Showing posts with label Storey 33 - 人在美国. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

芝加哥




说说我以前心目中芝加哥是怎样的:
1)Obama的地盘
2)什么ER电影里面是不是有拍到
3)似乎是城市?
4)听说治安很乱
5)不清楚它在美国哪里。。。

周游列国到了某一个月,我跟朋友来到了芝加哥,因为不知道还有什么地方可以去了,所以自然而然的,就要去芝加哥了。来了之后发觉呢。。。
1)是大城市。。。
2)很多建筑设计都很特别
3)大风大雾
4)冷
5)不觉得治安怎样不好法,美国大城市到处都是这样吧,纽约华盛顿好像更危险一点?不懂。。。

走多了,就不觉得以前认为很大不了的东西很大不了。就觉得什么都没什么大不了。说到底,我们新加坡也很大不了,也是东南亚最厉害的城市,外面很多地方也没有说比它好很多。

不过,就是来看看呗。走走啦。

芝加哥感觉还是不错的啦。:)




Venus
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Japanese food maniac @ USA Part 1

我是一个Japanese food疯。以前住在新加坡的时候已经经常到处吃日本餐。来到美国后,本性难移,又在各个不同场合吃日本餐。美国的日本餐有些好吃,有些不好吃,呵呵。 其实大概哪里都是一样的吧,天下乌鸦一般黑。。。(咦,好像用词不当,哈哈!)

以下是我某些patronize japanese restaurants的证据片断:

1)
地点:纽约曼哈顿。
时间:2008年感恩节。
评语:食物味道不错,sake也很好喝。不过价位不好,而且。。。跟门外打广告的价位非常不同!哎哟,这就是曼哈顿啦。




2)
地点:华盛顿唐人街。
时间:2008年圣诞节。
评语:非常不错!华盛顿的唐人街没有好料的中餐厅,却有这家很不错的日本餐厅,虽然老板看起来像是香港人,可是不失其正宗美味。





3)
地点:美国东北某城市的某个购物村
时间:2009年1月初
评语:餐厅很日本,连侍应都穿日本服,我怀疑他们是日本人。食物味道自然也很不错,也不是说很贵!







4)
地点:波士顿唐人街。
时间:2009年1月中旬,某午夜。
评语:餐厅气氛很好,而且开到那么晚,正好cater夜猫子。食物也很好吃,sake更是喝得正是时候。天冷嘛,正需要来暖身(呵呵,可能是借口,:P)



5)
地点:我家附近的一间中/日餐厅。
时间:2009年1月末
评语:餐厅气氛马马虎虎,食物也还过得去。不过跟我一起享用美食的朋友,才是重点。



(未完待续)




Venus

Monday, June 8, 2009

2008年最后一场雪

2009年元旦前夕,我照样工作到傍晚才下班。

午餐休息的时候,我踏着一地的大雪,特地到露天停车场,把已经盖上了一层雪的车子,从雪堆里驾了出来,停在有盖的停车garage,深恐再过几个小时,就算我有多大本事,也无法一人把车子从雪堆里驾出来。

傍晚下班后,漫天依然飞着雪。我从车里拿出了我的snow scraper,把挡风镜上的雪刮走。我同事的车子,也覆盖着雪。所谓有盖的停车garage,应该四面有围墙才合理嘛。。。







我其实是一个相当喜欢雪天的人,虽然有时候有点麻烦。可是,试想想,元旦前夕呢,还能看到2008年最后一场雪,多感人啊。

天黑之后,跟朋友出去狂欢之前,在朋友家外面拍的景色:




雪停了之后,我们跨了年。

白雪皑皑中,我以快乐的心情,迎接了2009年。如今时隔半年。。。我惊讶地发觉已经过了半年了。。。

老实说,很想念元旦的跨年。一年之首,能过得快乐,夫复何求?




