another day in NYC

this is the dunnoe which day of me in NYC, i am actually in cody right now, but since my trip is going through some hiccup and cody is so so small haha. maybe mountain climbing later, but for now i will do some bloggin of stuffs a month back. This is me and sherlyn in broklyn botanic garden. she actually check up this place becos she noes i love nature. isnt she sweet. its really quite nice and i think its a sat cos free morning admission!!

we then took our time and walk across the old famous brooklyn bridge, a long walk under the hot sun but its a beautiful walk. a short walk through brooklyn's neighbour is rather nice too! crossing the bridge u see the beautiful old day artictechture of the bridge and a rather nice view of the east river of NYC and the mahattan bridge. (pls forgive my spelling)

we then walk across to the immigrant NYC, chinatown and little italy. beautiful side of NYC, really messy as u expect in chinatown, and u cant believe the prices of fresh grocceries, so much cheaper than atlanta, i guess the rent probably make up the rest of high living standards in NYC. we had lunch at a HK wanton shop and then continue up down Canal st then to So-Ho shoppin district. haha i keep restricting sherlyn's expenditure, so bad of me.


although there was daylight saving hours, we still managed to shop into the night, through the shops and flea markets. we then came to the university city and then the greenwich village area (west) this is a more yuppie side of NYC, pretty cool and a lot of teenagers in the hostels and housing apartments. there is also a couple of jump bars and sex shops and yup its not a really safe side of town at night. this is the famous arch in washington park. also the emblem of the university. the park is really cool. tons of local music people gather and play a tune or two together. we hung out a while more before heading back to our hostel to rest our tired feet.

Super fun NYC

FINALLY, I SEE SHERLYN AGAIN AFTER SO DARN LONG........ picked her up at JFK airport on the 11th (sorry for not blogging though i had internet connection in NYC, was always too tired course by the time we were ready, its already 2am everynight)
staying at Big Apple Hostel was real cool, it was after all, my first hostel stay!!! right next to times square and broadway!!! 35 dollars a night per person isnt so cheap, but the deal its pretty good, wireless internet and clean facilities, though the staff attitudes might be better!!!

New york is like no other city i have seen before, super bright neon lights everywhere and streets oozing with people. The big apple is truly spectacular. i dont really enjoy the city life, neither did sherlyn. there was so so much to see that even 5 days wasnt sufficient, poor sherlyn was made by me to walk walk walk, especially after the blur girl dropped her 24 dollars one week unlimited pass, we had to walk more to save money, hai.........

new york was going through a bad spell of weather, and i having underestimating the weather, wore so little, (thought i still in the south) i eventually fell sick, but my normal treatment of tea plus 2 panadols did the trick.

i love walking through the neighbourhoods, especially east and greenwich, not the safest place (minus harlem) but the atmosphere great! and not forgetting SOHO, where its a cross btw singapore's orchard and thailand's flea market.....you can shop till you drop!!!

anyone going to MMOA should prepare at least half a day for it, its super big!!!! and i guess some of the exhibits also appeal to non art lovers. and central park, BIG BIG green in the middle of the city, not as big as the park in Phili but it has more different design to provide a great spot for the city people. got to check out the ramble, great small trekking area.

ground zero is an emotional place, i can remember the time when i was shouting to my mum back in JC when i was watching the events unfold on news channel. and so many years later, the memorial is in the midst of construction and yet the emotions its holding, never never dissipates

i and sherlyn really had a great time there, and i dun doubt the crazy rentals one have to pay if living in the city, but there are tons of stuff to save money and cheap eats, especially chinatown, though a bit cramped, you get good food.

hai, got to rush, i still got DC and niagaria falls coming up

Photos are in the my space album, accessible from my msn!!!

Phillies!!!!!

