Sekarang ni musim garage sales. Bila summer aje, confirm org buat garage sales. Aku dan Zairi dah jadi "garage sales addict". Tiap2 minggu, kitorang round satu Ames gi serata ceruk rumah orang yg buat garage sales -- tak termasuk yang organize kat padang ke, gudang ke, semua kitorang redah. Hebat tak? hahaha... Misi bermula Jumaat petang, bersambung Sabtu pagi sampai tghari.. so far dah sebulan aku pnya weekend activity ialah ke garage sales.. hehe... Seminggu adalah dalam 20, 25 rumah kitorang redah... Fatihah pun ikut sama, dia pun dah tau dah mommy and daddy dia mmg tiap2 weekend mesti gi garage sales..

Mesti korang tertanya-tanya apalah agaknya yang aku beli bila gi garage sales, kan? Dan apa pulak yang mat saleh tu semua jual masa garage sales? Hmm... aku beli byk brg2 keperluan, mainan Fatihah dan brg2 lain (romance novel -- aku mmg addict baca romance novel ni, sama mcm mama.. hehe).. yang selebihnya cuci mata aje.. Kitorang saja suka tgk org berkerumun pilih2 brg padahal kekadang tu tak de beli apapun... masa garage sales ni mcm2 benda org jual... satu rumah punya barang la kiranya... mmg rambang mata la especially kalau ada brg2 yg menarik hati.. kat kedai mahal, kat garage sales murah.. walaupun dah terpakai, kekadang kalau nasib baik dapat yg brand new nyer brg.. ha tu mmg best ah... mcm toys Fatihah.. kalau nak beli Little Tikes and Fisher Price kt kedai mahal sikit.. tapi kat garage sales dapat la a dollar ke two dollars ke... ok la kan... antara toys dia yg aku dapat harga murah -->

Educational toys

ATM Machine -- fungsi mcm tabung.. kalau masuk kad tu, keluar la instruction kat screen tu, then boleh buat deposit dlm slot duit (syiling or kertas)... kalau nak withdraw, pilih option withdraw then laci kelabu kat bawah tu terbukak... sgt COOL....

Meja belajar dan dapur masak2 - dua2 Little Tikes

Laptop Fatihah - semua org ada laptop, da pun nak jugak.. hehe

Shopping cart - satu rumah dia tolak shoppping cart ni.. hehe

Sofa pun aku beli kat garage sales -- romance novel ta usah cerita la... ada satu rumah tu siap bagi free lagi kat aku satu kotak penuh CPU komputer tu. Tanpa disedari aku terus meloncat kat situ.. hahaha... sekarang ni dah berkotak2 buku aku kumpul.. aku dgn mama mmg suka baca buku mcmtu, nak beli kat Malaysia, mahunya satu tu RM30++... kat garage sales $0.25 je sebuah...

Maka keje aku tiap2 hari Khamis mlm duk mengadap iklan tgk rumah mana ada garage sales, then tanda kat peta Ames, next thing... merayap la... hehehe.... esok ptg gi lagi... aku nak cari katil bujang utk Adik and some stuff... mmg addicted la kiranya....

Kat Malaysia jgn harap la nak jumpa garage sales mcm kat sini... brg2 yg diorang jual kat garage sales bukannya tak elok.. mostly like new condition and even byk gak brg yg baru and tak penah guna lagi... even ada org yg gi beli brg kat garage sales tu mat saleh yg aku tau mmg loaded... tapi diorang tak kisah..... bagi diorang daripada tak guna brg2 tu baik jual sbb akan ada org yg memerlukan apatah lagi harga mmg murah giler...

Ok... dah pkl 1.11 am ni... esok nak kene gi ofis.... gua zzzzzzzzz dulu....

It looks like I've been abandoning my blog, but trust me, that's not the intention. I've been caught up in sooooo many things, plus I don't feel like writing. That left me with more stories to tell, and I'm gonna try my best to put it all in writing. I haven't done much blog-hopping either, and I know I have tons of catching up that need to be done :)

Enough with the feeling-guilty-not-bloggging crap. Three weeks ago, (man, that long already?) we went to Chicago. We left right after our finals were over. It's a 4-days trip, so there's not much that can be done. Anyway, Zairi had a test at Dominican University on Saturday... so we didn't get to do a lot of sightseeing.

