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My US Life^^

So, I am living at 873 Laverne Way, Los Altos, CA, 94022, in a US$2million house. Living with a white family. My host is a manager of a construction company. His wife is a gred 6 teacher. They have 4 children. Chris is 26 yrs old and is staying here until he finds his own place. He never went to college, yet he is earning way more than a 100k US$ a year doing something to do with computers and sales. Eric, 23 yrs old, is now in Colorado studying in graduate school as a vet. Jeff and Suzanne is 20 yrs old and are studying in UC Santa Cruz and they live in Santa Cruz. There are four dogs in the house which are super cute, obedient and spoilt (they are allowed to go on the sofa and sleep on the bed) ........

So, every month I am paying $750 as rent. They supposely cook for me dinner 4 times a week but my host said that whenever they have dinner, I can have them too. They cook good food. Usually have beef burger, steak, chicken, occasionaly salmon, and lots more.And they also allowed me to eat watever food is in the house. So basically breakfast and lunch I would eat at home, either eating leftovers or I cook something simple like eggs, hot dogs and spiced chicken. They have wireless internet so I get to use it as well and do not have to subscribe my own internet. There is a big television in the living room which has a lot of channels, maybe a 100, and usually I am the one with the TV all by myself. I have a resonably big room to myself and a big bathroom as well. Only me and Cris are sharing the bathroom. The house has a big compund which is kinda neat.

The problem is when I wanna go to somewhere. Have to walk 15 minutes to the bus stop whenever I wanna take a bus. And the bus is so infrequent, every half hour. But this is nothing compared to Dao


who is cycling half hour everytime to go to college. CRAZY! Anyway, just few days ago, my host lend me his son's bike. So now I have a bike and it is so much easier to go somewhere. And in the evening, I would longkai around the neighbourhood and look at beautiful big houses. The neighbourhood is so so big but yet it is so quiet. Hardly see anyone around!

They are a good family and are treating me nicely. They joke alot and I do also joke with them. They bring me to places as well like to the beach, to rockclimbing, to swim at the pool at the neighbours, and for vacation. So far, I went with Eric and his friends
Suzanne to Lake Taho. It was fun and the scenery there was breathtaking. Too bad I dint have camera then..

All in all, life is not bad for me in US..! Thank God!

So something interesting happened today. A divorce mom and her daughter and son moved in to the house today. So i guess i have new housemates now. I am not sure how long they gonna stay... The son is younger than me and the daughter is probably 1-2 years older than me.. I dont know yet, maybe the same age as me... Cant really tell by their face. Anyway, she is kinda hot, so woot! :P

K lah, dont want to write anymore, or some people will say me lo soh~~

My First Post - The REASONS....


Ok, I guess I am starting to blog now after inspired by Eileen and Daowen's blog and after overcoming my lazyness....

Biggest reason why I am so reluctant to blog is cuz I am phobia of writing... after my spring quarter of English class....... x_x I have to write 4 essays of 4 - 5 pages, double space, which is around 1500 to 2000 words each essay..... Each essay is given 2 weeks to write..... in high school which I only need to write 350 words.... and now 1500 words? Wat the hell?!!!

The process of completing a final draft of an essay required me to write several drafts first with changes and corrections upon each drafts until I am satisfied and hope the final draft will fetch a good gred.... I probably spend minimum 8 hours total to complete an essay.......exculding the first whole week of stressing abt it..... That is when my phobia of writing began..... To add up to this phobia, the first 3 of my essays got a C - wat the hell!! - in which 2 of that essays I had to spend another few more hours revisng and submit in in order to get a better gred...!
The other essay, my teacher said was beyond repair...... T-T

If that wasnt bad enough, twice a week, we have to read something and post our opinion that will be given marks that will contribute to the final gred on the Google group discussion board online...... The reading material aint easy to read... If average up, every sentence will have 2-3 words I do not understand. At first very rajin look up the word on the dictionary, after 15 minutes, jelak liau. So i skipped many words and only find the words that will cause me to totally not understand watever the heck the writer is trying to say. Even with the words understood, I still cant understand watever i am reading. Usually I will read a sentence or a pharragraph 4 or 5 times, thinking that will help me understand, but usually never did... In the end, have to use my own imagination and make the best out wat the writer is writing. It was a nightmare. Blaming my english 'char-ness' on Malaysia education system for not focusing on English and myself too for not improving my English, but mostly on the Malaysia education system.......
Worst of 70% of the time, my interpretation is wrong..... T-T
The required words of the posted opinion is 200-300 words per post, but I usually wrote more than 400 words...
Why?, u might ask....
Kiasu mah!! Needed the marks ok!!......

Last but not the freaking least, I have to read a 247-page of a who-the-hell-read-this novel named Gilead in 1 & 1/2 week time, which is utterly boring and a grandfather story,literally(it was a letter a 79 year old dying pastor wrote to his son in the future, not a son who is gonna be born in the future, but his 7 year old son who is gonna grow up in the future..... sounds boring already eh...). Typically, I end up not understanding many parts of the novel but luckily at the end the teacher gave us a reading guide to help understand the novel. And then I have to write a 2 page book review on the novel. Holy shit!!~~

All these was done in almost three months time. At the end, a phobia of writing was contracted in me............ which then explains why I am so lazy to write emails and messages to people... Every single time I think of writing, it is always 'I have to' and my whole body will lose energy...!

But on the bright side, blogging is kinda cool and fun.. I will be able to blog cool things that are happening in my life which is so much cooler and exciting now that I am in US....
And blogging can improve my writing skill as my English teacher said to improve in writing, you have to write more...

So, there you go, my first blog post...... Wo0t!

2.30 am liau..wanna go sleep....freaking tired! Hopefully this wont be my first and last post..! wakakka!