Fall 2010

Trying to remember what I've done in Fall 2010 is such a difficult task.. In a sense that I had been living to the real FULLEST...

Well, let's do a quick review:
18 full credits, tutoring, preparation for professional exam, mathematic research, IS research, Actuarial Club, Malaysian Abroad Diversified (MAD), working...

Life was so busy that I don't feel like I have enough of 24 hours per day. It's like once I have somehow done with my job loads, it's already time for bed. I was really exhausted and life was so full that i'm glad i've been through it and i'm still alive enjoying every moment of it. It was wonderful.

I was so depressed at one time but it made me realized what's really about life. I'm just me after all. But way stronger, tougher and hopefully prettier, haha. Obstacles are things that we have to face. Life isn't that interesting when you don't have the opportunity to be able to get through all these matters regardless how bad or how wonderful they are. Failure, so what? If i could step over it and keeping my faith. I was once beaten down, badly. I knew. Yet, i'm not giving up. Not this easy. I will stand up and prove it. Not to the world, but myself.

Alright, i'm gonna write a summary now, for those events that had been taken place for the last few months. (for things that i still remember, lol XD)

- Been to Travelers' Actuarial Case Competition for 2010 Program at St. Paul, Minnesota with 5 other American coursemates (we're in a team representing the university). We're staying at Hilton Garden Inn hotel. Guess what, the case of the competition was about expanding Travelers insurance company in other nations other than US, Canada and UK. We're given 4 countries for selection. Malaysia was on the list! and we chose it. I think our team did a great job, and i'm pleased that i did contribute to the team. To be honest, i was so afraid that i'm gonna bring down the team before the competition. Kris (our professor) and our team thought that we're gonna win after our presentation. (at least we have certain level of confidence on that, lol) However, i think we're the second or so, 'coz only the first place was announced and it wasn't us. Anyway, it was a great experience after all. Haha.

- Went for job/internship interview with Humana and Travelers. Been to RA interview for KT hall too. I should say, worthwhile experience. LOL.

- Tutored two 10th grade students and one 7th grade student on their Maths subject. It was fun and well-paid! haha.. Was working as security in the dorm. It was so chilly as i have to stay for 3 hours at the lobby. Anyway, it was a nice job and i could do my own works and earn money at the same time! hahahah

- Finally got my Wisconsin driver license after failing once due to "Dangerous Act". XP. My score for the first time was a passing score, yet, DA was the one that failed me as i violated the rule at the junctions. LOL.

- Boon Han visited us in Eau Claire all the way from Nebraska during their spring break! It was awesome hanging out with old friends! haha

- Went down to Madison for Halloween Freak Fest. It was a crazy night and i was impressed by people who wore just a set of bikini under that freaking cold weather. Haha. Everyone was dressed up amazingly and whole State street was filled with people and great live music performance. Met up with Kathy, Vinod and Fernie there.

- Thanksgiving break: wasn't able to celebrate that with host family as Aunt Mary and Uncle Ray both visited their daughter at St. Louis. We went to Albertville Premium Outlet during Black Fridays sales. The sales and markdowns were insane! We got ourselves lots of good deals! I still couldn't believe how crazy it was when we lined up outside Coach outlet for 4 hours (I only stood there for 2 hours) under a negative fourteen degree celsius with strong winds! Most of the shops open at 10pm, but some (such as Coach) open at 12 midnight. We shopped from 10pm to 5am and then continue shopping at Mall of America until we have our lunch at hong kong noodle near U of M in the afternoon. That was EXTREMELY exhausting! I swear! Anyway, it was a blast for bumping into a lot of INTI friends at the outlet. Xiao Wei, Juliet, Boon Han, Joshan, Yan Ming, John, Fernie and a lot more... Some that we haven't meet for like a year or so, all the way from iowa and nebraska! haha XD We have say, we're nearer to Albertville okay? It's like an hour and half to 2 hours drive from here.

- Classes! Classes were not easy. I've been putting so much hard work. Got more than 100% for my P exam class; A for IS class; A for Finance class; A for the hardest math class ever, MFE class. MFE class was so challenging, the theory part was really FASCINATING, i'm so glad that i got it done with the just-nice score which gave me an A. haha. Yet, stupid english professor gave me a stupid grade out of no where for my english course and that hurted me, dang!

