Totally random...

This blog has been quite inactive lately. It feels pretty disappointing as this suppose to be the site where we, as friends share. A place to reminiscence the good old time as we don't have the privilege to meet up 'physically' that often. As we move on with our own life, its always nice to have an avenue to let one another know about our progress in each path of life...

I haven't been posting anything for almost 1 month and I think its time to keep the posts rolling. Though there is nothing really overwhelming going on now but I would like to share some of the pictures taken by my modest devices. So, let the the pictures do the talking...

Ain't the mickey mouse cute?

The logo that brings back lots of memories...

Sign board that I passed by almost everyday...

Chinese Heritage center in NTU...

Ain't this awesome?

Sending off my friend at Changi... Allison, a nice bloke from Canada..

Nice interior of School of Arts, Design and Media (SADAM)...

Lovely stairs...

EB - Executive Board
A gift for my EB team by our predecessors...

Amaze by the maze in front of Raffles City.

The junction in front of SMU...

Finally, A for Atlantiz!!!

I guess most of you will be wondering how are these pictures related.. so, to save you from your misery, I'll answer that in advance, its totally random and it doesn't have to make any sense..

Making sense out of randomness is making nonsense... LOL!!!

Hope you guys have a great weekend ahead...Merci!


Cheers!!!
Atlantiz 6

What a Night! : ~~~ehhhhiii...bong~~

Friday, 23 of may... something sad and something funny happen... not a big thing and not a small thing for atlantiz member... there is some collision between 1 and 7...lol... not big collision but not small collision too... i just feel bit funny and pity... a haha... u huhu...

Wat happened?? lol... On friday... Shinn Liang bring us to a new place to eat seafood... Pasir Gudang...wow... the highlight for tat day not the very delicious cuisine but this collision!!! we meet an accident...small mouse aka keeper aka 1 VS a boey aka captain aka 7... lol...

Sad for a boey who so damn bad luck for the stupid van infront... sad for small mouse who keep to close distance when follow a boey car... sad for small mouse for such a damn small accident but spoilt the damn expensive "tangki" of his sislaw car... sad for a boey who being bang wif his uncle new Avanza...

Funny for a boey who so niao ji dont know wat to say after the crash cos just very minor spoilage...he just show very serious face... funny for small mouse who even bad luck for RM 300 for a second handed tangki...he lagi serious and smelly face... funny for me,my 4,peter,peter 4,weekang,liang, and soonseng dont know wat to say...

Small collision for the very small kiss of 2 car but big collision for two members feeling...
Assuming of this...a boey O.S.: nia ma, follow so close gao lan a... small mouse O.S.: sohai break so sudden... lol... just joke huh my friend...

haha... wat a night... LOL... somewhere in pasir gudang... Small mouse car in operation... for me this picture quite nice for the light capture... wakaka...wat am i thinking...

Main character 1...Small mouse... the one who touch the car... O.S."waliu e... diao lo... my bro gonna kill me..." This kind of friend can go hang to die de... PSP??? o my god... small mouse PSP somemore...

See the hole in middle??? yayay... that is the RM 300 hole...
Main character 7, very serious face... gan diao sien gan diao wu nai gan diao diao face...
em... this is the minor spoilage i mention... Pity pity... Atlantiz drop half flag for this accident...

PS: just recieve a boey sms, he gonna re-paint tat bumper wif RM 200... haiz... wat the...wat a... such a ... pity pity... god bless...


ATLANTIZ_9

USA food ~!

I tried as many food as I could here in US. There are few notable difference between their meal and our meal ...

1st . They dun eat rice. Every meal there'll be potato ... be it hash brown ( their hash brown is just potato cut into pieces and deep fried it ) , or mashed potato ( they mash the potato including the skins ! ) .

2nd. Every meal you can see cheese. I only know 4 cheese so far : american cheese, chedar , mozarella , ahh .. one more forget its name.

3rd. They dun have chili sauce here ! but they do have lots of other sauces .

4th . Their meals are served in such a big portion !

