I dont wanna miss a thing

Yesterday, Acip, Nadia, Ashley, Amai and I had our late dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings.(Our mamak stall here because it is located just around the corner)

When everyone went out, only Mahirah and I still waiting at the table.

Songs of Aerosmith came out title " I dont wanna miss a thing"
It made me rewind everything what I gone through before.
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Only 1 month to go. I miss everything about Malaysia

• My Ayah
• My ibu
• Abg ren, Aci, Lee, Pari
• K.cc n Jaja
• My cat, si Tantek(actually she is ugly but I love to call her cantik)
• My bed
• My car Myvi(ibu nye actually)
• My nadia
• My syefah
• My Farid
• My nasi lemak. my nasi padang.
• my everything............

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Unfortunately, thinking of this place, Athens the village which nobody will never ever dream to stay here.. Im sad..

Im so sad to leave this place.

People may look that we are  actually kind off waste money here because we didnt look busy while working.
People may look that we are actually having a long vacation.
People may look that we are actually didnt get what we are supposed to get at this far.

But people stop assuming. You dont know what we gained here.

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At this far, now I realize NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
Thanks for the love especially to

• Joanie(we will definitely miss you)
• Ashley for being our friends here
• Sinoun for sharing loves and cares
• Kak hanni for being our kakak here and savior.. love you so much
• Abg Syam, the rockers that letting us be a part of your family
• Lisa, Sarah Aisyah for your time and friendship.
• Kak shakila & abg Azlan for your help.
• Dato SAlleh and wife. Thanks for everything.. 
• Kak Lind & abg Firdaus for the lunch.
• Mark, our boss for teaching us to differentiate between reality and laugh
• Jarrel for being such a nice boss
• Jason for the knowledge
• Zac for answering our silly question
• Danielle for giving us a chance
• Kelly for listening our story
• Kevin. You are the boss that makes me feel that the world is such a wonderful place to live. thanks for open my eyes about that fact.
• Bryan for giving me chance to be on air for forecast report. Im glad that my voice in America. huhuh~
• Clamente, the politic subject really excites me. I will never forget about that.
• Beth, english teacher.. Thanks.
• To whom I missed.. sorry.. let me know.. I will edit soon..

I will never forget this experience. Thank to everyone.
This appreciation may be too early because I still have 1 month here but I dont care. I want to remember everything happen with me now forever. This opportunity may not come twice. By appreciating this, I know I will remember everything I experience now.

This journey is so far. I learn more about appreciate my life. About people around me.
About try and try again and never give up.
About the beautiful places that create by God which we should look for and see it by ourselves. not just through Internet.
About greetings. Simple things that connect people which I almost forgot.
About work hard.
To be more sensitive to environment. 

Sorry because it took me this long to realize it. How dumb I am.
Sorry guys for my mistakes. Insyaallah I will not do those thing anymore.

I hope this experience will never end. Life is so wonderful.

I am so grateful for this opportunity eventhough it is only for 4 months.

Thanks Allah.
Thanks for letting me to experience this.
Only You know how I feel now. Thank you very much.
Thank you. 

My Abang Mraz..

 
Wiki stated that:
 

Jason Mraz born June 23, 1977 is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

And i know he is still there because his latest blog dated Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Titled: On a plain...http://freshnessfactorfivethousand.blogspot.com/ said that:

"Yesterday I flew from Richmond, Virginia to San Francisco, California."

He is so close to my place.. the google map showed that: 

From Athens to  Mechanicsville, Virginia takes

406 mi – about 7 hours 4 mins

Dekat je tu... Eventhough Journey to Texas pun 24 Hours = 2500 miles aku da cuba.. ini kan lagi 7 hours journey...  

Oh Abang Mraz.. u drive me crazy.. hahaha.. I wish I can see u sbb kenapa time aku datang sini x da US Tour kamu,... huhuhu~

Oh Abg Mraz... Im coming to you.. hahaha..(gila apa)..

Spring Break- Austin, Texas

Hi Y'all!!

The Spring just ended and guess what.. I went to Texas.
Its was a short plan.. about 1 week Acip invited me and I just say yes since my roomie, Naddy will heading to New York city and definitely will make me insane live in Athens...

So, Sinoun as the driver.. A very very tough and sexy driver led the trip.

Where Alif with me and 

 suddenly Mitchel showed up.. So it were 4 of us..


