As everyone know, we won that game! Haha. Oh my, I’m so freaking outdated on this. But I don’t care! I’m still gonna type it down!

So… Well… Actually I have totally forgotten about the homecoming parade and the football game, to be honest. But luckily ChingMan asked me about it or I found out from her MSN status or something like that. So we talked about it and, with her help, I managed to buy a student section ticket from a girl. *phew* Otherwise I wouldn’t get to watch this football game.

The outfit for the football game. My one & only MSU sweatshirt. I plan to get MSU jersey before I head home. It’s quite expensive but I think it’s okay la as a souvenir from MSU.

Some random drunk/tipsy guys at the tailgate asked us to take photos with them. I didn’t want to at first but they sort of drag us over, hence my weird smile in the photo. And the funniest thing was he didn’t believe that we really took the photo. They insisted to take a look at the photos on the camera before we left. So ChingMan showed them, and they were like “Don’t delete them, okay!”. -_-

By the way, it’s MSU vs. Iowa. Excuse my dry hands, please. And the wristband is so trendy! Haha. It’s polka dots in orange/white! Didn’t notice that until ChingMan pointed that out.

We went in pretty early because we needed to get good seats (front seats) in the student section. It’s no fun if you sit too far away.

So we got in early and munched the hot dogs. It’s like when it’s cold and you’re hungry, even the simplest food like a hot dog tastes so delicious! *slurp* But seriously, I don’t know why I’m losing appetite these days. I often have only one official meal a day. Not doing that on purpose to lose weight. In fact, not losing any weight either. The fats is still here with me. I blame it on the stress and all the heavy reading classes.

Woohoo. Go Spartan go!

More footballers.

So basically we just sat there and watched the footballers practicing and cheered occasionally. It’s still very empty in there but it’s so crowded later.

We started taking photos of ourselves. My first football game yo! And I guess it’s the last one as well. Haha.

Wanted to show there’s people behind us. L0L. Yes, we were kinda bored.

Finally the football was going to begin, because the marching band started playing the school fight song and stuff.

ChingMan told me that this lady has to keep throwing and getting back the lil baton she has. Like throughout the game. And if she drops the baton, it’s like the unlucky symbol for the game like we’re going to lose or something.

Super flexible. And I think she must be very stressed.

The marching band.

MSU!

I really like the marching band here. It’s very different from what I’ve seen in Malaysia (i.e. my primary & high school’s). The marching bands here are very organized and very creative.

And hello Sparty, too!

Someone (like a host for the game) was on the mic reporting the weather for that day and then everyone said “It’s a beautiful day for a football game”. So cute!!! I was surprised then I found ChingMan was saying too. People who went to watch games here are very cooperative. It’s the same when I watched the basketball games. They all would do the same thing and sing the songs when it’s played. Something I’ve never experienced in Malaysia.

And it’s getting more & more crowded.

I’m not lying! Look! How crowded it was!

And another end of the stadium. Packed!

You guys should guess how many people there were on that day!

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They announced that there were 77526 people!!! Isn’t it crazy! So many people went for the homecoming game!

And more on the marching band.

The cheerleaders. I’m serious, the game was going to start soon.

Iowa’s mascot vs. our Sparty.

Honestly, I think Sparty looks wayyyyy better than Iowa’s mascot. It looks so freaking weird! The head is so big and the body is so small. -_- I overheard some girls sat around us was commenting how ugly the Iowa’s mascot is. I can’t help but to think that Sparty looks more normal than Iowa’s. (Hopefully no one from Iowa stubble across my blog).

Okay okay. Finally, the game started!!

So gan zheong!!!

Actually, I didn’t understand the football game at first. But ChingMan explained to me. I still don’t quite get it but better than before. Aiya I don’t care la. I just cheered whenever everyone cheered. Haha.

So throughout the game, we sang, we did all the signs, we even took out our keys and boo and stuff. Very fun. It’s just like the basketball game! We really hoped we would win. I mean it’s kind of embarrassing if we lose since it’s our homecoming game.

The footballers in action.

Football is so rough. When the game first started, I was totally shocked by the way how they like bang each other and things like that.

And since I’m so short, most of the time, I had to watch the screen to know what’s going on. This was towards the end of the game. I think we scored first then Iowa catch up. The game was really exciting and made me so nervous. I don’t want us to lose!

Ask the person in front of us took a photo for us before the game ended.

At last, we won by 16-13. YAY! Go MSU go! RahRahRah!

Victory!

And everyone’s leaving.

Very bad traffic in MSU and at Grand River. We did’t drive knowing that it’s hard to get parking. So we waited for the bus. And the bus didn’t come… We ended up had to walk to Grand River to take the bus. But luckily the weather was not bad, so it’s not too bad for us to walk a bit.

& here’s a video I did and you can see how happening the football game was.

Currently in Starbucks. Finally able to online but maybe just for 2 hours.

I’m lucky. The girl sitting behind me offered to login her account for me to online. What a sweet girl! Otherwise I couldn’t online. ’cause I have to pay to online here. No free WIFI. I know, right. And I only knew about that after I bought my grande Frappuccino Mocha.

