New York and Washington DC trip... condensed version...

Hi again.... Shld have wrote this piece 4 months ago... or izzit 5 months ago.... my bad... but i did keep my promise... so pls forgive me...
it's really funny to look back at those scribbling i did on my diary(daily planner)... luckily i did jot down wat i did over the NYC and Washington DC trip... and took lots of pictures... really great experiences I had there... and worth remembering... those pictures... those sceneries... thoes people... those feelings... just plain fun....
ENJOY...!!!!

23 Dec 2004
NY trip begins...

Took a flight from DTW to LGA airport. It was raining heavily there.

After checking into the hostel, grab a subway...(the sandwich) and later took a subway(the underground train like vehicle) to TimesSquare...

and WOAH!!!
It's beautiful... the lights, the colors, and the people...


24 Dec 2004

went to Chinatown to have breakfast... search for the dumpling store which sells hot and nice dumpling at $1 a plate... nice...nice...

then to Intrepid Sea Air Space Musuem

then met Putt and CC and Putt's friend at TimesSquare.

went to watch a movie - Blade:Trinity®

went to Chinatown again for really good dinner (Bak Kut Teh, Sesame Beef, PiPa Duck, Tofu and Asam Laksa, and i think Kangkung Belacan...)

Went to Rockefeller Park for the huge Christmas tree...

Great Day!!!




25 Dec 2004

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

went to Central Park for a morning walk... Central Park is HUGE...

then to Chinatown for lunch..

then to Wall Street(the trump place, Golden Bull, Bowling Green, NYSE)

then to Brooklyn Bridge

and to Chinatown again for dinner

and then back to hostel becoz of Poh Yi and Jin Ye wanted to wash their hair..

Then, back to TimesSquare... amazingly, it's such a small world after all, as Kai and I met Chiun Lin(Cornell), Michelle(MIT), Hung Wei(NU) and Wooi Yang(UVA)...


26 Dec 2004

went to Empire State Building...bought some souvenirs..

Had lunch at Wendy's®...

then to Rockefeller again

then to Penang for Dinner..

then went back to sleep..



27 Dec 2004

Went to 'the Battery' to get ticket for the ferry to visit the Statue of Liberty.

Wonderful.... Had lulnch at McD...

Went to Rush for broadway ticks... but too bad, the ticks for "Phantom of the Opera" was sold out...!

Then went to the Musuem of Modern Art (MoMA)... it is a wonderful musuem, should have spent more time there, but too bad, it was closing....

Went to my very first Boradway musical - Wonderful Town, starring Brooke Shields.... It was awesome....


28 Dec 2004

Went to the Circle Line Cruise which circles the Manhattan Islanf...(semi-circle actually)

Nice view of the Manhattan Skyline... took lotsa pics...

Then, went to the UN... Toured the 5 out of 6 division(chambers)....One is not at the same place....

Then to Guggenheim Musuem.... The exhibition is great... The architecture of the musuem itself is amazing...

then to Chinatown... u got it right, for dinner... Good food at cheap price...(cheaper than Ann Arbor..)

went back and started packing becoz have to wake up early for the next day... GOING TO WASHINGTON DC.....

29 Dec 2004

Went to Chinatown early for the DC trip...

first, we went to New Jersey

then to Pennsylvannia...(to have lunch) and to take some pics around at Philaedelphia...

then to Maryland....

then to Virginia... and alas...Washington DC....

Went to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum...

Went to had dinner... NOT BAD....

A lot of sightseeing.... will definitely go to DC again... backpack maybe...

the hotel is not bad at all... for the price we pay... it is definitely worth more than the dollar...

WARNING: Busy day ahead!!!!!


30 Dec 2004

Went to Capitol Hill...

White House

then to Jefferson Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

Vietnam War Monument

Korean War

Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial

then to the Musuem of National History...

hurried all along... snaps thousands of pics....

had lunch, and then went on our way back to NY....

SO MUCH for a 2 days 1 night bus trip... reasonable and satisfied...


31 Dec 2004

went to Central Park again to look for the skating rink at the North of Central Park...

then to the Museum of Natural History... It was maginificent... HUGE... and grand...

then to 42nd street McD for Lunch....

Then to New York Public Library...

Then to Countdown at TimesSquare...damn, it may sound stupid, for millions of ppl standing in the cold for 6 and a half hours... that's about 400 minutes... but it was worth every second there... 10.. 9.. 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1......HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Good bye 2004... Welcome 2005!!!!!


1 Jan 2005
WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO.....2005...

Then to McD for dinner at 1am...

Didn't have a place to stay for the night... thought that the hostel was full.. but i dun think so...

Spent the night at the Grand Central Terminal... slept at the station... well... for about 4 hours...

A cop woke me up and asked me am I ok.. and whether everything was fine... yeah... I told him that I was waiting for the train at 6.30am... I lied... Thanks for your concern...

Then went to the South Side of Central Park for another skating rink...

Found the infamous Plaza Hotel...

the Bethesda Fountain...well but it is just like another fountain becoz it's dry... (it's winter)

Lunch at Chinatown... again...

Then to Musuem of Sex... yeah... nothing much... but it's famous...so, wat the heck...

then, back to Hostelling International to sleep....

Dinner at Chinatown... yet again... then back to HI and called it a day...

note: Rose Bowl result.... Michigan lost to Texas 36-37.... sad....


2 Jan 2005

Went to Century 21, a shopping complex beside WTC site for shopping...Great bargain...
got scarves, and shirt.... and stuffs... bought so much stuffs that i even bought a bag to carry them back to Ann Arbor...(figured that my backpack is already stuffed...)

Then to eat at Chinatown...

Then to SoHo to window shop...

Then to Bloomingdales'

Then to TimesSquare to buy souvernirs(u know those I 'HEART' NY t-shirts).... and got dinner at Sbarro®...

Then back to hostel early to pack...

Leaving NYC tomorrow...


3 Jan 2005

woke up this morning realizing i'm leaving NYC and going to start my 2nd semester...

took a subway to Colombia U... from there, took a bus back to the LGA airport... from there, a flight back to DTW airport... and from there, the airBus to Ann Arbor...

the flight was delayed for about an hour... bad....

reached ann arbor and my room at about 5pm.. around that time...
really tired and all.... wat a wonderful backpacking trip to NYC and Washington DC... seen so much and visited so many places in such a short break.... (10 days...)
spent about $1500.... ouch... my pocket hurts... and that's about it...

get ready... as a new semester looms ahead within the next 48 hours....