Day 2 - Los Angeles
The second day in US.
Had a quick breakfast in the hotel and made our way to Santa Monica.
I was really looking forward to the beach, for weather was kinda good there, and you know how beaches always made a good place or background for nice photos.
We took some quick pictures around the hotel area while waiting for the bus.
This was along the Walk of Fame, we were here like almost everyday.
The weather was great on that day, a perfect day to explore around the beach.
Took some pictures, or should I say, took lots of pictures at Santa Monica.
Well, since we are already there, might as well just help ourselves and snap whatever we want to.
Went over to Third Street Promenade for lunch and shopping.
Third Street is where you can find all the popular US brands, and there were lots of street performers.
A very interesting place, but was a pity that we didn't have much of a time left to spend here.
Walked over to Vernice Beach after the shopping.
Vernice Beach is just next to Santa Monica, but my, it was a really long walk.
The weather was cooling, so it wasn't as bad as it would have been if we were to do it back in Singapore.
Here are some pictures taken while we were walking to Vernice Beach.
There you go, Vernice Beach for you!
Vernice Beach has got lots of little stalls selling some arty stuffs and little accessories.
Not that much of a fan, thus walked around a bit to have a feel of the place before we headed back to our hotel area for a little bit of shopping and dinner.
The whole msn conversation we had was about this and he went on telling me that he had proposed and were planning to get married or planning to propse.
I can't remember which he was saying cause he was going on and on while I was busy uploading my US pictures.
We weren't really close in the first place, thus I didn't really felt comfortable listening to all that.
Anyway, back to the main point.
Three weeks ago, he was all upset and seems devasted.
But three weeks from then, he's happily attached, with another girl.
Of course I didn't mean that he should still be grieving over the lost
But how can someone/something change so quickly?
A love and relationship than has taken so much time and effort to build are forgotten with a not-too-sure-if-it's-a-real-upset kind of drama.
It seems than the relationship and love for people living in this age is so vunerable and fragile.
Where has all the real love and promises that our ancestors share went to?
Promises are no longer promises, they are just words to brighten up the current situation.
I am no expert when it comes to love and relationships.
Had the falls and all the heartbreaking moments.
But right now, I'm learning, in fact it's an endless lesson that I will be more than happy to attend.
With the nasty temper and unpredictable mood situation, I got to admit that I'm a far cry from a good girlfriend.
But from lessons learnt from the past relationship, I hope I can be a better one.
Though we managed to have some last Friday, I'm still craving for more!
Dinner with Jo, and Winebar with Jo, Fang and Yiwen.
It's time we moved on and strike Winebar off the list.
Jo, send me the pics!
Finally removed the feet wart.
The derma was explaining to me on the two methods available, and without much hesitation I chose the laser, which is supposed to be the less torturing of the two.
I can't imagine having to go through 30 mins of pain and having to do some DIY if I go for the liquid nitrogen method.
Though the laser method is supposed to be the less painful one, there is still a bit of pain involved.
Thank god, this pain only lasted for 15 seconds when the derma gave me the jab.
Got a shock of my life, when I remove the plaster.
My knees went weak instantly!
There was some bleeding, and there was a deep hole with burnt skin surrounding it.
Was supposed to clean it with a solution and lotion, but I know there's no way I can do it myself.
So there I went, shouting for help in the middle of the night.
Thank goodness, Bro still awake, got him to help me do it instead.
And he's seems to be a sadist, having much of a joy looking at my poor wound.
Being the really nice friend that shares everything with you guys, below is a picture of the wound!
Enjoy it!
Have a nice weekend!
I'm going to eat more crabs now!
I have been wanting to blog about the trip, however there seems to be no proper time for me to sit down and do it, and there are more pictures which I have yet to receive.
ButI love keeping memories of each and every small little stuffs, so I guess I better do it before I can't remember the details.
Day 1 - Los Angeles
Checked in at the early hours, and I was really looking forward to the trip, wanting to venture the foreign land, and with lots of anticipations building up.
Though at the same time, these excitement and anticipations were mixed with the negative thoughts of missing home and someone.
After a six to seven hours flight, we arrived at Narita Airport for transit.
Japan, Japan, Japan.
What comes to your mind when you think of Japan?
The high tech bowl below!
I was really enthusiastic to have a face to face meet up with this bowl.
But I'm not that game to try each and every buttons, so all I did was to push the flushing-sound button.
Interesting enough.
Walked around the Narita Airport a bit and I'm so in love with the Japanese tibits and magazines!
They are all so nicely packed and the freebies that come with the magazines are all so cute!
Managed to bag some home, and don't worry, looks are not deceiving!
This sushi ball is my favourite!
Bought back a few pieces on my way back to Singapore.
To everyone going to Japan, please try this, at least once!
Continued on with the flight from Narita to Los Angeles.
I can't really sleep much on the flight, so was really looking forward to meal times, and entertained myself with my book, MP3 and the camera.
It's not every day that you are up in the sky, witnessing the first sight of sun rise.
The sun rise was really beautiful and thoughts were flowing around.
This was then that I wrote the earlier post.
Arrived at LA after the ten hours flight, surprisingly I thought that time flies by really fast.
Spent quite a long time clearing the customs and when we got out of the airport, I was really tired.
