Boston Trip - Day 1

It had been a week a came back from Boston. Due to the sucky internet connection and a little bit of laziness, I wasn't able to upload these photos:

DAY 1
Day 1 in Boston. After having experience of last trip to Boston, we manage to cover more places in this trip.

We found a city tour package in Quicy Market, with each of us USD33 for two days transport. However, this transport limited us to 4pm of that day. Thus, we also got a 7 days pass using the MBTA subways and buses.

Using the city tour trolley, we came to our 1st stop, which is the USS Constitution Museum. This is Americans' oldest commissioned ship which has now retired, and only bought to sea 7 times in a year.

On the USS Constitution

Funny way to vote har?

Next stop is Fenway Park. In US, 3 sports are the most popular here. Basketball, baseball and ice hockey. Fenway Park serves as the stadium for RedSox team to home their baseball game in the league. We joined a guided tour, although i am not a baseball fan, i was enjoyed by how crazy some people can be over this sports game.

In front of Fenway Park

Next stop, is Harvard University. Yes, you didn't see wrongly, it is Harvard, one of the top university in the world. Harvard University in a place call Cambridge. So next time, when people tell you that Harvard is in Cambridge, he is right. It was rather tricky when we reach Harvard though. Trying to find the main gate for the university, it turns out that a small tiny door, which is not easily noticeable that IT IS THE MAIN GATE FOR THIS TOP UNIVERSITY. However, in the school campus, you will find Sir Harvard Statue in it. The buildings in the university are grand and I was impressed with the amazing building architecture and craft work of it. It had around 370 years of history!! Especially, the library which is big and beutiful, which is also the world largest acedemic library.

In Harvard University

That night, we had our dinner back in Chinatown, where we found our beloved Malaysian cuisine.

Curry Ayam with rice!!! But not as good as expected

Cendol

ps: Done typing in 19 Jan 3:53pm

New Year 2010

It is new year and some plan is certainly going on for the year

1. Find a job -- Yup, I had graduated and I am jobless at the same time. To shorten this weird period, where I am neither a student nor a labor, guess that I need to get myself employed. Hope that I can get the job in my mind. Resumes and letters will be sent soon.
2. Travel to some places with friends -- Due to the fact that it is no longer easier for us to arrange time together, I hope that I can at least travel to ONE place with friends. Not just a lunch or dinner gathering. Some site seeing or adventurous trip will do. People who see this, contact me please.
3. Read 3 books -- Coincidently, one friend of mine had the same plan. However, for me, any books will be fine. Doing so is because I don't want to be JUST an engineer. Who knows maybe Jian Wei can talk about economics or psychology with you?? Lol

Good luck for everyone on 2010...

Some Pictures Upload

It had been around 1 week i did not update my blog. Some interesting events took place.

19 Dec 2009
A snow storm reached Falmouth and it was the first time seeing snow cover a place right in front of my eyes. People who follow news should know that a snow storm move from the west coast to the east coast, bring snow to USA. Although i seen snow before back in Australia, it is totally different as the snow there are mostly man made. This is certainly naturally made.

My friends and I who are like "sua gu" to the angmoh play in the snow the night snow fall. We even made a snow man with it. See!
Due to the storm, Falmouth received a 7 inches thick of snow the next day and most of the shops were closed. Public transport was out of services and initially we planned to go to Boston on that day and we had to pospone our trip. Rottern luck.

The town was covered with snow. It took one week for the snow to melt. This picture was taken few steps away from the door.

21 Dec 2009
Due to the snow, our Boston trip was cut to one day long. Boston is a nice place. I like the public transport as it covered most trips that we want to go. We are planning another Boston trip on 10 Jan 2010 to discover more about the city. The main purpose for this trip is to SHOP as christmas is around the corner and there are sales, saLES, SALES going around. We fully utilised the public transport there with a daily public transport pass.

Boston City

Quicy Place

In the Boston public transport

Boston public transport is nicely coverage. But it is old and dirty. However, it is much better the public transport back in hometown.

Watching NBA in the next Boston trip, and going to Harvard Uni and MIT too. Looking forward.

25 Dec 2009

Today is Christmas. The night before that I had to do the dishes in McD as I was in charged to close the shop. It is rather fun though as I am my friends were doing the dishes together. We talked and we laughed, and that is what I called B-U-D-D-Y.

It is a white christmas as the place is still covered with snow. All shops are closed and luckily we had stocked up our food supply. Walking around the town, which is cold, the shops windows are rather interesting. Decoration at the entrance of the town were interesting too. Too bad, no one invite us for their christmas dinner.

We had chinese buffet in a restaurant (only asians are hardworking enough to work on that day) and it was USD12. We missed malaysian food.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

31 Dec 2009

The night before new year, again, we were in charged to wash the dishes. Helping each other, we manage to finish washing the dishes faster than the other time. That night, we went to an Irish bar and the beer is nice. Everyone in the bar is crazy and high but we did not stay until new year in that bar. Everyone is looking at us maybe due to the black hair on top of us. We feel uneasy. So we changed to a nearer bar to the place we stayed. It was more quiet there but at least we were not being watch like an extinct animal.

3-2-1... HAPPY NEW YEAR

PS: Finish typing at 6:19pm 5 Jan 2010 in Falmouth Library

PSS: More photos will be uploaded on Facebook

PSSS: My internet sucks!!!!

i'm lovin' it

As promised, let me describe my work and the place I work:

Currently, I am working in on of the branch of McD in USA. In a town called Falmouth. McD is quite common in US people's life. Remember, there was one day, my friends and I saw an old granny hand shaking, putting a burger into her mouth, drinking soft drinks. I believe you don't see this often as old people are rather scare of diabetes.

Different from Malaysia, there exist a drink fountain in the store. Means that you can get a cup and unlimitedly refill soft drinks that you like. There are more variety of soft drinks than in Malaysia. Besides, there are more variety of burgers in US. But remember, McD in USA is non-halal. Hope that explain why there are more variety of burgers.

The manager is a nice guy. He is kind of funny and friendly. So far, I will say. Other workers complained about him behind him, but I believe he treated us better as we are just student. Most of my colleagues are Brazilian and they always speak Portugese. Perhaps, they speak something ill behind us, which we dun understand. Never mind, we do speak Malay. But anyway, most of them are pretty nice. Sometimes, there is communication breakdown, as they are not fluence in speaking English.

Working in McD, so far I tried making sandwiches and frying french fries. Making burger is stressful as they have a lot of requirement. Some customer dun want pickle, some want extra; some dun want ketchap, some want only ketchap. Quite picky compare to Malaysian. Of course, there are some cleaning job which included dish washing, sweeping, mopping and washing. Besides, working as cashier is a challeging as their coins and money are not easy to deal with. Firstly, all paper notes have the same color and size. Unlike Malaysia, red is RM10, green is RM5, and blue is RM1. Sometimes, will carelessly mistaken as another bill. So need be be more careful when handling the money. For coins, they have coins called quarter dollar, which is 25 sen. It is rather hard to count with this number. Worstly, this coin has almost the same size as nickel, which is 5sen.

And my uniform, different from Malaysia which is orange color with a weird hat, mine is a blue shirt and a black trousers with a cap. Simple. Below is a picture of my friend and I in uniform.

Save more money, to travel around.

p.s.: Finish typing in Falmouth Library at 7:19pm, 16 Dec 2009

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