SimpleBlob's Life

After moving in a new Apartment, I cook every day.

Do I need to cook? No, not necessarily.

I cook because I love cooking.

Every moment in kitchen contains unexpected surprise -- Like forgetting to buy some important ingredient -- to cracking raw egg and let it fell right into the burner hole. (luckily i can open inside and scoop it out.

Not to mention, you can experiment with new recipes and new ingredient.

And lastly, if you are lucky, you will get a delicious meal.

Here is one of the first meals I cooked in the U.S.

"Spaghetti with Beef Tomato Sauces"





You can see the rest of it here!
(*note* - some of them are not photogenic.)

I'm here at Illinois[Champaign] for 3 days now.
Trying to get accustom to the weather and other things.

Here's some pics from my journey.

May 15 4:00AM [BKK time], Arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport.











Well actually, that's the only photo I got. throughout this trip, I was too excited to take a picture.
Let's move on.


May 15 6:00PM [BKK Time], Plane took off. it would land at Narita in another 6 hour. I sat next to a Thai and we had on a great conversation. He is actually a US citizen now and has been living in L.A. for 20 years. I learned a few things from him about living in the US.


May 15 1:40PM [Japan Time], Arrived at Narita Airport -- 20 minutes to change flight.
Because of the weather, I was delayed for 40 minutes. I thought I was not going to make it to the next flight. (Detroit)


May 15 2:00PM [Japan Time], Yes, of course I got there on time. I was happy that things were going well, not knowing the ordeal not far ahead -- the 11-hour flight.

May 15 1:00PM [Detroit Time], That 11 hour was pure hell. Imagine sitting still for 11 hours in poor lighting condition,with only 2 round of food and 2 glass of water to between those nightmare. Luckily, I sat next to a very very nice Japanese guy. Although he can barely speak English, we shared a lot of story and develop rapport. Believe it or not, I mainly used my rusty Japanese to communicate.

May 15 2:00PM [Detroit Time], I passed a US immigration check. It was an interesting experience. I wait in line for half an hour because of an indian family in front of me got a questionable Visa. When it was my turn, the policeman behind the counter was already grumpy. In fact, he was a Big fat grumpy black policeman with the name tag -- "Little John." Yup. Nice knowing ya.

May 15 4.00PM [Detroit Time], this was the time I should board my plane to Champaign, IL but some problem came up. Due to the lighting storm, my plane couldn't take off and my flight was cancelled. This was my worst nightmare, but it actually turned out quite well. There were a lot of people who booked this flight, so I went to talk to them and become good friends (1 Australian, 1 Singporean, and 2 Koreans.) The Airline apologized and booked us the following morning flight. After that, we went to hotel nearby and slept through the night.

May 16 8.30AM [Detroit Time], Finally got on the plane to Champaign. It's a little AirBus plane. It can only take 30 person at a time.

May 16 10.30AM [Detroit Time], Arrived at Champaign,IL! What a long journey... It's beautiful here, and also very cold. Anyhow, my life here at the US ... has begun.

Hulo!
It has been 4 months since I last posted.
What did I do with all that time?

Jan - March : 3 Freelance Projects , Prepare for School and USA Visa stuff
April - May : Play games

Wow! That actually sums it up quite well.

Hmmm wish I would waste less time playing game (especially online games).

Anyhow,

It's now an "8-day" countdown.

I'm flying. Away from home. Away from everything I got used to.

8 days from now, I would be half a globe away.

Kinda strange, it didn't feel so exciting anymore.

I heard someone said, " Everyone wants progress, but noone would like to change "
It's really true.

Wahhhhhh~ Does Anyone get homesick before they leave?

Well, I got Blog-tagged from Memashow, so this is my response..

5 Things about me that people never know before:

1. I have Synesthesia (The Fusion of Senses):

It's the way my brain is wired. Mainly I see alphabets in colors -- any alphabet.
For example: the m in "me" is brown and e is poop-like. Yes I know it is all black.

I start notice it when I first learned A-Z. I asked my mother why A is "red" and she freaked out. (she thought something is wrong with my eyes)

2. I started learning English because I thought it would make me "cool":

Until this day, I still think the ability to converse in other languages is awesome. It should also helps with getting girls (or boys.) Speak French = Sexy!

My goal is speaking/writing fluently in 8 languages. Oh.. imagine the chicks you get! I will go set up a Harem now.

3. I bought a lot of books and never finished them:

My interest mostly waned after the 2nd chapter. I always feel guilty about this, but not much.

4. I survived getting hit by a car when I was very young:

Well... I dodged it, actually, by lying on the ground.

I was very young then. I was playing near the front yard of my neighbor's house and incidentally a car was going out from garage to the main road. the driver should have seen me, but back then I was so short (my head is lower than the hood), so he drove at me in full speed .

I turned around and saw the car coming toward me very fast. Amazing, I was shocked and falled backward, making my lying on the ground. The car literally went over me, but leaving me unharmed. Nevertheless, it's a long time before my family let me play on that yard again.

5. I have a natural red, brown, and occasionally gold hair:

Although my hair is mostly black, sometimes I found 1 or 2 strands that are in those color. I thought it was very cool.

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Well, that's it. I hope you never know these before. If you do, then you must know me very well indeed.

Wow long time no update, right?

Actually I was waiting very patiently for my application result(s), and it just came in on the 2nd day of this month.

Ho Ho Ho.... Guess what? I got an early chrismas gift from University of Illinois.. (UIUC) Woohoo!

I finally decided I want to get a Master of Finance degree and UIUC is my top choice. (To tell you the truth, I haven't applied to other universities haha)

Although UIUC is on the 2nd tier (ranking #24-28), its Finance department has a lot of wonderful professors and its location is good in term of job prospect (near Chicago) --- so I am very very happy I got admitted.

On the other note, I just bought 2 domain names -- www.simpleblob.com and www.simplepause.com. Now you can type in those address and it will redirect you to this blog.

PS. Happy Holidays Everyone!