Sarah

So today was our last English class, and I have to say I am gonna miss it greatly. It was a tough 4 months but hey I think I survived!

Well enough with the intro, I'll get down to the point. So we had to prepare a presentation thru this site called prezi.com (its a great presentation tool i.e cue Kenny, Andre, Shanggar; TRY IT!)

Anyway point is once we made the slides online we were supposed to comment on one of our classmate's presentations through a thread on the site. The first one I reviewed was Sarah's. She's this hot girl in class who I think is from Buffalo. The only time we talked were a few words exchanged whilst doing one group meeting, and we never really talked to each other throughout the sem.

Back to the point, so I saw her presentation and immediately fell in love with it. It was brilliant. A few other ppl from class also said the same thing about hers and wrote numerous nice comments about it. Not surprisingly I joined in (cmon its Sarah man haha!). But the most important part is....

1 hour after me and a bunch of other classmates wrote a response for her presentation, of all the people she decided to review MY presentation!!!

Each of us in class had to write a review response to ONE presentation made by any of our classmates and she chose to review mine. Joy. What made it all the better were her sweet and kind words for my presentation. I am in dreamland. lol. Having said that some of it might be down to my kind words for her presentation in the first place but hey who cares? : P

Only problem is, I may never see her again >< I have no idea what major shes in nor which semester she's in. Story of my life. Haha. But one thing I do know for sure...

The next time I see her, I'll ask her out. For sure. =)

So till the next time I see you, Sarah Murphy, if ever. Haha

In the meantime, Ive got my gym and grades to worry about. Since Spring Break my fats have been going away slowly and my chest has started to sharpen out. Need to get fit in time for summer ><

Quote of the day: "I really enjoyed your presentation. Your presentation was definitely memorable.  Good job!"


Hehe


p.s If its worth anything I've been trying to take a different approach to my life. I'm done being the sore and pathetic loser I once was. It's time to focus on whats important now, my studies, finances, family, and friends. I'm done trying to rekindle or work out friendships, because honestly I've already got to breaking point when it comes to you. My best friend has already given up on you, and I'll follow suit....for good. I've come to the point where I 'just don't give a damn about you anymore'. And You, on the other hand. I should've known your games since the beginning. Once you break up with him, you BREAK UP WITH HIM. Its as simple as that. You don't go saying how much you wanna break up and then 10 mins later come on the phone crying that you made the wrong move. And most importantly, you don't ask your friend who he has no idea who it is to call him OUTTA THE BLUE! That was the final straw. I knew you asked your friend to call him. From now on, don't bother talking to him or me. We clear? I'm sure we are =) You know who you are. 

A thoughtful master

Quote thoughtful master:

"Some people cant handle it"

"ie that's upsetting"

You are so right. Funny thing is it's not your fault they can't handle it, yet you're the one who comes out of it with all the load to carry. The other gets off scot-free.

Sad part is that there is nothing you can do to change that, because they don't give a damn what you think.

p.s No one can write me off so easily. 

Rare sight

So in this week of 7 days, 6 of em are filled with soccer

Monday - UB soccer training. Lucky shirt worked its magic.
Tuesday - Last indoor soccer tournament game. Lost badly, but my performance wasn't as disastrous as the previous week.
Wednesday - UB soccer training again. Lucky shirt again ngeh ngeh ngeh
Thursday - First outdoor soccer tournament game. Did OK for my first in 5 years
Sunday - Got asked to play for another team for the tournament. I am now currently in three different soccer teams. Joy T.T

and as I wait to head for today's team training session I decided to look through my FB inbox. One message got me 'glued'. One dated "August 13, 2010 at 12:39pm" . 


and it made me realized how much I missed you and those times. After just 4 replies from you I already cracked up. And thats the first ever since the past 3 weeks. Damn I miss those times.

Those times I miss greatly. I could come up with a whole long list as to why you are awesome the way you are.....at least in my eyes.

