A fantastic week
What a great week.
On Tuesday, I finally received news that my PR application is successful. The agent's still crap though... but I can't tell him that yet. He's gotta get some documents back for me. :) Getting the VISA label into the passport was of utmost importance as the PhD scholarship committee was due to meet on Thursday; and I had applied for the "local student" scholarship. So I went to DIMIA during lunch and found a parking lot with 5 minutes left on the meter. Oh wow! Topped up 50 cents and took the lift up. The office looked like a scene from a ghost movie. On a sheet of A4 paper indicated that they've moved to Braddon on 2nd May 2005 (hmm... why does that date sound familar?). What to do... 50 cents!!!! Now the person will get about 25 minutes free. Drove to Braddon blindly; I didn't know which part of Braddon, but I thought "how big can Braddon be, just need to drive by the rows of shops." After two rounds, I had to call the office for directions. Thankfully my office mate was at his terminal... bless the internet. (For those of you who might need to know this, DIMIA is now across the street from Civic Video). So I parked the car outside civic video -- 40 cents. Crossed the road and found that the parking meter outside DIMIA had about 20 minutes left! Alamak!
Wednesday morning, I got dressed in my usual casual office attire. Cool ah... casual casual all the way. Then I flip-flopped and changed into pants and shirt. Then flip-flopped again. Argh.... giving myself a change parade! Finally decided on shirt and pants. In the afternoon, I received my Dean's Prize! Yeah yeah yeah! Just enough for my winter electricity and water bills. :)
Friday afternoon, the unofficial classified news is that my scholarship application was successful. Woohoo! Suddenly, after months of limbo -- not knowing when (or whether) the PR would be granted or whether I will get a scholarship, everything has settled down and there's a plan... a path to take.
On Tuesday, I finally received news that my PR application is successful. The agent's still crap though... but I can't tell him that yet. He's gotta get some documents back for me. :) Getting the VISA label into the passport was of utmost importance as the PhD scholarship committee was due to meet on Thursday; and I had applied for the "local student" scholarship. So I went to DIMIA during lunch and found a parking lot with 5 minutes left on the meter. Oh wow! Topped up 50 cents and took the lift up. The office looked like a scene from a ghost movie. On a sheet of A4 paper indicated that they've moved to Braddon on 2nd May 2005 (hmm... why does that date sound familar?). What to do... 50 cents!!!! Now the person will get about 25 minutes free. Drove to Braddon blindly; I didn't know which part of Braddon, but I thought "how big can Braddon be, just need to drive by the rows of shops." After two rounds, I had to call the office for directions. Thankfully my office mate was at his terminal... bless the internet. (For those of you who might need to know this, DIMIA is now across the street from Civic Video). So I parked the car outside civic video -- 40 cents. Crossed the road and found that the parking meter outside DIMIA had about 20 minutes left! Alamak!
Wednesday morning, I got dressed in my usual casual office attire. Cool ah... casual casual all the way. Then I flip-flopped and changed into pants and shirt. Then flip-flopped again. Argh.... giving myself a change parade! Finally decided on shirt and pants. In the afternoon, I received my Dean's Prize! Yeah yeah yeah! Just enough for my winter electricity and water bills. :)
Friday afternoon, the unofficial classified news is that my scholarship application was successful. Woohoo! Suddenly, after months of limbo -- not knowing when (or whether) the PR would be granted or whether I will get a scholarship, everything has settled down and there's a plan... a path to take.
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