First car

First car back, originally uploaded by lilsQuirr3l.

I've been away from the 'virtual' world for quite sometime. I do leave my MSN online but have not been able to reply any of the messages I've got. This was not due to me ignoring my friends and family but I've been busy trying to juggle work and also settle some stuff = my new car!!!

I started looking for a car early this year as some of you has read in my earlier entries. Ever since I came back from M'sia, the need to have a car became more important as it's hard to plan my experiments all at the same time and that takes up a lot of time. Furthermore, it's nice to be able to go home and get some dinner before coming back here to work.

On Saturday morning, I went down to Kalamazoo to check out a Honda Accord. However, it wasn't a very well-maintained car and heeding the advice of a friend who is experienced in car mechanisms, I decided not to go get it. But on the very same day, a new listing for a 97 Honda Accord came out on cars.com and we went to check it out. It was at Battle Creek. We went there, test drive it, checked the car and asked a few questions, within 40 minutes, I issued a check for the car.

But the owner wanted cash as she's moving to a different state. So I came back to Lansing on that same night, worked on Sunday, get the cash on Monday morning and took the train back to Kalamazoo. My friends there brought me back to Battle Creek to get the car and settle the payment. I drove the car back to Lansing from there, got my insurance settled and went to register it yesterday morning. Lastly, I got a parking permit for the year this morning.

*phew* It sure was an adventure for my boring life. This together with all the events that had happened to me over the past three months have been the most exciting part of my life since a very long time. Work just seem to take part of my life away..and it's a huge chunk.

I'm just so happy to finally find a car and at a reasonable price. Now back to work..boss is back.