ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also referred to as Motor Neurone Disease, is the name given to a group of diseases where the nerve cells controlling the muscles that allow us to move, speak, breath and swallow, undergo degeneration and die. 

So really this is - yet again - another Ice Bucket Challenge. As a poor uni student, I don't usually donate money at all (I don't even give money at offerings in church services :/). Instead, I enjoy volunteer work. I will however, be donating this time round, to both MND Australia and to Ebola since Ebola hasn't had much funding from the public though the outbreak has been covered internationally. 

Colors - Melody and Harmony Tabs

So these tabs are really tedious and basically it's like, 4 lines over and over again in varying orders.
But I tabbed the whole thing out instead of writing the order because... I'm pabo.
oh well - at least this way you can just scroll through it and play it as you see ^^
enjoy

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faithfully,
Mai

Behind From The Start

So we're into the third week of uni and pretty much on the first day of lectures I dropped behind T.T
It's like I've come back from the midyear break with even worst study habits - I've changed the way I'm taking notes (which I'm happy about) but it takes me like 2.5 x time of actual lecture to get through a recorded lecture.

I've still got to finish up the New Zealand Skiing series and right now im sick sick sick :( I'm typing this up at uni, on a day where I don't have any classes but a meeting at 5 for the Open Day this Sunday for the Parkville Monash campus. And then at 6 I'll head over to this conference? thing about volunteering work and career pathways (finger food provided and bar tab)

New Zealand Ski Trip 2014 - Part 2

Day Three
On the first day skiing, we woke up early at 6am because we weren't sure how long it would take, but because the drive from Queenstown to Coronet Peak is only about 20minutes, we were able to wake up later at 7am on the next day.

The morning view after walking up the small hill

New Zealand Ski Trip 2014 - Part 1

Hi all, it's been a while since I've updated but I really will try harder from now on. This series of posts is going to be all about my recent ski trip to Queenstown, New Zealand, with my family and Nicole :) I tried to take more photos but I did forget at times.. hope you enjoy!

I've been to New Zealand before, in 2012 during the summer holidays. We went on a road trip of the south island in a campervan, stopping at towns such as: Omaru, Te Anau, Dunedin, and Queenstown. This time, we flew in directly to Queenstown and stayed at the Copthorne Lakeside Hotel in Queenstown. We arrived on the 7th of July, skiing five days and resting one, before flying back home on the 13th.

Day One
We caught an early morning flight, leaving home at 6:15 as a middle ground between the 6am that mum wanted, and the 6:30 that dad wanted. I'm thankful we left then because there was an accident on the freeway which caused dad to take some back roads and we arrived later to the airport than we had planned. We then ran into problems with checking in the baggage which left us walking quickly to the gates as soon as we passed immigration to make it to the plane on time. We were, however, not the last group to board. :)