Transformers

Went to watch Transformers today... gillos sensory overload... cool thing was the movie was funny, and it gave a lot of homage to the original 1986 movie... not to mention all the insane action...

Anyway I found the movie below in YouTube... LOL... classic Optimus Prime voice, saying the four letter word... you have to watch the 1986 movie to understand the jokes though...



Downloading the original movie right now... classic... one of the first movies I've watched, and remains one of the best... although I've watched it close to 20 times now, just have to watch it again..

Streamyx Online!!!

FINALLY!!! Online jugak aku akhirnya!!!!! @#$%*%$#@ punya TMNet...

VivoCity

Went to VivoCity today, supposedly the biggest shopping mall in the world... in Singapore I mean... as always, 1 year over here, tak pernah2 pergi, but finally I managed to convince myself to go there... 2 days before leaving... it was nice, the number of shops they had were not that impressive, the thing that was is the wading pool/water park they had on the rooftop... something similar to the wading pool at KLCC, only that this one was on the rooftop, and it spanned the entire rooftop, and being surrounded by expensive restaurants...

Another interesting touch is the balcony on the same rooftop overlooking the straits separating mainland Singapore and Sentosa... it also gave a very nice view of the Sentosa waterfront... cable car and sky ride tower in the distance

Sentosa was just a 5 minute $3 monorail ride away... I was quite tempted to go again, tapi pikir2 balik... naaahhhhh... I can go back anytime... just a 5 hour bus ride...

You should be able to tell by now that I love anything with water... beaches... swimming pools... waterfalls... rivers... showers... toilets... takde kesimpulan

I was there...

Cikmat nak datang sangat, so I had to oblige... bagus jugak, kalau tidak setahun aku duduk kat sini langsung tak datang... the small writing on the stone reads... The Southernmost Point, Asia Continent...

The trip was OK I guess, but the highlight of the trip was this show called 'Song of the Sea'... sounds kinda lame I know... it's a laser + lights + water jets + music show... and it was just gorsome (gorgeous + awesome)... started out kinda slow, but once the water + lights + fireworks + laser + all sorts of crazy shit kicked into full gear, I was completely awestruck + mesmerized... mulut ternganga sambil tersenyum sedikit sambil dalam hati terkata 'coolness'... last time that happened to me was in PGL... and for only $6... that's me standing in front of the stage before the show started...

Last but not least, Singapore skyline taken from this Sky Ride thingy... on Sentosa of course

Notes I accumulated throughout the past year...

Damn that's a lot of trees... baru setahun... unfortunately it will all end up in the rubbish bin... sayang sebenarnye, you cannot put a price on knowledge you know... but mak aku mesti mengamok kalau tengok aku nak bawak balik... so bye bye...

I remember when I was at Michigan (Michigan lagi), I kept all my 4 years worth of notes... penuh satu kotak monitor... last last semua menurun kat Sharence... I have no idea what he did with all those notes... again, 4 years worth of knowledge... cannot put a price on that... tapi takkan nak bawak balik mesia kan... tak habis2 cerita Michigan...

FINALLY!!!

181 pages of utter bullcrap... done... now I can look forward to packing my stuff and going home... funny how many similarities there are between my final days at Michigan and my last days over here... I got into this swimming craze during my final days at Michigan... and I'm getting that craze all over again now... 2 hours x 3 times a week... ni pon tengah pancit lagi sebab swimming tadi... managed to sneak in my camera and snap a few pics of the swimming pool...

I also remember my flight back home from Michigan was sometime in the middle of July... and this time around I'm going back to M'sia on 16th of July... what a coincidence... the only difference is that while it was kinda difficult for me to leave Michigan back then... I knew somehow I was gonna miss that place... I don't think I'm gonna miss this place anytime soon... in fact I really look forward to going home... not starting work at UNITEN again though... just going home...

I can't believe it has been almost 4 years since I left Michigan... I can still remember my last moment in Ann Arbor... me looking back at Eaton and the few people who were nice enough to send me away as the taxi drove I was in drove off at 3 am of July 15th 2003... that was the last glimpse I had of my second home... my last moment in Ann Arbor... aduh sedisnya... mula la nak jiwang ni... bodohnya diriku ini thinking working life would be better, thinking that I am primed to start working, semangat untuk belajar dah habis... battery dah mati... burned out... macam2 la... bodoh...

Funny how it took one year studying in another overseas university for me to realize how much I miss my life over there... one thing for certain that I've learned from my one year over here.. is that nothing can or will ever match the blast I had in Michigan... no university I attend after this will ever be able to compare to Umich... hoping for a similar experience... or something even comparable is merely a pipe dream... I remember when I was still at Michigan, I constantly wondered what life would have been like if I went to Brown... or Cornell.. or if I got accepted into Stanford... best ke boleh berlagak kat orang... but now when I look back... THANK GOD I WENT TO MICHIGAN AND NOT TO THOSE OTHER PLACES... absolutely zero regrets... coolest fcuking place on earth won't trade my 4 years over there for anything else...

Dulu kadang2 bila pikir about the people who I 'recruited' into Michigan... I kept asking myself... Did I do the right thing??... kesian pulak diorang nanti kena torture for 4 years... kengkadang rasa guilty pon ada... hahah mana tak rasa guilty, when they are suffering... I'd get all the blame... but bila diorang seronok kuasa 10 tuh... I don't get any credit... hahah nak buat cemana kan that's life for you Hafiz :P... but now when I think about it... naaahhhhh I think did the right thing, they all turned out OK... betul tak? heheh.... :P lagi... depressing la reminisce reminisce ni... rindduuuuu rindu serindu rinduuunyaaaaa... takde kesimpulan

Kesimpulan: Once a Umichian... always a Umichian... except when we're losing football games, then terasa nak defect... tapi kejap aje...

Mushie Mushie Muuu.....

Arsenal signs Eduardo Da Silva

I don't care whether you're good or not (if Wenger signed you, most probably you are)... just don't be another Anelka... or another Reyes... those ungrateful bastards...