The World Operates in a Weird Way

I just don't get it. I thought if I have a schedule to follow, I can actually finish everything in time for my exams. Instead, I am even further behind.

So, after a long consideration, I finally decided to...

NOT PLAN ANYTHING!! Hehe!

And I think it is working, cause I actually done more than I did the last two days.

I am still way behind though.

Anyway, I was able to squeeze a dinner with Angela and Andrew today between my "oh-so-busy" schedule. We went to this restaurant called Panera Bread.

This is the first time Andrew and I ever been to Panera Bread. Naturally, we did not know what to order. So, we turned to Angela.

Andrew: What is good here?
Angela: Salad.
swt. Andrew and I looked at each other and made a face.
Andrew and I: Yerr!

Lolx! In the end, I had to ask them to choose anything but salad for me since I couldn't decide. Haha!!




This was my dinner. Hot Chocolate and Chipotle Chicken Sandwich. The sandwich was SO good! Thank god they didn't choose something weird for me. =P


Then they just chat the whole time, while I took random pictures..




For some reason, Andrew's cup of water is PINK! So weird~!!

















We didn't do much. Just kinda sat there and chat (well, mostly them talking and me listening). I really enjoy hanging out with both of them though. I hope we could go eat dinner again some other time. ^^

Anyway, I should really be getting some shut eyes right about now. I need all the sleep I can get if I want to make it to class tomorrow in time. Nitex!

Interesting piece of plastic thing..

So, we were learning about our heart today in Human Systems. And let me tell you, it is so not fun. All the left ventricles and right arteries thing and the right antrioventricular valves and left pulmanary semilunar valve and the list goes on.

So confunsing!

The only interesting part of the class today was the lab activity. They put this interesting piece of plastic thing right in front of me, and I just had to take a picture with it.




Isn't that fascinating?! That is a plastic model of a heart by the way.




And of course, as usual, I had to take a picture with it.

Besides observing this fascinating piece of art, we got to measure our blood pressure too. I thought it would be fun but...



I have to say that the mission was totally UNsuccessful. We didn't hear a single heart beat and did not know what the hell we were doing. So in the end, we just kinda made some numbers up. ^^

Oh! Btw, I was just informed about something today! It was so suprising and damn hilarious. My roommates crack me up sometimes! Can't really say what it is. Just thought I mention it here cause it is really funny! I still laugh about it every time I think about it.

Anyway, nothing interesting is going to happen this week except for classes of course. Exams right after spring break, so I got to work extra hard! Wish me luck!!

I don't know what's wrong...

I seriously don't know what's wrong. Everything don't seem right these days. What should I do?

Should I try to make things better?

or

Should I just accept them?

...maybe I am just not working as hard as I thought I was...maybe I shouldn't have been so relaxed...

I seldom look at the other side but with all these little things pilling up on me, I just can't help it..

I think I'll take this as a lesson and learn from it. Maybe even work harder. I just don't know...

Anyway, Happy Valentine's Day people!~

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone!

I had a hectic week.

Monday: Freaking LONG homework assignment due.
Tuesday: Study for Stats exam, Intro to Anthropology & Human Systems lab practicle.
Wednesday: Statistics exam & Human Systems Lab Practicle, study Intro to Anthropology.
Thursday: Intro to Anthropology exam.

This is my schedule for tomorrow till next week

Friday: Finish Intro to Literature reading Questions & reading assignments.
Saturday & Sunday: Study for Human Systems & Intro to Anthropology, finish reading assignments.
Monday: Human Systems exam.

And it goes on and on and on and on....

What a way to spend Chinese New Year...

Anyway, at first I thought I won't be celebrating CNY cause I'm in Florida, but I got to relax a bit from my hectic week and celebrate Chinese New Year in my Chinese class yesterday. From 5 - 7:45 pm (every wednesday our chinese class is this long), all we did was eat and have a great time.

Hehe! We got to learn how to make dumplings from stratch and actually cook them in class.

We started off like this..just sitting around..

Then like this...Lolx!!

Then *poof*.. we have homemade dumplings!

And this was how cao lao shi was cooking them...

And moments later...we got to enjoy delicious dumplings ^^ (I'm serious. They were delicious! Ignoring the fact that it took us around an hour plus to get them cooking and were STARVING by the time they were ready =P)

Later, we took our class picture ^^

My professors. The one in red is Cao Lao Shi, the guy is Ni Lao Shi (who speak freaking perfect chinese!!! Even better than I do!) and the woman in white is Ni Lao Shi's wife.

