today is February the 14th

hhheah, as if who doesn't know that today is valentine's day?

but this blog has nothing to do with any lovey-duvey stories... (sorry to cut your steam, but what to do, no one is taking a second look at ah-moi here...)

it's about how freaking time had passes, and today is officially half a year since i stepped my feet on American soil...


a lot of interesting things had happened for the past 6 months:

• for the first time in my 17 years of life, i am actually surrounded in a deserted college town where ang mohs are more than asians...
• i am exposed to the american education system, and busted the myth that it is itsy-bitsy and sap sap sui A to get a 4.0 GPA here... hell no...
• i roomed with someone for 2 months, survived her sloppiness and arrogance, found an opened condom after she moved out...

• i survived negative 0 temperatures, and anyday hotter than 0 degrees Celsius is now consider warm to me....
• made new friends... =D

• finally get my lazy ass off the bed and chair, and land myself a job at the cafeteria, where i met different people, and every working day is a new experience to me....
• experienced civilization after staying at kampung for god knows how long, during my first trip to Chicago! babeh!

• i went, i saw and i conquered the statue of liberty, and NEW YORK babeh!

• visited other universities - Purdue, Northwestern, New York Uni...
• discovered new american bands that i never heard before in Malaysia.. (yes lynn, i shall highly recommend it to you!)....

• i think... i improved my malay more than i improved my english...
  
• the rest.... is history....

looking back, i had achieved quite a lot of stuffs in the past 6 months...

still, i have much much more that i have yet to accomplish:

• discover the other parts of america!
• go to it's neighbours - canada, mexico, maybe even brazil!! =D
• make more ang moh friends, hang out with them more often....
• being able to speak american-ish english... as in with the american Sllaanngg... yahh man!
• the list goes on and on....

i love to go on, but i realized that i have 2 chapters of reading, 2 group projects to work on, a resume to polish, and hell lot more stuffs to do...

and just when i think america is not like as bad as i think...

i was wrong...

6 shot dead, including gunman, at Northern Illinois University

DEKALB, Illinois (CNN) -- A gunman dressed in black stepped from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday and shot 21 people, five of them fatally, then turned shot and killed himself, said university president John Peters.

read more, HERE

what's wrong with these people ya'll?