October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!

Funniest costume I saw today: The Gingerbread Man, Darin in his Aquaman, Alisha as David Bowie, The guy dressed up as a corporate lady in net pantyhose and heels.

But basically my day wasn't all that great. In fact wasn't all that great is one of the biggest understatement of the year. It was beyond horrible! It didn't help that after studying for more than a week for Business Law amounted up to nothing and barely coming above the class average, it's also the only subject, which I've been doing bad as well. Out of all my subject this had to be the one that's bringing me down and it's the one I've been spending the most effort for too. Later, if being upset wasn't bad enough, the one person whom I really wanted to talk to who was supposed to cheer me up asked me to call him back later because his sleep was more important. OMFG!!!! It's not as though I called at an indecent hour or anything, because I actually waited to call at a reasonable hour. At times I just wished he would stop being that selfish especially when he always gets enough sleep too. 

Yes, I know I sound childish and immature here, but honestly there's a lot of times when the only person you want to share things with is the person who means so much to you. And being overlooked over sleep is seriously frustrating especially since you've tolerate work, practices and his social activities. So basically now...seriously ATM I would like nothing better than to...(I'll leave it to you to fill in the blank).

Carien's right, screw everything that has happened today and I'm going to Zi Ting's party. Joselyn's right too...why stay home and waste my weekend after weeks and weeks of hard work? I deserve tonight's fun and fun is what I'm going to have. So yeah...I'll be partying tonight and I'll have fun instead of sitting at home with a pint of Haagen Dazs, watching a movie and mopping over the bad things of today. 

post mcn 08

With MCN (Malaysian Cultural Night) done and over with, I really feel drained of all energy. It really feels as though all my energy was focused on that evening and now I'm basically using up all my energy after recharging myself and never allowing energy level to be fully charged. OK well basically after that long winding sentence what I mean to say in a nutshell is that I'm tired...seriously freaking tired throughout the whole week. I've basically fought to stay awake during Business Law lectures and fell asleep for 2 French classes. 

This weekend I plan to catch up with all those lost weekends due to MCN and catch up with having fun. LOL! Seriously...I should utilize these last few warm sunny days before winter sets in, in about a week and it starts to snow. For those who actually think that snow might be magical and fun...well yeah I would have to say it is when you see it on TV or out the window in the warmth of home, but once outside believe me you would think otherwise. For the past week my nose has been frozen and I've been bundled up with clothes just to stay warm. Basically that explains why I'm practically embracing this few days of predicted warm weather and looking forward to the BBQ this Saturday.

Oh...before I forget...Happy Halloween!!! and speaking of the devil, I still haven't bought a costume yet! I guess I won't be wearing any costume to work tomorrow. I'm still considering that sexy nun costume *laughs like mad* but the odds of being murdered by my mom and Donkey kinda overrules my decision. I'll have to see what they have in the costume shop tomorrow then. *sigh*

Well it's back to work. Back to grinding my nose and getting lost in Business Law (not that I understand what I'm reading anyway). 

No rest for the lowly student

I need a breather. 

Things have really started to pick up again since last week, which i presume would peak next Sunday if I'm lucky and then start slowing down after that. If not, then all I can do is to look forward to Thanksgiving break. 

Wednesday I suddenly woke up at 5.30am to realize that I have a Maths test this week which would be due on Sunday. So of course after that I just couldn't get back to sleep again, and decided to get my lazy butt out of bed and start early on this week's homework. Thank goodness it was an Excel assignment which just means that it's easy and real fast to do. Got to doing half of it until it was time to get ready for class. 

After my second class of the day I headed towards Carver Hall, to attend my third class of the semester excluding test day. I've pretty much been skipping those class sessions, since I've discovered that I learn the problems better on my own from the examples compared to sitting in the lab observing other people out of boredom. I finished up the other half of the homework, checked my email and Facebook and headed out after 30mins. Then it was lunch, work, nap and a whole night of studying maths since I decided to take the test on Thursday so that it would be included in my Mid-term grades.

Thursday. Woke up after only 3 1/2 hours of sleep to continue maths again. I know you guys are probably thinking as to why am I putting in too much effort in maths. Well the answer is because I'm pretty much a dunce at maths, so it takes me a longer time to understand things. 

I left home at 11am for the meeting with my advisor to get the shock of my life when I saw that my cgpa on my degree audit was 2.11. I know I'm an average student but I also know that I can't be that dumb. So she rechecked it again and the updated audit showed my standing at a 3.22. Still 0.13 short from applying to the professional course for early admission. Hopefully this semester's grades would pretty much cover that. 

After the appointment I walked to Carver to sit for the test. My first attempt scored me a 90% so I decided I didn't want to try for the second and third attempt. Bought lunch and headed back home to get some rest before completing my pledge quiz and getting ready for Alpha Kappa Psi pledge interview at 6pm.

