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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Assalamu'alaikum...

I'm writing in a wee bit early today because I currently have nothing to do, and I'm taking a break from the book I'm reading. The office is kinda cool today, probably due to the fact that I only have on a t-shirt (the free one I got from Relay For Life, so it's kinda thin ) ,sweatpants, my white headscarf and my pink J Crew flip flops that have seen waaaay better days. I seriously need to stop looking like I "pegi sawah" everyday and look like I actually work in an office.

So I just finished chattign with Sareque and Bantut and right now, as I'm writing, Bantut is going wee-wee in the toilet (that's what u get for "hilang slalu sgt".)Hahaha.... apparently Ning Baizura is getting a new car, a Rexton, which is "kerete yg sgt2 gabak". I'll take Sareque's word for it, since I have no idea what a Rexton is, it can be a trash compactor for all I care.

So last night Dennis, Alisa and I went to Best Buy then Target to get me a DVD player and some chocolates for people back home. After that, Dennis and I watched Casablanca, which is the first Humphrey Bogart movie I've ever seen in my life, of course. Finally the line "Here's looking at you, kid" makes sense to me, among a few other stuff.

That DVD player is a lifesaver for me right now as I don't have cable in my room. Living without TV... scary scary thought.... which is why I bought the DVD player so that I won't be quite so alone in my room. Just having something in the background is good enough for me. Of course, not having TV means I'm forced to go out of my room and seek entertainment elsewhere. Which is why....

I wanna go to that Top of The Park thing tonight (hopefully), maybe see some bands, maybe a movie... Just do something to get me outta the room and into the summer air. Even if it is night time. Oh well, you get what you get, getting paid for going to work isn't that bad either :).

Okay, Dennis is stopping by to bring me some popsicles, yum... catch everyone layter!

Wassalam...





Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Assalamu'alaikum....

At work again, though today is a pretty slow day for me, maybe because I came an hour late to work, not on purpose (kinda) but because I got held up at the Secretary of State office doing my permit. Thank goodness I told Merry I was gonna go get my permit, so at least she wasn't wondering where I was. Did i get my permit? Amidst my sleepiness (couldn't fall asleep until about 3.30 am for some unknown warped reason) and jumpiness (no coffee and no breakfast because no money), I managed to pass the damn test, even though I thought I failed it and was gonna have to take it again.

Freaky thing happened at the counter when I went to submit my test result. Apparently this Japanese couple (at least according to their passports) were talking while taking their tests, so the lady who was handling my paperwork bellowed a loud "Excuse me, can both of you come up here?" and promptly took their tests away. Both of them were given a stern "You can't compare your answers, let me get you your IDs" and "You can come back next week and take the test again". And there I was, standing in front of the counter thinking "I had to get her counter...". I think the whole SoS office heard her take away their tests, and while I don't think the couple should have cheated (common sense to not talk during a test), I do feel bad for them for being embarrassed in front of everyone like that.

Special thanks to Hakam for willing to give up his sleeping hours to send me to the ofice, and for willing to double back to get my passport, my bad.

Things are pretty quiet now in my life, aside from work, sleep, chores and worrying about money, I really have nothing going on. I made my SFO payments just now, planned a budget for upcoming charges (and hopefully a trip to Chicago) and decided that I'm in pretty good shape. As my days seem to be calming down (I finished my officfe paperwork for the next edition of Arcana and had just submitted it, so I'm pretty much waiting for my next project to arrive) and I've settled most of my account stuff (feel bad for adding paperwork for someone else now that I know how much work paperwork really is), I can concentrate studying for my GRE and finish reading that book I've been hankering on for the past three weeks.

Sometimes I miss having someone around to just talk with. Arwah Teh and I used to talk a lot during the evenings when we got back from classes or after she got back from work. It was nice because I can just knock on her door and pop in to say hello, and we would just vent out whatever stress that we had to each other. To the rest of the world she was this quiet, serious looking girl but to me she was this funny person who listened to what I had to say and never failed to put a funny spin on things so that in the end, all of the complicated things in my life that was bringing me down, didn't seem so complicated anymore.

A friend once told me "Just because they're not there doesn't mean you'll ever forget ". And I haven't, not for a single day. Arwah teh and arwah Nanim were my comfort zone, people who I know I can tell anything and it won't up being blabbed to everyone, and in return I offered my friendship and whatever comfort and help I can give whenever I can. I guess in a way I hid behind them, took comfort in needing and being needed. Now that the screen is gone, what is left is me, and to learn how to function and operate in this new environment I was thrust in is just a concept that is too hard for me to comprehend right now, or maybe ever.

