December 15 - 25, Winter Storm, Christmas Day

Michigan was attacked by snow storm on December 16. It was eight inches snow over that weekend!! The commencement at Eastern Michigan University had been postponed due to the severe weather!! Also, the following Monday was announced as snow day, it was a good news for the kids because they had no school!! As you can tell from the pictures how bad of the weather was over that weekend!!

View of street at Ypsilanti old house!!! These pictures were taken by me around 10am in the morning!! I woke up to shovel the driveway in the morning!! I was so tired after shoveled the 8 inches snow at the driveway!!! It's my first time to shovel and I hate the snow so much at that moment!!! Look!!! The snow cover my entire shoes and up to my feet!!!

I didn't wear boot and I got wet!!!

After shoveled the Ypsilanti old house driveway, I had to go and shoveled the new house driveway at Ann Arbor!!! It's a three door garage!!! It took me an hour to take it away!!!

Kostas and Sophia was enjoying the snow!!! Sophia tried to help me to get the snow away!!!

Darren and Kostas. We were having the snow fight at the new house driveway! I love snow but hate to shovel the snow away!! Especially it was 8 inches snow, gosh!!! damn tired!!

On December 24, we had a Christmas eve celebration at Uncle Tee's house!! Tee is my cousin's coworker at proquest. Tee is from Thailand, he invited us to come over and had a Christmas eve celebration. We all hanged out at Tee's house until midnight!!

In the early morning of Christmas Day, when I was still on the bed, I heard a lovely sound from downstairs... Jingle bell... Jingle bell... Jingle all the way... In sudden, I heard Sophia was yelling.... Darren!! Darren!! Wake Up!!! It's time for Christmas Present!!! Time to wake up for you present!!

This is year, I bought Kostas a GameStop gift card and Sophia a lovely purse with lipsticks, nail polish, and body lotion. Also, I received two pair of socks from Sophia and Kostas for Christmas Present, and I got Wireless Digital Alarm Clock from Papadopoulos family.

Darren & Sophia with their Christmas gift in front of Christmas Tree!

Darren, Sophia & my cousin --Lee--

Kostas, Sophia & Darren

Christmas tree at new house

Here are few pictures from the Papadopoulos's new house at Ann Arbor. As you can tell from the pictures, they moved with a few pieces of furniture, the new pieces are coming soon in January!!

Great Living room with Plasma Tv!!

Kostas was enjoying his new Play Station 2 game, which he got it from his mom for Christmas present!! He was practicing his songs to be the next American idol!!!

View of the street from the Kitchen area!! There have the kid play ground in the backyard.

View from Guest room, which it my room for now!! It looks beautiful in the Winter!!

I'm planning to visit Chicago, Illinois during the day before new year eve. Will keep you update when I back from Chicago, Illinois.

Eastern Michigan University HomeComing Event

On October 28, I attended the Home Coming event at Eastern Michigan University. Recently, I joined the Beta Alpha Psi and Accounting club. As a pledge of Beta Alpha Psi, we had to participate two social events to earn the credits to be a member. Due to this reason, I have an opportunity to experience the campus event. Honestly, I never take part of any campus event, this is my first time, and we had so much fun!!!

In this event, you can hang out with your club members and social and making friends with other club members. Awesome!!!


This event started with a dance show with a group of Eastern dancers!!! Thanks Natalie for sending me these pictures!! These pictures were taken by Natalie, because I left my camera in the car!!! These pictures are all from Natalie's camera. She is one of my club members.

In order to get the free TCF's hoodie, we had to challenge and cross over this!!!

Crowded!!

It was a windy day!!! Freezing!!! As you can tell from the pictures, the weather was terrible!!!

It was a Eastern Football game day!!!

Instrumental troops were practicing at Eastern Field

Getting crowded at the evening!!!

Yap!!! I'm represent Malaysia, and Singapore!!! I was the volunteer to hold the flag of our country!!! However, one of the Malaysian already took Malaysia flag, so I take care of the Flag of Singapore!!! Sorry!! I was the traitor of Malaysia!!! haha!!

"Malaysia Boleh"!!! I borrowed the flag from that Malaysian and took this picture!!!

All international student!!! It came from several fronts, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, etc...

It's our show time!!! It was a parade for us to show our flag!!!

That lady with the hoop is Malaysian, she is the freshman at Eastern Michigan University. She take care of the Flag!!! She is proud of being Malaysian!! Look at me!! I was the traitor of Malaysia!! hehe!!!

The game almost start!!!

We had to line up to welcome the Footballer!!! It was freezing and we waited for 10 mins there!!

Eastern Eagle Football Team!!!

Here we go!!!

I didn't go for the Football game that day!! Because I had another appointment that day!!! These pictures were taken by Natalie!!! She went to the Football game!!

It was a good experience to explore the campus event.