I Miss State College, Pennsylvania USA

It has been almost 10 months since I left my playground for 5 years in Pennsylvania. State College. A nice town with the majority of white people living in that college town. During the regular semester ie. Fall and Spring, the population of town folks is beyond 50,000. My campus alone has 42,000 students during those two semesters. In summer, everything turns quieter and the town seems like a ghost town. Well, almost. Not completely though.

What makes me miss State College very much is the atmosphere it has. People are walking fast and yet, still smiling sometimes. They dont mind to ask, "How are you!" or at the very least, "What's up!". Most people queu before they get onto the bus. Cars behind the bus are patiently waiting for their turn to move forward. They dont simply take over the bus. The people are generally warm and friendly. They don't mind to hold up a casual chat. I call it, ' a 5 minute chat'. University personnel are very friendly. They are willing to help students with their neverending smile. The one I could remember is Miss Sue Ellen from my department in Fenske Lab. Oh boy, I love to talk to her because she's an extremely good listener.

Computer lab is so ubiquitous. And so does the internet. I can stop by at the HUB and pop up my laptop while eating Chinese food from Panda Express. My iBook instantly hooks up to the internet. Voila!! Not only at the HUB though..but somewhere else too (including Fenske Lab..wohoooooo.!!)

Every morning volunteers from kindergarten and child care center will bring the kids to the central campus. I love to see them walking along the road. They are extremely cute and I felt like biting their cheeks. Early Fall semester you will see a lot of skinny freshmen girls running across the campus in their spandex and sports bra. It's the same scenery in late Spring semester too. And it's an everyday scenery if the season is summer.

Summer last year completed my whole experience living in the States as student. Geting a sex maniac housemate is indeed an invaluable experience. That nigger certainly doesn't know how to control his own horse!! I heard they moaned almost everywhere in our apartment. Be there at the living room, fucking each other in front of my door or screaming "Spank me..spank me!!" in their room at 10 am on Sunday morning. Phewwww!! What a living! I wish they could be white people. But again, God has done just to me by making them black because if otherwise, I would have taken my digital camcorder and recorded every bit of their action and sound and sold it to the Malaysian vcd seller. "College Kids in Action!". It will be a blast!!

I miss my juniors there. Sincerely and honestly, not all of them. But some of them who I am close with. I miss cooking for the boys in Gateway Apartment. Miss to have dinner with Didie, Mahirah, Oja and Phey Yuen. I love to sit and listen to Dayang's story. I love to hang out at the Diners with Mat Ranjit after midnite. Hahahahaha...talking shit about mat salleh's girls, huh!! Playing Command & Conquer's at Sani's computer is certainly a drug for myself.

I mingle with orang putih as equally I did with Malaysians. I miss my roommate too, Brian Waslo. My Ch E buddies are Saeed, Rami, John, Eric, Jarvi, Zeeshan, Aaron and a few others. We used to hang out at the lounge in Fenske and bitching about Prof Armou's project. Not to mention about Prof Nedwick's design project. Totally ridiculous but worth every second we did it.

All in all, the experience in State College is totally priceless. Good laughs, good friends, good place. I wont trade it with anything else. I had some ups and downs when I was there but I manage to go through them. I thought I would quit and packed up my stuffs and go home 5 years ago. I didnt deny that I did cry when I first arrived in Penn State by myself because I was extremely homesick. I didnt deny that I almost buried my dreams because of the adversity happened upon me. But I persevere by myself and I did it in my own fashion. Frank Sinatra certainly did a good job reminding me about how life can be turned much better if it's done in 'my way'.

So now I am pursuing something after I conquered my dreams in State College, Pennsylvania. I am pursuing my dreams. Donal Trump says, think big and live large. Certainly, I want to do that! I can always quit, but why quit now? How about you, buddy?