DEVILS TOWER, WYOMING

En route to Yellowstone National Park, we stopped by Devil’s Tower at Wyoming. The whole friggin ride to Yellowstone was a lengthy 11 hours drive. 11 hours on the car! Omg! It’s like sitting a plane ride that can take you to Europe or further. Therefore, a stop to visit some famous monuments along the way would be good and hence, Devils Tower. When I first saw the brochure of Devils Tower, I thought it looked vaguely familiar. Like I’ve seen it somewhere before. So I digged deeper into my brain and ah-ha! It used to be on “Aspects of Physical Geography” by Marianne Cheong. My secondary o-level geography textbook. I remember studying it before and omg I finally am going to see it in real life. It’s like the whole thingy just jumped out of the textbook or like I walked into the picture inside the textbook. Never imagined that I would actually see such stuff.!! I remembered that the textbook used to have a section that is devoted to just the photos (with color one k!) of such landforms. And when I was a young, innocent little girl in SCGS, I never imagined myself seeing such things in front of my eyes. Now at age 21, wow I finally saw something that I learned in my textbook. So cool! Devil’s tower has a little myth to it, something that was quite interesting but was never written in the textbook.

Found it in the little brochure and everyone in the car took turn to do English Oral with this short paragraph hahaha bored people…

“According to the Kiowa, seven little girls went out to play and were spotted by several giant bears, who began to chase them. In an effort to escape the bears, the girls climbed atop a rock, fell to their knees and prayed to Great Spirit to save them. Hearing their prayers, the Great Spirit made the rock to rise from the ground towards the Heavens so that the bears could not reach the girls. The bears, in an effort to climb the rock, left deep claw marks in the sides which had become too steep to climb. (Those are the marks which appear today on the sides of Devils Tower.) When the girls reached the sky, they were turned into the star constellation the Pleiades.”

What I learned in Marianne Cheong is that Devils’ tower is actually a volcanic plug. Cool stuff. Haha And near devil’s tower, we spotted some red rocks. Puzzling how such red rocks appear there. Wikipedia says these rocks were laid down in a shallow sea during the Triassic period, some 225 to 195 million years ago. Wowww. Like how bloodly long that is. Oxidation of iron mineral then caused the redness of the rocks and this rock layer is known as the Spearfish Formation. Hahah so cool right and all along I thought I was just snapping some cool photos of red rocks without realizing they are actually like super old rocks. So cool. Can u imagine! The rocks were actually there like some 100 million years ago, and some 100 million years later, we were there to see it. Went a bit mad after that and we started camwhoring as usual, taking up the entire road doing emo shots etc, hahaha behind every picture is like dunno how many NG shots la.

nancy looking like an idiot. the very very old red rocks...

Then we continued our little road trip to the famous 2012 place, Yellowstone National Park. Getting there wasn’t an easy thing and it was really a test of my lousy driving skills man. I had to drive through Blackhorn National Forest and Shoshone national forest which was like omg la. Highway 14 leads to the east entrance of Yellowstone and is really NO JOKE, especially when winter isnt really over in Wyoming, or so it seems. It was really stupid, I was just wondering why are the roads so winding and why are we keeping going uphill. Was still waiting for the downhill part to come when it suddenly dawned on me that there was no downhill coming anytime soon cos we are actually driving into the mountains. So on and on, I drove, and as my ears started popping, the season changed dramatically too.

From sunny sun sun with clear blue skies at the bottom, rain started falling halfway through the journey and when I finally reached the top at 8437 feet, it was snowing like nobody’s business. Driving on snow wasn’t fun at all. The brakes just didn’t listen to u, and the steering wheel would just sway on it. Ice and snow isnt fun. It was totally all white in front of me. Could have a nice christmas feel to it but I had no freaking idea what was in front. Worst drive ever. Then the sides are filled with christmas pine trees that paved the way for doom if u were to drive off it. And u dunno where the boundaries are. I wished I took a video of that drive man. And I must say when I finally approached downhill and know that the worst is over, the feeling was just phew man and the best part was this amazing scenery that was awaiting us.

