wah! live for fun

It was fun while it lasts

2010-04-18T01:05:00.003-04:00

Ah...I have been neglecting this blog for so long and finally I have decided to stop blogging, maybe for a while, maybe forever.

The reasons?

First and foremost, IMHO, blogging is out dated! Seriously, this is 2010! Blogging is so 2009.

Second, Facebook is the King of all Updates. Twitter too.

Third, climate change. It's proven to stop people from updating blogs.

Forth, I'm now starting to express my thoughts through silly videos. So check out my facebook videos.

Fifth, I'm just lazy. Maybe this is the most important reason.

Ok. Good bye. Thanks for reading.
By the way I still checking on people's blogs.

I'll be back when I'll be back.

Disneyworld

2010-01-04T00:37:00.004-05:00

For some reasons I never like the idea of visiting Disney park...but somehow magically I went to Disney World in Florida this holiday.

It was fun, beyond my expectations. Period.

Finally Holiday

2009-06-20T17:18:00.003-04:00

After 3/2 year, 3 full semesters, 3 short semesters, 3 C+ grades, finally I can have a almost 3 months long holiday!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait to go home.

Mission One Accomplished

2009-04-24T00:24:00.005-04:00

Trying to search for image to complement this post but Google shows me Bush's accomplishment so here's it

____________________________________________________________________

-So how's your mission?
-completed!

-that's great. How you feel?
-ok

-I will offer you another mission tomorrow. Ok
-Ok but have Kit Kat first.

-No Kit Kat
-Never mind

-So go read your mission details. There are 398 pages total.
-What? 1 day enough to read? how if I cannot remember all details? Then the cat will suffer.

-Don't worry, you can bring 1 letter size paper when carrying out the mission.
-Really?

-And a calculator too
-Great! But I have Casio, I hate TI calculators.

-no problem, Casio has camera too
-I have Canon, but both are C, just I hope not to get a C for the mission

-Hahahahaha....that is not funny. What are you doing now? Go read the mission briefing! Don't waste time! Later the dog will suffer!
-Ok Ok. But let me sleep first, or else my brain will suffer. Today's mission almost shrink my brain 0.00001%.

__________________________________________________________________

that was referring to exams + nonsense

Just to Post Something

2009-03-29T00:41:00.002-04:00

Eh actually I had sandwiches for both my lunch and dinner on March 28.

That's it, just to keep the blog from dying.

1 2 3 Yeah I made video clips!

2009-02-23T22:19:00.003-05:00

oo finally there's 1 week break!

So what I did these first few days? First, settled the flights from US to KL and also the flights for kota Kinablu trip! yeah! but now already poor...

So what should I do when I'm poor... I make video clips!
hehe, just simple stickman animated clips :)

First Clip: Ali and Baba
Second Clip: Jamal's Oscar

lalala

Cili Padi kills

2009-01-20T22:41:00.001-05:00

Cili padi is very powerful!
Don't ever cut it with a knife!

Huh?

2009-01-12T13:08:00.005-05:00

Everyone attended Econ102 discussion session today.
Everyone was waiting in the classroom.

Now 1 person was missing...
He's the most important person who should look at us and we all look at him.
He's the GSI(graduate student instructor)

Then after 30minutes he was still missing.
So the class decided to leave the classroom.

And then I received an email from somebody; so it reads...

"I heard that your GSI didn't show up for class today."

So I thought who was that? hmm...
so continue to read...

"I heard that your GSI didn't show up for class today. That was me. I'm ... ..."

I'm speechless...
It turned out today has no discussion but we are not informed...

Trip to Ames Iowa

2008-12-30T19:12:00.012-05:00

This winter break has 3 weeks long.
No idea where else to visit so visited Ames, Iowa.
Ames is a small city that has some people and a university by the name Iowa State University.

Part 1: Greyhound patah kaki
patah kaki means leg broken. explanation follows.
Greyhound is a bus company serving USA Canada Mexico and some say Alaska but actually no Alaska service.

So on Dec 23. At Ann Arbor eagerly waiting for bus; it finally arrived after 2 hours late.
The road was so icy many cars skidded off the highway. So the bus driver drove slowly and I thought we can arrive Chicago safely. But suddenly at somewhere the bus tire hit something and blurrrrp blurrrp blurrrp...tire puncture.
Oh very good, after 128th time I as a bus passenger finally I encountered this situation.
So we waited 1+ hour for next bus.

Then Finally arrived at Chicago at 1:30 am for transfer. As expected, I missed my scheduled bus so was told to wait for next available bus at 6:30am. Couldn't sleep and all TVs were showing boring Weather Channel.

Then 6:30am in line almost got into bus then told that not allowed to take the bus!? tried to talk to different customer service people also to no avail and the one told me to board the 6:30am bus already off duty...ok lo, now had to wait for the 11:45am bus. Wait again.

At 11:45am, bus still not arrived. Then at 12:01pm bus arrived but the driver just took his time and finally bus left at 12:45pm. After so many times riding Greyhound, I can say their service is totally unsatisfied.

and I saw something: a christmas tree grows on building and beautiful farmland covered by snow.

And then arrived at Des Moines, Iowa for another transfer and finally arrived at Ames at 1:30am November 25, Christmas day.

Scheduled time was leaving at 3:45pm Dec 23 arrive at 6:10am Dec 24.

Part 2: Visiting Frozen River
At Ames was staying at King Hong's place. 1st day met with Sheng kai and visited a park and stepped on a frozen river. And we were not alone in the park! don't know what other 4 people do in the park on Christmas day?! Then had dinner together and enjoyed movie in cinema setting.
Then visited Sheng Kai's Kumdo's friends and I won a Monopoly game.

Then 2nd day took a short walk in ISU and went to Walmart to buy stuffs to cookfor dinner and then and then...the curry chicken is done.

Oh saw some horses on the first day.

3rd day went to a Grand mall and also did some shopping and then and then...porridge was done.

And 3rd day was the last day to stay and finally bid goodbye at 6:00pm

Part 3: To Ann Arbor
At least the journey back was hassle-free and lucky enough to come home ealier than expected :)
As usual a litle bit late here and there, but once I arrived at Chicago at 7:30am, there was a bus to Ann Arbor which was late for its schedule. I just pop into the bus and once I sit down, the bus left in no time. Surprising. And I gained 3 hours advance.

And the great journey ended with a BK Joe Hot coffee...hmm

so how's Ames? It's basically a smaller Ann Arbor, with horse minus Diag.

Good Morning

2008-12-06T14:06:00.004-05:00

Pour some milk into the cup. Not half full or half empty, but 3/4 full or 1/4 empty.

Honey Bunches of Oats Cereals jumping into the milk...now is it full? not yet, it's only 9/10 full or 1/10 empty.

After 6.5 minutes, my breakfast is in my body...now is the cup empty? not yet, it's 0.1/10 full or 0.9/10 empty. Some milk leftover in the cup.

Everyone uses cup to have cereals with milk? no, only 2/10 people do that, 8/10 serve using bowl.

Good day.

Please bring this if you study abroad

2008-12-03T00:55:00.004-05:00

You can forget to bring maggi mee...
You can forget to bring clothes...
You can forget to bring passport...

But you can't forget to bring this....
This is the made in Malaysia Buncho 2B pencil lead!

It is the best for your mechanical pencil.

No other pencil lead can surpass its superiority...it's dark, smooth and perfect for writing and drawing.

And it makes me feel better in exams using this.

So please pack some in baggage when you study abroad, unless you hate using mechanical pencil for no reason.

Impatients balsamina

2008-11-16T23:16:00.006-05:00

Reading my Lab Manual and wondering what is this Impatients thingy... what's the plant??? So I'm impatient and do a quick research on Wikipedia.

Wah! I'm so excited to know this is my most loved plant during my childhood years!!!

Oh it was so fun to throw the ripen fruits (which that time I thought as seeds) and they will pop open and burst out all the tiny seeds inside! very fun. Just like this stuff

Once upon a time it was so abundant at my house's backyard and I don't know why now I feel very happy to think of the plant. Sweet memories.

Now think of the plant make me think of the big old white cat...
Not this one...this is 1 of her many kittens...most of her kittens don't know how either died or disappeared to nowhere...and this is one of her longest surviving ones.

Hope she'll still be there when I go back...she was so small and cute when I was small and cute and now she's big and old and I'm big but not old.

Oh and the flowers are red, pink, purple, or white and I love most is hybrid of pink and white because it was rare.

The plants grow so fast especially after rain and they live and die and more plants will just pop out anywhere and grow and grow...and die....and new plants!

Oh Impatients balsamina...I'm remember this name forever.

oh basketball

2008-11-08T16:07:00.004-05:00

I never good at playing basketball but today represented Malaysia in SouthEastAsia Games! Wah a big game. Other people all sleeping so I mengorbankan diri untuk bangsa dan negara.

So this year SEA Games is held at Michigan and only participated by 5 SEA nations because the rest didn't swim across the pacific ocean to arrive in time.

Actually this is only a SEA Games for U of Michigan

The day started not very nice with some drizzles but it doesn't matter because we are playing indoor. Then the sun shining brilliantly but it doesn't matter also.

So we have 4 games to play. Vs Indonesian students, then S'pore, then Vietnam, then Thailand.
At first look you know Malaysia's team is very weak because I'm in the team, then only have 5 players and occasionally pinjam 1 or 2 players from volleyball... Why everyone plays volleyball but not basketball...

As we never practiced before we expected to lose all to those "professional looking" teams but however we only lost 3 out of 4!!

...and the last game was never played bacause another team swims back to Thailand d...

and so...game over...

Beware of Scammers!

2008-11-03T21:52:00.009-05:00

This is real fun! There are scammers everywhere in the world.

And these scammers are stupid people. really stupid. Incredibly stupid and extremely stupid and don't deserved to be called scammers but idiots.

So the story like this: I want to sell my laptop so I post on Craiglist and Facebook Marketplace. Soon Michael Worns reply from Craiglist say want to buy. So I'm quite smart to search for his name and email then discovered he's a scammer. SO bye bye la, delete the email.

Then another guy email and another woman and another guy and another guy and another idiot message... (both Craiglist and Facebook)
And all their messages: Hi seller [hi buyer :) anyone calls people like that?], how's your day? eh my daughter go to West Africa la, Nigeria la...study there lo, so I want to give her surprise, a big surprise. So I will pay you extra to cover for delivery...and ho, I'll pay you by Paypal...[wah some give me extra $100, some up to $1000!].
Oh I need your name, email, address, paypal account no. bla bla...[some request to pay me check so need address to mail to me bla bla...]