Venus

Friday, June 5, 2009

暴食——拉斯维加斯

拉斯维加斯是一个名副其实的罪恶之城。在这里,所有你可以想到的罪恶的事都会发生。

有句话说, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas。

我在拉斯维加斯的晚上也做了一些罪恶之事。等到天亮了之后,又去做另外一些罪恶之事,此回,是脂肪罪恶那种罪恶。

拉斯维加斯的自助餐是远近驰名啊,据说最好吃的自助餐在Bellagio Hotel。

由于我们前一天晚上闹了一晚,三更半夜才摇摆着回酒店,结果隔天醒来精神散涣,也根本早起不了,就missed掉了buffet breakfast,只好吃buffet brunch。

来到拉斯维加斯,就算多累多瘫也好,怎么可以不吃一顿自助餐?

虽然我们没有去到Bellagio吃,可是到处都是各大酒店的自助餐,几乎可以这样说,随便进去一间吧,一定都有的。

这样一个叫做champagne buffet brunch的(意即有香槟可以喝),猜猜看多少钱美金?呵呵。






注:不用怀疑,我就是中间这个人,因为我在用自己的相机拍。



答案揭晓:美金12。(劲爆吗?)



Venus

后记:
附上一些可以片面地描绘我们前一天晚上做的活动的一些照片。乌烟瘴气是真的乌烟瘴气,不是相机坏了。后面一个一个好像箱子的东西,不用怀疑也是,在云顶也可以看到很多的那种机器。而现场当时的气氛,不用幻想也应该知道,充斥着震耳欲聋的噪音(或者音乐?),还有围观者从充满着酒精的血管里迸发出来的鬼叫声。呵呵。




Saturday, May 30, 2009

近期

我看看这几天之前对上一篇文字,竟然是今年1月6日写的。再看看今年的blog数字,。。。mmm。。。只有3篇。其中2篇还是我前两天才写的。

阔别部落5个多月,很多事情发生在我身上。详细的我也就不写了,不开心的、不顺心的事,不应该常常往回看是不是?虽然,我一直还是抱着那种塞翁失马的心态,心想,这是人生经历啊。我得到了很多宝贵的学问,从生活的挫折中得到了宝贵的东西,很宝贵的。宝贵到啊。。。宝贵到可以让我从此以往对于美国生活的记忆,除了只记得自己在这里风花雪月玩乐之外,还有一些活了20多年了,才第一次经历到的苦、泪、痛。

说一些比较阳光的事情吧。反正,人生啊,黑暗的尽头总有曙光,冬天过了春天终究还是会来。

我在一连串的创伤与挫败中间,还是有做了一些值得说出来分享的开心事。

就要从我对上一篇部落那时开始说起。元旦我过得很开心,出去倒数,玩乐,跳舞之类之类。农历新年在异乡也过得相当窝心,跟一群朋友很投入地过了一个自己搞出来的春节,也是别有一番风味的。

然后我去了一些地方,远的比如三藩市、Napa、矽谷、史丹福大学、Yosemite国家公园、洛衫机、好莱坞、拉斯维加斯;近的呢,就在我住的地方附近,周围看看啊,海边啊,屋子啦,花朵啦,吃啦,喝啦,很多。

我也在今年winter season快要结束之前,在雪山上滑了最后一次的雪。

生活,就在工作、玩乐、解决大小事情、理清自己的诸多情绪之间,悄悄地继续转下去。

我朋友以前常说我很好,到了美国四处游玩,看起来不像在工作。我只能说,如人饮水,冷暖自知。

不过,实话说,冷暖之余,也确实如外人所看到的,有笑,有乐,有希望。




Venus

ps:回家如果记得,或者有空的话,会放一些照片吧。

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

I'm still here~

It's been a terribly long time since I last blogged here. I'm SORRY~

Life's been...full of ups and downs over here. Too long a story to tell, and I guess I'm just gonna skip those.

It's spring/summer, so I thought, time to cheer up~

I do have tons of photos that I could share, and of course I don't have them in hand now, as I'm in the office. There're so many of them till I really have no idea which one I should choose and share.

I'm thinking of giving this place a new outlook though. This green/white color is getting outdated. I might be (I said might...ok) changing the background a little bit, just give it a little change in taste, would be good for a refreshment I guess.

And I just realised that I only have 20 posts for life in US, when I've already been here for more than half a year now. It shows how lazy I have become? Or how busy...(nvm)

How's everybody doing? :)



Best wishes,
Venus

ps: ok, I try to get some photos for the blog tonight, :)

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Happy New Year to ALL~!

