Liverpool won! 3-0 at Anfield vs Bordeaux! And Gerrard scored his first goal of the season!!!
Liverpool is through to the last 16 of CL! I hope they would do well at CL. Their EPL form is hopeless!

Barcelona drew with Chelsea. What a bummer! Barcelona was leading twice! How could they let Chelsea come from behind???

Whatever it is Liverpool is through to the next round! That's the most important things. I really hope they won't meet Chelsea. It's so boring to always have Chelsea vs Liverpool!

My Geology Exam was postpond to Wed. And of all reasons, the reason for the postpond was that my teacher didn't printed enough test paper for everyone! yuup, it's ridiculous! I wanted to take the exam today. A few people did, but I took the opportunity to browse through the paper and found some questions that I wasn't too sure of the answer. And when u were given more study time, u would have to make the best out of it, no?

That's not the only thing that's postpond. Sung's b'day party was also postponded as only one person can make it. So we will be having it on Thur and Tomtom would be free to come and they would cook. They're the better cook, so we can invite more ppl this time as we don't really have to worry about the taste of the food. Imagine inviting people to a dinner only for the guests to eat bland food. That will be so embarrasing!

And I finally received my jacket that I purchased from eBay 2 weeks ago. My very first jeans jacket!I've always wanted a jeans jacket, dunno why may be bcuz i find it cool or something. But I found it expensive and with the tropical climate of Singapore and Indo, when would I have the chance to wear it? So, now that I earn my own money and with the colder weather approaching, I can finally buy and wear it! I'm so happy :D

Forgot to mention this in my last post. I finally know the reason why a lady riding on a horse and the army doing push-up thing appeared! They will come out whenever OSU scored a touch down. And the army guy will do push ups according to the score of OSU team. The last time he did push-ups, he had to do 41 times! Well, he did it! Great job! The whole stadium was clapping for his achievement!

OSU won! They trashed Nebraska 41-29.

Today, daylight saving time ended. What is daylight saving time?

According to Wikipeida, Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, is a widely used system of adjusting the official local time forward, usually by one hour from its official standard time, for the spring, summer, and early autumn periods. The term Daylight savings time, although commonly used, is technically incorrect.

DST is most commonly used in temperate regions, due to the considerable variation in the amount of daylight versus darkness across the seasons in those regions.

Since 1966, most of the United States has observed Daylight Saving Time from at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April to 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. Beginning in 2007, most of the U.S. will begin Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and revert to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.

On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to resume the 2005 Daylight Saving Time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete. (webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html )

Since Fall back, it means that I have an hour time of sleep time (or study time for my geology)
Kinna troublesome to adjust here and there, but it's cool to in some sense :)

It's summer time again yesterday and today. It's not cold at all. The sun shone brightly and I could feel the heat of the sun on my skin again. I bet the weather will change again tmr. Oklahoma weather!

I just realized that I had lost quite a lot of weight. Haven't gone to colvin centre to weigh myself. That's the only place that have weighing machine as far as I know. This morning when I put on my Lee jean, it fitted nicely (actually, it was a little loose). The last time I tried to wear the same jean, I had to held my breath to button it! Oh my! And almost all my jeans are loose. I thought I would gain weight when I came here. I mean all my cousins who went to US to study gained weight. But thankfully it didn't happen to me *grin*

I think it's because I don't eat much carbohydrate. I dunno. But I'm glad I have lost some weight though. Haha... I didn't tell my parents about this. I also don't dare telling my parents about the problem I faced from work. Being sick and still have to work. It's not because I'm scared that they would accuse me of not eating properly or ask me to quit my job, but because I don't want them to worry for nothing! And now that my dad has MSN, I can't complain about my job or express my jubilant over my weight loss on MSN. So all I have is this blog!

I really had achieved so much the past 5 months since I came here! I wouldn't have thought that I would be able to clean a hotel room by myself or open a bank account on my own or even survive in this foreign land on my own. Granted, I have cousins with me here, but i'm basically left on my own. They do their own stuffs and I mend my own business. U know what? I'm proud of myself! Haha...Really! I wouldn't have thought in a million years that I would be doing all these stuffs that I did here!