Seriously. Living alone without housemates/roommates. Without TV. Without Internet.

What life do you think it is? Especially when I’m going to have quite a relaxing week ahead (only one exam and one homework due) and no plans for the weekend except doing my laundry (I ran out of clothes and underclothing *shhhh*). I’m predicting that I’m gonna spend most of my time (especially at night) in another cafe/coffee shop/restaurant for this weekend.

You have to know what luck/life I had in these few days for me to say that I’m so lucky today that the very nice girl offered me her login for WIFI in Starbucks.

First, I think I was stressed out or something. Because since Monday night til Tuesday, whenever I took a nap or really sleep, I just kept having weird dreams. Not nightmares. Because they’re not scary. But odd. Very odd and weird dreams. Just made me feel so tired. You know how that feels like that you didn’t get any rest at all because you’ve been dreaming the whole night/nap away. Your brain kept working.

Secondly, I thought my Philosophy paper is going to due on the next Wednesday. So I was panic. I tried to do on Tuesday and only to find out that it’s going to due on November 19. -_- Wasted my time not to study more for my Psychology exam which is on the past Thursday.

And that brought me to the next point. So, I had an exam on Thursday. So I tried to study for it on Wednesday. Then I just got very bad toothache. So bad that I couldn’t sleep the whole night until I decided to take a Panadol at 6am (which left only like 1 hour maximum to sleep) hoping that it can reduce the pain if not stop the pain. But it didn’t help. When I woke up. I was cranky. I thought of skipping the exam and the other classes that day and just stayed home to sleep and rest. But guess what? As much as I thought I did very badly in this exam, it’s actually the best score I have so far in this semester. Am I destined to work under such stress/situation in order to perform better? Haha.

It’s dark blue. Not black.

Then the Internet stopped working on Thursday too and I was dead bored. I was like I’m done for the week! I wanna watch shows online, Facebook, blog, or something! But I couldn’t. I ended up painting my nails and watch Moonlight Resonance again.

But finally today I signed up for a line with AT&T today. But I have to wait for 1 week. Maybe earlier. Maybe later. But let’s pray that it’s gonna be latest by November 14. Went home had lunch & did laundry. Went to watch a French film called “Cache” for my French class extra credit. It’s kinda gross. It freaked me out when that guy killed himself and it’s showed on the screen. Ewwww. So damn gross. I don’t like. I don’t even understand the movie. Not because of language barrier (there’s subtitle with it) but because of the whole storyline and ending. Weird ending. The girl sat beside me was like “is that it?” :S

I realized how bad this entry is. Totally random and not in order. Just blah. But this is what I need right now. RANT. So, excusez-moi. I’m gonna check e-mails and Facebook a bit. If I still have time, I’ll blog again. So much to blog but no time to do so.

It’s such a long day today.

I woke up at about 8am, I guess. Then all the way until like 9pm. Took a nap til like 12am. And awake again til now. I’m so dead tired.

Senior portrait. Class. Class. Break. Class. Extra credit thingy.

And I got a ticket from my school ’cause of parking violation. They’re so efficient! Argh… Seriously, I don’t like the parking in my school. Hate to drive to school at times. Troublesome and all. Does it make sense that you have to park at a parking which requires you to walk (in super fast pace) like 5-10 minutes to the main library? The parking at the library is so limited. For metered parking, maybe only like 4 or 5 max! And not to mention the library area is so dangerous at night. Blah.

Tiredtiredtired. I had a nice Halloween weekend though. Tiring but fun. Did some shopping but did not get the Coach bag that I like so much yet. I’m afraid there’s gonna be new designs/collections by Coach or other brands coming up in this 2 months after I get the bag. So I decided to wait. If I like it enough, I’ll get it after I pass all my courses for this sem. Haha. As a reward to motivate myself. It was also my dad’s birthday on last Halloween and I’m glad that he likes the present & card I sent to him.

And yeah, daylight saving time has ended. Now I’m back to that 13 hours difference with Malaysia.

So it’s almost a month (like 3 weeks+) since homecoming. I finally have the time to talk about it. School’s work is crazy. Can you believe it’s already end of October now? Because I was surprised when I realized that! Time really flies!!!

Speaking of that, it’s another year since last homecoming. I have missed 2 homecoming though I stay here for the 3rd year now. First year - didn’t realize we had a homecoming parade & football game (didn’t actually even know there’s homecoming in MSU), ended up only saw some part of it at the dorm’s with my floormate. Second year - knew about it but had to miss it because my friends & I went to watch the at Breslin Center.

This year, I made it a point to watch the parade (on Friday) AND the football game (on Saturday) eventhough I’m not a fan of football (here, I mean American football, not soccer) and may not understand the game. But I would hate myself so much if I don’t watch at least one football game before I go home. I wanna experience that and homecoming game usually is the most exciting one. Everyone is like damn semangat la, you know.

There’s a lot of photos from homecoming parade. It’s kinda boring actually (& it was cold!). Like at first I was so excited but by the middle of the parade everything looked kinda similar to me. Not like really similar but didn’t excite me anymore.