And a few are very religious idiots, which open and end their message with may God bless you. Thanks but no thanks.

And hehe here's one from a Diego guy

Q#1.is this item still available for sale? Not for you
Q#2. How long have you owned it?
Q#3. a) Have you owned it from new?b) If not how many previous owner?
Q#4. Why are you selling it? stated d, can't read ah?
Q#5. In your opinion, what sort of condition is it? stated
Q#6. Any available photo? I posted 4 photos...is he blind?
Q#7.what year is this item manufactured?
Q#8.what is the final price?
Q#9.can you help me determine the weight? ...
Q#10.Will you accept a certified Cashiers Check OR Personal Check?
Q#11.Will have a friegth company that will be available for pick-up of the
item?because the operate 7:00am to 7:00pm mon-Saturday,I will like to know your full name and address included your contact phone number and your email address,So i can payment in timely manner. I'll like to have the response to these question in your earliest convenience.
[wah so many questions!!! why so serious?]

N:B,I want you [I don't want] to respond back to me direct through my e-mail box back to my
private box at(fred_diego@yahoo.com), Also you have to [have to?] get back to me such as:

NAME: Spiderman
ADDRESS: ask batman
CITY: Gotham City
STATE: STATuE of Liberty
ZIP CODE: 12345
PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS: hahaha@haha.com
PHONE NUMBER: 911

Hope to hear from you soon. bye bye, you will never hear from me

Regards,

Fred Diego.

Very stupid la they all, not qualified to be scammers. FYI: they say will send check to you or pay via paypal but actually won't because they will fake a paypal email, or say got problem with the check whatever...and you lost everything.

Oh, actually among those idiots there are a few relatively not that stupid because they put some honest-looking display photos to deceive people.

By the way, still waiting for buyer...

When There's No More Magic

2008-10-21T22:08:00.005-04:00

This is Michigan Magic Bus. Why they call it magic bus I don't know but I know if you type "magic bus" in Google search you will get to the magical website of the Michigan bus.

So magic isn't real? you can believe there's no magic because if it's magical why it ended up being towed?

Oh...

A Golf ball hits stone, becomes sand, and drops into coffee

2008-10-14T00:10:00.007-04:00

A story to share:

这一天的哲学课，教授站上了讲台
他却不发一语，只是从讲桌底下拿出了一个空的美乃滋瓶罐
接着他拿出了一袋高尔夫球
他把整袋的高尔夫球塞进了美乃滋空罐里
然后教授就问学生同不同意这个罐子已经是满的了
学生们当然是同意。

接着，教授又从桌子下拿出了一杯小小的鹅卵石
他慢慢地把鹅卵石往罐子倒
边倒边摇，
不一会儿
所有的高尔夫球间的缝隙
竟也都填满了鹅卵石。

这时，教授又问学生同不同意
这个美乃滋罐子已经是满了？
学生当然是同意。

可是，话才刚说完
教授又从讲桌底下拿出了一杯细沙子
教授又用同样的方法
边倒边摇的把沙子填满了鹅卵石之间的小缝隙。

教授又问了大家同不同意
这回罐子是真正的满了？
同学说应该是全满了，没有空间了。

想不到同学才刚答完话
教授又从讲桌下拿出了两杯咖啡来
开始徐徐地往美乃滋罐子里倒
直到两杯咖啡全部到进罐子里，一滴也不剩。

倒完咖啡后
教授笑着对同学们说：
『现在的美乃滋罐子才是真正的满了啦。』

同学们也跟着笑了起来
就在整个教室的欢笑声里
教授说话了:
你们知道我今天做这个表演，是要告诉你们什么吗？
我是要用这个美乃滋罐来告诉你们一个道理
一个关于我们一生的哲理。

这个美乃滋空罐就是我们的人生
高尔夫球就是我们生命中的一些大事情
例如：上帝，家庭，小孩，朋友，健康，还有你的挚爱。
生命里没有那些小鹅卵石或沙子是没关系的
可是要是缺了这些大事情
我们的生命根本没有意义。

小小的鹅卵石就是我们生命中的其他的事情
例如：工作，房子，车子等等东西。

至于那细沙子就是我们生命中的小事情
那些细微不重要的琐事。

今天我的表演....
如果是一开始就先把细沙子灌满美乃滋罐子
那就根本没有空间好放入高尔夫球跟鹅卵石
同样地，如果我是先倒鹅卵石
那也是会没有空间好给高尔夫球。

我们的生命就是这样的
如果你尽是把宝贵的时间花在细微的琐事上
你就不可能有时间去处里重要的事情。

所以，我们该多花时间去注意
那些会关系到我们快乐与幸福的事情
多跟我们的小孩一起
多去陪陪我们的父母、祖父母，多些时间给家人
多注意自己的身体健康
不要担心家事做不完
不用担心房子还没粉刷
不要担心花园还没整理
我们会找到时间来做这些事情的
先多花些心思在那些重要的大事情上吧!!

生命只有一回
我们把事情的轻重缓急跟优先顺序弄清楚
生命才会有意义
教授说到这里
有个同学举手了....

教授，那两杯咖啡又代表着什么呢？
『我很高兴你问这个，』教授回答道
这两杯咖啡就是要告诉我们
不管我们的美乃滋罐看起来是装得多满
我们总是可以有空间跟朋友一起享受杯咖啡的！

Something found in forwarded mail which is a story of a Philosophy Professor telling a story. To make it short:

In class, the professor brings out a bottle, then fills it with golf balls.
He asks the students: is it full?
Students: Yes

Then he takes some stones and put inside the bottle.
He asks again: now is it full?
Students: Yes

And now he pours sands into the bottle, shaking a bit and pour the sand until the bottle filled up.
He asks again: is it full?
Students: There's no more space, should be full.

And he simply takes out 2 bottles of coffee,, slowly pouring into the bottle until the last drop.
And he says: now it's full!

Which he then tells the students:
This demonstration is to teach you a lesson of life.
The bottle represents our lives
The golf balls are the big things in life, like family, friends, health and love
The stones are other things like car, house,career etc
The sands are just some little small small not significant stuffs

If I fill in the sand at first, sure there's no more place for stones and and balls.
Just like if we concentrate on all minors stuffs in life and waste all our times, you are impossible to do important things or care for family and friends
So we should put family, our health and friends as priorities
No need to worry about how to decorate the house, how to do this how to do that...
Life only lived once, prioritization makes life more meaningful.

And now a student ask: what about the coffee?

"No matter how busy our lives, there are always times for a cup of coffee with our friends"

Hmm... a good one.
But remember life is not full if you forget to put the stones and sands.
To make life more colorful, other than do some golfing, also find some beautiful stones and smooth sands.
If you don't like coffee, have a cup of tea.

Why I love Michigan or Ann Arbor or UM or...

2008-09-25T00:40:00.008-04:00

There are many reasons why I love Ann Arbor or University of Michigan...

The most lovable thing is the squirrel and the hamster. This hamster is my housemate who is very lazy and sleep 25 hours a day.

Second reason I love being here is because of free Bus Ride. There's magic bus aka M Bus and there's AATA aka AnnArborTransportAuthority which takes me anywhere to shop for groceries. AATA is very concerned about my groceries because I hear "PLEASE REPORT ANY UNATTENDED ARTICLES TO THE BUS DRIVER" everytime I'm on the bus.

Then the other reasons are equally equal lovable. Among the rest, the most lovable is I can get money by playing computer games, fill in the blank, or simply say what I see...in paid experiments/surveys. The university is very rich they grant many researches so that those researchers can give me money. Best ones were to play econ game get $65 and another econ game get $42.

Then I can hear the bell tower singing for 5 minutes on 12pm everyday.

And here people will bless you when you sneeze, no need to "excuse me". The more you sneeze the more blessings you get. Sneeze more!

And if you walk into class after 9:59 minutes after class started you still can walk in with pride and smile to lecturer because you are still 1 second ahead of Michigan time! You are early! not late :)

And I love Michigan football bacause it's the winningest (it's the official word) college football team but this season already lost 2 and only won 1...but that was yesterday's story because today Sep 27 we win Wisconsin Badgers and from now on I bet we'll keep on winning forever...

Oh and everybody loves organic chemistry!

There are more reasons but too many I forget 99% of them...

New York

2008-09-14T16:20:00.013-04:00

so, after Boston we went to New York. It isn't as new as New Zealand but it's not as old as Old Trafford.

As usual, we eat and sleep in New York, other than doing other stuffs. We stayed in Brooklyn's Red Carpet Inn motel where there's free breakfast every morning and and there's a television so that we watched Ben 10 and Johnny Test every morning on cartoon Network...

First day we did nothing but went to Empire State Building and did 2 things: the look-very-exciting-but-really-lame-Skyride and the observatory.

Second day we were still in New York and we went to see Statue of Liberty!

and then we took the Hop-on-Hop-off bus tour but we never hop off but we just sit properly in the bus like schoolchildren because we saw NYPD infront of United Nations HQ...duduk diam diam or else police tangkap!

In the evening we took free Sunset Cruise and wah! very nice! It made round the Manhattan Island and Statue of liberty and the wind is so New Yorkish smell...

and we see the so say biggest clock in the world - the Colgate Clock which located in Jersey City. New Jersey is actually very near New York, just swim a bit will reach.

Then at night went for another night bus tour, since included in package...

Oh suddenly 3rd day came and we went to walk walk at Wall Street to a construction site. The construction site was World Trade Center site. And we walked to Century 21 to buy nothing. And then the biggest thing. Broadway show! It was Grease! A fantastic show.

Then on 4th day we went to Madame Tussaud to see many fake people like Micahel Jackson but I think they should make Michael Phelps very soon before Michael Jackson publish another album.

After that we went to China Town and Little Italy etc etc and then walk from the very beginning of 5th Avenue until we see a fella who loves rock so therefore there's a building called Rockefeller. And not to forget Times Square and Grand Central station.

And then the 5th day...
went to a St Patrick's Cathedral and Natural History Musuem and then to Brooklyn park to watch movie!

And the last day we went to Central Park with all our bags and luggages...

Then took a subway to Newark, NJ, walked around, ate at McD and then finally took the Greyhound back to Ann Arbor...The end

Trip to Boston

2008-09-07T13:20:00.008-04:00

Again, I went for a trip. Basically I go for trip every holiday.

+Chicago in Winter mid-semester break

+DC & Penn in Spring break

+Cedar Point in before Summer semester

and now Boston+ NY + NJ in Summer break

Wah am I'm so rich to travel?

