Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Disneyland..the land of dreams...
went down to Disneyland on Sat...i guess it's really the happiest place on earth...apart from the waiting for rides that is...apart from that..i'm glad i went down...everything was nicely designed into different theme areas allowing ppl to relive their childhood... from their princess fantasy to the future...it has everything... but i love their fireworks spectacular the most... as always...since i love fireworks...
let the pictures do the talking..they are only a sample of wat i've seen...u can go to see my picasa album for the full foto set...
fireworks!
chip and dale!
Mickey and Minnie~
World of Disney
Merchandise of Disney
Excited faces before the ride!
Assorted faces!
"the brain never cease to think just like the heart never stops..."
10:30 AM
Saturday, July 28, 2007
mexico~
popped down to mexico on Wed for a 2 day trip... was expecting to see some veri lok kok places and chaotic and such... but to my suprised... it was quite a nice place to be... mabbe unlike the US, mexico dun realli have high rise buildings..but their architecture style was nice and pretty cool...we got to see San Diego old town, Tijuana(the border town of Mexico), Ensenda, and quite a few other spots in San Diego and Mexico... the view was always spectacular and nice...especially the beaches which seems to glitter in the sunlight... food was good throughout the whole 2 day trip...with endless buffets and sumptuous mexican food and oriental food... the tour guide was nice too... and because there's oni 8 of us in this tour...we took a passenger van instead of a big bus..and tt allows us to save lotsa time... overall...it was a damn nice trip la... let the pics prove themselves...
the town of Tijuana
with 2 taiwan frens in Ensenda
breakfast point view at Calafia
repentance
in San Diego downtown
still in San Diego downtown pier...
@ seaport village...
11:57 PM
viva Las Vegas~!
okiez...finalli decided to haul my lazy ass and get to some updates... been nua-ing over updating for a while but since the vegas and mexico trip are over... shall update everything on it ba....
went down to vegas last weekend...took this tour from online... 100 plus for a 3D2N tour... costwise..it's quite cheap..but on some part of the trips irks mi abit... the tour guide was a chinese guy...and the whole tour bus was full of chinese...as in realli chinese chinese... they blabber in loud voices, rushed to get down buses first... and complain here n there... kinda too irritating for my liking... but still...gotta bear with it...bahh~
Day 1:
our first day drive down was to lake havasu to see the london bridge... i was expecting like mabbe a huge lake with a gigantic bridge spanning across the lake...but then...it's kinda small...and pathetic... you'll see from the pics... den after which we went down to laughlin which is where our hotel is located... it's like in the middle of nowhere... juz smack rite in a desert with casinos n hotels... kinda interesting place... but the weather is hot la... and i thot desert are supposed to be cold at nite lor... it defies everything i learn in geography sia... damn qi guai! but at least the hotel's decent... and the beds are big...
Day 2:
this is my fave day for the trip..cuz we actualli went down to Grand Canyon... as u all know, Grand Canyon is one of the 7 wonders of the world...and the chance to be at the place is really good... mabbe to some seeing a big gap aint nothing much..but to mi...the view was simply spectacular... it's like so breath-taking that it takes ur breath away... (pardon the pun...i duno how to describe it...) from the edge of the canyon, u can see the drop like thousands of feet away... and falling down from it...will be a long painful process... a pity we din managed to go to the sky walk which is on the other rim... and the time spend there was abit too short for my liking.... after grand canyon...we begin to make our way down to Las Vegas...
in vegas itself, our hotel was actualli in downtown vegas...directly opposite fremont street... Fremont street is actualli the place where they film the 赌侠大战拉斯惟加斯 ( the andy lau movie)... it's filled with strip clubs and casinos... pretty good place...but abit too quiet... after tt, we went down to the Las Vegas strip itself...where all the famous hotels are... MGM Grand, Caesar Palace, Bellagio etc etc... it's interesting to see all the diff architecture that the hotels took to entice ppl... it was a pretty impressive sight... the thing tt impressed mi the most was the Bellagio musical fountain show (think Ocean 11 final scene)... it was a great display of lights n music and water fountain...confirm qie Sentosa musical fountain... prove urself Sentosa, then i will support u ba... we tried to find some clubs to go for Vegas is famous for its nitescene... however, due to age limits.... we cant get in as our groups got ppl who are underage...a pity we missed the shows timing n can't club..so kinda felt like it was a wasted trip... at least some of the other gals managed to go watch guys strip shows! bah~ we tried our hands at some of the slots machine back in our hotel...and i lost a grand total of 2USD...wahhahaa
Day3:
day 3 was supposed to be some shopping at factory outlets....nothing much worth mentioning since the outlets that we went to have nothing much...oh..i blew 100 bucks on coach stuffz.... and i can't figure out for nuts what's the fascination about coach stuffz...oh well... genuine leather, nice design...mmm... i wonder.... but since the queen of coach (XY) saes so... so it shall be... well...that's all for Las Vegas....