The exit from blackhorn was filled with valleys and framed with red rocks that kept me awestrucked. It was like a prelude to what was coming up at Yellowstone. I never knew such landforms actually existed man, it looked like it just jumped out of a set from a Hollywood movie. It really gave me an insight to Mother Nature, like how freaking powerful she can be and just how tiny and puny we humans really are. But I didn’t had hands to capture that picture perfect scenery. Wasted. So that’s what humans do, when they cannot go through a mountain, they go round it, and that was a hell of an experience man.

At the next gas station, Royston loo took over the shift and conquered Shoshone Mountains. Test of drving skills for him too hahaha. Maybe it was the adrenaline rush or I was plain relief that my shift was over, I was damn high afterwards and made lays and chubs do our crazy S.H.E impersonation. Chubs is just damn good at rapping and nancy never fails to stun with her sudden mad moves. We witnessed how green meadows and blue sky can turn into snow mountains with snowstorms and then to valleys and more never-ending mountains. One of life’s most beautiful picture was captured here at some unknown and far away place from Singapore.

nice blue skies and green meadows with cows roaming around...

leaving blackhorn national forest ...

approaching shoeshone mountains..good luck royston!

snow snow snow and more snow..

We then, reached the entrance of Yellowstone National Park, Cooke City, Montana. Cooke city is not a city. It is just like those small little towns in the middle of mountains that will experience the full power should mother nature unleash any of its power at that area. It just seems so wonderful to open ur window/door everyday and the first thing u see is the towering mountains and first thing you breathe is the fresh mountain breeze. But if anything happens, u ll be the first one to die too. The town was real quiet by the time we reached. Looks like some murder or horror story could happen there and no one would know if u disappeared in there.

But when we entered this small restaurant to get some food, the people there were nothing but full of kindness and hospitality. Advised us not to enter Yellowstone at that time of the night cos roads would have been closed cos the bisons sleep on the road at night. And thus, we are stucked just outside Yellowstone. So near yet so far. And it’s a friggin -6 degrees outside the car and with only one georgia tech hoodie to keep warm. Yellowstone tmr! Woohoo!

MT RUSHMORE, SOUTH DAKOTA

OMG I FINALLY SAW THE MOST AWAITED THING..MT RUSHMORE! THE 4 PRESIDENT FACES ON A GRANITE WALL!!! FINALLY!!! but sadly the weather was horrible. damn foggy. Chubs kept saying Mt Rushmore is fogged up hahaha But nevertheless, i wouldnt have gave up the chance of seeing it. But I thought it might look nicer if they had blue blue clouds at the back as background, makes the pictures look so much nicer. And can u believed it, it snowed in the night la when we were there to catch the lighting up ceremony. Can u imagine? snow in may?? woww.. i thought such weather ended back in the old days of atlanta. hahaha and we were totally not in our winter wear. cold ttm. but i must say it was a damn enriching thing to learn a little of US history and the endless work put in to carve the face of 4 americans who did their part. Felt rather patriotic after the ceremony especially when they were playing the American anthem. They even invited like military or any war veterans up to the stage to honor them. Quite cool.

But wow I finally saw that huge huge big 4 faces. Really quite cool how they manage to build it. I wished they could build a platform that allows the tourist to see it nearer or have like helicopter flights to view the 4 faces close up. I think I ll be more awe-strucked if I saw it in closer view. And I think weathering has taken place alrdy. Somehow the presidents look like they were crying la. Weirdddd.

So do you know who are the 4 presidents on mt rushmore? They are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, each represent the birth, growth, preservation and development of United States.

And who was the brave man who built it? Gutzon Blurgon. I love his words.

"Mt Rushmore is eternal. It will stand until the end of time. Ten thousand years from now, our civilisation will have passed without leaving a trace. A new race of people will inhabit the earth. They will come to Mt Rushmore and read the records we have made. Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away. "

Such words of passion and patriotism.

Then we did a super funny video at mt rushmore..cant wait to see it on facebook hahaha. It was real fun and funny. Damn high halfway through trail.

Awesome day.

CUSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA

Second stop of this 21 day road trip. Wow. We’re moving on. For a brief introduction, this national park is a damn rocky national park. They have a lot a lot of rocks. It’s like a small prelude to Mt. Rushmore because the rock resembles the granite rocks of which the 4 presidents face were carved on. Damn nice. And today, we left the friendly Colorado for South Dakota, a stop over before we finally reach Mt. Rushmore. Custer is a small town which is a 6 hours drive away from Denver. The drive was abit Alaska-ish cos I saw familiar snowy capped mountains on the way out. Haha it was a good opportunity for Nancy to have a field of what it was like since she did not go to Alaska. Daamnn nice..What amazed me about Custer that it was very different from other national parks that I’ve been too. It was the first time I saw so many high towering rocks which was different from the view that I had in Mt Rainier in seattle. Standing below and looking up was like wah…damn high leh.

And I drove through this really narrow one lane tunnel inside this stone. I think they blasted it to make a road so that we can travel around it.

Then went to this place lake where I finally saw a reflection lake. Though mt rainier was not the backdrop, I had some really nice view of some rocks.

Halfway through, we all felt damn cold. Like damn cold cos it started to rain abit and it went back to Atlanta weather like 10 degrees and all I had was my Abercrombie jacket. Then it was damn funny cos we all were very niao ji I Had to find toilet. So we went to this restaurant, pee-ed and for the first time in my life, I ate BUFFALO MEAT. Wow… I thought it was not bad. Had a bit of the texture of a foie gras. Haha and then it came with this sauce that tasted like soya sauce for us to dip the meat in it. Haha and we met this Indonesian waiter. Wow right at the other end of the world, felt nice to meet someone whose nationality felt close to home. Haha.

The next day we continued with our little adventure at Custer State Park. This was really quite a small and unknown state park as compared to other park but I felt it had a lot of hidden gems. Driving further down, there was a total change of landscape. We said bye bye to rocks and hello to never ending landscapes that look like teletubby land. Just meadows and meadows and endless meadows man!! Damn nice! A pity the weather wasn’t nice at all cos it was super gray and cloudy, and it rained for awhile. So even though there was nice nice meadows, there wasn’t nice nice blue blue clouds to accompany it. And I saw so many wildlife for the first time!! Though there will be more to come next time when I visit Yellowstone and more. But omg saw so manyyyy bambi!! Really a lot a lot of bambis man. See until dowan to see ah!

And in US, I keep seeing this sign everywhere I drive.

And today, I finally understood what it really meant cos these deers really will run out onto the road. They look like they just hop out of the sign and lucky we didn’t hit them. Damn scary, they will just suddenly pop out and like three by three run across the roads. Ha! Can u imagine if u drive along PIE, then suddenly bambi appear! OMG. Hahahahah I think I would go crazy haha I think the uncles and aunties driving would go crazy too hahaha. Wowww.. So we let them cross and I snapped like lotsa photos of them. But the stupid rain made the sky not nice looking and therefore photos not as nice too. And omg WOOHOO! I SAW MOO MOOS! LIKE LOTSA MOO MOOS!!! But they aren’t the authentic black and white cows. They are just black moo moos. But still I saw moo moos! And there was this stupid moo moo cow that went out of the fence and he was walking along the road. So poor thing leh. Whats the moral of the story, don’t be a stupid cow, and act smart and get out of the fence. Damn poor thing after that cos very difficult to find way back into the fence and I doubt he actually remembered how he came out. So dumb rite. Omg I don’t want to be a cow. And dunno why, I was felt damn high today. Must be the mad view along the drive. Damn high. Plus with all the green meadow, it just makes the whole US seem so big and so vast. Like Singapore becomes so small and cluttered. And today, I drove at a freaking 90 miles per hours, that’s like 145km/hr hahah that’s not allowed in Singapore. Woohoo. And it didn’t felt like how 145km/hr should feel leh. I think I ll die if I drove at this speed in Singapore.

