Thanks to technology, it has made easier for us to get the updates of people who are apart from us.
Seeing those friends in Seattle, Chicago, Bemidji, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, etc are doing so well, doing all sort of different interesting things, in comparison, my life may seem a little bit too boring. But I am still trying to do some little things every now and then.
After staying in Twin Cities for three months now, my life is finally settled down. And so now it's time for me to plan how to make my life more interesting.
My to-do list includes:
1. Reading. Having spending quite some time in library recently, and hope can continue doing it. Have to pick up books again.
2. Watching movies. Oh....this can never be a problem for me. Hahaha...my favorite leisure activity.
3. Preparing for GRE. I have finally decided to study master, after doubting about it for almost three months. Still not sure which course I wanna do and which university to go, but I guess the first thing is to settle the GRE exam first.
4. Learning to cook. oh...this is going to be hard, but will try.
5. Exploring Twin Cities. When chatting with friends in B-town, their impression toward the Cities is just Asian restaurants, Asian grocery shopping, shopping at Albertville and MOA, and nothing else. But does it really that all the Cities has? Maybe not....
6. Continue working on my video. OMG...how many months already since I started doing it? 3 months? 4 months? I don't know, but hehe....will finish it one day, just no idea when that one day will be....
7. Trying out different restaurants in Twin Cities. I am bored with Mandarin Kitchen, Satwadee, Hong Kong Noodles, etc. I need to explore some new restaurants.
8. Counting the day back to Malaysia. Yay...
Gee...It's just one year ago when I bought my Macbook, and got the 4GB Ipod nano, but I sold it to my friend. I regretted but I can still live without it...
Yet now guess what, you can get a free 8GB of Ipod nano or Ipod touch of your choice when you purchase the Macbook. And the 3GB Iphone with just $199 is coming up this month....
OMG....what's wrong with Apple now? Seems like it's trying to reach to a bigger consumer population now. The offer now makes it to be a better deal to buy Mac than any other brand like Toshiba, Sony, or HP.
After using it for a year now, all I can say is that "I love my Mac...."
If you love looking at rainbow, come to Loring Park.
I could see the rainbow everytime when I walked pass this water fountain around 9am.
Basically this is the first thing I will do every morning when I wake up - moving my car to the park and walk back to the apartment, if I wasn't lazy enough. Sometimes I would feel tired, sometimes I would have bad moods, sometimes it''s just too hot that I didn't feel like moving my car and walking back, but when I walked pass the fountain and saw the wonder rainbow image made by this fountain and the sunlight, I would smile and feel calm, as if it was telling me that "see, this world is still beautiful..."
It was a few weeks ago that I read from a friend's blog that how she is so in love with this movie and the musics in this movie. Out of curiosity, I went to YouTube and listen to one of the songs in there. It didn't impress me that much at first, yet I still decided to watch this movie. Unfortunately, the movie was not played properly in my Mac, so I just watched the first 10 minutes and that's it. Strangely after that, I kept reading from people's blogs and the comments people left, all saying that this is an awesome movie, even from one of my most admire person. Hence, I thought maybe I should watch this movie again, I wanted to see how good this movie is that can make so many people fall in love with it.
Guess what, after watching it, I am joining the majority. This movie is so brilliant, and I am seriously thinking of buying the soundtrack. I am listening to the songs over and over.
I am kind of a movie freak, I can spend all the leisure time I have with movies, and that's what I have been doing after staying here by myself. I especially adore the independent-produced movies, you know, they do not have big budget to create the very expensive high-technology scenes, but they are making movies with heart. Just like this movie, with a budget of $160000, they have made such a brilliant movie, even though a lot of scenes seem to be imperfect. But maybe it's the imperfectness that has drawn people down to this movie, since life is never perfect, the imperfectness makes people feel so real of the movie.
I went on to watch their interview, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, I love them, especially Marketa. This is the first time she acts, no wonder some of her scenes made me smile. Hahaha...
So guys, if you wanted to get a good movie to unwind yourself, go for this.
Everytime when I watched this video, all the memories of my last summer would flash back into my mind, it felt like all these had just happened not long ago, i could still remember every single details of what happened to me for the last summer, yet it has been one year past now. Another summer has came...
For me (and I believe, for most of the people too), Varsity Company Summer Internship is one of the hardest job you can ever have. Seriously, I am not kidding.... Imagine this, you are an international student that has just came to the States not long ago, and now you have to drive all the way to a state that you have never been before, not knowing anybody there. All you have is the $500 that you are allowed to have for the whole summer, and you have to look for an apartment for you to stay for the whole summer the first day you arrive there, and you must be able to get the best deal on that day and be able to move in immediately, otherwise you would have to stay at motel, which is the last thing you want to do. And the very next day you have to drive to the town assigned to you and start working, going from one house to another, meeting all kinds of people that you don't even know whether they are good people or not. Everyday you are competing with the time and most importantly, competing with yourself and your emotion. You will realize how weak or how strong you are, whether you are able to stand the bad feeling of being slammed door by many people everyday, whether you can keep going after being rejected by the nice people (yup...this is hard, because they are all very nice to you, yet they still say "NO" to you), whether you can stand the pressure from the managers and the coworkers, especially when you see your friends are doing so well. After all, can you put everything aside, and just enjoy yourself with the customers? I salute myself for managing to finish it without quitting.
I salute all my friends who have done and who are doing this program, because you guys are strong, especially for those who have been doing this for few years.
So for all my friends who are in this program right now, please please just hang on there. Time will go fast, before you know it, that's the end of the summer. And to my dearest Xin Yuan, Siew Mun, and Yee Mun, Please make sure you guys make enough money and come back to treat me a real nice meal. Hahaha...