Photos!
the London Bridge...it's realli imported from London.. ya..i wonder why...
at Lake Havasu
Dinner at this hotel...8 bucks for a good feast!
i love this multi colour sunset! taken from the coach...
me and Iskandar conquering Grand Canyon
the slow route to enlightenment... Meditation
the express route to enlightenment... being pushed over Grand Canyon
the gals at grand canyon
in Venice... actualli it's juz the Venetian Hotel.. note the artificial sky
guys of Las Vegas
the ocean 5....
Bellagio Hotel with its fountain show! wooot~
me and gan at New York (New York)
"i lie to myself each day... believing in the lies that was not told to me..."
1:15 PM
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
last burst of fire...
ha...back from vegas...and going to mexico later...woohoo~~ will update soon again ba...
"people see and people say... but unfortunately...everyone else but you hear..."
4:50 PM
Saturday, July 21, 2007
losing control...
juz woke up from a dream...and that reminds me of something that happened at farmer's market yesterday... and that led me to a conclusion...if u let a guy go....eventually he will come back...but somehow, girls juz gotta keep asking where this guy is where that guy is... although it may be a case by case basis, somehow i got the general feeling that gals sometimes tend to keep track of guys' whereabouts more... as we are touring, whenever a guy leave the group, my tendency is just oh well, he'll be back..just wait here lor... whereas for gals, normally they'll be like...eh..where they go...someone call them leiz... mmmm...does that symbolize they care more than guys in general?? perhaps...but somehow, it does feel like they are unwilling to lose control of guys and therefore must track them....
perhaps...tracking is good...but i guess i'm not a FEDex parcel... i dun like to be tracked.. i like to roam ard alot... and i guess....caring is not equivalent to control..at least in my case... mabbe that's why there's the saying
if you love the person, set them free... i do not need to be free..but i just wanna have my freedom...
"if only you hear the words i didn't say... then you'll understand how i feel everyday..."
12:48 AM
Friday, July 20, 2007
farmer's market
went farmer's market todae... not too bad...but mmm...mabbe slightly over-rated...ahah... but food there was decent ba... i had laksa there lor...but their laksa was abit too bland compare to home... oh well...at least it satisfy my cravings abit...juz 3 more weeks..i'll be able to eat nice n cheap SG food~ woohoo~~ haha...
the tram tt runs in the grove...
i love this sign..."shut up and shop"
"sometimes i wonder what does it needs to get the point across..."
5:19 PM
my foto albums...
oh well...juz to let ppl know..ya all can access my UCLA fotos at http://picasaweb.google.com/kraven501
that's all..
Wait For You by Elliott Yamin.
I never felt nothing in the world like this before
Now I’m missing you and I’m wishing you would come back through my door
Why did you have to go?
You could have let me know; so now I’m all alone
Girl you could have stayed but you wouldn’t give me a chance
With you not around it’s a little bit more than I can stand
And all my tears they keep runnin’ down my face
Why did you turn away?
So why does your pride make you run and hide
Are you that afraid of me?
But I know it’s a lie what you keep inside
This is not how you want it to be
So baby I will wait for you
Cause I don’t know what else I can do
Don’t tell me I ran out of time
If it takes the rest of my life
Baby I will wait for you
If you think I find it just ain’t true
I really need you in my life
No matter what I have to do
I’ll wait for you
Been a long time since you called me
(How could you forget about me)
You gotta be feeling crazy
How can you walk away
(When) Everything stays the same
I just can’t do it baby
What will it take to make you come back
Girl I told you what it is and it just ain’t like that
Why can’t you look at me?
You’re still in love with me
Don’t leave me crying
Baby why can’t we just start all over again
Get it back to the way it was
If you give me a chance I can love you right
But you’re telling me it won’t be enough
So baby I will wait for you
Cause I don’t know what else I can do
Don’t tell me I ran out of time
If it takes the rest of my life
Baby I will wait for you
If you think I find it just ain’t true
I really need you in my life
No matter what I have to do
I’ll wait for you
So why does your pride make you run and hide
Are you that afraid of me?
But I know it’s a lie what you’re keeping inside
That is not how you want it to be
Baby I will wait for you
Baby I will wait for you
If it’s the last thing I do
Baby I will wait for you
Cause I don’t know what else I can do
Don’t tell me I ran out of time
If it takes the rest of my life
Baby I will wait for you
If you think I find it just ain’t true
I really need you in my life
No matter what I have to do
I’ll wait for you
I’ll be waiting …
"to remember the feel, you must feel it in the first place..."
3:09 AM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
of San Fran and Yosemite~
okiez...after a few days of MIA, i'm finally back in action... went to san francisco over the weekend... had a marvelous trip...cramp like so many things into the 3 days i was there...totally worth the trip down to the place...the view was magnificent, you see things u never see before... it's way coool la~ shall break it up into days and share with u all...ahaha...
