Good ol days

The memories. my heart still beats faster than ever every time i watch em!

one long long journey

hey there, for those who don't know, I'm safe and sound in the states right now. so where do i start now..ah, the day i left, at the airport.

The airport

I cried! zomgwtf!!! i myself for once can't believe this. i admit I'm not really a very emotional person, but i really cant believe i cried the day my friends and family(f&f) sent me off at the airport. But i can explain!! really! I was all well, holding back my tears when the time had finally come for us to enter the gates and part with our f&f's.
Then.. i saw the dumb ass jon yee crying! that was when my tears was finally irrepressible and started rolling down my eyes.


well it was still okay i guess, for letting a few tears roll down your eyes on the day you leave your loved ones and be apart from them for thousands of miles. But then i saw my other friend, jin crying too! oh gosh, jin was the oldest among all my friends, and obviously the most matured. even him started crying! and there i knew how much I'll miss them all in msia and that was when eu-roy turned from man to baby. haha

just a moment later, all our smiley faces turned sour.

Ames, Iowa

tired of waiting in the airport already.

After a 27hour long journey, I finally reached Des Moines airport in Iowa! to start with how weird the Americans were, they pronunciated Des Moines as De Moine. Please explain to me why they silenced the 'S'. if it were so, then why not Mississippi to just Miiippi? weird!
Lady luck shone upon me that day. i friggin left my knapsack bag in the airport and went on the car headed towards Ames! all my passports, and other important documents were all in it. i didn't really panick, was just depressed. But then i started to pray. It took the driver almost 2 hours to bring me back to the airport because he had other stuff to do..and waala! my bag was left untouched. thank god! (probably because Des Moines airport was so rural that not many people were even there, or on the other hand, people in Iowa is simply friendly! )

finally! des moines!

''Cultural Shock''

peeople often wonder why are most of the Americans obese. and i finally found out when i arrived here. Its not really the fastfood, i would say. But generally the food in which they take! I've been here for a few days, and alr worrying that i would turn fat. All i see in which what the Americans eat is burgers / sandwiches. Don't you for a second think sandwiches are healthy, because what they add into the sandwiches are cheese/mayo/mustard/ etc. To top it all up, every other restaurant here serves you bottomless soft drinks. you have pepsi, sprite, mountain dew, dr pepper (- -?), etcetc, and of course, coke. Well if drinking at the restaurants aint enough, theres always Walmart where you can get 18 500ml bottles of DIET COKE for just 10 dollars. Diet coke, my ass! But you can't really blame them, because the weather here is really dry and when u cant find water, theres soft drinks everywhere.



Random

Frederiksen court 72. the place i live in.

random places in campus

losing in volleyball to the locals. girls somemore! (school team okay)

Goodbye

The road was filled with green traffic lights. Even the red lights were shorter than usual. Our journey was cut short.
Time seemed to fly pass faster than usual these few days. I dare to say it was just like yesterday where i graduated. And today, it's already the day i board the plane to Iowa.


This is where a new chapter in my life begins to unfold. The road ahead seems blurry, but i'm pretty determined i'd be able to clarify things.

Still so many things seem undone, many people i cannot let go of. For 18 years, Malaysia has provided me with shelter and education(though not very brilliant ones). For that, i thank her. (Though the status and condition of our country, has never really moved forward)

Before i write off, let me thank the 2 people that have always showered me with undivided love all these years. My parents.


Mum, i love you. Though i never say, i truly do.
You've always thought me the meaning of being thrifty. I was always easily influenced by others. I wanted so much to be like my friends, being able to buy branded clothes and so on. You never encouraged me to do so, only when it was really cheap. as in, really really cheap -___-

There was this time, i bought a reebok long sleeved shirt for rm50 ?(after discount alr!) u nagged me for the whole day, although i still though it was worth it. Then the following day, we went shopping together and u found me this long sleeved collar shirt for only rm19 after discount. (better quality some more!) i was left speechless.. haha

From you, i've truly learned the value of money and how hard every cent is earned and for us to truly treasure it. Theres still much much more i've learned from you mum. but i'd have to cut it short. theres still dad remember!? hehe

Dad has always been there for me. To learning how to tie a tie, fashion, etcetc.

(thats not me, its my sis and my dad la. cant find a picture of just me and him haha)

People often say, the image of our fathers alternate differently in different stages of our life. Its so true you know!! When i was young, i tried to imitate every thing my father did. Into me teen years, everything my dad said was 'old fashioned' and i turned a deaf ear towards it. Just a couple of years later, i started listening to what my dad had to say and even followed it! His taste of collar shirts, formal shirts, and leather shoes had all influenced me! haha. (one thing of you that's never gonna influence me, smoking! hehe)

Oh, 1 more person, no way i'd forget her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sorry girls, its not you haha. its my grandma.

How she made breakfast for me, sew my clothes, took care of me. And not to forget, always the biggest 'angpau' given to me during chinese new years, birthdays, and even good results ; )
Shes the person i'd miss most when i leave for US. Haih, gotta grow up and fix my own meals and iron my own clothes now T_T

I've still got many people i would like to thank. high school mates, college friends, friends from outer space etc. But am really too exhausted to do so. Maybe i'll post a shout out for you guys when i really do miss you all during the harsh winter in Iowa hehe =p

Now, as i embark on my journey, i wish everyone of you in Malaysia, or elsewhere in this world, good luck and all the very best in whatever that lies ahead of us.

A nation of robots!

Hello people! I usually am too lazy to blog so often. But today, i don't blog i cannot!
This is after i read an article in Malaysiakini here .