Breakfast : Grilled chicken steak with hash brown , with omelet+cheese , and english muffin - USD 2.40 . The mushroom sauce are damn lot better than in singapore or msia. Every morning when ordering breakfast we have to cracked our head .. coz we have to decide what bread to take ( white toast , whole wheat , muffins , and whatever else.. i dunno what is it call lar .. but it is harder bread , another kind of bread got spice in it ..) . Then we have to choose what type of cheese to go inside the omelet ...

Lunch : hamburger. Beef burger with local fresh tomato and pickles and veges and onion rings. The spring onion here are seriously choking... the feeling is just like eating wasabi . This burger cost USD 1.50 .



This is breakfast again .. white toast , omelete with mozarella cheese , the filling inside the omelete is fresh tomato , mushroom ( very tasty mushroom ) and ham . Ham is not bad , but sometime i prefer the combination of mushroom+tomato+bacon. This cost USD 2.40 .

We got free meal coupon from our employer during our orientation( we get pay for attending orientation too ~ ) . We get to choose entree ( main dish) , salad , beverage + dessert in higher level restaurant in grandcanyon . We simply picked the most expensive entree .. too bad we can only choose plain salad( there are salads with hams and prawns and those stuffs . The photo here shown is turkey,.normally cost 9.25USD. Not bad lar this turkey .. i dun really like it but my friend love it.

what's shown in the middle is mushroom soup. Now only I now what is "creamy" meant by kai yuan. Its really really creamy . It tastes superb. Cost USD 1.50 . The 2 drinks shown beside are hot choco and french vanilla. French vanilla taste like .. melted vanila ice cream. Very delicious.

The last here .. grilled salmon + cheese macarroni .. or whatever it's called ... It cost a fucking 9.50 USD (i used the free coupon for this tho) . My friend said it is nice , but i thought it just taste like sardine ... cheap mouth i got .. lol .

I actually tried many other stuffs .. like roast beef ( which is really nice ) , ice cream called dunno what ( SUPER NICE ) .. and many more. But i didn't take the photo of it down ...I think i wont want to eat western food when go back to msia or singapore ! I want to eat fried rice so much now .. T_T

Alrite, till then !

SunSet tour ... 15 may.

Today I went for a ranger guided sunset tour . It is USD 20 for normal guest , but as employee of Xanterra , We get it for free. In fact, I have free access to every ranger guided program available in Grand Canyon. We get 50% cut in restaurant , 20% in retail and fine dining ... and many more. We even get to take air tour at the price of USD16 . there are many many other benefits (Free IMAX theather ticket etc etc).. must try it out during this 2 months period here.

Well , today we hike with ranger , and the experience is different. The ranger told us alot about grandcanyon. We learned quite alot from the ranger ... and interact with him . It was a great tour.

See the pine forest Far far behind ? Its the largest pine forest in north america. If you can see .. on the right there's a village .. that's where i work and live at.

there are many layers in the canyon. The colour was caused by different climate , different physcial condition in different ages of time. The canyon is about 1.5 KM down ... the place we standing is 2000 m above sea level. According to the ranger , the place we stand was seabed few hundred million years ago ... that means we would be in sea if we were back in few hundred million years ago. We get to see some fossils on the ground too .. according to him , it was some sea worm hide in seabed .. but because of sudden geographical change , the worm was trapped in the seabed and become fossil like what we see today.

If you really strain your eye .. you could see the trail hiking down to the bottom ... it is some 9 miles ( about 14 KM) 's hike . Its awesome to hear the history of the trail and the significant of hiking down. at the bottom of the canyon where the calorado river flows , the rock and soil is almost 2.2 billion years old . 2.2 billion .. if we reach there .. it means that we were 40% back in time when earth was born. Earth is about 5.6 billion years old. Every 200 step go down will bring us back 200 million years . Just 2 steps hiking up will means 2000 years of geological change . ( means the rock 's age ... changed 2000 years.) 2 steps ... 2 steps down means the birth of christianity .. few more steps back means the birth of civilization ... Amazing.

the point there in the middle .. its the plateau point i talked about before. the hardest trail to hike in Grand canyon . If you look at the furthest canyon ... the far far far end on the other side .. it is the north rim. I am standing on south rim , watching to the direction of north .. and that's north rim there. The distance that bird flies directly from my point to the other point is about 10 miles( 15 KM ) . If hike till plataeu point .. we can hike down from south rim , to the river , and hike up to north rim .. it is about 30-40 KM one trip .. The ranger said he take 2 days to do it ~!