Day 1:
had difficulties finding transport down to SF...cuz we need a big SUV but den due to the last min booking we made...there's like none available til late...so we spent the whole morning finding diff car rental companies to enquire abt SUV...in the end..we finalli gotten 1 SUV ard 12 plus...but tt's like spoil our plan of leaving at 9...thus in the end..we oni began our drive at 2.30pm...
our first stop was actually monterey...which is abt 100 plus miles south of San Fran... we took this highway 1 which was a coastal route which was super scenic...along the way, we see like wineries, mountains...and even the pacific oceans! all the mountain roads were so damn long and windy la...it makes me feels like i'm in the initial D movie lor...trying to make all the twists n turns... but it was damn fun... we had like a few photo stops along the way and took alot of funny fotos...ahaha... we ended up in monterey oni at ard 10plus 11... in which we had dinner at Denny's...everyone was like so tired from being cooped up in the car too...so we juz had a quick dinner and went off to SF... good thing the "hotel" was decent..big enuf for 5 of us in the room...
Day 2:
our day in san fran todae is set to be a city exploratory tour... we went down to Fishermen's wharf, Pier 39, took a cruise in the Bay of san francisco to see the famous Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge and even Alcatraz island, had some yummy clam chowder, did abit of shopping, went down the world's crookedest road, Lombard street(which is like an extended S-course), and had dinner at this super wonderful chinese restaurant(their chinese food is simply superb...) basically that's about all we did...and it's actually quite alot lor...
Day 3:
Day 3 was to make our way back to LA and to go Yosemite National Park... Yosemite houses one of the largest granite valleys and also have the Giant Redwood Sequoia trees that are thousands of years old... the view was superbly brilliant... when you are standing in front of valleys and trees that are at least a hundred times older than you... it makes you realize the insignificance of yourself in this world...but the impact that you do can harm the world so much...it reminds us the importance of conservation....i'm not a pro-enviromentalist at heart... but i still find it in me to love nature...i love the peace, the serenity of it... i kinda looking forward to seeing grand canyon... haha...afterall, it's one of the 7 wonders of the world...
well...okiez...here's some pics for u folks! enjoy the view~
view of the arid california
alongside the road for our first photo stop
see the water body behind us...it's call PACIFIC OCEAN!
meditating besides Pacific Oceans allow you to attain enlightenment faster...
isk, me and ankur in fishermen's wharf...
gan and me aboard the bay cruise...
looks familiar? itz the world's-renowned Alcatraz island, that used to be a maximum security prison!
the bridge connecting Oakland to San Fran...Bay Bridge!
the city of San Fran, with its trams and steep roads!
in front of the worlds most crooked street at night..Lombard street!
another photo of me along the road!
gan and me at some lake...forget the name liaoz...
see the giant sequoia tree!!
bridalviel falls in Yosemite National Park...nice...but the water abit less cuz itz summer...
isk, herry, and rong2 still at bridalview falls...
"perhaps, our mere significance in this world is solo to exist for you are in my world..."
12:48 AM
Friday, July 13, 2007
chelsea in UCLA
aha..the chelsea football club had training here in UCLA wor...and my frens being big anti-fans of them...went to get their autographs and tried to catch a glimpse of them...
first out was joe cole...and he was pretty frenly...autograph for the fans til the end of the line... and in fact, he's the oni one tt does that... shevechenkov was not bad too..autograph to halfway...and so is jose mourinho and lampard( i'm bad with soccer players' names...)
we managed to scam 1 chelsea soccer ball each too..aha...nice adidas product...and itz free! oh yeah..we are the gian ben singaporeans...wahhaa....
and bah..tml muz wake up early to go san fran! woohooo~
shevchenko autographing..
the special one!
chelsea big blue bus...
"happy birthday to you~ happy birthday to you...happy happy birthday to ya~"
5:29 PM
damn economics...
i'm starting to see econs in my everyday life...the thoughts of MSB(marginal social benefit) and MSC(marginal social cost) keep running through my head... even things like wat's the benefit of crossing the streets compare to the risk n cost involved in crossing it...den to the utility and satisfaction i derive from eating a burger... everything suddenly involves econs... this is madness... the mid term is driving me bonkers...bah~ and it's just later! sianz....
aniwae, read da jie blog...ahah...feels good to be missed wor...lol... da jie dun worry..ahah..when i'm back.. definitely will go clubbing with u all..haha..then u all can safely get drunk without any worries..wahaha... i missed clubbing with u ppl too...ahhaa....
oh oh...and 1 more thing...Happy 21st Birthdae Jas!
"when you start doubting, you become less sure..."
2:21 AM
Thursday, July 12, 2007
yawnz...
spent the whole of last nite studying n executing plan A... dun ask mi wat plan A is..aha..oni Kam n I will know... econs law is difficult quite boring sia...it's a bit of wat i've studied in the past from biz law...but with a extra analytical component to it... boring... and all because of this mid term...have not been going out...been a good boy studying for it lor...okiez...trying to study for it... oh well...at least after the mid term will be going san francisco... hurrah hurrah! another long interstate road trip!! wooh hoo~~
and time realli flies...this the week 3 of my 6 weeks here in LA.. .veri soon i'll return to the oven baked island of Singapore...and laksa, chicken rice, prawn noodles and my mama's cooking....here i come!! wooot~
Nasi Bryani... i want..!
Xiao wan mian...**grabs** argh...
"the grass need not neccessary be greener, the moon need not neccessary be brighter..."
4:23 AM
