Millenium Park + Musuem Campus

During my 1st weekend here, we went to Millenium Park. A park located at the heart of the city of Chicago. A very nice place to visit with Sky Scrappers all around you. Awesome~ I am lazy to type~ Enjoy the photos~

JingKai Rami and Me

Rami Tinki and Me

The Bean lor~

Yeap Millenium Park~

Reflection~

Chicago Skyline from Millenium Park

Dunno wat is tis =.=

Nice~~

We went Musuem Campus later on~ Took some photos of Chicago Skyline in front of Lake Michigan~~



Yeap Chicago Skyline~ Saw Sears tower?

Chicago + Frozen Lake Michigan

Food~~~~~~~~

Ok~

The dorm wasn't open for the 1st week and meal plan wasn't started yet. So my fren brought me around to taste some chicago nice foods.

So it was Chicago China Town, 1 station from my campus by train, or we can actually walk there.. which no body does, but it actually take around 25 minutes only, pretty convenient~. Seriously the food here is really nice, but of course it is not cheap at all =.= There are ALOT of chinese restaurant here ~~

Joy Yee's Noodle, a very nice chinese restaurant located at New China Town. 1 thing i want to mention is the dishes here are served in BIG PORTION. Seriously i couldn't finish it by myself. American Size =.=

Beef Rice

See how big it is.. Zzzzzz.. American Size =.=

Another nice restaurant to introduce is our very own Chicago's Style PIZZA, Giordano's Pizza~~ It located at downtown Chicago, which my frens brought me there on my 5th day at Chicago. Got to know some friends came from Inti Subang Jaya and a very nice senior name Ison that night too.

Giordano (shares the same name as the casual wear retailer) =.=

American Pizza, big and cheesy. Not bad~ I like it~~~

Something interesting is, in America, in the restaurant, they ALWAYS expect you to tip them. Actually i think it is COMPULSORY to tip them. For restaurants, you have to pay around 15% extra as TIPS. So its like if the bill came out 25 Dollars, you have to pay 30 Dollars. Everything that is related to service industry you must pay tips! Taxi drivers here earn a fortune, because u have to pay 25% tips. So if the fare is 100 Dollars, you will have to pay 125 Dollars. Really Zzzzzzz.

Welcome to USA

Ok.

My fren Mr.HK picked me up at the airport at 5am morning! We took the train from the airport and it was a very long journey to downtown Chicago. He straight brought me to downtown Chicago to walk around and China Town to eat breakfast, with my big luggage =.= Zzzzz really dunno wat is he thinking haha.

Downtown Chicago Morning 6am ~~ Its not really that cold yet.

Nothing special for the 1st week. Stayed at his house because the dorm wasn't open yet, maybe i arrived a little too early. So the 1st week was just home-sicking every morning and jet- lagging. I slept at around 7~8pm at nite and woke up at 6am everyday . Zzzzz

It was quite suffering and boring during the 1st week. Maybe its because my other frens studying here were not back yet. Jingkai was at LA, Sam was at Japan, and the others were all around USA like NewYork or Iowa. Furthermore, i didn't know any new friends yet.

Zzzzzzzzz

The house i stayed during my 1st week. Looks small but its really comfortable inside.

Journey To The West =.=

Ok~

So the journey to the "west" began =.=

My journey would be like KL >>> Taipei >>>> LosAngeles by Malaysia Airline
And Los Angeles >>> Chicago by United Airline

Sienzzz =.= Booked late so it cost RM 3802!! 1 way somemore!! Zzzzzzzz Sienzzz

Malaysia airline is really pretty cool. Nice food and very interesting flight entertainment. There are many many games and movies, u'll never feel bored on the plane

Malaysia Airline Flight Entertainment Joystick


Champions League 2006-2007 Highlights


Took around 4 hours to reach taipei, and 2 hours of sienzz transit at the airport.


