Hello from Muscatine!

It's somewhere in Iowa.

Just moved in yesterday afternoon to this 4 single room apartment. The room structure is very much like the ones in frederiksen court. 2 bathrooms, 4 sinks. Spacious kitchen, which is very very goooood.

Internship starts tomorrow morning, and I have to perform a drug test with other interns before meeting the HRs. So no no to marijuana tonight.. lol.

I wonder how this internship is gonna be. The previous 1 I had was a good 1 I would say. Good as in no long sleeves and tie, no worries about my hair, long lunch hours, flexible time, bla bla bla.. The best thing is that, there's no pressure at all. They're already amazed with my 10%. Haha, not trying to lansi here la, but what I'm trying to say is that the company expects not much from you. Behave then can d.

How do I feel now leh. Excited not. Nervous not. Prepared, er.. maybe. I'm sick of doing all the prior-start-work preparation. From interviewing, emailing, traveling, to CPT application , housing, drug test and so on and so on. It's long and draggy and I don't like it anymore. Instead of doing all this within 2 months, I rather settle all of that in 1 day. Just give me the god dam project scope. Oh, I hope to have high speed internet and a good mechanical pencil tomorrow. The previous company did not have high speed internet or a good mechanical pencil. ARGH I'm so lazy.

It's like I'm ready to work, but not for waking up at 8am.

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Thank you Zi Ting, Lum lum, Kudut, Tew and Windie for stopping by Muscatine today !

Kudut: "I bet you tall people can't do this."

I brought them to the riverside park and berlepakan for a while before they head back to Ames. All of them looked so much darker and exhausted after the Midwest games. Then we went to my apartment for water and toilet break.
Again thanks for dropping by yo~

Srping: Reiman Gardens (Preview)

Minami Pok Kai @ Reiman Gardens

Minami: Aaaaiiiiyyyaaaakkkk ~

Hehehe..

Char Siew

Kai Yan Thumbs up ~

Thanks to mami's secret recipe, everybody loved my char siew ~

Catch Up

Yes la.. finally found something good to do for the break.

Much better as compared to the usual yam cha sessions or spending half the day preparing dinner.

I realized the songness of catching up in Panera bread on Tuesday.

Thanks to their Wi-fi, I was able to check the nutrition facts of the Italian Combo sandwich I had for lunch. It was 1040 calories, and it contains 125% of my daily value for Sodium. Not like something I care months ago huh..

Also, I added 20 friends in facebook! They are all my standard 6 class mates in Kuen Cheng 2.

Very the happy lor. Most of them still do gatherings once in a while, almost all of them are active in facebook! *Thums up Nhat style*

It's a mixed feeling. Most of the times I'm excited. But discoveries isn't always as appealing. Sometimes, it's better not to know. Now that I've discovered it, why do I still ponder the reliability of the source? Or perhaps, why should I even care? I should be happy. Maybe it was shocking but still, I should be happy.

=)

What I've done

This is a what-have-siti-been-up-to post after a month plus of sat zhong.

Siti just got done with 2 final papers, 1 more to go this Thursday. Then a 15 weeks long holiday!

Very very very enlighten+happy knowing that this semester is ending.

=)

Hou shui do go cha. Here's what I've been up to since the day I got fooled by Minami.

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Fierce Ah-ma

This is fierce ah-ma.

I use to call my gf fierce ah-ma for a short while. Haha.. ya la she very fierce at times 1. Well after I drove this thingy, i realized my gf isn't that fierce after all~

Not bad huh. Everything seems terrific for a 2nd hand vehicle. The CD player. Speakers. Heads up display. Tires. Leather seats.
Very very happppi~


The V8 Pontiac Grand Prix GT.

Zi ting having fun with Fierce Ah-ma under the bright sun.

My 1st ever car I chose and purchased myself. Took me more than a month car hunting (me), she found me. Will take more pics and blog more about fierce ah-ma.. =)

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DubH Spring 2008: Dance or Die

DubH is the only Hip Hop club @ ISU. It's huge. 300 dancers will perform towards the end of every semester, showing off what their choreographers have. I'm involved for the 3rd sem alr. Not bad lor.. really can see tremendous improvement in some dancers who really dance their ass off. There's this fei zhai call JP. TheO.C. also agreed his moves sucks 3 sems ago. But wth, he has dance practices 7 days a week i heard? Last week we saw him again. "MCB, that guy rmb? he's good wei!", theO.C. commented while watching the dance he choreographed. He's now 1 of the best. Siti wish he had more time for this.

Siti wearing white cap on the left.


RAH! Oh that's Jun Yi on the left.

Jung's crew.


Grant the dai zhek lou.




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Grad Night Spring 2008

I'm gonna do this again. But it's hilarious this time!

Check out Minami's entry entitled "ISU Grad Night"

Here's some pictures I like a lot.

I heard her lame jokes are spreading and contaminating Drake. Keny on the other hand still figuring what was the short joke again? Lol.

