Probably the last post

Came back from Yellowstone yesterday. Yellowstone was great! There's just so many things to see there. 2 days was just not enough. I would say you need maybe at least 4 days to see best of Yellowstone and if you're the hiking type perhaps 1 and half weeks. Yellowstone is probably the best trip i had in the states so far. But I'm not uploading any photos here as connection is just too slow. I uploaded them to facebook instead. You guys can see them if you're interested when i get back. Anyway I'll be hanging around Davis for a week before heading down to San Francisco for 3 days and then it's home sweet home! I guess I'll be catching fantastic 4 and ocean 13 here and figure out how to pack my luggage. And yes this is probably my last post since i wouldn't be blogging after i go back. Good bye to all those who actually bothered to read this crappy blog of mine!

Exams

You either loathe them or you hate them.

Packing

With less than a month to my flight back, i decided to do some packing today to gauge how much luggage space i have left. Remember when i said i have tons of luggage space to buy stuff? I take back my words. haha

Happy Birthday Chen Qingyi!

Remember to book the Bangkok hotels! haha

Big Sur

On the 25th of May 2007, I went on my first ever backpacking trip to the mountains! I signed up for the trip with Yoora and Youngju and later they asked two of their friends to go as well. So i ended up with 4 korean gals. Managed to pick up some korean from the trip as well. haha. The hike up was tough, especially with the heavy backpack weighing us down. But the view was worth it! The feeling of standing top of the mountains looking down at the clouds was just awesome! haha. The three days was tiring though. And there's no toilets or showers. So we went 3 days without bathing and i guess no one had to dig a hole. First thing everyone did at the end of the 3 days when we hiked back down to the carpark was to go to the toilet. haha

At the carpark before we hiked up. From left to right: Conrad(our guide), Hae Yoon, Grace, Yoora, Young Ju and me.

After about 4-5 hrs of climbing, we finally reached the camp site. Everyone's tired.


Me blowing my inflattable mattress. Tough work. Took me more than 10 mins.


Hae Yoon taking a nap.

Camping beside the river! How nice! At night you could really hear the sound of water flowing down the river.

Us resting at the tent.


Mike filtering the river water. Yup, we had to drink river water.


Preparation for dinner

Waiting for food. hungry.......

See the red piece of cloth? That was my sleeping bag. Nearly froze to death at nite. haha

Hae Yoong and Young Ju doing yoga in the morning.

And so we continued our hike up the mountain but without our backpacks, it was much easier.

Everyone enjoying the view

Standing above the clouds. woohoo!

Lake Berryassa

Nothing much to say, just nice scenery. Too bad we were in a rush to see grace and floris's dance competition. If not I could have stayed there all day. A great place to picnic. And somehow i think i really suck at taking photos. The place looks so much better in person. Or maybe it's just hard to capture beauty on camera. Ok but i still suck at taking pictures. haha

Berkeley + Stanford

Berkeley

This guy's asking Bush and Blair to commit suicide for the "war crimes" they have committed.


Stanford

Really nice campus. makes you wonder how much they spent on it.