Overwhelmed

hmmm... shit, although there's only one class today.... i'm really really overwhelmed.... not by anything, but by suggestions...

ouch.... headache... try to imagine ur essay, being read by 18 ppl and all of them gave u whole lot of ideas to improve on it... for a amatuer (maybe not even) writer, i'm really really intimidated by their constructive ideas and critiques....what am i gonna do.... why not this, why not that,,, wait a min, this is not a bad idea.... and hey hey.... how about this one.... and also that one... and every single one... and i'm doomed.... wow.... what am i gonna do.....

there are 18 copies of reviews.... and it is like..... WOW.... i'm just severely overstuffed with ideas and my brain goes...... OVERLOADED.... and BLANK....and TRANSMISSION ERROR.....and SYSTEM MALFUNCTION....that's basically my current status... any word to describe such situation.... hmm...

I'm BLUR....and CONFUSED.....


South East Asia Cultural Exhibition

nvm.... but today is definitely a good day... becoz of the South East Asia Cultural Exhibition... what is great is how this project shows that we, Malaysian, really cares about our country... and there are many other things on top of study... and study alone should not be our only priority... come on, u can't study all the time... and our world is much bigger than revolving around study only....so, what's wrong with those people who didn't turn up... i'm not mad or anything, just that i'm curious...

i really pity the country, where it has like 300+ students in Michigan, but not even one of them turn up to promote their culture, and their country....Aren't they proud of their own country... Aren't they are the one who insist that they have their own culture... .and they are not carbon copy of Malaysia... Prove it then... But too bad, all i see is just a few pieces of cardboard, with few pieces of papers with some facts about the country, and hardly decorated.... BANG....that's all....

i'll put up some photos about our booth... and u will see that we are still proud of our country... Even though we are thousand miles away from home, we are still proud of our home country... and it still lies in our heart... we aren't any penumpang... we are a part of our country too...

MALAYSIA, TRULY ASIA..... damn.... this phrase is really catchy... and sticky too... it really stuck in my mind like forever....


Oh yar...today's is my mom's birthday too...Happy 52nd Birthday, Mom..."~Happy Birthday to you , Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to Mummy....Happy Birthday to you!!!!! ~"

Yeah... It's my fault.... and Mac's fault too...and also his fault...

Ok... who's fault izzit... sorry, nobody will know what i'm talking about if i dun tell u the details rite...

so, there's this Mathematic Laboratory assignment... which we use Maple(R).... and it was supposed to be handed in on Tuesday... fine...and everything was kinda smooth sailing and my groupmate and I were able to complete the assignment on Monday... Great... so, we didn't print it out as we expected to be able to print it out in the Lab itself... and hand it in immediately...cool...

but, for dunno wat the reason, the computers in the lab cannot open my file.... (maybe because i'm using a newer version of the software)... so , i told my GSI about it, and guess what, i was given 10 extra minutes to look for a printer and print it and hand in the lab report.... Questionable rite...?

so, my instinct told me to run to the nearest computer lab, 'luckily' it is just few doors away, and i found a cute Macintosh.... the white one with the LCD attached to the semisphere cpu.... and wonderfully, it has the same version of the software i'm using... so, it should be no problem, both to print it and to make it in time... but too bad, the printing gave me a weird problem... where the lab report printed has missing pages... WAT the Heck... what i am gonna do...

just to make it in time, i turned in my 'incomplete' lab report.... Wonderful.... and when i asked him whether i can turn it in slightly later, or asked him to give me another 15 minutes, so that i can RUN to another computer lab with Windows-Based Computer and try to print it and hand it in, he said :"NO."

so, what can i do, besides being pissed both on myself, the stupid Mac and that ....and that.... but being a born winner... :-), being submissive is not in my vocabulary...., i ran to another computer lab, at the undergraduate library to print the entire lab report , and thank goodness, my GSI has an open office hours from 5 - 7pm.... ooh lala.... i may be able to catch him there... and maybe with my determination and persistence, he will accept my report... after all, it's not all my fault... there's complicated technical problem involved.

and i did managed to catch him in his office hours, and after about 1 minute of deep thought , he accepted my report and but he didn't promise that it will not be penalised.... Fair... I did handed in late (slightly)... but not really, he only said that it was due on Tuesday, yesterday, but he didn't mention the time... so, who's fault is it anyway??

I rest my case.

sorry if i have hurt any Mac users or anybody elses feeling in the process of my blogging.... But the fact underlies is : The Mac and the Software gave me problem and screw me in the a**.... I do like Ipod, and the Mac mouse though...

