To uphold justice and fight crime the American way..

yo.. wassup ma homies..

i'm in San Francisco now.. in my hotel room.. tapping into one of the available (and unreliable coz itz free) wireless networks.. in the hot sunny California, in the land of equal rights, freedom and opportunities..

heh..

yeah.. rite.. of course..

itz abt 6 degrees now in the unhot and unsunny California.. highest being 11 degrees in the afternoon, under the hottest sun of the day.. and therefore.. itz *NOT*.. i repeat.. *NOT* hot and sunny..

lemme try to describe this place as best as i could..

San Francisco is basically the capital for homosexuals in United States.. in fact.. the first recorded AIDS infection was recorded here.. in which they called it initially as the Gay Cancer..

ermz.. for the record.. the first victim was a Flight Attendant.. *gulp*

but then again.. he's gay.. i'm not..

for the record.. as homophobic as i am.. i have nothing against gays.. i have some very pleasant gay friends.. and as long as we respect each other's space, i think it should be fine..

i remembered watching a Gay And Lesbian Parade here from my room window several months ago.. and u'ld be surprised at the population of homosexuals here.. and they were hugging and kissing.. ermz..

and i love the United States.. so whatever opinions that i am gonna be giving here is gonna be unbiased.. i've got nothing against them.. just to give an insight of how the place really is..

ok.. as i have mentioned.. itz too cold in the usually hot and sunny California.. and in March.. it should be approaching spring.. but it feels like its still in the middle of winter..

it normally looks beautiful and cool in the States rite.. especially in this particular part of States.. but then again, they always show beautiful ppl on TV too.. but to get to see one here? ermz.. VERY VERY rare.. so what do u really get here.. in downtown San Francisco..

u get beggars on the streets, every few feet.. homeless ppl, drunks, addicts.. and the smell of piss everywhere.. rubbish on the streets..

Americans are used to avoiding eye contacts with strangers.. coz they might just stop u for money, cigarette or everything else that u have..

so much so of being a land of freedom rite.. u have to trade in ur freedom of having whatever u have in safe Singapore for the freedom of speech and doing everything else..

1 in 3 Americans are noted to have some sort of psychological problems.. i dunno where i got that fact.. but i read it somewhere..

there had been cases among my colleagues thru the years, some got robbed and some much worse than that.. right here in San Francisco itself.. i think i had mentioned abt some stories and locations of Los Angeles previously in my entry abt Hollywood..

so.. if u wanna live in the United states.. stay away from the major cities.. go look for some nice quiet towns like Smallville..

location info.. San Francisco is a city in the state of California.. California is a state at the strip facing the Pacific Ocean.. and u can drive down from San Francisco to Los Angeles along the Pacific Coast Highway.. though u might grow old before u arrive in Los Angeles..

and Los Angeles is at the border of United States and Tijuana, Mexico.. itz like going from Woodlands to Johore..

but despite whatever i mentioned.. it's one of my dreams if i could work and live in San Francisco.. but not coz i'm gay though.. but coz of Silicon Valley.. which is the heart of the computing world.. located right at the Bay Area of San Francisco.. a haven for nerds..

another location info here..

the Bay Area is made of up 9 counties that surrounds the San Francisco Bay.. and San Francisco is a BIG city in State of California..

arrived here yesterday, in the morning.. and headed out to lunch right after that.. after lunch, i headed down to Nordstrom, a shopping mall at San Francisco Shopping Centre.. to spend some cash in Abercrombie..



Nordstrom, along Market Street..

the shopping centre is located right in downtown SF, just a few minutes walk away from Union Square..

got too tired after that so i just headed back to my room and slept..

woke up this morning, hungry like hell.. and one of the crew, Annabelle, called me out for an early lunch.. so we headed down to a diner..

after lunch, we headed down to Starbucks and sat down for a chat for a while.. Annabelle left to go shopping after that and i came back to my room before heading down again to walk ard on my own..

it was raining thru the late afternoon, and too cold.. and so itz not a good idea to go down for clam chowder, as i wanted to initially, at the Fisherman's Wharf..

so i headed down to a record store and got myself a twin DVD of Aquabats!

kelakar giler..

anyway, i had pics of the Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge and Pier 49 in my previous posting abt San Francisco..

i came in from Seoul, South Korea, yesterday.. and heading back there tmrw morning..

didnt do much in Seoul coz it was way too early to get up in the morning to report for the flight.. so when we arrived, most of us were too tired..

that's it..

picture time..



view from my room.. facing Macy's along Market Street..



