第一天，第一晚

真的很久沒有用中文寫文章了，感覺都生疏了，果然一種語言的使用頻率對於該語言文字的應用是有很大的影響的。

今年的寒假我去了德國，目的顯而易見的是為了與男友相見，共度耶誕及新年佳期，當然也是順道造訪我老早就想去的歐洲。這趟旅行，是我極度沒有規劃，完全自由行動的一次，卻是最最開心滿足的一次。我除了訂了機票，買了德國高鐵週遊券，買了一本關於慕尼黑的旅遊書，其他什麼都沒計劃，因為不能確定男友的休假時間。於是在出發時，我對於在德國到底要做些什麼，看些什麼，玩些什麼，買些什麼，完全沒概念，心裡只想著：我可以依賴男友吧！

經過14個小時長途飛行加轉機，我抵達慕尼黑機場第一件驚嚇的事情就是我的行李沒跟我一起來！白話文就是：我的行李掉啦！我急得快哭了，一個人在機場，又不知道那個該死的公共電話要怎麼用，手機也不能用，本想趕快先跟男友說「我到了」的好心情早已完全被破壞了，加上這趟飛機不是很平穩，我在飛機上頭痛想吐，百般痛苦，食物又超級難以下嚥，導致我幾乎是兩餐沒吃，這種狀況下要是打給男友，我一定會當場嚎啕大哭！當下決定不要這麼做，自己把事情解決了再說吧！很鬱悶沮喪的去服務台，不只我一人掉了行李，還好幫我處理的那位先生人很好，他說應該可以找到，八成是還卡在轉機的費城機場，所以隔天就可以送來。我留下了男友的電話跟住址給他，自己又繼續去另個航廈等待下一般國內線飛機。國內飛機稍微延遲了半小時，不過因為飛行時間很短，抵達時間並沒有延後很久，走出機場，看到男友拿著花在出口處等我，除了大大的微笑，當然是緊緊的擁抱。感覺就像昨天一樣，一點都沒有變，好似我們從來沒有分開過半年這麼久一樣。

問他有沒有覺得我的行李少的過份，他才瞪大眼睛問我行李是不是掉了。我這才笑著說：「不然我哪可能這麼快就從機場出來？」當然，我告訴他我已經去過服務台了，送行李的人明天會打電話給他。如果沒找到的話，我麻煩就大了！

他開了他爸爸的車來接我，一台幾乎年紀跟我一樣大的老賓士，在德國沒有速限的高速公路上以時速160公里的高速狂奔著。我看著窗外逐漸黯沉的景色，真的好有歐洲的感覺。路邊竟然就有羊和馬在滿是綠草的土地上閒晃，問男友，他說是有人養的，很平常啊，我大驚小怪像沒看過馬一樣，我只是不認為牠們可以離馬路這麼近啊.....

將近一個小時車程後，我們從漢堡開到了男友爸媽住的城鎮，終於到家了。男友的媽媽是個很親切的長輩，他爸爸也是既親切又開朗健談，家裡客廳及餐廳布置的既溫暖又溫馨，非常雅緻，配上昏黃的燈光，讓人非常有時光錯置的錯覺。我相信他們對我這個東方來的女子肯定也覺得很新鮮有趣吧！

在樓上房間稍微休息一下後，頭痛稍稍緩解了一些，下樓和兩個老人家一起晚餐。他們知道我會講一點點德文後，好像很開心似的，還誇我講得很好。早知道我去之前就多用功點啦！不過大部分時間還是需要男友充當翻譯，真是辛苦他了，呵呵～

晚餐後稍微休息一下，男友帶我去拜訪他的一個朋友，他們小時候是同學，他朋友已經結婚，有兩個小孩，最近在創業中。他做了些小點心讓我們邊聊天邊吃，一開始他們講德文，我很認真聽，字裡行句間我突然覺得我聽得懂一些，我跟我男友說我知道他們在說什麼時，他可是驚訝到不行！不過當然到最後，我因為時差很累，他們一罐啤酒下肚，又開始講德文，聽得我昏昏欲睡，而且他朋友兩夫妻隔天都是要上班，我們也不好打擾太久，11點我們就告辭離開了。