Yup, after a nerve wrecking 22hrs bus ride, i am here finally, PHILI!!!! Cheese steaks!!! no lah.....carry my big bag around is no no joke. should take photo of me and my gigantic backpack!!

yah the bus ride wasnt supposed to be so long, who expects that the greyhound has learner drivers without instructor one, holland from baltimore to phili. lucky my bus partner, warren lived in phili before, but still a bit off hahaha.

it was a interesting bus trip. Charleston-columbia-faytteville-richmond-washington DC-baltimore-Philadephia. met a guy call guy who went to carolina to visit his mum and its rushing back to Rohde island to his wife who is soon to give birth to their third daughter.

greyhound is not exactly the type of transportation the rich would take so you can kinda expect mainly the jobless and poor will take the service to other cities to look for relatives or work.

while i was in charleston, had a short chat with david about the government recent issue about immigrants. hes for the immigrants as to him, some of them are much hardworking than most americans he know and they are really essential to the country.

but on this trip, i got a different view. jobless americans do not neccesserily understand david's point, especially if they lack of skills and have to look for unskilled jobs which a lot of illegal immigrants like e hispanics have already taken as u wont need to pay additional tax to employ them.

warren and guy are 2 such pple, you can hear their disapprovals of the immigrants and the lack of work. interesting, but its really none of my concern. this country is great but i think a lot of domestic affairs do need adjustment.

right now i am in ING direct, a cafe recommended by Lonely planet to get internet access. no free console, but plenty of uncrypted wireless my T43 love to hook on!!!

right now, i am waiting for a while more before meeting danielle, my host for this country. shes started a new job today. hope its great for her. looking fwd to seeing her!!!

till the next time!!!

THE JOURNEY HAS BEGAN!!!

yup, i left georgia tech and atlanta behind. Spent 645USD on my greyhound unlimited riding ticket. not the most comfortable way to go but i think its good enough for me to see this country. right now i am in a public library blogging.

haha GIP pple were great, weisiong and jingfeng gave me a 'Song Ka' sending off.......... thanks the Zhaoli and JJ, got a free ride to the Station and yup off i set off to my first stop, Charlesto, SC. i will miss u all...XP, Eha, wh, Zy, soe, eileen......woah too many names la

haha got a stupid drunkand, self proclaimed US marines sniper.....dun noe true a not. but yeah he was entertaining enough and yah didnt noe how i put up with him for the whole journey haha

David Carter my host, and mind u a wonderful man picked me up in Donchester county. Gave me a short tour of the beautiful pennisula and off i set to explore the city, love the beautiful buildings and spent some time indulging in its beauty. the best thing about charleston is that u see the most beautiful women america has to offer (so far) dun noe why but a lot of them are in charleston, maybe because of the party scene? or jus that beautiful places comes with beautiful chicks?

cant really describe what i have done in charleston but in short, i drank a lot, went party with some german uncles i met at waterfront park, met david's friends and drink some more.(all are superb drinkers) lucky i managed to refused a 3am invitation to a house party, if else i be dead drunk. i love this beautiful place.

david works as a stero technician and owns a beautiful house, and sometimes a part time waiter at a famous dinning place (which ought to be in lonely planet, just that its EX). Roberts of charleston. cool chef who sings and perfect ambiance.

thats pretty much the first day. woke up late due to the alcohol in my head on the 7th and we went for brunch! Charleston serves brunch on sunday as everyone wakes up late due to late night drinking. it was the graduation for the students at college of charleston and its cool as the graduates wear tuxs and gowns instead of boring grad gowns.

We went to the beach, folly beach which was beautiful (stupid weather though) laze around there and watch the beautiful sea. we crashed a politician party at Bowen's island for food and booze haha.... cool right. i bet they must be wondering wat is an asian doing there.

...................time is running short, got to go find david soon and set off for philidaphia!!!!!!!!

end of atlanta days

haha boring blog right guys?

i guess its just too tedious to keep putting my journeys here in the states. easier to wait for me to go back then show you guys.

haven had the chance to call home for 2 weeks, dont know i busy on wat? haha its the dead week now and i have to pia report and project everyday, haha you know wat it means? it means my project group mates are as slack as me!!!! thats not true la, if not for them, i think we will have no programming code and i will fail this idiotic course.

haha i am really lousy with remembering b-days. forgot suli's one haha, better get her sth when i go back. haha hope KW will like the cheapstake present i got him and robin then brotherhood pendent haha!!!. and of cos CX, THE PORN MAGAZINE (he request one hahahaha....jokking)

sorry to hear about Roy and Ch's lost of dear ones, sorry that i am not ard to be at the wakes. but i'm sure u guys are strong.

been very busy planning summer trips doing stuffs here and there but not studying. really cant wait for the day sherlyn touch down to be here!!!

haven been able to complete my plans yet but i have to say i will miss Atlanta and GIT though its actually boring at times hahaha.

house parties, my classmates, the professors and my house mates. i do hope time can extend a while more!!!

