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So what can I say about my US trip. I had a pretty damn good time actually. It's been quite a while since I've had a long holiday overseas (no thanks to NS. _|_ NS) and I've always wanted to visit the US so I was looking forward to it. Also, I was looking forward to not having to on my handphone for 2 weeks. I get pretty sms-phobic sometimes. Dono why but sometimes when I hear my phone ring im like FUCKARGHHH. Ah but thats not important. So where did I go in the US. I'll just break it down in order of of visitation:
1) Stanford - So my family and my aunts family landed at SF Airport. My sister and her boyfriend picked us up. We stayed at a motel which wasn't too bad. We also went to Costcos which is my idea of a great supermarket. The range and quantity of fresh and dried/packeted/bottled food is unbelievable. Like I can buy random pies off the rack and they taste a million times better than the stuff from NTUC.
OHHO we just stealin some apples
2) HOLLYWOOOOOOD - We pretty much acted like shameless tourists. We were taking pictures with all the stars (on the street pavements, that is :| ) and we also tried to photograph the big HOLLYWOOD sign. I think my dad's decision to bring his cumbersome long range lenses was validated for that 5 minutes. After that we went to Universal Studios which I absolutely loved. The way they create movie sets and special effects is just plain cool and ingenious. Like zomg I saw Mysteria Lane. We sat on all the major rides which didnt cause too much organ displacement but I still screamed through all of them. Simpsons was quite exciting for a simulator. The Mummy was pretty scary but there were no drops and it was quite short. The Jurassic Park ride had a steep slide into the water at the end and we had just eaten chinese fastfood from Panda Express so I can't say I felt excellent after. One thing that really killed me though was all the 3D stuff around. Really burnt my eyes. I cannot even imagine people watching Avatar in IMAX while wearing glasses like that.
Clint Eastwood's hands are massive. I think that's how he killed so many in Unforgiven.
3) Disneyland - Well a lot of people say that your childhood is not complete until you have gone to Disneyland. I concur 100%. This place is the shit man. It's just a world in itself where everyone smiles and you see churro stalls every 20 feet. We covered it in day because we wanted to do Adventure Park the next day. We did all the rides that we wanted to do and it was fun as hell. The good thing about Disneyland rides is that it's very family oriented while still maintaining a certain edginess and craziness so everyone went for nearly everything. Some of the highlights were Indiana Jones, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain (my clothes got DESTROYED here) and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. And if I may add, I trouced the entire family at Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters. I think I got like 40500. MUAHAHAHAHAA. MUAAHAHAHHAHA. We did some other random rides too like Alice in Wonderland and Nemo Submarine where half my family fell asleep in the submarine. My aunt wanted to watch the terribad 3D Show Honey! I Shrunk the Audience which didn't quite live up to its name because there was no audience to shrink in the first place. Oh yeah my sister later jio-ed me to go to Adventureland and have this kickass pineapple drink. It's pineapple juice with pineapple ice-cream and it was just so tasty and refreshing. Mmm -smacks lips-. We ended off with the parade on Main Street which was quite exciting - for a 2 year old child.
If you wore a poncho, you are wise.
4) California Adventure Park - Well Adventureland is something like an add-on to Disneyland. It's smaller but it has some pretty damn big rides. Like seriously rides that will rape jor ass. Like this beast called CALIFORNIA SCREAMIN. It is this mother big, superhyperfast rollercoaster with a ton of steep drops and a 360 circle of doom. I got pwned so hard on this. I was screaming like a banshee on roids. My uncle who sat it out said he could hear me screaming from below. I literally screamed "WAAAT THHHHHEEE FFFFFUUUUUUKKK" non-stop for the first 80% of the ride and by the last 20% I had descended into a slobbering mess of random swear words. I pretty much got served. The other one where I died was The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. When you go to the top, the doors open and you see the park, then the doors close and they drop you in the dark. It's just one of those OH SHIT rides because you don't know what's gonna happen. My cousin held my arm because he was afraid of the dark. I'm kinda glad he did.
I don't know if you can see, but I'm screaming like a little girl.
