Back in Sweet Home Singapore

And I repeat, it was dawn!

A familiar sight, for the fourth time

And we went back with our UCLA merchandise

From Bangkok to Singapore, we had different seats!!! How could they! I'd rather I have that kinda seats from LA to Bangkok!

It was uber spacious

And a large pillow to go with

Hmm. This looked suspicious

Ah!

I know what it is!

A table! How cool!

Bye bye Thailand

Thailand is the only place that I've set foot on for four times, but only around its Bangkok airport. -_-

Singapore, here I come!

Ah familiar sights (and sounds, I could hear! HAHA)

SINGAPORE!!!

And we're home!

This marks the end of my American escapade.

I kinda miss that place, in a way. School. And of course, shopping. HAHA.

I guess I'll still go back again, but to another part of the US. And make sure the weather will be good.

Thank you all for reading =)

Last day in the US =(

How time flies! I was in the US for nearly 50 days already. Kinda miss home, yet still wish to continue studying at UCLA. Probably taking the academic modules would be more interesting than how it is like in NUS. Probably.

Our flight was late at night back at LAX (in the end it was delayed to nearly midnight), and we had to check out in the morning.

My luggage was packed to the brim

And the car was packed to the brim too

Bye bye Lemon Grove

We went to Irvine for dim sum, the place where we missed when we went there earlier on.

The card where the ladies will stamp to note that you've ordered a dish from a particular category

Har gow and siew mai

Fried Rice Noodle Singapore Style which we didn't buy

And of course, we ended off with Yogurtland.


And here we are, at LAX. Again!

Tom Bradley

We were going to take the delayed flight in the middle of the board

My barang-barang - two check-in baggages, four hand-carry items. Madness!

Towards the later half of the journey we saw some lights below - land! And after checking it out I think it was Japan that we passed by.

We could ask for fruits and I did. Just for the fun of it =P

And all of a sudden it was dawn! We were reaching our destination!

Continued in the Aug 7 post!

Last day of touring

There were a couple of places we went to today. La Jolla, Coronado and Cabrillo.

La Jolla is pronounced as [la ho-la], not [la jo-la]. It is one of the famous beaches in San Diego, perfect for the summer.

Pacific Ocean



V-formation


A rock like a frog

Two snorkelers in the middle of the ocean

And very strong waves



We didn't see any seals though, I think it was not the correct season




Many birds atop a rock

A painter




The withered and the strong


The fire brigade of SD

I'm standing atop a tree!!! A not-so-tall one

Plants which look like they've been sprayed with white paint but their colour is like this all over the roads. Could be the roads

Pots of flowers hanging from the lamp posts in La Jolla

Follow me closer to test your IQ

Many prospects

And we were on to our next stop, Hotel del Coronado. In order to get to Coronado we had to cross a bridge. Flyover. Freeway. I dunno what you call that but it's really like a bridge. Coronado is located somewhat off shore.

On the bridge


Thanks to the lamppost, the photo is totally thwarted =(


Here we are

Hotel del Coronado is glamourous! It is where many movies have been shot and many celebrities have came to stay.

The main entrance and a little girl

The lobby

Me: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of us all?
Mirror: Obviously not you!

Chandelier

Take a seat!

The garden at the centre


Shops



Swimming pool in the foreground, the sea in the background


The very vast beach

And the sand is made up of different coloured...uh...sand!

erina in coronado

The sand is naturally coloured this way



Marilyn Monroe came to film some movie long time ago

And we hit the road again


This time to Cabrillo National Monument

Juan Cabrillo discovered Califonia, and there are many places named after him around SD. Like yesterday's Balboa Park, we found many things related to him.


Oh I forgot to introduce something very important. Our rented car! It is a red Pontiac who-knows-what-model-it-is. This car and its colleague have brought us to many different places in Southwest USA.

Check out the wind! HAHAHAHAH

I think this is a sparrow

The hunchbacked squirrel







Hotel del Coronado from afar

The bridge/flyover/freeway I was talking about just now

Old Point Loma Lighthouse

The Cabrillo statue in the distance




And on our way back we passed by a cemetery

There was this place called Fashion Valley in SD, a really humongous place filled with large-scale department stores and retail outlets. But it was too big, we went to another shopping mall which name I forgot.

And we found a Boudin cafe there! Remember Boudin? The sourdough bakery I went to in San Francisco.

Ivan's beef thing

My waldorf salad! It was super good! Like super super good

And then we drove back to somewhere near our hostel at Skyline Dr, it's a Mexican restaurant recommended by our hostel owner.

We ordered a burrito with tomato salsa, avocado salsa (O-M-G!) and mayonnaise. The avocado salsa was goooooooooooooood.

Rice and beans. Check out the sliced avocado!

Fried fish. And check out the avocado! HAHA

The avocado was really good. It was soft yet textured and there was just this unique taste to it that I really like it. However I don't know how to cook avocado, so I reckon I better not try yet.

Tortillas was served in some special kind of...of...I don't know how to describe

Was the food good, you ask?

I think it was!

Then because Ivan just had to drink some alcohol, we found a 7-11 store for him to buy a Heineken (which I had a few mouthfuls and CY had more mouthfuls and Ivan drank almost the whole thing back in the hostel afterwards). Nearby the store was the San Diego State University. And it had a pretty bridge.


That's it, our last night in the Land of the Free.