回到家，很快的沖個澡，就準備就寢了。還好我有自備一件T-shirt和睡褲及一組盥洗用具放在手提行李，不然這個沒有行李的第一晚，真不知道該怎麼過啊～但是，看到睡在身旁的男友，臉上依舊是停不了的微笑，經過了半年分隔，終於，我又見到你了。真真實實的觸摸，擁抱，親吻著你。我真的感謝上天讓我遇到了這麼好的你，只要有你在我身邊，我什麼都好。滿。足。

這是記憶深刻的第一天，第一晚。

First Week of School

Yes, I'm back from Germany. It was a great and wonderful trip. I could not find a proper word to describe my feelings of being there. I could only say that I did enjoyed the time there, really enjoyed. Being with my beloved boyfriend, meeting his lovely parents, hanging out with his friends, going to the museums, exhibitions, attending the New Year's Eve concert of Berlin Philharmonic, eating good food, watching movies.....I love the way we live our lives together. Everyday, I prepared a sandwich as breakfast for him, and he made the fruit salad and coffee and tea for both of us. When we went out, I could always find my hand in his hand. I felt extremely happy and satisfied when I looked into his eyes and found myself in his eyes and mind.....I should stop talking these things because it could be endless when everyone knows I'm in love. :p

I've been lazy these days that I don't want to update my blog. But I did update my album. Everyone who's interested in seeing the pictures from Germany can go to my album and take a look.

First week back to school was nothing in particular. Same classroom, same classmates, almost same professors. Well, we do have one new teacher for the first-half semester, teaching computer modeling and risk management. He actually now works in the bank, Wells Fargo, as the risk management manager. The teacher is from China, and I have to say, I have problem understanding his English......not only me, but lots of other classmates have this problem....I guess those American students must be painful.... But he's a good guy, especially he's willing to give opinions to students' resumes or CVs, and even written recommendation letters for students if they're doing good with the team project of the class. I think I'll try to seek for his help of my resume and maybe ask for the recommendation letter from him.

This semester will be a tough one, especially when it comes to the second half of it. Also I have to deal with the CFA exam again..... Need more efforts for this semester!! GoGoGO!!

Finished~~~

Oh yeah~~~Finally, after the 2-week final exams torture, this semester has finished yesterday. Felt relieved and happy that I completed the courses as I expected. Although the final grades haven't come out yet, I have the feeling that I'm doing good with all the courses. This will benefit myself when I need to look for a job next year. Yeah~~~^___^

My flight to Germany departs in tomorrow morning. I'm very excited now. I talked with Richard this morning and he said he'll come to the airport and pick me up. It's been a long time since we parted. So good that I can see him soon in 2 days. I'm super happy right now.

Last day here today is very busy: going to the bank, doing lots of laundry, and packing. I should take a shower now and go to bed earlier!!

So Sick.....>_<

It has been almost 1 week!! I'm still coughing, having a running nose, and sore throat!!! I couldn't sleep well at night because the god damn cough always woke me up during the night. Didn't I take any medicine? Of course I did. But all of them were just useless and my cold was so strong that it doesn't seem to like going away. So, I went to our school clinic today to see the doctor. Really need some useful prescription to get me out of this shit as soon as possible. Come on~~ the finals are coming and I need to be well to finish the exam, and also be well to meet Richard and his parents.(Oh yes, my first stop in Germany is at his parents' place~~ how nice~~~ ^__^)

The Thanksgiving Holiday

Time flies so fast that you can never imagine, especially for happy hours, it flies even faster!! 6-day Thanksgiving holiday just passed by and I found that I couldn't focus on my study back to school!! I'm getting too excited about the forthcoming winter break and my trip to Germany!! God~~the finals are waiting for me on the road!!! >_<

