)

It was THE most boring first half, not many chances were created.. but the action started in the second half, we got a penalty and the crowd went NUTS! Scored the penalty! and Archie Thompson (melbourne hero) scored the other goal. It is probably one of the most one sided crowds i've ever been in. there was not one queensland supporter. it was really fun.

The stadium was not that packed, official attendance was 25,000. Still much better than malaysia's crowd. The cheer squad were shouting at the top of their lungs from start to finish. It was great atmosphere, and well worth the money. Those of u in melbourne, i recommend you to just head down to telstra dome on a soccer night. 12 bucks. it's good fun.

Stayed over at my cousin's place and in the morning, i woke looked outside the window, and..

there stood a black BEAST. one of a kind mean, sporty and elegant. A new addition to "MY" COLLECTION OF CARS I'VE RODE AROUND IN! lol. that's lame...

Ferrari 599 GTB

i dont have good photo taking skills :D

A view from the back. It's quite stunning. The interior. The steering wheel is like a toy, with f-1 flaps and red engine start button, the other red nobs are engine settings. like launch control, team radio, and fuel mixing... only joking. i dunno what it does. apparently u change it between sports setting and blablabla. too fancy pancy.

Look at me, True malaysian style! shorts and slippers in the classy ferrari. It's a really amazing car.

Comparing the ferrari and the lambo. The ferrari 599 is more of a gentleman compared to the lamborghini gallardo. lambo is a fun and wild, loud with massive power and is not shy to show it. This ferrari is a pleasant man in a suit, but if u mess with it, you'll be sorry, because under its hood is a beast coming from its Enzo engine. It is de-tuned to suit the 599 as its body is lighter. After all the noise from the beast, it just quietly slips back into its cover and behaves, turning it into a very practical everyday car.

Mannn.. how many people can say that!

Saturday afternoon and it was AFL grand final. I was gunning for Port Adelaide but they got humiliated by geelong and it was THE worst AFL game ever. Plus it was a Grand Final. Boring As EVER!

finished the day of by following my cousin tim to the exclusive kooyong club. Went to the gym and had a workout i was not really used to. Tim's just fit as. i went on the bike, did some weights, situps, 10laps of swimming, and then to warm down, a Spa & Sauna Session.

it's all good cos i had the BEST sleep i've ever had in yearsss that night

I'm running short of time. 26 days to final exams. WHY AM I BLOGGING. i just thought i had to put this month down into my dead ol' blog. wish me luck.
Off to study!

....... NO WAY...


...YES WAY!



......................NoOoOOoo Wayyyy.....




ooooh yessss... this is what i come home to on weekends.

"romeo foxtrot charlie request for start up"





"romeo foxtrot charlie permission granted"





ok ok i dont know if that's exactly what they said but I WENT FLYING! i lived my dream for a little while.. probably the closes i came to controlling an airplane..



uncle Cher Wen took us flying, and has been flying since his uni days and does it now as a hobby. i think that's really awesome cos i kinda gave up my pilot dreams hoping that one day i will have enough time, capacity and money *cha-ching* to fly as a hobby too.



i am just in awe of the simplicity of how the plane takes flight yet the closest detail of how it was created to do so. and the feeling of flying is unlike any other.. i mean, c'mon.. even on a commercial jet i try to picture what happens outside and what the pilots do.





the closest i came to flying a plane is Microsoft Flight Simulator. Introduced by Captain Edwards.. (im not sure of his surname..SORRY!).



I had a dream to be a pilot, in form5 and through college i did all the reading about flying, and learnt to fly the little cessna by doing a fair bit of simulator flying. many ppl asked me, so.... WHAT HAPPENED TO UR DREAM?... so this is the real story in short:



i kinda got overly excited after getting the simulator student pilot licence, and skipped to reading about flying commercial jets.



i got a little lost cos it was a bit more complicated.. lost my dream of being a pilot cos i felt the loneliness of flying a commercial jet, and it wasnt even the real thing, just a simulator. i learnt how to take off, climb, level off, cruise, then when i set my auto pilot cruising speed and altitude... there was not much at all to be done... "i wouldnt be able to live a lifestyle like that", i told myself. and so that's how it kinda ended. sad... but not really, Cos I STILL GOT TO FLY!!!

so we did the detailed flight check. lyn and little sister yin were not that interested but I was like a faithful dog following uncle cher wen checking the plane and where to check for engine oil, fuel, flaps, rudder etc.

anywhoooo,.... off we went!

