I *heart* SF
The ones where you have corny declarations like I (insert heart logo)(insert city name)or I was in(insert city name)... I was so enamoured with SF that I almost (not quite, but almost) bought one. *shivers - wotta geek*
Was in SF for an assignment last week. Arrived Sunday night and flew back Thurs night to Rochy. It was a blast. The city's real pretty, the food's great, there are tourists galore so I didn't feel like a square peg in a round hole and I was put up in a real swanky hotel: what's not to like? Right?
Heh, except I spent tons on my time in hotel room trying to write stories. Sooo rusty that I had to basically sit and force it all out and it took ages!!!!! Pathetic huh?
I DID go out though. Swanky hotel that I was in (St Regis) has a sister hotel round the corner (the W) and the lounge was playing Buddha Bar type stuff - very trippy. HAD to have a drink... or three.
The other journos were a lot of fun too: Aussies and NZlanders, Amit from the Business Times back home and this chap from The Star (that's the group we were put in) there were a heckuva lot of Chinese and Indian press there too and some incredible number from Europe. Since I've been on lots of assignments with amit before, it was very fun as we exchanged goss on the company and stuff. I convinced the journos in my group to go eat Chinese food - hahahhahah.
...That would be the entry on Grant into Chinatown proper...
They had to eat stuff like jellyfish (think they didn't know what it was) with the cold dish....and I ate sooo much, i def. piled on the the pounds during the trip. Actually ate all three meals during the whole duration, and in quite substantial volumes too... even my pants feel tighter right now.
Super regret; so I reckon my diet starts today! Even though we're heading off to this town two hours away called New Ulm.
Apparently very germanic heritage and they are hosting a huggge Octoberfest thing with plenty of beer and saukerkraut and weiners. Hummm... okay, maybe my diet starts tomorrow instead.
Anyhoos: some photos that might/might not interest ya. :) Putting them up anyway! (These are from my trusty Sony Ericsson mobile, so don't expect them to be brilliant ya?)
The view from my swanky if messy hotel room (did you really expect me to be Ms Neat?)
Clockwise from top: Pretty architecture along Market Street, lotsa homeless people on the street and they hold up placards and each has his or her own marketing spiel... - like one held up a sign that said: Need girlfriend. Another was playing an Er-hu... yes... an Er-hu. And yet another had a bigggg shaggy cute dog.
Very swanky shops like Emporio Armani litter the streets - and that particular one looked like something straight out of Rome or something.
Union Square - all the shops around this little plaza... you name it lah, Macy's etc etc... all around there.
And the stupid Q for the cable car - look carefully at the pic, people lined up on both sides...
Ah well. I had fun. Almost worth the six hour ride via Northwest Airlines (YUK) But now am currently nursing bad sore throat....darn it.