I was partying too much for the past 1 week!! Last Saturday(11/17) I went clubbing with several friends, it was a crazy night! Dancing within the crowds and had fun with my classmates. It was my first time to a club since I arrived here! Last Monday(11/19) was the last class before the holiday. After the morning class, I went home first to have lunch and then met my friends at BestBuy to see if there were good deals for shopping. Of course, I didn't buy anything. I have no money~~T__T After BestBuy, Lin, Juan, and me went to Costco together and bought some food for Wednesday's party. It was for Juan's birthday! We finished shopping and went to Jessie's place to have dinner. Because we were all too full, we decided to take a walk back to Lin's place(5 blocks away~) Then, party again......till 2am....

Wednesday, we went to school at noon, attending a resume workshop. After the workshop, I went home to prepare for some food. Then I asked Lin to pick me up and went to his place for partying~~another night filled with alcohol and dance...(I didn't drink at all~~)

Thursday was the Thanksgiving Day, I woke up late and did some study. But most of the time I was reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." It was so good that I couldn't stop reading it~~ In the evening, I went out with my roommate, Paul, to his friend's house for the Thanksgiving dinner. I really had to say, I didn't know that the turkey stuffing was so tasty!! That is very impressive! However, the people are BORING! They are just so boring that I almost fell asleep!!! Paul was mad of them because they didn't talk to me at all!! Well, I didn't care that much, but it was really boring, the only thing was nice was the food!! We left early and back to our apartment, we would rather watch the West Wing!! It was more fun! Hahaha~~

I went to my friend, Genny's place in San Jose on Friday evening, and came back on Saturday evening. They took me to nice Chinese restaurants and her boyfriend helped me fix my laptop. Well, although there are still some problems within my laptop, but as long as I can get online and do the things I need to do, I'll be fine with it. Thank God, I don't have to buy a new one, or my parents will kill me!!!

Happy partying also brought some bad news. Since I went to bed too late these day, I got a cold....>__< Sore throat, coughing, running nose...

Got to go back to study~~>_<

Shopping Season Begins~~

Thanksgiving is around the corner. Next week, Thursday, Turkey and Mashed Potatoes!!! Well, got to be careful not to gain weight!!!>__<

The weather is getting crazy here. Not as cold as the East Coast of course, but 2 days were relatively cold and following 2 days relatively warm for the past 2 weeks, it's very easy to get a cold!! One of my roommates, Paul, and my German tutor, Christian, were both getting quite sick since the Halloween!! I'm lucky that I didn't get a cold from any of them, maybe it's the jogging that works out!! I went to the German Consulate here in SF and applied for my German visa last week. And oh yes, I got the German visa and also received the German railroad pass this week. I bought the 6-days pass, which cost me $256 including shipping fee. God!! It' just too expensive!! Richard and I really have to figure out how to use this pass efficiently. I want to see Frankfurt (maybe also Heidelberg...), Berlin (for sure, because of the New Year Eve's concert of Berlin Philharmonic...), and maybe go to his parents' place (near Hamburg). But I think I'll spend most of the time in Munich since Richard still has to work during the weekdays. So, my trip will all depend on his working schedule. I'll be fine traveling alone in the city or some closer spots (like Neuschwanstein Castle) during he works. Hope the weather will not be too bad when I go there. Richard just told me that Munich has already been snowing this week and the weather is shitty bad....I don't want to be cold to death...>__<

School works are so far so good, still lots of assignments and quizzes to deal with. But I can handle them and I'm getting used to it. Studying has become a routine and I feel fine with doing it on a day-to-day basis. I hope I can keep my grades as good as last half quarter...

Last Saturday, I went to a movie, "American Gangster" with Ben. We were planning to see another one, "Into the Wild," but we didn't see it just because the show time was not match....The movie, ""American Gangster"(by Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe) was really good. It's not a traditional gangsters movies with so much violence, but is a movie talking about the twisted perspective of value and the decayed police system in the U.S. I like the way Denzel shows in the movie in a very low key. It's easy to being exaggerated when acting, but being in a low tone and still amazed the audience is the real actor!! It's worthy of spending 6 dollars in the movie theater!! However, it was raining when we walked out of the theater. The sky was gray and the weather was chill. Not a good day though...