We rent a car for the trip (we got a Crysler Cruiser!) and it took us around 6 hours to Motel 6 in Schiller Park. Zairi and I drove alternately, and the drive was very boring!! It's soy/corn field all along, and the highways are dead flat. Luckily we had the GPS that Abg Fazli loaned us, so we didn't get ourselves lost.

The car! Look vintage, eh?

The Leaning Tower of Pisa? Seriously? In Chicago?

Hell, yeah! I guess this is somewhere around the suburbs, could not remember exactly the place.. we passed by and saw this tower, and thought it was really cool...

Well, we didn't exactly push it.... hehehe

One of our main objectives were accomplished! We ate KFC the night we arrived, and managed to 'tapau' some on the way back to Ames, too...

We will definitely come again to visit Chicago since we haven't got the chance to visit around much. The Navy Pier, Sears tower, John Hancock Observatory, etc....we need to spend good hours for touring around Chicago... that's going to be on our Chicago-to visit list! So, long... windy city! We'll be back!!!

"My loneliness is killing me.... "
Me being lonely? Funny, eh? Aku ada famili kat sini, apa kejadahnya nak feeling2 lonely? Ha.. sure korang cakap camtu, kan... Well, of course I'm glad that I have my family here with me, tapi context loneliness yang akan kukupas dalam entry ni lain...

Bila dah berada jauh diperantauan ni, perasaan ni hadir lagi. Bukan aku yang meminta, tapi secara tiba2. Emosi, orang kata. Dulu aku pernah rasa macam ni sekali. Now is the second time. Isk. Emosi ini buat aku sedih. Sungguh aku tak suka dengan feeling ni. Tapi aku tak reti nak luahkan dengan kata2. Sebab aku bukan jenis itu. Jadi blog nilah tempat aku luahkan segala...

Masa tu aku undergraduate, lokasinya sama je, di Iowa State ni la... masa aku arrive, tak ramai pun orang melayu. Ada 3 orang lelaki -- Azlan, Shahril dan Rapid. Famili melayu pulak ada satu -- famili kak maya and abg ishak. So masa aku arrive, famili kak fauziah pun arrive sama. So kesimpulannya banyak tu je la kami orang melayu.

At that moment, sungguh terasa loneliness itu. Dahlah bujang, tak de geng. Aku baik je dengan famili kak fauziah and kak maya. But sometimes you need to hang out with friends, and doing stuff. Aku tak nak la susahkan famili2 tu sebab mereka pun dah ada famili, kan... Makanya tercatuk la aku kat Frederikson Court, merenung tingkap dan terasa sgt lonely. Nak join American friends, sgt tak appropriate. Diorang ajak gi bar, hangout. Itu bukan aku. Budak2 cina, sama je. Once in a while ada la join diorang main pool and bowling, but then, once in a while. Sudahnya, aku sendiri lagi... Oh.. and it's not appropriate for me to hang around Azlan, Shahril and Rapid all the time, kan... huhuhuhu... so there.... that was kinda the scenario sblm Sam datang....

Now the loneliness is here. Again. *Sigh*. Kali ni aku datang bawak famili. Syukur. At least the loneliness part of missing family is partly settled. Wait till mama and daddy come, then it's fully settled. Loneliness ini takde kaitan dgn famili. Agaknya about me. Isk isk, Sungguh complicated utk aku nyatakan. Bila duduk2 tu, aku teringat. Jauh. Sesekali terusik gak hati ni. Teringat kat kawan2. Apa khabar agaknya korang ek? Especially orang2 kat KPTM. Entah ingat ntah tidak. Kenangan itu datang lagi, Hang out together, sembang2, makan sesama. Rindu sungguh saat itu. For those people who knows me, aku suka bercerita, gosip2, bual2 kosong... hehehe... kan best kalau momen2 itu ada di sini... memang aku ada famili... but then there are always time that I need to talk to somebody.. saja2 je... sembang2.... other than Zairi and Adik. I guess my point is, I'm missing my girlfriends... and that is when the loneliness starts to come again...

