Friday, January 05, 2007

New Year in Los Angeles

It had been a while since i last blogged. Haha.. i am tired leh.. i still havent shifted into my dorms yet. still typing my entry away on e bottom half of e pathetic double-deckered bed. i think e UCLA housing system is quite screwed up.. i can only shift into my dorms one day b4 e official start of sch term.. gonna shift in this sunday.. e place better be nice, considering i am paying USD4105 for 6 months..

I spent my last day in Vancouver by going up to Mt Seymour and did snowtubing! it was fun, eso for noobs like me who have seen so much snow for e first time. Augustine said it is too dangerous to do snow skii and snowboarding.. i totally agree.. Wayne got his ligament torn due to a bad stretch resulted from a fall during snow skii.. i hope he is fine after his op.

Me buried in snow:















Augustine sending me off:














Yep, i kicked start this year in Los Angeles with my UCLA pals from NUS. They are Lixin (sorrie got cut off), Gabriel, Qunxiong and Xinhui. =)















After i arrived in LA then i realised how much i miss Vancouver. LA city has her buildings so widely spaced out. I find Vancouver more predestrain-friendly cos e buildings are close to each other (like our Holland V). It is really better to have a car in LA - who is willing to drive me around huh?

The next day we were so bored that we (it was qunxiong)picked any station on Metro and decided to go to Transit Mall - one end of Metro Rails. Metro is equivalent to our MRT back home. We made our way to Pine Ave Pier and had my first official Mexican meal (i had an informal one at San Francisco due to my flight delay)














Miaohui, another girl from NUS joined us and we went to UCLA to do orientation on 2nd Jan. We went to Westwood village, a small shopping area south of UCLA and super student-friendly to have dinner and then set up my bank acc.

Diana, another fren from NUS, hasnt joined us yet. i think i look muscular wif layers of clothes. ha:














3rd Jan we also go down to UCLA to settle some stuff. I passed by the organic chemistry lab and i couldnt resist taking some pics b4 someone catches me and accuses me of stealing their ideas. I hope i can work part time in e lab so as to earn for some of my heavy expenses here.














I just came back from Universal City Walk, the shopping malls just right outside Universal Studio. We didnt go in cos i heard e tickets bought from UCLA is much cheaper. i think e art of survival in LA is to know e places which offers e best deal.. so do your research!!

And i saw this interesting road sign. Apparently drivers have to stop and switch off their headlamps. I didnt catch any deers crossing though. =p


















Abercombie got some clearance sale.. so i helped myself. I think i will visit this place again. will upload more pics then. =)



















I also caught this movie Apocalypto here. Since e cinemas here are supposed to b e best. i tot it would be best to watch some action films.. e actions inside turned out to be more than i expected.. but it was very nice in all aspects other than e gore part.. I realised that there is alot of previews and e PG-rating here can easily be our R-21. i think i will try to catch more films here. =p

thats all for now. tata~

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