Almost 8 months had passed and I still haven't really found anyone like them here, and most likely never will. In a way I'm being forced to be with me, to look at me and to come to terms with who I am and what defines me. I keep myself busy with work and acquiring new material things and sometimes studying :) , but while that would fill my days, when I lay on my bed at night, I'm still left with tonnes of memories and a huge gap in my heart.

Maybe I'm feeling extra melancholic because arwah Nanim and I used to plan to take our driving license together. Sometimes it just didn't seem fair that I'm still here and they're not, though I try to push those kind of thoughts away since I know what was decreed by Him is law and just. However I'm willing to admit that I'm afraid to die, and I am glad that my time isn't here yet. I don't want to leave before I've made some kind of mark and did some kind of good.

Okay, enough of the heavy stuff. Dennis is picking me up tonight to go to Best Buy (lucky me) and tonight we're watching Casablanca. And tomorrow, on to Top of The Park (or whatever hell it's called, that thing on top of the Power Center).

See ya!

Wassalam....

Monday, June 28, 2004

Assalamu'alaikum...

Okay, so right now I'm at work, having lunch and taking a break. Surprisingly enough I have work to do today, typing out stuff, answering numerous phone calls and sorting out bucketload of mails. Now that I have some breathing space, I decided to pen in and write something just for the hell of it.

Okay, so my weekend was uneventful but productive. Did my groceries (jerusalem, scrubbed my filthy hot plate (it's white, so you really need your elbow into it), scrubbed the bathroom, scrubbed the sink, went to the gym and studied (kinda) What Every Driver Must Know book.

Right now I'm freaking out because my account statement has this HUGE balance that I didn't even realize was incurred on me, and I just found out that I may actually have to pay using my own money. Aaaaaaccckk!! I did NOT work just so that the financial office can fuck me over like this man, this is sooo freakin' ridiculous. But I'm handling it (kinda) and it'll be okay (hopefully)...or else I'm gonna go home and cry to mommy. *Sigh*... I can't wait to go home....

Home to my mom and my dad and my brothers... home to my sister-in-law (the best in the world)... home to my nephew and niece... home to Cik Pi... home to roti canai and nasi lemak in the mornings... home to yong tau foo and sate for dinner...home to the sound of Azan from the mosque... home to Akademi Fantasia and other Malay-speaking TV shows... home to my friends ... home to parties at the condo... home to late night rides with my cuzzy... all I wanna do right now is pack my bags and just go home..

Wassalm...

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Assalamu'alaikum...

Yesterday was a pretty long day for me, long in a good way. After work, Dennis picked me up and we went to watch Harry Potter at Quality 16 theatre. We were kinda late getting in, so we missed the first few minutes, but I really enjoyed the movie. Would I say that it's better than the previous two? I dunno, more like it's different than the other ones. For one thing, Harry was more like a teen in this one rather than a kid. However, I do think the special effects were better than the last one, even though the dementors did look like ripped dishrags.

After the movies, we went back to Dennis' house to have dinner with his parents, the second time this summer. We had burgers, coleslaws and some good conversations. After that, they showed me their fire pit, built a fire to show how it works, and Dennis then tried to teach me how to swing a baseball bat. Growing up, I never did learn how to play volleyball, or baseball, or softball, or other stuff that people immediately assume one should know. Swinging that baseball bat yesterday felt weird because I never did that before, but after a few swings, it felt okay. I wasn't good at it, but then it was never my aim to actually be good, just passable enough so that no wayward balls would hit me.

Dennis let me borrow his Family Guy DVDs, which I'm gonna have to watch on my computer since I don't have a DVD player anymore. I LOVE Family Guy, it's so ridiculously obscene that you just can't help but enjoy it. I haven't found a girl who shares my sentiments yet about overly obscene animated series (South Park, Family Guy, Aqua Teens, The Simpsons, Sealab etc.), but I'm hoping. Come to think of it, I don't really know a guy yet, aside from Dennis, who shares my love for adult-oriented-but-not-porn-related cartoons. It seems to me that people my age think that unless it's anime, then no animated series is worth watching. Some of them don't even think any animated series is worth watching if you're, oh let's say, over 18. Thing is, if you let a kid watch something like Family Guy, then you're nuts and just begging for trouble because you're raising a kid who's probably gonna jack off in the bathroom during recess and thinks it's okay to call a black person "nigger" and a gay man "fairy". It's adult oriented, and I think it's a harmless piece of fun as long as you know it's all IN the name of fun and you don't get sucked into behaving like Peter Griffin does. Is it offensive? Sure, maybe, then again porn is offensive and yet the X-rated industry make billions each year. Thing is, like porn, adult cartoons may offend and they may not, if you don't like it then don't watch it, do not give me grief about it (which triggers this paragraph long rant....).

