Friendsgiving- Hotpot night!

Found out some international students have nowhere to go during the break, so decided to cook and serve them.
Planned to do it on Thursday, but on Wednesday, some people started to ask me. Since two friends of mine from Newberry came visit and spent Thanksgiving with me. So, yes~ I will cook!

Decided to make hotpot, easier and faster!
Invited Florian, Hector and Angelica come join us, altogether 6 people, we ate from 7pm to 9pm.....hahahha...... Hector was surprised by how I cook this with the rice cooker, he said he has a rice cooker but never know there're some other functions other than just cook rice. Hahahaha!!! I guess, he learned new thing tonight!!!Great time!!! Santiago and Rory joined us later, so it was fun!

Listened to Latin music, and enjoy the food and conversation, get to know everyone better!


Simple night delighted by great people and great food!

Recorded on Nov 22,2017

Car Insurance

Finally, manage to go get insurance quotation for my car.... The previous one I found was too expensive!

So, this time, Eric took me to the insurance company, and ask for the car-quotation.

Went to Allstate, surprisingly they gave us a good price, and that will not be a huge burden for me financially.

Wohooo!!!!!!!

What's next?! Gonna confirm this by January, get my car licenses, and car title, then everything is set and ready to go!

Keep me in prayer! Especially this car was here since the beginning of this semester, and nothing was done!!!

I'm a lazy person especially comes to something I'm not familiar with, pray that everything goes smoothly when I come back from break!

Recorded on Nov 20, 20167

TED x Hickory

TED, also stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.

This is a media organization which posts inspiring talks online for free distribution, with the vision of "Ideas worth spreading"

This is unbelievable!!! 

When my professor mentioned this and said we can be a volunteer if we want to listen to the TED talk. 

Didn't think too much, just signed in to be a volunteer, because never know when is the next time I can be part of this event.

Get to know the community, learned valuable ideas, motivated by the inspiring people, love it!!!!

 

Recorded on Nov 18, 2017

Innov 828

Is a simple night to learn from our current incubates as they share their entrepreneurship ideas, plans, and goals.

A lot of deep questions and reasonable thoughts, can't wait to see their business spread out and make it real!

Recorded on Nov 16, 2017

International Education Convocation

Glad to have some opportunity to let the students on campus get to know more about different countries, study aboard opportunity and more.

So, basically, that's what we did in the morning, but my job is to serve food and also enjoy the music~

heheheh

Recorded on Nov 26,2017

Chinese Culture in Motion

The Chinese nation is united by the common root of Chinese people. The profound Chinese culture is not limit in mainland China nor overseas. Throughout the generations, Chinese people work their best to preserve the culture although they moved to the different country. 

That's why I'm proud to be Malaysian Chinese, especially I'm the six generation who still fluence in Mandarin, read, speak and write. Not only that, also able to communicate with three other Chinese dialects because that's what we speak at home or with friends. What makes us unique is, we do not just keep the language, but also the tradition, festival, and food.

"Chinese Culture in Motion" is just a start, to show how Chinese people able to communicate with each other no matter where they came from, with a different background, but with the language we speak, the song we sing, that bring us together. 

So glad our show "Chinese Culture in Motion" had a good turnout! Decided not to dance as much as I did before in Malaysia because that's not what I major in, and also time to consume, so I didn't dance ever since I came to the US, except mime in Lifegame. Thanks for Melody's trust, support and encourage, I was able to stand on the stage to present a Hakka song and have a duet dance.Thanks to everyone who made this happen and all who came to the show and show support to us. 

Especially thanks Melody's hard work for putting this show together. My friends were impressed and didn't expect I will dance and sing~!!! Hahaha.... surprise! Anyway, still trying to stay low key and stay humble. This is definitely not the last, but I don't think I will dance anytime soon, so we'll see!

Bailiang, Melody, and me!

Recorded on Nov 15, 2017

Let's meet Haley!!

This is Haley, she is a staff of International Bridges in UNC Charlotte.

After she heard my idea/ vision which is to start International Bridges on this campus, she called me and decided to pay a visit to our campus. 

As if God put an angel to come and lead me and guide me because I have no idea what to do, how to start, or where to start.

She came and talked to me, asked me multiple questions to see my motive, my heart and my relationship with God. 

Remember I told her I have nothing to start this ministry, but prayer.

She answered me by saying: Yea, but guess what, that's all you need. 

She introduced different tools and recourses that I can choose to use depends on which one works the best on our campus and on our students.

It was an awesome time with her, having a deep conversation, prayers, and sharing!

Thank God for Haley, I'm so grateful for her support and heart for the International students!

Keep praying for this and we will see how God is going to stir up the heart of the students and start this ministry for His glory on our campus!

Recorded on Nov 15, 2017

Fast pitch event

Tuesday evening, went to Fast Pitch Event.

So, for those who have no idea what this is about, basically, this is open to anyone who has an idea, have one minute to market their concept. 

The audience receives fake money to vote for their favorite concept. The top ten ideas will receive $100 gift card. Sounds fun right?!

Any ideas~~~ hahaha..... as long as it's logic to the audience. 

In the end, we all went up and gave a fast pitch! hahahah.... 

Good job, guys!

Recorded on  Nov 14, 2017

Edison Project!

This week is Global Entrepreneurship week!!

Yes, I told you in the previous post that this week is International Cultural week....

Well, this week overlap with both entrepreneurship and also international culture week, so it was a super busy week!!!

Went to the Edison Project, is a celebration and recognition of the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit in this area. 

I went to support our students, listened to different ideas, and it was fun!!

After that, we went to Hickory station for after party, chill and meet some of the professors and also meet a group of German students.

They will stay here for a week, mainly for the Global Entrepreneurship Week! 

Yay~

Recorded on Nov 23, 2017

West African drum and dance!

I love cultural things so much!!! 

So, it is our International cultural week, so we have a bunch of interesting events going on our campus!

This is one of the interesting events! West African drum and dance!!

Enjoy the rhythm, the beat and also the dance! 

One of my favorites is the Kora performance! This is a string instrument from West Africa, it sounds like harps! So peaceful and calm~ 

We get to learn some simple words and sing along, and some students were invited to get on stage and dance! 

Love it!!!

Recorded on Nov 13, 2017

Part of College Life #49

When you realized you only left 3 days till the real performance..... oh no!! 
Keep calm and practice!

Tammy and Kaleb are in town!!!!

It was a blessing to have Tammy and Kaleb over!!!

It's like having your family came over to visit, gave you the warmest hug and supportive words....

So much laughter, story sharing, food, and encouragement!!!

Love them so much!!!

They came on Friday afternoon, visited some faculties, and they visited my studio and my dorm!!!

They met my roommates and had some fun time talking to them!!

Went out for dinner at Hickory Station and second-round bubble tea time at my favorite House of Nom Nom!

And... the next day, we went to Taste Full Bean for breakfast, and had a one-on-one conversation!

Get to share our life on campus, our experiences, our thoughts, and faith with them.

I'm so glad they enjoyed the visit, that means so much to me!!!!

How I wish they could stay longer, then I can show them all my friends, the places for good food!!

And also..... cook for them!!! hahahahha

Recorded on Oct 10-11, 2017