It's been 4 months now since we arrived here. Alhamdulillah we got to learn many things. I learn a great deal about friendship, and many more. Thanks a lot to the people here that makes us feel at home. Terharu sgt. You guys know who you are. Kami amat menghargainya... we always feel that we are being left out most of the time, but then, I hope it was just a feeling. All in all, we are truly happy here, and enjoying our lives at the fullest..

Disclaimer: Entry ini adalah luahan hati penulis semata-mata dan tidak berniat menyinggung mana2 pihak.

Lalalala... minggu ni final exam week. Habis je minggu ni, merdeka la masing2... hehehe... so kiranya study week a.k.a dead week minggu baru sudah ni la. Tapi tak serupa studi week pun. Kelas still on, keje still menambun. In my case, aku takde final exam, so tak de la kecoh2 cam org lain. But yet ada term paper and assignment kena hantar. Research still on, xde cuti2... huahuahua...

Bila cakap bab final exam kat sini, yg merana sure la budak2 undergrad i.e Adik. Aku dah merasa dah camane merananya belajar wat degree kat sini. Kerja MENAMBUN. Nama je 3 jam kredit, tapi YA ALLAH, kerjanya... ngalahkan 5 jam kredit. So tak yah imagine ah kalau subjek 5 jam kredit kerjanya berapa byk... huhuhu...

Adik dah pening kepala. Merungut gak sesikit. Studi week tak serupa studi week langsung. Final exam dia pulak berderet2 start esok (1 paper), Selasa (2 paper - pagi and ptg), Rabu (1 paper). TAK KE GILA???? Dia dah pening, tak sempat abis studi, katanya. Aku tgk buku teks kimia dia, mak aiii...setengah jengkal tebal.. bila kala nak perabis baca? Subjek fizik pun sama tebal bukunya... huhu... nasib ah dik... macam tu la aku dulu, siap tak tido semalaman lagi... tak terkejar nak studi satu buku... bkn tak nak studi awal, tapi workload terlampau byk and time consuming... aku cakap kat adik -- pandai2lah kadok... huhuhu

Aku pulak, minggu final ni kena turn in term paper and 1 assignment lagi. Aku tgh halfway wat research pasal term paper tu -- prof aku suggest aku tulis pasal globalization impact on construction industry kat malaysia.. huhu... bkn byk pun literature pasal tu, tak de idea aku nak goreng apa dlm paper aku tuh... Isnin depan, kelas summer aku dah start. Awal, kan? Memamng GILERRR... tapi kelas tu 3 minggu je... mmg packed and jem kepala otak tak masuk kerja2 research yg tak de hentinya itu...

Khamis ni kitorang akan take off ke Chicago.. release kepala otak skit... hari Ahad baliklah Ames.. so far tak detail out lagi nak gi mana sumer.. tunggu settle kerja aku baru ah nak plan2 baikkk pnya... hehe...

Tu la.. dah namanya student, kenalah redha dgn exam dan yg sewktu dgnnya... huhuhu....betullah org kata, PhD = permanent head damage! Haha... Supervisor aku lak kata, PhD - Piled Higher Deeper... lanjutan dari B.S = Bull S***, M.S = More S***. Hahahaha....

Rupanya anak dara ni nak tolong mommy kat dapur ye... tak boleh la... minyak panas ni... dah... gi kat daddy ye.... makanya pergilah Fatihah kat daddynya sambil marah2 sebab aku tak bagi dia duduk kat dapur... huhu...

So masa aku gi garage sales baru2 ni, aku belikan Fatihah dapur mainan... reaksinya --> sgt2 suka...sekarang ni kerjanya main masak2 aje....

Say cheese!

Masak sambil tgk TV (mcm org besar aje..huhu)

Eiii... hehehehe...

Tgh kacau apa tu?

Begini ye, puan-puan...

Errk.... nasib baik pisau tu plastik... huhuh

Hmmm... mlm ni nak masak apa ek?

Jgn kacau eh... tgh busy ni...