5) Las Vegas - Well some of the family had really high expectations that they could do a lot of stuff in Vegas but there's probably very little stuff you can do for free there. I quite liked it actually. It's a Sin City with tons of excess and I can see why people like to come here to let loose. The city's an animal. Probably the highlight was the Bellagio Fountains display. There was one choregraphed display in particular that was ridiculously awe-inspiring and hilarious. It was set to the music of GOD BLESS THE USA. You can feel the over-the-top patriotism conveyed THROUGH the fountain. It's like during the closing lines the height of the fountain was literally
GOD..... BLESS...... THE..... USAAAAAA
pwning my mum at the pyramid. She'll be well pleased.
6) Grand Canyon - Well there had been a bit of tension during the trip - it's natural when you have so many people but I think everything dissipated when we got to the Grand Canyon. It's majestic beyond words and I was quite content to just stand there quietly and look at it for 10 minutes. Haha it's sort of like "Omg? how can we quarrel with all this beauty in front of us". My mum said visiting the Grand Canyon was one of her lifelong dreams so I'm glad she fulfilled it
Oh yeah showin some love. Sis' boyfriend btw, not some random guy.
My mum's viking hat sure is distracting
7) Sedona - We stayed in Sedona for a night and the next morning and honestly I wasn't too amazed by the place. There's a lot of rock formations but I didn't really like it because it's very deserty and dry. We also visited a catholic church built into rock which was quite cool but they had some stuff made with twigs in the church and immediately I thought of the Blair Witch Project :X. Hoho but I do remember during the night we went to this Chinese restaurant owned and run by Malaysians. It was super funny because there was a sort of mini-celebration simply over the fact that the staff had finally met some of their Malaysian bretheren (my mum and my aunts family). The convo went something like this in Hokkien:
- cook walks out-
My dad: Hey you're Malaysian too is it.
Cook: Hey hi yeah I am.
My uncle: Hey we're Malaysian too.
Cook: YOU'RE MALAYSIAN? From where from where (anticipation building)
Mum: Perak
Aunt: Ya Perak.
Cook: PERAK? IM ALSO FROM PERAK. OOOOOHH! Which district which district??????
Aunt: Telok Intan
Cook: TELOK INTAN? IM FROM IPOH. HAHHAAHHAAHA OMGWTH WE'RE LIKE FAMILLLLY.
All: OMGWTH YA WE ARE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAH!
Cook: HAHAHAHAHAHA. TOO AWESOME! HOWS THE FOOD HOWS THE FOOD
Uncle: TASTES LIKE REAL MALAYSIAN FOOD. ITS EXCELLENT.
Cook: HAHAHAHAHAH GOOD GOOD!
LOLOL It was crazy man. They were bonding for like 3 minutes just over geographical affinity. They were laughing as racuously as I make them out to be in the convo.
I'm no romantic but Lord knows I try
8) CAR CRASH OF DOOM. Well on the way back from Sedona to Vegas (we were going to watch a show), we got into an accident which could have been damn near catastrophic. Essentially right after my sister made a turn into a road and had started speeding up her rear tyre exploded. I don't mean punctured. I mean EXPLODED like BOOM. The car swivelled hard and then proceeded to do a 1440 DEGREE SPIN (OMG TONEY HAWK ONLY DOES 900) into the sand by the roadside and up a sloped path on elevated ground. Amazingly no one was hurt and only the tyres were damaged. In the aftermath. if the car had gone ANYWHERE else someone would probably have died or something. So that means I could have died haha. When we spun apparently someone saw it and already called the cops. Then some friendly trucker dude who looked like Jesus came to our aid to make sure we're fine. He was like "oh I've seen a lottta crashes like this in my life. You guys are preeetty lucky". The policeman was like "You guys really need to thank you're angels tonight because if you had crashed into that signboard or the rocks it would have been over". So yeah. Hot Damn. We're alive.
i) Pre Accident
ii) Tyre explosion- I was in the front with my sister btw
iii) Car does a spinarooney
iv) Post-accident situation analysis
Tyre of fail
9) Yosemite. Lol so after getting ALL 4 of my sister's tyres replaced we still went on to Yosemite where we saw lots of mountains and had an epic snowball fight where my sister put a snowball down my pants. I was getting quad-teamed so don't blame me.
