Boring day in Seattle

Well, today was the start or shall i say hopefully only once where i would say i spend a boring day in Seattle. Erm, the day started off with me sleeping till 8.30a.m until which Justin and Alex woke me up to go for breakfast. Same old shit everyday. Cornflakes, 1 egg, 1 orange juice, 1 coffee, maybe half a waffle with honey, if good appeitite, another fruit probably banana. Thats what i have for breakfat everyday, seems quite alot when compared t what i usually have at home.

Then have lessons in Bioengineering department in Uni of Washington. Class by Prof. Song. Another words. Boring. Was fascinated though by the dl speed in school. It could reach up to a total of 800 plus kbits. Fantastic and shocking as i have never seen them before. This could only mean more downloads.

In the night, i spend the time by having discussions. Getting boring here cause i really have to start work in discussions of biz plan as well as case studies. Adri mention a interesting web today. http://www.lifehacker.com
Very interesting stuff are posted in the website almost every time i log on to see. Cool
Oh yeah, when i was making the trip back to the hotel, i was touring the neighbourhood with Alex and Yunxi, guess what. I saw Lotus Elise! I guess Alex will be saying this in his blog as well. Haa. We were taking pictures of the car above when the owner returns! But he was gracious enough to let us carry on taking pictures. He said that the engine was supplied by Toyota. 4.9sec from 0 to 60mph. Zoommm....

Downtown Seattle and Northgate Mall

We took the day off before meeting the professor tomorrow and went to downtown. Took a bus to downtown and it cost around $1.50 USD. The funny thing about the bus sytem here is that it is free in the morning and afternoon for the downtwon Seattle. Furthermore, it is based on the honours system. This is beacuse i suspected some of the passengers did not pay for their trip.
Went to the famous pike market and saw the famous throwing of fishes. Well, whenever someone will to buy some seafood (particulary fish), the people working there will start to throw the fishes around. I guess it serve as a gimmick and show to attract the tourists to come over. I will try to put up a video as well. :) Oh yeah, almost forgot, i had Starbucks coffee at the world first ever Starbucks Shop!! Man, it looked really different then. More down to earth, i guess.
After getting sick of the downtown Seattle, we went over to Northgate and made more shopping. I finally bought a pair of asics shoes to run. My beloved Asics! Really love them because they are so god damn reliable. should be able to withstain and last for anotehr 3 years. Even bought a pair of cargo bermudas. Think it will be good to wear it over here. Around 20 USD as well. To end of the day, we had dinner at the RAM (http://www.theram.com/). Very nice ribs even though i only try the chicken jack daniels.
Got to turn in. zzzzzzzzzzzz

Last day before i really go into Uni of Washington

Went to Mt. Rainier (http://www.mount.rainier.national-park.com/) which was about 2 hours ride away from Silver Inn University (Seattle). It was a long journey and we have to leave the hotel at 8 a.m. Heard from Wilson that it will be snowing and will be damn cold on the peak. Shit head. Was totally wrong. I worn a singlet, a grey T-shirt and My new abercrombie and fitch polo to the top. Farking hot up there and i did sweat abit even though it was chilly at the peak.

Well, me, Justin and Wenhui climb all the way to Panorama Point. Cant remember how high it is, think it is around 6000+ feet high. Kinda tired after some time since i last climb so high. Woke the wrong shoes as well, my adidas casual shoes were simply not meant for climbing. But i wasnt the idiot, Wenhui even wore his black coporate shoes. What a idiot! Look at his brown soiled shoes!



The view on the top was pretty standard. I been to Huangshan before in China, so i kinda expected what to ecpect. But along the way, i was greeted and was greeting almost every Ah Mohs i have seen. Kinda of surprised at people's friendliness and willing to smile here. When i am at the peak, i did saw some snow! Little did i know i was going to have some fun with the snow. For the first time, i manage to do a snow slide. It was great fun. Did a clip with me sliding down.

At the end of the day, had some Chicken Parmesan Wrap. Ended the night meeting for my U.S biz plan. Haiz, so tired. Well, kinda of interesting topic. SiRNA. Short interfering RNA. What the hell......Ended the day having a new beer. Cool and nice and zzzzzzzzzz.

GOOGLE

Finally, i get to visit Google. The google that has been associated with me almost everyday. How many of us can actually say that we actually get to visit Google. There were many takeaways from the trip to this company. Well, to put it this way, here are some points i noted.

1. There are really food no less than 10 feet away from each google employees.
   
2. The food that was seved were actually fantastic food. They had sashimi, sushi and other fantastic looking meals per day. They get drinks from http://nakedjuice.com.
3. Naked juices which are actually fruit juices that actually taste really well. I had power mango and power C. Well, i really feel very full after having one. Imagine having 9 oranges inside a O-J bottle.
   
4. The first Singaporean guy that was employed by Google gave us a talk and he was really goofy. The way he laughs is contagenious and hilarious. I guess the Googlers have their own sense of humour.
5. Google had many fun things in their company. Too bad we werent allowed to take pictures inside, otherwise i would have shown some fantastic pics. Errmm, they had massage chairs, pool table( I actually seen Goolgers playing then), arcade games and many interesting weird stuff that i will never have thought to exist in a corporate company. They even had this swimming pool built to the length of a human being and always swimming against the current, hence no matter how hard you swim, you will always be on the same spot.
6. In the lobby of Building 42, or most of the lobbies in Google, they had this projector and it shows what the people in the whole world are searching for when they type in their search in google.
   
7. Lastly, Google even gave us a goodie bag to all of us. Wonderful host and LONG LIVE Google for their wonderful work culture!
   

Standford Shooping Center

Very High end looking shopping mall. A place that Wilson ( Our Person in charge) recommends us. When i reached there, i saw several brand names that werent readily available in Spore.

1. GAP
2. Macy
3. Bloomingdale
4. Banana Republic
5. Abercrombie and Fitch (My fav. so far)

Oh yeah, a pair of levis jeans cost only $30 USD which converts to only $50 Singapore dollars. DAMN cheap. Well, i ask Joshua ( A Masters in EEE guy which i met during the networking session in Standford U), LEVIS has gone down in value even though the quality is still very good. Well, all i could say is that LEVIS is still very much my fav. and it's only the Americans who are going to lose this priviledge of such good brand!

Stanford University

This is the church located at the Stanford Univeristy and it looks really beautiful here because of a professional photographer, Bobby that is in my class. It really looks pretty run down when i saw it this morning.



Alex, Adriana and me standing outside a building in Standford Uiversity trying to look cool. But we are cool right. I not too sure what the hell the building is but i am sure it does look fasincating from afar.

Meeting with Steve Jurvetson

This the guy that i met in the morning. Gives me the first impression that he is very gentemantley and cool. After his lecture with us, i only have one opinion left for him. Super Clever and knowledgeable. He made a few comments and even share his blog with us. One interesting aspect i take away from today meeting with V.C (Venture capitalists) is that

1. Start a blog before you venture into a business. Use the blog for publicity as well. Maybe that is why after so long i finally start my own blog.