San Francisco - 19Aug07

Decided to first upload some photos from the trip to San Francisco... will have some commentary or captions to the photos in time...

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Everything so far.... The journey over plus plus

Well the trip over was pretty straightforward and really nothing much to talk about. I mean, how interesting can almost 20hrs on board a Northwest Airlines plane be? Granted that NWA had VOD instead of Channels for view, which meant that I had the luxury of watching movie after movie after movie for the whole journey (including Cars, Prince of Thieves, Wild Wild West, etc.), but how interesting can that be?

What was interesting though, was the Narita airport, Tokyo. While the usual amenities and services were available (read McDonalds, Starbucks, Bvlgari, Chanel, etc.), it was kinda interesting that they had a public shower and bed place for which you can sleep, charged by minutes. Imagine if Osim Vivo were in the airport... I'd like stay there forever. =)

Some photos from the airport:

After arrival, the arrangement was kind of screwed up because nobody knew who was coming (supposedly my buddy but apparently his car was spoilt, etc.) and of course it didn't help that nobody picked up their mobile. However, it didn't really matter, as the moment I stepped out of indoors to breathe California air, i *KNEW* at that instance, that I'm back in America. The beautiful smell of clean american air... and the nice 22degrees temperature... appreciating this a lot more than when I was frozen the moment I landed in Indiana exactly 10 years ago.

Anyways, finally, Vid came to pick us up. Really nice guy working at L2. Didn't know that there was an entire consortium of people working at L2 (I only knew Ahmed came back... there're like 5 NOC alums who came back). Rest of the day was rather uneventful, other than the beautiful 5 hour sleep at Americana... and of course, the irritating matters dealing with the bank. *urgh* that's left for another post...
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Everything so far.... Pre-departure

Well I had meant to do this much earlier, but since of the many things going around, this is finally the first entry in my blog recording lessons learnt and places that I've gone to in the Land of the Free. For simplicity of reading... and for simplicity of me doing up this whole entry broken into small bits to write, here goes part one...

Pre-Trip
Well... Let's start from before the trip I guess. Felt kinda bad that I had to feel sick just hours before I left Singapore, with WS over to spend time with me but me having to spend time on the bed just so that I could rest. Oh well, luckily there was Ugly Betty for her to watch. In the end it was a nice family affair, dinner and all, but it still didn't hit me that I was leaving. Oh well. Then we printed a lot of photos for both of us to put together... unfortunately we didn't have time to decorate the board, but I'm sure WS will do an excellent job with it. =)

Some photos at the airport...

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Last Wong to go overseas for studies

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