Oh I saved a lot and did a lot paid experiments/surveys so I'm rich but after I bought a lot (including laptop and camera) and ate a lot I'm poor.

We 5 ppl which names to be kept secret traveled in a group and then there were other people in other group but only met for broadway show (in NY) which was really nice which made me want to watch more.

First we went to Boston by the Greyhound bus which failed to impress us with their service. We traveled almost 24 hours by bus because we want to save money and reduce pollution by not hijacking the plane.

We did something in Boston which was travelling.

We stayed in Holiday Inn.

We ate foods including the most expensive food I ever eaten which was the $30 lobster because I ws cheated by somebody in the group into the restaurant.

We walked here and there and saw somebody and something. We went to Fanneuil Marketplace, and etc.

Most importantly, Harvard's president awarded me a brochure for being a smart guy and I told her Harvard is Michigan in the East.

and this is Boston viewed across the river from MIT

Overall Boston was nice but it made me love Michigan more.

The most dissapointed event was unable to go to Prudential's Skywalk because some guy having "private function" up there...

Then the end of Boston trip.

Let's take a commercial break and the New York and New Jersey part will be right back!

Merdeka

2008-09-01T15:37:00.004-04:00

Not intended to write about merdeka but read about it at blog so now I'm writing and you are reading

merdeka = independence = refer to Malaysia's Independence Day 0n Aug 31

8.31
it has been 831 days since I left Msia. oh no no, it's 8 months and 31 days.

what's so special about it? to some people it just a public holiday or wake up in the morning to watch TV or it's just August 31 but when you are study abroad there's sense of patriotism. Not that I wasn't a patriot but as Michelle Obama said, for the first time I really proud of my country, for me, for the first time I really appreciate Hari Merdeka.

and no fireworks display no parade on TV, the only thing is this T shirt
A 50th Hari Merdeka shirt I bought.
The shirt that I wore on Aug 31 2007 & Aug 31 2008 and sometimes Aug 21 and sometimes July 31
and the photo was taken after I took the shirt out from laundry bag...

Doughnut

2008-08-09T14:25:00.010-04:00

Why doughnut is so popular?

In Malaysia doughnut was once just doughnut. A ring made of flour topped with sugar. Nothing special. Then there's Dunkin' Donuts...oh now doughnut became donut.

Then suddenly J.Co Donuts suddenly became so popular in a sudden and people get a sudden shock when they see so many people lining to buy just a doughnut.

After J. CO there's BIG Apple

They must be using really big apple to make doughnuts...

And what's more?
Since Malaysians love to eat doughnuts so much finally Krispy Kreme is coming soon!

Please note: finally DOUGHNUT is back after being downgraded to DONUT :)

But...
Why they sell doughnut for such a high price...kesian the makcik at the roadside selling doughnut at 50sen each...

Real Horror Story!

2008-07-30T00:20:00.012-04:00

Date: July 30
Time: 12.00am
Place: friend's house
People: 2 hosts (1 with us, 1 in his room); 1 unexpected guest; 1 regular guest; and me

Everyone was staring at screen, attentively watching the movie...light was off, room was dark...

suddenly, something fishy caught my attention! not the movie, not the screen. There's some dark shadow on the ceiling! surrounding the living room...and a sense of horror surged to my mind...is it ghostly ghost?

the black horrible object was flapping its wings, hovering the room and wait the chance to grab its preys!

With no further ado I asked my friends to look up (apparently they were too into the movie until never notice the danger) and I just ran out to escape! And I found myself nowhere to run as the black horrible creature are flying everywhere!

And I saw the door! The door of bathroom! Oh! rush in and bang! door closed! Phew...

Then my friends started to scream for help! And they had no place to hide but to stay...

The black creature (which then identified itself as batman) still hovering on the room and my friends were sitting on the chair motionless, clueless what to do...then me in the safe bathroom :) I saw febreeze so I sprayed Febreeze so that it smells nice.

Then my friends planned to move inside bedroom. They took the laptop, and all of sudden! Boom, all rushed to room and shut door! Oh not all, one rushed toward the door downstair and escaped from the haunted house!

Then the another host who was in his room wandering what's happening out there so he opened the door and when later IM with him, he told "then i opened door and saw it flew by"
He also mentioned "u all like gempa bumi"

As I was still in bathroom which I couldn't possible sleep in the bathroom which is not my bathroom so I opened the door and rushed down stair in just 1 second and escaped!

And for now I have no clue whether the unexpected guest staying in the host's room or they are planning to catch the batman or whatever...

what a scary moment haha. Actually it's not scary it's exciting.

When I'm hungry...

2008-07-27T10:40:00.013-04:00

When I'm hungry, I eat.

Other than all the typical American foods [spaghetti burger ham fries steak] which can be really unhealthy and make you feel bad, I also eat [cereals apple banana carrot spinach] , which can be really healthy and make you feel good.

But in between bad and good food, there's something special. It's called exotic food. It's not exotic somewhere but it's exotic here.

First, it's chili.
Americans hate hot and spicy chili and they deny the existance of chili because their chili sauce is totally hot-less. And you see NO chili sauce in ALL (almost) restaurants because they have tomato ketchup and BBQ sauce only.
So where's the real chili sauce? It only exists in asian restaurants and the famous one is Sriracha 'rooster' chili sauce!

The hottest sauce :)
And they are really anti chili...even KFC has NO Hot & Spicy choice...

Then, it's roti canai
I miss roti canai so much until I buy this onion roti paratha from Jolin Tsai's Grocery shop.
roti paratha = roti prata = roti canai
Just pan fry it and a simple roti bawang is done :) at least it's not that expensive.
"Roti bawang + 1 teh tarik!" So mamak
Yeah, and this is the teh tarik...

Next, instant noodle
I rarely eat instant noodle here because those 20cents Nissin ramen is just like Maggi mee, the more I eat, the worse it tastes. But there's one instant noodle that I love: Nong Shum Shin Ramyum

hot and spicy Korean noodle...but it costs 89cents...oh never mind, satisfaction is more important

Last and not least
bun or pau. char siew pau, kaya pau, whatever pau, there's no people selling steamed fresh pau here but there's frozen pau here.

tried so many yet none is good...

oh there's much more exotic foods I want!!! but I'm in an exotic land...

last and very last...and the best
3in1 Aik Cheong Coffee, available $5.79 @ China market

the aroma of home...
the coffee that I smell everytime I going back home...
the coffee that made just 2km off my home...
the coffee of my cup...

A day in AA

2008-07-21T18:05:00.009-04:00

Date: July 19.

Wake up not very early in the morning. brush and wash and shower and eat.
Want to online but the stupid Wifi has no signal again...

[10:50am]I have to post a mail so I go to United States Postal Service office but to find out they have removed the stamp machine! The counter is closed and there's no stamp machine, a great service. Then I walk 15mins to Michigan Union to buy the stamp. But again, the stamp machine is removed!!! Coincident? Who steals the stamp machine? Now I have an envelope that can t be mailed.

[11:30am] Then go meet with MC because we are going to Jolin Tsai's grocery to buy some stuffs. Never been there before so just go see what it offers. Since Ann Arbor Art Fairs is blocking all the streets there's a detour of bus route. So we wait at a bus stop thinking it's the right bus stop but just to see the #16 bus turn other way right in front of us! Oh it's raining also...and then another bus come and it's raining so we just board the bus but I don't know why we board it but the rain seduces us to board the bus and then we tour from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti and back to Ann Arbor...a long journey...
And I see White Castle! There's actually White Castle in Ann Arbor!

[1:12pm] back at Ann Arbor Transit Center and the next #16 bus is 1:48pm so we walk around AA Art Fairs and MC suddenly sees a USPS big post office hidden behind the art booths! Oh this big post office also has no stamp machine!! Haha but it has "Stamp ATM" Finally I can dispose my big envelope.

[1:35pm] Waiting for bus. [1:48pm] Board the bus yay!

[2:10pm] See Tsai but to find actually it got not many stuffs but at least it's the tidiest & cleanest asian market.
[3:00pm] Since Jolin Tsai actually got nothing much we go to Meijer which is just opposite.
[4:00pm] Shopping done

[4:30pm] Back to home! Still no Wifi...go sleep la

[6:00pm] Go to KsSw's house to cook dinner. MC says all guys friends cooking is weird. Oh is it?
[7:20pm] Dinner

[8:00pm] Weekend Movie Time! The Pianist 2 hours 30 mins + Saving Private Ryan 2 hours 49 mins both are really best movies.

Then the end of day!
The end of a day is the start of another day :)

M&M or chocolate chips?

2008-07-15T00:13:00.009-04:00

Research Paper
M&M cookies and Chocolate Chips cookies
Phd candidate: waikhong
Concentration: Cookies Study
University of Michigan

Today I observed one very significant phenomenon. United States high school students prefer M&M cookies than chocolate chip cookies.

Detailed finding:
Today I'm working in UofM dining hall while doing research on high school students' preference of cookies.

Methodology:
I put 2 types of cookies on table. I wait the target (now dining hall serving high school students from summer camps) to grab the cookies. Then I see which cookies finish first.

Fixed variable: Number of cookies. Both same. But quantity unknown. Roughly same la

Finding:
M&M cookies grabbing rate is twice faster than chocolate chips cookies.

Conclusion:

Oh exam!

2008-07-13T21:27:00.003-04:00

If you don't know, I'm a lazy person who always wasting time with my beloved laptop and never bother about academic stuffs until the very last minute. After high school I never do any extra exercises/ practices other than the required/credited assignments. And whatever exams, I never study 2 days ahead. So far, I never be the top student, but luckily not the bottom also :)

Oh exam...last Wednesday I just had another Econ 101 test but then something weird happened. Right from the beginning, I was shivering and trembling when writing down my answers. Was I fear? No, exam is just exam... Was I nervous? It's just a small test... weird I felt cold during the exam and tried to calm down. But it didn't work, my hand was trembling and my mind wasn't concentrated. Then worse, the substitute GSI (Graduate student instructor) allocated less than 40 minutes for a supposedly 45 minutes test.

It was a mixed weird feeling...I couldn't concentrate, my hand didn't write as fast as I wanted, and time was tickling away...and time's up!! "No more writing!" Oh No! I couldn't finished the paper and simply wrote something in the blank space...and then said bye bye to my test paper...

Oh wonder why but anyway don't care lah, maybe I'm allergic to the GSI, and I won't see him next time :)

All the best in next exam!

I eat apple, you eat apple, we eat apple

2008-07-06T17:13:00.019-04:00

Apple: the most common fruit.

Even if you don't eat apple you still know how an apple looks like because we all know A for Apple B for Apple C for Apple...

