I did it..and I'm so proud of myself! hehe..it's nothing much but this morning I had just discovered how to change the size and the color of my postings.

Well anyway, I woke up early this morning feeling kinda groggy cause I ate too much ice-cream last night but my mood soon changed as the day progresses.. I had a shower and stared blindly at my wardrobe deciding what to wear while the radio rambles on about how warm it's going to be today.

Yesterday was a scorcher at 95F and from what I heard, it's going to be another boiling day with temperatures reaching as high as 95F and heat index of 110F..fuhhh!! I'm just glad I'm not grilling sausages outdoor as a part time summer job.. hehehe.. anyway, [getting away with my babblings there..] I finally choose to wear a white shirt (the one that monina gave me when she came to visit last summer) and a red skirt(that I bought with my family when I was studying in Perlis years ago-some of my friends called the place PEARL LACE).. With that I have to wear suitable shoes too..so I guess I'll have to go home after my P.Chem lecture to get the stuff I'd wear for my daily badminton game..I'm glad I don't have a Bio lab today..that should give me time to stay home and concentrate on my studies, since I didn't do very much of that last night.

Right now I'm working..I feel good that I've helped my supervisor with some of the words from his crossword puzzle this morning (using my knowledge of European geography)..After the finals, I will have nothing to do after my morning shift here (that ends at 10 am Monday through to Friday). I really don't know what to do. I just asked Phillip, my supervisor, if he knows whether the equiptment desk, the pro shop or the front desk might have some open shifts for August.. I really don't wanna go through any more interviews to get a new job just for this month. Aza and I started talking about working at the State Fairs but I don't think she's serious about that.. but who knows I might be too bored..

I think I might spend the summer helping out the newly arrived freshmans (fresh from Malaysia) settle in but before they arrive I think I might study a little for the driving exam that I've been procastinating week after week.. Marcel says that he might let me practice drive his car when I have my permit. I thought that maybe I wanted to get help from Wei cause his car is smaller and probablly easier to drive but he's going back to Malaysia this Saturday..so, well, maybe not! I might have to see if Tom will allow me to drive his car, he already knows about my plans of driving this winter in the sunny land of California. Besides, I still owe him an outing. He wanted to take me out canoeing last Saturday, but I have to work. I heard his message on my answering machine when I came home from watching a movie with Wei last Friday, and when I tried to get a hold of him, his roommate told me that he was out.. it turns out that he didn't go canoeing on Saturday cause he came to my office to see me and made me promise that I'd go out with him sometime after my finals. Maybe I'll ask him to take me, Aza and Awin to Valley Fair this Saturday(now that I know Wei's flight is on Saturday morning).

Anyway, I have 30 minutes before my class.. I better do a little pre-class prep.

This is gonna be an interesting day!