Flew around KL city, around the towers.... with really bad weather
i started off at the back of the plane, Lyn was getting bad headaches cos she didnt really like the feel of the plane. we pulled a couple G's for kicks, by descending and then quickly pulling up while turning.


DID YOU KNOW?
G-force is a measure of the magnitude of the acceleration relative to the local gravitational acceleration vector.

In simpler terms, G's are the forces a rider will feel caused by change in speed and direction of the plane, roller coaster, etc.

while descending, we experience negative G-force as though we are weightless,
While ascending, we experience positive G-force depending on the severity of the pull-up, we will feel that number of times of our own weight. so if we pulled 2G's i would've felt like i was nailed to the seat cos i weighed 100+kg's.

comprendo? understando? LOL that was a waste of energy.




then it was my turn last to sit in front for the best part.

This is me landing the plane......... well, not really. we would've crashed if i did.
we did a touch and go by landing and applying full power to take off again. then went one more round to land. it was sucha rush. i loved every second of it..

Uncle Cher Wen made it look so easy, and lyn made it look so painful, as we parked at the side of the runway and she ran out and almost kissed the floor. and yin who always enjoys everything. Thanks!

and go to jonming.com and vote for wei jinn's carbonara!(cos i did the spinach n supervising) =P

i'm home!

i didnt really feel much difference, cos i havent been away for that long. and everyone's like. wahh u come back so fast, u've barely been there for 5 months. and then they make me feel like a brat... but i didnt plan to go home ANYWAY!

it all started off with lyn. she was meant to come visit me in australia for a week.. at the end of my holidays, but it's like winter, and she like will freeze.. she said she'll come anyway. so then this idea came to my mind.. to go home and suprise her.. but but but it's only been 5 months. rarh

so then i thought i'll just ask my dad, and then they were like, ACTUALLY let me tell u what i had planned.. and i was like.. U WERe planning behind my back?! turns out all of them were. even my sister whom i stay with. they were planning to use the frequent flyer points that were expiring, to send me home. so i was like Yea why not... so then i start telling everyone i'm coming home. and start making plans to suprise lyn and plans to go shopping with my bro and everything! the next day, parents come back to me and said, sorry no tickets. and i'm like.. nOnOnonOno wayyyYYY!

so then nothing was gonna stop me from going home cos i was all hyped up for it. and in the end there were tickets.. so here i am back home. i couldnt really suprise lyn anymore cos she knew i had plans to come home. so i kinda left doubts in her head and told her i'm coming back later. so she starts to sulk "whyy u cant make it for my graduation?!?!"


so i finished my last paper on 15th which was horrible. i was doing so well until that paper... so hanyway, left that night itself 12.15 am. to make it for her graduation night which was 16th night.

had to pull one of those lame excuses (which she fell for). i'm staying at my aunts house on friday and my phone battery is dying (so i had an excuse to be away from the computer and away from a phone) during my flight. so then she was all sad...

got home, and noone was home. parents and all my family were in cameron highlands having fun without me.. so i was home alone the whole day. had to keep away from lyn for one day. it's like so close yet so far.. i wanted to just go find her during the day but the plan was the suprise at the graduation! so SELF-CONTROL!

i planned with jon chin, one of my buddy's in lyn's class. to do everything for me like tell me the details and the best time to come. so i came when the dinner started.. and he came to get me.
he went into the room and told lyn "a teacher wants to see u outside.. i cant remember his name" not a bad cover.. lyn stil fell for it but was sniffing a little bit of fishiness after giant hints from her sister.

she walked out and it was magic!not really.. i dunno. gave her flowers and ............ wouldnt get into detail cos some stuff is just better left unsaid and i need to keep my cool image. lol! wasnt much mushyness just overwhelming joy. lol. i'll stop.