Really Great Outing

wat a wonderful way to spend a lazy Sunday - Kayaking and BBQ.... Really American way of life...
wat the hell, i'm in America, of coz that's the way things go rite.... When u are in Rome, u act like the Roman rite... (forgot the exact word for the quote...my bad)

so, what's so great..... Oh my, Kayaking is so damn fun... Left...Right...Left...Right....Left.... ok, so, i was on a double kayak with Shi Ting.... She's the front one, taking care of the steering (but... hmmm..better not to talk anything about it), while i'm the rear one, taking care of the steering and the braking...

so, the water is cool, the scenery is B.E.A.U.Tiful....and the weather is perfect.... sunny yet windy... u can feel a tingle of Autumn in the air... wow... the river is clear, but not crystal clear.... but it is impossibly shallow.... u can even walk all the way(believe me)... certain part of the route is so shallow that the kayak was caught in between of rocks... and we had to get down from the kayak and pull it out of the rock....

after about 2 hours of kayaking... we reached the our next destination.... the Fuller park... it is a wonderful park... big.... spacious... big trees, nice river and pond.... with ducks, geese, and swans....
many ppl with their family and pets walking around, and eating, BBQing, playing soccer, frisbee, football....

so, we (about 80 of us.... yup EIGHTY. 8-0) had chicken BBQ, beef steak, fried rice noodles, salad, bread toast.... and stuff.... ice cream, and cheese cake.. (awesome, i wonder who baked it)...so, after stuffing our faces, we played some games too... frisbee and football... hmm.. i'm planning to get a pair of inline skates.... it is so fun roller blading...(at least those ppl seem to be having fun)... i know how to skate... so, shouldn't be a problem....

at the end of the day.... they are a lot of leftovers.... so we do what we did best.... Da Bao... (Take Away in English, bungkus in Malay Language)... that's when i came up with a catchy slogan for Malaysian....

MALAYSIAN, TRULY ASIAN...
so, it goes just like the commercial, featuring Datuk Michelle Yeoh...(that bond girl?? u know)... then, they play that song... kinda sick of the tune already... and first, they will portray about people of different races, living in harmony... and then.... ZZZOOOOOMMMM....switch to another slide, where it shows people fighting for food in one of the kenduri or open house during Hari Raya... or people lining up for a night to redeem 2 miserable movie tickets.... then, Michelle Yeoh reappears and say, this is my home, Malaysia, this is where i learn all my fancy martial arts.... in order to feed my stomach... wahaha...:-P, and then..... to be continued...

back to the BBQ, where there were lots of food left... when some one suggested that we should take back some food, so that it won't be wasted and instead of someone packed everything into the fridge.... everybody take something home so that it won't be stored in the fridge for too long... and it is fair for everybody to have some food... wat a great idea.... and within a split second.... everything is gone... MALAYSIAN, TRULY ASIAN.... and there goes the chocolate, they goes the cheesecake... and the chicken, and the beef, and the Chilli Sauce... yep.... and even the paper napkins.... wahhahaa.... YAP... some people are really that desperate(with a wat is free, is good mentality, it's free u know...there's nothing that nobody won't take).... wat can we do... we are Malaysian.... truely Asian....

So, the next time u want to invite a Malaysian over to your place.... never offer them to take what they want....:P But, in general, we are still slightly better than our lovely neighbor..... (hahaha.... )

i'm bored....wait a min, no way... it's friday

I'm bored.... really really bored.... although i'm reading a nice book, but this 4-hrs-between-classes is really killing me.... 4 hrs..... try to imagine 4 hours... it is like 240 minutes..... 864000 seconds.... wow....

it's really really tiring to sit in front of the computer doing nothing.... reply emails, crap in forums.... now, even updating my blog.... wah.... how can somebody so decent and smart like me can be so bored.... help....

so, wat's worth my worthless time...had a crazy calculus class this morning....wow... most probably becoz of my half dead brain... bad decision to stay up late til 2+ am yesterday... now, i'm like floating...my grogginess is taking over me....

so, cut the crap.... a great idea just flashes pass my grey material.... so, wat am i going to talk about????


