离别

我最讨厌就是离别。

这四个月的学期终于结束了，是时候回大马。唉，感觉真的很依依不舍。

很不舍得这里刚认识的朋友。

昨天，一次过送了三个朋友。早晨，在护送一个蛮好的中国女性朋友时，眼泪突然就流了下来。心想：这个学期可真短，刚刚认识不久，有要离别了。也觉得不会再见面了，心里很不是滋味。我真的很讨厌离别。。。。

我这个朋友，名叫冯婷，人格很好，不计较，爱帮助别人，但是偶尔也很自恋 （因为自信心太高了，哈哈）而且还很乐观。真伤心，我跟她相处的时间不长。 :( 这么快又要道别了。

我和几个朋友去送她，大家都泪流满面。除非有缘分，不然是不会再见面的。。 :( 希望她能够幸福，开心得过每天。

今天，轮到我离开Midland了，往Florida 飞去。临走之前，我拥抱了每一个朋友，眼泪又再一次地流下。我真的很不舍得啊！！

我很感谢载我到机场的中国朋友，冠攸。谢谢你！他是个成熟，不计较的朋友。我觉得我和他的性格还蛮像的。所以，感觉跟他也特别好。在临走前，我这个爱哭包竟忘了给他钱。== 感觉上我欠了他，因为他帮了我很多次忙，我却没有机会请他 ==

只能默默地祝他能心想事成，能再次来美国读Master! :)

往往在离开的那一时刻，脑海里就会想回在这里度过的每个时光与回忆。 （看戏看太多了==）坐在飞机上，望着一望无际的天空，眼泪又再次在我的眼睛里翻滚。我会永远记得这里的一切的。再见，Midland。:')

朋友，保重!

飞机将飞往Florida -  我的第三个目的地 。

 迪士尼乐园，美丽的沙滩，环球影城 （Universal Studio).. 我来的！！！在回到大马之前，一定要尽情地玩！！玩个够！！

To continue... Florida Trip :)

End of semester

Finally, I finished the final exam in Northwood University.
Final exam in United State is much more easier compared to Malaysia. In Malaysia, we are considered book smart and we are required to memorize every single thing in the books and vomit it out during the exam. However in United State, the exam is different. Some lecturers will post the question thru online and we just need to write answer and submit it. Besides, although the assignment and homework are more than in Malaysia, it is easier to score if you put a lot of effort in it. The professor will give full marks if they think you deserve it. Not like Malaysia, you will never get 100 marks in any assignment.

This week is my last week study and stay in Northwood University. I moved out everything from my room. On Thursday, my friend came over my house and help me to pack my luggage. After I checked out from my room, I am reluctant to leave South Village, which had been my house for 4 months.

Byeeeee~ :'(

Bye my housing area :P

When you want to leave a place, you will definitely flash back of things that you had done and you will miss everything here -  Friends, life, experience and fun. Studying in United State is just less than 5 months, but you will gain knowledge and experience where your thinking will be more mature. After I came here, I increase my interpersonal communication skill as we are far from our own country and we need to compromise and make friends. Friends are the one who we relies on when we face any problem. 

I understand my strength and weakness much more better after I came here. 

Memoriesssssssss....

I really miss you guys. Let's drop down every single things that had happened in this few days.

And let the memories treasured deep inside my heart.

Photo that I took when I had a short walk with Navina during spring.

My MIT groupmate :)

 Friends from China. 

Really glad and happy to meet you.

Hope can meet u guys next time.

These are the crazy moment that I been through with my friend.

She is a very funny and playful girl. 

She will be staying in US but I will be leaving.

I hope we can meet each other back to Malaysia.

=)

 Bye. Crystal. 

I will miss you.

♥

10/5/14

Today is the graduation day in Northwood University.
Congratz to all my friends that graduate on that day.

 I am so excited when the graduates taking their certificates from the stage.
Awwww... I wish I can graduate too!! I still have 1 more year to go.
1 MORE YEAR!!!!
AHHHHHHHHH.. I will still stuck in the college in Malaysia for 1 more year
T________________T

while waiting for the ceremony to start.

She is navina, My roommate.

A very hot-tempered and straight forward girl.

But, she is a quite smart person but lazy =.=

I will miss her too.

HELLOOOO : )

End of graduation ceremony

Picture time

She is Crystal kimball and her boyfriends :)

Congratz Crystal ^^

my Buddy!!!