Oh and by the way, I rarely read back what I wrote before hitting the "Publish Post" button, so don't start getting all sarcastic with me about my atrocious spelling or how my sentences don't make sense because I'm missing a "not" or an "of" somewhere. At least I'm producing a literary (if I may call it that) piece that actually has my thoughts and feelings in it, something that I can read weeks, maybe years from now and still laugh and say, "I used to get so worked up about the stupidest stuff". What do you have? Just all your sarcastic comments and your vicious words against other people you put down because your own like is a pathetic piece of junk. Asshole. Get a life.

I read in a Sidney Sheldon novel, a quote that went along something like this "Never assume, it makes an ASS out of U and ME". Do not assume that if you feel that something is hard for you, then it will automatically be hard for me. Don't assume that if you felt this situation really tried your nerves, then if you put me in it, I'll automatically break down and cry. Don't assume that if I cry, it's because I'm weak, maybe it's better for m to cry rather than ravage another person with cutting words and my anger. Because I think through the way I handled myself through all the shit that happened to me this year, and how I handled all of the mishandled criticisms I had of "taking advantage of the situation", I think I did pretty well, thank you very much. I didn't turn to mush. I didn't break down completely even when all I wanted to do was to leave everything and run away. Most of the time, I refrained from letting my emotions from controlling my head and cloud my judgment. I didn't use PMS as a reason to suddenly be angry with someone for no reason (well maybe once or twice, but mostly I just stayed away from people in general because during that time of the month, people piss me off, I don't wanna be around things that pisses me). And if I do get angry, I don't get VERBAL. How do I let my anger out? By writing and writing and writing....

What makes a good piece of essay, a good novel, a good book? What makes an entry in an online journal good? When people say it's good? When a lot of people buy the book, the newspaper, come to the website? When people compliment you about it?

For me, something is good when you can read something and know that it actually comes from the heart, not just facts, because a heart feels, beats to the rhythm not only of the body but the mind and the soul. Facts? Using the words that so often describe "facts", they're hard and cold...

Okay, I'm off from work, time to go home and be happy again. Bye!

Wassalam..

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Assalmu'alaikum...

Just got this from my sister-in-law, wanna share it with the rest of you guys. Enjoy!

Menjaga kesihatan adalah dituntut oleh Agama. Banyak cara menjaga kesihatan tubuh badan maupun dari segi sains dan diajar oleh Al-Quran antaranya adalah spt:-

1. Bersenam @ beriadah.
2. Makan Pil melangsingkan badan.
3. Mengawal makanan.

Tahukah anda mengamal minum secawan air teh "O" setiap pagi boleh mengawal berat badan anda. Isyaallah jika anda mengamalkannya, berat badan anda akan berkurangan. (memang terbukti keberkesanan).

Al-Quran Juga ada mengajar kita menjaga kesihatan spt membuat amalan spt:-

1. Mandi Pagi sebelum subuh @ sekurang kurangnya sejam sebelum matahari naik. Air sejuk yang meresap kedalam badan boleh mengurangkan lemak mengumpul. Kita boleh saksikan orang mengamal mandi pagi kebanyakan
badan tak gemuk.

2. Rasulullah mengamalkan minum segelas air sejuk setiap pagi. Mujarabnya Insayallah jauh dari penyakit susah nak kena sakit).

3. waktu sembahyang subuh disunatkan kita bertafakur (iaitu sujud sekurang kurangnya seminit selepas membaca doa). Ia boleh mengelak dari sakit pening atau migrin. Ini terbukti oleh para saintis yang membuat kajian kenapa dalam sehari perlu kita sujud. Ahli-ahli sains telah menemui beberapa milimeter ruang udara dalam saluran darah di kepala yg tidak dipenuhi darah. Dengan bersujud makan darah akan mengalir keruang berkenaan.