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so it was a great night overall, getting to see all her classmates too. it's like i knew so many ppl till i felt as though i graduated from a-levels. but u all know that a-levels its so not me. could be me, but i'd rather not. Thanks again Jon for all the planning and the help! and all of lyn's classmates who so willingly let me join in the graduation without me buying a ticket. i even ate some food! ><>

Other Updates, many of u have asked yun, "what have u been up to for the past month and few days. yun's lost in australia doing aussie things and trying to be aussie. (that wannabe)

i think i'm soaking in the aussieness pretty well. FIRSTLY, i watch footie.

i tell ppl i work at the footie.. and they ask "what is that?"

Footie is an abbreviation for Football in Australia. It is not any ordinary football though, this is Aussie Rules Football, a.k.a. AFL (Australian Football League).

it's played in an oval. and as 4 posts on each side. played with a rugby-like ball.

players move the ball by bouncing and running, hand pass (hitting the ball with ur hand), kicking and marking (when a player kicks the ball more than around 15m and another catches it - it's called a 'mark', other players cant tackle or take the ball away from him until his next move. )

players then attempt to kick the ball thru the posts, if the ball goes between the middle posts it's a goal which is 6 points. if it goes to the side posts it's 1 point.

intense game i tell ya, but no asians like it.

i work in a coffee/donut van. at telstra dome so i got to be a part of the crowd watching footie, and selling food between breaks. we sell yummy oily donuts, coffee, hot dogs, chips, dim sims, chicken strips and drinks. and it's quite a lot of fun. it's like diner dash. (if u know what game i'm talking about, you should be ashamed of urself...)

you should grow up! dont ask me how i know that game o.O

so yea i took this picture from where i work. SO many watch the footie every weekend. it's like a family thing, or a friends thing, and it's really nice to see ppl enjoying life like that. it's all good.

our "toilet breaks".. more like "checking the score"

SECONDLY, i have a myspace.

general - www.myspace.com/yuntjin

music - www.myspace.com/tjinmusic

THIRDLY, that's it really. i watch footie and i have a myspace. SO AUSSIE! lol.

more pictures of that faithful night coming soon.

missed ya guys...

guys...? girls...? anybody?...

i think i've lost all my readers once again.

FINALLY. I'M BACK! i've once again, lost all my readers.. haha.. poor readers. yun always gives them false hope. I'M BACK. then he makes like 3 entries and disappears for another month. well.. I've got studies to worry about ok, assignments. Not so free like...

For the tall,

for the short.

Last but not least, for the belayer,

and of course, for the climbers.

There's a gum for everyone...

*APPLAUSE* thank you thank you!

i'm done with my assignments already, that's why i'm so free... like jonming.com (the best blog in the world!) u need to pay me royalty wei... my exams start on 7th June, ends 15th June.

to all those fans of yun tjin, i'm sad to announce i wont be coming back this holidays... no money. unless u love me so much to sponsor me home... in other news, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MUM! I LOVE YOU A LOT! THANK YOU FOR WASHING MY CLOTHES, IRONING TILL UR KNEES SO SORE, COOKING FOR ME, LOVING ME, TAKING ME OUT, SHOPPING WITH ME, BEING SOMEONE I CAN TALK ABOUT LYN TO (lol... i think i'm so funny... not really...), BEING CRAZY, AND BEING A STRONG SPIRITUAL MODEL I DEFINITELY LOOK UP TO. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all other mothers of other brothers... and sisters... LAME!

everyone say.. "awwww yun so sweet" in my message box ok?

i am out of here... for another month! haha.

I've been trying to study. trying not to be on the computer so much.. so didnt blog for a long time. Until i received a pleasant msg on one of my pages. Somebody had to come find my books while i wasnt aware. and remind me to blog...



SO HERE I AM. cos of you, i-dunno-who who wrote on my notes... *cough*coughELISA*



=D

LOOK! i even have skills.. please bring me along!