Ok, back to studying. And my throat is killing me now. The nose is okay, but my throat starts to itch now :( ARGH!!!!

Homecoming

Friday was the Homecoming. And OSU football team lost. How embarrising was that to lost at home on Homecoming day! They lost 25-27 to Texas A&M. Watched the match on tv. First time watching football match. I didn't understand a thing, except when they scored a touch down. And every few minutes of playing, they would have a sudden time-out and the band would play or a women riding a horse would cicle round the football field or a group of men and women in army clothing would perform weird stuff, 4 of them would carry a board on which one of their members did push-ups. It's so weird and I hated it when the match suddenly went for time-out. There's no flow at all. It's irritating really to have a time-out and have all sorts of people doing some weird stuffs. Anyway, the weather was really bad! It was freezing out there. The wind was blowing and sent shiever down my spine when I was walking home from work. When I reached home, my ears pained so much and my head spinned! I thought I was going to faint!

According to Wikipedia, "Homecoming is an annual tradition of the United States of America. Peoples, towns, high schools and colleges come together, usually in late September or October, to welcome back former residents and alumni. It is built around a central event, such as a banquet, football game, basketball game, or an ice hockey game. When celebrated by schools, the activities vary widely. However, they usually consist of a football game played on the school's home football field, activities for students and alumni, a parade featuring the school's marching band, and the coronation of a Homecoming Queen (and at many schools, a Homecoming King). Related "Homecoming Dances" can be either boy ask girl or Sadie Hawkins style".

The fountain had changed color to Orange with regards to this event.

Kokogi told me that OSU has the best homecoming celebration in America. But I didn't enjoy it very much though. Too many people. It's like Chinatown during Chinese New Year!

Just came back from work. I'm so tired!!! And my nose is killing me. Had been having block nose since yesterday :( Must be the weather! It started to get colder, but it's hot today! Oklahoma's weather! It's always changing! Actually, I wanted to call in sick today, but I know what that Tommy will say. So I didn't, but Sung did. He's having a sore throat! Hey, I'm sicker than him okay! Anyway, went to work and was sniffling the whole day. The others noticed that I wasn't feeling well and yup, I still came to work! Well, I was forced! Then, when I was loading up my cart, that stupid Tommy kept telling me that if Sung's really not feeling well, he should not come. He should stay at home. I asked him to call Sung and tell him that because I had no cellphone and how was I supposed to tell Sung? He said, "No. If he's not feeling well, he should rest at home..." *I just continued loading my cart and didn't really hear him. I mean, what's the whole point of telling me this. I wasn't the person he's referring to. I felt like strangling him! So the thing was, he wanted us coming for work despite us being sick and didn't want to feel bad because he forced us to do so. HEnce, he kept saying excuses to defend himself. But it's a bad excuse!

Pauline helped me cleaned the room and I asked her that we would like the weekends off. She said that she would talk to Tommy about it. As expected, that stupid Tommy wouldn't let us off. He said that we agreed to work on Football weekend. IN defense, we told him that our teacher changed the exam schedule. So he proposed for one of us to work on Sat and the other worked on Sun. I said that I couldn't work on Sun as I wanted to study and I remembered stuff better when I learnt it the day before the exam. Sung said the same thing. So we asked to work on Sat and wanted the Sun off. He said he will see the schedule again. He asked me if I think he's bad. I said yes, a little because when people are sick, he still forced us to come. Then, he defened himself saying that if we're really sick, we should stay at home blah, blah, blah. Whatever he said, I will always think that he's a mean supervisor. I mean whose supervisor would force his employees to work when they're sick??? Not enought housekeepers, employ more lah!

I'm so quitting this job by the end of Nov. Tommy would definitely not let us quit now. Shortage of people and stuff. So I will quit by end of Nov. By then football season is over and my final exams are coming. So I need the time to study for final and I will tell him that I'm going back Indo for winter break (and I will tell him that I had bought the ticket already, so have to go back no matter what unless he or the hotel pay for the refund and stuff), and I can't work on weekends anymore for the next semester- more courses... I'm very sure that this will work! All my reasons are valid!