My class. This is like kindergarden all over again. Class pictures. Haha!!

It was just like how we took class picture in USJ 13. We got to take 3 shots. One is the very serious one (first pic). The other is very lively one (second pic). ^^

Then we just sorta goof off..

Haha! The kid in blue is Ni Lao Shi's son, Yang Yang. I was trying to get a picture with Casey cause we are both born in the year of Dragon, and Yang Yang just stood there with the so called dragon post.

Lolx!! This was the result I got after I said that they look too stiff and that they should lossen up a bit. Haha!

Got my first USD ang pau this year! Hehe!

And just in case no one knows what I was holding, it is actually a napkin..a VERY decorative napkin. It is so pretty that I didn't want to use it. I'm keeping it in my drawer now instead. Hehe!

I know I look fat and old in my pictures, but since it is chinese new year, I decided to eat first then lose weight later. I'm taking dancing classes again, so the weight should come right off by the time I go back Malaysia. Hehe!

But I should worry more bout my exams instead of my weight. Next monday is my last exam and then I'll be free for several weeks before the torture starts all over.

Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year to all! May your year be filled with happiness and wealth and health and yada yada. ^^

Cute huh?

I was in my Intro to Anthropology class today, and we were able to look at all these skeletal bones of our 'relatives' for our assignments. Hehe!




I don't know bout you, but I think they are rather cute. Thus..




...me taking a picture with it. =P This is the skeletal bone of a gorilla btw.




This is a Homoerectus, our directly related ancestral to the earliest members of living species Homosapiens (which is us humans). It is how their skeletal head looks like before we evolve to what we are now.


Onto another topic, this is where I work, my aunt's restaurant Wok Cuisine...




The restaurant...




The sushi bar..




My uncle worked at a Japanese restaurant before and took classes from a Japanese sensei to learn the real way of making sushi for several years.

I had a few more prettier pictures of the sushi[s] he made but they got lost together with my first phone, so this is the only pic I have.

Anyway, Chinese New Year is around the corner. I didn't even realise it till I called my mum and she told me. I totally forgot bout CNY since they don't celebrate it in Florida. But the good news is, I still get to get ang pao. Muahahaha!

One thing I really miss is the gambling and the visits from house to house.

PICTURES!!!~

Haha! Can't post anything last few days due to lack of time and pictures. I still have some other pictures with my friends but I thought,

"Why not post what I have now first so that SOMEONE does not say my blog is too boring."

So here I am, posting pictures I took at Give Kids the World Village. These pictures were taken when I went to work as a volunteer in Kissimmee, Orlando. The place was amazing, and not to mention beautiful! It is built for the purpose of letting sick children have their vacation and spend happy moments with their family there.

First I'll start off with my transportation there.



This is one LONG ASS BUS! My friends told me it is called the "Coach Bus" I think..



It even has its own BATHROOM! The first thing I said was, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!". Haha! It is not every day I see a bus with its own toilet you know. My friend, Quentin, decided to demonstrate how to use it. Haha!!



Journey there. This is what it looks like at 7 something in the morning. I just took this cause I don't get to drive pass an ocean/sea/lake/whateva-you-call-it back in Malaysia.



Kinda like this pic. I think is was about 8am. Freaking cold that day. Was freezing my ass off even when I was in the bus. You have no idea how relieved I was when we stopped by at McD. to get something to eat, and most importantly, HOT drinks!

Okay, back to Give Kids the World Village.



This is the AmberVille. Hmm, can't remember what is this place for =P Hehe! But I do remember the fabulous train set they have in there.



Isn't this cute?! There is Bruce, Dory and Marlin from Finding Nemo..



My posing position looks weird cause the thing I was hugging to is freaking tall. So...you get the point. But don't concentrate on me, concentrate on the train set BEHIND me.



This pic might not look as cool, but the trains, cable cars and such were actually in motion. So it was probably much cooler up close in person.

Aren't they cool!!!

Moving on...

This would be the castle (Duh!). I really like this picture.

The castle's guard. Don't mess with him! Hehe..

The throne room of course..

The king with his 'trusty guards'...

the 'dinning room'. Notice the bathrooms signs are for 'royalty' only..

