Me singing "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia, if you can't see the video then go here (in case you REALLY do not know what the above sentence means.... click on the "here" word... the underline means it's a link... aiyohhhhh)



Assalamu'alaikum.....

Turkey Weekend is over.... people are done giving thanks and devouring giant ugly birds. Turkeys everywhere can now breathe easily as they mourn their brethren who got eaten. Poor lil' bastards. As Merry said, "Turkeys are the dumbest birds on earth", why she said that I dunno.

Thanksgiving day was a bust, I won't go into details but here's a little advice: never go out in 7 degrees weather wearing a short black dress. So not a good idea. The day after Thanksgiving was better, Nik, Afzan and I upheld the Black Friday tradition and went shopping at Tweleve Oaks mall. There goes my paycheck. I bought 5 tops, a pair of gorgeous earrings (I know someone likes 'em *wink wink*) and a matching necklace. I also bought two pairs of sunglasses, one for me and one to replace Kirah's that I broke :( . Sorry K. Anyway, while waiting for our food, I managed to get a job.. sorta. This lady gave me her card and wants me to translate a bunch o' stuff from English to Malay. Score!

The day after was even better :) . It was GempitaFest 2005, and although the turn out wasn't spectacular, it was a pretty fun event. I met up with one of the coolest (and prettiest, I might add) girl, Adriana from Western Michigan, who has this amazing voice and pretty excellent showmanship, I might add. I wasn't expecting to see any of my batch, but lo and behold, Abe from RPI was there, doing his thing on stage in a red t-shirt with a turned up collar. Apparently he hasn't graduated yet, it's all details really, so I won't get into them. Suffice to say... glad to see someone who's about as old as I am, LoL. It made me feel less old meself. Also got to see the freshies, whom I never get to see 'cause their asses live on Central. Kak Fezah masak beriani sedap, as always. Wann and Nicholas went home early, so they didn't get to hang out with me, Travis and Nik at Travis's place later that night. I, of course, the party animal, promptly fell asleep and hijacked Travis's bed about a half hour after I got there, LoL. Poor thing had to go sleep outside with Nik.

And now, it is back back back to the grindstone... ho hum...

Wassalam...

HAPPY TURKEY DAY

Assalamu'alaikum.....

Today's Thanksgiving... Happy Thanksgiving Day to all who celebrate it. Aihhh... it's so freakin' cold outside, I really don't wanna go anywhere. Think I'm just gonna stay home and leave the turkey eating to other people. Me too sleepy to do anything.... ni pun baru sgt bangun.

Lepas bangun, check email, pastu ade org mesej kat Friendster. So of course, gi lah check Friendster pulak kan. Lepas balas mesej, saje tgk nak update profile sendiri. Tetibe nampak korner yg tulis Top Network Searches tu. Tgk lah Melayu carik ape.. :

1. nokia 8800


2. hazliana


3. menindih tubuhnya


4. selak kain


5. terlondeh baju


6. terangkat angkat
   
   
7. isterimu isteriku jua


8. kak lina


9. robert pattinson


10. pakcikku

Bongok... time-time camni lah rase malu gile ngan network sendiri. Carik lah mende lain yg ilmiah sket, kalau nak tak senonoh pun, jgn lah buat kat Friendster tuh. Adoooiiiii.....

Okaylah, nak kene tkar baju, satgi mau Thanksgiving lunch ngan Wann, Nicholas and Nik. Ta peeps!

Wassalam.................

HARRY POTTER AND THE CUTI-CUTI MICHIGAN

Nyahaha... dah start cuti dah. Yes yes... boleh berpoya-poya kat rumah, lepak makan tido tengok tv.... bestnye bestnye bestnye. Takde nak terkejar-kejar pegi kelas, pegi keje, pegi group meeting, pegi ntah hape-hape ntah lagik. Bertuah punye Michigan, elok-elok cuti baru nak start, terus snow. Ambek ko, tak kasi can langsung.

Ni baru lepas balik menemuramah Mbak Susan pasal gamelan punye collection. Elok-elok dah sampai ofis die baru sedar interview questions tertinggal kat rumah, tersalah ambik file mase nak kluar umah. Nak tanak kene lah spontan jek, aih malunye. Tapi die pun tak tau byk sangat pasal history of the collection, so interview pun takdelah lame sgt. Tak sampai sejam, mengaku je lah lepas tu yg soklan-soklan tertinggal kat umah. Ni lepas ni nak kene call School of Music mintak cakap ngan dosen gamelan tuh. Erk.... malehnye nak buat research paper ni.

Cakap pasal paper, dah due weekend keje buat paper jek. Asal org lain tanye "Free tak malam ni?", asyik kene jawab "Tak, ade paper due." , "Takleh kluar, paper tak siap lagi". Wtf, asal grad students takde social life ni? Asal asal asal? Kalau tak kene buat paper, kene buat group projects, kalau tak yg itu, ade mende lain pulak. Hampeh, time-time camni lah nak balik umah soh mak kawinkan jek.

Haaa.. Semalam tgk Harry Potter ngan Afzan ngan Nik. Lepas balik kelas je terus amek kunci kete drive gi Showcase (yep, I'm still driving. Takkan baru eksiden sekali due terus nak give up kot... plus sape lagi nak drive kete bertuah tuh). Kitorang tgk show yg start kol 8.30 mlm. Kol 11 tuh baru kluar panggung, by then mate dah separa bengkak sebab sedey tgk budak hensem mati. Wooo.... ape lah nasib ko budak hensem. Sape tak tgk lagi movei and tak bace lagik buku die, pandai2 lah figure out sape budak hensem. Sgt cute, encem encem. Movie tuh lame lah gak, tapi tak rase cam lame sebab best. Sronok gile tgk, budak2 main character sume dah terrer berlakon, okay lah... takdelah bergantung kat special effects jek.