I went home and took a rest, and then I watched 2 DVDs at home with my roommates, Paul and Noel, later that night. One was "The Bourne Supremacy" by Matt Damon (Jason Bourne), the other one was the "Runaway Jury" by John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz. Both of them are good. The Bourne movie was shot at Berlin. I saw the Berlin train station in the movie, it looks very nice, and the plaza in front of the station is beautiful. I said to my roommates that I'll be there in 1 month, trying to show off to them and make them jealous of me about my forthcoming exciting tour there. Hahahaha~~

2 more classes for this week and next week, then I'll have 6 day-offs for the Thanksgiving!! Yeah~~~~^___^

Super Busy v.s Super Lazy

Haven't updated my blog for a long time. Of course, I was rather busy these days. And when I had time to rest, I just want to lie down and sleep. Who wants to spend one hour just to update the blog when one only has one hour to rest.....?? Anyway, this is just an excuse. I admit that I'm lazy, especially when my school workload become heavier. Let me update some news for the past week...

Last weekend was ok. I went jogging on Saturday, later I watched the baseball game. Sunday, I studied a little bit and watched the final baseball game. Oh yes, it is the Red Sox won the World Series again, after their last championship in 2004.

Monday night, I watched a movie DVD with my roommate, Matt. "Dummy" is the name of the movie. It's really interesting. It talks about a Jewish family and the son is eager to be a ventriloquist. Then there are a tons of things happened to him, to his family. Here is the link if anyone is interested in it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246592/

Later that night, my stomach hurt and I got diarrhea after the midnight, feeling very uncomfortable. But I was fine the other day. I studied for the whole day on Tuesday and tried hard to finish the assignment. Well, I have to admit that the courses of this half quarter are harder than the ones of last half quarter. I really have to spend more time on them.

Wednesday was the Halloween. I went shopping after class with 2 friends, and bought things for my aunts. They've sent their orders to me and ask me to get those things for them. I myself only bought a very cheap sleeveless dress....
Halloween Bags from Galleria Department Store and the Halloween coupons.

Halloween Decorations in my neighborhood

Later that night, I went to a friend's place for the Halloween party. There are so many people. Some of them have dressed up for Halloween. It was really funny!!
Happy Halloween~~~

Annie and Jason: Beauty and the Pirate(or the Beast??)


This is the very first time I had Halloween here in the U.S. Everything is new to me anyway. I left the party at 10pm with my friend, Lin, and we decided to go to Castro Street to see the crowds. Usually there is a big parade for Halloween every year, but last year there was a gun shot event so they canceled the parade this year. However, there were still quite a lot of people dressed like crazy on the streets. We only drove through the streets and then he dropped me home. (we were already too tired... :-p)

Did not sleep well for the past few days. My eyes are getting red and hurt recently. And I also had a nightmare Wednesday night: Richard sent me a text message, saying that he's getting married because a girl is pregnant and his the baby's father!!!!!!That really woke me up at 5 am and I checked my phone immediately and found no message was there....it's just a nightmare....I think I was just too stressful and nervous about the new half quarter of study. Also it may be that I miss him too much.

This weekend, I spent almost all my time with my dad. He arrived on Thursday evening and I went to the airport to pick up him and his colleagues. I called the cab and went to the hotel with them, helped them checked in, and then I went home and tried to study for the quiz and finished my homework. Friday morning, I met them at the hotel at 9am, waiting for one of their colleagues' sister who lives in San Jose to take us for a sightseeing. The weather was not too good because it was all foggy, we could not see the Golden Gate Bridge very clearly.
The Golden Gate Bridge: Only can see the top, others were in the fog.


