Life is...

My life is starting on the track i guess.
Working life is suck even though i just worked for about a week.
I am still a noob in working battle.
Ｎｏ　ｍａｔｔｅｒ　ｈｏｗ　ｈａｒｄ　ｉｓ　ｉｔ，
Ｉ　ｗｉｌｌ　ｓｔａｎｄ　ｆｏｒ　ｉｔ　ａｎｄ　ｌｅａｒｎ　ｗｈａｔｅｖｅｒ　Ｉ　ｃａｎ．



I wanna do something meaningful to enrich my life or i would wither.
Ａ　ｌｏｎｇ　ｔｏ－ｄｏ　ｌｉｓｔ in my mind:

１.　Ｂａｋｉｎｇ　ｗｏｒｋｓｈｏｐｓ
２.　Ｖｏｌｕｎｔｅｅｒｉｎｇ
３.　Ｅｘｅｒｃｉｓｉｎｇ
４.　Ｒｅａｄｉｎｇ
５.　Ｏｕｔｄｏｏｒ　ａｃｔｉｖｉｔｉｅｓ
６.　Ｃｌｕｂｂｉｎｇ　（ｎｏｔ　ｎｉｇｈｔ　ｃｌｕｂｂｉｎｇ）．
７.　Ｔｒａｖｅｌｉｎｇ
８.　Scrap booking
９.　Ｄｅｃｏｒａｔｉｎｇ　ｒｏｏｍ
１０.Ｌｅａｒｎｉｎｇ　ｎｅｗ　ｌａｎｇｕａｇｅｓ
11. Part time job ......


Sometimes I push myself too hard!
I wonder where am I and which way would be the best for me???
I am pondering the meaning of life all the time.

Just blast off with my young heart!!!

Discovery Seattle and beyond...

Seattle,Washington -- 28 February 2010



May suggested to visit her friend's host family house.
What a great huge house with a lake view at their backyard!



We were on the way to the Snoqualmie Falls, about 45 minutes away from Seattle.
Washington a.k.a evergreen state.
Even though it's a winter time, I still could see tons of green pine trees everywhere.
Walked through the River trail to reach closer to the falls.
It's a good workout for me without skeptical after the long winter.
It was exciting to hop from rock to rock as they were slippery.











Before heading to nearby outlet, we stopped by at the visitor center.
Unfortunately, it was closed. But, we had a chance to see the cherry blossom.





Next destination was University District.
The best university in the state-University of Washington is located right here.
We decided to have a Thai food as our late-lunch.







We went to Fremont neighborhood of Seattle intently to visit The Fremont Troll.
It is a piece of public art which is living under the Aurora Bridge.



At night, it's the best time to view Seattle's skyline at Kerry Park.
It's incredibly gorgeous!!!



We ended our day in downtown at Cheesecake Factory with a piece of strawberry cheesecake.

Home Sweet Home

Today is the 5th day of my returning.
I spent some quality time with my family and best friends.
Every single moment is fulfilled by blissfulness!

All I can do now are cleaning, unpacking and reorganizing of my stuffs.
Meanwhile,
I am hunting a job and hopefully could land a good one as soon as possible.

Still in the middle of overcoming the reverse culture shock.
Especially the weather here. It is absurdly freaking hot!!!
I will be fine!

Updating my ultimate travel is coming up soon...

25th months-- Bon Voyage

Having my last Boston Kreame donut now for these years.
Today is exactly my 25th months in the states.
Can't believe that I am leaving in couple hours!

Excited to back home to see my beloved family & friends.
Hopefully to settle down soon!
In the meantime, I miss here in someways.
Life isn't perfect!
I am about to sober.
I am about to awake from my dream.

I am ready for the new miles stone of my life...
Blast off!!!

Kiss goodbye to Boston & the United States.
It's bitter sweet!

Up in the air...

I woke up at 3 something in the morning and
went to Boston Logan International Airport at 5am.



Departing from Boston to Los Angeles with Virgin America.
It took about 5 and a half hours to get there.
And then, my connection time was 3 hours to catch another flight to Seattle.
It was 2 and a half hours to arrive at my final destination.
Moreover, I had to take the link light rail south transit from the airport to University Street station to meet my friend. ANother 45 minutes!

Eastern time and pacific time are 3 hours different.
It made me felt like I had been flying, waiting, transfering for whole day.
It wasn't fun at all. Couldn't sleep well.
I am so sick of it!!!
Don't even mention about 3 more flights I am gonna to take next month.
The grim one will be the long flight returns to M'sia.
Arhh!!!!


Today was all about flying.
Hopefully do some sightseeing next two days...

Welcome to Seattle!

Full couple years of my au pair life...

" There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning." -Louis L'Amour-

I love this quote very much! It could express my thought very well especially right now.
Today is my last day for being an au pair,
my full two years in the states.
Time flies...
I feel like everything as if just happened yesterday!
Like a dream. I'm about to awake from that.

Anyhow, I am real happy to put a halt on my au pair life.
It's more than enough!
To be honest, I'm so tired.
It's time to make a change.

