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...