- Fell sick! Real sicked. That was during the finals week. I woke up at 7am on a tuesday which i was supposed to have my Math 470 (MFE class) finals at 1pm. I puked for several times and was having a bad diarrhea. Luckily Kelsey was here to look after me. Kelsey helped me to notify my professor about my situation and he was so nice to let me postpone my exam to whenever that i feel better. I kept resting in the room. I thought i would be better off in the afternoon, but thing got worse. Pauline came and look after me in the evening. I was sent to Sacred Heart Hospital by Zjen Thak and Pauline at night. I think i got a stomach flu or something. I stayed in the hospital from 9pm till 2am. Thanks so much for Pauline and Kelsey for accompanying me there the whole night. I was so thrilled! Ohya, i got 3 pokes by the nurses as they couldn't find my veins for IV. hmmm... Here goes my insurance medical claim. I havent receive my bill yet. haha

*Alright, i'll keep writing if i could think of more. Let's stop here for now. Haha XD.

~Enjoy my facebook update of pictures, there're more of my life there!~

Summer in Malaysia (Part 2)

Backed in the US, summarizing my great summer days back home =)

Congratulation for Zer Yun's diploma graduation at Nilai University College...
Finally got to visit their campus! & got to "hang out" at Mun's dorm room.. haha XD

Went to school with Yuan at IMU, haha that was fun =)

Wuuu, had korean lunch with my parents, niceeeeee =)

I think i seriously gained weight after spending 3 months back home, i tried to eat everything i could, so that i wouldn't be yearning or craving for them that much after this... lol

Dim sum brunch on another sunday morning too =) wuahhhhhh~

Extremely delicious curry chicken by mom!! super yummmmmmy!!!

Sakae sushi dinner with dad after his works and my self-study, haha... Mom went to a relative's open house with aunts...

Family's event at Mantin -> Seremban after i went to Nilai for Yun's graduation... Dad and mom spent quite "some" time to find me though.. hahaha

With cousins... ^^

Study "snacks + meal" with Yenloo~ hehe =D tako-yaki and snowflakes

We both gotta do better!! =) Do our very best!! We surely could "conquer" actuarial professional exams! Gambateh!!

Corgi boy.. It got into an accident by chasing after vehicles everytime...
We didn't realize that the door was opened and corgi was not in the living room with us.

We're so nervous and worried. We sent it to the animal medical centre and it had been hospitalized for 1 week.

Poor corgi boy is going to have one shorter leg in the future, but we're really grateful that it didn't have major injuries on other parts of its body...

And well, it regained its hyperactive status now.. So no worry =) hehe

I-city trip with BTG! So glad that the whole Bestest gang made it too =)

Thai-styled and/or western dinner at PJ before leaving to Shah Alam.. with Yuan's cute birthday present (purse) =)

Zimui at I-city~ muacksss ^.^

Guysssssss =) hehe

Acting!! fun pose =D

My farewell party~ was not planning to do one until LiJin and Vone telling me about that.. lol
ChuKean and i were trying to act like the 2 cute tigers above! haha

We had nice combination of food that night =) domino's pizza + beverages (both homemade, sparkling juice and others) + cakes from secret recipe and breadstory + snacks that LiJin brought to my house, haha

Thanks people =) Stay awesome!!

Backed to Sekinchan for the weekend =) Thanks cousin brother Kui Onn for capturing those gorgeous pictures!!

Me~~~ =)

The reflection~!

Rushed to LeeHom's new album event at 1U after coming back from Sekinchan...

With 2 purposes: shopping with Vone and seeing LeeHom..

I drove there at 6.10pm (the event should be started at 6), and reached there (very smoothly) at 6.30pm.. Was wondering where's the venue of the event... Yet, by the time we walked out of the parking slots, we heard the host saying "welcome to lee hom's event".. LOL, right by the time!! haha =D

We didn't really queue up for the autograph session, we went to shopping instead... And then we're being too obedient by not waiting for the line when the host said the event was gonna end soon since lee hom gotta catch his flight back to Taiwan soon... (i was about to still stand there for signature but the security was really "fierce", lol)

PuiSun who had been waiting down the sun from 3pm onwards didn't manage to get the signature too.. she "escaped" from the line as she almost fainted after lee hom sang...

