Saturday Night Late Night Penn State

This is basically a special event the university conducts to get students involved on saturday nights to prevent them from going to bars and stuff. Last saturday was my first time and I guess that was the best night so far here. The event starts at 9 pm and ends at 2 am. There were stand up comedians, megicians, people who do circus tricks, karaoke and they make a video of u singing for free, Bum and face sketching, photo sessions where they put the picture on a megazine cover and make us look like celebrity, black and white photo sessions where we are required to wear aincient clothes, photo taken and sticked on a key chain, and its all for free. It was like a big festival and all of us got a free t shirt as well. There was rock climbing, aerobics, basketball 3 on 3 tournament (winner stays and anyone can join) in the next building. The place was packed the whole night. The only reason till now I regret is because I did not take my camera along. This weekend they will be having a big football match and the place will be too packed so they are not conducting the late night Penn State this weekend.

washington DC

It was a 5 hour drive from Penn state to washington DC. 5 busses filled with international students took part in that trip. We checked out the white house, the capital, and all the important monuments. It was worth the time. Our petronas advisor from Washington picked us up and took us for malaysian lunch at his place. Man it was the best food ever, malaysian style. We took a drive to a factory outlet in Virginia. It was huge with all the best brands you can ever dream of. Nike, Adidas, Tommy, Levis, Bum.... and the list goes on. The stuff there was pretty reasoanable and got an original Levis jeans for 30 dollars. By the time we got back to Penn State, it was past mid night.

These are the people who matters most.Thank you so much for making this life of mine so special. Thanks for getting up at 5 in the morning, took an hour drive all the way up to the airport jus to send me off. I know I cried like a baby before leaving but thats only cause Im so happy that my life is so meaningful to you all. Thank u so much. Just hope time does not change anything. Hope after 4 yrs u all treat me like the same now. To mom and dad, thanks for fighting this battle with me and giving me this once in a life time opportunity. Would never have been able to do it on my own. To Gurpreet and Harmit, just hope will be able to come back and play strip football together again. Miss all the fights with Harmit and all the gossips about girls with Gurpreet. To veereen, thanks for making me the person I am today. Just hope will be able to go shopping with u like we always use to. And to the rest that matters, u know deep down who u are, I just wana take this opportunity to say i love u all !

Penn State University

Arrived here about 2 weeks back and I guess I ve had enough experience to understand the american culture here and share it with u guys. Penn State University is one hell of a huge campus. For the Malaysians I would say its almost twice the size of UM or maybe bigger. The people here are crazy about american football so they built a stadium with the capacity of 110 thousand people.That would be bigger than shah alam stadium. It seems when they have a big game the population in the university campus becomes as big as the population of the biggest city in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Penn State is included in the BIG 10 which means they are top 10 best in US. They even have an indoor stadium used for basketball, ice hockey and other events. There are many open aired fields and they keep the turf better than in Bukit Jalil. People here are super nice and friendly. They ll go out of their way to help me out. the girls here are Hot nothing like Malaysian girls ;) my university has around 50000 undergraduate students. Imagine adding that with the graduate students and the workers and lecturers here. Penn State has the biggest Alumni in US. 1 out of every 50 Americans is a Penn State graduate. The place is super clean. Hostels here are like hotels in Malaysia. There is a microwave and a fridge in my room. internet and phone connection is also free in the rooms. The surprising thing is that there are so many indians and chinese here. The food is delicious but expensive. vegetarian is not a problem here cause there are many vegetarians here in the states. the meal lan is awesome, we ve got like a certain number of points and everytime we go into a dining hall they deduct 3 points but I get to have anythin there and as much as i want. Imagine eating cookies, cakes, cereal, pasta, pizza, ice cream, doughnuts everyday. The variety of drinks also damn cool. capacino, pepsi, lemonade, all kinds of jus. Basically Im havin a great time and will share more when I start classes.