Yea, it was my first skiing experience! And I would say it was fun =)

Before we went skiing, I was so nervous, or maybe I should say I was scared. Coz i remembered, my first time skating at Sunway Pyramid. Pei Ying was the one who encouraged me, stayed beside me. She knew what happened when I started skating. I hold her tightly, hold the side tightly and told her, "I don’t wanna skate anymore". And my tears rolled down too. I really felt ashamed. But in the end, I could skate (although I couldn’t skate like an expert)! =)

It was on a Tuesday during Spring break that I joined the ski trip organized by UMIMSA(Umich Malaysian Student Association). Before the trip, I got all my equipments prepared, e.g. Ski pants, gloves etc.  The weather was not that good and the journey was kinda scary (still, we reached Pine Knob Ski Resort safely). When we first reached, we got our tickets and our ski shoes as well as ski poles. We started skiing at the Beginner’s bunny. I was happy that I didn’t fall for the first time =) I was actually very scared, but I told myself that I don’t wanna fall, so I tried hard to balance myself until I stopped. After a few hours, we stopped and had lunch.

After that, I asked S.Ling to try the "Intermediate" slope with me. This time we need to take the chair lift to get to the "top of the hill". The chair lift is like a cable car, but it’s open air and no seat belts! Too bad, we didn’t know how to get off! And so, we jumped and fell. S.Ling taught me how to get up, coz that was my first time fell and I don’t know how to stand up. And we could see, how steep the slope was, compared to the beginner’s bunny. OMG! We had no choice but to ski downhill. That was fast, that was really fast. And, the wind was so strong with snow blowing onto my face. I didn’t fall and I could stop safely. I felt so sorry to make S.Ling come with me. Fortunately she’s safe and I wouldn’t do that to her anymore. Coz it was really dangerous.  Sorry, S.Ling…

I tried to ski a few times at the beginner’s bunny. And then, I tried the "Intermediate" by myself. I was scared, but I wanted to try. And I knew how to get off the chair lift the second time I tried. That was fun, but of course I didn’t manage to try the most difficult part. It’s enough, I’m glad that I came back without injuries. =)

Now Spring break comes to an end. School will start in two days…

Yeah, Spring break is here… My break started after I was done with my Midterm on Wednesday. (Although I still have to go to classes on Thursday and Friday)

I got back both my Thermo and Fluid midterm before the break. Huh… Fluid was the easy one, my classmates did quite well, and the mean was 73/100 (it’s kinda high). However, I didn’t really do well. I scored only a few marks above mean. Kind of disappointed with myself, coz I did some careless mistakes and I think I did not prepare well for this exam. On Friday, we got back our Thermo midterm, no one wants it back, coz it was a hard exam, compared to Fluid. The mean was just 42/85, which is about 49%. Out of my expectation, I got 74/85 and I got the highest score in class:)  But no one knows my score, I don’t want people to feel bad about themselves. Coz my classmates who sat beside me got thirty something out of 85. I wouldn’t want to make others sad or anything. I went to see Edward after class, to ask him whether I need to go to Lab during break. He was the first person who knows my score.

We attended Lantern Festival on Saturday. It’s actually the celebration of the last day of Chinese New Year and it was held by Organization of Chinese Americans. Shr bo picked us up at about 10am and dropped us at Lin Shr gu’s house. We had breakfast at her house and then only Shr gu drove us there. A lot of people visited Tzu Chi’s booth. And I was in charge of "arts and craft" part. I taught children and adults how to make shrimp using straws. It’s not very easy, but of course it’s not hard! It’s doable. And, it’s cute. [I should have taken some pictures of the shrimp, but I forgot] After the event, Shr gu invited us to her house. We had steamboat! Nice one..

We rushed back to Ann Arbor after that, which took about an hour drive. I was having really bad headache. However, we went to Pinball Pit (an arcade) after we changed. Adhi  (WanYing’s bf) is leaving soon, that’s why we met up with him that night. Daniel taught me how to play pool, he’s really an expert! We knew him during the event, and he’s nice. He’s actually in charge of sending us home. But we invited him to join our gathering, since he had nothing to do. After Pinball Pit, we went to Friends Karaoke! This was my first time there, I can’t believe we sang for three hours! Three hours! Huh… Everyone was crazily happy! We left at about 2am…

It was a tiring day! End of my first day of break.

I called home last night. Mummy said she received a letter from University of Michigan. Also, she said I got a certificate from The University of Michigan College of Engineering  saying that  I attained the dean’s honor list for Fall ‘07! This is for mummy daddy and everyone at home! Love you all lots

I’m going skiing tomorrow (Tuesday)! Hopefully it will be a fun trip although I might have a lot of lebam lebam after that

I can’t remember whether I wrote something about him in my blog.

He is someone who cares for me so much.
He is someone whom I look for when I’m in trouble.
He is someone whom I can share every single problem I face.
He is someone who will accompany me through video call in MSN even though we are far apart.
He is someone who never pressure me in my life.
He is someone who respects my choice.
He is someone who will say something to make me smile when I’m sad.
He is someone who writes sweet emails that make me happy.
He is someone who will never leave me alone no matter what.
He is someone whom I own forever.
He is someone I respect the most.
He is my real man.

He is my father, a special father I have.
A father who does something that not all of the fathers do.
He is a father who drives his children here and there, drives us everywhere we wanna go.
He is a father who will repair his children’s favorite but broken shoes.
He is a father who knows how to make cute key chains.
He never wants his children to do something they don’t like.
He is a father who will ask his children to get a job near home, coz he knows his children miss home so much.

He is the real man I love the most.

Love your family coz they’re the ones who will never leave you no matter what.

Today is the 2nd day of Chinese New Year.

On Chinese New Year’s eve, we went to TK Wu Restaurant for Chinese New Year dinner. Everyone was busy with Midterms and stuff, so we didn’t do anything fun after the dinner. And, I had to go back to library to do the ASPEN Group Project (Thermodynamics Project given by Prof. Ziff). Of course, I didn’t forget to call home to wish everyone back there "Happy Chinese New Year".

This year, I just feel terribly homesick… I really wanna go back to be with my family. Not that I wanna enjoy the food or anything back there, I just wanna be with my family, be with my mummy.

Maybe for some people, Chinese New Year is just another day. But for me, it is significant. It is the time when everyone will be back at home. It is the time to meet with your relatives and friends. It is a different day. It is special.

I miss my grandma, and I miss her even more on this special day.  When  we (her grandchildren) wished her "gong xi fa cai", she always hugged us and kissed us, and whispered to us "study diligently, must be obedient etc". I will not hear that from her anymore…

Wishing everyone a very prosperous year!