Such an adorable appetizing edible apple...

When I'm short, I only know there's red apple and green apple; then when taller, I know there's big red apple, small red apple, not so red red apple,, very red red apple; when I'm tallest, I know they have different tastes and different names.

Green apple is always my favorite because of its sour sensational taste~~~Its name is Granny Smith, a nice name.

This is Gala apple, the most common apple in Malaysia. Good taste.

This is the apple that I don't like to eat. Although it has a nice name Red Delicious, it's just plain sweet and not crispy and just not nice...the last time I had this was when I was short.

And this is the big big Fuji apple. It's big and sweet :) quite nice

A nice sweet crispy apple that I recently tasted. Unlike Red delicious that is not delicious, this Golden delicious is much more better.

Finally, another favorite of mine! McIntosh. It's the most delicious red apple!

Eat more apple :)
I'm tall because I eat apple

Wah! Firefly in Ann Arbor

2008-07-04T00:54:00.003-04:00

It's a bird....It's a plane....It's a Superman!!!

No No No It's a FIREFLY!!!

Ann Arbor has firefly! Yes, there are many of them...flickering in the night

Hehe no need to waste money to go Kuala Selangor next time...call me and I'll give you a discounted rate for an 1 hour trip. Terms & conditions: don't blame me if you can't see any because they hate you.

Don't believe me? Really, there's firefly in Ann Arbor, not superman!

I managed to get a photo of a firefly

Let me tell you a story.

2008-06-30T15:06:00.008-04:00

Once upon a time, there's a boy. His name is Johnny English. One day, he wakes up in the morning and see a mouse cooking in his house! Not everyone can cook!

He was so surprised he uses a durian and hit the mouse. The mouse then follows the Pied Piper of Hamelin and falls into a longkang...

Then Johnny suddenly sleepy again...
so he go back to bed to discover his bed is occupied by Little Red Riding Hood's grandma!?
=.=

So he has no choice but to listen to his iPod and eat a pod of peas

Suddenly he realizes he has to get to work!
Johnny hates to work but he has to work so he can eat Putu Mayam.

Then he rides the Aladdin magic carpet and arrives at Donald Trump's Tower.
He was the winner of 100th season Apprentice. He is supposed to be the 1st winner of American Idol but he loves Kelly Clarkson so much he gives up in the grand final. Give up is the right attitude. Correct correct correct...

Every time at work, he knocks his head at the table. Everyone thinks he is a small incredible hulk because his head never broken! Sometimes he just click to fast forward his time and sometimes he takes out his Teddy bear not Pooh to play. He thinks Pooh is dumb but Teddy is steady.

Finally it's 4:59pm
Now it's his happy hours! he's going to search for his beauty (he's the beast). After 1000 years of searching he hasn't found any...Snow White is too white, Rapunzel's hair is too long, Cinderella is too Cinderella, Mary is married, Angelina Jolie is too sexy...

And today he meets Kung Fu Panda Po who then introduces him to Master Oogway who says: there are no accidents. You cannot get a loved one because you are not smart, better Get Smart.
he pauses a while, continue: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. and then he intoduces the Love Guru to Johnny...

And the guru introduces Jessica Alba to Johnny but in the end Johnny was so sad Jessica Alba is already pregnant

So he turns crazy and finally become Mr Bean ...

After all, he goes to sleep and forget everything....

Good Bye Bill Gates

2008-06-27T12:24:00.011-04:00

Bill Gates is finally saying good bye to all of us...not dead...but retired

[who is Bill Gates? Oh, he hate to eat Apple; and although he is rich, his house has Micro-size Windows which is very Soft...]

This post is meant for my appreciation for him and his products, which has changed my life forever.

And thanks his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for sponsoring BBC World Service Radio in Ann Arbor so that I can listen to news to make me sleepy if I'm still not sleepy at 2am...

A crazy trip to Sandusky!

2008-06-21T11:41:00.041-04:00

June 19 7:30pm, the crazy journey began...

Our destination: Sandusky...huh? what a dusty sandy small town...
5 persons: DK KS SW YL + me
Transportation: my beloved Amtrak + our legs + cabs

First, we took Amtrak thruway bus from Ann Arbor to Toledo. And the bus has many nice LCD screen playing the 1930's black and white movie...can you guess the movie? It's called "Nothing"...

From Toledo we took the Shore Line Limited toward Sandusky! Yay! And we arrived at around 5am!

With no maps in hand, we start our walking in the quiet little town...and suddenly we saw a 7-11 and then just went in to sight-seeing :) then we kept on moving...and we saw lots of churches...and then Merry Go Round Museum! weird museum...

and we keep on moving and finally we reached the lake side! The great Erie Lake and we found a weird creature...After we (forget to mention we're Fantastic 4 and an Incredible big Hulk) defeated the weird creature , we saw the beautiful sunrise...

And we walked again...until the Incredible Hulk feel so hungry he was busy looking for food...and he finally smelled a McDonald's 100 miles away and yay! We had our breakfast!After having breakfast, everyone just pengsan... except me...

Then after I rescued them we continued our journey...now already 9am...we walked from 5am to 9am!!! without any map.

Then we called a cab to cross the causeway to reach a place where the diet Cheddar cheese is made...and do you know diet cheddar has a shortened name? It's called Cedar! Imagine diet Coca-Cola being called Oca-Ola... [rubbish]

Actually we were heading to Cedar Point! the best amusement park in the planet!

Oh please don't think the Snoopy themed amusement park is just childish...the rides in the park are the best in the world!

So, among the 5 persons, we are divided into 3 categories: DK & I am the true fanatics, SW & KS are "this one ok, this one cannot" category, and YL is our professional back pack guard who safeguarding our back packs because he just had 1 or 2 rides throughout the day...

Oh I never imagined there are so many thrill rides in Cedar Point and I just can't describe how satisfied, how exciting, how crazy the rides were...just simply the best experience in my life!

We (which mean DK & I) started with Demon Drop where we dropped from 131 feet in 6 secs .. and then the thrill never end until the last minute! Ok let me describe some of the best:

Wicked Twister:
the tallest and fastest double-twisting impulse roller coaster in the world

3..2...1...and sprinted toward the sky! WAH!

Sky Hawk:
You kick the sky at 125 feet high in the sky!
And just superb when you being brought down from the highest point!

Maverick:
a new ride built in 2007 that has double launch!
With a drop at 95 degree angle it was just WAH!

Millennium Force:
"Standing a breathtaking 310 feet into the air, this "giga-coaster" will take thrill-seekers on an incredible 92-mph journey along 6,595 feet of track that winds its way through the center of the park, crosses a lagoon and dives onto an island."

We rode this during the night and it was really exciting to drop from that height!!!

And many more thrilling rides such as MaxAir, Magnum. Raptor etc etc...I finally had my dream come true! there was nothing else I want to do in US except trying all these crazy rides!

And we kept the best part to our final minutes in the park! It's the Top Thrill Dragster!!!

The tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world!!

"Riders begin their epic journey aboard this whopping 42-story screamer by securing themselves into ultra-cool trains that resemble top fuel dragsters. The train then moves into a "starting line" position, where it is launched forward, reaching 120 mph in approximately four seconds. The train then zooms straight up the 420-foot-tall hill on track that rotates 90 degrees, crests the coaster's apex and then free falls back to Earth. But hold on, this isn't your father's roller coaster. As the train races 400 feet to the ground, the track twists an unbelievable 270 degrees – what a rush! Riders then return to the station to begin regaling their friends with stories of the greatest ride of their lives"

Imagine 120mph (200km/h) in 4 seconds! and we did it twice consecutively! and WAHHH!

Now get the feeling!

That ended our day in Cedar Point and it was already 10:45pm

But the journey has not ended! We called a cab back to Amtrak train station...and called sandusky Police to open the Amtrak waiting room for us. Yes, it's the police who has the key for the station...Before the police came, there were 4 kids who strayed in the midnight coming to us say we are from Tokyo, Japan... and I told them my name is Michael...

Then the kids went away to search for some other new friend to chat...and the police came and we got into the waiting room to wait for our Amtrak train which was scheduled at 4:55am...

While asleep, 2 African American females came in and chatted loudly and loudly and just disturbing my sleep...they were not waiting for trains and I have no idea who they are...and they left not long after...weird

And at 4:55am we were wide awake waiting the train to arrive but yet again...delay! OH I have experienced so many times in my previous trip [link]...it's a norm...so ok...and finally it came after 1 hour and 40 minutes behind schedule...

And finally we arrived Ann Arbor at 10am.

Wah...what a trip!

yay I'm proud of myself!

2008-06-18T09:52:00.006-04:00

After 20 years of infinite attempts, I finally made a Guinness World Record! Not Malaysia Book of Record because that's so cacat, I can simply eat 100 packs nasi lemak and claim I'm the king of nasi lemak, no fun... But this is world record!!!

So let me show off the certificate ok
First I must 'thank you' my parents, my family, my friends, my enemies...no I don't have enemies, my cats, my squirrels, myself and of course,
my Pooh...,
don't judge him as a dumb smiling poo...he beat the firefox!

and also 'thank you' you for sharing my proud moment!

*this is a really lamp post...oh not lamp post, I mean lame post...

Free! Please take one

2008-06-14T15:49:00.007-04:00

There's nothing worth living in United States except one thing. You can live here without spending any money...because everything is FREE!

So far I've got free snacks, coffee, cereals, lotion etc etc etc for free! with no terms and conditions applied.

here are some of them...and more to come
How to get them free? go [here] to check out!

You may think those are just small little sample...not really...

I got this 10pcs LightScribe DVD+R worth $15 for free! Wah! I can start lightscribing!
They love to give away free stuffs and I can get free stuffs. So it's win-win :)

Best Employee of the Year! ...and a top SECRET! please don't tell anyone

2008-06-11T16:09:00.007-04:00

So today I officially received a Michigan hat (with real gold"M") as compliment of 2008 Best Employee of The Year in Dining Hall category!!

What a great day!

Ok that was a lie...

In fact today was the first day I started to work (or to be trained) in dining hall and that hat is to be given to every employee...

But anyway I'm on my way to win the prize because I've done so many tasks today without causing any troubles.

First, I walked around like a supervisor to check out whether everything was in order...
ie to learn the working of dining hall...

Then I replaced a juice container in the juice machine...

Then I was the "food runner" wh0 ran here and there and in and out just to get the foods to the counter...

After a while I became the server who gave people chicken breast...

And I was upgraded to dishroom afterward...