Even when the odds are stacked against me, I still find time to pwn my mum
10) San Francisco was OK for me. I really enjoyed Fisherman's Wharf and Ghirardelli Square but other than that it was OK. People were getting tired by this time I think.
Chilling at the Golden Gate Bridge
And after that the next day we flew home. So yeah that was the US trip. While we still ate a lot of chinese food during the trip to cater to the older people there was a lot of other foods that I tried and loved like:
- Roscoes Waffles and Chicken. Eat some chiken then eat some waffles and syrup. Surest route to cardiac arrest
-Teriyaki Meatballs from Costcos
- Churros in Disneyland. It's like sweet You Tiao
-Giant Turkey leg in Adventureland
- Mexican Food. We ate this once and I loved the burritos. There was one with French Fries and beef and cheese inside and it was heavenly
- Hawaiian L and L. Hawaiian fast food is awesome. It's sort of like Japanese, Western and Island food mixed all together.
- Diner food in general. Diner food is comfort food. Omelettes, waffles, apple pies, ice cream, fried stuff and chips. Mmm.
- Calamari from Fisherman's Wharf
So overall my experience in the US was really great and unforgettable. Amongst other things, I got to see my sister again which is always nice. Also I got to know her boyfriend a little better. He's a really nice smart guy, a real steady guy whose personality complements my sister's and I think during this trip he left a very favourable impression on my family. We 3 drank quite a bit of beer together too.
Finally yesterday was my birthday. Well turning 20 is no biggie and birthdays in my household are turning out to be a bit of a non-event so it was a quiet day around the house. My cheapskate mum asked me to use a cake that someone else gave to us as my birthday cake. I was like wtf? Birthdays are so not the time to be practical. But they said they'd buy me another one soon so we just used some banana cake haha. They also gave me some cash as a gift. Cash is always good.
So what can I say about my US trip. I had a pretty damn good time actually. It's been quite a while since I've had a long holiday overseas (no thanks to NS. _|_ NS) and I've always wanted to visit the US so I was looking forward to it. Also, I was looking forward to not having to on my handphone for 2 weeks. I get pretty sms-phobic sometimes. Dono why but sometimes when I hear my phone ring im like FUCKARGHHH. Ah but thats not important. So where did I go in the US. I'll just break it down in order of of visitation:
1) Stanford - So my family and my aunts family landed at SF Airport. My sister and her boyfriend picked us up. We stayed at a motel which wasn't too bad. We also went to Costcos which is my idea of a great supermarket. The range and quantity of fresh and dried/packeted/bottled food is unbelievable. Like I can buy random pies off the rack and they taste a million times better than the stuff from NTUC.
OHHO we just stealin some apples
2) HOLLYWOOOOOOD - We pretty much acted like shameless tourists. We were taking pictures with all the stars (on the street pavements, that is :| ) and we also tried to photograph the big HOLLYWOOD sign. I think my dad's decision to bring his cumbersome long range lenses was validated for that 5 minutes. After that we went to Universal Studios which I absolutely loved. The way they create movie sets and special effects is just plain cool and ingenious. Like zomg I saw Mysteria Lane. We sat on all the major rides which didnt cause too much organ displacement but I still screamed through all of them. Simpsons was quite exciting for a simulator. The Mummy was pretty scary but there were no drops and it was quite short. The Jurassic Park ride had a steep slide into the water at the end and we had just eaten chinese fastfood from Panda Express so I can't say I felt excellent after. One thing that really killed me though was all the 3D stuff around. Really burnt my eyes. I cannot even imagine people watching Avatar in IMAX while wearing glasses like that.
Clint Eastwood's hands are massive. I think that's how he killed so many in Unforgiven.