Captured using my K810 phone.

See the calorado river ? .. amazing river. He's the one cut thru this whole canyon.

sunset -ing .

That's it .

Hiking the Grand Canyon 14th May 2008

3rd day in Grand Canyon. We decided to pick one easiest hiking trail into the Canyon . For your info , The place I am at now is called the rim , it is 2000 meter above sea level. The canyon goes as deep as 1.5 km and more to the bottom from the rim. The legendary Colorado river runs beneath it. Our target is to conquer the deadly Plateau trail that leads to the bottom of the canyon (and thus the river) . There are plenty helpful information here to helps us plan our hiking , including difficulty recommendations , hiking tips and all. Grand Canyon is very special to hike because the hard part only comes after hiker descended ... hiker hikes downards first and then only come back upwards. This makes the hiking very dangerous as you cannot estimate how far can you body take it when you hike down. The extreme temperatures in the half desert climate in grand canyon , <20> 35 in the canyon also makes overheating , overexchaustion , hypothermia and hyperthermia the common killer to the unprepared hikers. Each summer day there are more than 60 hikers are rescued from the canyon.

After much considerations and planning (well , for mere 20 minutes only) , we decided to descend using South Kaibab trail ( one of the four trail available in GrandCanyon) . The difficulty level indicated is "difficult" and recommended time is " 4 to 6 hours" . We bought some sandwichs and alot of water together with us. The trail only leads us to 1/4 down to the bottom. about 300 meter change in elevation .

Hiking the trail is VERY rewarding. I dont think there are other place on earth that will be more beautiful , more immense , more grand than the canyon. We get hike down very huge rocks , and get to see fantastic view. One special thing about hiking in grand canyon is that ... every single step you take , the view is going to change ... the colour of the canyon , the angle of your viewpoint and the overall impression the canyon gave.... It is not describable using photographs or videos ... that beauty , surpass everything ...

let the photos do the talking now. remember , photos will NEVER do justice to the beauty of grandCanyon . I have videos .. lots of it .. but now upload quite slow .

The view from the trail head. Every walk into the canyon changes the view. As we go deeper, we could see at least 260 degrees ... surrounded by canyons.

!The hiking trails . Its zig zagged all the way down. One good thing to hike in USA is ... people are way too friendly. Every hikers will say"how are you" or chat awhile when pass by. I like this culture.stunned by the view.

Stunning view .... one more step behind and we are dead ~! i dunno how long we'll need to fall before we touch the bottom of the canyon ?Every other things seem so small ... The power of nature . I take good photos huh ? Notice the layered structure of the canyon back there ? Very amazing.

Going down the trail .

Finally reached the checkpoint.

Trust me, it takes alot of courage to stand on that piece of rock.Nice shoot from me.!!

That's all .. i gotta rush back .. see ya !

The Canyon

This is the grand Canyon !



opps , gotta run for breakfast with my friends . I will upload more stunning photos later !!

Snowy Grand Canyon!

Well ... that's a really big surprise when we woke up and found ourselves in snowing grandcanyon!
The point of this photo is : I took it. And I think i have some photography skills up my sleeves
Very beautiful jungle

Snowy village ~
My friends and their dysfigured frosty
the point of this photo is : The lighting and quality of the background really nice
YoYO !!

Even the reporter in TV(In States) were surprised by the sudden snow in Summer, in grand Canyon. I am really lucky to see this ! Well , it was very very cold ,and it demoralized our spirit in lurking around to see see look look. Too cold. I wore 4 layers of clothes , without glove and hat. VERY COLD. The snow kinda melted in the late afternoon.