I remember thanking you on my 20th birthday. I remember saying how you "always seemed to make me laugh". And that still holds true, even when you're all the way there.

and through you as well I've met some pretty awesome people, notably one who I now consider like my 'little innocent sister'. I miss her too haha. No matter how mean she is to me sometimes ><

Thinking about the past, I would like to say sorry for the way I handled our friendship. It was by no means something I should have dealt better with. I shouldn't have crossed those boundaries and spaces even if I never intended to. I don't know why I felt that way, fact is I never should have felt that way, because I never intended to, nor do I want to. Because you're too much of an awesome friend.

I just hope you can find that little something in you to forgive me and at the very least try it out again, because I think we would make a decent team, sorta. I miss making fun of those Indians *hint *hint, and Chinese of course. My best friend will second that. Oh yes he would.

and I do hope you're having a great time over there. Do know that I do intend to visit that place one day, because I never have....which is quite sad : ( . And I hope you're the one whose gonna be showing me around  xD.

I know 99.9% you're not gonna be reading this, because I know you know nothing of this blog's existence; and I intend to keep it that way. I just hope that these words would magically be conveyed to you in one way or another....

.....because if there's one thing I have at the moment, it's faith. And I have faith that someday we can laugh about this, like how we did a few months back.

Take care sunshine.

Missing you,
Ikhsan

p.s LMAO 'sunshine' damn cheesy wth hahahahah. If you somehow read this in the future please don't make fun of me T.T . I'm rushing for soccer training now! -.-

One that carves a smile

#1. Today I walked by the Engineering rooms closely for the first time, and was reminded why I'm studying the course I'm studying.

#2. Got a full mark again for EAS230. God is great.

#3. The piece which made my mom, dear 'aunt', and 33 year old apartment mate tear up. And to top it off, this comment from my lecturer:

"Ikhsan,

Wow! What a first draft. Great work. 

Check the marginal comments for revision suggestions. 

Try to avoid wordy sentences. They take away the power of your writing. Tighten up the intro a little more. Give the essay a little more rhetorical flourish. But overall, great draft."

Sources of happiness come from very unexpected places.

Hoping for a better tonight than the last one.

Having said that, God has blessed me with so many things thus far. I can't complain. I will not complain.

p.s and I am grateful for you peeps back home, for everything. Miss yea guys =)

Embarassing

Started on a subtle Sunday night when I got a call from the captain. They needed a keeper and that was my chance to prove myself and get into a top team.

And I FU**ing screwed it up.

And to top it off I'm sure I made myself into a laughing stock in front of them.

And I thought last week was a one off. That was 2 straight bad weeks.

I am just so fu**ing pissed with myself

ugh. What the fu** is wrong with me?!

p.s Maybe I should just quit playing all together. Maybe I just suck balls at it.

Moving on

I have always wanted to blog in the sky.....

...and I am doing so now.

I am writing all this from the back of the very back of the plane where I'm seated.

My destination? A place they call Mad town. Reason? To rekindle old friendships.

I have to say the view outside is simply breathtaking. It's 6.40pm local time and I can see the sunset

clearly from the window. I've seen sunsets all my life, but never from the sky. All I can say is that it's beatiful.

Which gives me time to ponder upon my first 2 months here in the United States of America.

I am finally here.

My first month was exciting. A new university, new faces, new cultures, and new things to play with.  Everything was new to me. I had to do my own laundry, pay my own rent, pay my own electricity, cook on my own, and the worst part……clean up on my own. Ugh.

I could bore you with numerous other things that happened so I’ll just keep em short.

You know what….I think I’ll save it up for later.

Because now I type this as I am about to leave this one week of joy and head back home to Buffalo.

I’ll leave my Spring break for later as well…..because it’s not quite yet over.

There is still a bit more left for me to do.

Like cook for some people, 2 of which are very special people, and one who is very dear to me.

Till then.

p.s Hello Ikhsan 7.0. Why 7? Because I grew so much in just these past 7 days. No kidding.