Just recently, I was made aware of my admission case being re-opened for probable postgraduate admission at Purdue.
I would have been happy, but life is a tad more complex than simple black and white.
Reaching the end of my third month of being back in Malaysia, I have worked for quite some time, ever since 13th June, which makes it already 2 months and a half now. My payslip will be coming later this week, which will take the hit for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr, for those little kids. I don't know how the economics will be, but will probably give at least rm2/kid, remembering of how I was when I was their age, the glee of my smile having gotten the little slips of 'duit raya' and accumulating wealth to be banked later to my bank account with credits to my mum who set me up for a savings account early in life.
Working has been good so far, being a fresh engineer, learning the industry from the ground up from the recently signed project a couple of days back. I get to learn the project from the inside out, from conceptual to design, and now pre-development phase. It has been fun working with people who guide me along the way and tutor me to get more experience out of the working days.
Also, I'm involved in photography as a boost to my income as well as to feed my photography passion and hobby. Recently, we did a filming session for our corporate video, which was fun considering how silly people can be in front and off camera. So, I'm busy on two fronts, not including the third, with my family and personal matters.
With the recent news of my readmission, I welcome it, though my future is yet properly laid out with this matter. On January, I'll still have to be here since I do want to visit my big sis in NZ, and travel there for fun. Then, comes my marriage(?) plans on the 1st half of 2012. So, most probably I'll have to defer the admission for Fall 2012 maybe? A year's worth of work experience will at least provide me a bargaining foundation for my future career. Sigh~
Of passion and interest...and also time...
Aurora Borealis from Chena Hot Springs.
It was near to midnight and the sky was clear with subzero temperatures in fahrenheit, and this completed the "my day"
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
2011 Chapter 3: Back and about
Apologies for abandoning this blog for a long while (as usual).
As an update, now I'm back to the tropics, my home country of Malaysia. I've been back ever since graduating at Purdue back in May, and now am an employed citizen, of not only one job, but two jobs. A full-timer engineer and a part-timer photographer.
Be all that you can be! says the US Army ad once ages ago.
The world is surely different when you look at it on different time scales. When the MAS KL-bound flight from LA touched the soil of Malaysia, with the announcement of "Tuan-tuan dan puan-puan, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia", I felt my patriot self awaken at the thought of my sojourn after my three years absent from Malaysia. Surely, there are countless tales I can spin of my experiences abroad, but now I'm interested in the things in front of me, in my homefront.
Things change. People change.
As I'm writing this, I'm listening to Yuna, who is now famous among the younger Malaysian crowd, one of which I'm just testing the waters to listen. Why am I even listening? Just because she'll have a performance in the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas come this 12 September, for the price of rm80. I went to a Zee Avi concert once, though I can't remember how much I've paid for it (USD35?) and I enjoyed it with my friends in Milwaukee, a land not Malaysian, to enjoy music by a Malaysian artist. So, I'm testing the possibility of spending and enjoying the rm80.
Anyway, I'll try and make it a habit of ACTUALLY updating this blog/diary/thoughts/whatever once a week, if not about my thoughts, at least by some of my writings, that I've never kept in the blogosphere.
Hey ho! Up, up and away! (The Feedjit engine is really cool..now I finally know that some people do actually visit this blog..haha..who knew? I didn't)
As an update, now I'm back to the tropics, my home country of Malaysia. I've been back ever since graduating at Purdue back in May, and now am an employed citizen, of not only one job, but two jobs. A full-timer engineer and a part-timer photographer.
Be all that you can be! says the US Army ad once ages ago.
The world is surely different when you look at it on different time scales. When the MAS KL-bound flight from LA touched the soil of Malaysia, with the announcement of "Tuan-tuan dan puan-puan, Selamat Datang ke Malaysia", I felt my patriot self awaken at the thought of my sojourn after my three years absent from Malaysia. Surely, there are countless tales I can spin of my experiences abroad, but now I'm interested in the things in front of me, in my homefront.
Things change. People change.
As I'm writing this, I'm listening to Yuna, who is now famous among the younger Malaysian crowd, one of which I'm just testing the waters to listen. Why am I even listening? Just because she'll have a performance in the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas come this 12 September, for the price of rm80. I went to a Zee Avi concert once, though I can't remember how much I've paid for it (USD35?) and I enjoyed it with my friends in Milwaukee, a land not Malaysian, to enjoy music by a Malaysian artist. So, I'm testing the possibility of spending and enjoying the rm80.
Anyway, I'll try and make it a habit of ACTUALLY updating this blog/diary/thoughts/whatever once a week, if not about my thoughts, at least by some of my writings, that I've never kept in the blogosphere.
Hey ho! Up, up and away! (The Feedjit engine is really cool..now I finally know that some people do actually visit this blog..haha..who knew? I didn't)
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