The interview I guess went well considering that all the pledges got through, though I honestly think that I screwed mine up. So I really thank the person(s) who voted for me. Finally got home a little before 8pm, freezing cold and hungry as hell. After a really hot shower it was back to hitting the books again.

Now that Friday is almost over, I don't think I would really want to talk about my day. Was late for French from printing the homework because the printer was out of paper, then I missed business law class because I didn't know the second section was in an entirely different building. OK so I ended up writing about it. But that's where I'll stop. I'm so exhausted now and I still have practice later and shopping for stuff with Micky. 

I really need to bake away this stressful week. Will get Wooi Hau to bring over his baking pan since mine is still at Zi Ting's, which he thinks he saw yesterday. 

Donkey heeee...haaawwwww

Ok well this isn't exactly a specific entry or anything. It was just because Babes a.k.a. My Donkey asked if there was anything specific for him to read on my blog. Well now there is, though it's more out of me taking a few minutes break before getting ready to go out for the day. Been up since 6.30am studying for a maths test which I have no confidence whatsoever for. I'm a dunce at maths, so this is really killing me. Anyway...time to go and end this silly entry.

Donkey: Is this what it takes for you to actually read my blog? LOL! Can't wait to see you next year...because all I can think of is for you to bring me out for good food after a short stop over at home to dump my things. So come pick me up with an itinerary! BTW, I'm flying straight to KK because I just want to get the travel time done and over with.

Happy 2 months anniversary

I've been so caught up with work, assignments, quizzes, and studies that if it wasn't for Ruey, I would have missed the mark of my two months being here in ISU. Has it really only been 2 months? It feels so much longer...

Here's the funny thing about time, it passes by so fast but yet a short time might also seem like an eternity. Last week I felt it pass by in a flash, but thinking about it in French class today, it felt like last Monday was really a long time ago. Not that I would have minded it seeming that way since it wasn't really a week I would like to put down as memorable. But the whole concept of time being both fast and infinity like simply eludes me. 

7 more months before I head home for the summer. I can't believe how much I'm looking forward to it. Before this summer, I didn't even plan to come back during breaks. Things really did change over the summer. Not on some miniscule scale but a really big change that it has changed my way of thoughts and me significantly. It's both nice and scary in a way, but I really think that the good far out weights the bad. It's made me less rigid to changes, and for the first time since I can't even remember how long, I'm more relaxed and less tensed. It's funny how things happen when you least expect it to, especially when you've practically carved your future plans in stone. But I've realized that there's no such thing about things being written in stone and that metaphor has simply faded to just words. So if anyone asks if I regret this summer, I would say...No. Yes the boredom of being next to unproductive was simply killing me, but on a personal level, I learned so much that I've no regrets whatsoever in deciding to take the summer off. 

I don't have any pictures to commemorate my two months here in ISU. This time, we let it slip away unlike our one month anniversary. All I have to remember this day by was to have a nice dinner for myself while watching my weekly TV show. But here are some pictures marking my one month in ISU. 

The girls after a Thai dinner

Ji-An and I while waiting for the bus home

Before heading off to Campus Town

a Porky snack

While checking out a customer at work yesterday, her item reminded me of something I saw in the vending machine at the airport in Atlanta, which I've kept on forgetting to tell friends back home about.

PORK RINDS/SKIN

Okay...so maybe to a number of you this isn't something new. But the thing is that all my life I only knew that pork rinds were only used in cooking and I have to say that I love eating them in soup or as one of the condiments in those stuffed dishes (stuffed tofu and vegetables with fish paste). So when I found them as snacks packed like what we typically call 'keropok' I was tempted to try them and yes I bought a packet of it before getting off yesterday.

I found two flavors - original and hot & spicy. I decided on hot & spicy (a mistake to buy when your in the states since it never really is spicy anyway) and just couldn't wait to get home and try it.

The verdict:

Not bad, nice and crunchy, but when they say salted they did however forget to mention how pretty much very salted it is. The additional hot & spicy flavor also didn't help much as what it mainly did was contribute more to the saltiness of it.

Now, I'm basically stuck with that huge pack of Pork Rinds snack. But for the sake of it, I would definitely buy a bag of it to bring home next summer just to give the people back home a try. And speaking about next summer, yeah it looks like that I'm pretty much heading back home to spend time with the family and Babes.

*Just in case they do sell this snack in Malaysia, bear with me because I've honestly never seen it before. Or have I been shopping and looking at the wrong place?*

Lame excuses deserves lame entries

Here's the lamest ever excuse I've given so far for the past few weeks:

"I'm suddenly so free with nothing to do that I feel so LOST"

And to think I've been craving for this free time from the moment I said "GO" to the hectic weeks prior to it. 

I had all things listed down as to what I wanted to do and watch. 

Now that I'm actually living it, I'm missing the busy week! 

Because...to be honest sitting in my room, thinking about what to do next is boring

=)

When they said opposite attracts I thought they only meant people.

But then that's the Yin & Yang.