4. Dalam kitab juga ada melarang kita makan makanan darat bercampur dengan makanan laut. Nabi pernah menegah kita makan ikan bersama susu. di kuatiri akan cepat mendapat penyakit. Ini terbukti oleh saintis yang menjumpai dimana dalam badan ayam mengandungi ion (+) manakala dalam ikan mengandungi ion (-). jika dalam suapan ayam bercampur dengan ikan maka terjadi tidakkan balas biokimia yng terhasil yang boleh merosakkan usus kita.

5. Nabi juga mengajar kita makan dengan tangan dan bila habis hendaklah menjilat jari. Begitu juga ahli saintis telah menjumpa bahawa enzime banyak terkandung di celah jari jari, iaitu 10 kali ganda terdapat dalam air liur. (enzime sejenis alat percerna makanan, tanpanya makanan tidak hadam)

Wassalam...

Sabda nabi Ilmu itu milik tuhan, barang siapa menyebarkan ilmu demi kebaikkan insyaallah tuhan akan mengandakan 10 kali kepadanya.

Monday, June 21, 2004

Assalmu'alaikum...

Yeah, so I haven't penned in for quite a few days now, not that anybody's been reading (which is a good thing, because aside from some personal friends I love and I know won't bitch about me behind my back, I don't really want people reading this stuff anyway).

Today and for the rest of my working girl duration, I'll be working everyday from 11am to 4pm, 9 to 3pm on Fridays. That's almost like a full time job. People would think that since I basically do nothing except answer phones and give directions to people who managed to get themselves lost be it in the building or anywhere around North Campus, it's an easy job and I shouldn't be tired. But I am. Which got me to thinking that either there's something wrong with me, or my general perception abot jobs is completely bogus. A job is a job, be it sitting on a chair and running errands and typing, or driving a truck across state borders or diving for pearls in the ocean. At the end of the day, it still saps your strength, just that my job saps less strength than Mr. Trucker guy so after a little nap I'm all fresh again... barely.

Today I also got an email from my travel agent about sending him payments for my plane tickets. I made my cashiers check, and Deera and I are gonna post payments tomorrow. Hopefully those tickets arrive on time or I'm gonna be reaaaaallly mad.I've bought presents and stuff for my family and friends, it would be so much a waste if I can't go home. Plus that would mean missing out on meeting my darling niece, and that would NOT be such a good thing.

Now, you know you gotta expand your horizons when you situations like this happens to you:

Situation 1: At the bank...
Teller 1: How may I help you?
Me: I would like to make a cashiers check please for (amount)
Teller waaaay at end of table: Are you going back to Malaysia? Because I made a couple of checks for Malaysian students

Situation 2: In the International Center office...
Me: Hi, I'd like to get my I-20 signed
Woman:(without even LOOKING at my I-20) Ahh, making a trip back to Malaysia too, right?
I looked on the pile beside her table, the box was filled with Malaysian I-20s

Situation 3: In the office ...
My bosses talked about different building managers and set-up crew, and I knew every single name they mentioned. My boss talked to me about going home, and said boss knows about remote cities in Malaysia. Random people come into the office and the line is "This is Farah, our Clerk D and another Malaysian".

Situation 4: Jerusalem
Guy at the counter knows every single Malaysian girls, even if he doesn't know their names. How do I know this? His favorite line is "Oh, your friend is here shopping too" and lo and behold, there a Malaysian girl would stand.

I know all of us live in the same community and stuff, but this is freakin' ridiculous. All of this (except Situation 4, that happens all year round) happened in the span of three weeks. It's just so freaky, I'm not exactly sure if I like it or not when people identify me first by my nationality and then by me. Does this make sense? Oh well...

I'm going to watch Harry Potter tomorrow, yay! Heheh.. so it's kinda late, so what? I've been a busy girl lately, what with work and stuff, plus I didn't want to spend extreme amounts of money before I pay my travel agent. Now that I know what I have left (I have a couple of paychecks coming still, so I'm in a pretty good position), I can budget accordingly :) .

Okay, I'm gonna go pray and play Theme Hospital now, bubbye and wassalam....



Thursday, June 17, 2004

Assalamu'alaikum...

