Ultra City Tour

Yay~ Finally get to go out and meet some new friends today as I joined the sitting in the bus Ultra City Tour organized by the Academy. It's a tour for all the new students, who mostly are new to the city, to take a ride around the town. I can't really remember all the places we visited because we were only sitting in the bus while Etta, our tour guide for the day, explained to us the places and stuffs.
Pictures from top of the hill:



Then we got on the bus and passed Golden Gate Park, which led us to the Golden Gate Bridge.


Group pictures: Dawna, Sean and Douglas. (We are all in different majors. Haha)



Such a great yet exhausting day trip. Guess that's all for today.

Current Resident

That's the house next door. Hahaha.. below is the apartment that I'm currently staying at.


I'm pretty sure mum will be healthier if she's living here because she has to walk quite a distance from bus stations to the house.


(Photo via Nokia X3)

A Walk in the City

Since many of my readers here requested to see pictures of city in San Francisco, so I took few pictures (p.s: no chinese words this time. Ha!) to share with you all how was it like.




I'm yet to pass the Golden Gate Bridge, because I can't find any reason to do so. LOL. Will upload more pictures if I'm going to hit the city anytime soon. (Probably not. Bus fare is quite expensive and carpool only available in the morning. Ha!)

Good Morning San Francisco

Most of you already knew I landed in San Franc safe and sound via facebook not too long ago. Well, life has been a bless thus far. I can't really ask for more. I have this very nice and friendly auntie taking care of me while I'm here.

There are some interesting stuffs I would love to share: in the State, they have this carpool system whereby people can carpool with strangers to get to the city. Why would drivers want to fetch people they don't really know? Haha. Answer is they get to skip the traffic lanes and avoid the toll once they have more than 3 passangers in the car. Brilliant idea right?

Another place I visited today was the farmer's market. They are extremely cheap. And if you are just broke that day, you certainly can visit the market to get free samples and eat all you want. That's what I did today. Settled my lunch with food samples. Haha. And then they have a store, like a local mart, that solely sells their own brand's products. The red wine they produced, priced for 1.99USD only. Hard to imagine right? And they have free coffee for everyone. So the good plan is, go to grab something to eat in the market, get a coffee from the store, your lunch is settled. Haha. Pretty amazing.

No pictures taken yet because I forgot to bring my camera out for the past two days. Maybe tomorrow. Till then, bye and sweet dreams.

Teenage Dream

Well its just days left before I head to the State and begin my new journey of life. To be frank, I'm not as excited as I thought myself would be. Perhaps, this is what differentiate reality and dream - we tend to worry about everything in real life. Then, I start to wonder again, am I doing the right thing?

It takes a lot of courage, and money of course, to leave a place I've known since I ever open my eyes for the first time. So its devastating when you have people telling you, if I were you, I won't be going la.. so far away and expensive.. this and that. Well, you ain't no me. How do you know what was the reason I'm leaving?

Then I start to recall this little ambition of mine since, I can't really tell when. I wanted to do something that make my mum proud. Given the history of my family, I actually wasn't given any chances to fail in this one. I am not allowed to fail. Furthermore, I am the key person that determine where we stand in the future. Even though I know its gonna be a tough one to go out there and stand by myself alone, I have to. Don't I know its a big risk and not to mention, financially burdening too? I doubt I can watch movies as heavy as I did here because Im going to hell workalot there to earn every penny i spend!Of course I did all the maths. People asked my mum, how a widow like her was abled to raise all 5 kids so well? That's exactly the point I wanna prove to the world.

I had doubt in myself before this too. But my mum kept telling me, if we were given the opportunity to do something, we should grab it while it lasts. Now its the right time to go. God knows how long more the business can go well on. If I let it slip through, I might not make it in the near future. I don't wanna look back at my life and ask, what if.

Sometimes, people think they know what they want to know. But they never go underneath what's on the surface. They only take what they saw and jump into the conclusion. Well, take what you can. I can't tell you what to do. Its your thinking. And so is mine. I just hope that if you wanted to put yourself into my shoes, make sure you got into the right foot.

For the past few days I've been hanging around, having fun - a lot. Well, guess that's it. I should come back to reality. Because one day, these people won't be there for me as they have their dreams to chase after too, just like how I can't be there for them. I can't be blocking everyone and making them to compromise with me just because I'm leaving soon. I know they have their own schedules too. I am not the only friend. And thanks for enlightening my days. Appreciate that. Even a thought without action was sweet. You all make me feel like a teenager again.

But too bad, I'm already 21.

The Climb

"I can almost see it, that dream I'm dreaming BUT..."

Yes, there is always a 'but' in our lives. That's obstacles. I find it hard to sleep lately as I'm getting closer to realizing my dream - stepping into America. A lot of questions keep popping in my head - many times I try to tell myself its gonna be okay, there come another question: Am I gonna survive? Financially? Academically? Am I doing the right thing?

There's nothing much I can do now. I shall continue what I have started off - keep climbing and I might see the view I was looking for eventually. Wish me lots of lucks in that. Do check in some times after to see if I make it.