We also went to Sausalito, a small peaceful town across the Bridge, to take a short walk.
Sausalito: by the sea


Then we came back to downtown SF, went to Union Square for lunch at The Cheese Cake Factory. Since it was the first day they've arrived, they had jet lag so they went back to the hotel for rest and I went to my class for quiz and lecture. After the lecture, I went to the hotel and took them out for dinner at a Japanese restaurant. Saturday, I took them to the Fisherman's Wharf in the morning and to the Golden Gate Park in the afternoon. It was a very nice day and was totally good for walking. They had dinner at my place that evening and then I walked them to the bus stop and they took the bus back to the hotel. After they left, I watched 2 movies at home with my roommates. One is very old and short, but funny, called ""The Dark Army"; the other is the famous "American Beauty." I've always wanted to see this movie but never got chance. I like this movie a lot. The pace, the story line, and the characters in it. It's really a good one.

Sunday, I met up with them at the hotel, the colleague's sister came to pick us up to Palo Alto. We had lunch at an nice Italian restaurant on the street and then went to Stanford University to take a look. Wow!!! It is huge!!!(compared to USF......) and it's beautiful~~ We went through the front gate and got into the famous church on campus.
Stanford University: Front Gate at the end of the road

Stanford University: the Church

Stanford University


After taking some pictures here, we went to a nice shopping center to do some "window shopping," then we headed to the airport. I helped them checked in and said goodbye to my dad. I went home by taking the BART, alone again...

I was so tired that I fell asleep on the BART. After I got home, I started to study and do my assignment. It cost me a few hours to figure out just one graph...Macroeconomics is confusing.....compared to Microeconomics....anyway, I can't complain about this, it's my own choice to get into this field....I'll do my best to get through this program and the CFA exam in June.

Need to rest now, I'm tired...... for more pictures, please find my album link under my favorite links. I've already uploaded all of them. Enjoy them!!

Relaxing Weekend~

This is the first "long break" we have since the semester started: the end of the first-half semester. I had lots of fun this weekend. Very relaxing, and got to know more of my classmates and became friends. They are all nice and cool people!!!

Thursday afternoon, I had my first German lesson with my tutor, Christian. He's a nice German guy and he explains grammar and pronunciations very clearly. I'm also glad that he doesn't live far away from my apartment, which means I don't have to travel for a long time and spend extra money on Bart to have 1 hour lesson. In the evening, I attend the Text Skill Workshop at school. Honestly speaking, I was a little disappointed for the content. But there were still some useful things taught in class. Fortunately, it's only an 8-hours workshop. I'll go again this week for the last 4 hours and then it's done.

Friday afternoon, I went swimming at school gym with one of my classmates, Ting. She's lovely girl from China and just as young as my brother. We swam for one hour or so (included chatting for half hour...), and after swimming I went to the supermarket to get some fruits and food for breakfast. But when I finished shopping and wanted to go home, it started to rain!!! I didn't have an umbrella and the 2 bags on my hands were so heavy that I could not use an umbrella anyway. So, I walked fast home, and felt my biceps hurt when I finally arrived in kitchen...The night I did lots of domestic things: laundry, cooking. Also watched a movie,"Shortbus" at night. Didn't really get it. A weird movie....I was tired but relaxing!!(because I don't have to think...ha~~)

