HELLOMAVIE

Hello there!😀 I haven't updated here for two months😐, life has been busy to the next level, compared to that I mentioned last time.📚📝 I am taking French immersion now and yeah that runs every Mondays to Fridays. That really does bring back memories in HFX, where I met the best and kindest people in my life, so far.💙 Lately, Montreal's weather has been really hot like 28'celcius🔥, yeah I got tanned without fail in just one afternoon exposing my arms under the sun...lol,, that really annoys me, haha you know the Asian thing!😂 Anyway, gotta go! Until then, I will see ya next time! Bye for now! xx :)

I am typing this on a Sunday evening 10:30ish p.m. By the way, it is such a good day today around 15 degrees Celsius. This week has been the longest working week so far this year, by saying longest I don't mean to complain anything but would like to share some thoughts that have come across my head this week. I worked three double shifts and plus three regular shifts this week which were a lot, but I am quite liking it as it keeps me busy (I probably have mentioned this way too often) and productive. On Monday evening we had a serious/spiritual group meeting about teamwork which made me kind of impressed by the way how our director Annie represented, she has used boomerang as an example to dedicate that our actual life could not be like a boomerang that gives us a chance to  go back to the past to change anything to be the way we would like it to be. The following four days passed by per usual. But what impressed me is that when your work has been...

Staring at the calendar on my phone brings me a realization that I graduated half a year ago legit! WOW!✌ After talking to Graham yesterday, I found myself as such a conflict mixture:"when you are at school, you wanna graduate soon and be free" VS "after you graduate, you miss campus life and want to go back to school". 😅 Yeah, that's me!  Honestly, I miss Halifax so so much! This is the thing that I have never thought of until I really had to leave. I will never forget how comfortable the campus life at SMU was. Maybe I have complained several times of how many assignments or presentations that were going to due at the same day, but when I look back to it now, I actually think I was quite enjoying doing so at the moment, especially for the group presentations/projects, I was thankful that all my group members were being so nice and helpful to me, should be mentioned my group members of my MGMT4489 course, they really did help me a lot and I think ...

I just realized I haven't been blogging for one month as days passed as normal and I didn't find something interesting to blog. But today is the day that I think I should have a quick update. This whole February I has been busy working as much as I could. I picked up the most days to go to work although it is not required as I'm just currently working part-time now. But I chose to work mostly as I could because I just would like to keep myself busy and full. Last week was the spring/reading week of those universities in Canada, my friend Karen from Halifax came visit me in Montreal with some of her friends. We had Korean food together, watched Fifty Shades Darker at the cinema and chatted a lot as we did in the past when I was still in Halifax. I haven't seen her since my graduation ceremony in October last year, wow it's literally half a year ago. I am glad that although we live apart we still make efforts to meet each other, or just keep contacting ...

Voila today is the day of the biggest festival(Spring Festival) in China, the lunar Chinese New Year.  Oh yeah it has been the fourth year that I haven't spent this traditional reunion day with my family since I've been studying abroad and living here in Canada. Empire Building, NYC December 2014 Feeling so blessed and thankful that when I woke up this morning around 6:50ish am, I received lots of text messages from my family and friends, and even some were from my old school friends in primary/middle school. Although we haven't hung out a lot since graduation and we didn't see each other very often although we're still living in the same city when I was in Canton, no matter what but we still keep in contacts, which is great and that it is the way how our friendship lasts! Got a phone call from my bff Karen around an hour ago, and her roommate Ivy(my previous classmate as well) told me she missed our trip in Huizhou very much, I remembered that happened ...

HEY YA!                                Mai's Graduation Portrait May 2016 //LATE POST //SHOULD HAVE POSTED ON FRIDAY NIGHT //BUT I WAS TOO LAZY OOPS Here's a photo of Vicky and myself, taken after my grad convocation October 1st, 2016 January 20th, 2017 Here comes the winter graduation convocation of  Class of 2017.  I wish I was with YOU! Congrats to all graduates!!  And yeah!! A big congratulation shout out to my besties Vicky, Sam, Tiffany and Iris! September 30th, 2016 How time flew in this year!  This is my bestie Vicky, AKA my grocery shopping buddy haha! :) We always encourage each other during the assignments/exams periods. LOL! We become close friends quite fast I think coz we have such many similar things. I still remember the accounting class we took together, that's how we met. I still remember we're always ...

FIRST OF ALL, SUCH A NORMAL MONDAY TODAY! ☀ I met up with Jeff in a little lovely/"good vibes' feeling" local cafe called [La Finca] today before work and we chatted for a while. Then I went to work as usual.   17:00                                                                              Lol my colleagues are always nice and easy to talk with.  And they are always asking weird/ funny questions to me. Maybe I look like I know a lot? HAHA, kidding! One of them asked how and what I did to maintain my hairs straight. And I said "Huh? I didn't do anything on it, just normally wash it and blow dry it!" I was feeling strange when I got asked by a guy about the hair care. Then I told him, you can just be not chopping your hairs for a while, and when it grows longer and it will jus...

I have just finished watching  Zoella's Vlog   titled "New year, new challenges" at about 2ish am, I got related when she tried to speak out her feelings and all of her anxiety things.  And yeah, so do I. It gets weird when you were sticking to doing one thing constantly for a while, then you stopped doing it. And after another while, you are getting back to it again. I don't know if it makes sense. For example, like the situation when I was in school, I could get very stressful from school and wanna get rid of it. But then when I have finished the whole semester and am on my holidays, I feel like the days are passing by so slowly and meaninglessly and kind of wanna go back to school to get busy. And after the holidays and going back to school, those feelings of wanna get away from school are coming back again from the school load and I get worried about everything again.  Is that anxiety/concern just being weird?  Haha, nope! It's not! It's just nor...

Just like as usual, I chatted with my friends in HFX on social media. And we realized how time flew so quickly in 2016, we should have done lots of things together, should've eaten some good food or taken great pictures, or even just chilled and laughed so bad together. SADLY, WE DIDNT DO THAT ALL! Sunrise at Halifax Airport @5:30AM, June 2016 The moment when they told me "I wish you were here!", I almost cried out! ToT Yes I do wish I could go back at the end of this month to celebrate the graduation ceremony with them, but sadly I couldn't because I gotta work! I wish I could go through every minute of the graduation meeting and the celebrations with them. Photo taken at the last night of Jessie staying in HFX There are still some things I haven't done before I left.  :( I wish I could stay longer. I miss Halifax so much! <3 #iloveeastcoast But I didn't regret the choice I made. Bye for now! xx  :)

During the last week of 2016, I spent such a BEST time with my friends who came visit me in Montreal from different cities in Canada, including Chinney from Toronto, Karen from London Ontario, Sam, Simon and Daniel from Halifax(my 2nd home haha), they drove overnight for 12 hours non-stop OMG!😱😭 I showed them around the city: we visited some famous places in MTL such as some churches and McGill University, and had some delicious food. And we counted down 2017 together at Vieux-Port and watched some fireworks! Of course we took tons of selfies. 👻 #FriendshipGoals And oh yes I forgot to mention, I stayed at Auntie Miao's house for three days during Christmas, very chilled and relaxing.🎄🎅 2016 has been such a great year💕, including many happiness and exciting events, such as my GRADUATION, farewell with society friends, trip to Inner Mongolia with my parents, leaving Halifax( sad for the leaving but happy for all of the memories everyone provided me)...