Nothing is impossible...

Hey guys... this first few paragraphs will be about football(American Football), scroll down several paragraphs if American Football, especially college Football is not your thing.

So, starting of the season, 4 weeks into it to be exact, after a shaky start from the Michigan Wolverines, everybody thinks that this season is going down the drain, the program is not as good as everybody perceives, and I'm actually furious and disappointed at how good we are on paper, but yet, we didn't execute well and lost several games that we should have won... At that time, everybody thinks that the Big Ten Conference for Michigan is OVER... Michigan will end up in some lousy bowl... my fren even joked about it being in a TOILET bowl...

BUT... NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. Michigan Wolverines, under the leadership of at-that-moment-in-the-hot-seat and under-fire-from-all-directions Coach Lloyd Carr, clawed our way back, with that amazing win over Penn State and whatnot, and yesterday, slaugtered Indiana with a commanding 41-14... and Wisconsin choked(again...:) )... and now, Big Ten Conference is not so far from our reach...although Penn State is the favorite... To win the Big Ten Conference, all we need is Wolverines to win the upcoming game against Ohio Sucks University... oops, I mean Ohio State University, and Penn State to lose their game against Michigan State... for once I'm rooting for Michigan State... Just that simple...

I'll be really devastated if we lost this upcoming game because I'm not only refraining myself from earning my next season ticket of $150+(by selling this tix), I'm also spending an entire afternoon watching football when I have more important thing (although it's not better) to do, namely STUDYING for midtermS (PLURAL) on the following Monday and Tuesday... [actually, i won't be studying if i'm not at the game because I'll be watching it live on TV), but still, having another reason to blame is always better.

OK... I think that's all my football talk... oh yar... corrections: I think my previous post said that we will be playing Iowa yesterday... it should be Indiana...

So, last week has been a-lot-of-reading week... basically, i've to catch up with my anthro reading on 2 ethnologies - Guest of the Sheikh by Elizabeth W. Fernea and In Search of Respect - Selling crack in El Barrio by Phillippe Bourgois. And, finally, someone put a hold on my loan book... Confessions of an Economic Hit Men by John Perkins, so I have to return it a few days earlier, and hence, forcing me to read it and return in sooner... PLUS, I've been starting re-reading those Economics reading as preparation for my upcoming Econs midterm... and READING is tiring.. I wonder how those History OR Political Science OR English major did it... but I'm really finding reading hundreds of pages each week too much...

So, back to my weekly day-by-day summary of the past week...

Monday - as usual... except I started the printing process(i didn't print it, but the printing center did, expect the membership card of Malaysian Students Association to be done in 3-5 business days) It's really a big relief on my part, after designing the card, negotiating with small businesses around campus (mainly restaurants and cafes) for discounts and all... and thanks to the wonderful idea of SEA Network of combining the deals and distributing of work...

Tuesday - the usual too... except, there's a meeting with my UROP peer advisor... and that's about it... didn't go running

Wednesday - Busiest day of the week again, except this week was much lighter due to a cancellation of the Economics lecture because the guest lecture was flying because of a mix-up of date... and there's no UROP seminar today... and hence, I'm back in my room at 4.30pm... Started planning for my classes next semester... well, not really much to plan for if I'm hardworking... but because I'm not so sure whether I'll be still that energetic when next year come... I'm still contemplating on whether to take up 13 creds of 16 or 17 credit hours...

Thursday - the only class of the day went fairly well... Picked up those membership cards and started distributing it...there's a presentation by PriceWaterhouseCooper at Pizza House that evening... talked with some of the representatives, met so many classmates there... LOL... had some good food too... At night, instead of started studying and all, I wasted a good 5+ hours playing game at my fren's place... well, again, playing PS2 shooting game on a 62 inch TV is too tempting, and also Civilization 4... (a bunch of us, 6 and sometimes 7) playing a turn-based strategy game... naming Cities after ourselves and other hallmates... killing the AI... :P.. on yar.. some pretty controversial event happened today (although it shouldn't be because of some emails and some misinterpretation and misunderstanding)... Former Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim gave a lecture here @ University of Michigan today...

Friday - so i went to bed at 3+ yesterday... it's amazing how I'm able to wake up this morning at 6.30am... well, u have to do the things u have to do... so, the usual Friday too...(damn, i need to stop using the word 'usual'... life is more unpredictable that 'the usual', or is it???) so... work, class, lunch, class, dinner-work, TV... and that's it... really too nothing extraordinary except that NBA is starting too creeping into my focus too... watching half the game at my neighbor, Mike's place... he's a big Detroit Pistons guy... so am I...(don't call me a fair-weather fan because I'm not so big a NBA person... and I'm still with their losing last playoff...) They are still having a perfect run of 6-0... Go Pistons...

Saturday - well, football game at Noon, went with Quang... Putt wanted to study... and wasted the tix... the game was really good one... with the players starting to play with their full capability and up to par, and a few of them over the bar form... we squatted Indiana by half time, and having second stringers after the half... and the crowd enjoyed themselves by making Mexican waves and all... amazing game-day experience... for dinner, we did No Thai!... wonderful Thai food... well... with the membership card, we entitled a free fountain drink... I had Chicken Pad Thai @ Medium (hot-intensity)... then, we took off to Stucchi's for Ice cream... had a two scoops on waffle cone... one scoop Russian something and another scoop of banana peanut butter something... can't remember those long names... (received a good 15% because of the membership card...)... Did laundry at 12.40am, and completed it about 2+ am... slept at 3 something because I was ironing (reads experimenting my iron with) my clothes...

Sunday - Woke up mentally at about 8.30am, figured that I would be better off if I wake up at 10.30am, so, I remain physically sleeping til 10.30am... went for a jog at the Arb... and then, came back, went lunch, study for awhile, and then slept for 2 hours because just feel like it... and then, Putt woke me up to go dinner... and then i'm here keeping u guys updated about me...

-the end-...