And I must say, even though custer state park is really one of those not so famous national parks, like I totally didn’t hear about it even when im in the US, until when we decided to go to mt rushmore then it popped out, not really popped out la, it has always been there. But I must say, it’s friggin beautiful!! The change in landscape from at the top of the mountain to below with all the nice never-ending meadows. And so much of wildlife like bambis running in herds and my life’s very first bison. B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L.

10 percent of the trip down. Tmr, MT RUSHMORE. Weeee…. FINALLY.

p.s quite stupid cos they say there are a bison national park like got hell lot of bisons, about 3000 of them, but I only saw one pathetic bison like far far away underneath a tree, so where did the other 2,999 bisons go? Idiot.

DENVER, CO

this is the start of something new, dont you agree...gavin degraw's song is stuck in my head..omg this is the start of our 21 days road trip. the longest ever i've been on the go. haha and what a great start i had man. WE MISSED OUR FLIGHT. HA. HA. atlanta hartsfield airport is reallly the busiest airport. not in a good sense like our Changi airport. queues are just freaking long everywhere. mad the maddest dash i ever had. haha i've never missed so many flights in my life before. but somehow i just got used to it. Luckily, the next flight was at 2.39pm. So we spent the next 5hours or so sitting there, chatting nonstop, like really nonstop and eating authentic US popeyes. quick fun la. time went really quickly and before i knew it, i was at DENVER, COLORADO. How cool is that. And im just 1 day away from mt rushmore! omg i finally get to see the 4 faces of the US presidents on the legendary mt rushmore. Do you know who they are ?? haha... omgg so exciting..i think it's just gonna be stunning. wow oh wow. The last time i actually saw it was on National Treasure, the movie. Now i m gonna see it with my real eyes. haha. Actually it feels nice to be able to travel the different path cos nobody in GIP actually went there and singaporeans usually would not come to such ulu places when touring US. They ll prob go to vegas, ny etc. like how many people actually saw the real mt rushmore in singapore. how cool is that. hahaha. nei ni nei ni poo poo. i think we really made our exchange worthwhile to the max. totally travelled and see what i really want to see in the states. damn high now hahahahahahahhahahaha.

And i realize the people in colorado are damn friendly and just nicee...Went to see this dome that has its roof made of 24k gold. and had nice nice yummy fine italian pizza. loving this placee....

nice rite hahaha the sky is damn nice la and this is a the no. 1 breakfast place in denver. crowded to the max but we reach early and woohoo had a uber cheesy cheese omelette... k im out..more coming up!! stay tuned!!!

LIFE GOES ON

Before i know it, today's my last day in atlanta before i fly off on my 21 days long road trip. what a journey man..i could still clearly remember what it felt like to be in the "omg i m going to US for exchange" and the sheer excitement i had while planning to come over and when i finally came over. now it's all almost coming to an end. tmr will be the last leg of this entire 6 months in a foreign land and i must say i really liked it here. Like just living abroad and in the US. but if i ever had the chance to choose a city to live in here, i ll prob go to Seattle. haha. But still life has been a blast man. The pace at georgia tech is like wow, makes me wanna be a student forever man. Exam week isnt really exam style cos we only need to study the day beforehand and the test is like wat, 1/3 of a paper in ntu, almost like a normal test that u do in class that type. So when exams really ended yesterday, it really didnt felt like anything cos we didnt even study like how we study for exams back in NTU. It is really slack to the max. hahah im gonna miss everything here, my room, my friends, the travelling, some of the food. It's been a really fun last 3 weeks here in Atlanta. Sigh what a dilemma man. On one hand, i dont really want to leave this place, on the other hand, i miss some parts of Singapore really alot, like the food, my family and friends. So how, should i stay or should i go? hahaha i have no choice, i have to go. but who knows one day, i might be back. It'll be really cool if i can live in a different places for like 6 months each and travel and experience the local culture and food. sighhh....why is it that we take one minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? But like what chubs say, Life just goes on. So i ll make sure i'll enjoy every single moment of my last 21 days here. AND OMG I STILL CANT BELIEVE I REACHED THE END AND I M GOING FOR THE LAST PART OF MY EXCHANGE. THE FINAL WEST COAST TRIP. how far and distant it used to be but now it's just in a few more hours. Time really doesnt wait for anything, it just goes on.

