This is Chicago

It took me 42 days to post a blog entry ever since I stepped foot onto American soil. This pretty much tell you how busy I am with College and the moved into the apartment with my boyfriend, David. The apartment we are at is pretty spacious and after two months it's starting to feel like home.

School has been good to me, manage to take two marketing related classes (Introduction to Public Relations and Introduction to Advertising), one writing class and one Japanese language & Culture class. And I have to count my lucky star that I have gotten myself really good Professors for each of my class, never thought  that I would be so attentive and participate in class discussions, because I'm usually rather quiet in big groups and tend to listen more than to utter a word thinking that I might say something wrong, but I guess that's not the case when you have Professors who are so open to your ideas and take notices to each and everyone of their students.

My first two weeks in Chicago, I made a couple of new friends! Funny thing is they are both asians and here I thought that coming to America I would know more American friends, not that it matter just thought it was worth sharing about. I met Mitsuki during the first meet up with the International Students of Columbia College Chicago, we had a few things in common like video games, anime, the best part was he's japanese and I was into japanese language  he was one of the first who hung out with me!

The other was Tomoyo who I met during an orientation for international students. She accompanied me during Casino Royale, an event that was held during orientation week where students were asked to dress to impress and given chips to gamble for prizes.

Apart from classroom stuff and new friends I have made, I am also very involve with clubs like the Muggles Association of Columbia as an E-Board member and PRSSA E-Board member as their National Liaison. I am really excited about being accepted in my new roles with the clubs and can't wait to get started and show them what I can do!

Despite being homesick for the first few days, I'm doing pretty okay here in Chicago and there so much more I would like to share with you guys about during my stay here, so do stay tune..

Our First Night in Osaka

I am sure some of you are wondering, why am I blogging about Osaka and not my trip to Chicago and Orlando, Florida. Well It's like this, I blog when the feeling comes to me, and I just had a nice warm bath, followed by a cup of hot Japanese roast tea while typing this to you guys. So I did say it's a good mood to be sharing about my first night experiencing Osaka, Japan.

We were on a train from the airport to the hotel and I decided to play around with my Canon EOS 600D and it's shutter speed. I have always wanted to take pictures such as the one above, because I was inspired by one of the photographers who had his work on the magazine of Black & White Photography. I know it might not be that good of a picture, but I am pretty contented with the outcome.

Hungry we were, we headed out for dinner right after leaving our luggage in the hotel rooms. And thankfully my boyfriend knows the place quite well enough to bring us to where we can find good cheap Japanese food! And boy was the Char Siew Ramen with Shoyu base soup heavenly! Apart from the very fatty char siew meat, I must say that was a pretty darn good bowl of ramen and it beats anything you can find in Singapore at the same price of S$10. If you tell me Singapore's Ajisen I will slap you..

Now finally a picture of my 彼氏 and me outside the Ramen store we had our dinner at. Those of you who are in the customer service line and suck at it, please visit Japan and learn a thing or two. Thank you. Even though I myself have been in the customer service line before, and I did a pretty good darn job at it mind you, I still feel that I am not good enough if I were to compare myself with the people in Japan.

Lovely people, streets and country. And this is only our first night, wait until you hear from me when I come back from Universal Studios Osaka..

Pocky Gives You Muscles

This might sound like a real random blog entry or to some like an entry for the sake of blogging but I tell you this. It's not because I do believe that Pocky actually does give me muscles!

Okay now I wasn't really being serious about that, I'm just suffering from a writer's block as I try to squeeze out whatever memory I had of the day when I got this box of strawberry flavored pocky.

I enjoy little meet ups with good company especially with those who are close to me. Was really glad that Hisham arranged to meet up with Clarence and me for some seafood buffet which I end up getting sick from, figured it was either food poisoning or the coconut I had. Anyway if you followed me on twitter you would have known that the strawberry pocky was a gift from Clarence who got it for me while he was shopping because he remembers that I LOVE LOVE LOVE strawberry pocky very much!

What's really the point of this blog entry you might ask? Well Some of you might not know this but the guy name Clarence Chan was the one who brought my boyfriend and together! Yes yes yes there's a word for a guy like him, MATCHMAKER!

So if it wasn't for Clarence, I don't I be where I am now in life. Both my boyfriend and I are really grateful for what he has done and for bringing us together. Yes this is the same Clarence who appears on our Jailbaitkids YouTube Channel every Thursday.

Where's Hisham? Well I haven't gotten the group picture we took with his camera, the pictures used above were all taken with my Blackberry Bold 9780 camera hence the low image quality.