SPRING BREAK TO FLORIDA

haha, jumping some small road trips i am going straight into spring break, a week has passed since spring break, and reality of our last month has sunk in. but that would be another blog entry.

the spring break was Mar 19 to 26th, haha i noe during then, most of my NTU friends had already started studying for the finals liao rite, hai, think they finish liao, mine then start, and best of all i still dun noe when is mine haha. today is rather shitty day, but i think i shd jus blog my spring break first to cheer myself up hahaha

we went to quite a few places during spring break, Savanah-Orlando-Miami-Key west-Fort De Soto-Panama City Beac

there was so much to see and to me, i would rate some of these parts of florida as much more attractive than Georgia haha. Atlanta is pretty boring. Gas is not cheap, almost 2.90USD a gallon over in Key west, southern most tip of the continent of north america.

universal studios were pretty ok, but i wouldnt say fantastic. but i pretty much lke the way towns are set up in savanah, miami and key west. all are coastal cities, with much of a relaxed culture. Isnt it cool to have a bar opened in the middle of south beach or some where along the streets in key west looking over the Gulf of mexico? ( minus the risk of things like Katrina) Maybe i really will leave Singapore one day.

We reached Miami in the dead of the nite and slept in the car (got to save money u noe) watched the sun rise and enjoyed the beach(yeah the whole day). haha the rest got pretty tired at nite so i went on the streets alone. caught the World baseball classic with some Cubans. Yeah japan won! the streets and spanish bars are pretty cool. too bad the discos are too hip hop for my liking. found a taco bar to had some supper. turned out to be the voted best mexican taco in miami, comes with STUPID sauce. trust me, unless u noe my chilli level. dun try hahaha. left my stomach feeling hot the whole day!!!.

We went to explore the other part of south beach the next day and yah some of the gals and guys got excited seeing topless suntanning, haha ( i saw it in aussieland) the beach were rather happening but the best way to have fun in mexico is to know spanish as the majority of the population are spanish speakers and are hispanics. nevertheless, the place left a pretty good memory in my mind!!!

Miami gallery : http://spaces.msn.com/fuseworld/photos/miami/

Mardi Gras 2006

hi hi friends, its finally me, catching up on blogging, lets GO. although i went to New Orleans like a month back, yah i noe, no pics and info rite. Katrina is still very much in the roads on route to Missippi. Mardi Gras, New Orleans was held in the main city, French Quarters, reopened after the disaster. I pretty much like the town, low rise buildins everywhere, a more subdued place (minus the bourbon St and St Louis lah) compared to big cities. U can see that, the place has only been partially cleaned up as i think the city cant afford to miss Mardi Gras, i'm sure they get tons of money out of it.

yah, the parades wasnt as flashy as the Chingay back home, wats unique is the rows of people by the side, vying for the attention of the performers who will then throw u tons of BEADS. Yeah, seems like beads are the way to go for US's parades....u soon see why (later posts) needless to say that in the unordodox tradition of Mardi gras......is to put a bead on the ger, and she will FLASH.....her TITS. haha boi u guys shd have seen the streets at nite, i was glad to catch sight of mardi gras haha, pretty fun!! had some alcohol, minimal (driving) and clubbing, haha seeing pple crazy trying to get every single ladies to take their clothes off, haha, the drive was long, but i say, its worth it. CH, u shd consider going hahaha

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as the poster says.....................

the day parade....................

any crazy guy

after going amok on bourbon st

need i say more

2 other pretty babes who werent insane

hi hi friends, its finally me, catching up on blogging, lets GO. although i went to New Orleans like a month back, yah i noe, no pics and info rite. Katrina is still very much in the roads on route to Missippi. Mardi Gras, New Orleans was held in the main city, French Quarters, reopened after the disaster. I pretty much like the town, low rise buildins everywhere, a more subdued place (minus the bourbon St and St Louis lah) compared to big cities. U can see that, the place has only been partially cleaned up as i think the city cant afford to miss Mardi Gras, i'm sure they get tons of money out of it.
yah, the parades wasnt as flashy as the Chingay back home, wats unique is the rows of people by the side, vying for the attention of the performers who will then throw u tons of BEADS. Yeah, seems like beads are the way to go for US's parades....u soon see why (later posts) needless to say that in the unordodox tradition of Mardi gras......is to put a bead on the ger, and she will FLASH.....her TITS. haha boi u guys shd have seen the streets at nite, i was glad to catch sight of mardi gras haha, pretty fun!! had some alcohol, minimal (driving) and clubbing, haha seeing pple crazy trying to get every single ladies to take their clothes off, haha, the drive was long, but i say, its worth it. CH, u shd consider going hahaha

