A Singaporean Affair with the Red, White & Blue

Whoops!I missed my last entry by oh say about 8 days! My bad! I gonna learn to maintain the discipline for this thing. So here’s what happened in the last week! On monday, well last Monday that is, i met up with Esther and Wei Quan, two people who have always sorta been good accquaintances but nonetheless, it was great to hang with them! We had dinner at this relaly famous LA deli called Canters. They’re like really good for Corned Beef Sandwiches! and dammmmmn they are sooo bloody tasty! We also spotted a Beckham look-a-like! On Tuesday, I met up with Esther again to go to Universal Studios. Man the studio itself kinda sucks. The Revenge of the Mummy ride is surely the most anti-climatic piece o’ shit…………… crap i started writing this at like 9pm…it’s 1am now….i actually bored myself to sleep. I’m gonna come back tomorrow and finish this shit up. I can’t believe i actually bored myself! Aight..Night folks!

Okay! i’m awake now! It’s like Tuesday afternoon. I should rightfully be studying but hey a little break never hurt anyone. Then again, doesn’t the concept of "break" suggest u need to have started working in order to earn one. Oh shaddup Kamil! Anyway, so Universal Studio’s in LA is one of the worst theme parks in the world, ever! The worst has to be Fox Studios in Sydney! Anyone agree? U know how every theme park has like a highlight ride like that new 40 storey drop rollercoaster in Six Flags New Jersey, well in like Fox Studios, the biggest thing there is like the Titanic ride where u brisk walk thru’ a tilted Titanic (which is supposed to simulate a sinking ship) and then u get onto a life boat (like in the movie) and it rocks side to side (by rocking i mean like gentle caress). Anyway so Universal City is actually way better than the studio itself! Great Shopping! Anyway, So the rest of my week went by pretty uneventual. I mean it wasn’t boring, my life never is. Goodness knows i love to attract trouble. Anyway, the Saturday that just past, i met up with my brother’s new girlfriend who’s in LA for a layover (she’s a stewardess). Now ordinarily this is a non-event. To be honest i really wouldn’t have bothered meting her save for the fact that she had a whole buncha Singapore goodies! Chilli Powder, Tom Yam mixes, Prima Taste food mixes! Culinary Heaven! Oh god! i could have a joy-gasm just talking abt the food. Trust me, there are only so many burgers and tacos one can bloody eat in America. Speaking of which, for those of you who go supermarketing in Singapore, FUCKING HELL, it’s US$10 for one pound of chilli. That’s like around S$17!!!!! That’s ridiculous! If you know me, that’s as good as telling a cigarette or drug addict that his next fix will cost him 400% more than normal! AIEEEEEEEE!!

Okay so anyway, back to my story… so it turns out that in LA, public services meaning the bus systems are highly unreliable. U can wait a good half to one hour between buses. Anyway so the journey to my Mosh’s (my bro’s gf) hotel took a good 2.5hours. Not so bad i guess coz the online bus system told me, the expect route would take only 2hours so that 0.5hr extra was still reasonable. Now the route back! Let me ask you, if u take a bus to a certain place, you would naturally expect that if you crossed the street and tried to take the same bus back, it would take u back to the same spot you got it from. I haven’t lost you yet have i? So far it makes sense about the buses right? Well….NOT IN LA! The bus driver on the route back tells me, sorry, we don’t go back to where u got the bus. This by the way is at 9:40p.m. Okay fine, i think if i can get off near a train station and go the rest of the way by train, i can get within 4km of my place. Of course, with my luck and attraction for trouble, the bus doesn’t stop near a train station. Where does it stop? I kid you not, a bus interchange in the middle of no where. Have u ever asked yourself sometimes, "where am i?" now u take all the times u’ve asked yourself that question and multiply it by oh say 9999999999999999999999 times. That’s where i was dropped off at. Some Godforsaken industrial estate! Here i am, freezing my arse off in the middle of no where. There wasn’t even any traffic for me hitchike or grab a cab. I wait there for a good half an hour and like Gandalf at Helm’s Deep, this bus appears from no where to save me. The first nice thing to happen to me since i got here (public service-wise) the bus driver of the new bus tells me, there is no way i’ll get another bus at 11p.m. and i should just get onto his bus and he’ll drop me as close as he can to where i need to go. How nice is that! Anyway, so i finally get off this other bus about 7KM from my apartment in West Hollywood. I’m lugging around a 12kg of food and goodies in West Hollywood, the LA equivalent of Mohammed Sultan except this rows and rows of gay bars and bookshops. OHMYGAWDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE THE HELL HAVE ALL THESE FAGGOTS APPEARED FROM! Bloody arse-rippers! Mackin’ out and holdin’ hands in front of me…… yuck yuck yuck! Anyway so i walk a good 2KM and then i find a 7-11! SALVATION! That’s another thing i nearly forgot to mention. In LA, you cannot, absolutely cannot hail a cab off the street in LA. Even if it’s empty and the cabby sees you, he won’t stop. Imagine 11:30p.m.++ in Singapore but 24-7 in LA. So to get a cab when you are out, you have to b a patron at a shop so that they’ll call a cab for u. So i buy totally useless junk that i absolutely don’t need from 7-11 so i can get a cab! Finally, i get back at 12:15a.m.! i good 4hrs 15mins journey back home! That’s like a flight to Sydney! argh! Long story short, i got home safe and sound, able to enjoy my almond cookies from Bengawan Solo! YUMMY IN MY TUMMY! Alright, this entry should more than satisfy my legion (meaning two) of blog readers who support me!

Till my next entry, cheers folks!

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