Hanging out with American Chinese

So what does American Chinese do during their free time?

They will have house party. Pancakes, Bacons, Sausages, Beer and Alcoholic drinks. Laughing at the retarded Charlie the Unicorn.

They will go for Karaoke. Pretty surprise about this. Went to a super cina place for KTV last night. It turns up pretty good. The 2 guys who brought us there are pretty good singers. Not to forget our little chili padi mighty singer, kexin.

They will go to tea station, ie. Boba tea shop. Get a boba tea, chat and chill the whole night.

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On a side note, I received the blazer that I ordered online. Looks good! Online shopping is so convenient in USA.
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We will be going to the City of Sin -- Las Vegas-- this weekend. It is a pretty big group with 10 people. What should we do over there? gambling, clubbing, pub-bing? Concert watching, shopping, chilling? Woah. It feels good that I am over 21 because I can do all these!

Still blogging though I havent completed my assignment, which is due in 5 hour time!

Last two weekends have been pretty busy, pretty fun!

On the Chinese New Year/Valentine's Weekend, we joined the outdoor excursion and went to Yosemite National Park. At there, I had my first encounter of touching snow, snowshoeing. Surprisingly, we are the only few undergraduates in the group. The rest of them are PHD students and so. It is a pretty diverse group, with 2 spaniards, 1 hawaians, 4 Asians, 1 Indian, 1 Sri Lankan and 3 Whites. Again, I tried ice skating, and I still didnt manage to get it right. This time round, almost everyone in the team trying to teach me how to iceskate. But still, I cant get it. Forget it. I should stick to Snowboarding which is way more fun.

Talking about our room in Yosemite reminds me of the Vent of the heater. The upper level of the bunk bed was built so near to the vent that KeXin felt that she is "roasted" at night. They really should have a better quality check before putting all these bed in use. I say this, because, the same thing happens in our second trip at Big Bear Mountain too.

After the Yosemite weekend, we went to Big Bear Mountain for snowboarding with OE again. This time round, it is a much younger group. I couldnt tell you how fun was snowboarding. I am totally loving it. We started up with lesson which teached us basic technique and how to fall safely on your butt (this is probably the most useful skill). I wouldnt say the lesson was good as I didnt learn much. After lunch, we went to try out snowboarding by ourselves. That is where I start to get better in snowboarding. It feels so good standing on the board and sliding down from the slope. WOOHOOO! Snowboarding is probably the second favourite sports now (of course, I still love tennis most!).

It is sad that this quarter is ending soon. Kexin, Zhenzhou, Daryl are flying back to Singapore soon. I bet there wont be so much fun after this. Haiz.

Spanish

Secretly, I am caught in Spanish fever.
Maybe, perhaps, most probably, I am going to pick up a book on Basic Spanish and learn it by myself.

Target: Able to converse in Spanish with my roomie in 3 months time :)

Sometimes I think I am just being superficial.

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On a side note, the weather has not been good to us. When we decided to go outdoor, it rains! When we decided to stay indoor to study, it turns up sunny. Grrrr..

Victoria Garden's shopping experience was good (despite the rain). Forever 21 is really cheaper here. The price tags are deceiving. It says 18 USD. Sounds really cheap. BUT, do your conversion, it is not all that cheap!

Chicken Pot Pie, I HOP, good meals for weekend.

Yosemite National Park for CNY and Snowboarding at Big Bear the week after.
Michelle came out with the idea of having HOTPOT on Big Bear mountain. So looking forward :)

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I am missing Sambal Belachan, Satay, Ikan Bakar, Nasi Lemak. OHMAN!! Can somebody mail me some sambal? Wait, I saw durian in the supermarket. They throw the whole durian into the freezer. Weirdos!

Interesting!!

What a US student does when he cant memorize the 20 definitions which are gotta be tested on tml's test?

Read below:

to all against the verbatim format
anyone who despite good effort can't completely memorize theses 20 wordy definitions word for word should e-mail the professor with your concerns. It could make a big difference if a lot of people do it.

HAHA! He emailed the whole class and asking everyone to write against the memorizing of 20 definitions. Kudos man!

All the reasons to be fat here:
*Need to eat more because the weather is cold. We need fats to keep ourselves warm*
*It is so cold out there. Too cold for exercise*

Well, nuff said. Be prepared to see a fat fat zhiying.

Another side note, I just finished watching a near 3 hour of Australian Open Men's Final. Of course, it is still Roger Federer as the champion. Poor Andy Murray. But I guess it is definitely a great lesson to the young chap. Cant only be defensive in major grand slam final. You need to be aggressive with a full range of different shots. Baseline, Aces, Volley, Backhand etc. Just admit this. Federer is far more flexible and calm. Experience counts. Look at how federer get back when he is down at 5-3 at the third set. Look at how he managed to save 5 set points. Look at how he able to win the final in 3 straight sets. Good job Fed.

I think california has far too many asians. It is everywhere. We gotta know a few really friendly Asians here and they drove us around, brought us to nice dining place. It is really very kind of them. Really. Grateful and touched. Guess what, some places here are actually more CHINESE than Singapore. Weird but true. The whole area with Chinese Signboards. The supermarket is selling more chinese food than ever. WOAH!

It is late. I should sleep. Adios~

I am blogging in Library

Yeap,I decided to blog in library while waiting for my friend's class to end.\

It seems that many people around me are vegetarians. My roomie and her bf are vegetarians, and they love chinese food. Her bf is a "vegetarian" who loves shrimp fried rice.weird enough. So in order to learn how to cook shrimp fried rice for her bf,she asked me to teach her. Not that I am good in cooking, but well, I guess I am still better in handling chinese food. At least I wont cook those long grain rice, thinking it is the same as our usual white rice. HAHA.

Interesting enough, my roomie and her bf are both hard core tennis players. So, yeap, sometimes we get together and watch tennis match, especially during this Aus Open Season.

And well, surprisingly, Asian is the majority at UCR and the whites are the minority. That probably explains why I have so few white friends over here. HAHA..
Seriously, I think we need to stop going to Chinese Restaurants and start getting into the US culture. FYI, Pearl Milk Tea, which is commonly known as "Boba tea" over here is super duper famous. It is not hard to find a BOBA tea shop around riverside. I think I have more Boba tea over here than in Singapore (since I dun really drink Boba tea back home).

For this CNY, I am probably be camping at Yosemite National Park. We decided to go camping with our school excursion club. It is gonna be fun, it is gonna be cold. It will be a different CNY. After that, we probably going to snowboard. My roomie and her bf and a few other EAP students are also joining us. Hope that's going to be fun!

Oh,interesting enough, I havent been skipping class (this is weird considering the fact that I skipped class in NUS). I have been deligently doing my homework. Weird. Bleh