Several weeks ago, I bought some sugar'n cream cotton yarn for the Valentine hand towels. There were some black things within the yarns. So I wrote a letter to the company in Canada, and asked the reason of the black things in the yarn and if they are harmful. Last week, they sent me back a small package, which had a letter, 60 patterns and 3 balls of yarn. In the letter, they basically appologized and explained what happened to the yarn. (They have switched to a new material supplier) I expected they would tell me if the yarn is ok to use or not, but they didn't. I also expected to get some free yarns, and they did gave me some lol. What I didn't expect was, they gave me whole bunch of patterns, 65 of them. I will bring them to SnB and see if any one want to borrow them this week.
Yesterday, Andrew and I went to a Chinese New Year Celebration Show. My friend, Suyana, had a dancing performance, so I was there to support her. She was also very sweet to get me a huge discount on the tickets. It was $15/person, and she made them $8 each.
I was mad at Andrew before the show because he made us late to meet my friends to go to the show together. For those of you who knows me very well, know that I am a "on time" person, I hate being late. So, althought we were only couple minutes late yesterday, I was upset about it. And then we didn't know how to get to the location of the show, that also made me mad. I was the one supposed to know the location, but I forgot the print out the map and ended up making my friends getting lost in New Haven. I was mad at Andrew and myself, really. But when the show started, I forgot all the madness, and just paid attendion to the show. I enjoyed it very much. I was very excited to see the singer Yang Yen, 楊燕. yes, she is old, my mother told me that she is at least 60 years old. But her voice was still clear and nice. Yes, I know her and that means I am old also. It's funny though, most of my friend around my age wouldn't care for her, but since I listened to whatever my parent listened when I was young, so I knew her, and I like the music of the last generation.
The second part of the show was a Chinese fashion show called "Moving Forbidden City". It's very different. I wouldn't say I like the clothes, but I do thing it's interesting, and a special experience. I would say it's a weird fashion show. Look at the pictures below and you would agree with me.
I had a pop quiz in the Statics+Dynamics+Material class yesterday. I DID not do well. Honestly, I have been very lost in that class, as I have mentioned before, the professor is a book reader, I haven't learned much from him. So, on the quiz, it was a truss question. I tried to use "method of joints" to solve the problem, but it took me forever and still didn't finish a bit. Then after the quiz, break time, I asked the professor how to appoach that kind of questions. He said I should use "method of sections". Then I told him I didn't get it and don't know how to use that methond. He didn't answer me directly and just kind of ignored me. And then after the break, one of my classmate told the professor that he didn't know how to use "method of sections". The professor, again, DID NOT answer my classmate, and kind of skipped the whole topic and started a new chapter. I was very very mad about that. How could a professor found out that some of the students didn't understand something and still ignored it and not re-teach it again? Some students asked the professor throw away the quiz because they thought they didn't do well. At the end of class, the professor said, 'Should I throw away the quiz? If it's that bad, I don't want to spend time reading it.", and we said, "YES!!". I am very scared, I feel like I were in the maths class which I took in HK, which I had the same kind of professor who only read the book. And I failed that class real bad. I am having the same feeling that I am going to fail this class...
My late Valentine's Day gift has arrived yesterday.
It's a Hello Kitty sewing machine!! Although I don't know how to sew, I am very excited to have it. My mom used to sew for living, my mom-in-law and my sister-in-law knows how to sew. I feeling like I need to know also. Plus, I have always wanted to learn. I can't wait to start using it, but I have to wait until I completely finish reading the "teach myself how to sew" book. :D
Yesterday was Chinese New Year, but Andrew and I didn't do anything special to celebrate.
Chinese New Year's Eve is very important to us. It's like Christmas Eve or Thanksgiving, all the people would have a very nice dinner at home with their family. And we also have a "open year dinner" with all the family on Chinese New Year night. My parent has gone to CA to visit my uncles and aunts there. Kaho just stayed at home alone. I have made some chinese food for those two night. I have made beef and veggie stir fried with rice cake and dumplings for New Year's Eve, and porridge and turnip cake for New Year night.
I haven't finished my first Jaywalker sock, because... After I turned the heel and started the gusset, I tried it on. Then I found out, it's very very tight for my foot. I was so upset, and then I ripped it and re-knitted it from the very beginning. oh well....
中國新年就快到喇, 我屋企人唔喺身邊, 感覺好弧單. 以前都唔會有咁嘅感覺, 唔知係咪無見屋企人好耐, 所以有Ｄ掛住佢哋. 其實每年感恩節同聖誕節都喺 Andrew 父母屋企中渡過, 氣氛好好, 好温馨, 不過我反而有Ｄ傷感, 好想返屋企見我Ｄ家人. 不過Ｄ機票真係好貴, 所以唔可以成日返. 仲有, 喺我呢到都無乜香港朋友, 我哋都唔會點興祝. 不過真係好掛住屋企, 快Ｄ到七月就好喇, 就可以返屋企.
我今日買咗蘿蔔糕, 諗住年初一整唻食, 好彩 Andrew 都好鍾意食蘿蔔糕, 咁都算喺有Ｄ新年氣氛.
我開始發覺我而家講同寫都有Ｄ詞不達意, 可能巳經太耐無用中文啦, 所以退步哂. 而家英文又唔得, 中文又咁差, 都唔知點算好, 唉.....
I did have a happy Valentine's Day. Although Andrew and I did not do anything special, I still had a very good time. We ordered a take out dinner from Texas Roadhouse and had a very romantic dinner while watching a movie at home. Andrew used lots of efford to look for the gifts for me. What did I get? After work, he called several game stores to find the "Wii Play" for me. Since it was launched on the 13th, it was sold out everywhere. But finally, he found it at Target in the mall. Beside the game, he also got me something else. It is being mailed, so I will tell what it is once I have got it. I didn't get him a good gift compare to what he got me. I bought him the Celtic Women cd and DVD. He said he likes their songs which would make him have goosebum? (don't know how to spell). Anyway. The steak I order from Texas Roadhouse was so good, and Andrew loves their ribs too. I think it's a 4.5 stars restaurant!!
We had a little snow yesterday. So in the morning, I got up a little earlier than I usually do, and see if the school was closed or not. While all the schools were closed in Connecticut, University of New Haven which is my school was still opened. I was very depressed and then got ready for school. I was driving about 25 miles/hour on Rt 1, the road was awful, 4 lanes become 2. When I arrived to the classroom, the building was almost empty. The classroom door was locked, and the professor said "this class should have been cancelled", I know!! The class was supposed to started at 9:30am, ended at 11:30am, but most of the people came in very late, some of them didn't even show up. Around 11am, the school annouced that they were closing, no class in the afternoon and evening. I was a little mad, why didn't they just closed when everyone else did in the morning, instead of having the students drove all the way from home and had one class. So stupid. Then I had the afternoon off which I was trying to finish some homework at home. I didn't get to knit!! So sad.
Yesterday, Andrew and I went to a Chinese New Year Celebration Show. My friend, Suyana, had a dancing performance, so I was there to support her. She was also very sweet to get me a huge discount on the tickets. It was $15/person, and she made them $8 each.