Sad case, i hope he could sing more than one song... not worth my trip there.. haha...

and i saw from facebook page that he actually managed to sign everybody (when most of us were gone)... shoot.. i would rather he went to catch his flight right after the host announcement.. he's way too kind.. haihzz....

Kampar trip! I finally made it after so long =D wahahahaha... Went there with Vone and Yun by ktm...

Met up with Chia Wang(ah miao)~!

Curry Chicken in the bun!! Tasty!! Yummmmy~! and the fresh vege + noodles at the big restaurant!!

Kampar ~~

We spent more than 5 hours in travelling, yet we only hung around for like 4 hours in Kampar.. hahaha... it was still a nice trip!! =) good view, good food, good friends.. keke

Summer in Malaysia

Spending summer break back home is a total enjoyment, i would say... =)
Life goes on when the humidity stays constant, LOL XD...

Things that i had done in these 2 months were:
~spending time with family and relatives
~summer class (bio 121 at Inti, -.-" to fulfil my science subjects requirement)
~hanging out with friends of new classmates (my juniors?! haha =P), "old" college buddies who came back from different states of the US
~yamcha and badminton session with biantaigang (mostly guys, and we're so "fortunate" to see Dato Lee Chong Wei and Wong Mew Choo playing at the badminton court/stadium near my house)
~and last but not least having great pleasure time with the bestest gang!

Okie, let the pictures tell the stories now then =) haha

19th of June: the 5 ikhlas gathering.. kinda like a different version of yumcha activity.. haha, anyway it's sweet to have us together =)

9th of July: Karaoke session at Redbox, The Gardens, with buffet... Glad that we all made it =)
Well, we're posing as somekind of movie promotional poster or something, hahahha XP

There's movie session at mid valley before karaoke too, 4 of us(Xiu Heng, Chong Yew, Huey Yuan and i) who went there together watched with a bunch of "Edward-and-Jacob-fans" at the following row... we're seriously annoyed by their screaming and cheering when the characters appeared.. yet, that was quite fun though, hahahha

What a good time spent for so-called study break! Great outting!!

Ooooh, our feet!! and shoes!! haha.. Knew what, Chong Yew dare not to stand by me whenever i wear any heels! LOL

The 4-gorgeous girls in the bestest gang! haha.. My beloved zimui~~~~! muacks

Wuuu, we met Zer Yun at there, and thanks for capturing the "family" picture for us ya =) hehehehe.. and the cakes were delicious though! hehe

Okay, i admit, i was paying attention to the camera! hahhahahaha, but hubby, you're too charming for me to look at, that's why, hahahhahahhahahhahah

16th of July: Bio finals.. from left, me, rhae yaenn(vanessa) and Michelle... my classmates for bio... (arh, we should have taken a class photo with all the classmates!! lol) Well, my classmates were all pretty sweet and funny! haha but i wasn't really like the lecturer at first, kinda not used to the usual way of a Malaysian lecturer... Anyway, time passed, and i got adapted/switched to the right channel again after a while, hahaha...

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The lecturer taught us in a way more to A-levels since he was from A-levels department, we had a lot of tedious in-class assignments, but luckily we could just copy answers from seniors' notes for a large part of it... At the end, our finals was so much easier than all the exercises we did before, lolx..

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And i just got my result today, an A+ =) lol.. i was only aiming for an A actually.. grateful.. haha

After finals and lunch with Carmen and JinYing, Pauline and i went to sunway pyramid to meet up with some old college buddies!
My dear YenLoo, we have so much stuffs to do together! Don't forget~! hahahaha

YenLoo, Pauline, Raymond, me, XiaoWei and her bf Choon Shein~! Arh, miss them so much~! hahaha, glad that we still met up! hhehe

The First-sem-people! Random pictures, but fun! haha

And i finally met and chatted with Pauline's mom and sister after 6 months, got to see her little nephew too! =)

23th of July: had a "feminine" afternoon of shopping, food, boutique, cosmetics, facial and desserts with zimui Huey Yuan, LOL... That was a real fun and interesting day~! hahaha

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We're so random and kinda out of plans but still lived with the plans, hahahhaha!! perplexed~
That was the dessert at the Fusion Restaurant after our korean kemuchi rice/spaghetti (hmm, i'm not sure if i got all the names and titles right, i didn't take note about that, ahhaha)...