TO THE ROAD USERS IN US... U ROCKZ.... :-)

so.... wat's about them??? just want to praise u folks as the drivers here are really awesome.... they will wait for u to walk across the road patiently.... (even when u are jaywalking)... and before u reach the zebra crossing, most of them will stop the car and wait for u to use the zebra crossing... HOW GREAT....

so, wat's wrong with this....

nothing..Really NOTHING.... just that i'm afraid that getting too use to this (jaywalking, and walking across the zebra crossing with looking at the on going traffic) will definitely kill me one day... Maybe not in the States, but back in Malaysia.... where ppl have to run across the zebra crossing, where ppl have to look at those people that beat the light... and imagine doing that at a 6 lanes crossway.... amazing hah??? yar... we are trained to be fast runner.... and we can calculate the distance between the arriving car and us really well... so that we can zoom pass the road without getting horned, or without getting hit by a car, if not crush by the car...that's why i'm trying hard not to be too ignorant about the traffics on the road these days...

before i sign off... just wanna thanked all the kind road users.... for respecting all the pedestrians...
Good Luck and Godspeed for the pedestrians in Malaysia... and Good Luck and no need for speed to the pedestrians in the states......

Just Dropping By...

wahahah... since all the classes start at Michigan Time...(Ten minutes later than the official schedule), i have another 30 minutes before my english class starts... so i can really crap here...

so, here i am... nothing todo, actually a lot of stuff on my to-do list.... such as reply emails, write letter, watch movies, eat ice cream, clean my room..... wahahah.... the list goes on and on... but too bad... they can wait... i just feel like crapping here... so bear with me...

hmmm... so, let's talk about my day.... as usual, today is Thursday, Sept 23, and exactly one month ago, i'm at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport), then checked in at Motel 6, stayed overnight and flew to Chicago and then to Detroit..... so, it is my one month anniversary in the States....

YAHOOOO....YEEHAAAA.... Celebration.... Jubilation.... wat the heck.... syiok sendiri pulak....:-P

so, great... it's already one month... and i'm starting to think that i will miss this place after four years...(really...) the weather(current weather), the people, the environment and the 'aura' is just so nice.... GREAT, to be precised.... Not to say that i kacang melupakan kulit, i do missed home too, but hmm... but, home sick is never in my vocabulary since stepping into US.... Don't ask me why...

hmm... my fren metalflux and serenity are flying to UK....(or already in UK??) bon voyage... and take care... and another fren of mine, Han, will be flying to UK this weekend too.... bon voyage and take great care.... wahahah..... hmm... sorry for my repitition of words...
my vocabulary is kinda limited.....have a safe journey lar.... and keep in touch...

so, seems like the Subang Jaya clan is getting smaller and smaller... sad sad.... next time, if go back also sudah jadi empty nest lar... this must be the EMPTY NEST SYNDROME... wahahaha.... next time wanna go yamcha, go Cybercafe for CS also no kaki liao....

so, i should talk more about myself.... i'm in the table tennis club... so, every monday, wednesday and thursday.... from 7pm til 9pm.... i will be training table tennis at the sports coliseum(kinda far).... really happy to be able to pick up this sport again, after dropping it since standard 6 (even though got play like once in a blue moon during secondary school lar)... the players here are really good.... there's a girl who almost squeeze into the US Olympic team ler.... try to imagine the level of standard of these players... S.C.A.R.Y....

hmm... the weather is still kinda warm.... it's like warmer than last week... i wonder why... but since it is the transition of summer to autumn, many people had fell sick.... Coughing, sneezing... and those Macy Gray's sexy voice can be heard all the time.... TAKE CARE and TAKE more ViTAMINS lar...

really dunno wat to crap already.... it's now 3.57pm.... my class suppose to start at 4.00pm.... but since we follow Michigan time... so, i still have a good 13 minutes.....

that's all for now.... see ya guys

keep coming..... and drop a message...

ur message will make my day....

thankx pal.....

After 2 Weeks of School

Hi there.... another week just past right before my eyes.... so, what did i get out of it this time???

A lot... a whole lot about English, a whole lot about Econs, and Calculus and Astronomy... yar... u hear me right, Astronomy...

oh yar, i missed my first class in University of Michigan last friday... hahaha... lazy me overslept... suppose to attend a lecture at 8am, but woke up at 9.15 instead... luckily i didn't miss much of the syllabus covered... manage to catch up...

basically, a lot of learning been going on... and happy to say that i'm really love this place... the weather (currently lar, it's getting cold now... hope that i will love the winter here too)... SNOW....SNOW...

so, officially, i think we will be entering autumn tomorrow... on the 21st of September... COOL...
This morning, it touches my record low.... 4 Degree Centigrade... no joke... stepping on the tiles in the toilet is like stepping on ice... it really woke me up...i'm wide awake after that first step into the toilet...

and beginning from today, i'll be joining the table tennis club practices four times a week... every monday to friday, from 7pm til 9pm... hopefully, i can manage my time well... and on friday night, it is volleyball with seniors... cool...

and then Saturday, it is rest day and play day... and movie day... all those movie that i've accumulated from the week... cool....