Today is a sucky day. Started with not being able to watch liverpool and then liverpool lost 2-0 to Man U. Then when I came to work, the other housekeeper took our cart away. I know it's the cart that she always uses, but she came late and she just had to do with the other cart that are not used! We (yoshi and I) were loading the cart and then Camela (whatever the spelling is) came and said that " this is my cart!" She then put her things on the cart. So we had no choice but to go up and use the other cart which was spoilt and very very very messy. Sunggoro and Daphnie (they work together) were also treated unfairly by Camela's friend Shiela. But she's way ruder than Camela. She was storming and muttering something and I heard her saying that "We work on weekdays and you guys only work on weekends. These are our carts!" I gave her a weird look, but she didn't see me. Her back was turned at me. I was thinking," your cart? Did u even buy it? If u don't want people to use ur cart, bring it home, lock it somewhere!" So irritating. And poor Sung and Daphnie. They had loaded the cart with all the things and started doing their rooms already! They were so unreasonalbe. I've never been treated this way (I think). Well, not by adults who are old enough to be my parents! Oh my!

The four of us had to go up and reload two lousy carts! And we were complaining all the way. Yoshi and Sung were saying that we all should just go home and let them handle all the cleaning! Daphie and I agreed. But of course we couldn't do that :( Yoshi wanted to quit the housekeeping job too. See, I think we are the only stupid international students who do such a job! Well, u learn from experience! We received an email, saying that the restaurant at the hotel is looking for people to wash the dish. The pay is 5o cents higher and u only need to work for a certain time. If I remember correctly, 8 to 11.30am every weekend. That is so much better than doing housekeeping job!

Sung finished first, Daphnie needed to leave to go to Kansas. Yoshi and I were doing out last room. In the room, we talked about quitting this job and joked around. Then we were discussing what we should do next when we'd done our rooms (It's still early only 2pm. We definitely weren't allowed to go home) We didn't want to find Tommy as he would definitely ask us to do some other things or help others do their jobs :( So we do our last room slowly, then walk around before Sandie saw us. He told us that Tommy wanted us to help Charlotte. We said ok. We helped Charlotte cleaned her rooms ( Charlotte is nice. We don't mind helping her, but not Mable, Camela or Sheila!). Then after we finish helping Charlotte, Sandie told the three of us that Tommy wanted to see us. She mentioned something about the laundry. So, we were thinking of places to hide so that Tommy would not find us. We saw the laundry bags outside the laundry rooms and agreed that we didn't want to do the laundry! So we walked around, help throw the rubbish, then after much thought, and the instant grumbling of our stomach, we decided to go to Subway, a few block away from the hotel to get something to eat. So off we go. I still couldn't believe we did just that- taking French leave! Haha... But it was fun!
And since I happened to bring my camera along, I decided to preserve this rare moment in the form of photos!

Sung and Yoshi

Me eating cookie

YoshiA mexican restaurant opposite the Subway. I think it's cute, the cactus and all!

Then after around 20 min, we decided to go back and we would Tommy that we looked for him everywhere and couldn't find him. So we decided to go to the Student Union to buy some snacks from the vending machine. We didn't have our lunch! When we went back, we saw some of the other housekeepers going home. So we were thinking that we should be able to go home too! We quickly go to find Tommy, then we saw the "laundry guys" were there to do the laundry which means that we were free to go! Indeed, we were :D We should do this more often! Haha...

Haven't blog for so long :P

Wanted to watch Liv match this morning, but dunno why I couldn't open the channel on the program. Tried and tried, and finally, I gave up. Have to settle with reading the live commentary from Soccernet :( And Liverpool is trailing one goal down!!! I didn't think liverpool will win as Man U is really on form and Liverpool? Yeah, no word can describe my dissapointment :( But i'm hoping for a miracle. At least a draw, Reds! I don't know what happen to Liverpool and Gerrard. Haven't been playing well at all this season :(

