I don’t think anyone will read this entry anyway coz i haven’t been updated them for aaaages.. So I will just whatever im thinking without even re reading it. This is my weakness actually. I can never be bothered re-reading and rechecking things that i wrote. Be it in the exams, assignments, statements etc. This is a really bad habit. And sometimes I don’t think before I speak and people sometimes feel offended.

Back to the topic of fitting myself into a group, there are 2 groups that I’m currently often dealing with. One is a leisure and one is a prerequisite.

One group im involved in is SALP (Student Ambassador Leadership Program) in Melbourne University where we are assigned into groups of 3-7 and we have to construct a community based project on our common interest. Our group is called ALG 14 (Action Learning Group 14) an dit consists of 6 members initially but we recently an additional member so it makes up 7.

So after a series of meetings, we decided to construct a project which promotes healthy eating in kids. We initially thought that its going to be quite easy. We collaborate with Ardoch youth foundation and they referred us to Sunshine Kindergaten. I really enjoyed playing with kids and it reminds me of my childhood. The world is so colourful and fun. Nothing worries me. When you re in uni then you realized that how much you miss your children and you will silently wish that you can turn the time.

Anyways, of course, we do have disagreements at times but we managed to deal with it maturely even though I get annoyed sometimes. Like seriously, I don’t really like to be asked so many times that I have to do this and that. I know its my responsibility and I will do it. Just remind me once or twice. You don’t need to remind me EVERYTIME you see me knowing that the task is due like in 5 weeks. It simply tells me that you don’t trust me and that Im not reliable enough. Yeah I do get mood swings at time.Btw, apart from doing this project over 40 hours, we have to do 20hrs of University Service too. But I’m done with that.

Yeah sometimes I get confused between two cultures. Since I came here when I was 15( the prime age for youth) it was a major transition in my life. I have to adapt to both aussie and asian culture. Asian culture as most of u guys know, we need to be perfectionist and everything has to be in perfect order and you will be given a detailed explanation for every task that you undertake. As for aussie culture, you are given the task usually without any specifications abt how you want to do it. Its up to you as long as the outcome is satisfied. So you tend to learn how to do everything from scratch and that you can do one thing more than one way. In Asian culture, you are being told and stalk by others constantly as a consequence, yo don’t even have a space to think and your mind became lazy. That is what happening to me. But sometimes I mixed both cultures, I am lazy and I don’t like to be told what I need to do. So yeah. I would prefer mixing around with a group of various culture but we have the same mission. So that everyone will do their part without being asked to achieve our goal. Of course there are people who are lost sometimes but they will seek advice and assistance so that they know what they need to do. There is someone who overlooks but no one is a dictator.

They are the AWESOME and SUPERLICIOUS UMISes! I’ll talk more abt them in the next post inshaAllah.. =D