Well..it's me again
Another day another thought.. Once again I'm in my office, just chilling out, listening to KMWB Radio and thinking whether I will get my homework done today at work while I'm waiting to serve the next person here at the gym's cashier's office. Yes, as you probably guessed, I'm working ...yeah..on a Sunday! But it is soemthing good considering that I'll probably be asleep or home alone if I stay home anyway..so logically thinking, it's better to be out earning money while doing nothing rather than staying home.
Somehow I feel that today is going to be a busy day because the Indonesian Sudent Association (PERMIAS) has booked the courts upstair for some sports event and people are coming in to buy guest passes. I sympathize those who just realised that the guest passes prices have gone up and scrambles around for the extra 3 dollars since the cost of daily pass increased from 5 to 8 on July 1st. On the other hand, Sunday is a family day and so family members don't have to purchase daily passes, so who knows.. it's only 30 minutes since the gym opened and already there's a few people buying passes and I know that I need to replace the printing on the receipt machine soon.
It's so cold in this office, I think they've set the temperature to 70 F all year around or something. I'm probably the only person in this gym who wears a sweater in summer. And still my fingers are turning purple. That's probably why I like it when its summer. Winter here in Minnesota is unbearable..it's freezing cold.. I'm not surprised why they say that Minnesota is the coldest state in America. I can't imagine what it'll be like living in an igloo up north in Canada. I escaped to Malaysia last winter, this year I'm planning to go to the warm and sunny california. My goal right now is to save enough money so that I can splurge it all on myself "Because I'm worth it!".. a line from L'oreal.
Wei just walked into the gym, he smiled and waved.. I went out with him two nights ago, we went to TGI FRIDAY for dinner then we watched Planet of the Apes at the St.Anthony Mains's Reading cinema. He's kinda fun to be with. We were both in the same Composition class last Spring. Oh, he's coming over to my booth for a chat. He just told me that he's going back to Malaysia soon for the summer break and will be coming back on the 5th of Sept. Wei comes to the gym everyday because he just can't find anything else to do at home too. He was a Malaysian badminton player, he told me that the University might be paying him to teach badminton next semester, but he's still considering. I don't think he needs the money, and he might be too bz cause he takes 20 credits every semester anyway. I saw him play badminton sometime last week, and, well I have to admit, he is good. Every day after my Biology class, I'd go to the gym and play badminton with Awin. He's a good player too and usually he'd bully me as we play together. He's teaching me new skills, so I'm happy with that. I used to jog in the evenings or use the exercise machines at lunch time but there's no fun in that. So I choose to sweat and have fun at the same time now. My shirt would usually be soaked wet with sweat after the 2 hours of badminton. Sometimes I don't even realise how the time passed by, that's how much fun I'm having. Sometimes Zack comes to join us too. Once Yasmin and Joann came and we played together too.
I woke up at 7 today, I wanted to wake up earlier but I was too sleepy since I slept at around 3 last night, just trying to get my P. Chem assignment done. Today I shall have to stay up again trying to finish my take home exam that's due on Tuesday.Heck, I might stay up all week just studying for the finals. I mean why not..when else will I be doing all this. After the 2nd of August I will find myself doing nothing in particular.. I might go to Valley Fair on Saturday, that is if Wei haven't gone back to Malaysia yet.
I'm working all day on Friday, so I'm reserving Saturday for fun!
I called my mum after I had my morning shower, I'm always happy after I speak to her (or anyone in the family for that matter).. sometimes I wish I'm back there with them, but it's my choice to study abroad, so I have nobody to blame but myself. Well life here is good too, I've learned alot just by living independently here. Met a lot of people, some unbelievably wonderful, some nice, some not so nice and some that are just down-to-hell wickedly cruel. C'est la vie!
After I finished talking to my parents, I went to the farmer's market with Abg. Ghazali and Kak Zee and another 2 girls. We bought some vegetables and sunflowers. Last summer, I went to Madison, Wisconsin to be with my best friends and they have dried sunflowers in their bedroom. So it kinda reminded me of my best friends when I bought the sunflowers. My best friend at my boarding school planted a sunflower at her house and once I went to her house to visit her parents, she showed me her flowers. They were as big as your dinner plates. It was beautiful. Well another thing about sunflowers is that my roomate at ppp used to wear Sunflower perfume..so actually buying this flower takes me back to those lovely memories of my lovely close friends.
Anyway, today, I shall spend the day, studying and studying..that's what I shall be doing everyday until the finals are over. So wish me luck..
I'll keep things updated later.

hello..and welcome!
I had wanted to do this for such a long time and have been procastinating again and again, not knowing what exactly i'd rattle on about even if I start this thing. But lately I feel that I have a thousand of millions of things on my mind, and something just clicked inside of me..it says "Get it all out, get organize, and get it going.. " and I thought..well what the heck, let's just get it over and done with.. after all, I'm just killing time!
So as I woke up this morning, all that I can think of is going to work early this morning to help out my supervisor, and I know that I'll have nothing to do while he's gone to help out at the Aquatic Center for today's swim event, so here I am. Feeling a little guilty that I'm not studying for my finals that's coming up next Thursday, but I just wanted to get this thing ticked off my 'to do' list in my mind. And what a great feeling this is.. I hope my day will turn out great too..
I'm doing this to leave a message to myself. I think of so many things every second, every minute, every day.. I wanna freeze it in time, cause I know someday I'll turn back to these good times and smile, just like I have in the past as I stride along memory lane.
Who knows maybe someday I'll write an autobiography of my life, and I'll have this to refer back to.. it'll be fun. Anyway, I'll get back to you later with more of my babblelicious chit-chat.
But before I go..I just wanna start off this blog with a theme song..
'A Moment To Myself' by Macy Gray.

I saw a rainbow just earlier today
Lately those rainbows be comin 'round like everyday
Deep in the struggle I have found the beauty of me
God is watching and the devil finally let me be
Here in this moment to myself
I'm gonna vibe with no one else
There is a conversation I need to have with me
It's just a moment to myself

They're all lookin at you, you've got everything to lose
Get up and dance girl, sing your tu-rah-loo-rah-loo
And quit bitchin bout how don't nobody really love you
Spread your rubber lovin and it bounces back to you
Here in this moment to myself
I'm gonna vibe with no one else
There is a conversation I need to have with me
It's just a moment to myself

Flowers are bloomin under gray skies and moons
Seems like I'm winnin everytime I lose
And the answers I been lookin for been here all the time
Spread your rubber lovin and it bounces back to you
Here in this moment to myself
I'm gonna vibe with no one else
There is a conversation I need to have with me
It's just a moment to myself