Now, I can scream out loud:" I'm free!!!
I can fly like a bird, swim like a fish."
Yeah!!!

My new journey is just beginning.
Treating myself an ultimate 3 weeks vacation.
Wandering around west coast...
So exciting!
So challenging too
as I didn't have much time to do some studies about my trip.
Just want to relax, have some fun before heading home
and confront the reality life. LOL!

Can't think further right now.
Tomorrow I'm gonna to fly all the way to Seattle.
Just wanna to have some sleep!
Bye now!

Kiss Goodbye to New York City...

15 Feb 2010 Monday




I went to New York City for my last time I guess.
I don't know if I would come back again!
I'm not a big-city-life lover especially this hustle and bustle of big apple life.
But, if you travel there once in a while,
you will still love it,
you just can't resist its charm!
Yes, I do love New York CIty in someways......


I met Noelle at Marriot Hotel east side.
She just got off from her duty, still with her stewardess's uniform.
Looked pretty!!!
Cool...
We didn't see each other in ages.
It's great that we could spend some time together in NYC.


We went to Grand Central Station as I wanna buy a cup of hot chocolate.
Finally, we found the one I was craving for...
Joe The Art of Coffee Shop--They make a very unique hot cocoa with a heart shaped
milk coated on the top.
It made me felt sweet and warm!!!!









Then, We walked to 6th Ave to see the LOVE sculpture.
It's a giant sculpture with 4 words-L.O.V.E.






We couldn't catch up the last hour of museum as we might get in with a cheaper
admission fee.
So, we just took few photos in front of American Museum of Natural History.
It becomes very famous after the shooting of a movie- Night at the Museum.


Bryant Park



Radio CIty Hall








We ended our day at Times Square--my favourite spot!!!
It gathers tons of dazzling and overwhelming advertisement boards, colorful neon lighting, shops and the crowd.
There was an ice love sculpture stood in front of the reddish stairs.
That must be for Valentine Day!!!







We picked Junior's as our dining place as we couldn't find any Asian food there.

No.1 Famous Cheese Cake


Chicken Puff Pie

It started to snow.
We dashed to the subway station to take a ride back to hotel.




16 Feb 2010 Tuesday

It was sleeting in the morning.
We met Noelle's friends at the lobby then caught a cab to a custom fit lingerie shop
called Ripplu, which is located at 66 Madison Ave & 27th street.
You won't believe the magic of fitting bra until you try it on.
Gosh!!!
It has a full support for your breast and could fit right into the cup.
It shaped your boobs nicely and even raise your cup.
I think my 32B became 32C.
I felt more confident and sexy. Haha...
All the pattern of lingeries are comtemporary, beautiful, feminine and sexy!
Mostly, made from Japan.
And of course, so expensive!!!
These were the best bras I have ever had!!!






It was a heavy snow in the afternoon.
I could see the big snowflakes whirling around.
It was freaking cold!
But, I like to walk in the snow.
What a fun experience in NYC!


After that, we decided to have a lunch at Korean town.
I thought Shilla is a great restaurant.
Reasonable price and good food.
We ordered a Kimchi Fried Rice and a Spicy Tofu Seafood Soup.
Delicious!!!







A call from my host mom had changed my plan.
Hurray, she asked me to stay one more night as it's too dangerous to take a night bus home in the snow.
That's good. No rush...
SO tired!! Just wanna relax.
We stayed at the hotel the rest of the day and watched a HK drama.


A nice farewell!
I hate to say goodbye sometimes...

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy 26th Birthday to me!!!!

I'm no longer 25 and turning 26 today!!!
Ahh.. Not that young anymore!




This morning I saw a " Happy Birthday" tag hung on my room door's knob.
It looked so adorable.
It must be from my host mom.
She gave me a hug and kiss.
Hunter wished me a Happy Birthday and keep asking me if I like his present.
So cute!!!

This year could be a tough year.
Embarking my new milestone in life...
And I'm 26. Not my mom's baby girl anymore.
Gotta be good.

Birthday wish??
Simple-- Landing a good job!!!
Wish me best luck!

Candlepin Bowling

Today is the boys' school early release day.
My host mom decided to take a half day off to bring us to the candlepin bowling place in Acton, MA.



I never heard that before.
Candlepin bowling was first developed by Justin White (a local bowling center owner) in Worcester, Massachesetts in 1880.
Pretty neat! Worcester is exactly where my county it is, located 20 minutes away from my town.
The main differences from the standardize ten-pin bowling are, candlepins are much more smaller and thinner (thus they could be hardly knocked down), there is no holes on the ball, each player has 3 balls in a frame, and all the downed pins are not cleared away during a player's turn.





It was fun!
The boys were funny, they just simply threw the ball and still could earn a good score. They tried to learn how to roll the ball after watching somebody's play.
I was just a little poor girl.
The game wasn't hard. But, I kept rolling the ball to the both edges.
Couldn't score a good one.
After the total of 20 games, I only had a spare and non strike!



The indoor activity is just perfect for a snowy day.
Our day was ended up with an all of the sudden heavy snow.