Sekarang ni musim garage sales. Bila summer aje, confirm org buat garage sales. Aku dan Zairi dah jadi "garage sales addict". Tiap2 minggu, kitorang round satu Ames gi serata ceruk rumah orang yg buat garage sales -- tak termasuk yang organize kat padang ke, gudang ke, semua kitorang redah. Hebat tak? hahaha... Misi bermula Jumaat petang, bersambung Sabtu pagi sampai tghari.. so far dah sebulan aku pnya weekend activity ialah ke garage sales.. hehe... Seminggu adalah dalam 20, 25 rumah kitorang redah... Fatihah pun ikut sama, dia pun dah tau dah mommy and daddy dia mmg tiap2 weekend mesti gi garage sales..

Mesti korang tertanya-tanya apalah agaknya yang aku beli bila gi garage sales, kan? Dan apa pulak yang mat saleh tu semua jual masa garage sales? Hmm... aku beli byk brg2 keperluan, mainan Fatihah dan brg2 lain (romance novel -- aku mmg addict baca romance novel ni, sama mcm mama.. hehe).. yang selebihnya cuci mata aje.. Kitorang saja suka tgk org berkerumun pilih2 brg padahal kekadang tu tak de beli apapun... masa garage sales ni mcm2 benda org jual... satu rumah punya barang la kiranya... mmg rambang mata la especially kalau ada brg2 yg menarik hati.. kat kedai mahal, kat garage sales murah.. walaupun dah terpakai, kekadang kalau nasib baik dapat yg brand new nyer brg.. ha tu mmg best ah... mcm toys Fatihah.. kalau nak beli Little Tikes and Fisher Price kt kedai mahal sikit.. tapi kat garage sales dapat la a dollar ke two dollars ke... ok la kan... antara toys dia yg aku dapat harga murah -->

Educational toys

ATM Machine -- fungsi mcm tabung.. kalau masuk kad tu, keluar la instruction kat screen tu, then boleh buat deposit dlm slot duit (syiling or kertas)... kalau nak withdraw, pilih option withdraw then laci kelabu kat bawah tu terbukak... sgt COOL....

Meja belajar dan dapur masak2 - dua2 Little Tikes

Laptop Fatihah - semua org ada laptop, da pun nak jugak.. hehe

Shopping cart - satu rumah dia tolak shoppping cart ni.. hehe

Sofa pun aku beli kat garage sales -- romance novel ta usah cerita la... ada satu rumah tu siap bagi free lagi kat aku satu kotak penuh CPU komputer tu. Tanpa disedari aku terus meloncat kat situ.. hahaha... sekarang ni dah berkotak2 buku aku kumpul.. aku dgn mama mmg suka baca buku mcmtu, nak beli kat Malaysia, mahunya satu tu RM30++... kat garage sales $0.25 je sebuah...

Maka keje aku tiap2 hari Khamis mlm duk mengadap iklan tgk rumah mana ada garage sales, then tanda kat peta Ames, next thing... merayap la... hehehe.... esok ptg gi lagi... aku nak cari katil bujang utk Adik and some stuff... mmg addicted la kiranya....

Kat Malaysia jgn harap la nak jumpa garage sales mcm kat sini... brg2 yg diorang jual kat garage sales bukannya tak elok.. mostly like new condition and even byk gak brg yg baru and tak penah guna lagi... even ada org yg gi beli brg kat garage sales tu mat saleh yg aku tau mmg loaded... tapi diorang tak kisah..... bagi diorang daripada tak guna brg2 tu baik jual sbb akan ada org yg memerlukan apatah lagi harga mmg murah giler...

Ok... dah pkl 1.11 am ni... esok nak kene gi ofis.... gua zzzzzzzzz dulu....

It looks like I've been abandoning my blog, but trust me, that's not the intention. I've been caught up in sooooo many things, plus I don't feel like writing. That left me with more stories to tell, and I'm gonna try my best to put it all in writing. I haven't done much blog-hopping either, and I know I have tons of catching up that need to be done :)

Enough with the feeling-guilty-not-bloggging crap. Three weeks ago, (man, that long already?) we went to Chicago. We left right after our finals were over. It's a 4-days trip, so there's not much that can be done. Anyway, Zairi had a test at Dominican University on Saturday... so we didn't get to do a lot of sightseeing.

