dannywtan

Hey Guys,

Sorry for not posting for so long and losing track of everything! Unfortunately life has become too crazy for me to maintain this blog... and yes... I'm gonna shut it down. The good news is... I'm coming back to Singapore in mid-may so I'll look forward to seeing everyone then. It'll just be for a week or so though... but hopefully can catch as many people as possible. Take care people... till then...

Danny

Hi People,

Just realised that its been more than 1 mth since I last updated my blog. Sorry about it. Been super busy and also there are some unwanted distractions. Good thing is I am kept busy by many exciting new things, things happening in school, at work, and personally. School is coming to an end! (at least for this semester) Next week is our last week of school, and since I have no exams, my winter break officially starts on the 7th of December. Not that it means anything though since there's no break for work. HAha. Oh and the unwanted distractions actually came from Singapore. Damn that pathetic loser who's got nothing better to do with his life. Forget it.

Anyway, I think I am really getting used to the life here. The longer I stay here, the more I start to question why Singapore is the way it is... hmmm. It's kind of like a weird feeling, like you wanna defend it but yet can't, but what the hell, I'm a product of this screwed up system anyway. Oh but I do really miss my friends alot... (people, you know who you all are... hehe) Actually its really everyone! Like just turning around the corner and seeing a familiar face, friends who I always hang ou with, and most importantly friends who I have deep, long, meaningful "heart to heart" talks with... Oh and my family! Heard my dog grew some new fur... YAY! haha... my poor botak dog... I wonder if she will still remember me when I go back. I guess missing the friends and family is really the only draw back of coming here. Luckily the technology makes it possible to keep in contact with them all... (believe it or not my mom who has never touched computers in her life is actually msning me regularly now, haha. And she even knows how to use the video chat function!). Oh and I recently had a few good conversations with my close friends too, something I have been meaning to do for a long time.

Ok actually enough of my babbling, if you wanna know more about what's happening in my life, drop me an email! I better start uploading my photos now if not I'll never get to sleep.

After my last trip, the next place I went to was New York. Went there with another friend and we had a lot of fun just walking around the city and touring the free museums. YES! the world class museums are all free! you just have to make a donation based on what you feel like. Urm, let's just say that we donated what we felt was a reasonable amount of money based on our financial circumstances. :) poor college kids. Oh and I stayed at my secondary school friend's place which was like smack in the middle of East Village in Manhattan. (which is only like the coolest place!) Plus we went to one of those comedy clubs, and I got to say I really didn't expect to laugh so hard at those stand up comedians... they're really good, or was it what they put in our drinks? Haha. Here are the photos...



The skyline from the top of the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts.





An Egyptian pyramid in the Museum itself!





After this we went to the American Museum of Natural History! This is a great museum where they have like real dinosaur fossils and stuffs.

Anyway I didn't take too much photos with the dinosaurs cause I'm definitely going back again! Haha. We spent too much time in the museums in the first day so thats all we did in the day. But the many original art works from Van Gogh to Picasso just totally blew us away. Next up, Times Square!

This biggest Toys'r'us (how the hell do you spell this thing man!) has a ferries wheel in it! haha... damn cool! And just outside Rockefellar Center there's this huge outdoor ice-skating rink which I am definitely going to go skate on during christmas! The next morning we visited the Statue of Liberty! Well, we were told actually its called the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World! So there you go...

Ater we took the ferry back from Liberty Island, it only took us a short walk to get to...

The mood changed pretty fast once we got to the World Trade Center. (just like 2 mins walk) Hmm, don't ask me why, but I just can't handle stuffs like these and my tears just started flowing at the memorial center. Its just like the sadness was overwhelming and you just have to feel for them. They had like audio tapes of people who were stuck on top calling home to leave messages for their families, and radio recordings of firemen rushing up the buildings just when it was about to collapse. The firemen and police are really courageous! I was just blown away by everything I saw.

After that we did more touristy things in new york, like visit the UN headquarters, Empire State Building, 5th Avenue (the fashion street), and caught a bus home to Philly. Short weekend trip, but absolutely fantastic. There's just so much to see in New York. It was also great meeting my long time friend Thomas! (oh and he brought us to little Japan in New York which is like full of cute japanese restaurants! Sushi dinner... yum yum!) I'll definitely be going back again and spending more time there!

Take Care everyone! Will try to update my blog again real soon once I get my hands on my halloween party photos and photos from my Thanksgiving Seattle and Vancouver Ski trip... (there's a big story to tell... but let's just say that after that trip... if there's one thing I have learned, its to RESPECT THE MOUNTAINS!) later... :)

Hi Guys,

Sorry again for the long wait... been buried by sch and work... Anyway, life is starting to get exciting around here as things are beginning to happen at work and school, also I might be on to something new. Oh quite excited about this weekend as we have a big halloween party and also tomorrow I will be going with fellow Singaporeans to the Eastern State Penitentiary. (a prison converted into a haunted house where real people hide around the corners and scare you "fright night style"). Looking forward to a spooky fest soon oh and I bought my first ever halloween costume! Everyone wears a costume during halloween so have no choice... (not gonna tell you guys what I bought but you will see it soon...) Oh yeah and I just came back from New York this weekend! ITs a great place! (no pictures yet cause they are still with my friend) Met a long time friend Thomas who's studying at NYU and its simply great to see him doing so well! I'm really happy for him.

Ok since the photos aren't here yet I will talk about my last trip first which is to Vermont and New Hampshire... Well they are really different from the cities which we have visited previously as its morelaid back than anything. While we were driving in Vermont, all we could see was acres and acres of farm and mountain and hills and trees... It was truly liberating to be driving through a place like this. Well the same goes for New Hampshire too... You can go on for miles on the road and its nothing but you and the sky. But of course there are build up areas too and most notably Vermont is known as the home of Ben & Jerry's! We went to the factory and had a great time eating ice cream for lunch... Here are the photos...