Smalam before tido sempat lah borak ngan sorang kanak-kanak nie, lame tak chat ngan die, plus takdelah rapat sangat pun in the first place tapi boleh lah. Lepas due tige menet chat, baru perasan ayat die almost sume start ngan "Boyfren I... ", sebagai contoh: "Boyfren I cakap tempat tuh best", "Boyfren I datang pick dengan kete die", "Boyfren I itu...", "Boyfren I ini...". Erk... sedikit meluat lepas dah lame-lame chat tuh, sebab ye lah kan, ayat sume same jek. Plus macam org tak kenal je boyfren die sape, bukan best sgt pun. Nyahaha... tak ke mampus kalau budak tuh bace entry ni. Biar... rase kan, setengah jam habes camtuh jek, org nak tau cite pasal pendapat die, asyik2 masuk pasal boipren die. Adoi. May I not become like that ever, amin.

Skarang tgh kat library tunggu appointment potong rambut kat Aveda. Lame dah tak potong, rambut nampak tak kemas, plus rimas sket. Tgh nak figure out nak buat bangs ke idak, salah potong kang muke nampak lagi bulat. Bestnye lahhhhh hari ni dah start cuti, bleh potong rambut, bleh lepak, satgi bleh gi K Mart pulang baju... bleh buat macam-macam.

Cepat laaaaah Thanksgiving sale.

Wassalam...

Assalamu'alaikum....

I don't undestand. I don't understand why. I don't know what to think, what to feel, how to act, how to react. One minute I was dancing and bowling and loving myself and my life, the next minute years of friendship went down the tube, and over what? A misunderstanding? The phone not working? Me not calling back right when I'm supposed just because I was distracted? I don't understand and I'm so confused right now. How is it that just 24 hours before I was dressing up in a pretty sweater, feeling good about myself, and right now I don't even know what just happened? How is this my fault? What did I do to even deserve this?

Assalamu'alaikum.....

It's 3.40 am on a Saturday... I have just gotten back from bowling with my fellow SI-ans and Nik, who was more excited about bowling than I was. Originally I didn't wanna go 'cause I really, really wanted to go out dancing, but I'm glad I went 'cause the bowling alley was shakin', LoL. I saw my groupmate, Kaveri and her husband there. Libby, my GSI, was also there. It was awesome, people were dancing and no one was paying much attention to bowling. What a relaxing night it was, it was so great to just not think about papers and homework and just have fun with a bunch of people and a really great friend :) . LoL ... good thing he's never gonna read this, terpuji plaks, LoL. But seriously, it was great, no drama, no complications, just fun. Too bad Wann wasn't there with Nicholas, it would've been "funner" (is there such a word?)

I'm a little pumped for someone who hasn't gotten much sleep today, LoL. Nik is already out cold by now, I think. I just couldn't sleep and decided to just blog a bit. Two updates in one day, I'm on a roll, hahaha. I'm excited for the football game today, it's supposed to be an easy win but you never know.... Michigan vs. Indiana, at noon. It's gonna be a good day :)

I'm happy right now. Hope it'll last.

Wassalam...

GRAD SCHOOL IS HARD!!!!

Assalamu'alaikum.....

I am at work, half-asleep and going completely insane. Why? Because I slept at 6.30 am today, had class at 9am, then it was off to work from 11.30am to 2pm. And if you even THINK that my day is going to be over right afterwards, you are seriously wrong because at 4pm, I have dance class. Whoop-da-dee.

Things didn't go quite as planned this morning. I had my short assignment due at 9am on CTools and spent the whole night doing it. At 6.15 am, about 400 words short of what the maximum length of the paper should be (which is never a good thing; I used to major in bullshit paper), I decided that I have effectively run out of ideas, points and filler words for my paper. I was also feeling the starts of a pounding headache, which I then put a stop to by taking two caplets of Excedrin.

Now, by that time, my butt has been parked on the chair for about... let's see... 8 hours straight. I'm not kidding y'all, that's like a whole night's sleep right there.... which is not that unusual for a college student. What was unusual for me was... running out of words to write. I had the points... I just ran out of stuff to elaborate. To top it all of, I wasn't supposed to go to sleep 'cause the plan was to stay up, go to class, work, THEN collapse, but the moment I sat on my couch, my body just shut down (probably because of the Excedrin) . I fell asleep. When did I wake up? 11.25am, an hour after class ended and about 5 minutes before I was supposed to go to work. What woke me up? A phonecall from a telemarketer. for once they served some sort of a purpose.

So I came to work, luckily only 5 minutes late, which I apologized profusely to Steve for, and right now my tummy is not feeling that good. I was chain-eating candy all night just to keep the sugar rush up and keep me from getting sleepy while working on my paper. I'm very fortunate that while staying up kinda wrecks my day in that I can't study that well or think properly, I can still function somewhat normally. It's a good thing too that I'm not having one of those major headchaes that usually comes after a whole night of not sleeping.

Man, I so do not want to work right now... Thank god it's gonna be over in 20 minutes...