Disneyworld

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Huh?

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

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

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 9.9/10 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

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

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

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!

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...