3) Disneyland - Well a lot of people say that your childhood is not complete until you have gone to Disneyland. I concur 100%. This place is the shit man. It's just a world in itself where everyone smiles and you see churro stalls every 20 feet. We covered it in day because we wanted to do Adventure Park the next day. We did all the rides that we wanted to do and it was fun as hell. The good thing about Disneyland rides is that it's very family oriented while still maintaining a certain edginess and craziness so everyone went for nearly everything. Some of the highlights were Indiana Jones, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain (my clothes got DESTROYED here) and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. And if I may add, I trouced the entire family at Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters. I think I got like 40500. MUAHAHAHAHAA. MUAAHAHAHHAHA. We did some other random rides too like Alice in Wonderland and Nemo Submarine where half my family fell asleep in the submarine. My aunt wanted to watch the terribad 3D Show Honey! I Shrunk the Audience which didn't quite live up to its name because there was no audience to shrink in the first place. Oh yeah my sister later jio-ed me to go to Adventureland and have this kickass pineapple drink. It's pineapple juice with pineapple ice-cream and it was just so tasty and refreshing. Mmm -smacks lips-. We ended off with the parade on Main Street which was quite exciting - for a 2 year old child.
If you wore a poncho, you are wise.
4) California Adventure Park - Well Adventureland is something like an add-on to Disneyland. It's smaller but it has some pretty damn big rides. Like seriously rides that will rape jor ass. Like this beast called CALIFORNIA SCREAMIN. It is this mother big, superhyperfast rollercoaster with a ton of steep drops and a 360 circle of doom. I got pwned so hard on this. I was screaming like a banshee on roids. My uncle who sat it out said he could hear me screaming from below. I literally screamed "WAAAT THHHHHEEE FFFFFUUUUUUKKK" non-stop for the first 80% of the ride and by the last 20% I had descended into a slobbering mess of random swear words. I pretty much got served. The other one where I died was The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. When you go to the top, the doors open and you see the park, then the doors close and they drop you in the dark. It's just one of those OH SHIT rides because you don't know what's gonna happen. My cousin held my arm because he was afraid of the dark. I'm kinda glad he did.
I don't know if you can see, but I'm screaming like a little girl.
5) Las Vegas - Well some of the family had really high expectations that they could do a lot of stuff in Vegas but there's probably very little stuff you can do for free there. I quite liked it actually. It's a Sin City with tons of excess and I can see why people like to come here to let loose. The city's an animal. Probably the highlight was the Bellagio Fountains display. There was one choregraphed display in particular that was ridiculously awe-inspiring and hilarious. It was set to the music of GOD BLESS THE USA. You can feel the over-the-top patriotism conveyed THROUGH the fountain. It's like during the closing lines the height of the fountain was literally
GOD..... BLESS...... THE..... USAAAAAA
pwning my mum at the pyramid. She'll be well pleased.
6) Grand Canyon - Well there had been a bit of tension during the trip - it's natural when you have so many people but I think everything dissipated when we got to the Grand Canyon. It's majestic beyond words and I was quite content to just stand there quietly and look at it for 10 minutes. Haha it's sort of like "Omg? how can we quarrel with all this beauty in front of us". My mum said visiting the Grand Canyon was one of her lifelong dreams so I'm glad she fulfilled it
Oh yeah showin some love. Sis' boyfriend btw, not some random guy.
My mum's viking hat sure is distracting7) Sedona - We stayed in Sedona for a night and the next morning and honestly I wasn't too amazed by the place. There's a lot of rock formations but I didn't really like it because it's very deserty and dry. We also visited a catholic church built into rock which was quite cool but they had some stuff made with twigs in the church and immediately I thought of the Blair Witch Project :X. Hoho but I do remember during the night we went to this Chinese restaurant owned and run by Malaysians. It was super funny because there was a sort of mini-celebration simply over the fact that the staff had finally met some of their Malaysian bretheren (my mum and my aunts family). The convo went something like this in Hokkien:
- cook walks out-
My dad: Hey you're Malaysian too is it.
Cook: Hey hi yeah I am.
My uncle: Hey we're Malaysian too.
Cook: YOU'RE MALAYSIAN? From where from where (anticipation building)
Mum: Perak
Aunt: Ya Perak.