The journey is 24 hours driving.. because it is 1500 miles =2413.9 km.. my brother said Johor to Perlis is 700km.. so bayangkan journey dr Johor ke Perlis ulang 3 setengah kali... buntot terbakar tahap dewa naga
We drove about 2 pm on Saturday and arrived in Austin the next Sunday night.. huh~ this is a real journey!

Actually it should take only 22 hours but something happened to the GPS and it brought us to Birmigham, ALABAMA ok! jauh giler.. After 12 hours driving, we stop at Birmingham, Alabama and slept at one of the hotel.

Arrived at Austin Texas on Sunday night.. So we missed South by South West music festival. The biggest music festival on earth. Featuring all musician around the world and also featured MUSE and Yuna from Malaysia.. So x da rezeki.. Next year la pegi.. But it doesnt mean the end of the world..

We went to:

• Whole Foods Market
• The Domain where the Forever 21 is.. heeee~
• San Marcos factory Outlet.. 
• The Oasis- restaurant at Lake Travis
• University of Texas
• Texas Capitol
• Tejas- The Mexican food
• Amy's ice cream
• Covert Park where we met The Jordanian
• Buffalo Exchange
• Flying Saucer
• Mansfield Dam
• Mozart Coffee Shop.. hebat jugak
• Halcyon.. coffee shop hebat
• Spiderwick Coffee shop.. awesome
• RAIN.. hahaha
• Texas State History Museum
• San Antonio- The historic Alamo, River walk and Hard Rock Cafe San Antonio

In short.. Whatever happen in Texas stays in Texas.. hahahah~
here are some pictures with my new friends in Texas.

From left: Sylvia and Sinoun

Nate the Superman

Jourdanian that we met at Covert Park

With Rene at Barbeque party

Marina's friends: Rachel and Kevin.. Thanks brother for the care.. heeee~ hope you like the video of fake MJ.. Gila gila gila gila...

One of Rene's friend..

With Jerry

With Marina

Again with Nate the Hollander this time

With Anto from Medan Indonesia and Natalia from Jakarta which is not in the picture... Nice to meet you guys.. will never forget about u guys.. Nanti datang ke Malaysia kita hang out iya!

With Justin from Austin, Texas.. heeeee~

For me.. Texas is the best place Ive ever been to..
The weather is warm right now la.. since it still in spring
You can see arts and colours everywhere.. it is the place for those who love arts. There are Hippies, Musician, Grafitti and the most important thing everyone SXSW South By South West Music festival that we missed.. I will definitely come to Austin again.. University of Texas(UT) its kinda interesting... for my masters.. tengoklah nanti.. Its the place where people dont care what are you doing and wearing... sukati la.. nobody's care..

Thanks to all... Marina and Justin for the hospitality and let us crash your house.
Nate for brought us to UT campus area which I feel to choose UT as my next masters program..
Natalia & Anto for the ride 
Justin for the dance
Rene for the Barbeque.
And To my dear Sinoun.. Thanks for everything... Thanks for sharing Austin to me and Acip.. Thanks a milion.

Austin in My heart!!! heeeee~~

Suaraku di Athens??

As usual, Mahirah and I will shift to another department because we ask for it.
So this week Im in AM Radio Department supervised by Brian Gibson. Mahirah is not feeling well because of the flu. So get well soon Amai.

On Monday we didnt work because I forgotten about the time. We should start at 8 am in the morning which I frankly admit that I rarely wake up at this time. So, Carolyn the big boss said that "ITS OKAY... YOU CAN COME TOMORROW.. NO WORRIES... " Then We said yeahhhh!!

Tuesday Mahirah still not well so i went working alone. As I walked in Brian left me with Ryan. A gorgeous American guy with blue eyes live in the same building with me at Bromley but hes at level 8 and I am at 2nd level. So what a beautiful day for me... left alone in the conti with him..~~~ yeehaaaaa~

Wednesday I was a little bit late but actually a lot.. but most American says that.. Dont worry if you are late because we are just fine.... (
I heard about this many times since I arrived here but I didnt reallly believe on it because back in Malaysia as En.Khai said " OH.. KALAU MACAM NI HABISLAH AWAK KALAU G US NANTI... SUMA AMERICAN TU PUNCTUAL .. HABISLAH AWAK..."
now i wonder... ye ke?? x cayalah.. Im here and diorg lagi relax.. but its not a good things because It will make you more lazy... tapi da mcm tu kat sini.. layan je la..

So wednesday Im alone again because Amai is still not well. So I went to the conti and listen to what brian did for today's segment. Then he said"
" Now its your turn to try"
I was like... hehehehe~ really?
then he said yes.. u can do it now..