After trying-to-find-presents for Kah Mun at Parkson OUG, changing battery for Yuan's sister watch and having chinese cookies at Central OUG, loitering in a boutique nearby, shopping at cosmetics stores and isetan for Mun's birthday present of Shiseido Loose Powder, having facial at De Fennel, Desa Petaling, back for "hi-tea" at Sweet Bean, Saujana... We finally ended our long schedule in 5 hours! haha XD

24th of July: Went back to highschool for Chinese Society's singing competition and Mun's little celebration after that...

Had a very traditional-styled Panmee at Desa Petaling, well, that really tasted gooooood! haha
We had real fun chit-chatting during the event though...

And yeah, we watched at MBO, S*Park/Spark (If you know what i meant, lol) as Mun needed to do a new pair of specs there.. That was an awesome movie!!

Finally, my doggie Corgi Boy.. Well, it doesn't respond to the name Corgi but Boy... so frustrating now.. I wonder if i have to call it old man when it grows old... LOL XD

Well, it's so damn cute, but please, stop biting that much! I'm not in favor of that at all! hahhaha

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1. 15th of july~ spent an afternoon with my cousin brother, Eddie Lim... We're having a little "yumcha" session.. I think people must seen us as a couple though.. it's just kinda weird to stay like that with a cousin brother who is one year older than me like that.. haha, but yet, we spent a good time updating each other's life =)

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2. One of the wednesday in late-June/early-July, Chong Yew, Xiu Heng, Huey Yuan and i met up in Sunway Pyramid... Yew and i were the early bird since i rushed there right after my lab which ended at 10am... We hung around and got a piece of dress for Yew's girlfriend while waiting for the other two to arrive... After that we sang karaoke at Amp square karaoke, that was terribly hilarious when we sang the song in korean language but chinese pinyin character, oh my godness, that was super funny... something like 收礼收礼,小丽小丽,狗吃...... We burst into great laughters and couldn't control ourselves throughout the song, LOL

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20/7 - Pasar Malam with one of my primary school best friend WenKi at Seri Petaling.. She just got back from ShangHai.. It's just good for us to have a gathering like that since we both got back to Malaysia for summer, haha...

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21/7 - Connaught Pasar Malam with April, Maychong and Raymond! We walked through the whole Pasar Malam... Luckily that we still got to chat while we're walking.. hahhaa... Had some nice foods, and "sharing was caring", hahahaha! Thanks April for picking me up from my house!! Thanks Raymond for missing the junction at Bandar Tasik Selatan and turned out sending me home!! Thanks Maychong for being the lovely sister as always =) hahahhahhaha

Memoirs of Geisha Event

Date: 11th of June - 12th of June 2010
Venue: INTI Genting
People: Bian Tai Gang!! XD (except An Cherng who bailed out at the last minute, hmmm)

We're invited by Ah Kian (the "spirit" leader of the gang, LOL)...
It was just nice that all of us could make it and had a little gathering..
The first time we spent at Genting which did not include the highland but only the hill, haha =P

And we all stayed in just one room of Hotel Seri Malaysia (if not mistaken, i don't remember the name of the hotel though.. hehe)...
With 6 girls squeezed on 2 single beds, haha..
That was fun and kinda "relaxing" with the "so-called-whole-body-massage" we experienced by rolling... arhahahahahhaa...

Well, though the event wasn't that convincing, but we did enjoy ourselves very much and we were just simply AWESOME with AWESOME people, the AWESOME gang! hahahah XD

FOOD!!! prepared by the hotel management students =)

The normal girls before "transformation"! haha

Here we are! Gorgeous ladies! hehe (well, i looked like evil witch and yun was the bride.. hehe)

the guys! with handsome looks?! lolx

The entrance ticket... with our japanese names indicated on it...

The gang!!! =)

Funny guys.. with Ah Kian the kitchen man at the back, lolx

After clubbing?! LOL XP

Happy Birthday to PuiSun with the "tiny-paper-girls" candles and roti planta or something, haha =) Sweet girl~!!

Arha... the "four flowers"... hahahahhahaha



That was a wonderful night, cheers!!!