Santa Cruz | Big Sur | Road Trip!!!

alrightly!!! finally i finish uploading all these pictures. bleh. takes longer than you think =P

anyhow. last friday 15th was the first time believe it or not, of me venturing into the north side of campus. dang campus is much bigger than i expected. I still need to explore more. too many buildings!

Highlights of the trip_

.got picked up by the car rental company to drives us down. hmm there is five of us international kids and one car rental driver that came to pick us up. hmmm 6 people, for 5 seats. LOL, squash.

. seeing waves crash down on anders

. beach! when it was sunny and warm (only on the last day)

. poking fun at the spanish accent on words, watching susie squeal when tomas pronounced "biscuit"

.the marriage like fights between anders and mayura

. finding an anders-look-a-like in wanted image of a magazine at Safeway

.taking a detour and getting very very lost

.driving down the coastline, via Highway 1

.indian food on Sunday and hilarious quotes from Anders that gave mayura/I a real big ab work out. Anders POST THAT VIDEO!!!

wheee PHOTOS! _

the north gate, looks so different from the south one i'm used to

had awesome french lunch, best smoked salmon/fish ive had at berkeley so far,
probably because i don't eat out much

anders took to the wheel to drive us down to Santa Cruz

wheee baybridge

stopped off at a beach, where some people got rather wet =P

day two = tomas driving
and mayura the navigator

hmm.. we ended up off track and taking a random detour through military grounds,
saw many tanks and army trucks and a stack load of American flags.
then we had to drive past a river 0_0 to get back on track.
woot!
fun times.

the local people were really nice. thankfully we past by a german who was also headed in the same direction Big Sur and he had a working GPS. lol having no signal kinda sucks when you are lost. Also a cyclist was very very helpful. All too much to be just coincidences. Thank God eh?
lol for about an hour we were tuned into a Christian radio channel and I rather enjoyed it.
For some reason no one seemed to notice

road blocks/service due to landslide clean ups

if you look close enough - a waterfall!!

this was rather impressive, it reads "will you marry me?"
anders: " i hope the girl said yes"

hi mum, im alive and i put on sunscreen and sunglasses and a cap =P

ahh it was too pretty!!!

we did end up swimming at one beach. despite all the death warning signs. ZOMG there was a SANDSTORM! how horrible and painful. ugh. and the water was ICE frozen XDthe car was clean >.>

horrid shot of calamari but it tasted v. nice
@ Monterey, CA

pebble beach @ Carmel, CA

entering into the 17-mile drive

Bird Rock

UC Santa Cruz. dang the university did not look like a university,
but rather a high school in the middle of the country.

they also had a forrest running through the campus 0_0
i would be soo lost getting to class

yay group shots

anders, mayura, tomas, susie, thanks for the memories!

photos from the past week!

okay so this one isn't from the past week.
but ZARG! if you look closely some lucky ass people get a balcony with
their room!!! I noticed this when I walked past one of their rooms,
when their door was open and it seemed like someone was levitating outside=P

cultural week and Egyptian dancing.
err..my camera is seriously affected after being
dropped too many times XD

ohla! diary which i dunno how long i will keep up =P

moi desk, of which nothing besides that organey/
red book on the bottom left hand corner is actually study

some guys snapped this whilst we were at dinner

me in a suit =P someone said the guy on the right looked
like my sibling.. grrr =P

helping a friend make some party snacks
here is a picture of me, there mum/victor happy now=pthe room i stayed in when visiting Sacramento!

can you spot me in the governer's office?

view from inside looking out of the capitol building
Capitol building where important people have meetings
old school town !

candy sold by the BUCKET LOAD

more candies!

sunset from fourth floor =]

PHOTOS FROM A FAR! (finally)

*thanks to justin for letting me borrow ya laptop to upload all these pics XD

BERKELEY COLLEGE TOWN


i don't really understand what it means to be a "college town" but from what i gather, the places is populated by students (35,000) and all the stores are mainly targeting students.
We buy our readers OFF CAMPUS! how odd, and there are many copy stores in the area which could take 10mins a walk to buy a reader for one subject. annoying.

the above picture is not of a university store, but rather a clothing store down the road opposite campus. THERE IS SOO MUCH MERCHANDISE!!! its not funny. EVERYONE SELLS CAL GEAR. even the local pharmacy sells berkeley clothes. weird!

hoodie designs = 20!!!
tshirts
cal stickers/labels of anything you can imagine, pens, pompoms, banners, cups, mugs, socks, cutlery, slippers, keyrings, drink bottles, they have a DRINK BRAND called Cal Muscle and its like choc milk.


SAN FRANCISCO TRIP! (as cal student you get free bus travel!! awesome)

corner of the roads have very interesting buildings.

i didnt end up trying one, they say NY is the place for them
the pier. ...cooolllld

city centre. looks so fake eh?!?!
but yer..everything is extremely elegantly grand.. so many pillars 0_0
local street views

cable cars =]

UN Building . ps. that's not me, someone had to walk into the picture Y_Y



CAMPUS SHOTS!

oldest building on campus maybe

famous bell tower, 64 bells up there and someone actually sits there
and plays music for everyone to hear at certain times of the day!
there was a class where you can learn how to play.
but after a visit up there.. no thanks. looks so complex!
library reading rooms 0_0

a lot of the buildings look like this. this one is of the library


the business school tutorial rooms
SERIOUSLY! looks like a court room jury area theme

the berkeley art museum down the road
(this pics off google =P)

*visit here for neat pics!! http://www.berkeley.edu/photos/buildings/

IHOUSE

where im staying

its a maze inside

my half of the room.
i dont intend of sticking stuff over the walls. keeping it bauhaus style
(Bauhasu was an art movement in Germany from 1919-1933ish that
lived for practicality and function. ie. don't design a shirt with collars
and buttons if there is no need for them)

eheh thanks frank for the present!! ya can see it in the room!
comes in extremely handy!!

on the side_

the campus is huge
this yellow thing is just the scientific laboratories

and here is the stuff below it..

the enormity of campus 0_0
and i dont think that captures the whole lot
it is missing the gym and football stadium i think