We rent a car for the trip (we got a Crysler Cruiser!) and it took us around 6 hours to Motel 6 in Schiller Park. Zairi and I drove alternately, and the drive was very boring!! It's soy/corn field all along, and the highways are dead flat. Luckily we had the GPS that Abg Fazli loaned us, so we didn't get ourselves lost.

The car! Look vintage, eh?

The Leaning Tower of Pisa? Seriously? In Chicago?

Hell, yeah! I guess this is somewhere around the suburbs, could not remember exactly the place.. we passed by and saw this tower, and thought it was really cool...

Well, we didn't exactly push it.... hehehe

One of our main objectives were accomplished! We ate KFC the night we arrived, and managed to 'tapau' some on the way back to Ames, too...

We will definitely come again to visit Chicago since we haven't got the chance to visit around much. The Navy Pier, Sears tower, John Hancock Observatory, etc....we need to spend good hours for touring around Chicago... that's going to be on our Chicago-to visit list! So, long... windy city! We'll be back!!!

"My loneliness is killing me.... "
Me being lonely? Funny, eh? Aku ada famili kat sini, apa kejadahnya nak feeling2 lonely? Ha.. sure korang cakap camtu, kan... Well, of course I'm glad that I have my family here with me, tapi context loneliness yang akan kukupas dalam entry ni lain...

Bila dah berada jauh diperantauan ni, perasaan ni hadir lagi. Bukan aku yang meminta, tapi secara tiba2. Emosi, orang kata. Dulu aku pernah rasa macam ni sekali. Now is the second time. Isk. Emosi ini buat aku sedih. Sungguh aku tak suka dengan feeling ni. Tapi aku tak reti nak luahkan dengan kata2. Sebab aku bukan jenis itu. Jadi blog nilah tempat aku luahkan segala...

Masa tu aku undergraduate, lokasinya sama je, di Iowa State ni la... masa aku arrive, tak ramai pun orang melayu. Ada 3 orang lelaki -- Azlan, Shahril dan Rapid. Famili melayu pulak ada satu -- famili kak maya and abg ishak. So masa aku arrive, famili kak fauziah pun arrive sama. So kesimpulannya banyak tu je la kami orang melayu.

At that moment, sungguh terasa loneliness itu. Dahlah bujang, tak de geng. Aku baik je dengan famili kak fauziah and kak maya. But sometimes you need to hang out with friends, and doing stuff. Aku tak nak la susahkan famili2 tu sebab mereka pun dah ada famili, kan... Makanya tercatuk la aku kat Frederikson Court, merenung tingkap dan terasa sgt lonely. Nak join American friends, sgt tak appropriate. Diorang ajak gi bar, hangout. Itu bukan aku. Budak2 cina, sama je. Once in a while ada la join diorang main pool and bowling, but then, once in a while. Sudahnya, aku sendiri lagi... Oh.. and it's not appropriate for me to hang around Azlan, Shahril and Rapid all the time, kan... huhuhuhu... so there.... that was kinda the scenario sblm Sam datang....

Now the loneliness is here. Again. *Sigh*. Kali ni aku datang bawak famili. Syukur. At least the loneliness part of missing family is partly settled. Wait till mama and daddy come, then it's fully settled. Loneliness ini takde kaitan dgn famili. Agaknya about me. Isk isk, Sungguh complicated utk aku nyatakan. Bila duduk2 tu, aku teringat. Jauh. Sesekali terusik gak hati ni. Teringat kat kawan2. Apa khabar agaknya korang ek? Especially orang2 kat KPTM. Entah ingat ntah tidak. Kenangan itu datang lagi, Hang out together, sembang2, makan sesama. Rindu sungguh saat itu. For those people who knows me, aku suka bercerita, gosip2, bual2 kosong... hehehe... kan best kalau momen2 itu ada di sini... memang aku ada famili... but then there are always time that I need to talk to somebody.. saja2 je... sembang2.... other than Zairi and Adik. I guess my point is, I'm missing my girlfriends... and that is when the loneliness starts to come again...

