GRAND CANYON @ ARIZONA

GRAND CANYON....A WHOPPING 6000 FEET ABOVE THE GROUND


A MULE DEER AT GRAND CANYON

TRYING TO BE ARTISTIC......







MISTY GRAND CANYON...VISIBILITY WAS QUITE BAD





UP ON A DYING TREE OVER LOOKING THE ROCKS


Over our vegas trip, one day was devoted to visiting one of the 7 wonders of the world. Its a freaking 5 hours of drive along desert paths and winding roads off the cliffs...guess it was all worth it.


Of course..definately..I was enthusiastic and kindly offered to drive but.. was politely rejected. Was made in charge of entertaining the driver, feeding the driver with chips and caffine, singing along to the music hits off the radio stations...and even falling asleep in my own passenger seat...ZZZZ....

It was chilly when we reached the park. I was of course dying in my black Mango bermuadas and my seasoned Birkenstocks. Sucks!! Why didnt I check the weather forecast before leaving??


Visibilty was pretty bad.. perhaps because of the California fires..air pollution..as I looked over the edge of the cliff, its pretty scary looking down at the valleys from above 6000 feet...
It was very serene... peaceful (other than the chattering coming from the China tourists..yes they are everywhere..sigh)

In the midst of breathing taking views of the grand canyon in the afternoon and during sunset, I am truly amazed by how nature and God hath worked. How beautiful stone and rock formations have been created because of tectonic movements of the plates......

Just be there once in a lifetime.....

......Tempting Vegas.....

Nevada from above.....


Ballys hotel..think I need a drink more..




Luxor - Grand Egyptian themed hotel.....




Paris.....the city of Romance

M&Ms for me......

Scorching fires from the volcano eruption at Mirage

Not to be missed........Bellagio fountain

Paris at night......dazzling lights and nightlife

I just unpacked my duffel bags and washed laundry. Back from Las Vegas...amazing city of lights, nightlife, non-stop puffing and 24 hrs of gambling...its good to be back home again.

Truly an eye-opener..its really just a spot in the midst of a desert terrain that is flooded with people, hot babes with to-die for cleavages and tons of gambling dens. Oh Man. Its really not suitable for kids and the faint-hearted..( or rather the gambling addicts!!)

Hotels of various themes are everywhere round the corner...free performances in the different hotels at various times of the day. I have never entered so many casinos in my entire life.. it could be an easily 30 or 40 casinos that I have stepped foot into ..and naturally dontated $ to as well... sigh..trust me...I am much richer in travelling but poorer in my bank accounts.... I need to start my donation drive "Help Save Evelyn..." (something along this line)

My take-away from this trip: I learnt how to play roulette!!! Okies.. stop it... I know its not much of a big deal..but its my first table game..hee..pretty exciting...had the adrelaline rush each time the ball spins around the wheel.

Theres many ways of betting...red or black numbers, any number from 0 to 36 (theres even a number 00), even or odd numbers, the 1st 12 or 2nd 12 or 3rd 12 numbers, 1-18 0r 19-36, etc.. the list is quite extensive ..shant bore u to death....

Ultimatley, its really a land of temptations....casinos, shopping, great food, partying and of course G-cups hot chicks in their black fish-net stockings....wooo hooo.....

Halloween House Haunting @ Dallas

After the Chicago partying, I am all excited cum geared up and we drove around our neigbourhood to admire some of the hard work people have put in to create the Hallooween-ish look for their houses.

Most of them are into the cute looks whereby they have full blown characters of pumpkins, kind looking witches and draculas..(didnt noe the kind side of them existed?)

While some of the more adventurous ones have huge black spiders on their webs, hanging skeltons frm the trees outside their houses, corpses and tombs just outside their main doors, etc.....

If I ever ever have a Halloween party, which look will I go for.... its quite a tough decison....hmm..i have a year to ponder .....

Halloween @ CHICaGo

The Magic Beanie @ Chicago...



Bustling streets ...Skyscrapers




Godiva Martins @ Signature Room ...sinful... SLurps!!






Not really fairies... FAIRY!!!




Monster INC.... gruesome but cool. BTW its on stilts.

It just tickles us.. and it has a compartment right in front for the person inside to grab a drink!!

