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30-6-2006：享受陽光half moon bay．書卷氣@stanford

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DAY 11 @ USA

I’m SUPER STUPID!!! I got a sunburn! I feel very hot on the skin of my arms now!!!

We got up very late this morning (we chatted until very late last night). I missed the chance to talk to Day in MSN.

And I will not be able to talk to him tomorrow morning as well. We are going to San Francisco tomorrow!!!

We went to the Half Moon Bay today. We expected to come across farms that we could pick cherries there. However, only fresh fruits were sold. We then went to the beach directly. It was sunny but also windy and it was a bit cold.

The beach was very long and beautiful. The weather was so good. There were not so many people on the beach. Only a few families went camping there. We then walked onto the beach. The sand was warm and comfortable to touch. The sea water was freezing!!!

We lied on the sand. It was so comfortable that we didn’t want to leave.

The beach was so big and not crowded (it is so difficult to find a space in the beahces in Hong Kong during summertime~).

When we left the beach, we stopped at a fruit shop in front of a farm. We bought some strawberries, cherries (there are yellow and red cherries) and mo-fa-guo. It was the first time I eat mo-fa-guo. Its outlook is like an eggplant. But the texture is like a “lum-chi”. Hong said that it contains a lot of fibre!!! Very healthy.

Hong has prepared a box and water for washing the fruits so that we could eat them as soon as we bought them. The fruits were so sweet and fresh!!! This is California!!!

We then went to Stanford. Hong’s sister is now studying there for her master. She took me to look around. Hong and I went to the Stanford Mall first. We had our lunch there (but the time was already tea time), in MacDonald’s (I ate the chicken sticks, which is not sold in Hong Kong).

The letter “S” (stanford) at the main entrance. A must-take-photo spot.

The chapel was very beautiful. Hong’s sister said that alumni of the university can get married in it but she will not because she doesn’t want to see that the seats are not completely filled up. Haha~

Medical school of the Stanford University. Taking a picture with Benson (Hong’s boyfriend, his name appeared yesterday).

We then had our dinner in a Japanese restaurant in a town nearby.

Hong’s sister was the boss tonight. She has just received her salary. A very nice meal!!!

29-6-2006：神奇點

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DAY 10 @ USA

umum… Still not feeling well today.

I woke up naturally around 8am in the morning. I sat in front of the computer but unable to talk to Day and Ga Jie logically. It was a MESS! Day told me to go to sleep again. When I woke up again, it was already 12noon!!! Feeling much better when I finally got up.

Super hungry, I looked for food in the fridge. Except the vegetable buns I ate yesterday, I couldn’t locate anything for breakfast. Reheating it by steaming, wait for 10 minutes, oh no, too little water in the pot!!! I’m really sorry, Hong.

Luckily the kitchen was not burnt.

Hong came back a bit earlier than I expected (the smell was still here), we left home around 2pm. Today our destination was the Mystery Spot at Santa Cruz (see, a lot of names in California are in Spanish, a place very close to us is called Los Gatos<–which means the cats!!!).

On the way to Santa Cruz.

We missed the exit to Santa Cruz!!! But really need to T-H-A-N-K G-O-D! After we exited the freeway, looking for the way to the Mystery Spot, being confused on the street, the visitor information centre was just IN FRONT OF US!!! How can it be so amazing?! We finally got to the Mystery Spot with just 45 minutes.

The Mystery Spot is a place where it is said to have an unusual magnetic field so that anything would be pulled towards the field. I doubt about this theory but it is quite interesting.

When I stand straightly, my body leans forward without falling. Try this posture on a level ground. It is impossible to do this.

We had to join the 30-minute guided tour to visit the Mystery Spot. The guide showed us a lot of experiments. We had a chance to take part in those experiments.

Of course we need to take a picture in front of the entrance~

We then drive back home. Before going home, we went to a Chinese supermarket to buy something.

We saw a wild deer on the way we drove back home!!! How can you imagine you see a deer when you are driving??

The Chinese supermarket is very large and there are even more different kinds of food selling there. They sell various kinds of fresh vegetables and frozen, canned, dried Chinese food of brands of Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

Reaching home!!! A picture taken in front of the big entrance of Hong’s apartment.

I had to sleep again. Another 2 hours. I woke up only when dinner was ready.