hey this is a back log of our trip organised by the office of internation affiars here for us, the exchange students. same as any other trip, yup its taken up by the majority of SINGAPOREANS haha. the weather was darn good, hard tons of fun with my camera i tell u. we visited the archelogical (spelling) site of an old early east american indian preservation site. it was pretty cool, jus that the tale is sad.

The indians were the original occupants of the country, so u could say columbus bought the end of their civilization, but i dun think anyone recognize the fact of the sufferings of the Indians back them. this camp was relatively young before the yankees taken over by invading (u could see from some of the pics that the mount didnt get very high ( the height of the mount increases with the passing of a chief or improtant person)

the place was beautiful and we got to see their way of lifeand style. we later went on to see the last generation of Native Indians, the Cheerokees. They were the last batch and yeah, there are still many of them around except that most dun live in georgia anymore, they were relocated to Oklahorma state back then, when the americans decided the western half of georgia was also needed for development ( the orignally given the western half to the indians) so the entire Cheerokee population was forced on a more than several hundred miles long trek through a terrible winter to the Oklahorma state. many died along the way. sad isnt it, life?

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good weather means more fun with the camera

BW shots

indian mounts

this is actually a moat around the indians camp, serve as a natural form of protection

After an open air pinic, some of them took a nap, its sabo time!!!

Chief Vans' House, said to be the first proper house in Georgia, hes the most famous Cheerokee Chief in the east Indians history, yes.......they dont live in tepees as the TVs

An artistic shot of Xue Ping, haha shes my model to practice on!!!

yup, its the grandfather of toilet bowls

an old wine storage

we ended the day with an artistic shot

sorry for being missing for the past week. yah if u didnt know, i thrashed my lappie with a baseball................dun ask how i did it but yeah, i did it anyway.

lost tons of stuffs, but lucky most (most...hai) pictures are still intact......watch out for my MARDI GRAS trip post and NORTHWEST GEORGIA!!!

Happy Bday ROB!!!

Ten years of friendship, its always fun to recall the stupid and crazy stuffs we did together ever since BB days............ I hope u are doing well in your work right now, do take care and see ya soon brother......

LIFE.................

I guess i have always given my dear, family and friends that i'm kinda of a loner, and more of a wanderer. Guess when i hear my friends' problems over skype and my dear stressed over FYP and no one nagging at me at my ear (mum). u will start to think bout them, i still dun miss home, and the company heres great. but those people already have a place in ur heart....... think i need to treasure things i have taken for granted when i reach SG.

Things are great here, if staying here was a choice, i will greatly take it. haha there are many friends that i've made while i'm here, locals and also my other GIP mates. Every one is unique and different, like one of my fellow dudes like to say, treat the rest u wan them to treat u irregardless of their faults..... tough man. There are always things happening around us, some we are able to comprehend but definitely not all of it, i hope before it all ends, each and everyone of us will be true friends.

i wun say, everyones perfect, cos everyone's inperfect and i'm definitely one of those. I think my buddies back in SG noes that i keep my problems mostly to myself, and yah sometimes from sherlyn also. Thats why i hate making choices, cos thats when u have to expose your thoughts...........too much stuffs been happening around me, and i'm just ignoring the issues.

Cheng xi, wilson, rob and ah hua, u guys take care k, i know each of you are having much problems recently...........DUN KEEP DRINKING WITHOUT ME........ let me know if u guys need a listening ear, i will call back! serious...

Wonder hows the others are doing, do drop me a msg on the tagboard to let me know u pple are alive..............till next time..

DEAR, JIA YOU WITH YOUR WORK!!! miss u like crazy

BASEBALL SEASON IS COMING!!!

BASEBALL season is finally here!!! things in school had been going real boring and tough, lucky i got some baseball to watch, and best still i only then came to realise Georgia Tech is ranked 3rd in national college baseball and Altantic coast conference champion.....zai right

Now is still pretty much the pre season, and GT is still undefeated....here u see some of the pics of their clean sweep over Kenesaw State College in a 3 days series which we won 3-0.......... i even caught a FOUL BALL!!! yeah



The baseball stadium, Russ Chandler Stadium


Another KO by our pitcher!!!