Saturday, I woke up pretty late and then I tried to call my dear boyfriend,Richard. But he didn't pick up the phone for the first 2 times. Then I reached him when I called the 3rd time, he said he was having dinner at the moment and would call me back later. I then started to do other things, waiting for his call. I even fell asleep on the couch when I was reading a novel. Then the phone rang!! Because my phone was running out of money and I asked Richard to call at my home phone number. It was almost 4pm(1am his time) and we talked for maybe more than 30 minutes. He was still at friend's place, partying. He went to the kitchen and called me. His friend came in, he also put him on the phone with me for a small talk. My mood turned out to be very nice after I talked to him for such a long time. Then later that evening, I watched the baseball game. Red Sox led the game from the very beginning and they just kicked the ass of the Indians. My roommate, Paul, who stands for the Indians, he just couldn't look the game since the middle and then we started to watch the "West Wing", a TV show about politics and laws(U.S. democrats.) It was a really good series of shows. We started to watch the DVDs which were owned by Paul about 1 months ago and I watched it with Paul and another roommate, Noel, once or twice a week. It's interesting because there's no such kind of TV series in Taiwan, and this series talks about a lot of political culture and law things in the U.S., especially on the Democrats side. Of course I can't understand all of it, I think I can only get 70-80% of the content. Not only because the characters sometimes speak too fast but also there are lots of legal processes and law jargons. But since Paul and Noel are all law graduate students, I can always pause the show and ask them to clarify for me. Good for me to practice my English listening skills and learn more about this country. After watching one episode, we decided to do a movie. We chose a comedy,"Hitch",by Will Smith, rather than "The Godfather." It was so funny and I laughed a lot during the movie although I've already seen it once in Taipei. And we chatted a little bit after the movie, talking about relationships.(Both Paul and Noel have been divorced several years ago.) Anyway, it was a fun night.

Sunday, I got up very late(10:30am), made some smoothies for brunch, and then started to chat online with one of my best friends in university, Athena. She's now in New York, living with her boyfriend, searching for a job. (she has graduated from her master program this year) We chatted for a long time and then she decided to go out for a walk and I decided to go jogging in the panhandle park. I ran for a while and then came back to take a shower. I had 2 places to go that night!!! One was in downtown, I had a dinner appointment with Sean and his friend Diana(she's a Korean). We ate at a Japanese restaurant, the food was really good and not too expensive. I think I'll take my dad to that restaurant when he visits me.

Diana and Me


Then I went to my classmate's(Lin) place for a party. There are 10 more people there, all are my classmates. Well, 2 of them are not because they're girlfriends of my classmates. We had fun drinking(I didn't drink) dancing, and chatting. You can hear all kinds of languages in the room: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, even a little bit Japanese. It was so funny!!

Lin's Place Party(food prepared by Cathy and Shi Shuai)
From left:Gabriel, Jessica(Salim's girlfriend), Salim, Shi Shuai, Luke, Cathy, Ben, Lin

Ben, me, and Juan

Lin, me, Juan, and Ben

All:front:Luke, Shi Shuai, Lin, Juan, Gabriel
back: Cathy, Jessie, me, Kelly, Ben

All again:front:Luke, Shi Shuai, Lin's girlfriend, Lin,
back: Cathy, Kelly, Jessie, me, Juan, Ben


Oh, I also watched the final game of the Red Sox and the Indians at Lin's place.(just the last parts) 11 to 2, Red Sox goes to the World series!! I got home at 11pm and wrote an email to Richard then went to bed.

It was a great weekend!! Having fun with friends, doing sports, talking with my beloved one, watching games and movies. The new round of stress began today. Just like Richard said to me: Take a deep breath and get ready for the new round!!!

Survived from the Finals~~

Dear all,

I SURVIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Three 4-hrs exams almost broke my neck and I was in a not-so-good health condition for the past week. I had sore throat for two days and then I had a running nose thereafter. Finally, I felt my head was very heavy on Tuesday and had serious headache all day long. I guess I had a light fever because I've been feeling cold for the whole day.... Anyway, although I didn't feel well during the whole exam week, I still killed the exams!! Don't know how I did on the exams, I really have no ideas about them right now. I'll soon get the results back. We'll see!!!

My mom has been sick for more than 2 weeks. She's still not well when I called her last time during the weekend. My dad was supposed to visit me today, but On Tuesday night I got his mail and he told me that he has postponed his trip to 2 weeks later(11/1). He said it was because my mom was still not recovering. She went to the emergency room last Friday and also did the CAT scan, but the doctors said that there's nothing bad in her. This Monday, she was hospitalized for 2 days for further examinations and the doctors has diagnosed her as Dysautonomia. She has left the hospital on Wednesday and went home. The doctor has prescribed some medicine for her and now she's getting better, at least not vomiting everyday. I only knew this last night because they did not tell me. I called my dad this evening and asked

for the details. My dad said that might because my mom is always too nervous and has too many things to do at the same time. She needs to adjust herself and take the medicine, then she'll be fine. I've been worrying her for more than 2 weeks but couldn't do anything. My
brother was also busying at his part-time job. I really felt bad.....