I had my Geology lab exam last Thur. The exam was MCQs. I don't know why, but all my exams for the subjects that I'm taking, except English and Maths, are MCQs! I think it's good in a way, at least if u don't know the answer, u can make a guess. You still have 1 in 5 chances of getting correct answer. Ok, back to the Lab exam. It's basically asking stuffs that were covered in the lab, like the different types of rocks and minerals. Before the exams, I asked the teaching assistant some questions because i'm not sure if i need to study them, stuffs like all the properties of minerals and the different types of faults. And his reply was really a big help for the exam. He basically told me the answer to the questions in the exam. Not directly, but what he told me came out, so... I would not be able to answer some of the questions if not for his hints. But there were some things that he didn't teach in class ( but he told me about it in his email :) ) like convergent fault will result in high silica rocks such as granite. After the exam, I asked him about this ( him not teaching us this and still came out on the test). I was really surprised by his answer. He said as a matter-of-factly, " Yeah, I didn't tell you about this, but I didn't set the test!" What kind of answer is that! I understand that he's trying to defend himself, but it's really shocking to hear him say that.

Planned to call in sick for work! Called to tell that Stupid Tommy that I had a terrible headache and couldn't go for work. He said that I should take medicine and walk around and called him again in half an hour. He also said that the hotel was so busy that I was really needed. I felt guilty for lying so I decided to go for work. THen, when I reached the room, Tommy asked me to sit down and kind of lecture me. He said that if I really feel very sick, then I should not come at all. At that point of time, I really felt like murdering him. I mean what's the point of telling me that when I was already there???? But yah, if I weren't there, it would be very bad. Cause even with me there working, we were still having a hectic and busy day.

I was and still am sick! I'm sick of this housekeeping job and the main reason is that I have to work on weekends!!! Every weekend have to wake up so early to work!!!! What a bummer! It was okay initally when things weren't that busy at school, but my workload is getting heavier, there's more exams and I need my weekend! I will be having my Geology exam next next mon and I'm going to ask for the sunday off. If that stupid tommy try to "lecture" me again and said that I'm really needed for work cause it's football weekend, screw him! I'm not going to work the day before my exam. I'm a FULL TIME student!!! Part-time housekeeper. I have to prioritize and my study is my top priority. If he won't give me the sunday off, which I don't think he will dare to do, I'm not going to go to work! I have a good reason not to go for work anyway. Besides, I'm quitting by the end of the semester. Enough is enough. My own room is terribly in need of cleaning, so it's time to stop cleaning other people's room and clean my own room!!!

Liverpool drew against Blackburn. They are in 10th place!!! I'm really worried for my beloved team *sigh* I hope they would jia you. But if their sloppy EPL performance would mean them winning the CL again, I won't mind :) But I doubt it would.

I'm really looking forward to Chelsea vs Barca showdown. Wonder how Chelsea will cope with a third-choice goalkeeper guading their goalpost. May be they should ask John Terry to guard it again. Haha... Poor Cech, he has a skull fracture. I hope he's okay. See what u got playing for Chelsea!

Planned to call in sick for work! Called to tell that Stupid Tommy that I had a terrible headache and couldn't go for work. He said that I should take medicine and walk around and called him again in half an hour. He also said that the hotel was so busy that I was really needed. I felt guilty for lying so I decided to go for work. THen, when I reached the room, Tommy asked me to sit down and kind of lecture me. He said that if I really feel very sick, then I should not come at all. At that point of time, I really felt like murdering him. I mean what's the point of telling me that when I was already there???? But yah, if I weren't there, it would be very bad. Cause even with me there working, we were still having a hectic and busy day. I was and still am sick! I'm sick of this housekeeping job and the main reason is that I have to work on weekends!!! Every weekend have to wake up so early to work!!!! What a bummer! It was okay initally when things weren't that busy at school, but my workload is getting heavier, there's more exams and I need my weekend! I will be having my Geology exam next next mon and I'm going to ask for the sunday off. If that stupid tommy try to "lecture" me again and said that I'm really needed for work, it's football weekend, screw him! I'm not going to work the day before my exam. I'm a FULL TIME student!!! Part-time housekeeper. I have to prioritize and my study is my top priority. If he won't give me the sunday off, which I don't think he will dare to do, I'm not going to go to work! I have a good reason not to go for work anyway. Besides, I'm quitting by the end of the semester. Enough is enough. My own room is terribly in need of cleaning, so it's time to stop cleaning other people's room and clean my own room!!!

Liverpool drew against Blackburn. They are in 10th place!!! I'm really worried for my beloved team *sigh* I hope they would jia you. But if their sloppy EPL performance would mean them winning the CL again, I won't mind :) But I doubt it would.

