Masalah subletter? Setel!
Gadis yang akan mengambil alih bilik saya benar-benar wujud, in the flesh bak kata orang putih; dan saya sudah pun bertemu dengannya dua hari yang lepas. It's a small world after all, kerana kami rupa-rupanya pernah mengambil kursus Environmental Studies bersama-sama.Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:23:14 -0600
From: Rachel Belanger
Subject: Re: 54th & Cornell, Jan-March 2010, $500
To: NJ
Hey NJ,
Is your room still available to sublet? I've explored a couple other options, and yours is my best one. It would be great to meet your roommate before totally committing, but I'm sure I'd be able to live with her. Let me know what's next...
Thanks!Rachel
Kami juga telah mengumpat tentang pensyarah kursus itu yang bosan lagi memualkan, Sir Peter Crane, (ya, he was knighted for his contributions to the Kew Botanical Gardens. Agak cool, tapi faktor ini will be discounted bila anda masuk kelasnya dan lihat kaca mata, pakaian serta intonasi suaranya yang boring).
Beliau adalah epitomi kepada segala stereotype yang wujud dalam kepala otak saya tentang kebosanan orang Inggeris (as opposed to Anglo Americans). Jangan tanya saya kenapa, but I'm averse to a lot of things British. Mintak simpang malaikat 44 jika saya perlu menonton wayang-wayang British. Sangat tak kuasa. Dahla gigi kuning and tak handsome (with the exception of Ed Westwick). And I digress.
Tidak akan menghadapi set masalah ekonomi dan statistik. Selama-lamanya!
Okay, I lied. Bukan selama-lamanya, only in my dreams. Well, sekurang-kurangnya buat 4 bulan yang akan datang. Juga ingin dimaklumkan di sini saya kini tidak sebodoh IT yang disangkakan kerana semalam, saya telah berjaya mengguna R, statistical software yang digunakan untuk kelas Statistik. Pada firasat saya, R adalah sejuta kali lebih user friendly berbanding Matlab. Pencipta R wajar menerima Nobel Prize. Terima kasih kerana membuat orang yang paling bodoh IT rasa pandai sebentar. By the by, kalau awak dah pernah nampak saya kecoh tentang ini, diam-diam sahaja. I've said it once, and I'm going to say it again, Statistics suck balls!
Berjaya mengecek Papanya untuk mendahului tambang perjalanan Cape Town ke Chicago.
Kejayaan ini telah dikecapi beberapa minggu yang lalu, melalui panggilan telefon yang sangat panjang, namun the euphoria baru kick in. Kenapa lampi sangat? Sebab saya baru sahaja short of $4000 setelah membayar yuran program ke Cape Town, dan apa-apa handout yang boleh disumbangkan adalah sangat bermakna kini. Of course, operasi untuk menukar cash advance ini kepada convertible loan/stipend akan dijalankan. Proses mengecek fasa 2 akan dilancarkan, jangan risau.
First fall of snowflakes on my shoulders
Maklumlah, awal-awal musim salju memang sexciting. Tunggulah 3, 4 minggu nanti when the novelty wears off, akan saya complain pasal sejuk nak mampus, inches of snow yang oh-so-annoying.
Now that you are privy to my source of transient happiness, you should know that hell awaits me. Sila wish me good luck dan beri sokongan padu dan jitu kerana saya akan cuba jadi Superwoman untuk buat (dan fail) segala-galanya. Nothing short than suicide, Kamikaze style!
8 comments:
Ah, but ma amie, I disagree with you regarding Englishmen (and British films)! Englishmen are quick-witted and are a lot better than American dudes at wordplay. Have you seen An Education? The thing about British films is that they tend to be made on much, much lower budgets than in Hollywood, so they make up for less fantastic visuals with thought-provoking storylines. And you cannot not like the British accent!
Hi Hanaa, thanks for agreeing to disagree=) I think it is precisely the British accent that puts me off British films. It takes me a whole lot while to understand what they're saying. But you're right about the wordplay, I think English euphemisms are interesting ("You're such a tool" does sound cool)!
Perhaps I have been brought up too American-centric in my thoughts (I read mostly American novels, even the greater classics. But I did enjoy Roald Dahl very much) and ways. Preference is of course, shaped by things we are used to.
I tried breaking out of my cocoon by trying to watch Billy Elliot some years ago, and it was horrible. I haven't seen An Education so I can't say much.
But the Englishmen are more willing to laugh at/ridicule themselves (A case in point: Little Britain. But it's borderline disgusting, though). Hahaha.
While I agree with everything Hanaa says, I have to hold back on the British accent. Some of them sound SO horribly patronizing it just buat sakit hati bila tengok/dengar. Also, there's so much more than JUST Little Britain. Remember The IT Crowd? And if you want to layan whatever testosterone you might have, there's always Top Gear.
And lastly, you might want to censor your e-mail/phone number/address before you happily post everything on here. Don't be surprised kalau you get weird texts/phone calls or some stranger come for a visit.
On a side note, MINITAB may not be as powerful as R, but all you have to do is click, click, click, and you've got yourself the whole regression shebang in no time at all.
Keembs, Haha, agak lah. Before Martins comes looking for me (not that he doesn't know my address dah kan?). Scary berry.
have u seen The Boat That Rocked? an english film but i find it not annoying compared to Flight Of The Concords. haha
funny how i was going to comment on english movies here as well...
i have a personal hatred for almost all british movies, then i watched 'hot fuzz'.
etc: then we can be friends. but did watching hot fuzz make you like English movies? or was it just an isolated case? hhehee.
anis: noooo. masa cuti the other day my brother ada dvd, but hehehe, me being me, baca synopsis on the cover, saw that it's English, i quickly put it down and took other dvds. Flight of The Concord movie I tak tau. But haritu I saw a poster of the band/group, though.
Hahaha! NJ, u're funny... :D
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