A month ago?!~ LOL

Just to wrap things up... Will be "updated" very soon... (i hope so, hahah XD)

KME pin:
KME=Kappa Mu Epsilon, an honour mathematic society in Wisconsin state... founding 1t 1930+.

The group which obtained KME membership~ I was quite "tall" with my high heels on! YAY~!

The cake:

UWEC Actuarial Club's T-shirt~

Just doing some stupid pose after M.A.D(Malaysian Abroad Diversified/Malaysian Student Association)'s meeting at Davies... lol

The Wisconsin girls! hahahha , aiks i should have worn that hoodie too~! hahaha

Friday's night at 208 of water streets (seniors' off-campus house)!

Waiting for food~~

Thanks Chloe for the delicious Malaysia Cuisine!! WUHUUU! i miss this type of rice!!!

Lying on the snows? so-called snow angel! lolx

Our silly snowman who couldn't stand! hahaha

Big banana smile!

Crazy Thak playing with snows! Actually our hands were freezing at that moment! lol

First experience at Target! I'm kind of more into Target than Wal-mart! haha

The spring's host family gathering at lutheran trinity church~

Uncle Ray, Aunt Mary and me!!! (featuring Amir and Aaron from Malaysia too at the back! haha)

Mostly Malaysian students and their hosts.. (But some other international students just joined in out of no where, hahaha)

Valentine's gift from Lindsay, my R.A.~~

Valentine's card from my host family! so sweet~

The letter from "home-in-US", touching!

Getting equiped for wall/rock climbing at McPhee Centre!

Lol... I couldn't feel my hands/arms after the climb.... super tiring!

Look! I made it to the top! Touched the ceiling! YAY! haha

At Secret Garden, a mongolian+Korean restaurant~ The chef who's preparing the food... you could select anything from the counter as it's kind of a buffet style~

Choose the ingredients and sauces, then the chef will stir everything together... nice food though~

Sorry for the photo's quality.. just trying to show my food! haha bad light condition.. Anyway, the food was tasty!

The secretary and assistant! Yi Jing and I~~ ^^ (our driver of the night! haha)

Pauline and i at secret garden with our green teas(again, lol)! haha
At Marcell's house for Rice Party! The lady who's standing is Marcell~ She's a Filipino who married to an American~ She's a friendly and nice lady who held a lot of events for the international students~

WOW southeast Asia's Style! NICCEEEEEEEE food!!!! (and nangga! wuhu~)

Hmm.. Malaysia Gang! lolx

The girls outside Marcell's house~ Featuring: Kay, Crystal, Pauline (top); MeiJing, YiJing and WaiLing(me) hahaha Malaysian gang! That's Marcell's house with over hundred years of history! what an elegant dwelling!

Dinner with alcohol?! hahaha nice drinks! (shh... i'm not 21 yet)

With papa john's pizza as our dinner! Good food~ (way better than Cafeteria for sure! haha)

Preparing dinner with Kelsey~! I love the carrots! They are so sweet! unbelivable! hahaha

Kelsey and the food~~ Macaroni with a "special"(i forgot what's that) sauce, hamburger meat and vegetables!!

my "product" for nanoscience(material science) class: cobaltous chloride +sodium meta-silicate solution... captured it since it looked really cool! haha
Preparing tangyuan/glutinous riceballs for ChapGohMei's event~~

Lovely tangyuan~~~ I was the one who purposely made those weird 1~ haha either the smallest or biggest!

Hibbard- my building for math classes~
Just a nice scene when i was walking back to my dorm~~ *snows was melting in progress*

My cert for Kappa Mu Epsilon(KME)~ ^^

Sacred Heart's Hospital which is right beside our campus..

Visitation for Zjen Thak because of his appendix... (We had our dinner at Shanghai Bistro which is right across the hospital at the night he was struck by the illness... Quite a distance for us to walk actually... lol )

Look at the street~ No more snows... hmm.. i'm kind of missing the snow now~ lolx

(were waiting for bus to get to Wal-mart)

Okay, finally completed this post! Will catch up as soon as possible! Thanks for keeping your patience! hahahhaa See ya ^^

First Week of University's Life~

To be honest, the university's life that i am experiencing now is really how it ought to be...

Life is just so busy with homeworks and activities!

Well, I'm kind of grateful of how INTI prepared us for US uni-style, (not the part that we're talking in the class/gossiping during break time, etc... hahahha) but the American's way of education..

Talking about my dorm, it just looks exactly like what you see from American's movies or series...

Fully decorated as the way it should be, and people tend to change it like home!

Okay, firstly, the hallway outside my room:

The front desk:
The model that i wanna show to you guys! THE HILL which i have to walk up and down everyday for school! My dorm is located at the upper campus, and my classes are way further than my arrow!!! It's okay to walk when the weather is nice, but definitely not during the freezing winter!!

The bear-hat look! Thanks Zer Yun! hahahhaa

Lunch with Aunty Mary at Hardee's during the one of the friday's afternoon!

The SKI trip at Coffee Mill Minnesota!

Passed by the Upper Mississippi's River!

