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Sunday, August 28, 2016

First Week


        First week down! Woot woot! Been a crazy week honestly. Lots of reading assignments and frantic experience trying to find a place to buy one of my textbook. The best part is I met really nice friends here and there. Everyone's really friendly and all the sweet smiles staring back at me. I found my new home for the next 4-5 years here. I'm right where I want to be. I thought I be homesick, but I can honestly say I was only missing home maybe the first two days when I moved in.
        Another great perk of going to college is having parents bring you food when they supply you in college and make you great food when you head home on the weekend. My parents came this weekend to resupply me with school supplies and they also brought me ha gao (dim sum) and homemade soup. I'm sorry to say I didn't share the ha gao with my roommate... I was, but then I ended up eating them all... Hehe. I will not eat all of them next time for sure though! I had the soup finally today and it made my dorm experience so far feel extra cozy, like home. Can't wait to go home for the long weekend this coming week!




Saturday, August 20, 2016

Titan Time

     
        Moved into my dorm at Fullerton this past week. Ahhh! It's official. I'm officially a college student. Officially a Titan. How crazy is that? Feels like just not too long ago I was a senior in high school. Time flies. Lots of fun activities this past week to help us freshmen meet new people and have fun. I love my campus and all the great people I met. This picture was taken when we were at Play Fair at 7PM. It was so pretty. The sunset was so gorgeous in person. Loving every minute so far. Before class starts officially and I won't be able to have so much free time to enjoy sunsets. Haha. New chapter beginning. I can't wait to see where this chapter of my story takes me.
        Due to school starting in two days, I will not be posting so frequently and my Hong Kong Trip posts will be delayed. I have three coming your way soon. The words are done, just the pictures aren't so ready yet. The formatting and adding the watermark is hard work. Please be patient and thank you for it. I'll keep you posted my fellow readers! Thank you for supporting me through my blogging journey.

Hong Kong Trip Part 3


       Day 8: Shopping - For breakfast, we went to Tim Ho Wan, dim sum. It was really good! The dim sum were very clear compared to in California. When in Hong Kong, you have to go shopping. One of the must do's, other than eating lots of food. Bought quite a bit overall during the trip. Some things I would never find so cheap in California as I did there. Other stuff was a little pricier, but I would never buy it again. Let alone see it again. I got my first discount too! I told the guy in the store that the tiny jukebox music machine is by Frank Sinatra, not Elvis Presley when he was showing it to me and my mom when we were looking at it. He told us when he bought supplies for it, they told him the song is by Elvis Presley. Nope. Since I told him, he gave me a discount. (: I literally told my mom, mom we need to buy something. Anything. Actually we did end up buying stuff. One of the things we bought was a hairbrush. My aunt told me those hairbrush (it's in a case that looks like a bean) are good for people who have tangled hair. That's me! I love it now! If only I bought one more for myself in case the one I'm using breaks or gets too worn out in the future. Definitely really good hairbrush.  (the pics are not in chronological order)










        Day 9: Closed Places and more food stops - The, places my aunt wanted to take us were closed... Fortunately, we went stopped by a Korean dessert place. It reminded me of Hooshik from home. Must compare! Haha. It was good, but home is better. It wouldn't melt as fast. We also tried the famous goose at Kam's Roasted Goose. Really good. You have to wait though for a seat, but it was totally worth it. That night, I had my first buffet in HK. It was so good!!! I like the buffets in HK better than California because there were Chinese/herbal soups and I feel there is more of a variety in terms of food and desserts too.














        Day 10: Snoopyland and shopping - We went out with my mom's friend for lunch. A friend she hasn't seen in years. It was nice. It was funny when my mom's friend and her daughter were shocked how I love eating chicken, duck, and pig feet, herbal soups, and more Chinese types of foods. They didn't expect that because I'm an ABC, American Born Chinese. I felt proud. Proud of my Chinese culture and the Chinese in me. Keeping the love of Chinese food alive as an American. (: I finally got to go to Snoopyland and take some pictures because the first time we tried to go, it was closed, due to raining cats and dogs. Then we had dessert. We had desserts similar to Phoenix back home. I think this one I would say home is better but I still liked the HK version too. It was different but still really good. Then off to shopping we went!
















        Day 11: Shopping - More shopping. For lunch we ate at an Italian restaurant. Really good! We bought groceries for dinner and supplies. We bought this package, consisting of feet and papaya. It's like those packages where they already have the ingredients for you and all you have to do it put them all together. It was really good.




Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Hong Kong Trip Part 2


        Day 4: Kowloon Park and Magical World - First park in Hong Kong I been to! Kowloon Park! Really nice park. Peaceful and a few characters you can take pictures with as well. Unfortunately, it was really humid that day. My mom, aunt, and I needed to get to a AC place as soon as possible! Later in the day, we went to Magical World where there are 4D scenes of Disney characters that you can take pictures in. Basically you can pose in the scene as if you were actually there. Really neat place! I would definitely recommend it if you are as much of a Disney lover like me. Haha. (: When we were heading back to my aunt's place, we saw Chibi Maruko Chan figurines outside a mall. I had to take some pictures with her. I love this anime character!
























































        Day 5: Movie Day - We watched The Secret Life of Pets in Chinese. I understood most of it. There was like two or three times I wasn't sure what they said, but I figured it was the title of a person's position. Yay! It was really cute though! I really liked the evil bunny. He's so cute!! Despite his evilness. There's really little previews compared to California. Also the movie starts on time too. Definitely a plus and no delays. Afterwards, we went to the food court downstairs in the same building to eat. I had Hainan Chicken Rice. I had to try it. Must compare it to Savoy's version. I liked HK's version better. Haha. It's a lot clearer than the one back home. The rice was gingery and everything was just healthy. Then we went shopping.




        Day 6: Science and History Museums - Charlie Brown breakfast time! Then off to the museums we went. The food was MSG free too. Really cute cafe. The museums were really nice. The science one had a lot of cool places to take pictures. There was one exhibit for illusions. For example, if you walked inside this one attraction, you are just a head or a little bit of your upper body up only. Definitely a fun place to go. The history museum was nice as well. It's a museum about other places in the world. Lots of history. 





















       Day 7: Wetland Park and Ping Shan Heritage Trail - Wetland Park was so humid, but so worth it. I love nature so I knew one of the places I wanted to check out would be this park. There were lots of exhibits inside the museum, tons to see. Can't see everything honestly. The park outside though was HUGE. We didn't get to walk the whole park because it was so humid. I got to see the city buildings view from there, birds that live there, and the wetland creatures that live in the soils there. We ate a grilled chicken. The whole chicken! Of course, all three of us shared one. Really good! Later we went to Ping Shan Heritage Trail. I learned a little Chinese history there. I also hot to see the old villages that some people still live in. Really neat. Unfortunately, we didn't know how to get out of that area, so we walked in one big circle to get back home. Still an adventure for sure.













































*There are some pictures my aunt helped take, since she will help take pictures of me and my mom together. To save time, sometimes I will ask my aunt to help me take a picture of the object or item itself, especially when the place is busy with people. I like to give credit to my aunt for helping. Thank you. There will be food pictures within each day. I won't specifically state all the places I ate those food because there are too many to write down. If anyone likes to know, please feel free to contact me by my email in the contacts tab or leave a message below the post. Thank you!*