So, due to the above reasons, my dad will not come this week. My forthcoming weekend schedule is suddenly empty!! Well, I guess I just need to relax for a while doing nothing. But I know I still have things to do. I have to revise my resume and cover letter so that I
can start to search for a job and hand the companies the newly revised version of resume and cover letter. Also, our department has organized 2 English workshops for international students. One is Text skills for economics and finance, another is the Presentation skills for economics and finance. Both are an 8-hrs workshop held in two weeks, which means 4 hours a week. I've already registered for them, of course, they're free!!! I think I'll never have a really empty
schedule for this year!!

Yesterday after I finished the exam, I had lunch with several classmates at a Chinatown restaurant. I haven't eaten outside for such a long time!!!(2 months...) We had six people and we only ordered 4 dishes, however, we still didn't finish them!! Everybody was just too tired to eat....>_< One of them only slept for 1 hour last night, and 2 of them slept for 3 hours, 1 slept for 5 hours and 2 slept for 6 hours(including me). Anyway, I took the left to go with me and then I went to do a facial massage with my friend, Annie. It was very comfortable and relaxed. It lasted for 2 hours and Annie even fell asleep(she's the one who only slept 1 hour last night...). I didn't fall asleep because I need really quiet place to sleep and the radio was on. Anyway, after the facial massage, I felt my skin was so smooth and tender. It's $38 dollars per time(2 hrs) for 10 times. We only go there once a month and the results is pretty good. I think it's worth of the money.

Oh, one last thing to tell. When I came home this evening, I got something in the mail box: It's the missing PARCEL for Richard!!!! It was SENT BACK TO ME!!! OH MY GOD~~~ It's BACK~~~(I'm tearing~~ T___T ) I think I'm not going to resend it again but only take it with me when I meet him in December.

Ok, this is long enough. I have that Text skill workshop in the evening today, and also need to do some grocery shopping since I'm running out of breakfast. I've already get back to my normal weight. Hope I can keep it or lose 1 more kg till I meet Richard. ^___^

Finals are coming~~

This Monday was the last day of class of this first half semester. We had a day off on Wednesday and then the first final comes on Friday!!! Who knows we've only started school for just 7 weeks....

Anyway, this Sunday, I had another BBQ in my back yard with my roommates and neighbors. Everyone had to prepare something for the BBQ and I was in charge of a vegetarian cold pasta and a potato tuna salad. It was really fun to meet some of our neighbors. Here is the picture of my roommates. From the left, is Paul(29), Matt(27), and Noel(39). I'll talk more about them after my god damn finals....

My roommates(from left):Paul, Matt, Noel


This little blond baby, Oscar, lives with his parents and a dog named Osi downstairs of my apartment. He is super cute!!! He's only 20 months but he smiles at me when I wanted to take a picture of him. Very sweet. (Although I can sometimes hear him crying and screaming when he was playing at home or in the yard...)

Oscar(20 months):downstairs


For the rest of the pictures, always check on my album
http://www.pixnet.net/ening13

I went to the panhandle park near my apartment(2 blocks away) yesterday afternoon. Yes, I went to the park, for jogging!!! It's cloudy yesterday and I didn't want to go to the gym at school (because I was trying to get rid of anything that can remind me with the studying...) So, I decided to jog for 20 minutes at the park. The end of panhandle park connects to the Golden Gate Park. I didn't run in there because it would be too far away from home. And I just realized that there are so many people who have lots of leisure time at the middle of a day that they can walk their lovely dogs or do some biking, jogging or walking. Or even just sit on the grass and read a book or magazine...I, in contrast, can not focus on my study so that I have to go jogging a little to make me concentrated when I come back to my desk. Well, it helped. (I guess....)

Got to go back to study and laundry....that's the real life~~XD