It's my san francisco weekend again!!! Spent like 2 days
in the city and it was really fun and memorable...:) Was
pretty alone most of the time (had a friend drove me up
to the city and back) and I reallly enjoyed wandering around
myself, seeing stuff, meeting people, forming memories.
Went to Golden Gate Park, Union Square and Oktober fest
on Sat and Castro Street fair and the Exploratorium at the
palace of fine arts.
Golden Gate Park is one of the largest parks in the country
and you can see lotsa pple there just hanging around, taking
naps on the grass (which someone is nicer than singapore's
grass), playing ball games, painting, dancing......
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Had lunch at Porky's cafe (or something like that)
at Haight Street. It's near the golden gate park and
it's the old hippy's street |
Photo of Golden Gate Park. Kids in soccer jerseys
were playing against one another, really cute.
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Another photo of golden gate park. you can see a
girl in bikini just lazing around in the foreground. |
There're a couple of museums in the park. This is
one of them. |
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The tea garden in the park. did not go in though
as i need to pay for entrance..so decided not to. |
This is their botanical gardens where people really
enjoy lying on the grass. |
After Golden Gate Park, I went to Union Square..the main
shopping area.
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This is a random shot on the way to Union Square. |
A new building near Union Square. Lotsa sony stuff. |
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The shopping district. ( I went into Macy's, tiffany
and co, victoria secrets flagstore..and in the end
only bought Godiva chocolates) |
This is Union Square. They were having some art exhibition
that day. |
Oktober fest is an annual German festival. According to
my friend Aaron who's studying in Germany, people really
get crazy there. Well it's pretty happening in San Francisco
too. Lotsa pple, lotsa food, lotsa BEER!! (People go around
with 1 litre mugs! Imagine that!), lotsa dance.....I had
this german dish called Ham Shank...pretty sour though.
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The outside of the festival pavilion where they had
Oktober Fest. |
The inside of the pavilion. Too bad I forgot to take
pix of the german people in traditional costumes.
There were people going around with 'barrel hats'
though. |
The next day.....CASTRO STREET FAIR!! it's the annual castro
street fair again...to celebrate what they called GAY PRIDE!!
if you think Kumar's cool..check this out! There're pple
walking around with costumes..from drama queens to just
a plain g-string...oh yar and they're all gays. There's
young gays, old gays, muscular gays, skinny gays, asian
gays, white gays, black gays..anyway you get the idea.
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They call themselves the san francisco cheerleaders
who cheer for life (actually it's for aids patients)
the guys look gayish but they were good though |
Lotsa food! |
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Lotsa shops too...selling stuff that range from innocent
tinklets to 'Support san francisco women motocyclists'
(that look very lesbian-ish) and 'gays are cool' booths |
One of the shops...I like the funny animal pix. |
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See the rainbow colored flags and tees? That's called
'Gay Pride' and it's a symbol of the gay community |
See the number of people there! |
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I'm trying to take a picture of the guy/girl? standing
in the middle. He/She's actually quite normal dressed
already, saw worse. |
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Finallly, the exploratorium at the palace of fine arts
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The inside of the exploratorium. It's a bit like
science center |
My main purpose of coming to the exploratorium, the
tactile dome built in 1972. It's totally dark inside
and u gotta feel your way out, quite cool...but there's
a bunch of 12 year old girls who keep screaming.... |
That's all, it's a fun weekend!!! My roomies went Yosemite
though....can check it out at www.calenz.com/SV
and www.d4x.net/sv