The group! It was my first experience of Ski-ing! My hands and feet were freezing coz by the time we arrived the destination, it was already night... Couldn't believe that i made my first ski during night time! It was a great fun (especially the "special" performance of Boon How, which made me laughed the whole week! hahahhaha)... At least i learnt how to ski forward, walk and stop... Enough to go for the beginner! haha... Thanks coach! Lolx! I really enjoyed the activity!

(4 Americans, 4 Mexican, 4 Malaysian.. so coincidence!)

At the university's recreation office while waiting for our equipments to set up!

Meal after ski-ing trip! Guessed what's the food that we finished up!

The real delicious of IBU-MEE!!! WOW!!! Nice one! And one American girl actually told us that she could smell the great taste of the dishes right at the stairwell after we eaten up the mee for half-an-hour! hahaha
(coz the cafeteria was closed when we got back at 11pm, lol)

Saturday night at my host's family place with Mei Jing, Pauline and Kelsey! The cute little slippers!!!

Featuring me in the dining room!

The food! Lasagna, garlic breads and salads! NICEEEE!

And Rummy 2000 game after the dinner! (Meijing and Kelsey got to know how to play that too! hehe! it's really a fun game!)

That's all for this post! See you guys soon! haha

Orientation Week

LOL.. i know this is like weeks ago... but i still have to post it.. hahhaha
Orientation was held for 1 week before the school actually started at 25th of January, 2010.
It was funny that right when i was assigned to my orientation group and i realized that the one next to me was ZjenThak, hahaha! We were in the same group with both peer guide of Mary and Linda(from South Korea but attended international school at Malaysia before)...
Orientation wasn't that boring, it was really informative and fun!

Alright, back to pictures, since i'll do my description there, hahhaa (the time here is inverse chronological.. lolx)

The weekend(sunday) of orientation, before spring semester started:
Five of us went to the water street, coz i need to check something at the atm machines of the associated banks there... That day was super cold! And i haven't got my "warm" boots yet!
I was so worried that i would kind of "loss" my toes there! hahhahaa
I think it was snowing too! That's the first time ever since we had arrived...


Saturday: The ice-hockey game of Blugolds vs (i forgot which team)...

We had a dinner treat of KFC! NICEEEE~

The choices that we made were crispy chicken and grilled chicken!(No hot and spicy, haha) Accompanied by marsh potatoes and coleslaw! (& soft drinks from cafeteria, hahaha)

Thanks taxi driver for helping us in ordering the food and his willingness to drive-thru to KFC before dropping us at the campus.. LOLX

At the Mall... The bubble gum was hmm... extremely hard to chew at first! lolx

Anyway, Americans really like chewing gums... But good that people don't "stick" the residue as Malaysian did at everywhere... haha

Eau Claire Court or something... We passed by when we're on our way to the transfer center...

Walking all the way from campus to the transfer center~~

Chill! It was really hard to take pictures! 'coz it's too cold for you to take out your hands from the gloves and capture any pictures.. haha

The so-called coldest pedestrian bridge on the Chippewa River which connected the Haas Fine Arts Center to the lower campus~

Stepping on the dirty snows! hahaha

Pauline, me and my roommate, Kelsey!! This was taken at the Riverview Cafeteria... My roomie is very sweet and nice!!!!

Weekdays:
My dorm: Oak Ridge Hall!! (I'm kind of complaining about it as it's so far from McPhee and my academic buildings... haha.. Not when it's cold and you have to walk up the hills... I would be fine if it's not located up the hill, lol)

My peer guide of Linda and Mary~

My orientation's group! That was a Thai restaurant somewhere near downtown..

The food there is great! Tasted so much like Malaysia!!!

We walked from campus to the restaurant! It took like 20 minutes+ i guessed...

I still remembered that it was like negative 10++ degree celsius outside, i could barely feel my feet under that condition! lol

Anyway, i really enjoyed the food there! (at least the rice tasted like rice and i love the spices!!!! hahaha)

The free bowling night at hilltop center~ I played it with Pauline and Kelsey~

My wardrobe/closet?! But it's kind of different right now... hahaha

My bed is the one on top! Covered with blankets from my host family! hahha

And i am good at "extending" my legs all the way up to my bed now! That's how i climb up everyday~ XD

My room with everything settled! haha, Fridge, TV, dvd player, Microware(i finally realized how important/effective it is!), kettles, irons ++++++ (all from my roomie! hahahhaa)

Student ID and school file?!~

First experiece at Wal-mart!

My phone!!

Auntie Annes at the mall! With the same pricing in Malaysia but different currency!

I would rather go back to Malaysia and have the pretzels there! hahahhaa

On the bus to the malls~

My stuffs before i unpacked them! lolx

On the city bus!!

Well, that's all for orientation week.. I will quickly catch up everything else!!!

