2nd Week In USA

In USA for 2 weeks edy, and there are some interesting things happened the past week

• Opened a bank account and everything is fine. The ATM is user friendly, but i can't stand the delay from it. The tellers are unhelpful and there is no request counter. So lost in the bank.
• Use the public transport in USA to get to a mall during my off day. The bus was kind of scary as the people in the were youngster that looks like lala and there is alchoholic too
• The shopping mall in Hyannis is kinda small, nothing much interesting.
• Christmas is near and the shop windows are decorated. Sales are everywhere and I bought myself a levi's jeans for USD30
• The weather is turning cold and it started to snow the night before yesterday.
• That day, I started work at 6am. An old man came to me and asked whether I am fro China. He told me that he was rescued by the Chinese during WWII in China after shot by the Japanese. The Chinese brought him 40 something miles away to save him. What a story to tell the grandson.
• Had our Asian meal in US and it is not that expensive. Luckily...
• Yesterday there is a parade in town, and I missed it. I was working at that time. sigh. Anyway, this parade is organised for the high school students in the town, and everyone took their chairs and sit beside the road. Interesting.

Will talk about my job in my next post

PS: Finish typing in Falmouth at 8:55am 7 Dec 2009

Black Friday

Yesterday was Black Friday, which is a day after Thanks Giving Day. This day is special as people will wake up early for shopping.

Woke up at 2:45am yesterday, we took a 30 min walk to a shopping mart: Walmart. It is like those hypermarket back home, but more emphasizes on hardware than food. My friends and I went there planning to get a bike, and some of them want electronics stuff which are really cheaper back home.

We reach Walmart around 3:30am and there is already a long queue in front of the mart. Workers are distributing maps of the mart, hoping that people know where to head when the shop open. Those discounted products are not place as they were normally placed.

At 4am, the shop open, People running in the mall to get the stuff they want. Most of them want TVs and laptops. Some other devices like Wii, PSP, PS3, Guitar Hero are just like a fan, or a rice cooker for them, place on shelf. American's are really pampered with all these video games.

After getting a bike, we also plan to get a kettle. To boil water of course. Asking a senior shop assistance, around 60 years old man, where the kettles are located, he answered: " I had not seen an electrical kettle since this mart is established. Let me check, " Of course, we can't find one in the end.

Around 6am, we had to go back since I had to work around 11.30am on that day itself.

CRAZY SHOPPING

ps: Finish typing at 4:14pm 28 Nov in Falmouth

ThanksGiving

It is thanksgiving today, and my friends and I really learn the meaning of thanksgiving.



Early morning, we decided to move to a motel nearer to out working place. It took us few minutes to decide to move to the new place. Around 11am, we told our current motel owner that we want to move out and what we received from her is: @!%* f*ck



Reach our new motel and trying to settle down. Marcus gave a call, saying that the previous motel lady warned us that the place is not safe. We ignored that advice and we thought that it might be the lady tried to be nasty. Only then, two of our friends who reach later tell us something serious.



"Just now, we ask the taxi driver about the motel. The taxi driver thought for 5 sec and answered: it is not safe to stay there.



This place is full of drug addicts and the cops will come once in two day."



Looking around the room, realised that the door lock is spoilt. It seems that someone really tried to break in the room before. Thinking back, there are a lot of CCTV around the motel. If it is safe, why do they need that much of CCTV? My friends said that the street lights are off at night.



"So, shall we go back to the previous one?" said Marcus.



No one object.



Lesson of the story: Appreciate what we had



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Yesterday, in our restaurant, our boss treated us a thanksgiving dinner.

There are roast turkey, rice (for quite a long time i hadn't consume rice), squash soup, mash potatoes, stuffing, apple crumbler etc. Nice... Roast turkey is a bit dissapointing but the rice is nice and fragrant.


That's my first thanksgiving dinner.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

ps: Finish typing in 4:43pm 26 Nov 2009 in Falmouth

1 Week in USA

It had been a week I had arrived in USA, and everything is fine... so far

Upon arriving USA, we need to take a 20-hour flight, and it was a horrible experience. Of course, the 20-hours of flight does not include transit time to wait for the next flight. This time, different from Australia, I decided t have things light.

My baggage

Okay, I know, the baggage is still not light enough. But compare to others, mine i considered light edy. The first transit was to Singapore Changi Airport. It is a nice airport and well equipped with facilities. And the most important, it is FREE!!

Next transit is in Tokyo Japan Airport, Narita Airport. I like the airport, as the shops are interesting. Of course, there are some kawaai lenglui walking around!!

The shops in airport are full of interesting stuff. The shop that caught my interest the most is the paper folding art museum.Cute and colorful products

Next, we had a stop in Chicago, where Michael Jordan served for the basketball team there. He is a legend.

Stopped in Chicago Airport

And, we finally reach Boston. It was very cold there and made me reminded of australia weather

Marcus and I at Boston Airport

Since we reached boston pretty late, we spent one night in Boston before to Falmouth, the town that I suppose to go one the next day
The hotel we stayed in, Wyndham Chelsea. It is a nice hotel. It is money worth

Took a bus (Peter Pan Company) from Logan Airport in Boston to Falmouth the next day

And, we had our 1st lunch in USA. The pizza taste great!!

Steve Pizzarie which is just next door to the motel we are currently staying in

I had started working the passed few days, and I will talk about it in the next post. Currently, my friends and I are staying in a motel, and we tried our best to find some other place to stay. We hope to find a cosy house, which is nearer to our working place. (walking 20 min in the cold is driving me crazy currently). Hopefully we can get a nicer place to stay by next week.

Thanksgiving day is coming, and I hope I dun miss anything interesting that Americans do.

ps: now is 7:30pm, 24 Nov 2009

Short Message

Bye bye Malaysia...

See you in 3 months ++ time

Next post will be in USA...