Orlando, located in the Sunshine State

After finish working in McD, we left the town that we stayed for 3 months, Falmouth and heading towards our 1st destination, Orlando.

Journey begin

Orlando is a city located in Florida state. Florida state is also known as the sunshine state as it is always warm throughout the year. Orlando is famous for having lots of theme parks. I get to know this place through my friends as they get to work here in the same program in a park that I would be mentioned later.

We reach Orlando at night and we check in into an inn in Kissimmee (yeah, spells like "kiss me"). The place we stayed is called Knights Inn. It is around 30bucks per night per room which is a great deal. However, it is located very far from most of the theme parks and we spent quite a lot on cabs. Although free shuttle (is singular, it only provide once a day!!) is provided, we were not able to catch it most of the time.

Knights Inn

The first day (21 Feb 2010), we made some mistakes on the shuttle and we ended up heading to our 1st theme park, Islander Adventure. Out of all, I like this park the most as the roller coasters are nice and followed to there themes.

Islander Adventure

This is one of the street and guess you will like it if you are a Marvel heroes fan.

Example of a street

The 5 themes in the park are as followed:

Each of it is so fun and the buildings are so beautiful. Never see such theme park in Malaysia

That's why i said:

The second theme park that we went is Seaworld (22 Feb 2010).

Seaworld

This park has less thrill rides but you have a lot of animal shows to watch. You have

Rats, cats and dogs

Seals and Walrus

and of course, the Shamu show

We were lucky in some sence that this show was stopped 1 or 2 days after we went as there was incident regarding a killing whale killed a trainer.

The third park we went is Busch Garden (23 Feb 2010).

Busch Garden

It has marvelous rides

totally wet!!

90 degree (almost like free fall) rollar coaster

and delicious turkey legI don't really like it cause is too meaty for me. Nothing wrong with the taste

and lots of African wild animals.

And last (24 Feb 2010), Universal Studio (Singapore has a new one though).

Universal Studio

Most rides are based on famous movies. Not much roller coasters but quite a lot of 4D rides.

This is a cool one. It let you select songs that you like while having your ride

MIB rides. Riding on cart and shoot aliens

This is the coolest 4D ride that I ever had

Shrek 4D. Funny!!

Four days of trips, we covered four theme park. I would probably go to Florida again, especially Orlando as I missed the Disney World there (is disneyworld, not disneyland. So, you should have guess how big it is in Orlando with 7 theme parks. One park per day can let you play the whole week). Besides, Miami beach which is underneath Florida is a nice place, I think...

Next stop: The SIN city, LAS VEGAS~~

Starting a new life soon

It had been around a month since I came back from USA and had my graduation ceremony. And I was lucky enough, I manage to find a job within a month and I am going to return to KL soon, since I am going to start work next week. Feeling nervous now as I don't know what I will face in my life in the future.

Compared to previous years, this time, I believe I need to be more independent. Guess I will be alone most of the time, facing the problems I had in life. Especially, for a driving noobie like me, I will be driving around the "new" environment and it will be a great challenge. Hope i will be safe and sound.

Something puzzled me these day after reading a book. Perhaps, I need to make a decision and come out with a plan. Of course, I required some guts before coming out with any decision. Should I or shouldn't I?

Working life, how will it be?? Hmm.....

New York City Trip

Ok, i know i shud upload all these two months ago. But was quite busy and lazy :P. 13 Feb 2010 to 15 Feb 2010, it is the period of Chinese New Year. My friends and I planned to take those days off and travel to New York City.

13 Feb 2010
The day before, I had to work till 3am (YES!! IS 3 AM). Then, after that, my friend drove the rented car to NYC. Due to tireness, I slept in the car. When reaches NYC, we took a city tour package like what we did in Boston. We started with the most boring loop, the Uptown tour.

Basically, Uptown tour is travelling in the neighbourhood. The neighbourhood in NYC is peaceful but i think is not that spacious. However, it was a peaceful place.

We also visited one of the famous M&M shop in NYC. There are other two store, one in Orlando and another in Las Vegas

M&M store

The largest Toy r Us store is also located in NYC, with a feris wheel in it.

Where are the above both stores located? It is at the famous Times Square. I highly believe this is the most expensive place in the world. As this is the centre of NYC, the world most populous city.

Times Square

By the way, on the road 5 out of 10 cars will be a cab. Seems new yorkers are pretty proud of the cab. They even made a statue to symbolize the icon of new york city.

"Taxi!!"

14 Feb 2010
It is Chinese New Year, and I believe it is one of my highlight in my life. We allocated the most important trip on this day, which is the downtown trip.

The largest store in the world

The tallest building in NYC, Empire state building, before the twin tower is built and after the terrorist had attacked NYC

However, I myself was very exciting to see this:

Statue of Liberty

Even now, I myself, still can't resist its beauty...

Ok, i know, this look ugly

Evening, we took a ferry cruise to go around the island and underneath the brigde. The night view of NYC is splendid...

Night time, we went to the Top of the Rock, to view the night view. It was rather winding and chill. The picture below shows the Empire State Building. See, the light is red. It is not normally red. It is red as it is Chinese New Year...

At the entrance of Top of the Rock, funny name yeah...

Of course, Times Square is as merry as always. We found a nice spot to take a photo of four

15 Feb 2010

Today, is rather chilling. We have more time walking around this USA most population city. Morning, we went to Chinatown and found a Guan Yin temple there. We prayed as we didn't do that during the 1st day of chinese new year. Then, we went to a famous restaurant, Congee House (something like that) in Chinatown, and we had our "reunion dinner".
Not only that, Chinatown has quite a lot of nice chinese grocery =)

We also visited the 911 incident place, the twin tower. There is a memorial centre for it and lots of information for the incident is there. Feel like I was there, cause everything is so familiar to me now. The airline, the destination and all those photos. As if I am witnessing the whole incident.

A construction is taking place at the old address of WTC

The tour guide share his photo collection of the WTC Twin Tower


Make sure u always remember =)

We took the subways around the city

We visited the Wall Street as well. This is one of the most financial district in USA. you know, the share of USA took place here?

Night view of Wall Street

Madison Square Garden, just like TD Garden, NBA games took place here

Koreatown. just like Chinatown, but this is smaller, just one street

This ends our NYC trip. We might just explored a ice tip of this city, but the memory is always there

On the street of NYC

Places that you should go:

1. Statue of Liberty
2. Top of the Rock
3. Chinatown