Congratz to you. And I will definitely miss you.

♥

Crystal chen chen!

congratz ♥

He is Guan You.

Bt I normally call him you you. HAHA

super gentlemen guy and also good in fashion.

Everytime when I want to buy some stuffs, I will ask for his opinion

Will miss you too!

All the best to u in your future

The guy that wearing spec is JIA DAI.

He is a super funny guy!

HAHAHA I will miss your playful face and jokes!

Walk around my University before I left.
Northwood....
BYE!

♥

Presentation :)

28/4/14

Well, today is my first presentation in United State. (ps: Did you notice something? =.= my coat is super big size. HEHE.. actually I borrowed it from a guy friend =.=)

The presentation is about business plan of a cafe. We named our coffee shop as Coffee Lab (idea from Burger Lab). In our business plan, we try to bring a new concept of the coffee to the US citizen, which is the 3D artwork coffee. 

We dressed like a profession and talk like a profession during our presentation. However, I still think that I need to increase my presentation skill! :P

I was presenting in front of the class and I was the one who introduce the whole thing.

Group photo after presentation :)

To say the truth, this leadership class is not easy to score. So far, the highest mark I got in my homework is 90 out of 100. I heard most of my friend say that it is impossible to get marks that higher than 90. So, if you get 90, you are consider very lucky. hmmm
I really hope that I can get A- in this subject. Pleaseee!!!!  And I hope I can get a president list back to Malaysia too.

One good thing about this class is that I learn how to do a business plan. The whole business plan includes a lot of section, such as marketing, products and services, location, operational plan and the hardest part - financial part.

We need to imagine that we are going to open a real cafe, and we need to think of the plan, our goal and objective. It's a very interesting subject. However, it's just hard to score.

After our presentation, I took a photo with my professor. Thanks Professor for this semester ^^

My group mate :)

What to do after the presentation?

We went to Fujisushi for our lunch. AWWwwww... SUSHI!!! 

I am craving for it :D

HAHA!! sorry. I am too happy. 

I ordered too much of sushi to eat xD

YUM YUM :D

30/4/14

Today, I had another presentation on Glo-bus, which is a competition among the classmate where we need to figure out strategy to win against each other. 

I volunteered myself in my team to present as I wanna try to give myself a try. This will be my last time presentation in United State, so I told myself that I need to give myself a chance to try. Never try never know.

The day before the presentation, I practice more than 20 times as English is not my first language. American can give a good presentation. So, why can't I do? I believe that putting effort on something and we will get the good result.

During the presentation, I did not feel nervous and scare. I looked at the audience, took a long breathe and started my presentation by greeting them confidently. When I present, I tried to have eyes contact with everyone and I saw my professor keep nodding her head.

Although I present confidently, however, I speak very fast. @@

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Anyways, after I presented, the professor praised me "Good job"

Before I went out the classroom, she say something that make me almost fly to the heaven xD

She said...

 “Good Job. I love your presentation. You are one of my favorite presenter of the day. I know English is not your first language but I can see your effort in this presentation.You try to speak and you even have eye contact with everyone. This is very good."

Well, words can't describe my happiness. :)

I am praised by a professor. Besides, I was happy because I put sweat and tears inside the presentation and I deserve the results. T^T

Thank you, my professor T_____T

During the practice time, I hoped that I can give up and ask other teammate to present about it. However, I told myself that, "This will be the last presentation. Just do it. Don't give up. Let other people know that Chinese from Malaysia can present too!" After that, I keep practice and practice. (ps : sorry my roommate, I had tortured your ears for 1 night :P) and Finallyyy I DID it! yahooo ^^

After my presentation, I thanks my professor for teaching me this whole semester. Glad to have her as professor. :D

My professor with me ^^

I will miss the professor here.

 : D

Dinner with host family :3

Did I mention before I have a host family in United State?
Well, few months ago, I joined International friend, and there is where I met my host family.
My host parent are Deb and Mike.I went to their house once for dinner. They also brought me to their daughter's musical concert too. They are very friendly and lovely parents.

Last Saturday, they invited me to their house again for dinner. WeeeEEee.. We did not meet up since the last spring break. They invited me twice before few weeks ago, however I could not make it as I have a lot of assignment and I went to Chicago during the Easter Day.