I'm really looking forward to Chelsea vs Barca showdown. Wonder how Chelsea will cope with a third-choice goalkeeper guading their goalpost. May be they should ask John Terry to guard it again. Haha... Poor Cech, he has a skull fracture. I hope he's okay. See what u got for playing for Chelsea!

I went to see my geology professor and she happened to be babysitting her 2 years old daughter,Lia, in her office. Her husband had a dental appointment, so she had to bring Lia with her. Lia is so cuteeeeee!!! She has short blond hair and big blue eyes. YUP, she has blue eyes!!! Just like her mum. I just realized that my geol prof has blue eyes. Well, her eyes are quite small,so I can't see it from a far! I'm crazy about blue eyes. But blue eyes are nice!!! The minute I stepped into the office, she straight away talked to me. She was counting her penny and then she showed it to me, saying some stuffs that I didn't quite catch what she was saying. I think she said something like, " look at my money" or something like that. When I was asking my prof. some questions, she kept hitting me on the arm to get my attention. She showed me her Donald Duck figurine and then showed me her toys. So cute!!!! She was so full of energy and so outspoken(or talkative). She's more outspoken than me!!! She's actually the most outspoken toddler I have ever met!

Then, I finally able to meet with my group to do the Sociology book presentation. There's 3 girls( including me) and 1 guy in my group. The other 2 girls know each other and they are going to have some kind of party tonight. And they just couldn't stop talking about the party! If they didn't talk about the party, they would talk about some other stuffs like their hair, getting a tan, or gossiping. Both of them are in charge of one book. Me and may be the guy(we dunno what book he's reading) will do the other book. I had done the outline for the book and they didn't do anything at all. And what's worse was that they spent 1 min talking about the presentation and spent like 10 min gossiping! Oh my godness! I was hoping for the guy to come or for this useless meeting to end quickly! The guy finally came and he happened to be reading the same book as me, but he's of no use also. He didn't know what to do for the presentation and he hadn't even read the book. But we managed to discuss a little more useful stuff for our presentation. Then we go home. I wasted 11/2 hr listenning to 2 American girls chitchatting about some useless thing!!! What a waste of time! We're supposed to meet again on Sun. I really hope this won't be as useless as the previous meeting!!!

OH, England lost by the way! Own goal by Neville. But poor Robinson got all the blame! I know Robinson was partly to blame for that,but still, England was really sucky! No Gerrard, that's why! Haha... Gerrard hasn't been playing very well. I think it's because of the squad rotation thing. Benitez should really stop rotating the squad and stick to a more consistent squad that deliver result. Liverpool has lost enough games!!! And we don't need another Tinkerman in EPL! Benitez hasn't u learn anything from Ranieri???

I just remembered that I have to take my driving(practical) test within 90 days of taking the theory test. And this means that I have to take it before Oct 13! Oh my! That is so impossible. I would definitely fail! I mean i'm still uncomfortable driving. So, this means that I have to retake my theory test again before I can take my practical test, which is really frustating. I was really relieved that I passed my theory test and thought that I wouldn't have to take it again, but... :( I just hope that since it will be my second time, I would be a lot calmer, and hope that the bad experience of taking the first test would not happen again. I definitely don't want to go through that all over again! No, definitely not!!!

I think I will just have to be satisfied with my learner's permit license for now. This allows me to drive as long as I am accompanied by an adult ( someone over than 21 years old).

I'm not sure when I will be ready to take the practical test or should I say when I am ready to hit the road and really really drive a car without any assistance ( or in another words be comfortable driving a car). May be I have to wait till next summer. Well, just hope i could conquer this fear as soon as possible. I hate practical stuff (yup, I really really hate doing science practical! Always very blur of what I was supposed to do. That's why always depended on Benjamin most of the time. Haha... But I made it through O level prac. )So I can do it!!! Hopefully

Went to have dinner with Tomtom last night at The Hideaway. Again, I forgot to bring my camera, so couldn't take the 18 inch pizza! It's the first time the four of us, we're called "the rabbits" by our families as the four of us are born in the year of Rabbit, had a meal togther. Sweet! As we walked to the bus stop, couldn't help but notice the bright full moon in the dark cloudness night sky. It gave me a serene feeling. And yup today is Mid-Autumn Festival. No mooncake, no lantern for me :(