Haha! I would say this machine is totally out of place. Anyway, this is actually a pillow machine. You just need to push a button, then the lights and music will go on. Bubbles will come and finally, *Poof* a pillow comes out! Of course these pillows are for the children, not for us volunteers...

We then went to the ginger bread house, where we started to work..

Main entrance to gingerbread house...

First dining room..

Food counter...As you can see, there are many dolls and teddy bears decorated around the top. Those are actually the toys of the kids who have been there. They are sooooooooo cute! And let me tell you, some of them are sooo rare that it cost a lot of money. But of course they have more sentimental value to the families.

This is another dining room. This one is decorated with trains. Very COOL toy trains.

This is also where I had my lunch & dinner...

Lunch..(forgot to take a pic of dinner cause too excited talking to a Japanese lady, Mari-san. She was soooo nice. She thought me some basic jap too ^^)

Random shot...

Left to Right: Me, Jamie, the twins (Alyssa & Michelle), Aleyse, can't remember her name and Lisa. Hehe!

I had to put a shot of us working or people won't believe we actually helped out there. We were wiping down every corner of the gingerbread house. This is when we were half way cleaning the sugar bowls after I finished washing them, as you can see here. Hehe! (I just put them in the dishwasher. Not really me sitting at a corner on my hands and knees washing them one by one.)

My desert ^^ Just kidding...

This is where I actually had my REAL desert..

Banana Split! YUM!~

The map of Give Kids the World Village Map...

Next stop, warehouse...

But not before taking some random shots around the village!! Hehe!

No idea what this is...

LOVE this shot!!

My new best friend..Hehe!

Random...

Random...

Such a cute tree! Kawaii!!~

Peaceful huh?

This is quite random too..

Haha! I had to put this shot cause if you look closely, you could actually see Quentin doing the titanic scene! LOL!~

Okay, here we are at the warehouse...

You won't believe the stuff they have there. Fantastic toys. Only had time to take pic of this though cause was working...

Team work! GO TEAM~

What we were actually doing was stacking up cards. Tie them with rubber band so that next time when they give out goodies bags, each kids have these cards. And let me tell you, these aren't normal cards. They are actually rare cards of famous sports people kept in PERFECT condition. They cost a lot, but of course, they are for the kids only.

I didn't know much about sports so I was more concern of my hands getting sore than the cards. But you should have seen my friends going crazy over them.

Anyway, after that we went to get our schedule for our next work duty and while waiting...

...we got comfortable on rocking chairs. Hehe! The one I was sitting on was really small..

We even had time to take a group picture...

And since it was frezzing cold out, we went in the chapel to keep warm...

Another of my favorite shot...

And in the chapel, I found these...

Peace...

Love...

Hope...

Faith...

And also my friends trying to look angelic *laughs*...

Well, after that we went back to the castle to set up for the games people had planned for the kids. We were suppose to do it outside, but since it was so cold, they didn't want to get the children sick. So we had the game inside instead..

I would have taken more shots of the games but..

1. We are not allowed to take pictures of the kids without permission

2. Even if we do get permission, we are not allowed to post them on the Internet

3. I was having too much fun to hold my camera to snap shots of people

4. Last but not least, my phone ran out of battery! LOL!!!!

But I did manage to take one last shot of this cute moment (actually it was a request from Quentin cause he bond well with this kid) I took this picture purposely from the side so that we couldn't see the kid's face, but still..I hope I don't get in trouble for this.

Anyway, I had a real wonderful time and I got to make a lot of new friends. They were all so friendly. I got to know Quentin more on the ride home cause he was really bored, we talked for 2 hours about the most random stuff!! I was tired as hell. Thank god Jamie took over for me after that. Hehe! I can't wait to go back there next semester!

Well, I hope I have enough pictures now. You see that Xin Min! Now you can't say my blog page boring liao. Hehe! And I want to take this chance to give my sympathy to my good friend, Jessican Loi, because her camera is not working at the moment. It is a tragic moment because just like Xin Min, they both are always SS-ing. Hehe!! I feel sorry for you Jessica. (See Jess! I mentioned your name. Happy!?!)

I got to go now. Will try to update more after my essays and reading assignments and quizzes and tests and the list goes on. Good nitex!

p/s: I love Danny Hor, sooo much. Hehe! Sorry. Just suddenly feel like saying it. Good nitex people!