So how's the dishroom? Oh I finally found the place where foods stolen from Africa are stored (or disposed)! Woo...what a strategic place as nobody will ever think that Michigan has a secret mission: to steal food from Africa and dispose it to nowhere (or somewhere)...

You can see plates and bowls of fully uneaten foods to be thrown into a mysterious state of the art machine which turn those foods to nothing...I wonder if they have a mission call: "send the foods to Mars for humankind's future nevermind the people in Africa now"?

And I wonder if they are trying to experiment whether mars has gravity or not because I saw a big red apple being thrown into the machine...oh no! then the future human have to learn Newton's 4th Law!!!! (4th law says the energy and mass of apple in Mars is still retaining the energy and mass it has in Earth, so it is still an apple...)

Actually I'm the one threw it...but I couldn't save it because they are so many people watching and I can't risk the chance to change the future...if the future Newton (in Mars) can't have the apple drop to his head he won't discover the 4th law...and humankind will be doomed...
and don't forget the employee award!

So after 2.5 hours my job is done!

And with that, I'm a fully trained employee and looking forward next mission! (wonder if they have any more?)

About change

2008-06-09T00:28:00.009-04:00

As mentioned in previous post: Change

So what's change?

Is it better to change?

Judge yourself :)

image credit: venukb

:) haha

Petrol naik harga, so how? protest?

2008-06-05T18:54:00.006-04:00

Recently there's petrol price hike in Malaysia (in case you don't know).

Beside Malaysia, India also did the same thing on the same day...co-incidence?

So why suddenly petrol price raised from rm1.92 to rm2.70 and diesel from rm1.58 to rm2.58? Government revamped the fuel subsidies policy! Not only Msia & India, Indonesia and Taiwan also reduced the subsidies. Judging the recent global high fuel price, it's a change that inevitable for Malaysia...(like the change that we Americans can believe in Obama...just for comparison :)

To view my opinions on this issue just go [here]. A post that shares same views.

I lazy to type here...

or [here]

actually same....

by the way, petrol naik harga, cars turun harga la...I can't drive a USD18,000 All new 2009 Camry back to Malaysia...

Blue screen of death!!!!

2008-06-05T17:54:00.007-04:00

This is the infamous blue screen of death aka BSOD!! If you never heard of and never encountered, well you are just lucky...what is it?? It's a norm in Windows, when it feels it's tired of listening to your command, it just go BLUE!

So it happened during my physics lab today...just after my partner and I finished collecting data and done some calculations...pop! BSOD! Wah, long time never had BSOD but now it comes out!

Oh no...all data gone...the lab PC is network base and no data will be saved after restart...

so how? so our lecturer just copied data and calculations from other group for us :) and we untung a a bit because the group calculated more than us so I have to thanks the windows XP :)

If you want to try how is BSOD without really having BSOD, go [here]

Reflection . Future . Life

2008-06-03T19:59:00.013-04:00

When a person reach a point of his life, it's inevitable to look back at the past...

looking back the my past 20 year, it's a long journey.

Well, some people have plans until the day they feel it's time for eternity sleep (some even decide where to sleep I think)...some people have no plans for life at all...but there's one thing for sure: plans can never be followed 100%; not even 99.99%

In my life, there's many unexpected journeys...I really did a lot beyond my imagination.

Born in a kampung surrounded by padi, now in University of Michigan pursuing my dreams (is it my dreams?), it is not planned...and much of the times I have no plans :)

My memories of the past is still vivid in my life...

story telling time!
at kindergarten, I'm just an extraordinary normal kid...learning and knowing friends...

And as little child, there's nothing to worried about; it's so carefree...and all those afternoons after school playing with siblings and friends around the residential area...and I never really pressing hard to study...and my parents never gave even tiny pressure on academics...and then to primary school.

And for no reasons I've been selected as school prefect and class monitor...And I know I'm not the "tough" disciplinarian so I've done my jobs pretty well with the Mr Good Guy image.

And then life continues...in secondary school. at first admitted to a newly built school but the study environment was terrible...and if I did not decide to switch to GBS...maybe I've ended up as a billionaire now, who knows :)

The most anticipated class was PE...all classes can be cancelled but PE! and I enjoyed playing football every second even though I'm damn cacat at it.

Maybe it's just DNA, I'm not the talkative guy, I'm not outgoing etc, and maybe people have perceived me as a nerd or an introvert person...whatever, I'm just being myself, I'm not a nerd, I don't really study, I love outdoor activities, I love to be friend with others, I am Unique...

And growing older, on top of being the elder brother of two sisters, I've learned responsibilities. Though my 1st sister & I always quarrel and I always kacau my 2nd sister and never shown as a caring brother, I do care about them; and I must say I'm a home guy who just enjoy go back to home for unexplainable reasons. Home is warm...

I've gained invaluable experiences after elected as the St John Ambulance President in school; that's one of the toughest responsibilities. Imagine you are the leader for an active uniform body not only in school but involved in community. Through interaction with all the officers I've learnt; through all those competitions I'm proud; through leading I'm braver. And there's no other greatest moments after emerged as national first-aid competition champion team and received the Grand Prior highest honor for cadet...

and I was at the turning point of life: after SPM.

Form 6 was my only option after rejected both Matrikulasi and JPA before JPA accepted the appeal.

INTEC was another milestone in my life. With no intention to involve in any clubs , it ended up I being the VP for IE Club. Besides, the 1.5 years was a spiritual journey for me when I finally rediscovered Buddhism.

The path from INTEC to Michigan was a real crazy experience...but I'm happy with my decision to come here and I'm on my way to become the weird plant biologist...

20 years, it's just like yesterday, but yet it is so far away; there's sweet memories, but also evil deeds that I wish I could have not done...but we can never go back, and I bet you won't go back even there's time machine, there's no way we can alter the past to be better...there's no perfect life, we just need to acknowledge the past and keep moving.

People always say life is short; not really. When you live to the fullest, you live to be happy and contentious, life is just nice; learn to enjoy.

drink a cup of coffee, listen to music, admiring the views from windows; or go for a trip, take a break, life is enjoyable...

that's just my view of life. Life is to enjoy, live my way of life...and be happy

So relax huh? How to achieve in life?...no need to work? Don't worry, we can achieve because we believe we can.

Michigan squirrel

2008-05-27T15:55:00.016-04:00

Aren't squirrels cute? I just don't know why they are cuter than you...but that's the reality...

squirrels are running everywhere in Ann Arbor, and it's such happy moments when I see them and try to approach them but when they act stupid and ignore me then I chase after them...

And squirrels remind me of one special animal: cat!

Why? Because squirrels are so ubiquitous here...just like cats in Malaysia...

And let me introduce Nutty!

The candy-loving tree friend in Happy Tree Friends! And they are extremely cute...before it turns out to be bloodyful-not-cute...

So that's squirrels...

Bicycle & Motorcycle & Oh...Memories!

2008-05-21T00:34:00.009-04:00

I have a driving license for car, motorcycle and also bicycle...

Frankly, I NEVER drive a car after I passed the driving test...oh yeah...I drove once trying my family's new Avanza (drive a round in my taman) and that's all...the reason: I love motorcycle and bicycle!

There are thousands interesting experiences to share but let's start with a story long long time ago...

Ok, my first bike accident...I have a vivid memory of this event because it happened in my favorite small town called Tanjung Sepat. Since I was small I always anticipating to go back my mom's kampung to visit grandparents and had fun with cousins...miss all those wonderful times...[out of topic la!]...Ok, the accident: My 表哥 gave me a ride and he bumped to a bumper and lost balance and I fell to road...and I remember it took me a very long time before the bruises on my knees disappeared...that was like 4YO

Then this is very funny! About 5or6YO...I crashed a motorcycle! Really! and there was one piece of blue plastic fallen from the motorcycle...and imagined I was riding a miniature bike and my sister ran beside me and I never saw the motorcycle coming from the corner and just banged into its side...and then I have no idea somehow I just got away like that...and this time I'm safe and sound...real Crazy...

Oh...it's so fun riding a bike and I just love riding it around my taman (taman = residential area)

When time passes, eveything changes...so then I have a motorcycle!

Interesting...I was watching my motorcycle banged into a Mercedez Benz by a friend who's trying it out...Ouch...my shiny black Modenas...and it slightly crashed the rear bumper of the mercedez which belonged to our boss! (we were working in a restaurant then...and the incident happened right in front the restaurant...luckily he didn't discover at that time...) and my motorcycle was amazingly tough...it survived with only a few scratches...and from then onward I never let anyone else ride my motorcycle.

and second accident...this was thrilling!
I was enjoying my ride and about to reach a junction...and suddenly I felt a strong force stroke from my right and then a man was thrown infront of me! at that seconds I was totally numbed...and his motorcycle was smashed and pieces falling off after colliding to my motorcycle...the only feeling I had then was the strain I felt on my arms which firmly holding the motorcycle handle...It was a really strong force and somehow i'm holding my motorcycle right at the spot without being thrown...the guy walked up...damn him holding a phone and continued to talk to his friend "I involve in accident la...call you later"! (the accident happened because he came from the opposite side of a one way road!) and I asked about his condition and he seems ok...[he really "fly" from his motorcycle, truth]

Apparently it was his fault so I tried to negotiate with him about compensation but then he denied to have any money and seeing his poor motorcycle I just let it be la...I spent RM70+ to replaced the front "fork" which suffered from misalignment....and some pain in my arms for few days. And I am still wondering how could I hold my motorcycle so firmly. Superman? Perhaps.

Universal truth: motorcycle is not that comfartable as car but I just love it because it's convenient to start, no parking hassle, can park anywhere including kaki lima...can squeeze through traffic jam etc...

but one biggest disadvantage: OH NO Please Don't RAIN!

It's freezing cold to ride in rain!!! and it's such a trouble...and always after I washed my motorcycle to shiny black it rains the next day and became dirty again...

Oh there's one more horrible experience when riding my motorcycle back to my home...it was a wonderful afternoon (so don't expect a ghost riding with me) and I fetched my sister back from friend's house...and when I turned into a road, 2 guys on another motorcycle who look like "stupid barbarians mat rempit bodoh otak sial tak siuman" started horning at us and intimidating us...and even fircely asked us to "berhenti...aku suruh awak henti! henti" (STOP right here) and kept closer to us...and I looked around for any vehicles in sight but to no avail. And I knew whatever they want I won't stop! And I stared at them like I don't care and keep speeding++++
and just fled those 2 idiots who had nothing better to do...at least go eat shit ma. Should have taken down their no. for police report...
and I seems pretty tough huh...actually I trembled after I reach home...what an encounter!

