Went to Edu fair ytd, and went to consult QUT regarding my application, that ang mo took a look at my cgpa and said that i am qualify for a merit award (if the uni stil maintain the merit system award) So this merit thing is going to give me a 50% off my 1st semester fees which isl ike almost 5000 AUD WHich is great!

okay so the question is , Is there such thing at UQ? because of course i prefer UQ over QUT, But QUT is giving much better option and seem to recognise my diploma more..i still have yet to heard from UQ

so you think i shoud go for QUT or UQ huh?? I am taking accounting btw, more students from TarC seem to be going there...

any QUT students here?

If u score an average of around 75% as well in the final exam, you will most probably obtain TER 90 and above. Marks around 75% should give the grade of 16B.

Hi fellow malaysian coverting to aussie style, i suppose to say Aiyee mates, cheeeeerrs but i reckon u know what i mean. =)

I have been in Australia for almost 1 year already and i didnt learn much about english, most of the time i hang out(lepak) with hong kong friend which brush up my cantonese, i think got few part i almost talk like hong kong people .. =.="

Currently i really like aussie style, better that Malaysia a hundred time, The bad part about Australia is the food, oh sweet mama pie.....i miss RM4.00 fish ball mee and all those exotic food in Malaysia but here some food just tasteless... sigh.

Overall, i already adapted Aussie style, love this place, never going back to msia next year, either going to work as fruit picking or farm job. When grad, apply for PR.

Oh btw, some of u guys are in Brisbane as well? I never meet any Malaysia living in Brisbane, not in QUT and Griffith thought.

About Brisbane, the city is boring after 9pm.. if it is not weekend or friday, highway is yours if you driving a car.
Most of the weekend while driving to wellington point, i see some aussie hot chick making out beside the road, some look like he is raping the girl but actually the girl is kissing back very passion, drunk aussie. =.=

In brisbane, it is a good place to live, i feel safe living here. Southbank cineplex? it is still 5bucks for me cause my friend got student movies saved card, they only give up those card in certain date and it is vey limited.  2 more weeks to finish semester, then i can enjoy life in Brisbane before going back to Malaysia.

Mythras, back from my days, 3 days max you will get the visa after medical checkup but now i dunno la. Haha, when u come to Australia sure suffer for the first term just to give u a head up. =)

The Australian dollar could slip below 60 US cents and test another five-and-a-half-year low by the end of this week as fears of a global recession spur a sell-off, currency strategists say.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief currency strategist Richard Grace said the Australian dollar could fall below Friday night's low-point of 60.55 US cents, the weakest level since April 2003.

Against the currency of Australia's biggest export market, Japan, the Australian dollar has fallen to its lowest level since the end of World War II.

Mr Grace said that with fears of a global recession in the minds of traders, the Australian dollar was likely to finish 2008 at 64 US cents, before dropping to 59 US cents by the end of March 2009.

"It's coming from a selling of the Australian dollar according to downward revisions of global growth and commodity prices," he said.

For more information, read it at http://au.biz.yahoo.com/081026/2/20kzb.html

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Added on October 28, 2008, 12:59 pm
Yup, with PR u can get a better job with better pay. And u can hardly can do internship here with ur student visa unless u opt for not being paid.

well abit of an oxymoron isnt it? usually, drop of interest rate cause a reaction like drop in the currency value...so is the inflation stuff...they say wanna cut inflation.....drop interest rate will only lead to more consumer spending hence more inflation? sometimes i srsly dunno what Mr Swan's doing....      
well u thought wrong buddy....the reason why our msian economy's on surplus is coz the megalomaniac Tun Dr M is no longer around sapping the reserves dry with his mega projects......the country's reserves have been building steadily over the years...its not much compared to other countries but for a nation like Msia i guess its OKAY....guess again u are one of those blind govt skeptics who just think the opposite of whatever the govt says...being skeptical is one thing...being blind / ignorant skeptic...now thats a whole different story...

abit weird la to me....coz Australia has been having so much surplus yet their currency's dropping like crazy....compared to the US...deficit for dunno how long already.....and they are the source of this crazy credit crap....and their currency's still holding up....guess ppl value the USD more than the AUD....anyway i aint no economist / not studying economics n etc....i cant comment further...

like totally man.....i just recently learnt about 'short-selling'....its like ppl selling sth that its not theirs and get profit along the way....doesnt make sense....heard thats one of the reason why the Aus stock market came down that quickly.....luckily Msia already banned short selling post 97    ...yea economics not my kinda stuff man....very very confusing....like abstract art....which i dont get..

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Added on October 28, 2008, 8:32 pmwell there's always an Alan Greenspan classic whihc is to lower interest rate.... .....and talking bout that...i still dont get what bepeon said.....

like even if the inflation is caused by cost not demand, wouldnt lower interest rates cause more demands regardless of the cost thats causing the inflation? if thats the cause wouldnt it be double inflation??

ANU is a good place to study but again, it is like a dead city. You dun have anything to do at night and can just only see the traffic lights. Btw u have to double check again which uni is good in IT course before making your decision.

As i said before, number 1 in Aus doesnt mean anything if tht particular course offered by ANU is not good itself compare to other uni. So it is up 2 u on which uni u want to go.

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Added on October 30, 2008, 2:41 am
I have many frens working in Bris. The average pay is around AUD17 per hour before tax as a waiter or waitress.

your friend need not look for 'international' schools (there are few, maybe none in brissie), he can do year 11/12 in either private or normal schools........

for the international student, there isn't much difference between the 2......since he will need to pay full fees in both anyway, but for aussies, normal school is practically free, but private schols can be very expensive........

do u think it'll drop below the 2.0 mark?

Shit the price of AUD jumped 7 cents up.....crap....
Gues I would just buy the Fees Deposit today only. Rest of it keep first.

Eh got one bank selling at RM2.33

PS:Bank draft needs 14 days to clear.....how much cash would I need within that 14 days.