End of the Maple Adventure

Sorry guys, the adventure has ended. It has been great having you follow through what I have been through in my exchange. The experience is seriously undescribable. It just gives me the extra oomph when I come back in Singapore. How have I benefited from this exchange? Sights? Sounds? Experiences? Or the many good friends I make in this exchange? Imagine having talk, work, sleep, having fun in a certain way in Singapore for 23 years of your life and for 4 months, you are transported to a foreign land to do all these in a different way, after which you are brought back again..You will just see what you have seen everyday in Singapore differently, really differently..This exchange has been really really great. I do encourage everyone who has the opportunity to do so. I won't be continuing this blog as I don't keep a personal blog. This blog was maintained to update everyone on my experiences during my exchange. You can always still contact me to know how I am doing. Til then.

Signing off,

jo

Land of the Rising Sun

Touchdown Japan..

Height matters..haha..

Saori and her friend met me for dinner..

Saori's socks..her comedy goes all the way to her clothes..haha..

haha..the typical Saori's expression...her smile..her friend told me she was like this ever since high school..always smiling..haha..


We had Japanese BBQ..


Had to use this "scrapper" to eat the food..

Japan

New Year was around the corner..many people had this pasted outside their house..

Haha..elections posters of the present PM Abe..

The bridge me and Saori had to meet at..

Japan had buns..

Tokyo Tower..

Japanese are pretty amazing in dressing up..

Densely populated Tokyo..

My Egg Udon meal..

Akihabara..Toys toys..

wahhh...

Shibuya..

Harajuku

my sushi dinner..they don't use boats..

haha, I bought this bottle of oxygen for fun..

In Japan, many people go to the temple during New Year..

One of the temples during New Year..

The lion is supposed to bite the baby for good luck..

A traditional Japanese performance

Traditional Kimono..saw a lot of them around..

San Francisco

Haha..I like to call SF the Sloppy Place..

The famous tram..

Chinatown
It was hard to explain how scared we were when Huiping hijacked the tram..

Grace Catheral..very magnificent..

I could have rolled down the slope..

Victorian houses in SF

The next happiest place in US - Castrotown..

Parliament House..

Haha..the scene of an uncle singing the SF song with the Golden Gate bridge in the Karoake video kept going through my mind..

The famous Golden Gate Bridge..

Alchartrez Prison..

The nation mourn the loss of an ex-President..Ford..

I hope noone had to make the call..

Barrels of sweets

Went to Fisherman's Wharf..nice nice..

Clam Chowder in Sour Dough..nothing was left..

Loads of lazy sealions

And this is...Christopher Columbus..yes, it's him..

overlooking SF..

Sorry, I had to do this..

Levis Headquarters..