Mike grilled the chicken for me last Saturday. We had a lot of talk while we eating. I told them about my trip and Chicago and feedback about US.
After dinner, they treat me eat cheesecake!!! OMGG!! cheesecake!!!!! ^^

Four favors of the cheesecake :D

YUM YUM

 Around 8pm, Deb brought me to Dow Garden before she sent me home. I did not expect about this trip. Thus, I just wear 1 shirt with a jacket to go to their house. Deb borrowed a coat for me. However, the weather is still very cold. The wind was icing cold. :(

Here are some of the photos I took in Dow Garden. :)

Me and Deb :)

The scenery took my breathe away!

It is a really nice park! There is a pond, grass, trees, flowers, birds...

Besides, I saw a hare jumping inside the park too! ^^

I love this place. But, there is not much flowers blooming yet as the weather is still cold.

 Next, Deb brought me to one of the "must go" place in Midland.
Tridge is one of the landmark in downtown Midland. Its name actually came from " Tri Bridge" which there are three bridges joining together.

I just took the photos far from the car as it is too cold to go outside. :(

(ps: now is 8.15pm. The sky is still bright o.o )

After visiting all these places, she brought me back to Woodland Apartment. 

I am very glad to have a nice and friendly host parent. Thanks a lot, Deb and Mike.

There is still 2 more weeks before I leave Midland. :( I will definitely miss you.

Thank you for everything, Deb and Mike.

I hope we can meet up again before I leave. :'(

♥

Chicago :)

During the Good Friday holiday, my roommate, Navina and I went to Chicago for 4 days 3 nights vacation.

(Shhh... Actually we skipped 1 day class :P)

On April 17, we took 7.35am Amtrak train from Flint to Chicago. (ps : Thx to Navina's bf for waking up at 5am just to send us to Flint Train Station). We took around 5 hours to Chicago. OMG. It's really a long journey and my ass are freaking bad and pain sitting for 5 hours without moving.

Photo that we took in train. (she is my roommate, Navina)

Around 11.45am (Chicago's time) we reached Chicago's Union Station. :)
We are so tired as we just slept for 4 hours only. :'(

This is the Chicago's Union Station :)

We stay in one of the American's house who rent their house or room just for the traveler. (more information please search airbnb). 

We stay in this house. Don't be shock. We are just staying at the first floor. 

The owner allows us to use his kitchen and everything. So, it is super convenient and nice.

We are super hungry when we got here. After settled everything in our "new home", we walked around the housing area to search for food. 

Finally, we found a restaurant selling Ukrainian's food and the food is super yummy.

I forgot the name of this dish. But, it is beef with mash potato. It really taste nice!

After our lunch, we take public bus to the city. Public transport is very convenient in Chicago. If you plan to travel to Chicago, you can choose not to drive, cause the public transport can send you to the destination. Compared to Los Angeles, the transportation in Chicago is more convenient.

Here we are, Downtown of the Chicago. :) Chicago is full of tall buildings.

Day 1 -  We plan to visit John Hancock Center, which also known as 360 Chicago. This is the place where we can observe the whole Chicago City in 360 Degree. The entrance fee is $28. This is a MUST GO place in Chicago as the scenery is really very nice.

Photos of the city that I took while in the 360 Chicago. The scenery took my breathe away.

Although Chicago is a city, but it also located at the lakeside. 

This Michigan Lake was so huge that we can't even see the end of the lake.

 We never failed to take a selfie before we leave. 

(please forget about my panda eyes. cz I just slept 4 hours only )

 Next station will be the cheesecake factory. OMG!! Cheesecake is one of my favorite cake! We plan to have cheesecake as our tea time.

Here we are, Cheesecake Factory.

The whole design of the restaurant is like a cheese. <3 p="">

 We ordered this milkshakes and we are so shock as we didn't expect it came out to be so big.

Key Lime Cheesecake

30th Anniversary Chocolate Cheesecake

We are so excited to have cheesecake in US as we didn't eat cheesecake for 3 months. ==

However, I don't recommend Key Lime Cheesecake as it is very sour. Navina and I can't even take it and we just eat half of it. 

Around 6pm we went back to our room and rest. At first, we planed to take a nap and woke up at 9pm to have our dinner.

However, we are too tired that we slept for the whole night until the next morning. LOL

Day 2

We can't start our journey without a proper breakfast. So, before we went to the city, we had our breakfast at one of the coffee shop.

Scones with a cup of mocha.