So if you want to ride motorcycle? after considering my cases you may consider to abandon your plan...

But other than that it was really a convenient transportation...

wait...I still have a story about bicycle, here's the link to it...in my old friendster blog :)
http://fong_5_5.blogs.friendster.com/fowarding/2007/09/im_cycling_to_i.html

and a motorcycle story. You can see the photo of my shiny black motorcyle!
http://fongforward.blogspot.com/2007/12/oh-o-tire-puncture.html
which is the first post on wah! live for fun.

My next bicycle story: riding around Malaysia! My dream! And I really thought of riding from Shah Alam to Melaka...but now ended in Michigan...or else 99.9% done that already...

I have green fingers

2008-05-17T12:06:00.011-04:00

Today I received a certificate from Mayor for making his city flowerful.

Oh it was the first community work I've involved since I came here and usually I'm not keen on doing community works but flower + green = my favorites so I signed up at the second I received an email about the event!

And I never knew my friends were joining until the day before the event. Great:)

The tasks were easy...

First we got a green T-shirt and dispatched to designated location.
I love green!

Second we listened the instructions from the gardener...and introduced to petunia and another flower which it's not aunt Petunia's favorite flower so I forget its name...

So this is petunia

Third we dig holes and put in the plants...not blossomed like the photo shown above...but soon ;)

Finally we want to make the flowers happy by giving them cocoa aka chocolate...they love chocolate as much as we do! It was aromatic chocolaty smells in the flower beds when we poured in cocoa shell mulch.
and all done!

Hmmm...then we walked back to the gathering point and had drinks and pizzas...Instead of using
the city council used this
to put the iced drinks...wah...

So next time if you passed by here....

And happily ever after!

oh my dear friend

2008-05-05T13:07:00.015-04:00

In the world, there are human beings. Out of so many people in the world, there are some we known as friends. Among the friends, there's always some friends which are very special. So this post is dedicated to a friend of mine who has interesting characters :)

He is certainly not the average Joe or average Abu Ah Meng Muthu, but he's above average.

Sometimes, you can find him "funny" but sometimes it can be irritating...

Let's see why he's so special...

When he sneezes, he says the room is overloaded with CO2, and he is very sensitive to it! Great, Al Gore can hire him to be the atmosphere CO2 detector.

And my friend is always hungry. And when he's hungry, he'll ask me: I'm so hungry...are you hungry?
Ok, imagine that's almost every second when he's with me...

But he's a concerning person... he always think of other people when he feels tired, dizzy, sleepy, hot/cold etc etc....yep, and he feels tired, dizzy, sleepy, hot/ cold every day, and almost everyday headache...
Some examples of his wise words:
1. I never sleep well last night, now so sleepy, want to get some sleep later...are you sleepy?
2. Wo, my head feels dizzy...I can't stand looking at screen too long
3. Wah, my skin is so dry, see yours

While we are enjoying the movie , he suddenly says: so hungry, are you hungry?
Oh your God, I say no! And he just go grab some snacks...

So every time when he's going to ask me those type of questions, I have an absolute answer: NO!

He: Are you hungry?
Me: NO! (even sometimes a bit hungry)

He: Do you feel the room is stuffy?
Me: NO!

He: Wah, it's so cold now...I'm trembling~~~Do you feel cold?
Me: NO! (in fact it's not that cold)

He: Huh...now I feel damn tired, don't you feel tired as well?
Me: NO! (why should I? I sleep so well last night...)

and...

Me: We go to mamak stall @ 11pm later ok?
He: Ok sure!
when almost 11pm...
Me: Let's go!
He: Oh I feel pening la...want to get some rest...
Me: ok...

But when he says he want to get some sleep early because he's tired, he's watching online TV @ 2am...

He's just a special guy to me...because he never wear shorts...and doesn't has any kind of shorts...and he wears slacks or jeans all day long...and all night long...

And I told you he's very concerning...so after every exam, test and quiz, he'll ask around for other people's score, either in person or online or phone...and even his scores are very good he never satisfied. Haha at least we never in same course/class so he never asks me...but I think others will be terrified by his overwhelming "what you get for the test ha?"

If you are curious who's him, I just tell you la...he is Pak Liong Peng...never heard? Never mind, you probably don't know him...
I've asked permission to publish his name. so no offense to him. And by the way, he's from Korea but I think he doesn't know Pak Ji Sung or Hyun Bin or TVXQ...

And he's quite worried about everything, especially worried that he can't go back Korea because he forget how to speak Korean after many years staying in Malaysia...

So, this is how friends lighten our lives! Hope he is with me in Michigan now...

disclaimers: above statements are all true except 2 elements. Name of the real person is never faked, so to unprotect his privacy. If you are Pak Liong Peng but the descriptions don't match you, it's not you. But if you are pak Liong Peng but feel like the descriptions don't match you but you know me because I know you, it is you. There's possibilities many people having same name. But please inform me if you are whoever Pak Liong Peng and found uncomfartable with my post.

Late for class...

2008-04-29T23:26:00.011-04:00

For the first time in my life, I overslept and was late for the first class meeting of the new semester!

For some of you it's quite a norm but it was the FIRST time in my life I never wake up in time to get to class!

Alarm rang @8.30am but then just dozed off...and when I' was enjoying my dream suddenly my roommate called me up @ 10:04am and OH NO! My class starts @10am!

(*actually my roommate knew I'm having class @10 and he also has class @ 10 but only woke me up when he's ready to go...and the reason he woke me up only @10:04 = he thought I'm already out but obviously I was still at my bed, and he definitely couldn't have not seen me in bed because he must have seen me because he must pass by my room to go in & out to his room...confused? )

Then although it was late, I still arranged my bedsheet before rushing to bathroom to get my face washed and messy hair combed. I must keep my room tidy all the time, regardless rain or sunny, snow or sandstorm, day or night, left or right.

And with empty stomach I ran to Dennison Building which is 10 minutes away. And since I never went to the lecture room before, more time was wasted searching for the room...

And finally @ 10:21, I slowly turned the door knob and get into the lecture room as quiet as possible but to discover my professor was in front the lecture room and glanced at me...for a short while....ok...then I just grabbed a seat and sit down and pretended as though I was there since 10am...

But late only mah...in It's not really a big deal...there are a few more people later than me and just came in like it's their home...

But that's just not me...so this post is the first warning letter to myself! No more late for class. (although I skipped all the ungraded discussion sessions for CHEM210 last semester because it's @ the very early 8am...)

[Update] so far never late :)

Another Amazing Adventure @ America

2008-04-28T23:58:00.036-04:00

This will be a very very long post...to save your time, just read the summary

Summary: I went to Washington DC, Philadelphia, UPenn, New Jersey, and Pittsburgh with a friend. Then I came back. The end.

Long story: A journey that confirmed & planned just a few days before the journey. After the finals, with limited money left, but with my enthusiasm of travel, I agreed with Sharon's invitation for a trip.

A backpack, a small one, but everything for 5 days' needs are fully loaded. A journey begins! in an beautiful evening, from a small town of Ann Arbor.

Holding my Amtrak tickets, eagerly waiting for first train. Upon announcement, we went out the station and discovered that a bus is waiting for us...not a train! Huh? Ok...thruway ticket = bus. A bus bring us from a train station to another train station to board a train...

Oh...it was Wednesday April 23 9pm. And we were heading to Toledo!

@April 24 12:30am, a delayed train finally arrived

And first time stepped in Amtrak, Capitol Limited.

Yeah, @ 7am I finally woke up. But actually I was awake most of the night...susah tidur
then I felt something strange...the train was at halt!

Why huh? but at least it stopped beside so at least could see the river flows with beautiful sun hanging(?) on the sky, with flowers blossom in the spring...

And 1 hour passed...finally announcement was made and the delayed was due to a freight train...ok. Then 2 hours passed! What, still not moving!

And finally! after they realized we were bored with the scenery, the train moved! Hurray! But wait a second! the train was moving backward!!! HUH? ok...they are so considerable they reversed the train so we can have different scenery...(real situation: the train reversed to change track, u'll know why later)

Then after almost 2.5 hours. We were moving forward again! And finally we saw the freight train moving @ 5mile per hour beside us...no wonder...but I wonder why they never changed the track earlier to pass the turtle train...

And after so much delay, we arrived in Washington DC @ 4pm!

And in the limited 5 hours (3 hours stolen by Amtrak), we walked to so many places:

following sequence: Union station > US Capitol > US Botanical Garden > The National Mall > Washington Monument > Thomas Jefferson Memorial > Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial > Lincoln Memorial > Bush Memorial...wait! where got?! > Vietnam Veteran Memorial > The White House > Chinatown > Verizon Center >McDonald > Amtrak to Philly!

And actually I met bush at the White House! and I kicked him! and I just left safe & sound...you know, the bush...not that Bush...

But actually I almost detained in Guantanamo Bay with Harold & Kumar because I left my bag unattended while taking photos...luckily I was wearing a green shirt so the police officer thought I'm just a Greenpeace member and ask me not to demonstrate in front of the White House, but the green house...with Al Gore the ex-Vice President to promote reduction of green house gases...what the craps I'm writing??
*the red words are truth [never leave your bag unattended, esp near bush and never pretend to be a terrorist, or else you'll be treated as terrorist]

Next, @12:00am April 25, Philly

@Philly I stayed in Ryan's room while Sharon in Yie Lyn's. And while they were busy preparing for finals we were having our holiday...

The first morning was just amazing :) while I was in bathroom looking at mirror wondering why I have so many pimples, a sweet girl walked in and I was stunned for a moment, and I "Hi" and she "Hi" back and basically I forget what I did while she washed hand and then "bye"...ok, it's Upenn, coed dorm...

And that started my first day (April 25) in Philly! With City Pass, We've ventured more places in Philly than our friends in Upenn did :) [2 days vs 2 semesters]

So, places we went: 30th St Station > Upenn > Franklin Institute > National Constitution Center > Reading Terminal Market > See the bell > Penn's Landing > Columbus Memorial >Korean War Memorial > Vietnam War Memorial > Chili's > Independence Visitor Center > Tour Philly with double decker bus > Eastern State Penitentiary (a really nice jail) > Philly the American 1st Zoo > Banana Leaf Malaysia Restaurant (nice foods) > A Hong Kong Restaurant or bubble tea & duck rice! oh I wonder why Americans don't eat duck but eat turkey > lots of parks > New Jersey (Adventure Aquarium) > See Rutgers @ Camden! + etc etc

And the last hour in Philly+NJ was truly an amazing race! We were across the bridge in New Jersey @ 11:45am @ Adventure Aquarium. Our Amtrak @12:42pm. One hour, enough la. But after we farewell with penguins, we discovered that the next NJ Riverlink train come @ only 12:18pm/ what! That'll be very late! We need to get to WalterRand Transit Center, 8th St Station before 30th St Station!

click to experience the journey!