Muahaha, there's only 2 people in the office right now, Merry and moi. As usual, the less people there are in the office, the more phone calls I have to answer. I'm getting better at it. It was kinda hard the first few times because you have the remember which buttons to press if you want to pick up any phone in the office, then what buttons to press to transfer each calls (it's unique for each person in the office), and then how to take messages because everyone in the office likes their messages taken differently. In a way, it's good that I have an easy job right now instead of being a research assistant or a consultant somewhere (Kate recommended me this consulting job at the School of Nursing), which would have meant I won't be able to go home for the summer, which would have sucked soooo bad.

I'm currently reading this book called "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi. Katharine, my boss during the fall and winter semesters, asked me to read it to get my point of view, being the only Muslim girl in the office, and from a progressive Islamic country at that.Katharine has a book club she belongs to, and none of the members are Muslims, so she thought it would be interesting to see what I think of it.

I've only started reading the book, so I can't comment yet, all I can say right now is I have some pretty mixed emotions about it...

Okay, I want to continue reading now, will pen in again in about an hour or so.

Wassalam...

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Assalamu'alaikum...

I'm at work again, just finished my EECS 484 exam. Verdict: ewwww! Something stinks! What was that? Oh, it's the smell of my grade on this subject! Haiyak!... Actually, I might not have done quite so bad, though, I think I knew more than in this exam than the last one.

I am currently at work, of course, but today, I brought something very, very special with me. My baby, the (current) love of my life, the reason why I smile everytime I go into my room.... my laptop! (What did you think, a guy? Yeah, right!) It arrived yesterday and I was so excited. Today I brought it along to the office to try out the whole wireless thing (plus apparently my room can't get any engineering sites, so all work must be done here, I need to remind myself to call ResComp about it). So now I'm downloading all the SSH stuff and the drives that I need to get into my AFS space.

I just realized that I didn't put my Snapfish link in, oops. I'll get it in, I promise :).

Okay, Im kinda sleepy right now, so I'm just gonna doze off while no one's in the office. Ciao!

Wassalam...

Monday, June 14, 2004

Assalamu'alaikum...
Just realized my blog hasn't been working for a couple of days, stupid-o thingy... anyway it's up again now, another pink layout (if you expected anything else then you obviously don't know the pink-freak I am). I also put a link to my Snapfish account so you can see some (selected) photos. I actually haven't uploaded any new ones yet, so you might wanna skip that one.
Last Saturday I went shopping at Birchrun with the girls and Jun (which reminds me, thank you Jun for taking me to the hospital during my back pain thingy, I appreciate it so much, you're never gonna read this but what the heck, I'll write it anyway just on the off chance you might stumble here, thanks to Ayun and Dee too, much love). Went into Oh Kosh B'Gosh and Gap Kids and spent some serious cash there. Can't wait to get kids of my own, shopping for baby clothes is really.. er.. cute (wha..?). Seriously, baby dresses are adorable, the detailing is better than even the party tops that I wear back in "those days" (and that's saying something). Talking about shopping reminds me of my favorite time of the year....

VICTORIA'S SECRET SEMI-ANNUAL SALE!!!

One of the reasons why my "for private viewing only" drawer is filled to the rim with VS logo. And the perfume.... Heavenly is exactly that, heavenly. Anyway, this time I might have to shop for other people, because my girl friends in Malaysia have gotten bolder and asked for VS stuff (nak buat ape, I wonder... hehe.. tanduk tanduk). Oh well, tgk duit camane, duit gaji tak masuk lagik.

Last Thursday I got my brochure for the ParisTech, made me feel kinda sad that I'm not going. If things were just a little different (like if I didn't have a sucky year and be so emotionally drained and need to recuperate at home with my darling babies) I would definitely go to Paris and not go home (money constraint, can't do both), I mean going to school in another country should be an interesting experience. But I have to go back home, I just need to be home this year, this year sucks sooooo bad..

Boss is back, gotta go, bye!

Friday, June 11, 2004

Assalamu'alaikum...
Currently at work right now... I am so dead meat. Maybe I should start at the beginning...

So yeah, yesterday Nick, Kate and I worked on the program because it's due noon today. We started working from when I got off from work, which was around 3 o'clock. I was actually quite apprehensive because we still had some functions not working, and I wasn't sure until what time all of us were willing to work. As it is, we stayed in the Space Research lab until close to 2.30 in the morning (holy shit! That's almost 12 hours!), and Nick had already been there since 11 am (he works there).

I have to admit, that was probably the most fun I ever had in any group meeting in my life. Deadline was approaching, but all of us goofed off (usually at my expense, of course, LoL), so the atmosphere never got really tense. Kate and I took turns touching Nick's military haircut (fuzzy, feels like a carpet). Best of all, we had PIZZA!! ... from Pizza House, and 2 orders of breadsticks... yummy ... made a mess out of the lab, which Nick had to clean (LoL).

