Sixth Week Of College

         Sixth week of college down already. I experienced my very first two midterms in college this past week. It's been a rough week with lots to do. I managed to make it through with support from family. The highlight of my week was meeting Mr. Mihaylo, the man who made Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at CSUF possible, on Monday. It was such an honor to meet him! I'm so glad I went to Mihaylo's Competition Information Session. 
        Besides meeting Mr. Mihaylo, I went to two sports events this week. The first sports event I went to this week was women's volleyball, CSUF vs. UCI. I literally went to the event with my friend with a pint of ice cream in my hand. We wanted to get a free shirt, but by the time we got there, there was none left. Nevertheless, we stayed for a little bit for the game before we headed back to the dorms. The second sports event I went to this week was women's soccer, CSUF vs. UCR. I wanted to go to get the Titan cup. My friend and I stayed for the first half of the game. It was getting late, and the Titan Stadium is pretty far from the dorms. Must think of safety before finishing attending a game of course. I got to say, it's pretty fun watching soccer. It was the very first soccer game I attended in my life. Pretty cool experience indeed. Sadly, no one scored on the first half. I did find out that we won based on my school's Titan athletics website! Go Titans!! My goal is to see a goal happen in a soccer game. Next time!
        To end my week, after the soccer game, I FaceTimed my best friend back home and we ended up talking for 6 hours. Crazy right? There was a lot of catching up to do. I didn't get to sleep until almost 4AM. It was totally worth it. 
        Have a great week folks!
       

Sunset

My lovely pint of ice cream for stress relieving

Volleyball Match

Soccer Game

Five Weeks Down

        It has been a little over a month since I started college. Crazy right? How time flies by so fast yet so slow at the same time. This month had been a crazy one. I went out on school nights, tried new foods in Fullerton, went to a volleyball game for 15 minutes before leaving for a meeting, having friends come visit me and spending 6 hours together, had bad days where I needed sweets to feel better, and went to a concert and karaoke at CSUF. Lots of adventures in just the first five weeks of college.
       The best part of these few weeks is this past week I had a life changing moment. I attended a workshop called Prepare to Declare. It basically gives you an overview of the concentrations under  business administration that we can concentrate in as our major. I realized I am going to do entertainment and tourism management. I want to do something I like. I always loved the entertainment industry, but my realistic view overpowered my fantasy view. Sometimes we just got to trust our gut, our passion, and our heart to lead us to where we really belong. I think I found it. Finally. Now, I want to have a double concentration, either with marketing or supply chain management or minor in cinema, television, and radio. The main thing is that I figured out I want to do entertainment and tourism management. The feeling when you figure out what you want is the best feeling ever. I was over the moon happy when I just knew what I wanted to do after the workshop. I'm so grateful for all these workshops my business school at CSUF gives me. Love being a Titan.

After drizzle on a Tuesday 

Cha2O Snow Ice

Fullerton Arboretum

First time trying Acai Bowl, at Juice It Up

Christmas Lights Decoration 

Basement of Library

Volleyball Game

Pho Olivia 

Jasmine Milk Tea

Pizza Press The Herald with my choice of toppings included

Cloud Shave Snow

Five Guys

CSUF Community Market product

Self Explanatory

Concert Under the Starts +Fireworks after 

Sunset view at Intramural Fields

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!

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.