Aww.. it boost up my mood ♥

Mocha ♥

 Day 2 plans are Lincoln Park Zoo, Millennium Park and SkyDeck
Let's start our journey by taking the bus again. :D

Selfie again while waiting for the bus. :)

The weather is super cold although it is a sunny day. :(

Here is the Lincoln Park Zoo. The entrance is free. So, you can pay a visit anytime you want. There are a lot of animals in the zoo.

I just uploaded some of the animal photos only. HAHA. It's really a great place to visit especially with kids.

 After visiting the zoo, we walked around the Lincoln Park. The scenery is super nice.

It is a sunny day, but I still need to wear a coat :(

 Next destination is the Millennium Park. The bean, which is the famous architecture, is located in this park.

Cloud Gate, also known as The Bean.

This bean is so famous as it can reflect the whole city. 

Can you see the reflection of the city?

Crown Fountain, which located in Millennium Park too.

This fountain is famous as there is a face reflected on the fountain.

 Chicago is full of artistic structure. The following photos show the statues in Grant Park.

Art Museum.

We came all the way to see Buttingham fountain, but ended up no water. =.=

So disappointed.

We didn't forget to grab some popcorn from Garrett popcorn shop. We tried the Chicago mix, which consist of Cheese popcorn and caramel popcorn.

At 6pm we took bus to Willis Tower, which the SkyDeck was located. SkyDeck is very popular as it is 103 floor and we can see the city through the transparent floor.

We waited almost 1 hour for our turn to the skydeck.

SEEE!!!! The city is just below my butt!!

HAHAHA

Night scene of Chicago.

At night, we take a To-Go order as our dinner from one of the famous sushi restaurant near our house.

AWWW Sushi... ♥ I miss you so much

Aged Toufu with 5 rolls of sushi :D

♥

Day 3

Today we are going to outlet store in Chicago.

WEEEEEEeeEEE

OOTD : D

I didn't take photo in the outlet as I am too busy shopping around there. :P Paiseh. However it is a very good place to shop. ^^

 Here's my catches from today ^^

I am so satisfied and happy

 Next, we will be heading to city again ^^

One special thing about Chicago is, there is an underground shop. ^^

It's cool

 My first try of the frozen yogurt ^^

YEAHHH Chicago!!! ^^

It's dinner time. We went to a popular pizza restaurant to kill our hunger. Giordano, which is super famous and a lot of poeple. We waited one and a half hour just to get our table.

We ordered Lasagna and it taste really good! ♥

 This is the deep crust pizza. It is very special as its crust is so thick

Yum yum :9

 After our dinner, we went to the navy pier. The night scene of the navy pier is super nice. However, it is too cold that my fingers are almost frozen. =.=

Navy pier

Let's try the flying swing! ^^

Ready to fly!!!

It's is fun, but the wind is so cold and strong. ==

My hairband almost fly off ==

 YAY!!! 

That's all for Day 3. :)

Day 4 - Chinatown
Well, we woke up very early and take train to the Chinatown just to eat the Dim Sum.

 Selfie while waiting for train ^^

Here we are, Chinatown. We tried the Dim Sum from Cai restaurant ^^. 

Most of the people in Chinatown speak Cantonese. HAHA. So, we didn't face any problem communicate with them

This is the restaurant where we had our Dim Sum.

^^

Aww... Long time didn't drink Chinese Tea :)

Dim Sum that we ordered ^^

The Dim Sum here is very nice with reasonable price. One plate of Dim Sum is around $3.00 to $4.00

Yum Yum

♥

We walked and shopped around the Chinatown to buy some Asians food.

I was so shock that they even sell seafood here.

And we managed to buy peanuts and lotus root. ^^

HEHE I plan to make a lotus root soup when I go back to Michigan.

:p

Before we leave Chinatown, we went to one of the famous Hong Kong restaurant to drink its bubble tea.

^^

I miss bubble tea so much.

After visiting Chinatown, we went back to our room to pack our stuff. Haiz. Time to go back home. T.T

Photo taken when waiting for the train to come.

Anyways, Chicago is a very nice place to travel. I love the structure and building here. The breathtaking city view make me reluctant to leave Chicago. If I have time and money, I definitely will pay a visit to Chicago again.  There are so much food that I haven't try yet.. 

Aww.. 

Now I need to back to my University Life that full of assignments and homework again :(