Friday, April 27, 2012

exchanging souls


(Double Post!) So... I was gonna do a much needed update on my blog when my camera battery died, so I couldn't upload photos. I took it as a sign. Instead, now I've swopped my urls and gone back to soufflesecrets, which has been my username for everything since I was in high school (livejournal, twitter, you name it). If that makes sense.... basically my old blog is back to being my new blog and vice versa. Yes yes I do it intentionally to throw the FBI off my track. Just kidding. I guess I'll stick with this for a while, or at least until I morph back into the truly fickle creature that I am. 

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Driving down the 101

It is 10.15pm on a saturday night, and I'm stuck at home trying to recover from a dastardly flu bug. Oh what is a girl to do other than blog about her USA trip and feel sorry for herself? Anyway, continuing from LA, we drove back up North on the Pacific Coast Highway, or what we know as Route 101, you know from Phantom Planet's "driving down the 101, California here we come, right back where we started from"? It's been hailed as one of America's must-do scenic routes, and it really was so so beautiful. We sectioned out our drive into stretches of around 6 hours, but we got slowed down a lot just cos we spent so much time stopping at look out vistas to take photos! But it was worth every minute of it. Also, we stupidly mistook another bridge for the Bixby Canyon Bridge hahaha extremely anticlimatic when we saw the real deal. One of the most magical moments was when we were on the Big Sur and the sun was setting, so we stopped by somewhere and watched it go down, and right below the cliff we were perched on there was the occasional bark of sea lions. After all the requisite jumpshots and photos, we each chose a rock to sit on. With utter silence save for the crash of the pacific ocean on the rocks below, those sea lion barks and our own heartbeats, we watched the sun disappear into the horizon. 



Wednesday, April 4, 2012

La La Land

Drove down from SFO to LA just for some pinkberry! Hahah kidding, also for korean barbecue. Hehe it was a bit too short to spend just two days in LA, but we squeezed in enough things. Had dinner with one of my oldest friends Sarah, and the next night with my cousin Shen who studies in LA. Too bad I missed Disneyland! The more I spend time in LA the more I like it. What's not to like about awesome food, the marvelous beaches, and the beautiful stars and city lights from the Griffith Observatory.