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.