Threes a crowd...but they didnt seem to mind a bit ( of course they are nice to ME)

Visited this windy city Chicago with a very dear and old fren frm JC...shes currently at Indianapolis...cuming back to Singapore really soon though (pls stop thinking its some part of India... it just pisses her off BIG time)

wow..those were the good old days where we just hung out at the Council Room, go parties together.. before long, we were all faithfully meeting up at weddings ( quite a number a year..no wonder my savings are depleted!!!)...but hey ger..u have missed out on those for quite some time....

And gosh, before we ever could anticipate it....babies are blooming out like little flowers in the wilderness.....and theres baby showers to attend to... 1st month cakes to sink our teeth in....

I am afraid that I might be missing out a fair bit for quite a while...:(



Guess thats just the natural progression in life.. sometimes just wondering....are we all READY READY..or sort of think that we are READY..or compelled and psycho into thinking we are since the alarms are really going off..... NVM... just side-tracking....

Anyway....

Chicago is a really cool city, very rich in architecture. All the bulidings there are so different, yet they seem to be able to be exist harmoniously with each other and retain their own unique features. ...when we got there on a Friday night..it was cold and drizzling quite a bit. HAd dinner and a drink up the 96th floor @Signature Room @ John Hancock building...one of the tallest skyscraper.. the equivalent will be the New Asia Bar in Singapore..(unless its no longer there any more...is it??)

Geared up for Halloween party @ Vision, a hip pub at downtown. It was freaking cold but that did not deter the lads and the chicks from appearing in their nurses uniforms, goddess drapes, dracula fangs, batman and robin tight suits etc.

And a good way to earn $ at the pubs is to help customers hang their jackets (jacket deposit VS bag deposit) at a whopping cost of US$4 per jacket. Oh man... we dun have to pay when we deposit our bags @ Zouk, do we??

One cool thing was at the end of endless rounds of shots and dancing with/ in smoke...

all the Halloween-ish characters were all seen queuing at a mega MacDonalds for supper...wat a sight man.

Yawn... we barley could open our eyes when we hit the hotel beds at 3 am.....

Aero--Space 2007.....

The Wives Club....with a mini areoplane


I like Yellow... attention seeking !!


I am Walking Away.....

See.. Im nt exaggerating. (People Mountain People Sea )

Cliche...... Love is in e Air

Blue Angels very synchronised.... they fly dam near to each other....

Im Chao Tar...Help!!!!

I crawled out of bed at 6.30 am on Saturday (20th Oct) to go for an aerospace exhibition at downtown Dallas.. when was the last time I woke up so early man..

its totally insane to wake up so early when the event only starts at 9am...

However, if you enter late, you might not be able to find parking ..and the parking here is like a freaking US$10 per car...(kill people and set fire man!!)

It was freezing in the morning...and there I was in my shorts and a sleeveless top...gosh...all the hair I had on my hands didnt help much lor...luckily I was smart enuff to grab a jacket in the midst of my sleepiness...

If you have been to the aerospaces in SIngapore... its kinda similar...just maybe more vintage heli and aircrafts... you can also pay a whipping US$45 and sit in a helicopter with many others for 10mins.. (siao man... ang moh oso quite $-minded!!)

We were there for the BLUE ANGELS... well if u havent heard of them...its ok.. ( me too!! until tat day) and theirs was the finale..last performance at 3pm...so we effectively were there from 8am to 4pm...totally burnt out by the UV rays man...

They are apparently the cream of the crop of all the pilots chosen from the navy, airforce, army, etc and they go on world-tour, doing their acrobatic skills up in the skies...

A total of 6 pilots in the team, but sway sawy, one of the aircraft was down at the last minute and I heard one of them died in April during a performane when the plane crashed...

As usual, the whole place was packed with strollers and beach chairs...people slurping on lemonade and turkey drums... (all the food and drinks dam ex lor.. and we cldnt bring water in ..sigh... almst tot I was in a desert man!! I need my H2O)

After the finale, we had to 'scamper' to the entrance asap coz there would be a massive jam at the carparks and the exit...Kiasu-ism helped this time round and since the ang mohs cant walk as fast too.....we made it out to the nearest MacDonalds for a iced cold Coke....Burppp....

Thank God for creating Coke..Amen.

Patches of PumpKINGs......

Our very own home-carved pumpkin for halloween 2007....





Janie and I on the Kiddy Bench...with mini pumpkins...
(btw shes 3 mtns pregnant yet slimmer than me lor..NOT FAIR!!!)







