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I ask for forgiveness for any wrong doings I might have done,
and I hope you guys have a good Syawal month!
Now I have to go eat and welcome visitors =D
classes are good, linguistics is a pain but I'll have to endure.
History classes are SO INTERESTING.
my dorm (cubicle actually) is pretty snazzy, if I do say so myself. For having limited furnishing resources and space, it turned out decent.
So busy with assignments, exams and research papers.
:(
However, I've been accepted to do a BA in English Language & Literature (hon) in IIUM and hopefully I'll get it sorted so I get to finish in 3 years. Insyallah. The uni is about 30-40 minutes away and I've been given a dorm.
WILL I BE ABLE TO HANDLE ALL THAT ENGLISH ?!?!
Registration was done in quite a rush and classes start the day after tomorrow for me so yeah :(
I might get broadband there though, see how it goes.
Take care!
We cycled some 20 minutes under the hot sun to Crown Point, which is a very scenic town with lots of touristey shops and courtyards. The ride was fun, but I fell so many times and scraped my body up quite throughly. I've got scabs and sore blue spots on my limbs for souvenirs. It was worth it though, I've never biked that long or did anything of the sort before.
Today was a busy day too. Parvizsho came to pick me up and we went shopping at the mall. We also took some of those classic american photo booth pictures but I don't have a scanner with me at the moment so perhaps when I get back eh?
After hanging out a few hours with Parvizsho, Randy came to pick me up and we went to catch Transformers 2.
IT WAS WOAH.
like.
WOAH.
Can't wait to watch it again.
I feel like buying the bootleg copy as soon as I get home.
And downloading the OST.
I managed to get an amazing looking classic victorian style suitcase for USD3. It's baby blue and has buckle-like openings at the front. :D Plan to use it as a memory box when I get home to stow all the sentimental junk like cards and letters that I've kept from my exchange 2 years ago =D
We also visited our schools for a bit but since it's summer, there were not many people about.
Before sending me home the exchange students living with chris and I dropped by the mall. I needed to get a band t-shirt for my brother and the Malaysian boys wanted to go shopping at Abercrombie and so on.
Allright, this is a quick one because I have to go take a shower and out for my morning walk. Take care!
The Schlewins invited me over to swim in their pool and I gladly accepted. I got a good workout out of it and managed to cool down from the heat! There's just something about splashing around in a backyard pool with a whole bunch of happy people in the middle of summer that makes you feel SOOOOOOOO good. There's your antidepressants for you.
After swimming I went out with ma' bro Parvizsho and his family to a Chinese Buffet. Then walked around Hobart taking pictures. There was this nice flowery glade near the train tracks with colourful plants growing right up to your thighs but we think it was fenced off. We tried to get in anyway, but couldn't find a proper access so we just went around the edges :(.
Nice flowers tho.
At noon Erika, Jaime (Hi-me) and their Mum picked me up and we went to have pizza and papayas over at their place. We stopped by a few yard sales. I've never seen one in Malaysia before so this was a pretty interesting stop. It's fascinating, the amount of strange and useless items you can find in other people's garages. I also found out that Erika has a huge trampoline in her backyard so I borowwed a pair of her shorts, put them on under my skirt and bounced my way through most of the day =)
I love trampolines.
Ok I'm feeling very groggy now so I'll plop myself into bed and finish reading the Fellowship of the ring. Goodnight!
Woke up early morning and it was like the trees were beckoning me to trot along the dew strewn grass. How could I resist such temptation? I got my slippers on quick and went for a refreshing morning walk with LJ. Something I do miss about the suburbs is that even though I didn't know anyone, the neighbours would say hello as I walked pass and slow moving cars with their windows down would yell out 'Good Morning!' with a smile. I guess if you start off the day cheerful, everything else falls into place.
After noon, Randy invited me over to his place to hang out and since he supplied the transportation and I had my day free, I was all for it. Haven't seen him for some 2 years, but MSN messenger works wonders with keeping in touch with your friends. He tried to teach me to play Rock Band on the Xbox but my hand-eye coordination is rubbish. In the evening brought Chrystal (Randy's sister) to the nearby ice-cream parlour which was in walking distance and just chilled for a couple of hours. The whole family were amazingly welcoming and even their cat was all rubbing on my legs by the time I left.
After Randy sent me back, Parvizsho's family then were very generous in offering to pick me up to hang out at their place. (Parvizsho was the Uzbeki exchange student who was hosted with me in Indiana 2 years back. It so happened that he's here in the USA too at the same time as me and I'm extremely glad about it because he was one of the closest to me in my batch). I cannot begin to tell you how much of a freeloader I feel like now. Hitching rides here and there. Anyway, after the house we walked to the nearby pool bar to play a couple of games and chat.
And here I am. Nearly midnight and I'm typing out my daily activities. Nite guys!