and on Sunday, most probably will be my catch up day... catch up with my sleep, and catch up with my homework.... and also my reading.... and last but not least.... have to mention this... it is the SUnday DINNER.... although have to pay for the food, but for good food, i dun mind...

like last Sunday(after the Birch Run), went to Mongolian BBQ Buffet, Yesterday, went to this Irish Pub and Restaurant for a Salmon Filet, and then had to rush back to Bursley Hall to attend the K-Grams PenPal meeting.... really nice food.... The salmon is so fresh....

and on this coming Sunday, we will have this UMIMSA (University of Michigan Malaysian Student Association)..... where a whole bunch of us, far from home, gather together to have a BBQ... and Canoeing and Kayaking thingy.... NICE NICE.... really looking forward to it....

that's all for now... Got to go now.... Bye bye...

Astronomy class is next.... in 10 minutes.... Ciao....

After a week of school

So, another week has gone... wat did i get from it???

pretty much of everything.... and very much of nothing... sorry, i'm kinda groggy now... so pls forgive me for my akward choice of words and grammar.... (didn't get much sleep last night)

what i observe in the US education system(at least in University/ College/ School, they use all these to depict university too) is that the freedom they have... in the university, u can see all the clubs writing on the wall and on the floor with chalk for their announcements, they spam ur email with all the info but upcoming events, they hand out flyers like nobody business... and they got lots of cash to spend... i wonder how they can afford to do so...

another significant thing that one from british edu background will note is their participation in class... the questions(related and unrelated), the answers, the connections and communications between lecturers and students. these are awesome.... and lecturers do reply to email at pretty unbelievable speed...

another thing is how computer savvy these ppl are... they prefer to send email then picking up the phone and call... and u can have up to 50 emails a day(not spam, those important stuff), or the web assignments, web quizzes, web homework, web announcement... basically, u have to check ur email at least every 2 hrs.... if not every... (i'm checking my email every hr if when i'm free... my laptop was turned on for the past 2 weeks.... but i'm afraid that it will burn, so, better switch it off when i'm not using it...

when to shop (really shop, i think that's the first time of my life spending money without a doubt....) at the factory outlet shops, more like a mall....)
u can find factory outlet stores of Levi's, Dockers, Liz Clairborne, Nautica, Reebok, Nike, Adidas, the northface, jansport, Gap, Guess, and..... lots more.... everything at one place(not one roof though)....
got a pair of sneakers, 1 wind breaker, 3 long sleeves shirts, 2 shorts, 2 Jeans, 1 cargo, (10 items only, i can go to the express lane of a hypermarket if i want to) that's it... see i didn't shop that much after all, just cost me USD 155 ... (6% tax included), will try to get the photos of the stuff i bought posted here... hehehehe...

that's all for now, got to go for the astronomy class now... see ya guys...

to all the peeps in AJ.... goodluck in ur prelims....

to my bro Gary, have a safe journey to Kedah.... hahaha UUM, beware of tiger.... students spotted one few months ago....

ciao....

First Day of School

Hey everybody.... it's my first day of school...

excited??? thrilled??? hmm.... not really.... but it is definitely good to be back to school again...
coz, it's been really a long while since i last attended a class or anything of that sort...

before i begin with the day... i would like to thank all the seniors who attended the gathering last night, at Starbucks, East Liberty Street... It's really nice and sweet of all of ya.... Thankx again...
Hahaha... it's really fun and funny to see most of us, half wet... or even soaked wet... that crazy five minutes downpour... really embarrassed most of us, running at the side walk. screaming this and that...... Fun...

So, woke up this morning at 8.30am, although my earliest class starts at 1pm... so, slacked around, lazed on the bed for another hour... doing nothing... it's luxurious for me to do nothing u know...

So, after doing nothing for abt 2 hrs, started to read the book i got from the UGLY....UnderGraduate LibrarY

at abt 12, went to Bursley Dining Hall for lunch, and met Ren Jie there... Took a quick bite and i'm on my way to class.

Math Discussion was cancelled, So did Econs discussion.... actually it's logical rite... how can we have discussion prior to any lectures???so, I'm here at the UGLY, and got nothing better to do than to check my mail, update my blog, and read newspaper(online)....

Fruitful day???? hahahaha hopefully the writing and literature class at 4 will be fun...

My Room



this is my room.... nice rite.... hahaha.... can see the yellow cap... nice rite.... go UMich... Go Blue...

I'm catching up...

Hi there... sorry for my 'breaks' in my blogging...

there are so many activities here and all of them are so exciting and fun... I hardly have time to update my blog... That's why i'm doing this on a lazy Sunday afternoon...