I can imagine you guys from the other side of the globe are preparing for the new year eve. Although it’s just 8.12am for me now, barely started my working day, I can feel that the new year atmosphere is getting thicker.

Coz I just saw email from my friends asking to join for new year countdown in Boston. As I’ve just come back from a Christmas trip in Washington DC like a day ago, I don’t really have concrete plans yet as to how I should spend my very first new year eve in US. But I’m pretty sure that I would prefer not staying home when the clock ticks past 12 here. Hehe.

After a few days of no-snow, the piles of accumulated snow were already melting since 2 days ago. Roads, bushes, pavements, curbs are slowly shedding off their white coatings and revealing their true colors again…until last night when it started to pour down some snow/rain mix again. And this morning I was waking up welcomed by a thin layer of fresh snow at the back of my yard. The awe was not as much as compared to the first time I saw it, but it still more or less lightened me up.

So obviously changes in the weather do leave certain impacts on one’s emotion.

Yesterday was a nice day, in terms of the joy of getting a belated Christmas gift from Mars. It traveled a few million miles (I hope it’s correct) and finally was sitting inside my cold silver-color mailbox like 80meters outside my house.

It’s a nice little thoughtful gift, and as he put it himself, it’s not something that he would normally prepare, which I truly agree. But he really is making progress in becoming a more romantic guy, haha, I appreciated that.

Times flies by and 365 days are almost gone. Memories of us celebrating new year at Marina bay, counting down awaiting the million-dollared fireworks squirting into the skies of Singapore, are still vividly clear. I still remember how we squeezed to find a spot amongst the sea of human, and how we captured those moments of awe with our little camera and most importantly, how we wished each other a happy new year with hands holding, and the joyful kisses he left on my cheek and vice versa.

Although it’s to my dismay that we could not celebrate new year this time round, ya…emotionally I wish very much that he could be here…yet I know these are some phases of life that we have to pass through like this, like this long-distancedly…

I will do as I promise, to enjoy and live the most out of my life in US. The living and traveling have been great so far, you can see that I’m always occupied with something, busy enough to shun me away from writing very detailed blogs and sharing all the special pictures I took on my trips. The trips are really nice, they really are.

I know it might be hard on you to really experience how I live here just through the small little rectangles of pictures…but as you can see, these are the only proof of how I keep my promise.

If I am keeping my promise to live the fullest out of this, I so hope that you’ll do as well. You and I, we both will be happy throughout the new coming year, and the many many years to come.

Please agree with my statement above. And…

Happy New Year 2009!!!




With full love,
Venus

Friday, December 19, 2008

逛Walmart

逛Walmart是我有时候不得不做的事情。这里东西卖得最齐全的非它莫属。

有一天我撇下琐碎的事情不管,在里面玩起了拍照游戏。

自己玩自己开心。


超级市场里面竟然有卖书。


还有排行榜。。。真的有人从这里买书吗?


我曾经爱看的Stephen King,原来他的书本在美国卖这么便宜。


Dan Brown的平装版也只是这个价钱!


Da Vinci Code还更加便宜有没有。。。


连圣经也卖wor...


这种tissue paper不是拿来擦嘴巴的,是包礼物用的,我没用过wor...


古典可乐,两瓶五块。


琳琅满目。


Ruffles,2包5块!


Tostitos,一包3块,Salsa一罐也是3块。


Pringles,一罐才一块钱!


我不知道这些是什么,硬硬的牛肉条??


Beef jerk?!


不到一块钱的粉红色的水,不知道是什么。。。


五颜六色的维他命水,1罐1块OK!


Starbucks和Dunkin Donut有这样的包装呢。


Gift cards,在这里好像很流行,什么东西都能有gift card,买了这些gift card拿去送给别人,他们就能用那张卡去买那个牌子的任何东西。


美国最特别的就是什么东西买了不喜欢就可以在30天内退货,没有人会问你为什么要退货,只要你拿了单据,就是盒子开过了,还是能够照样退货。


Walmart 请人wor...不过我没兴趣。




Venus

雪(2)


标准的圣诞树,就在眼前。


看起来好像北极,其实只在我公司附近。


眼前漫天飞雪,高速公路变成乌龟小路,大家都爬着去上班。。。




Venus