Waited for quite a while for the flyaway shuttle that brought us to one of the train station, and when we got to the station, we had to lug our luggages and take the subway to our hotel.
Silly us didn't see that there was an elevator, so we carried our luggages down the stairs.
I must admit that this was really tough, in fact that was the first time that I tried carrying my luggage down the stairs, imagine doing the same up the stairs, well we tried that when we got to our hotel.
Reached the hotel that looks more like a motel.
Freshen up and were on our way to explore the LA downtown.
Guess it was because that was a weekend when we were there, as such, the downtown is more of a ghost town.
Snapped a couple of pictures and moved on to Chinatown that was within walking distance.
We were really hungry by the time we reached Chinatown, thus went straight in to the first eatery that we saw.
Ordered a bowl of noodles each, and got a big shock.
It was a really big bowl, with endless mouthful of noodles and lots of wan tons.
Guess one bowl will be more than enough to feed the 3 of us.
Continued with Chinatown, and sad to say, there was nothing much there, so went over to the next destination, the Disney Concert Hall.
I would say it's more of a see-take-some-pictures-and-move-on kind of place.
Since all of us were really tired, we ended the day early to rest well for the next long day at Santa Monica, Third Street Promenade and Vernice Beach.
I miss you!!!
I miss you big time!!!
Time, please fly by quickly!
It was 7.07am (US time) and I was on the plane, sitting by the window slipping my hot cup of green tea looking out at the blue sky that was filled with white sheets of clouds, and a splendid view of the just risen sun.
Everything looks peaceful.
It's this peaceful state of mind that makes everything perfect, that enables one to think through stuffs, on what have been missing out on life.
Family, career, love, friends and myself.
Family - Everyone has been good.
I really appreciate and feel fortunate to have a pair of wonderful and down-to-earth parents who doted on us.
Though I always loses my cool with them and have my everyday nonsense, they have never once complained.
Career - I have been complaining lately that the new scope had added on to my impatientness.
Time for me to reflect and do something about it.
Have been looking at the plan that I had set up initially, though small little steps had been acheived, I realised there are still stuffs lagging behind.
Love - I know I haven't been mentioning much on this aspect since the breakup.
Yes, I'm seeing someone now.
Friends - I'm glad to have those close gfs around me.
And of course my BFFs and bestie, always lending me their ears.
Myself - I'm always so impatient and bad-tempered.
Time for me to seriously do something about it.
Things that I wanted to do before I hit the big 3, - backpacking, and taking a trip to somewhere alone!
I was wondering how life would be like 5 years down the road.
The end of the trip.
2 weeks flew by before I realised it.
It was long in a way but short on the other.
Lots of stuffs done and new experiences found.
Exploring new places, lugging the luggages around, roaming a new street alone and many more to add on.
But the best experience that I especially adore was roaming the new streets alone on the random night.
It was a whole new experience that I never get to felt back home.
After checking out my stuffs, I was sitting by the street waiting for my travel mates.
It was there and then that I was thinking through some stuffs.
I finally took out my phone and deleted those smses that I should have deleted months ago.
Towards the end of the trip, I was missing home big time!
I miss everything back home, the food, the people, my bed, my family and of course that someone.
Now, I'm back, for more!
If you are interested, I will be blogging on the trip on subsequent entries.
Everything's packed and I'm all prepared.
Thanks for telling me that you girls will miss me while I'm away!
I will miss you too!
And I'm gonna miss that someone for 25 days!
I will be back 14 days later!
Till then, be good!
xoxo
There was this segment where they were talking about the relationship and what they had each done.
He was relating about this one time when he brought her parents over to some country to visit her, but she was too busy with work so he brought them around the country for sight seeing and stuffs.
I thought that was really sweet and I was really touched.
Being in a relationship is definitely not about just 2 person.
It involves the life of the other party, the family and the friends.
It's only then that you get to see what kind of person he/she is really like.
Two person may be perfectly fine together on their own but when it involves more than that, issues may arise.
I guess how well you can get along with the other party's family does play a big part in the success or failure of the relationship.
It's the family whom you are the closest with and with whom you had spent the longest and the earliest part of your life with.
It's really nice when both parties can get along well and are comfortable with each other's families.
Imagine being in a relationship with someone who don't respect or who can't get along with your family members.
That would have been really disastrous.
Another 9 more days to the trip!
I'm getting more and more excited over it!
Wanna know why Butter is now known as Guyoulong?
Read Fang's blog for more details.
Slept at 5am this morning and after a good 6 hours plus of sleep, I woke up for lunch, did my nails and watched a bit of my Taiwan drama before I headed back for the bed at 2pm, and only waking up a good 4 hours later to realise that it's time for dinner.
What a Sunday ya.
I'm thinking of how I am going to make myself sleep tonight.
Pretty nothing much that needs to be done for today, so I did my hair mask, body scrub, filed my feet, and am doing my face mask now while sipping on a bit of red, with the lavendar oil burning at the back.
It's such a lazy moment that I'm really enjoying.
I love having time for myself, doing nothing, surfing around aimlessly, reading a book or two and just thinking about stuffs.
Now, I'm going to wash off my mask, read my magazine and finish off the wine.
Good week ahead for all!
Nitez.