THE VARSITY CREED
This is the beginning of a new day
I have been given this day to use as I will.
I CAN WASTE IT or use it for good.
What I do today is important because I’m
Exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone
Forever, leaving in its
Place whatever I have traded for it.
I PLEDGE TO MYSELF that it shall be:
Gain, not loss; good, not evil;
Success, not failure;
In order that I shall not regret the price
I paid for this day.
I start to salute myself already....Hahaha...after been through all kinds of training, last night I finally started my overnight shift for my second job. Before that, I was worried whether I would be able to handle it, because yesterday I was working for my first job from 1-9pm, and then I had to drive about 20 minutes to reach my second job workplace, and then started working from 10pm till 6am. I was working 16 hours with only half an hour for me to rest. Yet man....I did it.
And seriously, I was not very tired (I thought I would), as I could only sleep until 10.30 am and I couldn't sleep back no matter how hard I tried, and now I end up staying in the library and surfing the net. Oh my goodness...
Haih....haih...haih....
that's how I feel right now. Even though I stay in downtown Minneapolis....erm...the edge of the downtown, to be more exact, I still felt scared everytime I drove to downtown. Seriously, I am still confused with the roads, and the GPS made mistake as well. And even when I have found the place I was looking for, the next problem would be "where should I park my car????" It made me so frustrated when I had to drive round and round to find a parking space...
And that's why I seldom drive around downtown even though I have been staying here for more than 2 months now. Thus, to avoid accident (I nearly got myself into an accident few weeks ago in downtown) and being lost, I rather chose to walk than to drive....Hahaha...
For a person who is raised up in a tropical country with no natural disasters, I could never imagine that tornado could actually happen so near to me. Until last month, everytime when I watched the news of earthquake and tornado or watched movies about natural disasters, I always felt it's so far away from me, and that I should never worry about that. But now I totally change my mind.
Yesterday tornado and hail hit Hugo of Washington County severely, which is like 30 minutes away from Minneapolis, as well as Coon Rapids, which is about 20 minutes away from the place I work (Brooklyn Park). While I was working yesterday, we were even asked to evacuate all the residents to hallway two times for tornado warning. Hahaha...what an experience for me...and luckily, we are safe. To read the news, click here.
The weather of this year is seriously unstable for US, e.g. tornado has hit Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Arkansas; my friend in Arizona can still experience snowing until now (which is really unusual, especially for a state in the south); even in Minnesota, we had snow until the end of April in Bemidji.
Oh friends, perhaps it's time for us to do something for the earth...
Yes...after borrowing Mun Yee's GPS for one month, finally I bought the new one for myself. This is my new baby, and it's going to help me to travel to wherever I want. Wahahaha...
I miss you...I miss you...I miss you...
When can I talk to you? When can I see you? When can I eat the macaroni with spinach and scrambled egg that you love to cook again? When can I call you babi again? When can I hear you nag me again?
It has been 5 months now after you left from US to go back Malaysia. Time really flies.... How's your life in KL? You may not know, but i would definitely check your blog everytime I online. And guess what, I kept reading your last entry, over and over again. Hahaha...
Friday, May 16, 2008
...stay tough.
Time flies, I've worked for a month! Hurray...and still under probation period, so, make sure I won't get fired within three months.
Working as a personal assistant is not a high tech work but it seems to be a challenge, as I have under estimated my tasks. I thought things can be done using my brain but too bad, my brain cells ain't so helpful sometimes.
Rent a room in Pelangi D'sara, and waiting for my 1st car, I miss those days in Bemidji. Guess what, it is the most relaxing life I can ever get. Stories we shared, laughters we had, everything is so much better. Well Malaysia gives me the warmth (MELTING HOT, to be exact) and I will not feel the insecurity of financial factors. Despite of all crimes this and that, I am safe over here.
Pei See, miss you la. Hope you are surviving well, and know what you are doing. Stay conscious, and always remember, you are never alone, NEVER. (and I dak han dak han will always click the video that you made for me..wahahhaha)
KL is still busy, with everything, yes, but it is empty. Bemidji is so dead, but it has what I want.
Sometimes I wonder, what actually I am looking for? Life? What life exactly I am looking for?
The worst thing you can get is when you don't even know what you want.
I want salary or experiences or title?
Nothing comes with these all in one. Unless I am a super valuable summa cum laude (Yes Tan Ai Rene, I am talking about you.) LOL
KL life's definition of happiness if always relate with spending and buying.
Bemidji needs none of it, Bemidji needs the right type of people and you can get yuor warmth from them.
Speak about this, Sharon Tung Hsiao Han, I miss the beer session I had had with you. haha.
Y Ji that babi and the haunted Mxxxx at Birch.
Lou Dao and Yvonne..miss last summer so so muchie.
Manish, being your friend is like reading an encyclopedia, speaking with a philosopher and having a personal advisor.
Xiu Wan, you marry dun lemme know, hate you.
Grace, you look so beautiful in your wedding dress, I will always remember the days we shared in Pine Ridge.
Chee Wei, you sei chai bao.
Irene Wong, I want the photos in your digicam! Akakakaa...
Coule Chai, BEHAVE. lol.
..and everyone.
Miss you all.
Oldtown Kopitiam needs to fix their air con,
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Gim, I know that i am not alone. No worries, ok? Hahaha...I am glad that you like the video so much, even though that was my first trial of making a video. Tell you what, I just used two days to get the video done, but the video that I am trying to make for myself and for my family to see, I can't even finish it in one month. How la, gim... See, you are the motivation for me, even stronger than myself. Hahaha...
Gim, let's work hard together, okay?
Counting the time to go Malaysia to see you.
