Summary Post (Midwest Games 2006, Sick, Admin, Minneapolis Weekend, Class)

The Midwest Games 2006 edition was held at Madison, Wisconsin over the Memorial Day weekend (05/26 - 05/28)
http://shahstudio.fotopages.com (My friend's fotopage with some photos of the event taken with his Digital SLR)
http://www.midwestgames2006.com (The official website of Midwest Games 2006)
It was an exciting event boasting some 800+ Malaysian students from all over the US taking part in the annual event. I didn't really get the most out of it because I was too busy taking care of the men's basketball thingy. Still, managed to stay smiley and all friendly to mask out the endless shortcomings and blunders by the organizing people. All were friendly and shit. Just here to have fun.

Due to the amount of work and the lack of sleeping hours plus the violation of drink-a-lot-of-water-everyday rule, I was down with some sore throat and flu which would later lead to fever and cough. Nope, MSD is not reimbursing neither of the poor non-committee workers who had to work their asses off and live by their unnoticed contributions. I missed 2 weeks of my part time job because I was really sick.

At the same time, I had to go to the College of Engineering offices to sort out some admin stuffs, which could turn into some serious problems if not taken care of asap.

Then I somehow got "left out" of the list of people to the Minneapolis trip. Other than spendrift, fun and camaraderie, procrastination might very well be the final word to describe the trip. Left Madison at 10pm instead of 7.30pm. Arrived in Minneapolis probably around 2.30am when the 1st group who arrived on Thursday had already come back from the much anticipated drinking session. The next morning, those staying in Minneapolis woke up early and got themselves ready to go, but the other group in Eagan wasn't quite ready yet. We were supposed to go for the Mandarin Kitchen (Super fabulously delicious dim sum) early, but we sill made it by noon. Then it was decided that we would all go to the Aberville Prime Outlet malls and shop our money away. There weren't that many things to buy actually, but there were so many shops that I ended up buying some unnecessary stuffs and burned a huge hole in my pocket, which was really unnecessary as well.
I got myself a Puma Ferrari shirt which I would proudly showcase for the US GrandPrix in Indianapolis in a month's time. Then there's this pair of Climacool socks by Adidas, this Dockers fall jacket, this Nike soccer guard stays. Then later in the night, we set out for some Go Kart activity at Pro Kart Indoor Racing in Burnesville, MN. On Sunday, we would then drag our lazy asses to Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. Spent some few hours there, had dinner at Hooters before making our way back to Madison.

My 4-week summer class (Marriage and Family) had already started. Hammered with all the stacks of articles everyday really kills.