Hello!
I know you guys have been cravinggggggggggg intensively for my updates, HAHAHA! (I made this up myself) Finally got the time to sit down and do some blogging.
Thanks to Chuantian and Shilin for taking time out to send me off at the airport! I had niang toufu and noodles for my last local meal btw lol.
Us before departure!
First flight - from Sg to Taipei. damage: 4 hours 25mins. The journey wasn't too bad, watched Norbit on board the plane wakaka! I don't know how Eddie Murphy can disguise as Mr Wong!! Tell me how he did that!!! Ok anyways we reached Taipei pretty fast and then waited for the next flight for a few hours.
At Taipei, before boarding to (NO! NOT Beijing!!!!) L.A.
2nd flight - from Taipei to Los Angeles (NO, NOT TO BEIJING LA!!!). damage: 11 hours++. journey was BAD!!! After a light meal, watch one movie. After that we were very sleepy already so we slept... But how to sleep in a semi-inclined position, with little leg room and constant whirrling noise???? I woke up 3 hours later lor. -_- So continued another movie, then they served breakfast at 6 plus. However, it was 7am in Sg, but 7pm at USA! LOL. Felt weird having to eat breakfast at night. Anyways, sorry for the boring monotonous blog, I'm digging out memories a few days old haha.
We finally touched down at USA! At LA, while waiting for transfer.
3rd flight - from LA to Atlanta. damage: 4 hours. We took their domestic airlines Delta and found it rather not bad. Slept most of the time.final - from Atlanta to Richmond. damage: 1 and a half hours. Super looking fwd to touching down, all of us were so sick of being tied up in the plane, roar.
And finally..... we reached!!!!!!!!!!
Zzzzzz.
Quality Innnnnnn.
We took a coach to Quality Inn, it was really rather QUALITY wor!!! HAHAHA. It's like a hotel standard, but pity we'll only be staying here for a few days before moving to Virginia Commonwealth Uni campus. It was 1.30pm when we stepped into the room, which is 1.30am in your home! After unpacking some stuffs, 6 of us went out in search for lunch in the vicinity. The weather is not bad, cooling with sunshine, but generally comfortable =).
Crossing the roads is pretty tricky... not much pedestrian crossings. Just wait for the right time and cross! After 2 hours or so, we settled down at Frendly's, which serves huge portions of chicken/steak etc. It was super filling and nice and reasonably cheap so we returned happily, joyfully and gracefully. Most of us couldn't cope with the jet lag and KO at around 7pm. WAKAKAKAKA!! Jet lag feels like playing mahjong the whole night long and finally sleeping at 7am, ya know? I think Joycie will understand! Lol.
Snoreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I woke up at 1am. Dangs! No 3 no 4 lidat!!!! So I went back to sleep and woke up at 5.30am.
Breakfast was on the house. We took a bus to Willow Lawn which was a few bus stops away... In America, "2 blocks away" can mean anything from 5mins to 30mins walk. It's frustrating sometimes when you cannot even see what 1 block away is. O_O At Willow Lawn we found our favourite shop! Called "Dollar tree", everything costs $1. HAHAHHAA. Budget budget, we got some necessities and headed for the city centre. Every bus ride costs $1.25 man. Good thing is only that it's regardless of distance.
We opened a bank account each with the Bank of America before walking some distance to Extreme Pizza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The pizzas are huge!!!!!!!! And very very reasonable prices. Drinks are refillable! It was a very satisfying and rewarding meal after going hungry for "3 blocks down the road". Lol.
Extreme Pizza! Pics are at another comp... I'll show you guys another interesting pic of Me and Myself with pizza next time!
Sorry for boring entry.... :( Anyways after lunch, we made our way back slowly back to a convenience store near Quality Inn. At Walgreens, we bought drinks and Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Very cheap here!!!! It's about 1/3 of the price at Sg. Heh.
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Tomorrow's weekend, and there won't be any public buses. We're still planning what to do for the weekend... tough when we aren't familiar with this place. So, updates later~~!!! =)
I must say Americans are really really really friendly!!! Super friendly and helpful and nice. They say "Have a nice day!" and "You're welcome!" twice as many times as Singaporeans say "wha lao eh!". The pace is also relaxed, not busy and rushing to claim discount lidat back home.
Woohoo, I'm enjoying it. Btw we have to report for work on Monday, so enjoy whilst we can! =)
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