Sunny Sunshine in Downtown Seattle

This is gonna be pretty long... Argh... Finally, organized some photos. I should upload the photos to webshots or facebook some day...

Okay, here goes for the past week!

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31st March 2009, Tuesday
Alright! Hoho! Work, work, work... Okay! Let's take a break! And there's our exercise walk around the industrial area!!!
It's around half of the company taking a walk! Hoho! There's no rain, so it's a pretty nice day!!

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1st April 2009, Wednesday
Happy April's Fool! Yeah! It's not a joke, we had half day off and a company lunch!!! And, it's also not a joke that we had Harassment training as well! It's sorta like going through a lecture on Harassment and the laws and policy that protects it.

Oh yeah! We had company lunch at Stellar Mia! It's sorta like a farm-like place. Oh well, I forgot my camera on this important day though. Luckily Matt, Fala and Doreen brought theirs, so I just grabbed their photos!!!

The food is pretty yummy!!! Okay, after the company lunch, we went to Alderwood shopping area! Alrgiht! We went to H-Mart where they sell all the Asian food stuff. It's sorta like a Korean supermarket. Probably opened by a korean guy. There's pretty much alot of food there!! But we only walked around and grabbed a few things from H-mart.

Since it's raining, and we are waiting for the bus, we went in Borders and had Seattle best coffee! After that, we had dinner in the mall as well... Extremely full after that!

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2nd April 2009, Thursday
I'm lovin' it! Hoho! Yep! It's Macdonalds! Once again, I didn't bring my camera! So, the photos are from Fala!


Well, the burger size is around the same size as it is in Singapore! The apple pie tastes kinda different though! It's softer and there's cinnamon on top of it! The filling is the same though.

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3rd April 2009, Friday
Finally! We went down to apply for Social Security card! Well, we had to wait for 10 after we reach the U.S before we can apply for it! Phew! That's one more task down. And next will be buying a car, and for me, getting a license as well!

After the card application, we went out for lunch. Oh ya, we had half day off to do these stuff. So we are hanging around Alderwood shopping area which is in Lynnwood. We wanted to eat at the Asian foodcourt beside H-mart, but the price is way too expensive! It's around 10 bucks for 1 plate of food!

So, instead we headed to the mall and on the way there, we found a small restaurant selling Japanese, Korean and Chinese food which is not that expensive. And...

Tada! They have Bubble Tea!! Okay, they only have Ice Blended though. Their 'pearl' is called 'tapioca' instead. Hoho! It actually tasted pretty good, but it's still pretty expensive though I can't really recall how much it is.

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4th April 2009, Saturday
Weekends! It's a pretty sunny day! Yeah!!!!! Nice weather! And so... Off to Downtown Seattle!!! Yoo hoo!!!!

Took some photos at the Transit Center while we wait for the other bus!

Then, we finally reach! It's a city! There are really a lot of interesting people around! There are performances, petitions, and alot of things going on on the streets!

And yeah... There's even a horse carriage!

Okay, so we went to the famous Pike Place market! Whoa! Alot of stuff in the market place, there's a total of 3 levels! There's even a magic shop selling all the props!

The tiles of the market place are carved with names. Not too sure what's that about though, each and every tile had a different name.

And so, what's so special about the market?

Fish throwing!! Look at all the people with cameras waiting for someone to order and throw the fish! Heard that a Japanes guy opened the stall. Argh... Too bad no one ordered a BIG fish! So wanna see they throw a big fish around.

Hungry! Piroshky, Piroshky! Look at that queue!!!

I think I was really hungry that day! While others bought just 1 packet, I got 2! Both the packets belong to me! What's Piroshky? It's something like a big bread! They have quite a few different flavours for it! Some even had filings! The stall is opened by an Asian guy and the food actually originated from Russia. Hmm... If I didn't remember wrongly...

Coffee!!!! That's gotta be Starbucks!!

Not too sure yet, but it's probably the 'First' Starbucks (Probably the Second Starbucks as the First Starbucks is not called Starbucks. Probably gotta Wiki that to check it out!). The table that we are sitting at seemed to have quite a long history. It's written "The table has had many lives Before arriving here, it graced a local restuarant and before that, a Seattle-area home. Where will it live next?"

And since it's Pike Place Market's Starbucks, I just had to order Pike Place Brew! Nice!!!!
"You and Starbucks. It's bigger than coffee."

Okay, off to more shopping!!! And there we are at Sneaker City!!

Alright! Most of us got new shoes!!!!

We continued to walk around and look for Seattle's library. Then, we found me!

Hoho! Just like Singapore Art Museum (SAM), here's it's also SAM (Seattle Art Museum)!

Walk, walk and walk!!!

Seattle Public Library!!

Oh well, we took photos for each of us at the same spot! And then... When we wanted to go into the library, it's CLOSED!!! AHHHH!!!! Oh well, so we explore the area around and look for dinner!!!!

At the meantime, random photos!!

And so we walked down the stairs towards the ocean!

Oh yeah! Isn't it a nice place?

Oh ya, that's Christopher Columbus statue!

Muahaha! Oh yea! That's a real Carousel! It's actually an arcade! And look at the size of the gumball machine!!

Dinner!!!

Alaska Crab! Yum!

Dinner's at Fishermans! Well, it's expensive!!! Yikes! And, we are actually sitting outdoors! Cold!!! But the food is pretty good though!

Night time....

As we waited for the bus... We walked into the waterfall structure!!!!

Oh well... I saw this really empty platform so I....

Just posed and took photos! Hmm... That's probably like the first wushu pose? Haha... Kinda miss those days in China where we kept taking photos of different poses!

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5th April 2009, Sunday
This is really one of the sunniest day since I've got here!!!! It's sunny, so we just can't miss the chance to wear shorts and bermudas!!! And, we had Tully's coffee! And, after so long, I had white coffee for the first time in Seattle!!! Hmm... I forgot what coffee it is. But I remember asking them how to pronounce the name of the coffee!

Hoho! I think I had a pretty weird outfit though!

Oh ya! It's quite a happening day! After we reach home, there are around 4 police cars right outside our house. And, the police handcuffed a guy and walked out of the neighbor's house. Why so many cars? Well, in each car there's only 1 policeman! Haha... Not sure what happen anyway. Oh well...

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6th April 2009, Monday
Well, some usual stuff that we do at night after work! We cook and I mess up! Haha! And for this day, it's Sushi!!!!

And, I made that Tamago! It's so hard to roll it with a round pan! We all had a turn to roll the Sushi! And despite my small size, I rolled the biggest Sushi and made the biggest Onigiri!!!

Happy Birthday to Doreen!!!

Argh! The weird thing is, why is it in my room?! Haha! Trapped Doreen inside my room to make her transfer photos! Then, prepared the cake! It's actually belated though. Haha... Well, there's even an NG!!! I off the lights but the cake and candles not here! Grr!!! Oh well, at least it kinda goes pretty well after that! It's Caramel Cheese Cake! Yummy!!!

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Random Stuff!! Okay... That's basically what I've just bought while I was shopping around. Oh well, I guess I've spent pretty much... There are shirts from Old Navy, jackets from Hurley and North Face, tops from Love Culture, T-shirt from Disney and Converse shoes from Snicker City!!!

Sweets! I think I've been having too much of them lately.... AHH!!!!

And... Gifts! Hoho! Must force my Sister to wear that T-shirt!!

Okay... It's like, 2am now... yikes... I need to go to sleep! So going to catch a movie in the weekends!!! AHH!!!

Well, Happy Easter! But, there's still work tmr... So I better go rest up!