Benson (Hong’s boyfriend) came here this evening. He cooked ALL the dishes (Hong, of course, helped a bit with the preparation work~) we had tonight!!! It was SUPER DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!

Onion beef ribs, steamed eggs, fried vegetables with garlic and rice seasoned by garlic!!! Wow~

28-6-2006：我愛水族館

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DAY 9 @ USA

I am sorry to tell all of you that I have to write my diary in English in these few days because I can’t type Chinese in Hong’s computer. Hope you still enjoy reading my diary.

Although I should have a bit of jet lag (California is 3 hours slower than New York), I could still wake up around 8am. May be another reason was that I had to talk to Day in MSN!!! 8am here is 11pm in Hong Kong, a perfect time for chatting in MSN. Expectedly (luckily), he’s there~ I chatted with him and at the same time getting some breakfast from Hong’s fridge. CHINESE BUNS (vegetables+mushroom&lt;–Day called it as “pretty girl bun”, haha~)!!! WAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!

We were going to the Monterey Aquarium this afternoon. We started our activity around 12 noon, after Hong had come back from school. Before the 2-hour journey, she brought me to a very colourful shop to buy a drink. We shared a “Power-sized Mango-a-go-go”, which is a mango+pineapple smoothie. It was chilled and ideal for such a hot hot weather (actually the weather here is very strange)!!! In this shop, they can split a Power-sized drink into two for you for free. That’s why you see the picture below has two identical cups. Very nice~

Mango-a-go-go, accompanied us throughout the 2-hour journey (finally only 1 1/2 hour~).After reaching Monterey, we entered the aquarium immediately. Last night, Hong Lo Ming suggested us to have our lunch in the cafeteria of the aquarium.

We bought 2 soups, a clam chowder (left) and a roasted chicken vegetable soup (right). The crackers were free of charge!!! They gave us 4 packages but we only ate 2. Both were nice but the clam chowder was thicker, which was better for lunch.We finished our lunch within half a hour because we had to watch the mini seahorse show at 2:30pm.

The staff (with blue cap) explained to us the features of a seahorse: a fin like a fish, a pouch like a kangaroo, a tail like a monkey and a face like a horse. As seahorse daddy bears the kids, she looked for a dad in the audience to pretend a seahorse!!! There was not a lot of information in the show but it was fun.

After finishing this, we walked around the aquarium. There is a wide variety of marine animals. The aquarium is nicely decorated, which is comparable to the aquarium I went to in Shanghai.

Of course we had to look at the sea otters!!! They are the leading roles of the aquarium. We looked at them during the feeding time. Very cute!!!

In the aquarium, you could not only look at the fish, you also had a chance to touch them.

I was touching a ray. Slippy body!!!

These are sardines!!! What do you think of, Ga Jie? These sardines really open their mouth wide and eat the food.

Haha…Penguins penguins.We stayed at the aquarium until it closed at 6pm. Then we went for dinner in “Bubba Gum”. It is the restaurant of Forrest Gump!!!

Remember Forrest Gump playing football? The teammates just told him, “Run, Forrest, Run!!!”. In this restaurant, you use this sign to call for a waiter’s help. You need his service, then you flip to the sign “Stop, Forrest, Stop” or otherwise it is “Run, Forrest, Run.” Fun, huh?

We were very very full after the dinner!!! It was a nice restaurant. The atmosphere was good but the food was a bit too strong for me.

27-6-2006：橫跨美洲大陸探探老朋友

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DAY 8 @ USA

終於o黎到康皓珊屋企啦~好開心啊﹗

原本今日大家睇我個diary要睇英文o架啦，因為康皓珊部電腦打唔到中文，不過好在康露明(康皓珊姐姐，都係陳瑞芝o架~好耐冇見佢lu~)今晚o黎o左﹗佢帶埋部電腦o黎，所以今晚仲可以打中文diary﹗聽日就…要委屈一下咯~

