Day 08* - LA

We visited NBC Universal Digital in the morning. In common, everyone felt that this is the most not-very-interesting section in comparison with the rest, especially yesterday, the whole day we had fun at Universal Studio. However, at least, we knew something: history of NBC (their logo changes after periods. And if you looked carefully, the latest logo is quite creative), the way they arrange lights in a stage to make a TV show (it’s look a bit messy to me, or there were some order maybe), etc. They would have a live show in the evening as we shew them prepare the outdoor stage. It would be better if we could attend the show, then our attitude regarding this section may improve a bit.

We dropped at Farmers Market in the afternoon, went around and had lunch. The Brazilian food is quite nice. The interesting thing was that they didn’t charge us base on the number of dishes we taken. They charged us by weighing the dish with all the foods on it (except the dish itself, of course).

We arrived at Fox Interactive Media (a.k.a FIM) about 3pm. Before coming here, I thought that Fox was a film studio just like Universal, as I only saw their logo at the beginning of some movies. I didn’t know that myspace.com belongs to them, I didn’t know that they had many other products as well, and they also need more IT staff at the moment. Lots of privileges included a house in Beverly Hill are given to you when joining them. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead to apply for the job!.

We went to “99 cent” super market after the buffet dinner. Surprisingly, everything is only 99 cent each, for example: 2 bottles of water is 99 cents (I spent 2 dollars for them in the hotel yesterday). Actually, almost all the items are clearance-sale items from other stores. They are 100% new, only out of fashion.

We walked to the hotel after that, packed our luggages for the returning trip tomorrow.

(* late posts)

Regards,

An
Ngee Ann Poly

Day 9

Woke up this morning at about 6. Was chatting with Teng Yang until 2am earlier on and wasn't exactly intending to sleep, but somehow darkness and a nice bed makes it a conducive environment to do so. Oh well, 4 hours of sleep. So when I woke up, I realised that people had MSNed me, and I'm half-awake trying to figure out what they're saying, since the brain can't really function that well in the morning.

We were driven to the airport at about 10am, and due to LAX's highly inefficient system, we were very slow at the group check in, but at least we were able to board on United Airlines on time. So, there isn't a personal in-flight entertainment system, so must plan certain things to do. So I got out my Physics homework that CCK had set for us. Many thanks to Shu Wen (sat beside me), Manek (sat across the aisle) and Eddy (sitting in front of me) for the help in Pro Physics qns / PT / Kinematics 9.1. What was really hilarious was when Manek was teaching me, cos there were people constantly walking along the aisle, and the teaching was constantly interrupted.

Ok, so on the plane, there was this random American movie, and then Spiderwick Chronicles, Definitely Maybe, Hannah Montana and the Suite life of Zack and Cody. Spiderwick Chronicles I watched before, so nothing new there. Definitely maybe was definitely, or maybe a bit touching at certain parts. Of course, there's the complicated love life of the main character, being ditched and being rejected at marriage. And since United gave such lousy headphones, I used my phone ear phones instead which had the nice paddings for the ear. However, the jack wasn't a best fit, so I had to place my hand to hold the jack there, so that audio could play.

Food wise, there were pretzel snacks shortly after take off. And then lunch was served within an hour - teriyaki chicken, with extremely overcooked/uncooked hard rice, chicken ham salad, some random bun and a really sweet cake. And at the 8th hour of the flight, there was CUP NOODLES! WTF. And the flight attendants were basically going around with hot water. I'm so sure lorh. I haven't eaten cup noodles for so long that i can't even remember when was the last time I had it. And dinner was quite good, it was served at the 13th hour of the flight, 1 hour before touch down. Food wasn't too bad. Pasta, fruits, cinnamon glazed donut and some raspberry shortcake.

Currently, I am in HK airport waiting for my return flight to Singapore. Just a bit longer, say in 5 more hours time, I will be back in Singapore already?


Samuel Swee