You just gotta wonder how many dumb asses are out there in our society. The following is parts of the article by Ong Kian Ming which i extracted.
And before this, i feel the necessity to put a disclaimer or i might end up in court =/

disclaimer : the following contents are based on what i individually think and does not represent or convey any particular message to the general public.

I agree wholeheartedly with the new Higher Education Minister Khaled Nordin ‘that allowing university students to join political parties will restrict their development into holistic first-class human capital’.

wow, when BN got the support of the nation, they urge students to participate. Now that support for BN is dwindling, participating in political parties will deter us from becoming ''first-class'' people. wtf!

In addition, to fulfill the objective of developing our university students, I hope that the esteemed minister can consider the following proposals. I propose that:

(i) The esteemed minister considers banning students from going to mamak stalls and coffee shops. These are places where nonsensical and unproductive coffee shop 'chatter' takes place, much of it involving the topics of political interest of the day.

Since we do not want our best and brightest to corrupt their ears and to waste their time by listening to this nonsense, we need to ban our students from going to these places.

wtf! mamak stalls and coffee shops are nonsesical unproductive places!!?? then where else can i eat? u think im Abdullah's son in law can afford fancy fancy restaurants day in night out ar?!
and to stop us from ''listening to nonsense such as politics'' - chop of every single ear of ours would be a better solution.

(ii) The esteemed minister considers banning students from watching football matches especially those involving foreign teams. Watching football matches, which lasts for approximately one hour 45 minutes (including the break), and more, if we take into account the prematch and postmatch shows, is an extremely unproductive use of time.

Our students could use this time more productively, for example, in discussing the latest developments in biotechnology and nanotechnology and in collaborations to build Proton a new hybrid engine.

HAHAHA. Football is an hour and 45minutes which is waste of time. then what can we do to relax? listen to politicians bicker among themselves and act like monkeys as a form of relaxation? Discuss biotechnology and nanotechnology? sorry la boss! i'm a business major knn.

In addition, we do not want our young minds to be influenced by the teams of the decadent West who are not only footballers but also flaunt their decadent lifestyles off the field.

How i hope i can emulate the ''decadent western lifestyle'' , because they can afford it FFS!
The only way i can afford it is if i become a politician! hehe=D

(iii) The esteemed minister considers banning students from watching movies in the cinemas. Watching movies is another big waste of time, time that could be better spent on academic pursuits and developing one's own human capital.

You know mr minister. it is from watching movies that i learn how to speak and write more fluently in English. I don't wanna end up like our ex information minister hoho.

In addition, many movies produced in the West promote decadent values and values which are not consistent with our Asian culture. For example, we would not want our students to be unduly influenced by the portrayal of vigilante justice and 'cool' criminals in the latest Batman movie.

okay then. lets all emulate the BN government. cool and filled with justice. yippee

(iv) The esteemed minister considers blocking access to websites such do not promote the development of human capital in all public universities and if possible in all private colleges as well.

The only websites currently promoting human capital is currently controlled by the government? i suppose?

Websites which provide access to disturbing information on matters of little importance such as the BBC, Malaysiakini, the New York Times, should be at the top of such a list.

....i say f**k you. even reading ''The Star'' sickens me nowadays. the content is not objective at all.

(v) The esteemed minister considers implementing a rule which requires all students in public universities to carry at least one book where ever they go on and off campus. This is so that students do not waste previous time when they are waiting for buses or sitting in their friend's cars or waiting in a queue or even sitting in the john, time that could be spent reading and developing their human capital.

To further encourage this kind of behavior, the esteemed minister should require all public universities to have a monthly contest to reward a 'lucky' student who is seen to be carrying more than five books (either in his or her bag or in his or her hands) in public view.

LOL! okay lah, i carry oxford dictionary and cambridge dictionary sure can win top prize alr!

(vi) The esteemed minister considers hiring unemployed graduates from public universities to carry out a massive surveillance plan that would ensure that the above-mentioned rules are followed.

There you go! tax payers money well spent!

I sincerely hope that the esteemed minister considers at least some of my recommendations made above and implement them as soon as possible.

Seriously sir, your planning to build a nation made of robots that will put up with whatever corruption and negligence of the government?

prom 08 and clubbing o.0

Eu-Roy IS NO LONGER A VIRGIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

bwahahahaa! *suspense*
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k la, what i meant was i'm no longer a ''clubbing virgin''.
I went to a night club in KL with a big big group of friends after our prom night in gardens mid valley.



Prom was good, judging from the fact that the money gained from it was given to charity. Errr, what charity, i kinda forgot - -


paiseh to say, i was still short of 2months to be able to legally enter a club, but i did anyway. (looks matured ma heh) The club we went to was Maison, and hell it was packed to the brim!!
Surprisingly, the liquor served tasted better than i expected, but i didn't over drink as i still needed to drive me and my group of friends home. Couldn't risk everyone.

But one thing in the club that disturbs me most is, the dance stage in the club. Only ladies were allowed onto that stage, and no MEN at all. DAMN! CANNOT TAKE ''ADVANTAGE'' of the ladies lor!

Thats one, but what so disturbing is, i could practically see hordes and hordes of guys dancing right below the dance stage. You know, they were look hungry animals waiting to pounce...


pounce on any girl that falls of the dance stage..

ouch.

As for the girls, i noted this from some of my female friends. They said they felt like they were in a zoo, locked in a cage where the males were scrutinizing their every move.

How i hope this cage was open for everyone to play with the animals hehe=P