今日坐飛機真係10個累﹗今朝又唔舒服呢~一朝早起來覺得個頭好痛﹗哇，個頭、個身仲好「興」添﹗六姨俾支探熱針我，101.7度﹗

發燒啦~都唔知因乜事忽然間發燒﹗而家都有一兩個differential diagnosis啦~開頭覺得係感冒，因為systemic upset:頭痛、發燒、周身累、痛(其實都幾non-specific，因為六姨屋企o個張床訓到成個人凹入去，醒都會周身痛﹗)、又冇respiratory symptoms喎，我打o左流感針之後幾個月都冇試過感冒，唔通美國o既strain同香港唔同，cover唔到乎？我朝早食o左兩粒panadol之後一兩個鐘就退o左燒啦，覺得好o左好多，晏少少(藥力過o左？)又好似有D燒，但到夜晚竟然精神爽利﹗我而家覺得發燒應該係因為牙痛﹗智慧齒逼出o黎，有D inflammation，以致有systemic inflammatory response~所以快來快去？﹗我都唔知呀，感冒冇理由好得咁快…算啦，總之之後幾日唔好咁操勞啦~

架飛機真係離晒譜，原本十點半起飛，點知delay o左，十一點半都未上機，終於上o左機喇，又搞o左有成半個鐘先起飛﹗遲o左好多啦~係飛機上面都唔係好訓得著，訓得少少o羅~有飲品serve我都只係要o左熱茶咋(如果飲咖啡o既話係starbucks出品o架~)~醒目ta﹗

我知道飛機上面冇食物serve之後買定份三文治上機食，我又買o左subway o既submarine啦﹗今日係turkey breast，用honey oat麵包﹗雖然冇toasted，但都好好味啊~

去到中途站denver(我都唔知究竟係咩地方﹗)，我都唔知架飛機已經遲o左幾多，出去閘外面閒逛o左一陣，原本想買張denver o既postcard，因為難得有機會o黎到丫嘛~但都冇﹗對面有間咖啡點，哇，杯icebrewed marble mocha好吸引啊﹗

又靚~忍唔住買o左o黎飲﹗上面除o左有cream之外，仲有朱古力同白朱古力碎片係上面~好好味啊~

第二程仲辛苦，又訓唔著，本da vinci code又睇完，冇「世藝」﹗擔天望地…哎吔吔~阿婆ta又出現了，腰好痛呀~

因為坐得太耐了﹗後來拎本飛機上面o既購物目錄o黎睇，有好多新產品，都幾得意，咁都消磨o左好多時間~

終於抵達oakland啦﹗見到康皓珊10開心﹗好耐冇見了，我o地一見面就吱喳不停﹗因為都累啦，所以都冇去到邊，直接番o左佢apartment，竟然兩個人住o既apartment都有兩層，每個人都有自己o既廁所，好舒服呀~

今晚我同康孖舖﹗食晚飯前稍作休息，矇矇矓矓間睡去後，忽然聽到有把聲同我講，你好似唔知我係邊個喎？康露明來了﹗

我o地對住個電視食康皓珊準備o既晚餐(菇菇蛋肉片麵、菜<–好味道﹗)，送飯o既有錄影帶，係benson(康o既男朋友)以前錄起o既「師奶強人」(睇o既時候忽然覺得COSH o既吱喳dennis好似阮兆祥﹗哈﹗)，10個舊﹗睇完之後睇番美國o既本地電視台，有america’s next top model呀(原來已經是重播了)﹗有重播世界盃，巴西對加納(聽英文旁述好搞笑，kaka、cafu、kaka，佢o地傳o黎傳去，好似漏口咁…)，又有國語劇集，陳浩民有份做~

之後上樓hea下hea下咁o羅~睇下康皓珊(應該係我o地中學時)D舊相，大家個樣都大個o左好多呢(尤其係阿day﹗好大分別呢~)~又睇下康D sketch book(佢o既招牌熊貓經常出現﹗)~之後同康露明係度勁睇youtube D短片，勁搞笑﹗

其實我都應該早D訓啦，不過好在聽日中午左右先出動，可以訓晏D~yeah~

26-6-2006：登上航空母艦

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DAY 7 @ USA

聽日就出發去康皓珊度啦﹗好期待啊﹗陣間都仲要執行李添…聽朝又要早起~

今日10個累﹗因為行o左好多好多好多好多路~而且都運o左好多好多好多好多吉﹗(<–今次唔關我事o架~個間公司有新人加入了﹗)

一 早起身，上晝都冇乜做到D乜，六姨車o左我去辦個social security card，話第時要係美國搵工定申請銀行戶口都要用呢個social security number喎~去到D手續都好快搞掂，其實都只不過係填份form，然後個職員將D資料入落電腦罷了﹗好簡單，一陣就走得啦~