I practice ten thousand and i dont know how many time and record it dengan bangganya..
then i informed brian he said" Good.. Its good for the first start.."
iyo la tu.. korang ni suma nye good.. x penah nye yg x good...
then he gave me another 3 segments...
banyak jugak utk saya yg lemah lembap ni at first..
then brian said.. you do well and i will aired it for todays segment.. at first i was like. hahah x caya..
when doing the other 3 suddenly i realized the things before already in the countdown for 4 pm today...
mak aii... takut uolls...

So the Conclusion is... My voice is in Athens today... hahahahahahah~~
Great experience for me..
Tomorrow Brian said I will be on air for tomorrow too.. for segment from 4 to 5... hahahah~
Eventho it is a small town... But hey... my voice is in US.. hahahahah(nampak over tapi uolls i just want to share).. say what you wanna say...

Good Afternoon in Athens and Good nite Malaysia!!! yeah~
Assalamualaikum!

MUSE - US Chicago Resistance Tour 2010

At first we called it as Backpackers...

The day started on March 12, Arin one of our Indonesian buddy send us to COTA bus stop at Columbus OH.
The Megabus ticket was at 11am in the morning.. and as early as 8 we already woke up because Athens to Columbus took approximately 2 hours driving.


Arrived at COTA around 9.40. Arin speed up and we didnt expect to arrived there in an hour.. Coolness.. thanks arin.

From KL to AThens to Columbus.. I think we are now a bit kampung. Looking at all high-rise building, we impressed.. what a life. but at least we can save money to visit more big cities. for you Ohio University. We slave our life to be there..

As our Megabus arrived, we enjoy the 6-hours of journey. We left the states of Ohio and entered Indiana and finally arrived at Illinois the state where the Chicago is located.

We stop at Union Station.. I'll tell about it later.. Because we had some actions there before we went back the next day.

Then we changed our clothes and headed to Union Center where the MUSE concert was.


United Center~ Awesome MUSE!
The stage was a hydraulic and it moves up and down based on the music. So as the drummer spinning around us. There are so great!! No words can be describe!! omg~

I still remember when I was in Diploma, Muse held a concert in KL but I didnt make it because the ticket sold out 2 months before. I was so sad and yet after 5 years waiting.. its so worth it! Thanks for giving me the chance. Bak kata orang melayu" kalau da jodoh x kemana" hahah. gaya mcm jumpa je. its ok.. im so satisfied! Thanks chicago.. Thanks uitm sebenarnya.. heee~

And I also bought the T-shirt, MUSE US Resistance Tour 2010! USD 38.. mahal tapi x pe. layan je. x makan sebulan. yezzzzaaaa~~

From United Center to Union station we line up in a bus full line of people. As we waited to get in, ada budak melayu jerit...

Woi, melayu ke?
Then i sambut" Aah melayu la"

Ada jugak melayu kat sini..
so we kinda blur with the bus routes, and i yelled at them to ask for information.
Rupanya budak Melayu dari Indiana Uni. There also knew nothing about the bus. So, eventho x kenal sapa.. so, nice to meet you guys.

We planned not to stay at any hotel because we want to stay up at the Union Station. Chicago is one of the city that has a problems with Hobo or homeless. So, we knew that staying at Union Station may cause us to be labelled as homeless but we said that lets pretend elegant and smart eventhough we stay at the Union Station. While waiting at the Union Station, there were some hobos being chased out by the police. There were also few womens and children looks like hobos. we stay at one of the fountain and suddenly realized it was not a good idea to stay there for 6 hours and not sleep or lay down on the bench. From that we decided to find pay phones and wants to call one of motel suggested by our supervisor, Atnhony and the name of the motel is Ohio House Motel.

As we walked into it, one of the police stops us and said "Im not done yet' dont move" How do you get into this place? Are you break in here somewhere?

We are stonned and looking at each other. We told the policeman that we want to find a pay phones to find a motel.. he didnt believe us...

He said, Wait here, Im gonna check the door upstairs. Ive locked the door and i dont believe you guys.

He thought that we break in in Union station. Actually we were there almost 30 minutes. Than he said.. I dont believe you.. How you get in? We said that we were there almost 30 minutes.

Thank God he believe Us. If not we can be charged as Attempt to break in~ nasib x kena tangkap... mampuih kalau kena.fuh~ alhamdulillah.