Wah! After the amazing journey, goodbye Philly!

But the real journey is not ended!

Next: Pittsburgh!

@8:30pm April 27, we arrived in a quiet city of Pittsburgh. The streets are just empty at night and the only opened eatery was McDonald (again...)

At the scary place it's better to wait in the station until next train to Toledo to take bus, again...

And @ 8:30am April 28, back to Ann Arbor!

Wah...next adventure: New York!

Watch out!

2008-04-18T00:07:00.000-04:00

So do you think technology help improve our living? In most of the cases, it's definitely positive. But in some rare cases, technology is really bad...

So let me introduce a technology which is disastrous: the GPS.

GPS=Global Positioning System.

Its novel intention is to guide drivers to navigate. Or for anyone who need direction to find their destination. But sometimes, we can never reach our destination by solely relying on the technology.

Let's see some of my findings

Case Study 1
Location: Arboretum, a place in USA
Time: the past Wednesday
Who: 21 Garfield High School (a school that enrolls only Garfield's fans) girls
A bus driver
A bus
A GPS device
A bridge
A warning sign

How: A bus is driven by a bus driver. The bus driver using the GPS device to navigate. There are 21 Garfield High School Girls on the bus back from a softball game.
And the journey was just like a normal bus ride...which (assumed) some girls reading Garfield comic books and watching the animation with iPod Touch.
Then a CRASH! and it's not a normal crash but the bus was plowed into overpass bridge!
The reason: The driver never use his common sense to look at the warning sign & what's infront of him...but he instead trust the GPS and just drove through the obviously low overpass bridge. What a great driver....My reasoning suggests the driver thought he's driving a VW Beetle.
The moral of the story: never drive with GPS.

Case study 2:
This is a short study investigating the unfavorable circumstance brought by GPS.
"Villagers in Carmarthenshire say they fear restoration work is being damaged by drivers using satellite navigation."Quoted from BBC.
BecauseAfter restored, the building will be damaged again...The culprits: drivers who drive giant vehicle using GPS. They never see how narrow the street...but as long as there's a way, it's a way.

So this is technology.

Username!

2008-04-15T18:27:00.000-04:00

I assume you all know how to online...

When on the net, there are so many services...including Facebook, FaceBook, and facebook. And of course we have Windows Live, Yahoo, Gmail, Youtube and whatever...

The problem with all of them is a big problem: we need to register to use the services!

When registering, usually the first thing we have to fill in is username...and the real problem is with the username!

Sometimes, we just can't get our favorite choices...especially in Youtube where the whole Earth population has an account.

and when I try and try and still no luck...why just put my username as "username"!?
So I type "username" and check the availability....

Oh No! username not available!

If username is unavailable why we need to select any username??!! weird...

So inspiration suddenly pop up! since username unavailable...why don't I choose "without1username" and finally I have an available username! I have a username without a username...haha

So from now on I have no username!

No Money = No Food

2008-04-11T23:00:00.001-04:00

Warning: article below contains ambiguous/confusing words/ phrases that might cause a syndrome called "whattheheckareyouwriting!"

Food is essential for life...you know that.

Money is a must for life...you also know it.

So food = money

Thus, no money = no food
The picture above already proven my statement. It's indisputable.

Here's another proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

------- :)

That's my intro, now to main points.

Living animal needs energy, so human acquires energy from food. In order to get food, we need to buy food. Before you can have the food, you have to pay for the food (or you can pay yourself if you are the food producer).

And the current issue I'm discussing is insufficiency of money, which directly related to food.

As information researchers of Ministry of Public Service (MPS) in the states, we are now facing delayed allowance payment, which directly pose a great survivor threat for some of us, including myself. However, some reseachers are doing extra researches so they fare better in the crisis. Or some of them have a solid financial background who can live luxuriously even without allowance or extra money source.

As for me: a guy who eat so much and never grow taller; a guy who too preoccupied in eating until forsake the chances to do more jobs, the situation is critical.

Hope the relief will come soon so the I can continue to grow taller...my aim is taller than Yao Ming.

Durian . Dance . Dandiya . Dan lain-lain

2008-03-30T12:28:00.000-04:00

It was a great Southeast Asia Night In UMichigan last Saturday! A great showcase for Southeast Asia countries!

Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand Vietnam + Cambodia. Foods, band performances, cultural performances, sketch!

As part of proud Malaysia community in Michigan, I performed in an Indian dance! I just don't know why...I'm never been a good dancer but then I've danced in a few occasions, at least I never spoils the dances :)

So the Malaysian performance was about a Indian & Malay couple in long long time ago...their relation is disapproved by parents and reborn into modern Malaysia and continue their love story...with Dandiya(Indian dance), Ulek Mayang and Chinese Fan Dance to embellish the story.
Here's the video!

Southeast Asia=foods.
So we have our nasi lemak! And what we can have for RM1 in Malaysia = USD3
It definitely looks good and tastes great, but sambal can be more spicy...maybe it have been modified to suit non-Malaysians?

And nasi lemak always come with durian! (is it?)

Don't expect to get cheap durian here...1 = USD 10!
Other than durian and nasi lemak, there were chicken rice, rojak, beef rendang, Goi Cuon (Vietnamese spring roll) etc. And not to forget "Chi Kut Teh" from Malaysia! Huh? It's the chicken version of bak kut teh!

It was a real Southeast Asia night!

95% true about me. Figure out which is not :)

2008-03-26T01:03:00.000-04:00

What Fong, Wai Khong Means

You are loving, compassionate, and ruled by your feelings.

You are able to be a foundation for other people... but you still know how to have fun.

Sometimes your emotions weigh you down, but you generally feel free from them.

You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life.

You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you.

At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.

You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.

You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.

You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.

Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs.

You are very charming... dangerously so. You have the potential to break a lot of hearts.

You know how what you want, how to get it, and that you will get it.

You have the power to rule the world. Let's hope you're a benevolent dictator!

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.

You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.

You have the classic "Type A" personality.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.

You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.

You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life.

You are also a keeper of knowledge - meaning you don't spill secrets or spread gossip.

People sometimes think you're snobby or aloof, but you're just too deep in thought to pay attention to them.

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.

Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.

Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person.

The Life Today...

2008-03-22T15:29:00.000-04:00

Long long time ago...
People can survive with just bow and arrows....

Life by that time is so simple, search for food, eat the food, digest the food and make the food to chocolate...but wasn't that boring?

So, people today invent thousands of things so life won't be boring.

First, mobile phone: we need mobile phone so we can call people when we need money.
This is the most reliable phone in the history!
Then we have iPod: we need iPod because it's just an apple in a pod.

Then we have clock with alarm: so we have something to curse when we're late.Also, we need a radio so we can listen to the radio...And to compensate what our malfunctioned brains can't do, we need a camera to capture images to store...(in fact our eyes' resolution are beyond mega-pixels and our brains have higher storage than Memory cards...why can't we just take photos with our eyes and store in brains?)
Then though we have all those things, life is still boring, we need a PSP!And I'm just a simple guy...I don't need those!

In fact, really, I don't have those but I can still calling people, listen to music, wake up and sleep and wake up, listen to radio, take photos, and play games...

How?

With my favorite all in one Sony Ericsson K850i!I love this "phone" so much...
Why I need to carry all those gadgets? I just need to slid this into my pocket whenever I go!

Ok...I Sony Ericsson :)

A Better Malaysia

2008-03-08T15:03:00.000-05:00

March 8. Malaysians have voted.
Democratic. People's voice is heard.
Change. It's time for change.
Hope. A better nation for everyone.
Me. so far so good and getting better :)

Chicago!

2008-02-28T23:32:00.000-05:00

Spring break was coming and is going....

And my very first travel destination in US > Chicago!

An exciting trip!

Going by Greyhound Bus...Malaysian buses much more better...even a very kampung Jebat Ekspres better than this narrow seated Greyhound.

After 6 hours and many stops...finally Chicago!

First...saw SEARS Tower! Then Union Station, went inside bought a 3 day Chicago Transport Authority (CTA) pass for $12. And saw 1 wanderer sleeping in the station...

Then we keep on walking to Caffe Baci

Then done with meal...to Millenium Park, where there's the biggest bean

Oh yeah...forget to mention we're walking in Chicago with our luggages!

After eaten the bean, we went to Oglivie Station to take a double decker Metra train to Malaysian Student Department officer's house to eat nasi lemak but no roti canai...wah, also got pulut hitam and ice cream as dessert.

Then go to another MSD officer's house to stay.

Next morning! A new day! After having breakfast at MSD office...Shedd Aquarium! Cute penguins. Then Field Museum! Mummies and dinasours!

Darwin's words are colorful!

Then it was snow storm. And we're lost in the Chicago streets before we had our dinner at Giordano's: deep dish pizzas...penuh until terbalik!

Then take train back to Evanston (The place we stay). called taxi and called again and again the taxi never appear...so had to call MSD officer at 12am to fetch us...paiseh.

Third day! Breakfast with french Vanilla Nescafe and Nasi goreng+ayam kicap. Then went to train station and wait for another group of friends...waited and waited and they not yet appear; and after almost 1 hour they came...when travelling in a big group, this is extraordinary normal.

We went to Museum of Science and Industry and saw the submarine stolen from Germany!!
U505

Then Chinatown! Not that Chinese actually...went to Penang Restaurant to have a salty Hookien Mee, a extremely salty wanton noodle, with really cacat's wantons...I miss authentic Malaysian foods! Oh yeah...the new F word discovered in the trip is Food! WTF = what the food!

After Penang was Hancock! Great night view of Chicago!

After Hancock was sleep...

Oh wait...before that was cheese cake! @Cheesecake Factory

It was Kahlua-ly coffee taste! Nice!

Then sleep.

Last day! Adler Planetarium. Really sunny day! Even the frozen lake melted!

Then all done! We've visited 5 major attractions in Chicago. 1Shedd Aquarium2Field Museum3Museumof Scienceand Industry4Hancock Observatory5Adler Planetarium!

And the excitement just began! Our 3 day pass= 72 hours pass. We managed to got in our second last bus ride just 1 minute before expiration! And our last ride was thrilling!