So, wat activities were so exciting and nice and kept me busy for the past few days???

OK, the dates and chronology of these events might not follow accordingly... Sorry...

So on Thursday, 2nd Sept, in the afternoon, Putt, Lili, Chye and I played some dodgeball... it's really a cool game... 2 teams of 5 members enter an arena, where balls are lined up in the middle at the start, and all the players are to run from their side to grab the balls on the middle line... after that , the fun begin... If a player is hit by the ball, he or she is out... if a player catches a ball, the player who threw the ball loses and a member of the player who catches the ball comes back into the game...Hope that my explanation helps... try watching the comedy movie: Dodgeball: a true underdog story...

after that, we walked around the central campus and got freebies like frisbee, coupons and stuff...and went to shop for groceries later on... and went back to my room at around 5 plus...

at 6pm, Chia Chye and I went to the new student convocation... it was awesome... The a capella, the performance are well performed , the speeches are simple and nice... and after that, both of us walked to another wonderful activities,namely the Escapade and the Artscapade...

At Escapade, we played games and won prizes, had free food, had lotsa fun and met new friends...I won a mini portable radio, which is not a bad thing, but i prefer a t-shirt instead... nvm... i'd signed up for a dance marathon for charity and some other events too...

after that, we walked to opposite building (the Art Musuem) to join the Artscapade... there, there are rappers strutting their skills, and again, free stuff: posters, book marks, this and that, and lotza fun too...it's about midnight when we reached our room...


Friday, 3rd Sept

Question. Anybody can resist free cold hard cash??? With no strings attached???
I can't. Many of us went to the lawn in front of Michigan League to grab some cash... All we need to go is flash our Mcard(student card), and wait for our turn, and everyone of us will enter a cubicle, the size of a shower room, and with lots of cash inside, and u will have less than 15 seconds to grab the flying cash from the air.... there are several rules though, u can't bend down, u can't grab it from the ceiling, and u can't grab it from the wall either...etc...
so, i was able to grab $10, 10 one dollar bills, and some coupons... it's really hard... but i got my money, who cares...

later in the afternoon, i went to apply for my Social Security Number. And then, went to another awesome activity, the Maize Craze. wat's so cool about this activity... ? again, there's free food, free show and freebies.... hahaha college students...
Met a lot of new friends... and have a lots of fun... This Maize Craze thingy is a pre-celebration of the Saturday football(American Football) games... and the dance team and the cheerleading team are wonderful.

and then, we went to the Bubble tea Bash... Although the bubble tea was kinda lousy...but chatting with new friends was nice...

later that nite, i went to another crazy event : Meijer Madness...
Meijer is a nearby hypermarket, and we had games, competitions and other stuffs there... i'm too tired and lost there, so i just bought a few items and went back... ouch, and i missed a lot of free stuff, nvm... there's always next year.... hahaha
reached dorm at 2am...


Saturday, 4th Sept
Today is a big day for U of M... it is a football day... College Football Saturday... And this is my very first football match in the States...Basically, i know how it goes now but still need to watch several matches to get the core of the game... The freshman quarterback is really good... Chad Henne is tha man... he's only freshman and he can play like a seasoned player... the stadium is so huge... the Big house can hold 110000 ppl... yup it is 110 thousand audience.... and the ticket was a sold out...i didn't get the ticks.... i watched the entire match at putt's room.

later that night, a bunch of us went to the party.... at first , there this back to school fun treats... where there's caricature drawing, which i missed by a few places... and did a D.I.Y. picture frame, and got a palm reading... hey, i was told that i'm gonna be rich... believe it or not?

on top of that, had free food, and at 10pm, the place was transformed into a rock show.... it was too noisy... Kai and I walked Funglin(an ABC who lived in Taiwan) to her room, put our stuff(the pic frame, and flyers), and went back to Michigan League to look for Putt and Cat(another ABC who lived in Taiwan) but they were not there... We went to Michigan Union U Club to join to Glow Zone experience, a glow in the dark dance club experience is really unforgettable...

went back to the dorm at about 2am, exhausted... but wide awake...
watched a really insightful show... Super Size Me... it is really informative... u should watch it too...
it is about how harmful fastfood (unhealthy one esp McD) can harm u... he underwent a torturous 1- month nothing but McD food, and he gained 20 pounds, had high cholesterol, and harmed his liver, and had mood swings, and it took him 4 months to lose those extra weight gained... and 6 weeks of organic products to de-tox.... i think many of them are right... they should 'sue the bastards'....