The Hay Maze for kids... wheres the one for adults??







baby pumpkin ....







I want this big big one... give it to me baby.....

Huge Oranges and I

My very 1st experience of Halloween....and Pumkin Patch..

The people here are quite onz abt Halloween and pumpkins...they are sold everywhere in Targets and Walmarts ( our Cold Storage and NTUC)...big, small, irregular shapes, ugly ones etc..

In the month of Oct..( btw Halloween is on 31st October...will be back from Chicago by then to celebrate back home... Yippes!!!) some of the rich households actually take the effort to decorate their front houses with webs, spiders, dangling skeletons, etc....

We visited this pupmkin patch at a small church... (for a good cause man!!!)...just last Sunday

Small scaled but think its good enough. There were crates of pumpkins for you to choose and take pictures with. Kids were playing in a mini-maze made of hay...they were really short, so some of them reallie cldnt figure out the EXIT!!!

Kinda appreciating all these festives and outdoor events which one can hardly find in Singapore...guess people back in Singapore are too busy and preoccupied with other stuff... or else no land for all these....or perhaps we are all just simply contended with our Orchard Road and Great Singapore SALE!!

So we went home carrying our US$4 pumpkin...and wanted to make pumpkin soup as well as carve it. Sadly, all the edible flesh has dried up and all that was left were many many pumpkin seeds...sobs.. there goes my pumpkin soup. Nontheless, it was a fun experience trying our hands on the pumpkin!!!

Hi-Tea-ING~~~~~

One of the very 1st places I went with the wives here...they are very into ANTIQUE-ing..theres pretty alot of such shops here.

This place- Antique Land is at Plano..abt half an hours drive frm my place. In Texas, the following formula applies:

no car= no go out= no life...

The antique stuff here is really old lah..(to qualify to be antique)..books, toys, etc. some of which we had when we were young..if we knew they can be sold for tens of USA bucks here..dun you just wished you had kept all those and ignored your mum's nagging to throw them dwn the chute...

havent acquired the taste to appreciate such stuff but I have noted on my wish list:

A nice tea-pot and english/Victorian style tea cups and those nice little dessert trays to put your scones and cakes on...yummy right!!! sounds delicious already!!! (anybody else interested??)

My STY in Ang Mor-Land

Ok..I know people..I have been procrastinating and giving endless reasons for not blogging..being IT-super unsavy and living up to my name- The Nuah-er...

finally after a month..plus plus plus..I have finally decided to SLOWLY upload the pix of my BORing life here..piece by piece...

blog still under construction..so please do pardon it.. (though i can forsee it will nt be ready until in a year's time)....another excuse for not scouting around and learning how to better manage it...perhaps people like jiehui, adeline, cynthia, pat or er can englighten me.....

Lets just start wif my small house to begin with......

Its like condo type back home, just that theres too much land over here and the ang mohs have no stamina to climb stairs, so the max is just 3 storeys.

We have a garage in the basement and theres a door that leads to the inside of the hse. Climb up a flight of stairs and you will reach the main dining area, the bathroom, bedroon, etc... basically everything..

Everywhere is carpetted..minus the bathroom n kitchen..so that means NO NEED TO MOP FLOORS!!!! Yippees!!! (but haf to vacumm..sucks..)

thus, it wun be so cold in the winter.

Sadly, theres a giant living on the 2nd floor..(Im on the ground floor, so it flooded the other time it rained!!) so sometimes, rather all the time I hear footsteps and tumping ...cant blame the giant above as the flooring is really bad...

Theres a nice fireplace, which of course havent been used yet!! Winter is round the corner. Excited* wink* hoping for snow or hail.....but nt welcoming the cold and the cracked lips and the dry skin....God is fair I guess....

The kitchen is nothing impressive, but I have made such good frens with Mr Stove, Ms Microwave and Mdm Oven for the past month..then I ever did in my 26 years of life...dun play play..can bake muffins and cupcakes... who needs classes on them?? (*kidding*)

Okies..even with the bathtub..,havent soaked in it for more than a second.. I am seriously too busy to waste my time on the tubby..so morale of the story: We only soak in the tubs in hotels becox we are cheapos..must fully utilise the facilities..if its at hme..its just a waste of time, $ and water...

If you are wondering what about the bedroom..weell..wait lng lng kay...its just a pig sty....too messy for the public....hee hee...other than tat..think my hse quite neat, clean and spanky yah...