slow night, so long

Monterey County; on the way to Pebble Beach links and the second time i laid eyes on the Pacific Ocean (after waikiki).

i have this inexplicable urge to go to Washington and to new yawk, new yawk. i don't quite care for covering the central states, but the southern states, especially texas (where everything is bigger ;) )are a draw. ok back to washington. maybe its cos yesterday was Memorial Day and that fact was constantly drilled into my head by CNN and E Entertainment, but i really wanna go the Smithsonian, the library of congress, U.S Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, the washington monument and its reflecting pool (woodstockkk!), the IMF HQ (lolwtf anjax) and of course, the white haussss.

don't get me STARTED on new york. i think ny is too cool for me. just like i thought LA was gonna be too cool for me..but we didn't end up on Rodeo Drive/ hollywood blvd (which is why you should NEVER EVER go on fkin tour packages) so i couldn't really test that out? LA was too kitsch to be cool, but it was still intimidating. It had a very dark undertone..and its plasticity and fakeness struck me immediately. But i wanted to give LA a chance, cos Mann's Chinese Theatre and the hollywood walk of fame was magical..disney kinda magical, and reduced me to fangirl state IMMEDIATELY *fails*. and cos i got to hear Ryan Seacrest on the radio, with my handy dandy neeon, which was too cool. i'm not ryan fangirl or anything, but he is encapsulates the LA entertainment industry- radio host, tv host, producer- it makes you wonder how he handles it logistically. and that's the closest i got to celebrity. i think (?)

aiya i just need a resolution. and a break from the mundanity. and a new bloody camera..a damn pro nikon slr for starters- unlike my mum's dodgy camera which occassionally takes shots with the almost perfect composition of visual cropping, balance and lighting. the lighting- i have no idea how the dodgy camera did that in the pic above. (vennie, that's the trusty Oxford hoodie btw). and a new pair of slippers. my current pair have been with me since i bought them in germany in 2004 for 2 euros -__-. and i want to be able to sleep early instead of giving the sorry excuse that i'm training for Euro match-watching.