I heard there's some sort of Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration. When we went to the lawn, we heard a guy rappin. Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival with rapping??? We learnt that it is organized by the Asian American Student Association (or whatever the organization is called). This is the first time I get upclose to asian american. They're more like American than Asian to us. It's good that they have an interest to their roots, but come on, rapping in Mid-Autumn Celebration??? It's so far off. The least they could do is to do some research about the festival and if they really didn't know what to do to kill time before the main event started, they could play some asian musics or share their previous Mid-Autumn Festival experience or some other thing related to Mid-Autumn Festival. I also notice the head of the lion? I don't know what it's called it's the thing used to perform Lion Dance. Another off theme for Mid-Autumn Festival! *shake head* May be I should organize next year. Haha.... Well, I need to join some organization first. I have decided to join organizations next yer. For the time being, i just want to concentrate on getting use to live in Stillwater.

*sigh* Sung failed his practical test :( No car for another week. I thought that if he pass, then he could rent a car then go somewhere during the fall break. But, well...

For the topic on Feminism, we were discussing on what is feminism?

For the record, feminism is not about women wanting to be like men- it's about basic human rights and equality!

Then we proceed to how do feminists look like? A guy mentioned that they have hairy armpit, and they are big and muscular. Haha... My teacher, a self-professed feminist. laughed out loudly and said that she shaved her armpit hair and she's a little muscular because she grew up in the farm. I don't know what a feminist looks like, but the image that I have in my mind is that they look like any normal, common women you can find in the street or school or office. Well, not like models or Hollywood actresses, they are not your common women anyway.

My teacher, Ms Hough, asked the class this question," how many of you are a feminist?" Only a few unsure hands being raised. She proceed to ask, both the male and female in the class about who thinks there should be equal rights, like voting, for both men and women. Before anyone could raise up their hands, she continued saying that if you said yes, then you're a feminist. A feminist need not only be a female. A male can be a feminist. ( this is really an eye-opener because I always thought a feminist is a female!).

She discussed some other things which is in the notes and in order to fully explain this, I need to type what're in the notes and I don't want to that, so let's skip it.

Before the class ended, she asked the males in the class how many of them would marry a women who earn more than them. Quite a no. of people raise up their hands. A guy whom Ms Hough always refer as Mr Campbell, said that he didn't care as long as she's nice and he loved her, nothing matters. Hmph...

She asked the same question to the girls( marry men with earning lower than them) Only a few hands shot in the air. The reason was simple. Women want men who can give them security both financially and socially. So, very few would want to provide for their husband. The husband is supposed to provide for the wife. That's what I think. And I want my husband to be cleaverer (in terms of his IQ) and richer than me. THis gives me a sense of security!!!

One last question was asked before it's time to go. How many of the girls in the class would marry a son raised by a feminist. This question was a shocker. Some muttered that they never thought of this before. Well, a girl raised up her hand and she said that a guy raised by a feminist would have more respect for women. May be this is true! I don't know.

For my sociology lesson, we watched video about how the working class americans lost their jobs in the manufacturing industy because of outsourcing. They lost their jobs and are struggling to pay off their debts. Poor people. But... then they and some economists started to blame the countries like HOnduras and China where the companies that they used to work outsource to these countries for cheaper labor. The made in China or Honduras products would then be shipped back to usa for the people like the unemployed former employee of the companies to buy. They don't have job, no money, how to buy these products???

Some economists even mentioned that free trade agreement should be cancelled and NATO should be disbanned. THis is so ridiculous. I mean if you cancel free trade agreement, USA's economy is going to suffer too and the employees are going to feel the impact in the long run. One economist who still have his rational thinking, disagree with the other economists saying that outsourcing help other people in the poor, developing countries to increase their earning and standard of living. And the americans (or american companies) should concentrate on getting or providing "decent" jobs which can't be outsourced. He mentioned working at the Walmart and cleaning jobs to name a few. These jobs that people shunned as it's not "decent" are jobs that give americans security and they can't go anywhere. I agree with him. His argument makes the most sense compared to the rest.