So after we finished our program, we went to Kinko's to bind our project report (at 2.30 in the morning), and I didn't go to sleep until 4 am. I've always been really careful about setting my alarm clock, especially yesterday when I know I have to get up at 8 to get to work at 9 am. So I woke up this morning, and my alarm clock said it was 7.30 in the morning, which isn't bad.... if it was actually 7.30 in the morning. I looked out to window, because it was pretty dark due to the rain clouds, and I caught a glimpse of my wristwatch. It was 10 am. 10!!! I jumped out of bed, dialed Sam's (my boss) phone number, and frantically apologized for not being there yet. Turns out, I got really lucky today, since Sam didn't even know I was supposed to be in until 11 am, so she said it was okay and I can just get there whenever. However, it wasn't Sam I was worried about....

But I'm here, in the office, and everybody else is in the staff meeting. Luckily, the phone is pretty quiet today, so I get to do this... updating my blog, which "some" people say they can't open anymore (sucks, doesn't it? LoL) since I updated the layout. Muahahaha (queue evil laugh)

Anyway, peeps, I need to get on reading my GRE handbook, so catch ya later!!

Wassalam...

Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Assalamu'alaikum...
How long has it been since I last updated my blog? Freakin' long, I should think. Sorry, been really busy lately, with the new job and all. Lemme start off with WHEN I left off...

MIDWEST WEEKEND

Held at the University Of Minnesota, Twin Cities, my car (driven by Faridal and Fazari, with me, Eng Lee and Keju as passengers) arrived kinda early, 10pm Minny time. When I got there, who else was there to assault me but my favorite Gopher, Dias, who jumped on me like nobody's business and wrestled me to the ground. Luckily, no one had a video camera, so it didn't make into the Midwest Moments that organizers ALWAYS show at the Midwest dinner. Hahah.. Still, it was the first time I did a Hindustan moment in public (minus that mock video clip time when I had to run across the Diag holding a scarf with a Spanish song in the background, but that's a whole different story altogether...)

Okay, so we sent in a soccer team, an indoor soccer team, ping-pong individuals and probably something else that I can't remember. The result: we swept away all ping pong medals (yeaaaahhhh Wolverines!!!), won the silver medal in soccer, and won the bronze in indoor soccer (yours truly was goalie, heheh). Best of all, I had the honor of announcing soccer and indoor soccer winners in the prize-giving ceremony, It was awesome, I got to yell "Wolverines!" in front of people and I actually had a reason for doing it. My partner, Ikram, and I basically BS-ed everything on stage and I think I made a boo-boo when I said I only let one goal from Northwestern go through (it was actually 2, but 1 was technically not my fault, so I keep forgetting that one... oopis).


It's great seeing Dias again after 3 years, and Piejo.... if I only need one reason to go, it would be too see my girls :) . Pics coming soon, as soon as I get my computer fixed. Which brings me to my next thing.....

SONY VAIO V505EX

Saw it on a website, fell for it REALLY bad, calculated my budget, then bought it, currently waiting for it to arrive. Nuff said and drool.........

CLERK D POSITION

I work everyday except weekends, 22 hours per week, 7.75 bucks per hour. Money money money... Of course, I get really tired and would fall asleep at the desk, then again, my job basically consisted of answering phone calls, then sitting around waiting for a couple of hours until I could go home. Easy peasy.

EECS 484 PROJECTS

Currently working with Kate and Nick, which is cool because they are :) . Though I receive some pretty weird ideas from them, like "You should watch porn". Right, I gag when someone sent me a 5-second blowjob footage of a Britney look-alike, I would probably pass out from full on porn. Full on nudity is okay, but carnal acts... ermm... I'll pass on that :).

MY NIECE
Aishah Adlina.... I love you, and I can't wait to hold you and hug you and kiss you when I get back home, you sweet, sweet, precious lil' thing you..

MY BLOGGER

Journal has a new look. Surprisingly enough, I couldn't find a new picture where I was wearing a pink "tudung", so here's an old one that I'm sure you've seen countless times before (because it's in my Friendster, too), I need some new "pink" pics man...


Okay... enough of those.... I'm tired and a program is waiting for me to debug it, so ciao, take care and Assalamu'alaikum....