Now staring at my almost empty room, reminds me of just the time when i arrived, cleaning and unpacking and now im packing to leave. The flood of emotions going thru now is really i dunno what to say. look at my empty cupboard and shelves!!! everything is in the luggage now! omg!

Goodbye Atlanta. Hello my final leg of US. And hello Singapore in 3 weeks time.

ORLANDO, FL

HELLO!

Back to florida again but this time, we combed the northern part of florida and that's where Disneyworld and Universal studio is. haha and omg can u believe it, i spent my 21st birthday in Disneyland!! hahah how funny is that. i had to wait til i'm 21 years old before going to disneyland! hahaha but it was damn fun la.

We had a long long 8 hours drive to orlando, omg 8 hours is like u can take a plane and arrive somewhere in Europe but it was ok in the end..talked alot of cock in the car though i cant really remember what we talked about BUT i remembered what we talked on the way back and it is damn funny. haha tell you later.

This trip was damn spontaneous cos we realized we had to be back by sunday cos monday need to hand up a test. So on tuesday we changed our plans and decided to go orlando the next day. damn fast la. We ponned a total of 2 days to make this 5days 4 night trip to florida. HA. i think the time i spent on travelling every weekend is more than the days i spend going to school. horrible man..and we purposely made sure we came back on sunday cos me and chubs had to hand up a test paper on monday but guess what. it didnt work cos we still pon on monday cos the whoole house overslept hahaha. damn funny to wake up and find the whole house still at home. we were just too shag from all the travelling and fun. then the worst thing was on tuesday, we managed to get up for our 8am lesson and went to school but we still pon the 9.35 am lesson. haha we are zai max max la. go to school liao still can pon lessons. what are we doing man. hahaha ok thats besides the point.

On thurs night when we arrived, we went to visit the ICEBAR. it's like a pub thats all ice. duh. the name says it all rite. hhaha and it was damn funny how we plotted trying to get in cos u have to be above 21 years old to do so in the states. So chubs who is born on 1st Dec and Nancy who is born on 27 Jul cannot get in. then ROYSTON LOO. omg took out his international student card and said with a damn serious tone " i think u can try using my card" and flashed his photo thats looks like a freaking boy. HAHAHA i wished i had a photo of his card. damn funny la. i wonder how nancy and chubs can ever look like him. but there's always a way to cheat the system. in Singapore when the date says 1/12/1989. it means it's 1st Dec 1989 but in US, its Jan 12, 1989. (fun fact for u! mr tan peck lim and mr derrick yeo. so dont act like idiots in the states next time) So our young and fbb chubbo poh's birthday suddenly switched from 1st dec to 12th jan! hahaha..so ta dah she is 21 years old liao.. can totally forget bout celebrating her birthday on 1st Dec this year. haha. but in the end, no point la cos they didnt even check, easy peasy to get in la. idiot. hahah and this is the lovely iceglobe my housemates surprised me with at 12 am, 8th april.

The next day was spent at Disneyworld.
And it's the first time in my life that i took a roller coaster. omg la. hahah i really had hell lot of first times here in the states. not too bad. The closest i went to taking a roller coaster was those helicopter rides that u see in pasam malam last time. haha so omg la. and it was the first time i took the most amount of roller coaster rides i did in a day in my life ever. wahh.. but at least it was a nice prelude to Universal studios. get me used to the stomach-want-to-come-out kind of feel. haha And i had the biggest turkey leg ever for lunch. it was like the size of half my arm la. huge. haha. And i had to wear a happy birthday pin and then the disney staff would just shout happy birthday and sing happy birthday song when they spotted u. omg damn embarassing la. The best part of Disney was the last part actually, during the fireworks and 花车 disney chingay style. Damn nice, damn magical la. i saw cinderella and prince charming and the evil witch and they look damn nice. wahh.. i wished i lived in a fairy tale land too. And the fireworks was amazing. it's like 50 years of NDP la. DAMN NICE REALLY REALLY DAMN NICE. especially with the castle as a backdrop. wahhh.. i want to see it again haha so not too bad i had fireworks on my birthday too. more than enough.

