The Guinea Pig Diaries

Currently reading The guinea Pig Diaries, My Life as an Experiment by A.J. Jacobs.

The title attracted my attention.
I'm sure many have thought about this: What if I or How will I be if I am...
The author, AJ experimented with different interesting topics that even I wanted to try them myself! Among the experiments are:

• My outsourced life - he outsource his everyday tasks like emailing, buying gifts for wife, groceries to his "team" in India. I like this chapter very much, outsourcing my homework to India would be a good idea!!!!
• I think You're Fat - Live the life of radical honesty, meaning say what ever is in your mind without filtering it. I think I do that, sometimes. Hey, I still want my head attached!!!
  

Maybe I should do something fun this winter break.

Wake up -> Drama/Movie/Facebook -> Lunch -> Drama/Movie/Facebook -> Chores -> Drama/Movie/Facebook -> Dinner -> Dishes -> Drama/Movie/Facebook -> Read -> Sleep

Wow, my winter break is so productive!!!!

I transform into a teacher on Sundays only

[This is not an advert]

Probably still not many people know that I'm currently working as a part-time Mandarin teacher at a Chinese school. In case you want to know, is Hai Hwa Overseas Chinese School.

Quote from the website:

We are an educational entity of the Hai-Haw Foundation, which specializes in mathematics and linguistics courses, along with an emphasis on Chinese cultural arts and appreciation.

The Dallas Overseas Chinese School was founded in 1994 on the principle of teaching with genuine understanding and patience. We focus on building aptitude for acquiring new information and learning new skills. After all, first learners excel in TAKS and PSAT/SAT tests, and become more successful in future endeavors.

Feel free to click on this link to found out more!


Everytime I start hunting for a new job, is the job position that matters more to me. There is no point to work on a job if you are not passionate about it!!!

This Fall was my first semester teaching in this school. Previous experience as a high school tutor helps a bunch. I teach kindergarten Pinyin, my students range from age 5 to 8. I would say I'm babysitting instead of teaching and require tones of patience!!! Nevertheless, the kids do learned a lot in one semester.




I feel so proud that my years of learning Mandarin is actually useful!
Plus, I'm spreading this amazing language in this Western country.

A Malaysian like me can speak and write and read well in Mandarin too !!!!
The school teachers, principle and Chairman all thought that I'm from China judging from the way I talk.....

Last Sunday was the last day of this semester. Students had a year-end performance.
I get some small presents too ^^




Cute gift from one of my student, Caroline.



Peppermint and almond soap~~ that's new for me.




Ball-like owl. CUTE!!! Oh, great for decoration~
Or you can stare into its eyes when you are bored.




Pretty red glittered candle from Ava.




It serves as a Christmas decoration now =D

I really wish to see more students in Hai Hwa Chinese School, spreading the language and culture to more people in this part of the world.

Hope to see new faces next semester!

딸기 is Strawberry

One of my favorite snack is wafer cookies.

Chocolate, milk or strawberry flavor, I like all of them!



In Korean, tal-gi means strawberry.




The strong sweet flavor of strawberry filled my room even before I tear open its inner wrapper!



What's more, my room turned into a strawberry factory once I have unsealed it~~!!!

Action speaks louder than words. Let's eat!!!!




Crunchy and melts in your mouth!

Delicious !!!

p/s: I just learned to make flash on photoshop, which explains why I'm so excited and decided to put flash pictures in every single post now =D

The mask

Sheet mask or cloth mask is widely common in Asia, not to mention Asian women used thousands of million pieces of masks every year!!!

Different types of masks all have different claims, from moisturizing to brightening, tightening, wrinkle reducing, antioxidant, and Asian most favorite - whitening.

I like the cooling sensation when I use the mask, is so~~~~~ cooling! Of course, softer and smoother skin afterward, especially in this super DRY environment!!! My fear of dry skin and care for my money urge me to bring tons of masks back from Malaysia when I went back this summer.



Is so much cheaper to buy sheet masks in Asia. Seriously, I would cost me double or even triple to buy it here!!!! My mom even encouraged me to buy more =D


Sheet masks comes in a small package like this:



Depends on which type of mask you get, different types of mask is soaked with different types of essence fluid.

In case you haven't seen a sheet mask before, this is how it looks like:



Everytime I put on the mask.......

My grandma said :"Choi, hou ci guai gam yong!" - my gosh, you look like a ghost!

Dear readers, you have the honor to take a look too. However, I am not responsible for the consequences.

WARNING !!!

Pregnant women, children, and those
with weak heart please proceed with caution.

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Brown and Mi-Nan

Finals ended exceptionally early for me; while everyone is having their finals on Final week, I'm done on the first day. What's left is the cruel moment of grades being published....

Now is the best time for me to read this amazing book!!



The Lost Symbol was published September of this year by my favorite author Dan Brown. I love his writing style, it is the main excuse for me to have the whole collection of his books. My collection will be up to date once The Lost symbol has a paper cover version!!!!



You're beautiful is my latest k-drama, a must watch!!!


Alright, until I have something fun to blog about.... Bye for now!!!

Surpises and my new toy

I kinda guessed this is coming when Yen repeatedly ask me to confirm my address.





Inside the envelope are some very very creative handmade crafts!



I can never thought of making this.... Thanks Ling!!!



Shooting stars? Let's make a wish!!



This is so dreamy and princess-cy.



At first I thought Yen bought the roses from craft store. but NO~~~ Is handmade!!!
Thanks Yen!

Time to show off my best buy from the Black Friday sales.....



Let's welcome Nikon S203!!!!



Slim and sleek. I love the close-ups.
Those who know me knew that my hand shakes when I take pictures = =
Worry not, Nikon baby solves my problem!!!!

By the way, all pictures in this entry are taken with this baby.

Woohoo~

Wish me luck for my finals.

Free shaved ice

I never knew that Texas will have wintry mix (mixture of frozen rain and snow) in this early December.

Snowing is just so romantic... I think.



Just that the snow doesn't stay, it melts right away and is completely gone by 10am.

Does this mean that Texas will have a chance of white Christmas? I surely hope so!!!

Black Friday at Fry's

You know it's the time of the year again when ads are flooding the newspapers

Black Friday Sales!!

I wanted a camera, laptop bag, and wireless mouse.
I bought Nikon C203 for $78 (from Target), laptop bag for $5, laptop cooler and bluetooth adapter for free!!

Pictures from Fry's :

I went there at 12:30am, and the line was already long...





The store opened at 5am, but people started running and rushing to the front at 4am. Crazy!!

Everyone was basically standing back-to-back.
Luckily I hired a very good bodyguard, phew~~

One thing, I wonder why people stared at me when they walked past me.....










Most of my friends are back to Dallas for Thanksgiving, which explains why I'm in hyper mode during these few days. It is so good to see them again!!!!!


Alright, gotta finish my homeworksssss and pack up my holiday mood!!!