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* Thursday, August 23, 2007 *
23rd July 07 - San Francisco Day 4
remember how i said our hostel is one of the nicest? here are some random shots!
on our last day in SF, we took a slower-paced itinery... mainly juz walking around downtown, which is supa near our hostel!
we went to this really nice bakery (apparently it's so good it was featured in the papers) called Tartine... Chang brought us there coz he and his cousin tried it the day before and he was raving abt it so much we tot we juz have to try it for ourselves!
the photo on the right is carved on the wall juz outside the Tartine bakery... i love the words, make u feel like entering and juz sitting there looking out for The One... haha...
and the food!
they all had really sophisticated names, which is why i couldnt remember any of them... but they were all good! one of the best bakery items i've had since we entered USA...
we then went down to the downtown area to do some last minute shopping...
and here are some photos i took on our way to downtown...
downtown!
if i'm not wrong, i think there's a machine there that helps u custom made ur shoe...
oh! and to end this whole San Francisco entry...
it was supa supaaaa scary!!!
Aside from this shooting incident, San Francisco is probably the most beautiful and aesthetically pleasing city i've ever seen... it has the most cooling weather there, even in the summer...
remember how i said our hostel is one of the nicest? here are some random shots!
the lounge :: the basement with pool table, karaoke and tv!
on our last day in SF, we took a slower-paced itinery... mainly juz walking around downtown, which is supa near our hostel!
we went to this really nice bakery (apparently it's so good it was featured in the papers) called Tartine... Chang brought us there coz he and his cousin tried it the day before and he was raving abt it so much we tot we juz have to try it for ourselves!
the photo on the right is carved on the wall juz outside the Tartine bakery... i love the words, make u feel like entering and juz sitting there looking out for The One... haha...
and the food!
they all had really sophisticated names, which is why i couldnt remember any of them... but they were all good! one of the best bakery items i've had since we entered USA...
we then went down to the downtown area to do some last minute shopping...
and here are some photos i took on our way to downtown...
buildings in SF :: wall murals
downtown!
Puma (those 2 ladies there are me and ching!!! haha) :: Apple
Emporium Armani :: Levi's
as u can see, the things they sell in downtown are not in shops, but in buildings! every single brand is housed in a hugeass building with superb SUPERB architecture! everytime before me and ching enter a shop (sorry, building) we would juz stand outside for a moment, taking in how huge tat building is before we enter and shop our asses off... haha...
the guys went separate ways from us, coz we had diff agendas and diff shops to look at haha...
and they went to this shop tat has a so-called "mongolian shoe bbq"!
if i'm not wrong, i think there's a machine there that helps u custom made ur shoe...
oh! and to end this whole San Francisco entry...
me and ching were juz walking down one of the streets in downtown (downtown is as busy as orchard by the way) when juz across the streets we heard many continuous loud banging noises...
the first tot tat came to our mind was, GUNSHOTS...
so we ran into the nearest shop, which happened to be FCUK (how apt!) and we juz stood inside hiding and peering out like many other ppl who ran into the shop with us... at the same time, from the street where the noises came from, we saw huge groups of people running away from it...
and den there was silence.
and everyone started approaching the street where the noises came from, really slowly...
as scared as we were, we really wanted to find out wat happened... i rem we were both holding each other's hands really tightly...
it turned out tat there was a black car that zoomed past us, and when it reached tat street, someone from inside tat car fired many continuous shots...
we managed to get close enough to the scene to take some photos...
it was supa supaaaa scary!!!
me and ching stayed at the same spot for damn long, becoz the police are there and we're qt sure it's safe to be standing there, before we managed enough courage to continue walking along the streets...
when we first heard the gunshots... i was so so so scared for the guys... coz me and ching went separate ways from them and we're supposed to meet up again hours later for dinner.. but at tat time we have no idea where they were... luckily they were busy looking at luggages at tat time, to solve our iminent luggage prob haaz...
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Aside from this shooting incident, San Francisco is probably the most beautiful and aesthetically pleasing city i've ever seen... it has the most cooling weather there, even in the summer...
except for at nite! it's totally freezing, at least in my opinion coz i cant stand cold at all...
But u'll be surprised at how many Hong Kong ppl there are in SF... there're so many of them living there, all the billboards and shops have english words WITH chinese translation... so it wasnt tat hard to look like u fit in over in SF...
and at night, all the homeless ppl will come out, sit by the streets and ask for change... San Francs, besides Virginia, prob has the highest rate of homeless ppl we've seen so far in all the cities we visited...
but other than all that, i think SF is a really nice place to live in... =)
it has this lingering effect on u tat stays on even aft u've left the city...
Las Vegas and Grand Canyon coming up!!
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