Gooooooooood day!
Sorry for the long wait. I am back on blogging action!
Just a brief update on my latest life: I have settled down at The Reserve at Columbia, an apartment with no public transport and no shuttle service during breaks. Weather is unpredictable every day. Columbia had its first snow on the third day I came. And I went out without boots (I wore Converse sneakers), winter hats, gloves nor scarves. Yep I was pretty much frozen to death. Currently facing some minor problems on my class registration stuff, but the rest is still fine. Still hoping to meet some MALAYSIAN friends here, you know why. I am so so so lonely and I miss speaking with the "lah" "loh" "mah" and "walao eh".
ANYWAY. BACK TO TOPIC!
I'll be blogging about my tremendously long trip with the amazing people. Missing them already *sniff sniff*. As you all had probably known from Facebook, we toured Chicago, headed to Madison next, visited Minneapolis for a couple of days and went to New York. Trip was long, so this post is going to be a part of Chicago only. Still a long way to go.
12.24.2011
Chicago O'Hare Airport
Navy Pier
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| Happily met up with Regina and the rest, although I look so Deng Sua Lang |
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| In the hostel called IHSP. This is "WEI", a division from LAWEI. |
As it was quite late on the Christmas Eve when I arrived, most shops were closed. We managed to pay a brief visit to the Navy Pier, which was cheerfully lightened up by the festive lights.
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| There is an iMax cinema in the plaza. It was Tom Cruise!! *Drools |
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| "The Eye of Chicago"?? |
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| There is also an indoor garden located just beside the plaza. |
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| Disturbing the plants sounds fun though! They seem so undisturbed all the time. |
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| Hibiscus! So happy to see bunga raya here. |
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| Fun fair who was closed at that time. |
12.25.2011
Chinatown
Millenium Park
I thought the Chicago transportation system was really neat. It is easy to move along on the loop.
Regina and Ivon bought everyone lip balms from Jamba Juice, a fruit juice and smoothie store. The mango flavored lip balm smells and tastes super nice that I kept on applying it.
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| Cute looking store |
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| Cute street decorations |
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| Garden deco for Christmas |
Bong brought us to a church located in an elementary school for Christmas service. It was my first time attending a service on Christmas. Pretty interesting.
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| Their elementary school is so colorful like our kindergartens! |
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| Don't have to explain why I take this picture right? |
After the service, we strolled along the streets. As it was Christmas, so streets were mostly deserted. There were some cars, and little people walking around.
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| Creepy santa claus! |
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| Dirty ;( |
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| G for Gucci G for Gap G for Gorgeous. Hahahahahh |
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| Pronounce it in Cantonese. "Wan" Dollar = One Dollar! Hahaha. Cute. |
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| Krabby Patty!! |
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| Cantonese style bakery. |
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| The chocolate chip cookies were really huge. They are almost the size of my palm. |
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| Poor 鳖 aka 水鱼.. reminded me of Titi and Timmy :'( |
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| Wanna Bai Thee Kong sometime? |
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| Hean looked like Japanese. |
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| 1225. Jar Jar. Wth is that |
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| Like some artists visiting a bakery. Haha. |
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| Sun Wu Kong? Khoh Wu Kong? |
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| The one on the left is the Xiao Gong Ji |
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| Awwww childhood memories!! |
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| Chim Mandarin! 高买 ＝ shoplifting |
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| I know I don't look like him. |
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| Met some buddies. |
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| Pretty lights that lights up following the music tones. |
After dinner we visited Millenium Park.
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| Cool? |
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| Chio? |
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| Pretty right? |
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| Different colors! Green wasn't that pretty I thought. |
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| Trying to make it look like ice climbing. |
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| This is an obvious failure. |
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| Cool leh? |
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| Everyone at the side was staring. |
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| Some even snapped a photo of it. |
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| Evolution |
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| Failed "火" |
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| BOEING GALLERY -> BONG GALLERY |
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| Jay Pritzker Pavillion is effing beautiful !! |
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| So are we. |
MacBook Pro is on low batt right now.
Stay tuned for more.
Have fun in 2012!
We won't die.
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