P/S: My previous entry 002:flights&firstvisits for some reason doesnt appear on my flist. You can find it when u click on my name tho.
The flights were good, especially Malaysian Airlines which I always enjoy travelling on. Sorry United Airlines, but MAS totally PWN'D you by ten million milestones. I won't be pissy about the flights though because a)they're free and b)I got here safely which is #1 priority. Syukur Alhamdulillah.
Weird dreams during the flight. One included me trying to comb a furry baby penguin but it told me to stop because the comb might get stuck in it's fur. "How 'bout a brush then?" I asked it, "A brush is OK" it replied.
P/S: I wrote an entry and then my foot accidentally flipped the 'off' switch and I was so afraid it would all go away but thankfully, good net connection and Livejournal's 'restore from saved draft' application was there. Thank you!
The flight really got to me (took me some 30 hours of travel), and I have a slight headache but things are fine. Went for dinner at Taco Bell then dropped by the local walmart. The Pagans are well and the boys, LJ and Tomtom, are as fun loving as ever :)
Weather here is perfect!
Talk to you guys once my head stops pounding.
P/S: Khello!
(Kuala Lumpur - Paris)
CDG - ORD
(Paris - Chicago)
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CDG - IAD
(Chicago - Washington DC)
IAD - LHR
(Washington DC - London)
LHR - BKK
(London - Bangkok)
BKK - KUL
(Bangkok - Kuala Lumpur)
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Dear self,
Enjoy your flights!
(it's tonight, btw)
I received the scholarship to be a group leader for the AFS YES end-of-stay camp at Washington DC!
They're paying for my flight, accommodation and food while at the camp so it's a pretty amazing deal. I have to pay for my visa though, which is about RM530 (+/-USD150) but I guess if you look at the big picture, it isn't bad. The AFS staff were all really helpful throughout and I'm in the midst of planning my flight arrangements with Annie (Have I mentioned how happy I am to have Annie help me with this? She's a seasoned flight-booker, and a pretty darn good one at that!). I hope to be able to visit my host family and friends around Chicago a week or two prior so Insyallah, everything pulls through.
I have to arrive in Washington DC for the camp on the 29th and it extends till the 3rd when I hope to be able to catch a flight back later that day. After arriving in Malaysia it's straight off to another post-return orientation, this time hosted by the Malaysian YES (Youth Exchange and Study) alumni. NO TIME FOR JET LAG.
On to more interesting news, yesterday I accidentally kicked the huge luggage bag that was placed in my room while trying to find my way around. The bag was pretty solid. My foot not quite so. At work I managed to cut my finger while washing the blades of the blender, spill hot water on myself when getting tea for a customer and dropped a whole bunch of cutleries when clearing the tables. Go me.
But today is my last day of work! I had to ask my manager for permission to quit work earlier, the initial plan was to work till mid-June but I'd rather accept the scholarship than continue on another 2 weeks. Working there is fun despite everything, but this is a big chance for me! The next week is my having to work out my visa and everything else. I have to get things done quick if I hope to leave in 10 days :)
gotta go to bed early. another morning shift tomorrow.
(we're low on manpower. You'd think they'd want to put a 'help wanted' sign up or something...)
On to other news, since my old job has finally got themselves a proper full-timer, they don't need me as much but I'm still on their call list. I don't get the liberty of working a blissful 3-4 times a week anymore and my hours have been cut significantly shorter. Having a full-timer is much more financially profitable for them than to keep me under part-time I guess. I don't blame them, but I don't appreciate the lack of money and their calling at very short notices to ask if I can work the next day. It just isn't consistent enough so today I went and applied for another part-time job at Coffee Bean. We'll see how that goes.
(Btw, Ganko applied for work at Coffee Bean together with me but I just remembered a while ago that she's allergic to Coffee. This'll be a hoot!)
Has anyone watched Star Trek? Now I remember why Captain Kirk looks so familiar. He was Danny from Blind Dating! Now when I see his pictures I keep imagining the Captain as blind. That and Mr.Spock suddenly going all Sylar on me.
Take care guys.
(p/s : for the outline of the shirt, thanks goes to Farhan. He used it for the Hearing Impared AFS YES shirt and I figured it looks really snazzy and makes the design to shirt transformation so much easier to picture.)
Me : Dad, if you win anything - whatever it is, I want it.
Dad : Whatever? What if you don't need it?
Me : Whatever it is, I will need it, trust me.
Dad : Allright then.
* Dad comes back from golf tournament with a big parcel in his hands and puts it down on kitchen table *
Dad : Here you go, this is what I won. I know you've always wanted one.
Me : Ah... a hot water dispenser....
Me : ... exactly what I need.
Me : We can put it next to the other recently bought hot water dispenser. They'll go great together.
It's a bit girlish, so I'm thinking of getting another design that would appeal to both sexes. Any ideas?
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