Nathan Ng

Day 3: The Francisco of San

August 27th, 2008.

As a visit to San Francisco, the ‘rents and I decided that some tours would be nice. Unfortunately, the traffic there made us miss out on some rather good opportunities, so instead, we hit up an advertized lunch cruise. This cruise sported a very personalized service (since there were only 6 groups of 2/3), some decent food, and a good ol’ history lesson on Alcatraz, the Golden Gate, and the islands surrounding San Fran. Afterwards, we took some advice to go travel up a “couple” blocks to visit Chinatown and some other parts of downtown San Fran. The catch was (and we found this out while we were travelling), “couple” meant a dozen, and the streets looked like THIS.

After our shoes were douzed with fire extinguishing chairs, we decided to DRIVE around. So we visited a couple other tourist attractions including Pier 39! I was told Bern was there on the same day haha. We visited the Aquarium at the Bay and shot pictures like THIS.

We also hit up a romantic restaurant overlooking the bay (it feels different when you’re with your parents) called Neptune’s Palace. I must say this: BEST CLAM CHOWDER EVER. Just be ready to play 52-pick-up with your wallet – only there’s no pick-up.

A couple souvenir shops and attractions later, we extinguished some feet fires and headed home.

Oh yeah, and a funky car and an AWESOME car

Day 1: Small-size me

August 25th, 2008.

Early in the morning before the sun was out, the parents and I began our quest for the silicon.  We weren’t sure what silicon was composed of (you’d THINK it was a pure element), but regardless, our journey started at 4 a.m.  A quick mindless trip to the airport and I prepared myself for the first challenge that Mr. Silicon gave me: Customs.  Yes, I forgot about the I-94 form and headed straight to the customs officer only to be sent back.  It was alright though – it just involved running back all the way to the airline peeps to grab the form.  I filled it out, gave a quick answer to the customs officer and off we went!

As we hit Detroit to transfer, I learned my first important lesson: medium-sized drinks are to Americans (no offense my Red and Blue friends), what the frickin’ Pacific Ocean is to Canadians.  Of course, I appended that lesson with: Order Small Drinks.

We arrived at the San Francisco Airport after a 3 hour flight, even though it seemed like 6 hours (Full Disclosure: it WAS 6 hours including the time zone change), picked up our van and headed out to San Jose.  We arrived at our crappy little inn and promptly took a nap.  We visited the apartment and we were greeted with THIS (main building, not mine lol).

And THIS (my actual place).

Yeah, I’m paying a lot to be in such a nice place.  But hey, it was tough finding a good place that was close to work.

Btw: That top picture is for you Jamie.  Haha semiconductors for teh win.