My First Baseball Game! (16th Jun)

DC Nationals vs New York Yankees! (16th Jun)

My very first baseball game... My only knowledge of baseball all came from a Nintendo 100-in-1 game I played eons ago! Basically (thanks to my mentor, Jason!), the baseball game experience is hanging out with your mates... drinking lots of beer... eating lots of hotdogs, popcorns and pretzels... watching girls........

the game is secondary!

This was a sold-out game with the DC Nationals playing at home against the New York Yankees and we had to buy tickets from the touts! The Nationals were not doing too well this season and the Yankees is like the best team in baseball... and not surprisingly, the Yankees won... but not without a good fight from the Nationals! It was a pretty good game by baseball standards too!

Baltimore Road Trip (11th Jun)

Had my very first driving road trip to Baltimore on a lovely, peaceful Sunday (11th Jun). Baltimore is the largest city in Maryland and is about one to two hours away from Gaithersburg, where I’m at now. The drive to Baltimore was pretty straightforward, really quite enjoyable (except for a little scare when I had to make a major braking stunt on the highway!).

I went straight to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor where all the major attractions are. The Inner Harbor is quite a pretty place itself… Sunny and peaceful, you can see people with yachts boating into the harbor and just chilling in the sun there. The initial plan was to do the Maritime Museum and the National Aquarium… however, due to time constraints (a certain lazy ass woke up late), a decision was made to just do the National Aquarium.


Baltimore Inner Harbor... beautiful place!

The Baltimore Maritime Museum basically consists of several historic ships and landmarks in the Inner Harbor. So basically, a ticket will give you access into those ships. I’m actually very interested to get into USS Torsk, which is a submarine from WWII. However, I guess I’ll save the money and come back again and explore it properly next time!


USCGC Taney - Last surviving warship from Pearl Harbor


USS Torsk - submarine (as you can see!) from WWII


Hard Rock Baltimore!

Back to the Aquarium…the National Aquarium in Baltimore is the largest tourist attraction in the state of Maryland and is really the jewel of Baltimore. It has two main buildings, right by the harbor with a rooftop rainforest, a central ray pool (“Wings in the Water” exhibit), multiple-story shark tanks and a really good dolphin show.

I was really impressed with the shark tanks where you walk down a gentle decline over 4 storeys of tanks and the 4 storeys actually simulate an ocean environment with corals and smaller fishes on the upper levels to those really big sharks in the dark bottom level!


Baltimore's Jewel - Baltimore National Aquarium


Wings in the Water... beautiful! Baltimore National Aquarium

The dolphin show was also another highlight of the aquarium. The dolphins are really intelligent and well-trained! I was really impressed and actually managed to get some good clips of those dolphin stunts!

With this pretty good trip… I can probably move on to slightly further trips now! In fact, the plan is to drive up to meet two of my uni friends in New York City (4 hrs drive) and then move from there to Niagara Falls (another 4-6 hrs?). I’ll definitely be blogging about this trip soon!

HGS Company Picnic (3rd Jun)

My company had our annual picnic ona very nice warm day on the Saturday of 3rd Jun... I had a great time there... eating! Here are some of the pictures! We had hotdog stalls, one tent that serve just crabs and shrimp! ...and one shelter that serves BBQ food... it was really a treat! I only uploaded the pictures of food but we had a lot of other activities going on there like rock climbing, flying fox, volleyball, basketball, horseshoe throwing, mini-golf, dancing and some giant floats for kids! I only played volleyball the whole day though... aside from eating!


Outdoor hotdog stalls...


Grilled chicken and a cute girl! =P


Grilled corn...


Grilled... sauce?

Anchored... For Now (29th May)

I moved again recently to a bigger place. Here are some of the pictures! The whole place is the end-unit of a townhouse... and no, I'm not that rich... I'm only renting the basement of this townhouse.


I finally anchored here...

Basically, I don't use the front door of the house or the upper levels of the house (I live with a family of four), I walk down the slope, past the front door to the basement entrance in the backyard. I'm pretty much left alone in my basement, which sort of feels like living in the first floor of the three-storey house.


Down in the basement...


My private entrance from the backyard!

Almost wanted to put up the pictures inside the basement but they were take a few weeks back and the place has since been furnished and less messy.(maybe...!) I guess I'll upload more pictures whenever I get a break between world cup matches!