Cook: PERAK? IM ALSO FROM PERAK. OOOOOHH! Which district which district??????
Aunt: Telok Intan
Cook: TELOK INTAN? IM FROM IPOH. HAHHAAHHAAHA OMGWTH WE'RE LIKE FAMILLLLY.
All: OMGWTH YA WE ARE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAH!
Cook: HAHAHAHAHAHA. TOO AWESOME! HOWS THE FOOD HOWS THE FOOD
Uncle: TASTES LIKE REAL MALAYSIAN FOOD. ITS EXCELLENT.
Cook: HAHAHAHAHAH GOOD GOOD!
LOLOL It was crazy man. They were bonding for like 3 minutes just over geographical affinity. They were laughing as racuously as I make them out to be in the convo.
I'm no romantic but Lord knows I try
8) CAR CRASH OF DOOM. Well on the way back from Sedona to Vegas (we were going to watch a show), we got into an accident which could have been damn near catastrophic. Essentially right after my sister made a turn into a road and had started speeding up her rear tyre exploded. I don't mean punctured. I mean EXPLODED like BOOM. The car swivelled hard and then proceeded to do a 1440 DEGREE SPIN (OMG TONEY HAWK ONLY DOES 900) into the sand by the roadside and up a sloped path on elevated ground. Amazingly no one was hurt and only the tyres were damaged. In the aftermath. if the car had gone ANYWHERE else someone would probably have died or something. So that means I could have died haha. When we spun apparently someone saw it and already called the cops. Then some friendly trucker dude who looked like Jesus came to our aid to make sure we're fine. He was like "oh I've seen a lottta crashes like this in my life. You guys are preeetty lucky". The policeman was like "You guys really need to thank you're angels tonight because if you had crashed into that signboard or the rocks it would have been over". So yeah. Hot Damn. We're alive.
i) Pre Accident
ii) Tyre explosion- I was in the front with my sister btw
iii) Car does a spinarooney
iv) Post-accident situation analysis
Tyre of fail
9) Yosemite. Lol so after getting ALL 4 of my sister's tyres replaced we still went on to Yosemite where we saw lots of mountains and had an epic snowball fight where my sister put a snowball down my pants. I was getting quad-teamed so don't blame me.
Even when the odds are stacked against me, I still find time to pwn my mum
10) San Francisco was OK for me. I really enjoyed Fisherman's Wharf and Ghirardelli Square but other than that it was OK. People were getting tired by this time I think.
Chilling at the Golden Gate Bridge
And after that the next day we flew home. So yeah that was the US trip. While we still ate a lot of chinese food during the trip to cater to the older people there was a lot of other foods that I tried and loved like:
- Roscoes Waffles and Chicken. Eat some chiken then eat some waffles and syrup. Surest route to cardiac arrest
-Teriyaki Meatballs from Costcos
- Churros in Disneyland. It's like sweet You Tiao
-Giant Turkey leg in Adventureland
- Mexican Food. We ate this once and I loved the burritos. There was one with French Fries and beef and cheese inside and it was heavenly
- Hawaiian L and L. Hawaiian fast food is awesome. It's sort of like Japanese, Western and Island food mixed all together.
- Diner food in general. Diner food is comfort food. Omelettes, waffles, apple pies, ice cream, fried stuff and chips. Mmm.
- Calamari from Fisherman's Wharf
So overall my experience in the US was really great and unforgettable. Amongst other things, I got to see my sister again which is always nice. Also I got to know her boyfriend a little better. He's a really nice smart guy, a real steady guy whose personality complements my sister's and I think during this trip he left a very favourable impression on my family. We 3 drank quite a bit of beer together too.
Finally yesterday was my birthday. Well turning 20 is no biggie and birthdays in my household are turning out to be a bit of a non-event so it was a quiet day around the house. My cheapskate mum asked me to use a cake that someone else gave to us as my birthday cake. I was like wtf? Birthdays are so not the time to be practical. But they said they'd buy me another one soon so we just used some banana cake haha. They also gave me some cash as a gift. Cash is always good.
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