completing the uncompleted

*blows dust off independentpjgirl.blogspot *

ah-chhhOooo!! ohman, what alot of dust.... *sniff*sniff*

well, it's been awhile since I last blogged eh? hehe.. during one of my mamak sessions last week, my friends were commenting about how dead my 'dead' blog has been.

*pooof* all of a sudden I just felt that even though I may not have the time/ inspiration to blog, I should just finish blogging about the Work & Travel episode of my life. not very nice to have things left hanging la...=)

exactly one year ago, at this time of the year, it was my last few days working for Anheuser Busch. travelling plans up north from Orlando to Washington DC and then to New York were already confirmed.

goodbyes were said to the place we called home for 3 months and as usual, goodbyes are never easy. it was a good thing we placed 'travelling' as the closure for our Work and Travel adventure because it really helped speed up the recovery from the 'goodbye syndromes'.

At Washington DC, I separated from the group because I stayed with my aunt and family who lives in Maryland, Annapolis (about an hour drive away from Washington DC). Well, I felt kind of sad to leave the group, yet excited to meet my long, lost, faraway relatives.

After only 2 nights at Peck-bee koko's beautiful house, I had to leave to meet the rest of the gang at New York. THREE CHEERS AND HURRAY for the Independentpjgirl (ME!) who braved herself and took the notorious yet surprisingly reliable GreyHound coach up to New York, ALL BY HERSELF! Clunging not only to my life but also my stuff (2 mega luggages and 2 hand luggages), I slept (and pretended to sleep) through the entire journey to prevent myself from thinking that I was going to get robbed/stabbed/shot by the really weird yo-yo people on the bus. Manz, I tell you..the yo-yo people, they came in all sorts of shapes and sizes!

As soon as I got off the Greyhound coach, I saw Seok Kheng and the rest of the gang all waiting for me at the New York bus station...wow..until today, i still don't know how to describe the feeling I felt at that moment when I saw their faces. It was like as if all of my 5 senses were triggered at one go!..haha..i just felt really, really relieved, happy, loved and most importantly ..SAFE!haha.. THANKS SEOKIE, WEIMING, JM, WL, SUEN and JF for saving me!

And that marked the beginning of our adventure in the Big Apple... Picture time!!



to the right, to the right!..brooklynn bridge!

kawaii des nehhhh~!

the famous bull at Wall Street

Doing the Donald Trump's Trumpet shaped lips

Ground Zero - emo

Yellow cabs, mega sized billboards, lights and action...Welcome to Times Square!

ohman! it's David Letterman!

Chillin' at Central Park

Like as if we really stayed on Fifth Avenue

Uptown Girls

History lessons for Bangla

Before Suen's parents came to visit us, we had no idea about the existence of St Augustine.

Thinking back, we must have been crazy!

If you ever go to Florida, don't ever miss out on visiting St Augustine, also known as the Ancient City or the Nation's Oldest City.

St Augustine has such a long history but I would try to explain briefly (hopefully accurately as well) so that you all won't get too bored. hehe!

Hundreds of years ago, a hot Spanish guy, Ponce De Leon, was on a quest to find for the Fountain of Youth. It was believed that anyone who drank the water from the fountain would never grow old.

In his search, Ponce de Leon stumbled upon the first city of Florida, St Augustine. Being a blurhead, he didn't know that he landed in North America, he thought he landed on some island that had lots of flowers. Also not very creative, he named the island 'La Florida' which meant 'Land of Flowers' in Spanish.

Because hundreds of years ago there was no such thing as DOTA, the old boys got bored easily and found joy sailing from one place to another to bomb and attack each other. Somehow the French boys managed to establish a fort in St Augustine, driving the Spain people out of their territory. And as usual, the Spanish people decided to fight back to protect their land and after bombing here and there, the French people got fried.

However, thats not the end yet. The Bristish people, who enjoy being in every history textbook, decided to cause some trouble and established colonies in Georgia and the Carolinas. To protect Florida from the Brits, Spain authorized the building of a stone fort which has a really u-la-la name, Castillo de San Marcos.

Don't ask me what happened after that cos we had to leave St Augustine which is 3 hours away from Orlando... and... if we were late Krispy Kreme would be out of Glazed Doughnuts. YUM!

haha..

Fountain of Youth

Bluff you-la, it was some random fountain

Castillo de San Marcos

Some locals that brought history out to life and some banglas that had no life.

The Old Schoolhouse - boring place



Looks like a cowboy town ya?


Ponce de Leon, founder of La Florida!!

Yo, Leon, how's tha weather up there??


Wax statutes that were rejected and left outside the shop

The lighthouse which we circled 3 times wishing for CAP 5