Beware of Scammers!

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...

Let me tell you a story.

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....

A crazy trip to Sandusky!

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!

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

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

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?)

Blue screen of death!!!!

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]

I have green fingers

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

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.

Another Amazing Adventure @ America

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!