Powell and Hyde Cable Car.. one of the main attractions of Downtown San Francisco.. heading from Powell Street right down to Fisherman's Wharf.. it goes up and down the hills here.. and yepz.. this place is very hilly.. so it might be a good way to lose weight if u wanna walk there... but thatz not for me..

another sight nearby the Wharf would be the Alcatraz.. which was a prison island, and now converted to a tourist attraction..

it is said that no one can ever escape from the Alcatraz alive.. except for Sean Connery..



Powell Street, heading upwards..



Powell Street, facing Market Street..



view from outside my hotel lobby.. along Eddy Street..

ok.. thatz it abt the trip here.. and now.. backtrackking time..

i just came back to work, after 2 weeks of not working, slacking at Esplanade and spending time with my parents and my 2 yr old niece..

no whinings..

nothing else to complain abt..

hmm... issit? but thatz not me..

ok.. lemme think..

lemme think..

lemme whine abt girls now..

somehow.. some girls think that when they have a bf, his life have to automatically revolve around her.. all his hobbies and his mates have to come second to her..

fine.. whatever.. as long as they are in their honeymooning period.. it should be a norm..

but how long does it last?

we guys would do all that for a girl at the beginning of a relationship.. we talk on the phone for hours at a time.. every day and nite.. but i should say that it would be at abt the first two weeks of a relationship.. during the time that we are still obsessed with the girl..

and u will get less frequent calls.. and u will start to realise that the attention is not the same anymore..

any guys who remain longer than this is not normal..

itz either that they are new to RELATIONSHIPS on itz own, and therefore still obsessed with the new "phase of life" rather than obsessed with the girl, or that they have somethings to hide..

a friend of mine mentioned recently that her ex bf calls her all the time, and checked on her every waking second.. till she realised that he had another girl and he wasnt really checking on her.. he was checking on her location and therefore he is safe..

hmm.. ok.. i can think of another reason..

insecurities.. just like a girl..

if the girl is like so gawddamned gorgeous.. thatz a reason to be continuously obsessed..

but please.. dont think that u are gawddamned gorgeous if u *THINK* ur bf fits into this category.. coz he might just fit in the previous ones..

if no other neutral ppl (besides ur bf and ur mother) had said that abt u without trying to be kind, like when u just bought a new dress.. or the time that they are trying to get into ur skirt.. or when other girls say that u look beautiful coz obviously they were secretly expecting u to say the same for them.. then u shouldnt think that u are.. ask my opinion and i'll give u an honest one..

* to my bandgirls.. dont ask me anything in relation to this topic *

so does it mean that we guys dont appreciate our gfs?

of course we do.. but girls have to understand the fact that male love is based on hormones to begin the relationship with.. and after the obsession-state/initial-sex ended, then we might probably start to like her, then we start to care.. then we start to love..

so when that love starts.. and that might be a true love.. we will take care of our girl with our life.. but at that point, she have to understand that our lives dont revolve just around each other..

sad to say that when the honeymooning period starts.. the love is not there yet.. just the raging hormones and we need to keep the girl interested in us long enough and not to drift away to the next hormone-raged male..

if u want a bf that do whatever u say and spend every waking hour talking to you.. get a bf with no hobbies.. or better still.. a nerd whoz closest sexcapade would be in the closet with his right palm.. and he might get one of those short range walkie talkie to be contactable to you and might even move on top of the tree in front of ur block..

but if ur bf has a character and friends before he met u.. i think itz only fair that u allow him to live his life as fairly as u could.. let him be as cool as he was before he met u, and for the reason why u fell for him..

if u take him away from his passion, and he does that for u.. and if u really think that he do all that becoz he loves u.. well.. u might be in for a shock later in the relationship..

and if he does, sincerely, for the moment.. trust me.. he will get tired of it.. and if he develops a new hobby and somehow u become his major time-grabber.. u might end up being dumped at the side..

most guys will hang on to a relationship coz we are too tired to fight it.. so just flow with it.. so if u want us to do this and that.. we do it.. but just coz we dont think that itz worth the hassle and itz not gonna be forever anyway..

and whatz with the topic of this posting?

i was just watching 2 episodes of the Superman movies.. yey..

this is gonna be an exciting year with X-Men 3 and Superman Returns..

up up and awayyyyyyyyyyyy...