Water = Prosperity

I'm sure everyone knows about how watery this CNY had been.

Taken on the way to Pagoh from grandparents' house.

Directly outside my grandparents' house is a huge drain. The water level was very high, putting us in a very precarious state. Thankfully, there wasn't any rain since 2 February.

Mom's aunt lives in Pagoh. We've heard of the serious floods that happened in Segamat and Ledang, but I didn't expect Pagoh Town to be plagued by the heavy rain.

Along the road to Pagoh from my grandparents' house are acres of land with endless rows of oil palm trees. Above are baby oil palms. The land beside the so-called highway is so low that after the flood, you can go boating.

The car cruising through the flood water.

Upon entering Pagoh Town, there's a road to your left that leads to some housing areas. That road was closed as the water level was dangerously high. And I heard that some crocodiles were spotted.

We Chinese have a knack at making unfortunate situations seem fortunate, and fortuitous. We're all about the money. There's a Cantonese saying that goes like: "Water as property." Direct translation.

Then, regarding angpaos, some of them have 'shrink water' (another Cantonese phrase).

Seems like they match: flood and angpaos. Everything to do with water.

I spent the whole afternoon on the Monash Arts & Social Sciences page, trying to find out details about orientation week and then I found out (thankfully) that I'm supposed to attend a 2 hours session briefing on 17 February.

Then, I got so anxious because it says there I should get an Authcate account prior to attending the session. So I did that whilst talking to Floydie. After that, I found out I have 99 unread e-mails in my Monash Portal. So I read up, did all the enrolment stuff and finally...

I found the orientation week page. And it says there I'll only need to do what took me the whole afternoon to figure out on the first day of orientation.

This means I'm anxious to start university. I'm a good kid.