Sunday, March 27, 2011

Live Below the Line

Hey, I'm Hunter Chiam. Today I've decided to make my life a little bit interesting by joining this Live Below the Line. It was basically a group organised by the Unilodge to help those who live in poverty. How do we do it?? Look below.

This May I'm going to be living below the line! From May 16th - 20th I'll be surviving off just $2 a day for all of my food...... It's definitely going to be hard, but it's an awesome way for me to raise money and awareness for the 1.4 billion people who have to live like this every day - and who have to make $2 cover a lot more than food! Please donate to support me, and critical anti-poverty initiatives. After donating - you should consider joining up and doing it yourself!!! Click this link to sponsor Live Below the Line

Thank You for your support!!!! ^^


Wednesday, March 23, 2011

SKYFIRE!!!!!

Saturday (19th March 2011) ......There are no people on the road on Canberra, the city was empty at 8.00pm. All shops are open, but there are not a single customer in the shops. The city was totally empty, no people crossing the road, no car wondering around and there are no buses either waiting for people at the bus stop. Civic's club was empty as well. You know why?? It's because everybody went for the SKYFIRE!!!!




Skyfire was the largest event/most happening event in Canberra. During that day, all of the residents of Canberra will bring their family to watch the most prestigious event of the year. They will bring all the stuff (food, basket, radio and everything for picnic). This year, they held the SkyFire event at Lake Burley Griffin. Even though the place was big (thrice the size of Tasik Titiwangsa in KL), the place is pack with people as early as 4pm (So, now you know how grand is the event right?) Some businessmen try to seize this opportunity to sell various types of foods with a slightly higher price. Here, I posted the link so that you all can view the photo (I can't upload it here because the blog will be packed with 400+ of photos!!!!)


SkyFire (Part 1)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086823&id=1012045681&l=bd5a1aec66

SkyFire (Part 2)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086830&id=1012045681&l=e834b5b766

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

My Life So Far ~~~

When some of friends ask me about things like 'how's ur life, how the class, how's the place, how's the blah blah blah.......' I always answer them with the answer 'cool', because that's how the Australian reply (Really). I just want to let you all know that 'cool' here means great, fantastic, awesome and some other 'great' words used to describe the life you had.

So far so good, that is how my life is. Today is the 5th weeks I'm in Australia, 4th week in ANU =.=
2 assignments still in pending mode, where the nearest deadline is 9th of April 2011 (Yeah, I have to state it was 2011, if not some 'dumb' people will interpreted it other ways). Reasons for not doing the assignments: no mood and lazy to do research. Yeah, LAZY LAZy LAzy Lazy lazy~~~ that's the excuse I've always use to avoid all these academic/education stuff. Still, every single day, I force myself go to study room and flip the page(s) so that I'll study (or at least make some notes). Thanks to Pam, I study in the study room for 4 days straight (I think laa XD)

I started to like the weather in Canberra. the average temperature here is around 15-19'C, and sometimes morning weather can reach up to 9'C (this is what I experience during summer and autumn), imagine winter hits Canberra in June, I'll be shivering like H*** while I walk to lecture hall. Owh, thats reminds me that I have not buy my winter jacket yet =.=lll

The foods here are awesome. One thing I like about Canberra is all places that we want to travel is so near. For example, all restaurants that are really nice were a stone throws away (don't know what it means, go check your dictionaries). Last week, I had a bowl of Laksa (more like a curry noodle for me) and it taste like awesome. After that, we went to Koko black for Iced Chocolate, which only cost us $7.75 for a glass (the combination of Chocolate ice-cream with Vanilla ice-cream, floated on the mocha drink, served with a thick chocolate sauce and small chocolate pieces). The biggest shopping mall here is Canberra Center, or also known as CIVIC. I bought all the groceries and necessity stuffs there. Want to watch movies?? Just go to CIVIC and you can watch all the latest movie with a fees around 14-15$ (which obviously I won't pay for that price!!!)

I think I have to resume my life as a nerd, not a geek (always play games). I really have to start studying before I can't catch up all the lessons. So, thats all for today. Stay tuned.

Peace!!!
Pray for the victims in Japan.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Pray for their safety please...

I'm sure everyone of you heard about the disaster in Japan. Let us pray together so that all Japanese can get through this. The earthquake in japan was 8.9 scala richter and it has caused a massive tsunami as high as 4meters tall. It swept away most of the thing in north japan, houses, ships, shops, vehicle and etc. Some of the people start to afraid as it mirrors one of the Blockbuster movie 2012. But at least, there are happy ending in the end. Hopefully all the citizen in Japan will able to go through this obstacle. We should be grateful for what we have and help them as much as we can, for example helping them by donation and giving them moral support.

Pray for the Japanese, pray for their safety.