Then came Universal Studios.
i swear before i even stepped in, my palms were sweating alrdy. Wahh i saw the roller coasters and how the rest were talking bout the rides we were gonna take, cold sweat was flying out k...we took the duelling dragon, free fall launcher, hulk roller coaster and jurassic park rides etc.. waseh....They keep saying once you conquer this, all other rides are ok alrdy. The worst part is just before the ride begins, cos u dunno how it will be like. Wonder whats the Singapore Universal Studios like. But not bad la...we took hell lot of water rides too...drenched to the max la and had nice nice ben n 'jerry float after that.. ok la..quite enjoyable though i m still not a fan of such rides. hahai wished i had the photos to show you but wait til royston uploads the orlando photo then i update this blog entry la.. need to quickly blog finish if not all the entries will just keep piling up.

Shooping at orlando premium and prime outlets were good too! bought quite alot of stuff haha fun fun. i bought alot of f21 stuff and wow i actually bought a watch from fossil for myself too! haha so weird cos i dont wear a watch at all. but i was thinking next time work can wear. sigh i hope i do that. haha

The funniest part was the ride back home. What can 5 people do in the car for 8 hours?? now its tenneesse 4hours drive times 2. haha all thanks to the life guru, aunty nancy that our drives are always filled with topics to talk about. and all thanks to little talkative chubbo that we will never fall asleep on the car haha. each of us had to think of a friend as a candidate to recommend to nancy. haha it was kinda like the show, 原来就是你，幸福就在你手里 hahaha damn funny la... nancy's qualities in a man are shy shy weird weird and open bottle will look very man that type. hahaha had such a fun time disturbing her man.. then there were like 3 rounds to this game. first round must say all the good qualities of ur friend, second round was to list the not so perfect qualities and then there is a PK round, where nancy kicks out one of the candidates then last round is nancy get to ask the remaining candidates 3 question each before she makes her final decision hahahah damn funny la... then it was CHUBBO'S TURN. hahaha i think think then finally thought of one person that fulfils most of her criteria.. then i realized why i didnt i think of introducing that person to her last time.. waseh totally leh... next time if got chance must really intro her to that guy cos quite fit her criteria hahahaha why ah why didnt i think of that ...so we talked like that for whole 8 hours before seeing the familiar atlanta buildings pop up on I-85/75 that we realized we are finally back in Atlanta.

Not bad, we conquered the north and south of florida finally. woohooo. what an experience!

LALALALALALALALA (2)

ALASKA. SEATTLE. ORLANDO. WHITEWATER RAFTING. REMANTS OF ATLANTA DAYS. AND OMG UPCOMING WEST COAST TRIP. HOWWW!!!!

SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNEESSE

ok this blog post was typed out like a dunno how many weeks ago when i just got back from camping. haha i realized i need to type it out straight away if not i will forget. see what happened to alaska and seattle. i wonder when i will ever blog about it man.. hahaha and waiting for photos just isnt going to work cos i think royston will only upload them after we get back to singapore. hahaha. but poor boy. he got so many photos to upload and filter. wished i could help but i think i ll prob destroy his photos hahaa.

tada.here it is.

HELLO I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS!! OMG HAHA short 2 day 1 night camping trip at the mountains. how cool is that. When in Rome, do what the Romans do, so when in US, do what the Americans do. And the americans do camping as part of the leisure activity. So i kinda like this exchange really alot cos u get to do what the americans really do, live abit like them and just experience their lifestyle and culture. Smoky moutains was really nice though the scenic loop drive was closed and we missed some parts of the scenery but the whole camping experience was really fun. And it's just funny how the trips that we plan and expect the most usually dont turn out as much as we expected as compared to the trips that u think wont be as fun but turn out exceptionally fun, for example, savannah, this camping trip and miami. But nonetheless all the trips were fun la. I wished this would just carry on forever haha.