Taipei Airport Duty Free Shop =.=


After that it was a long long flight from Taipei to Los Angeles across the Pasific Ocean, 11 hours if i have not mistaken. Nothing much to do, just Zzzzzzz.

Los Angeles ~~~~

Ok so here am i~ Welcome myself to the United States. Got my passport everything stamped and it was a SIENZZZ 6 hours wait at the stupid LA Airport. Called my uncle at Washington DC, called my fren who supposed to pick me up at Chicago Airport, then there was nothing to do but just wait. I really don't like that airport, don't know why?! The environment sucks =.= Didn't snap any photo at LA airport.

Then, it was United Airline to Chicago. I really miss Malaysia Airline when i took United Airline to Chicago =.= It really sucks. It was a 4 hours journey with no food served at all. So nothing to do just Zzzzz on the plane =.=

Finally~ Arrived at Chicago's O'hare International Airport, the world busiest Airport. So the journey was like 4hours+ 2hours+11hours+6hours+4hours = 27 hours to the United States. Zzzzzzz...

So, Welcome to the United States Mr.Alex Ong^^

KLIA

13th January

The day has come~ Finally i have to leave malaysia. Haiz

Arrived at KLIA at 12 30 pm with my family, which was TOO early dy =.= Checked in and done everything by 1pm i guess. Actually I told those boys to come around 1pm, to talk rubbish with me as usual, but as expected, no one arrived yet =.= .

So by 1 30pm some of my college frens arrived, which was really on-timed. Hmm i am really glad to meet up with them before leaving Malaysia. Must add oil all~ See you all at USA soon~

YiNi, Lit Ung, HoayLynn who arrived on time~

A while later Emily arrived with JieTing~ Haha glad to see u gals. I was quite surprised because i thought she's not coming to send me off. Got a big big chocolate which i couldn't even finish it by now. Thx gals ~

My Dear College frens~ Take care

Big Chocolate and a Monkey =.= Why monkey actually?

Finally, some of those lengzais arrived. It was like 1 40 pm when Yanz arrived with TauSen and Big Cow. I phoned Mr Lut who was fetching the other guys and guess wat? They were still on Seremban Highway and it was 1 40 pm already! " Dun Go In Sin~~ We are flying 150 here!! " This was what miwang told me on the phone. Haha you should have told the pilot not me.

Finally! They arrived~ 2:05pm =.= Zzz so i had no time to talk much with them. But fortunately i still got to see them all b4 leaving to the States. If they late for another 10 minutes, really Zzzzz.

So took some photos and really BYEBYE!! Haha i didn't even feel like crying at all~ Dunno why??? Maybe i am too strong? Haha~ Michele u lose dy larr.

Thx all for sending me~ I appreciate it.

My Family~



Lut Marlson Miwang Me Tausen Desmond Yanz and Timax~ TakeCare guys!


Take care all my dearest frens ~~

Shogun~~

11th January

Ok so it was my last friday at malaysia before leaving for the States. So as usual we went for futsal at 4pm~~ Yea it was my last game before leaving malaysia. It was fun and i'm glad to score couple of goals too haha. Mr Yanz even rushed back from nottingham to play this game =.= haha.

Yea we went Shogun, Sunway for dinner after that~~ Haha i am glad this time all gals turned up, since some of them like to put aeroplane =.=

Unfortunately, Shogun sucks =.= Maybe because we tried Jogoya before, everyone was just comparing the foods with Jogoya's hundred ringgit buffet. Zzz but seriously i don't think it worth RM66 =.= It would be the 1st and the last time for all of us i think. Haha~

The bill came out RM 1067.20~ So everyone except me paid RM 70++. Gosh paiseh so expensive ~ But thx all for treating me~

So everyone signed on the back of the bill and it became my zzz farewell present. Expensive present rite? Haha

Still with me~ Safe and sound~ See?? Saupei la guofen~ haha joking~

The Gals~

The Boys~~

^^

10th January~



Ice Skating is fun~~ Lalala