十九的生日礼物

enjoy my "super belated" post! hahahha


十九的生日礼物，经过了27个小时的飞行，离开了家人和朋友，我终于来到这个距离马来西亚半个地球的美国。第一次度过了人生中36个小时的生日。

从马来西亚到新加坡到日本然后明尼阿波利斯市国际机场，我和宝凌非常幸运地搭上了比我们原定那趟巴士还要早一班的巴士。过了一个半小时的路程后终于抵达威斯康星州的水清市。我的寄宿家庭的玛丽安娣已经在车站等我们。 一路上就是被厚厚的雪覆盖着的地面，当我们把行李从巴士转放到车厢的时候，手脚都快冷到发抖了，但是玛丽安娣就说这个星期其实算是暖了一点，还好我们不是上一个礼拜到这里，而且今年的气候温度也没有去年零下三十多度那么差。

我的在这里的“家”坐落在水清市的郊区。房子的四周围都被树林覆盖，每间屋子都和邻居有一小段的距离。一进到屋里，玛丽安娣就带我们四处看看她的家。我选择了住在粉红色的“公主”房，而宝凌则住在了另一间青色的房间。由于宝凌的寄宿家庭在我们到达的这两天出差了，所以她便暂时跟我一起住。真好，至少来到一个完全陌生的国度还有朋友能跟我一起庆祝生日。

玛丽安娣见我们那么劳累，于是便让我们在冲凉后小休了一会。晚上就是我的“生日派对”了。Uncle Ray上班回来了。我在美国的第一顿晚餐加生日大餐就是homemade皮萨和在镇上买来的pie当甜品。真的好好吃哦！我真的觉得好感动，以来到这里就有“家”的感觉。由于玛丽安娣和uncle Ray的孩子都长大了也不住在水清市，所以家里平时就只有他们两夫妻。而我的生日礼物就是一幅温暖的“美国”被。除此之外，他们还准备了“欢迎”我们到来的礼物，也就是能够保暖的米布包。

吃完晚饭后我们就到了处在地下室的家庭厅。玛丽安娣和uncle Ray教了我们如何玩他们家的牌游戏：ＲＵＭＭＹ２０００。这是一个我从来没有玩过的游戏，基本上就是有一些规矩，你能够拿牌放牌然后积分到２０００的人算是赢家。最有挑战性的一点是，每一局都赢得人未必会是最后的赢家，而且领先的人也许也会因为负数而被拖垮。这个游戏还蛮好玩的，而且还会慢慢上瘾呢！哈哈！

第二天早上，吃完早餐以后玛丽安娣就带我们到学校绕了一圈，大略的介绍了水清市。然后我们就到了玛丽安娣义务工作的ＣｈｉｐｐｅｗａＶａｌｌｅｙ博物馆去参观和了解这里的历史和风土人情。我们在里面呆了一个小时多，离开之前玛丽安娣还请了我们吃冰淇淋呢！

由于是星期六的晚上，Ｕncle Ray　的两个姐姐到了我们的“家”来做客。吃了一顿有米饭的晚餐，搭配沙拉和意大利式煮的鸡。晚餐后，我们六个人就继续了昨天的牌游戏。原来这真的是我的寄宿家庭的游戏，因为基本上每一个家庭成员都会玩，不怪的他们在我们来到的第一个晚上就教会我们了。

星期天，宝凌的寄宿家庭终于回来了，也代表我们就要分开几天了。这天的早午餐（brunch）真的很丰富，有英式ｍｕｆｆｉｎ和ｓａｕｓａｇｅ还有ｐａｎｃａｋｅ和牛奶。ｐａｎｃａｋｅ还搭配了玛丽安娣和uncle Ray的朋友送的枫树糖浆。据说是他们亲手去采集的。真的很好吃！

由于uncle Ray忙于在车库里翻新夏天要用的机器，于是aunty mary便带我到了Savers去逛逛。这个卖场里卖的东西都很便宜，大部分都是别人再卖的二手衣物。逛完Savers后，时间还不晚，于是aunty mary便提议去到ChippewaFall（距离水清市差不多半小时路程的一个市镇）去参观这里很有名的啤酒厂-Leinenkugel。本想着能够进到酒厂里面参观的，奈何我们到达的时间刚好错过了最后一班观光团。于是我们便在酒厂设于河边的专卖店免费试喝了这里的啤酒。由于我还不到喝酒的合适年龄，（威斯康星州的合法饮酒年龄是二十一岁以上），所以我被分到一杯新鲜的rootbeer！味道还真不赖。这里的人多数都是和这个牌子的啤酒，一来价钱比较便宜，二来是这里的特产和历史文化。这间啤酒厂算是这一带最古老的商业了。

晚上，uncle ray有个“小”秘密，那就是他是电视剧《绝望的主妇-desperate housewives》的忠实观众，他的孩子们都知道八点这个时间是不用打电话到家里的，因为他肯定会在这个时间段留守在电视前，哈哈。
一月十八日是马丁路德金普日（Dr Martin Luther King’s Day），晚上在大学的教堂有关于马丁路德金普的纪念活动，我的寄宿家庭已经和宝凌的寄宿家庭说好了要一起去。活动在旁晚开始，大约一个小时里有人唱歌，也有人演讲关于马丁路德金普的事迹。活动后，我们便相约在水街（water street）的Dooley’s Pub吃晚餐。

check out my facebook for more photos.. i did put on caption there~~