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sight-seeing!!!

ok so what have i been doing since i left smalltown davis?? simple!! i went sight-seeing!!! :)

yup my dad and i drove to san francisco and visited her famous landmark: Golden Gate Bridge!! oh gosh...it's SO beautiful! then we went to Fisherman's Wharf and had fantastic seafood dishes there!! WOON!! i tell you arh...if we visited all the super classy restaurants here, we will swoon over EVERY DISH!!! yesh. some cuisine here is really damn good. italian food here is BAGUS!!!
anyway i went SHOPPING at san fran!! woohoo!! there are SO MANY shops here!! really spoilt for choice! BUT they aren't that cheap...so i didn't exactly have a truly satisfying shopping trip...boos...nvm i shall turn to ONLINE SHOPPING instead :)

next day we drove up to Carmel. ok this is like the place where a lot of super rich pple build their retirement homes at. the town area is very quaint and uppity high class!! oh you must take the 17 mile drive because you will get to drive through GORGEOUS scenery.

imagine waking up to this coastline and fresh sea breeze! and their houses, wait i should use the word MANSIONS, are soooo beautiful!! argh we just dashed past them so i didn't get to take pictures :( oh but i took pics of wildlife!!! haha none of the animals ran away from me!! woohoo!!!




next stop was the Monterey Bay Aquarium. it's a VERY GOOD aquarium ok? come california must visit this place! i took a pic of this baby sea bass (which was HUGE!!!!!!!! it's longer than ur laptop k!). anyway it had really cloudy eyes and we found out that it had CATARACTS!! boos...thank goodness it will never be released to the wild or else it wouldn't stand a chance against all its predators! there's the sea bass picture on the bottom :( very sad....


oh the best fun i had was on this train ride through the redwood forest at Roaring Camp!! haha i took lots of really dumb pics!! hmmm and the funniest thing was trying to get my mother to understand why i do stupid poses while taking pictures..well i should have showed her my collection of WOON's UNGLAM pictures :)




ANYWAY let me share with you what i learned during the train ride!! our guide, chris, was SUPER funny!! he's probably the FIRST guide i've ever listen to...seriously...when i go for other tours i usually never pay attention to the speaker cos they are always SO boring....argh....but i listened to chris!! so i did learn something at the end of the tour!!!
REDWOODS are really awesome trees!! during the 1976 forest fire, every tree was destroyed EXCEPT for the redwoods!! they were engulfed in flames for 12 hours yet only TWO redwoods were destroyed. apparently redwoods secrete some kind of acid that act as Nature's fire extinguisher so they are EXTREMELY resistant to fire. ok end of lesson one. i'll put up more facts when i erm...can recall them :)

ok so that's how i spent the past 3 days! quite okae lah huh....haha must relax like a tourist before i start school!! argh i just received an email from my chem prof regarding lab work.

this is what it states:
Students must read the laboratory experiment, complete the pre-laboratory assignment, and complete the online pre-laboratory quiz at least 1 hour before coming to class. If you have any questions about the experiment to be performed, be prepared to ask your TA during your pre-lab introduction.

uh huh......i remember mr pang's chem lab class NOT being so complicated. oh well uni life is VERY DIFFERENT. ok now i have to wonder how i'm going to heave my luggage up a flight of stairs without spraining my back! till next time!

posted by yooroo @ 10:45 PM