This drive up the campsite reminded me of the drive up mount rainier but this was abit special cos there's a small stream just next to the roads and woww i saw water flowing in the stream..damn nice...just gushing down. i wished i took a photo but the camera was stuck in the bag buried deep in the trunk (the americans call it trunk not boot, so when in america, must speak trunk not boot) *peck, take this advice mannnn hahaha u owe me lunch. i tell you all the american lingo, confirm when u come here, they ll sure think wow u must have lived here for long or u some cool asian dude here k. muahahahahah. oh mann...

so here's one koped from google images
we were basically driving next to this kind of streams..

cooking in dark, barbeque, setting up a cui campfire, drinking hot hot horlicks in the cold cold weather and hiding in the tent with maggi mee in the pot like how koreans do and just chatting and laughing away was just damn shiok. really cool weekend gateway. i wished u all could trip it.. but freaking hell it was freezing in the night, i couldnt sleep la. the cold totally woke me up then i saw vic sleeping so soundly, wondering whether i was the only cold weird one. haha the next morning everyone said they felt cold they woke up they tossed and turned but everyone thought everyone slept soundly and comfortably hahaa. cool experience la..

the best part of the trip was that i really felt i was in TENNESSEE, LIKE REALLY RIGHT IN THE SOUTH. haha oh and megan fox came from tennessee. went with my favourite friend to buy firewood, ice and some special matchhead at the local petrol kiosk station and the guy spoke with the cool southern accent hhaha..KASSTY SOH! u were just talking bout the southern accent the other day rite and omggg i heard it like LIVE from a southerner. haha cool shit la.. then he offered to help us load the firewood into the TRUNK and said "this is all about the southern hospitality" in his southern accent hahaha..and he konichiwa-ed me haha prob thinks we are japs. oh mann then the women i noticed around all have the southern countryside hairstyle, curly and big big bao zha head like that and the american teenagers just sat on the back of the truck..it just feels like i'm really in the south. I used to watch like sweet home alabama, hannah montana (haha it was filmed in tennessee) and see those southern countryside living on screen, now i really saw it like real life haha. Oh man the green green meadows with smoky mountain as backdrop and horses grazing on the green green meadows are like woww.. picture perfect scenery man..lotsa stables around but sadly i have no idea how to do horseback riding. weather was perfect too..oh man.. i thought it looked like a nice place to retire in the countryside.haha.

sighhh...dont have that feeling even atlanta is like south too..and according to what chubs say it's like the empire of the south..how come so different ah.. i wished i could go texas too ..then i can really say i combed the north south east west of america. i want to eat their bar-b-q la..i saw food wars on tv in alaska and oh mannnn i think i would just melt if i could place KRUEZ & SMITTY MARKET meat in my mouth. sighhh...

oh and the next best thing, i went ZORBING. it's like the only one in US and the longest in the world. there's only another shorter one in New zealand i think. and oh mann hell lotsa fun...really alot of my first times in US. haha oh zorbing is is the recreation of rolling downhill in an orb, generally made of transparent plastic. I did the zydro zorbing which has water in the ball. cool shit i tell u..hahah damn fun i wished i moved more in the ball though like roll over victoria or do sth crazy haha it cost 36 bucks for a short 45 seconds down the slope? but it's the longest in the world soo nothing to complain..wished i could do it again though hahah

and i had a fattening buffet afterthat...deserts overload..i could feel my tummy and the spare tire surrounding my waist omg.. and i had a presentation the next day that i had to worry bout fitting into my working skirt. oh am gee...sighhh how am i evre gonna lose all the weight...

and do u know 4hour rides in cars are actually very bearable. haha i used to feel damn sian n tired after driving in spore for 1 hour like when u get stuck in jam etc. but 4 hours now is like ok leh..and while driving non stop for 3 hours in seward, it didnt really feel like 3 hours actually.. haha maybe cos we had a grreat time getting chubbo to recognize and rmb who tavia yeung is ..damn funny conversation la.. hahaha tvb dramas u are next aft i conquer my korean one hahah it was sooo funny la...we had to think of other dramas and link this character to another to help her and when she finally got it, it was phewwww hahahha fun shit oh mann i'm just loving every minute in tennessee..