之後六姨車我去staten island ferry個碼頭(其實應該係st george ferry pier，呀，以前係toronto番summer school時個地鐵站都叫做st george﹗)，我去到downtown會合六姨丈，佢今日會帶我去玩﹗我架船雖然慢，但去到o個邊都等o左佢差唔多半個鐘，好在今日有帶到本da vinci code去睇﹗哇，越來越精彩呀﹗好想追住o黎睇﹗

原本諗住去bronx zoo o架(bronx係new york北邊o既一個區，o個度有個都幾大型o既動物園﹗)，但又落住雨喎，天氣唔好D動物都唔走出o黎啦﹗於是六姨丈提議去睇航空母艦(好威水啊﹗)﹗ 坐subway去到42街，向西邊行，我o地中途停低食o左lunch，終於去o左subway了﹗subway係一間連鎖店，專賣submarine (長形的sandwich~)，我要o左燒牛肉，其他配料任揀o架~我要o左好多蔬菜的﹗好好味啊﹗

係香港開都有得做﹗o岩D OL做lunch﹗食飽飽之後，我o地一直向西行就見到隻艦啦﹗真係好大，隻艦由第二次世界大戰開始服役，到1974年退下火線，而家變o左museum。我o地買o左套票，包入場同兩個rides﹗

一 入到去就有個guided tour要開始啦，我o地個領隊係一個老伯﹗佢講o野好細聲呢~但留心聽o既話都可以得到好多資訊﹗佢帶我o地好brief咁行o左一轉，解釋番隻船o既 結構、改進、內部運作等等俾我o地聽，同tour仲有一個男人帶住兩個小朋友，同埋兩個女人，佢o地全部都係英文人呀，聽得明晒(我估咋…)，我又有時要 估估下，D專有名詞又唔識(例如「魚雷」o既英文…oops﹗而家又唔記得了﹗)~去到隻船o既flight deck，有好多隻戰機放係度展覽，有一隻「隱形戰機」，原來隱形o既意思係指佢飛得好高，而且機身油o左一種特別o既油，radar偵測唔到，所以就隱 形啦~(我問六姨丈點解唔所有戰機都油o個種油，哈﹗我係笨蛋﹗

因為，如果隻機飛得唔高，機身油乜都冇用啦，用眼都睇到咯﹗radar偵唔偵測到都冇關係﹗)

之後去玩o個兩個ride，一個叫4D，一個叫G-force。4Do個個就小兒科D，係一個張椅會郁o既3D電影，再加D觸感o既effect(噴水o個D~)，都幾得意o既，不過做得唔夠仔細o羅~G-force就犀利咯，我o地兩個坐係個cabin入面，要駕駛戰機，攻擊敵人，但個cabin o既郁動就跟住我o地入面o既駕駛，所以可能係三百六十度轉，或者半天吊的﹗但我o地兩個都駕駛得麻麻地啦~目標又擊唔中﹗

之後我o地睇埋一個關於隻航空母艦o既video同埋逛埋旁邊隻潛水艇(今次真係童叟無欺o既submarine﹗)就走lu~

運吉正式開始啦﹗

因為六姨丈今朝拎o左架車去整，我o 地行完個museum咪去拎番架車o羅，但間車房係brooklyn(新唐人街，都頗遠的~)，去o個邊都需要D時間﹗於是我o地行番好遠o既距離(比中 環站去香港站遠得多﹗)搭番地鐵，去到brooklyn，趕頭趕命，要係間舖六點鐘關門之前去到﹗點知，去到間車房就發覺已經關門啦，只遲o左一個字(咁 都唔等﹗)﹗去到咁遠，唔甘心﹗

所以打電話番黎問六姨有冇餸要買，買o左磅(冇錯﹗係磅，而唔係斤﹗呢度D叉燒比香港貴，但又冇咁好食…)叉燒啦~

因為冇車直接番去staten island，所以要坐番地鐵出去downtown，再坐ferry，然後17個站o既火車，番到去時已經八點幾lu~(慘﹗)雖然如此，但車費都只係US$2﹗因為地鐵US$2，ferry免費，兩個鐘之內轉車(都包括火車)又唔駛錢~咁都不幸中之大幸o既…

我都好累啦，頭先食完飯坐係張梳化度睇御用閒人，坐低o左都唔想郁﹗執行李﹗訓覺﹗