Before the parade started.

A lot of people were there. Families with kids. We didn’t know why the kids brought bags until the parade started. It’s because the people who walked in the parade actually gave out candies to the kids. So the kids collected them.

The parade started with the policemen.

Even the policemen gave out something to the kids.

And the parade began.

Forgotten who they are. -_-

East Lansing high school.

& its mascot.

It looks like Sparty’s lil brother. It just kinda freaked me out a bit. It looks odd to me. It reminded me of L from the Death Note… Maybe it’s because it’s so fair. I still prefer Sparty.

Yeah! Homecoming!

The parade.

Sparty! *support!

Damn old school!!! Have I ever mentioned that one of my dream used to be owning a old school car in the U.S.? Like those you saw in movies college kids drive one. Like damn long and old one. I love those cars. But then not very practical for me. So ended up got a Honda.

Do you know that we have Olympians in MSU? Because I didn’t know until that day. They were in the parade also in the football game. Feel so damn proud of MSU now.

MSU cheerleaders.

MSU dance team.

Freaking nice painting.

But the main point is the dog. It’s the MSU’s dog.

That dog is so intelligent! They demonstrated the dog’s skill to catch the Frisbees in the football game. Very impressive. I told my parents I’m going to train Jingle like that. Oh by the way, Jingle just left home to get a undergraduate degree. I started to miss her eventhough I’m not physically there. Because sometimes when I Skype with my parents I can hear her barking. But I’m not gonna hear that for a month.

I wondered if he’s cold.

MSU basketball team.

Stephani walked for the ISA.

She asked us if we wanna walked for ISA. Luckily we didn’t because they walked all the way from East Lansing High school to like Hubbard Hall or something. Damn freaking far and it was cold! I doubt I can do that. So we just watched the parade and called her when she passed by.

Anthropology.

I don’t know what’s up with the King Kong/Gorilla with the Pyramid.

Sparty again.

MarchMarchMarch.

MSU’s horses. Look at their feet! Painted in green color. L0L.

Guess what it is.

Haha. Advertisement lor.

The license plate is YUMMY. L0L.

Hospitality.

I think this one is really good. It really showed what a hospitality major does. Straight to the point and simple.

Erm. McCain fans.

Marching band.

Actually there’s quite a few marching bands but I was busy recording the video. So I didn’t take much photo of marching bands.

That guy turn around on purpose to let us take a photo. So sensitive to camera eh.

Another one who is sensitive to camera as well.

The parade ended just like that as the parade kept moving forward. ChingMan and I had dinner at Omi before going back to our apartments. Warm food is awesome! I totally didn’t expect that it’d be so cold that night. But for the experience, it’s okay. Since I never experience any homecoming in Malaysia before. So it’s quite nice to see how the students/people decorate the cars/trucks and think of the ideas to present them.

Like, over here, university t-shirts/sweatshirts/sweatpants/jackets is like a branded thing. People wear it when they go out to mall/restaurant and go to school (they’re proud of the school). But I don’t remember anyone likes to wear any college stuff to go out unless it’s like the appointed day. I remember AUSMAT used to have like a t-shirt day where everyone has to wear AUSMAT t-shirts to class. Other than that, people don’t just wear the t-shirts out. Right?

I woke up to see my car covered in very thin layer of snow and frost.

It’s time to put on that Columbia bulky puffy jacket and Bear Paw boots.

It’s time to wake up earlier to warm up the car and scrap off the snow from the car.

Also, it’s time to slap more moisturizer on the face and apply more hand cream and possibly wearing gloves again because I’ve been getting a lot of frost bite already. What the heck, right, it’s not even officially snowing yet and I’m already getting frost bite. -_-

On a happier note, I’ll be done for this week after tomorrow. Then it’s Halloween on this Friday and probably going to work out on Saturday because going to Novi/Troy on Sunday. Shopping yeah! Hopefully I’ll see something really nice. *cross fingers*

Another even happier news, NYC, Chicago & Frankenmuth trips in December are confirmed. Have to cancel Miami trip though ’cause exceeded budget - which is kinda sad but then my sister doesn’t really like beach so it’s okay. Sister & I gonna spend a lot but I’m sure we’re going to have heaps of fun. I miss spending time with family. Sigh sigh sigh. And I don’t know why I get irritated so easily these days. I know I may say things that are very hurtful but I’m sorry. I don’t mean it. Maybe I’m under too much stress. Trying to juggling school work, social life, keeping in touch with family & boyfriend, and my own emotion.

Okay. Gonna run now. To eat (my first real meal of the day) and to study (for that 10chapters of physiology). Then to shower. And high possibility of not sleeping tonight… I really wanna score in physiology. I kinda bumped the previous exams. So yeah.

Hello to student life in US… Student’s life has never been this stressful before I came here. So for those who thought of studying abroad, think again. Mentally prepared for the stress and environment. Unless you intend to spend like 10 years in the college to get a undergraduate degree. Because for what I know, even the lower-ranked college still has its own difficulty. Still requires you to study and prepare for exams/quizzes.

Okie dokie. Really gonna run now.