Nice score board

My fave GT player, CF Danny Pyane.....his catch and double kill with his increadible throw to home ( not once but twice) was wow.....

Silly mistake.......

end game

MY BALL

Wild celebrations

this was real fun stuff, better than frat parties.......strip girls and free flow of liquer........(YAH RITE).............there was no alcohol except for a bottle of ale, it was some VDAY party in my apartment, haha the girls came up with muffins and nice cards and hugs for us, it was real sweet of them. we chatted, played stupid games and took lots of photos. this has got to be a craziest valentine i had. but yeah, valentine is really quite empty without sherlyn, miss her lots on that day, got scolded by her for my last post on flowers haha. wonder when my parcel is gonna reach her hahaha. hope it reaches by next week!!! things has been going quite well, the first round of stupid exams are over, not expecting to be doing well(all study the day before one) haha lucky theres no grade conversion for my subjects here.

things here are doing great, got used to getting the best deals for grocceries and fighting off unneccessary temptations. the knee is hurting bad after i refuse to give it proper treatment(means not resting, u guys know how much i hate the doc's) yah and of cos, who would turn down an invitation of soccer? haha. Please dun scold me haha

had a great talk with one of the guys last nite (neglecting work as usual). well, he was having some problems and i happen to be there to offer a listening ear. like i always told sherlyn and my friends, that life isnt fair, just try to get back on your feet and see how well u can then cope with the situation. that has mostly been my law of life whenever i run into trouble.

he was a really a nice guy, but just that his eyes has been closed for too long to the reality around him. haha but at the end of the day i do appauld his principles of life, haha been nice to others, EVEN if they're not nice to u. haha if that includes swallowing anger, i think my stupid temper would never allow that haha. but i'm sure the dude will sleep well everynight with his conscience feeling good all the time. hopefully he dun meet too many hypocrites around in life haha

weekend is coming, and its in the tune of sweet home alabama, guess where am i going??? cheekz!


A night of fattening food, muffins, pumpkin pie!! CHEESE CAKE from the famous atlanta cheese cake factory....

some of the wild things of the night

the sweetest girls of GIP, haha they made the cards for us....we gave them flowers though

the wild party goers!

Happy Valentines!!! especially to u dear!!! hee hee

Hey happy valentines to all loving couples out there and friendship week rite, back in singapore? hahaha got scolded for not giving flowers to sherlyn haha better remind myself next year both anniversary and valentines must give mandatory flowers hahaha...

pretty normal day, but yah same as back home, u do see stalls in school selling small novelty items for the day haha. me got back pretty late, but still managed to bake a brownie for my friends, too bad for those who didnt tasted it!!!

Back Log: Ski trip to North Carolina

last weekend, we set off for north carolina! Skiing, the rest of the guys couldnt go as they have lessons on friday, ahaha me zhiyu and xue went with 2 other guys from the last batch GIP group. they went skiing a lot! we rented a car and off we went!! as Georgia's state laws restricted the use of fireworks, we stumbled upon a FACTORY of fireworks in south Carolina!!! we bought sufficient TNT to blow my hostel away!!! (jokking) but its really amazing to see their range of fireworks. We didnt get to play with it on the way back as it was raining, but soon.....haha.

Skiing was SHIOK, though i rushed into the intermediate level and sprained my knee, the adrenaline kept me pretty much going and yah, i'm suffering the consequences now haha. managed to even try the advanced slope, although i tumbled down real funny! and boy was it steep or wat, i reckon that hill was a 60 degrees or more!!!

we had tons of fun but haha i was pretty much sleeping on the way back, stupid pain in the knee.... heres some pics.....hope i get to go again before the snows all melted

See the size of that place, this is just a quarter of the Fireworks shop!!!

The drive through Carolina was pretty scenic, especially the north part, as its more mountainous and snowy!!!
Heres the place!!! WOLF LAUREL ski resort
you might have guessed, too green horn to dare to bring my camera up, cos keep falling initially when skiing, all the rest was taken pretty much at the end of day, yeah skiing ends at 10 pm, cool rite!
me and ah yu with the slopes behind, haha u wun see it, too dark

a pictorial map of the ski area, look at me cursing the slope i tumbled down!!!