Besides, I feel that the americans should be thankful that they still have their social security and pension money to depend on. Most people (who benefit from the outsourcing) in developing countries definitely don't have such a privilege. Of course, living in this century where individualism reigns, people seldom thinks of the other side of the coin- when they lose their job, other people benefit from it. Well, I know I won't think that way, but still, the americans still have money from their pension or social security. Those in the lower class in developing countries don't !!! so they deserve the jobs, no? Ah, it's all about I, me, myself... who cares about other people. *sigh*

I'm so bored and tired :(

Wasted 45min at the library waiting for group member(s) who didn't come. Well, may be they or she or he did, but we didn't bump into each other. I realiased how stupid I was not asking which part of the library we are supposed to meet. Here's the story. We are having our presentation in like a week's time, so we decided to meet up. I suggested Thur or Fri, but Raegan "have a conflict on Thur" ( I don't know if he meant that he can't make it on Thur because he is going to have a conflict or he has a prob with thur.) Anyway, he suggested Tue. And he suggested this on Monday night??? I was like what the hell is he thinking??? Monday night and suggested meeting on Tue evening. Erm... how if the other grp member's didn't open their email till tue's evening? But i replied and said i can make it, but I also brought up the possibility of meeting on Fri (which I think is a much better option). Then, Candice replied at around 12pm saying that she can't make it on Thur and Fri as she's going home (fall break coming MOn and Tue-- so pathetic! only 2 days!!!)ok so, Candice suggested for us to meet on Tue evening. By this point, I really don't know if she's thinking. I mean, I 'm not the only group member and to meet like a few hours later like ....But i agreed. So at 5.30, we were supposed to meet at the library. I was convinced that only Candice and I would turn up. But after searching the library ground twice for 10 min, i didn't see her or anyone from my group(not that I believed they would be there, but who knows). We didn't set a specific place in the library for our meeting place, which was really stupid! I waited and waited. I decided to send candice an email, and hope that she would have the initiative to open her email when she couldn't find me as we've been communication through email all these while( I really miss having handphone or cell phone as they call it here). I waited till 6.15pm, 45min when I finally gave up waiting! REally! Shouldn't have wasted my time! I got this feeling that I wouldn't meet anyone there. Well, I hope we could settle this issue face to face, eye to eye tmr before our class start. *sigh* I just hope this bumpy start would not affect our presentation. I want my A!!!

About the cell phone, I was tempted to buy one, but after much consideration, I feel that it will be a waste of money because I don't have that many friends and there will only be a couple of group work that we have to do for a short period of time. Buying cell phone for this is so not worth it! So I guess I will have to wait till I have more friends.

Have to study for Sociology. I promised to discuss about feminism tmr or the day after tmr.

Liverpool lost 2-0 to Bolton!!!!!!

How could this be????

If they continue to lose like this, they will be out of the title race!!! Not that I believe that the Reds will win EPL this season, but at least finish 2nd, better than last season's third! *sigh* I don't think Benitez should rotate the team often. I think he should stuck with the best possible team he could form. I know roatating the team is good in the sense that should any player is injured or suspended, he would have other options, but it's not time for exploring. The season has started!!!

Here's what Benitez has to say :
"There is a big difference between the final score and what happened in the game. It's really frustrating because in different games there have been similar situations, and I hope by the end of the season these things will balance."

"In the last three away games, it's clear we've had more shots than our opponents and we've not taken our opportunities. I would be more worried if we'd played three games and not looked like scoring, but because we could have scored goals in all these games we must still feel positive."

"We need to improve our accuracy in front of goal, but I still believe in the players and know we will be better this season. The fixture list has made things virtually impossible for us at times. We have a lot of games when the players come back, but at least we'll be able to train with them. I spoke to a lot of them yesterday, and between now and when they come back, I will be talking to most of them on the phone and telling them to think hard about what we must do when they come back."

Bring in results and trophies ( by the way, community shield is not considered!)


