~~~ It's our anniversary ~~~

Thank you for baking me the cake at such a busy day! For all the support and love and care and so much more from you, I wanna say happy anniversary dear and I love you dear!

My darling aka my Wai Sek Mau~

Woo so nice. It tasted great too!

Brownie Ms Wai made on Sunday. Topped with B&J's super fudge chunk equals to heaven ah!

Will be skipping class all day tomorrow to travel for an on-site interview at Whirlpool Amana. Hope all turns out smooth la~

What now, TARP?

Just another bad news for international students looking for jobs in this season of recession..

The Troubled Assets Relief Program aka TARP, is currently the largest component of the U.S. government's measure to address subprime mortgage crisis. Example (recently) famous companies under the program are AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, GM, Chrysler and so on..

Early this week the U.S. Senate has approved several rules on hiring H-1B,
(H1-B: non-immigrant VISA to be able to work in the US)

The rules are as follow:

1. If your company has been laying off people, you can't hire H-1B.
2. Can't outsource H1-B.
3. Initiate to hire Americans.
4. Simple, no TARP money if don't follow these rules.

Very straight forward rules. Basically, just don't consider international students, ignore their applications, put aside their resumes. Sad case.

I'm not sure how these rules came across their minds during this time of the season. Are companies that are hiring, taking advantage of H1-B dudes lately? Or maybe, vice versa? There are many approach to attend recession, and many other actions to be considered too but why la attack international talents?

It makes sense. Malaysia's unemployment rate is approx 3.5%, and I'm seeking a job in a country of 7.6% unemployment rate. TARP's action hopes to recover U.S. current economy, while making an effort to create as many job openings as possibler for locals. How about your citizens looking for jobs in other countries? Has TARP made any effort collecting local talents currently overseas?

It's getting harder to secure a job in the U.S. for people like me now. Like I say, just another bad news.

Craving for a delicious curry laksa filled with big prawns, juicy tou pok, and curry chicken. Craving for something I want, cause I know it's good. But it seems to be very rare over here now. I'm gonna go find it.

Zhng my Blog

Added a new cool feature: blog list!

It has rss feeds to all my favorite blogs I always read. Still under renovation though. Been checking it regularly with my bloglines.com, hope it syncs with my feeds, so I don't miss out new posts! This will replace the current feature blog links, subsequently bloglines.com. And then No Shit. will be my main source of daily supplement!

Trying out a few google gadget too, but so far most of it does not work here, I wonder why.

I just hope blog list works, and hope it is reliable. Yoiz!

Speed of time

My weekend =)

Started on Friday, I had classes till 5pm, rehearsal for lion dance Ames tour till 7pm, drove to Des Moines to attend Keny's CNY steamboat party, back at Ames at 2am. Tired and Zzz..

Sat started at 9.30am. Started our Ames tour at 10-ish. Went to East Hyvee, Thai Kitchen, West Hyvee, New China, Jungs, May House, New China again, and Madarin. Ended at about 5.30pm. Then a few of us went to buy food for steamboat at night. 7pm, reached home and managed to take a righteous half an hour nap . Steamboat was gooood laaa.. big fan of steamboat here yo~! Then I brought all fish ball sotong ball tofu in my stomach together gether go dance party haha. Too much dancing I think I burned a lot of calories.

Sunday was all about finalizing my project proposal, prepared my proposal presentation, how to determine datum reference, hanging out in black basement again, McD chicken nuggets, very itchy soar throat. 

It's Monday at 1.35am, I felt that my weekend was kinda nice and smooth. Despite the soar throat and lack of sleep, it wasn't as bad as what I expected to be. Perhaps well planned is the word. It's surprising that it's already Monday. Spped of time in Ames is really fast. It's always the case. Well at least, it was well spent. 

13 weeks to a new speed of time.