The 6326 classic.

The committee. Great job organizing guys.




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Bacon VS Furniture

Very lucky, I got 2 offers for an intern position this coming summer. Dilemma, Siti had a hard time choosing which company to work for. Both as potential, both as attractive.

Simple, let's put it this way:

Bacon manufacturing line VS Furniture design headquarters

Very High pay VS Average pay

Look for you own apartment VS Housing included

Kampung VS Kampung

1.5 hours from Ames VS 2.5 hours from Ames

Six Sigma VS Value Stream Map+Rapid Continuous Improvement

How to choose?

So I went to seek valuable advices from my super advisor.

She put it this way,

Pig become pork facility VS Nice cubicle, comfort seat

Not everybody's cup of tea VS That's why the pay is not as high

Indeed, valuable advices.

So I chose to work @ HNI. The 2nd largest office furniture manufacturer in the US.



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Good breakfast

Do you breakfast every day? I don't. But somehow I did lately. And I enjoyed it. At least a small bowl of cereal, or a breakfast bar. It makes your stomach very comfortable. In the class, while you work.

Egg on swiss cheese on ham on bread. Took me less than 5 minutes to prepare.

My stomach was satisfied. x)



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Back to study

BBMB - Biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology

aka

Bullshit bullshit more bullshit.

All the best in finals ISU dudes. Cheers =)

I still can't believe this..

Go see my sister's blog..

Gan: "Asians are brilliant people."

Siti: "Ya meh?"

Gan: "Ya.. I'm asian, and I'm a brilliant people."

Siti: "Person."

Gan: "..."

Gan: "*&^#*&$*&^#*"

*kekeke.. haha..

The ultimate

"I'm gonna get you." said the road.

"Oh. I'm scared. So scared." said the car.

And the road got angry.

"Come on, I can take you." said the road.

But the car kept coming, too cool to even reply.

So the road said. "Well, wait till you get a load of me."

But the car just said, "Is that all you got?"

and showed the road some of his own sweet moves.

Of course the road huffed and puffed some more.

But the car didn't care because he knew

it had its magic.

Any challenger?

said the BMW M5.




Such boast that toy has for the road.

But If you're a fan of the BMW M series models, you wouldn't feel surprise for such exaggeration.

As the machine has what it takes, to speak loud.

With a 5 liters V10 engine and the advanced 7-speed SMG-III computerized clutch gearbox, the BMW M5 produces 400 brake horse power. 0-60 miles in just 4.8 seconds.


Apart from the typical specifications, the M5 has some of its own unique features. Just the gear box itself, you get to choose how ferocious the gear changes to be. 15 different settings for that itself.

The most interesting feature however, is the M button.

With the M button pushed.

The car produces 510 brake horse power instead of 400. Head up display. The gearbox automatically switches to the M default setting. So does the suspension. So does the seat belt. So does the engine.

The engine ROOOOAAARS!



Magnificent.

Engineers call it, the ultimate engineering.

Competitors call it, the ultimate competition.

The road, "You win."

They call it, the ultimate driving machine.

"Doesn't matter what you've ever driven. This is quicker, it's faster, it's more astonishing"
-Jeremy Clarkson-

But what I like most is how they advertise it. The way it's exaggerated. The way they make the road looks so scared, you tend to laugh at the road. The way they make fast cars looks slow, as in high-end expensive fast cars, like a Ferrari 430.

The M5 has what it takes.

Do you have what it takes?

Mmm, mm.... Breakfast finish d looo.

Took me a month to finish it lol..

Suddenly got mood to blog 1.. I shall update my fan si with lots lots of pic pic.

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Wilson & Seth

Start with Wilson and Seth punya birthday party drinking session @ Kim Meng's place. Thank you Kim Ming for making me chicken rice, for taking care of everybody, and for sacrificing his bed. Thanks to Ing Tai too, for contaminating Kim Ming's bed with his half digested chicken rice plus tequila. This cousin of mine set me up and told his friends about his mission of the night, which is to make me drunk. Well, what Siti can say is that, it looks easy. =)

lei dou yau gam yat laa.. biew sai lou.. hahaha.

Wilson the birthday boy and Minami.


San choi so good.

Very nice fella. Wilson made 2 birthday wishes. He wants to create a computer game of his own and to have a concert.

Birthday boy Seth in white polo, cousin Ing Tai in green.


Statue of Beer Bong Liberty.


Leng chai Seng Zhau.


Erm.

Why la Ing Tai.

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Clubbing @ Summit
Date: 15 March 2008
Location: Summit, Iowa City

L-R : Minami, Oli, Yu, Celia, Zi, Rachel, Hot chick, Kudut, Emmy

The boys


The girls


I miss clubbing already !

Siti Breakfast

Siti's typical breakfast consists of a double mata kerbau with left overs + Siti laptop.

Got minced pork, choi sam, chicken slices and rice.

Nice leh..