Have to work for the weekends and on Sunday, I had to clean 13 rooms!!! For the last 4 roooms, they had extra beds and the rooms were so darn dirty! I need 3 trash bags to store all the rubbish from all the four rooms!!! And what's worse, is that they never gimme any tip! Purporsely made my job difficult, still no tip!!! I decided to lie and said that I can't work next sunday. We will be having a two day break- fall break ( what a short break, 2 days!) on Mon and Tues. So, Sung and I lied that we're going to LA to visit our aunt :P Well, we need break, especially from all the job we have to do this weekends. So tiring!!! At least we are not that bad, we will still come for work on Sat. *sigh*

On saturday, there was this cowboy cross-country jamboree. A bunch of highschool kids got to stay at the hotel ( really, I think the school could spend the money paying for the hotel rooms to something else that is more useful!) And they gave me this weird look. So what if i'm a housekeeper? At least I'm working and earning some money while you're spending your school resources unnecessarily!!! This is not the only instance. Most teenagers always gave me a "look down" look. As if i'm untouchables or what ( and we should not look down on the untouchables!). I feel like barking and scolding them. "what are you looking at? I'm just like your mother who made the beds, do all the cleaning, is just that I wear uniform and clean your hotel rooms instead of your house or rooms!" But when I thought this through, I think I would do the same thing when I meet a housekeeper. I won't really give them a "look down" lock. I think I will just smile at them and then look away. We always think that we're better or have this privilege over those working class people. It's like we're paying for their salaries, so we are of higher position or something. THe next time I stay at a hotel, I will leave tips and try not to mess up the room too much. And be friendly to housekeepers that I meet!

Liverpool lost 2-0 to Bolton!!!!!!

How could this be????

If they continue to lose like this, they will be out of the title race!!! Not that I believe that the Reds will win EPL this season, but at least finish 2nd, better than last season's third! *sigh* I don't think Benitez should rotate the team often. I think he should stuck with the best possible team he could form. I know roatating the team is good in the sense that should any player is injured or suspended, he would have other options, but it's not time for exploring. The season has started!!!

Here's what Benitez has to say :
"There is a big difference between the final score and what happened in the game. It's really frustrating because in different games there have been similar situations, and I hope by the end of the season these things will balance."

"In the last three away games, it's clear we've had more shots than our opponents and we've not taken our opportunities. I would be more worried if we'd played three games and not looked like scoring, but because we could have scored goals in all these games we must still feel positive."

"We need to improve our accuracy in front of goal, but I still believe in the players and know we will be better this season. The fixture list has made things virtually impossible for us at times. We have a lot of games when the players come back, but at least we'll be able to train with them. I spoke to a lot of them yesterday, and between now and when they come back, I will be talking to most of them on the phone and telling them to think hard about what we must do when they come back."

Bring in results and trophies ( by the way, community shield is not considered!)


Have to work for the weekends and on Sunday, I had to clean 13 rooms!!! For the last 4 roooms, they had extra beds and the rooms were so darn dirty! I need 3 trash bags to store all the rubbish from all the four rooms!!! And what's worse, is that they never gimme any tip! Purporsely made my job difficult, still no tip!!! I decided to lie and said that I can't work next sunday. We will be having a two day break- fall break ( what a short break, 2 days!) on Mon and Tues. So, Sung and I lied that we're going to LA to visit our aunt :P Well, we need break, especially from all the job we have to do this weekends. So tiring!!! At least we are not that bad, we will still come for work on Sat. *sigh*

On saturday, there was this cowboy cross-country jamboree. A bunch of highschool kids got to stay at the hotel ( really, I think the school could spend the money paying for the hotel rooms to something else that is more useful!) And they gave me this weird look. So what if i'm a housekeeper? At least I'm working and earning some money while you're spending your school resources unnecessarily!!! This is not the only instance. Most teenagers always gave me a "look down" look. As if i'm untouchables or what ( and we should not look down on the untouchables!). I feel like barking and scolding them. "what are you looking at? I'm just like your mother who made the beds, do all the cleaning, is just that I wear uniform and clean your hotel rooms instead of your house or rooms!" But when I thought this through, I think I would do the same thing when I meet a housekeeper. I won't really give them a "look down" lock. I think I will just smile at them and then look away. We always think that we're better or have this privilege over those working class people. It's like we're paying for their salaries, so we are of higher position or something. THe next time I stay at a hotel, I will leave tips and try not to mess up the room too much. And be friendly to housekeepers that I meet!