US trip 2

finally back in Singapore for the dec holidays...for another 5-6 days before i get whisked off the malaysia for a family retreat **rolls eyes**

on one hand i was getting bored in LA. i didn't like being so confined to everyone's likes and dislikes. i learnt during this trip that the best way for a family, or in any case, any group of people, to maintain relationships together is ironically, to not stay together....for a long time at least. so paradoxical. but yeah. u start to trample on each other nerves and not long after, you'll start tearing at each other's eyeballs...or whatever's left from the previous fights.

i was actually looking forward to coming back to Singapore where i was free to go wherever i wanted, to wake up at whichever time i wanted and to use the toilet for as long as i wanted. for the first time in all my travelling history, i didn't dread coming home. :) ah yes...home sweet home

i guess after 15 years away from US, as you grow older..your expectations increase and all the nice impressions of US that i had when i was young (which stayed with me until now) made US quite a disappointment. the whole big brother thing and stuff...i still love Singapore more...even if that means i'm going to starve due to the availability of job opportunities here as compared to the states. i don';t think i'd be able to survive in US considering that i don't really intend to learn how to drive just to keep my sanity alive. but...i must say...the environment there is awesome...very inspiring to draw and be all arty farty and nature dweller.

sooo....within these 2 weeks that i've been gone, i've been to universal studios, disneyland, california adventure park, sea world, san diego zoo, grand canyon, las vegas, balboa park, la jolla bay etc etc. in summary, las vegas is boring unless u like to marvel at the architecture and the likes, univeral studios, san diego zoo standards have dropped, disneyland isn't as happy as i wanted it to be. i overrated america (and for this my house is going to get bombed. people. remember me and come to my funeral to say nice things about me k!).

for shopping fanatics like my bro, america's the place to go.it's like shopper's heaven/haven...wadever..their factory outlet's are humongomous and they go cheap. seriously. the one i went to had like 130 shops..or was it 100. and they werent small. they were big shops. my family was there from morning till night just shopping. the 4 of us alone spent about 1k. but that's mainly cause my mum spent half that amount on coach bags. i got myself like ...4 levis jeans, 2 tees and 1 pair of long pants. i never really enjoyed shopping till then..but i think it started and ended there. we really shopped till we dropped.

universal studios, san diego zoo and disneyland were a tad bit of a disappointment. all the hoohaa and the expectations din quite meet. disneyland wasn't as happy as i wanted it to be. hong kong disneyland was happier even though it was lousier. oh wellz. san diego zoo has very little animals :( and they all look malnourished. i never knew elephants ate twigs and bears played with cardboard and paper until then. you could barely see much animals and the cages made it hard to capture pictures of them. even the animal shows were boring :( oh wellz. some world famous zoo.... -___-

we took a tour down to las vegas cos my mum didn't want to drive down. it was a rather eventful tour. we had a very small tour group u see and we filled only half the bus. so they decided to consolidate to cut costs, without telling us, lying that the bus broke down at the first stop/bus driver disappeared and they squeezed us all into another tour group. well.. there goes our night tour and we had to figure out how to travel on our own. on the second day, we travelled down to grand canyon (with another tour group) where it was so cold smoke came out when u peed or spoke. but the view was cool....and scary. very scary. i don't quite want to imagine wad will happen if u fall down. saw some snow and a cow and a mountain goat there (i seriously have no idea how the goat got to the cliff..cos it looked stuck there with no where to move. either way...it'd die). took loads of pictures of us "scaling" the tip of grand canyon and the sky walk which is really scary. it's the glass bridge over the grand canyon. so when you look down...you look all the way down. it's really scary!!!

but i think overall the best highlight of the entire trip would be watching the musical "Wicked". IT"S AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! my bro was real lucky to win the Wicked lottery. so, for like 25 bucks we got a 200 US dollar seat which was located first row, right behind the orchestra pit. sitting so upfront meant we could see every nitty gritty detail from the make-up to the texture of the costumes to the actors and actresses faces :) haha. YES...that means admiring some eye candies. sweeettt >.< ok. i'm lazy to update more. hahahaha. if i manage to get some pictures from my bro...i'd post them up..see first....