Then he brought us to the entrance and stops a cab and we headed to Ohio House Motel in Chicago-(mana--mana pergi pun Ohio gak.. x da nama lain ke)

So we went to the Ohio Motel House. USD 140 for 6 of us. Ok la.. one person$25.. huh~

The next morning we went to the Millennium Park where it is a center of attraction in Chicago city. Its a place where u can find several designs and arcs made by architects around the world. This is one of my aims in Chicago trip because I have seen in before in internet. This place is beautiful.

We then went to the Union Station because our ticket was at 11am. We headed to Union station doing something else like grabbed a fridge magnetic with Chicago on it and few Chicago souvenirs.

Talking about Union Station, do you know why we are so into one of the stairs?

The bus stops at Union Station. Its one of beautiful bus station. It is popular with one of the stair where Kevin Costner had killing mafia scene in the fil called "Untouchables". Our kakak here in athens, Kak hanni told us about this. Eventhough I have never watch before the film, i just made up my mind to stop at this place and took pictures. Its in the movie tho~ so why not we grab this opportunity to go there.. (walaupun x tau pun citer tu, yang penting tempat legend uolls)




Check Out the movie Untouchables- Unio Station scene staring Kevin Costner. heeee~~

Then 11 am until 6.30 pm journey. what a trip for us. Its short i know but its enough and worth it. Chicago.. The Windy City.. I will never ever foget about it.. Till we meet again~ panjang .. x larat nak masuk kan gambar Millennium Park.. soon baby.. soon.. weeee~

Assalamualaikum!

Far far away!!

I have never imagine to go this far.
To see what i didnt see and couldn't see it before and feel it or maybe the cause of my stupidity. who am I? Is this a joke?

Everything comes with reason.
As I perceive it as a chance to know about myself, life and people.
but why is is so hard...

About my place that I have already spend for the entire of my life took me this far to know it more deeply.. Why is it happen? The more closer to the things we live, the more we dont know what the hell is all about.

Dont think that im blaming you.
Its not you. And Its not even we. Its not you neither them. Its Me.
Welcome to the other side of the world.

Athens Ohio- 1st edition

After almost a month in Athens Ohio USA, and now i have time to update my blog. Sorry to whom waiting for it. Really have tons of things to be settled first eventho im online my FB 24/7.

Before that thank you very much kepada yang hantar saya. muah2!


Ayah g solat maghrib time ni.

Mereka yang hantar saya. Terima kasih sebesar gunung~ weee


Briefly about this place.

Its a college town and at this moment full with snow. Lots of country's song bars and i feel like living in the same town with Chuck Norris. Cuma kuda je x da. maybe winter, there all sleep in a barn. Its a very small town which the most happening place to shopping are walmat, kroger and alder beerman.

Majority is White and most minority quite even of amount.

Officially felt the nature.

Wet and windy day.


Facilities

I love OU's library. AWESOME. The books and people so nice and they encourage student to study in the greatest experience. Frankly, before arrived here i've set my mind to do my intern here and back to malaysia and work to earn money money money. But since i came here, it changes because this place make me to futher study. Because it sooo different how they treat students I really want to do so but we'll see. But alhamdulillah i have an opportunity to feel this strength where i realize it become far from me before. S

Food

No way. This is the worst part. NO HALAL FOOD AT ALL. Serious a big problem. Most people that i told about this problem they said that" Alaaa senang je.. masaklah"x kan x leh masak kot.. makan tepung ke apa ke" save sikit bole diet"".... hahahahha... cakap memang senang..

This a cold place where the temperature about -15celcius until 2celcius. We really in need of meat but since there is no proper meat we ate ikan bilis we brought from malaysia and roti and maggi and nasi with shrimp and fish & chips($12). Plus, our room is package with alarm, sprinkler and fire detector. once berbunyik, bomba segala pertolongan datang nak cek. So mmg x da maknanya nak masak. nasib ada fridge and microwave.(hari2 makan microwave mau botak kepala uolls) . Im not complaining.. it just that too many people ask and lama2 pening kepala nak jawab n selalu diorg akan ckp the same response. So i tell u..its not that easy. x pe.

So usually we ate at Diner, Buffalo Wing(sport's bar) and Baker's food court. Awal2 kami selalu makan kat chinese restaurant. Most Malaysian cakap makan nasi and shrimp kungpao or vege. and u know apa jugak jual kat chinese restaurant so we just tutup mata and pilih makanan yg bole makan. but skrg da mual da tekak.

X mahu lagi makan sini. x sedap.


p/s: x larat lagi nak tulis. wait for 2nd edition.

Aufwiedersehen