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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

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fisherman's wharf at SF..place where you will find all the yummiest clam chowder, sourdough bread, dunguness crabs..all sorts of seafood..and of course giant seagulls too..many years back when i first went there it wasn't that developed yet..now..think they reclaim and extended the area and got this place called pier39..embarcardo..and at the other end..it will be the golden gate bridge..SF has 2 bridges, the other is bay bridge..golden gate bridge is orange in colour and the other is plain..that's how to differentiate..i simply hearts SF the most..mark twain once said that the coldest winter he ever experienced was summer in SF..can you imagine it..we were ill prepared with clothes and end up buying fleece and scarf there..if i have a chance..i will migrate to SF.. can say that SF is the best place to shop..AF, ON, H&M, F21..u name it you got it..and all are so giant and 3 storeys..also i heart this 99cents drink called arizona..super nice to drink..pity spore doesn't have it..part of this trip was also to meet my dad's friend..had a meal, and we met up just last weekend in spore too..brought him out for a meal at jumbo..woah now i got friends all over the place, pity uncle jon wasn't in SF..

after 2 days at SF, we flew to anaheim..disneyland..time for some childhood..playing most of the rides except that i have yet to conquer space mountain..dear says that a person should go to disneyland twice in your life, once as a child and the 2nd when you bring ur kids there..well seems like both of us can only ride space mountain when we..hopefully bring our kids there..hehe..

part of childhood is of course to have breakfast with your favourite disney characters..haha..in disney resort, there are 4 hotels and each hotel during breakfast have different characters.. i wanted to eat with chip&dale as well as stitch..in the end i chose stitch because he didn't parade in disneyland, but i caught a glimpse of chip&dale during the night parade..hehe..what a rational kid..haha..not bad..i took photos with minnie, daisy, goofy, stitch and lilo..also..i got their autographs..kinda funny seeing their big gloved hands grabbing a pen and sign..but they sure are good at it.. the best part of the breakfast besides seeing the characters was the mickey mouse shaped waffle and minnie mouse shaped pancakes..haha..

this is berkeley..where the cal bears live..haha..meet hongjie and boy was the campus big..we couldn't find each other in the stadium..haha..he brought us walk around before he went back to studying for his exams..the campus was great and heard some funny stories..like this group of students lived up in a tree for a year already and they are called tree huggers..purpose..to protect the trees from being chopped down by the school..also heard of people being stabbed and shot dead..quite a scary place in fact..hongjie treated us to bubble tea..haha..a angmoh place with bubble tea..we had lunch at UCB, korean food..and it was pretty yummy, even better than our spore food courts..and while dear and me walked around the town by ourselves, we were mistaken as students of UCB and the angmohs approach us to ask for directions, luckily we just pass by the particular building and were able to give directions..2nd incident..a girl asked for directions how to take the BART back to downtown SF, since we were going to the same station, we asked her to follow us..she was a former student at UCB and was there to attend a friend's wedding..along the way we chatted and she's a harvard Phd student..woah..studying psychology..we talked to her about spore and well as usual we are a small city unheard of..she exchanged emails with me and told us to go boston visit her..hehe..maybe that shall me my grad trip destination..well i have yet to email her..soon bah..a new found friend

after LA we flew to LV..SIN CITY..i played jackpot and won money..but since it was a 1cent machine..so with 900 credits i won $9..had it been a $1 machine..woah that will be $900..i will be rich..LV changed super alot since i last went there..it used to be sandy roads, dessert..now..its a built city with the prettiest hotels.. venetian, bellagio, paris, newyork, MGM...

a one thing to experience..watch a musical..dear and me watch phantom and my parents went gambling..hehe..the theatre was superb..esplanade is small fry compare..had i had one more night in LV, i would have watch cirque..pity pity..

on the way home..just me and dear extended our trip to HK..this is our 2nd trip there..yeah..brought him to new places to shop and eat..and this time we went to the peak..the queue to take the tram was about an hour..gosh..so many tour groups just cut the queue and also don't know where all the people came from..so crowded..the tram ride was super steep..14degrees angle..think maybe that caused my leg sprain because we stood in the tram and my ankles were bent..the scenary was superb except that HK was rather foggy or hazy and the view wasn't that clear..

previously we went to avenue of stars in the night..dear decided that we should go there in the day..so hours before our flight home..i hopped my way there..and probably that jump photo shot helped to cure my sprain ankle..maybe the impact when landing twisted my ankle back to place..after that i was better..hehe..what a fluke..there was also a HK stars campaign to help raise funds for the sichuan earthquake that day..and they were also promoting HK or rather chinese anime..recognising all the characters and artists..so we took photos..the one is red is miss 13 dot aka shi san dian gu niang..like the pose that dear did..hehe..cute!

alrights finally i did a lazy way of posting the whole 15days trip..hehe..