The pass couldn't be used...so we kelam kabut searching for small note and coins...then while half of us in bus...the other 3 were left at the bus stop...the driver just drove away before they got into the bus! Luckily they got the next bus which just minute after. After all safe...we walked/run/rushed to Greyhound station

When we got into the express bus, suddenly the driver ask us to tag our luggages! Oh! we have to put a digital tag on our luggages! Cacat Greyhound...while going to Chicago from Ann Arbor we only required hand written tag...here different way pula...so we were like mad people running in the bus station to get the tagging done...

But at least there's one good thing about the bus service...it's like taking a flight...the driver will make announcement through speakers...and the biggest anouncement was "The bus has air pressure (hydraulic) problem...and we'll continue our journey to Detroit ...hopefully it won't happen after Ann Arbor..."

And we finall arived safe and sound to Ann Arbor!

Life in A^2, US of A

2008-02-23T11:50:00.000-05:00

First, define A^2: pronounced A squared, full name: Ann Arbor; a university town.

After almost 2 months here, there are many things for me to share!

First> The vehicle's plate.
I was puzzled when I first realized that plate is only needed at the back of the car!
So, it can be anything in front

And I don't know why variety of plate # can be chosen....just look at the plate below..

"UM FAN 1" and then M Go Blue sign down left...
An obvious Michigan fan! FYI, Michigan is the winningest college football team...the term winningest sounds weird...

Second> the buses here are very punctual! Or at least won't let you wasted an hour waiting for bus like in Malaysia.
There are 2 bus services.
1. AATA The Ride. A public bus service; free for UM students.
2. Magic bus! UM's bus. It's magical! Why? Oh, you can be in your room a minute before, then another minute in the bus! How? we can see the bus moving in google map...then when the bus is near, grab your bag and go!

Third> I love shopping! Yes shopping!
Here has no WalMart, but has Kroger and Meijer.
Meijer is the biggest here and all the goods are at reasonably cheap prices. And I love the self-scanning paying method since it's free of tax in Kroger and lesser tax in Meijer.

Forth> You can earn some pocket money by participating in paid survey. So far I've received $33 from 3 different surveys. I did it sincerely one ah....not just simply get money. So, I've helped thoundsands of people who will be benefited from those surveys! I even donated some money during one survey! See, I do help people while helping myself!
Besides surveys, there are many freebies we can get in US. There are many companies giving out free samples; just give them your address and they send you their samples! Now I'm expecting a lot of them coming to me in coming weeks!

Now is spring break!!!!

A special Chinese New Year!

2008-02-10T20:21:00.000-05:00

What does Chinese New Year mean to you? Family? Food? Angpao? Firecrackers? Or All RED?

This year: My CNY:
In a far far away place from home
Without all those delicious foods
All white...(Christmas?!)
No angpao
Just friends.

Sound pathetic? No, I don't meant so!
Actually it's quite special.

Had good times enjoying new year eve with friends in Chinese restaurant. Woo so red...

Then Slyvia had a home party...

I prepared special secret recipe chicken! 2 pans in one time! Great chef. Cooking was so fun!
And the chicken was delicious. Yes, at least I think it is.

Next, we have UMIMSA gathering. I was helping in preparing wanton with chicken filling...

Then the night was all about chicken: lemon chicken, chicken wanton, chicken bak kut teh, rendang chicken etc...

Why I'm so green?? No red shirt liao lo...

And finally it's my freezing cold birthday...
thanks all for wishing me a happy birthday...and thank YungLeong KaiShuen SengWui for the burritos.

And today is really cold...

It feels like almost -30C!
But it was very syok walking in the cold...

And the end.

So far so full until terbalik

2008-01-30T22:40:00.000-05:00

Too long never update so this is a simple post that clearly shows that I love to eat and can eat a lot.

Proof:
Broken fork!

Eat too much until it breaks!

And hopefully by the end of the year I can grow 10cm taller? Impossible?

My Luggage is Back!!

2008-01-06T12:49:00.001-05:00

After almost one week, my luggage is finally arrived safe and sound. Wah...

Now I've got all my clothes back! And plus I can enjoy my 3 in 1 Drinks!

I have Boh Tea, Boh 3in1, Milo, Nescafe, Coffee Tea, etc etc and a few bags of Lipton taken from inn. All around 80 packets...wah.

Happily ever after!!!

Snow and spaghetti!

2008-01-02T20:32:00.001-05:00

So how's life in United States? It's a spaghetti life!

It's too cold outside and you won't feel like to just having supper outside...here supper = malaysia dinner. So spaghetti is the best dinner in room, other than ramen...here ramen = malaysia instant noodle.

Nissin Ramen 0.2 USD/Pack, cheap lo...spaghetti 1 normal pack only USD1, pasta sauce only USD2/big bottle. Very saving la. But wah...like that everyday die lo...so have to eat apple! pack of 10 USD 2.99, ok la. Then having some milk in the morning, 1.89L only USD2.09. Then cereal USD3.99. Oh ya...I don't know why we manage to get ham at USD1 per pound! Wah great deal!.

Those were my meals in US. Never been to any restaurant even after almost a week. Why? first 2 days stayed in Red Roof Inn, dinner prepared by seniors, USD5/ pack. Then morning having great breakfast. Lunch either too busy to eat or no mood to eat...luggage trouble...very very troubling...have to buy clothes or else die lo...one Lee jeans USD24.99,
levi Strauss USD19.99. Tshirts 3.99 and 6 and 6. And socks and towel and underwears:) Luckily I brought a thin blanket from Malaysia Airlines :)
Then I had McDonald...first meal in US! I had BK, and just had turkey ham sandwich this afternoon during orientation.

Wah, it's really cold outside...luckily jackets are with me...
sunny snowy day...but then it turned gloomy soon...it is nice when there's sunshine...

Just registered classes...tomorrow having first class!

Where's is my baggage?

2007-12-30T02:31:00.000-05:00

Is it exciting when travel overseas by plane, the first time? Yes, but not after you discover your baggage is missing at your destination. Ah....my baggage is not arriving with me in Detroit Airport and I got no clothes to wear in this cold winter...wah, this sounds exciting. My baggage went travel by itself without my consent, what a naughty bag!

Now I'm waiting for its arrival...at the moment, I have 1 long john, 1 sweater, 1 socks, 1 gloves, and luckily 2 jackets to withstand the cold weather.

Wah, then have to wear only those for the next 3 years in University of Michigan? Impossible la...so have to go shopping tomorrow...

What to do now? just hope for the best! it will be back soon :)

My advise: Don't pack anything when go overseas so you won't lost your belongings; or best, don't go overseas by plane, bus is more comfortable than plane.

Oh, my 3 in 1 coffee also gone...

The evolution of spectacles

2007-12-25T10:10:00.000-05:00

See the photo above? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7...my spectacles!

They can be categorized into 3 groups.

First are the two on the left.
From England Optical Groups.
Standard 3 to Standard 6.
Very round and big. Don't know la, that was that time's fashion.
First one is Doraemon specs...like Doraemon, big and fat and round :)
Second is a specs also...of course! Nothing special, but very big also; I forget how I look in those specs...

Second group is the middle three.
All from kong Wah Optical.
Form 1 till form 5
The 3rd and 4rd are the same design...because i broke the 3rd frame during basketball game just about 1 month purchasing it...so just changed the frame.
The 5rd one also nothing special...
All these three are quite slim :)

All the previous are made from metal frame...so some paint are easily torn...

Then the 3rd group.
Both from Focus Point.
The most expensive specs ever.
6th costs around rm500 and the current rm550. The thinnest lens are expensive...
My eye too powerful...so the lens must be powerful.
Both are plastic covered on the sides...why last time no plastic one? I also don't know.

In conclusion, everything changes.

Why I keep all my specs? I also don't know...

Wah I'm going to Michigan!

2007-12-24T09:44:00.001-05:00

I'm leaving Malaysia to Michigan this Friday > University of Ann Arbor Michigan.

At first, UM is not my choice since it doesn't offer Biotech. But then, how I ended up there? Oh, it's a long long long story.

1. I'm eligible to apply, according to our sponsor.

2. Since the sponsor pays our application fee, so I try my luck.

3. Then I done all I suppose to do and handed my dossier to the student office.

4. I was waiting for results...err, not eagerly.

5. Wah, many of my friends admitted. My two roommates also got the offer.

6. Eh? Why I never get one?

7. I contacted UM and they tell me I didn't send my transcripts! Ahhh! The student office didn't include transcripts in my application package.

8. That time was before final exam week...

9. Then, finally the transcripts sent! Concentrated on exams.

10. Transcripts arrived Michigan 3 days later.

11. Phoned them, and told that normally all letters take 2 weeks to be processed...Then wait lo

12. Now I'm eagerly waiting for the results...hope can get into UM!

13. After 2 weeks...

14. I was told that they didn't have my SPM certificate! Wahhhhh! Student office didn't include it also...I should have make sure all the required materials are in the package before they send...now too late...

15. I was in a state that I have no sufficient vocab to describe...after so long wait...now got problem again...

16. I asked the office to fax the cert (since the cert was in the student office) to UM.

17. They received and reviewing my credentials. I was very very nervous waiting for verdict.

18. For all those admitted have to attend a compulsory 5 days camp. By that time, there are 4 out of 40 applicants haven't admitted. We (4 of us) were told to attend the camp just in case we get the offer. But I nearly missed it because I misread a email that ask me to attend...nearly missed it...

19. Luckily a friend save my future when we chatted online! That was 2 days before the camp!

20. The camp was completed!

21. As soon as the camp finished, our mobile phones were returned to us (no phone throughout the camp).

22. ASAP I checked my status using GPRS.

23. WAH! Admitted!!!!

24. It was Nov 24.

25. But then not happily ever after yet...

26. After long long wait...I was wondering why my I20 not yet processed?!

27. Contacted them and they told me they don't have my financial statement, so can't issue my I20!

28. Ha? No financial statement? It should be included in my application package also...but then it was not included. I can't put all the blame on the student office; I should have make sure it was inside before they send...
haiz...

29. Phoned the student office and the problem solved. Now waiting for I20 which is needed to apply for my student visa. Then was Dec 12...wah..really late

30. finally, I20 arrived on Dec 17.

31. Then interview scheduled on Dec 19.

32. Yeah Visa done on Dec 21.

33. Finally I'm ready to fly!!!!

Wah, actually the story is very very very long...so not all details are included. But most importantly with the help from friends and the student office I finally can go Blue! Thanks!

By the way, no Biotech, so how?

So I choose Plant Biology...after all, I love plant.

Oh o tire puncture

2007-12-13T12:03:00.002-05:00

Ha ha. My motorcycle's front tire puncture again...again? This was not the first time lo, the 5th time in 2 years. Very lucky :)