It's been 4 months now since we arrived here. Alhamdulillah we got to learn many things. I learn a great deal about friendship, and many more. Thanks a lot to the people here that makes us feel at home. Terharu sgt. You guys know who you are. Kami amat menghargainya... we always feel that we are being left out most of the time, but then, I hope it was just a feeling. All in all, we are truly happy here, and enjoying our lives at the fullest..

Disclaimer: Entry ini adalah luahan hati penulis semata-mata dan tidak berniat menyinggung mana2 pihak.

Lalalala... minggu ni final exam week. Habis je minggu ni, merdeka la masing2... hehehe... so kiranya study week a.k.a dead week minggu baru sudah ni la. Tapi tak serupa studi week pun. Kelas still on, keje still menambun. In my case, aku takde final exam, so tak de la kecoh2 cam org lain. But yet ada term paper and assignment kena hantar. Research still on, xde cuti2... huahuahua...

Bila cakap bab final exam kat sini, yg merana sure la budak2 undergrad i.e Adik. Aku dah merasa dah camane merananya belajar wat degree kat sini. Kerja MENAMBUN. Nama je 3 jam kredit, tapi YA ALLAH, kerjanya... ngalahkan 5 jam kredit. So tak yah imagine ah kalau subjek 5 jam kredit kerjanya berapa byk... huhuhu...

Adik dah pening kepala. Merungut gak sesikit. Studi week tak serupa studi week langsung. Final exam dia pulak berderet2 start esok (1 paper), Selasa (2 paper - pagi and ptg), Rabu (1 paper). TAK KE GILA???? Dia dah pening, tak sempat abis studi, katanya. Aku tgk buku teks kimia dia, mak aiii...setengah jengkal tebal.. bila kala nak perabis baca? Subjek fizik pun sama tebal bukunya... huhu... nasib ah dik... macam tu la aku dulu, siap tak tido semalaman lagi... tak terkejar nak studi satu buku... bkn tak nak studi awal, tapi workload terlampau byk and time consuming... aku cakap kat adik -- pandai2lah kadok... huhuhu

Aku pulak, minggu final ni kena turn in term paper and 1 assignment lagi. Aku tgh halfway wat research pasal term paper tu -- prof aku suggest aku tulis pasal globalization impact on construction industry kat malaysia.. huhu... bkn byk pun literature pasal tu, tak de idea aku nak goreng apa dlm paper aku tuh... Isnin depan, kelas summer aku dah start. Awal, kan? Memamng GILERRR... tapi kelas tu 3 minggu je... mmg packed and jem kepala otak tak masuk kerja2 research yg tak de hentinya itu...

Khamis ni kitorang akan take off ke Chicago.. release kepala otak skit... hari Ahad baliklah Ames.. so far tak detail out lagi nak gi mana sumer.. tunggu settle kerja aku baru ah nak plan2 baikkk pnya... hehe...

Tu la.. dah namanya student, kenalah redha dgn exam dan yg sewktu dgnnya... huhuhu....betullah org kata, PhD = permanent head damage! Haha... Supervisor aku lak kata, PhD - Piled Higher Deeper... lanjutan dari B.S = Bull S***, M.S = More S***. Hahahaha....

Rupanya anak dara ni nak tolong mommy kat dapur ye... tak boleh la... minyak panas ni... dah... gi kat daddy ye.... makanya pergilah Fatihah kat daddynya sambil marah2 sebab aku tak bagi dia duduk kat dapur... huhu...

So masa aku gi garage sales baru2 ni, aku belikan Fatihah dapur mainan... reaksinya --> sgt2 suka...sekarang ni kerjanya main masak2 aje....

Say cheese!

Masak sambil tgk TV (mcm org besar aje..huhu)

Eiii... hehehehe...

Tgh kacau apa tu?

Begini ye, puan-puan...

Errk.... nasib baik pisau tu plastik... huhuh

Hmmm... mlm ni nak masak apa ek?

Jgn kacau eh... tgh busy ni...