Happy Birthday to me :D

It's my birthday~ yep~ celebrate 25 years of my life. Celebrated by having 1 exam (mid-term final), 1 writing essay (that I totally did not answer in full sentences...)...and 4 hours of sleep.

However, we got some family friends visit from China this week, and they took me out to Taste of Texas (#1 steakhouse in TX!) and I got to celebrate a special day with mom and dad. House complimentary birthday dessert for myself~ I am not a chocolate person...but it's their signature dessert...and their staff even had a camera to take down the special moment. I did some post photo editing...friends had pointed out it was such a good capture of my mom's smile...it's the smile from the bottom of her heart. There's a saying in Chinese "your birthday it's your mom's most painful memory"...;p because your mom gave birth on that day. So it is really the celebration for mom.

Anyway, it was a quiet and sweet birthday. I truly enjoyed it. I am heading out to Corpus Christi to visit my corps buddies~ taking K-nut with me as well! It's gonna be a great spring break.


PS: hope my birthday wishes all come true this year!~~~~

you don't have to be able to read Chinese to understand this...

I was at library studying last night...of course goofing off on the computer...came across this advertisement on someone's blog. Because I don't have the ear phone, so I was just watching the ad silently...I am not kidding you, I broke out into tears at the end of the ad. You don't have to be able to read the words on the ad (but it basically said it's from a true story)...the story in the ads:
63 year old grandma is going to visit her daughter who just recently gave birth to her grandchild in Venezuela. But she doesn't speak any Spanish, nor English...She flew from Taiwan to United States, then to Venezuela. At her destination, the security searched her purse and found out a bag of Chinese herbs (which...funny enough, sounds like pod in English...I truly doubt that she is speaking English, and they might not intend to make it sound that way. Just a side note, lol). It turns out that the herb is what she brought for her daughter, but the homeland security guys was ruthless on questioning her, and threat to imprison her because the "illegal drugs"...She is just a mom! A mom who cares for her child, who flight 20,000 miles over a period of 3 days, over 3 countries...just so she can go see her own child. What really gets me is that she totally remind me of my own mother...but it will be a long story if I keep writing.

Don't blame me if I haven't warn you...this is going to make you cry...
I would recommend to silence the video first, you will be amazed on how powerful just the images, pictures speaks thousands words.

The narrator at the end asked how did she do it, and the phrase poped out "tenacious, courage, and love"...AWWWWWWW



At another date, I want to post the true story where the idea of this ad comes from...be on the look out for that soon...