Saturday, November 24, 2007
Thanks-For-Giving
It was a short week. Yeah~! Thanks to →
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday to give thanks for the things that one has at the conclusion of the harvest season. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Only 3 days of work and I am off to
Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Jeffrey, KKK, TCH, Fabian, Lili, Jena & me set off on early Thursday morning. It's about 290 miles of driving from our place. "Short drive" for me actually, but the duration of the journey will be dependent on who is the driver... I wasn't driving, I was only giving directions and sleeping throughout. I forgotten how many times I had been up to Las Vegas. Whenever there is a long weekend, some of us singles will drive up there to dine & party. "Short drive" anyway. We stopped over at
International House Of Pancakes [
IHOP] for breakfast. Most of us were cold & hungry... Moved on from there to reach
Hoover Dam for some photo shots. (To those that had watched Transformers the movie, this is where Megatron was kept frozen.) Moved off from there to Las Vegas for lunch. From there after, its time to hit The Strip! (Don't get the idea of taking off clothes or something like that. The Strip is a street, where many of the largest hotel, casino and resort properties in the world are located on.)
It's Jena's 21st Birthday~! Happy Birthday! You are an adult now. Live free, play hard. Surprisingly no celebrations went on. No parties, no nothing... I bought her a little present from COACH. Hope she likes it...
We covered ½ of The Strip on the first day. Totally burnt out after much walking and showing all the guys around places of interests... It's Black Friday. Can't sleep. Shopping outlets open at midnight. Great sales are all over. This is the only time of the year where you can see how 'kiasu' Americans are. There were queues everywhere waiting for the stores to open in the freezing winter night... I went to the COACH outlet, surprisingly I managed to get in as the first few of the queue. Got myself and friends who passed me their shopping list quite alot of good deals. Swiped USD$1000+ from my card in COACH. Went through Polo Ralph Lauren, Kenneth Cole, Oakley, Calvin Klein, GUESS and etc. Nothing much from them anyway... It was 5am when we decided to head back for rest...
We are at the Top Of The World [Stratosphere]
Planned to get up to the
Stratosphere for some rides and sight-seeing on the second day. Totally disastrous. Ended up on the tables at the casino. I was only using a hundred bucks to kill time while waiting for the rest of the guys to come meet up with me. Yes, they came but they ended up on the tables themselves. So somehow everybody was waiting for each other to get up and away from the tables. Wait... Wait... Wait... Until Lili & Jena had enough and decided to go back first. Till then I was winning like USD$6000 from Blackjack. I took more than half of the dealer's chip from the table. It was abit crazy. First time ever, I win so much. The floor managers were all coming to me for services... Wait... Wait... Wait... Till I lost everything and on top of that another USD$1600... Duhz. Finally after I lost that amount then they decided to leave. Damned. Why can't they leave earlier?
Day 3. We went to
Fry's Electronics for some shopping. Much sales were still going on, Jena bought her laptop. Hit back to Stratosphere. A few of us went up to the top of the tower, 109 storeys high. I took all of the rides up there together with Jena and TCH. It was fun but not enough to thrill me. After we came down, I showed Jena, TCH & Jeffrey around some other casinos & hotels while the rest of them stayed to have their 'revenge' on the casino. After I got back from the other ½ of The Strip for sight-seeing, its my turn for 'revenge'. Need to get back my losses the previous day. After much considerations of what table to play, Jena told me to try out the 3rd table on my right. I went ahead with it. Used USD$200. 4 hands. Got everything back. 200... 400... 800... 1600... Bingo! Played slow after that, just 15 minutes, I am having USD$2250 of chips in front of me. Tipped the dealer and we went off... Revenge is sweet...
Day 4. Checked out in the morning. Went for dim-sum in Chinatown then to
Luxor for more photo sessions. Back to
Phoenix,
Arizona. On the way, I fell asleep, Jeffrey made a wrong turn, we almost went up to the Grand Canyons. I was alarmed when I opened my eyes. Quickly changed driver and I stepped 110 mph back home...
all gone, just like that... 5:08 PM
ABOUT ME
Kent ZZ
25th June 1982
Woodlands, Singapore
Cancer
Tranquility
Optimistic
Perfectionist
No Music. . .
No Life. . . . .
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♥♥ My Little Vampire ♥♥
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Mahjong
Night Breeze
Clubs & Dance
Designs & Styles
Moonlight & Stars
Black / White / Grey / Blue
DETESTS
Morons
Sarcasm
Hypocrites
Backstabbers
Bad Hair Days
Unappreciations
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Financial Freedom
Get my back center piece from Kat Von D
Complete my art A.S.A.P.
Find my perfect partner
All things to go well & stay happily together
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World tour [Foot Stepped] :
[√] Australia ↓
. Rockhampton, Queensland
[√] Canada ↓
. Edmonton, Alberta
[√] Hong Kong ↓
. Chek Lap Kok Airport [Int]
[√] India ↓
. Kalaikunda Air Force Station, West Bengal, Kolkata
[√] Japan ↓
. Hakone
. Tokyo
[√] Malaysia ↓
. Johor Bahru
. Kuala Lumpur
. Melaka
. Yong Peng
[√] South Korea ↓
. Incheon International Airport [Int]
[√] Taiwan ↓
. Taipei
[√] Thailand ↓
. Bangkok
. Nakonratchasima
[√] United States of America ↓
. Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
. Flagstaff, Arizona
. Grand Canyon, Arizona
. Phoenix, Arizona
. Los Angeles, California
. San Diego, California
. San Francisco, California
. Panama City, Florida
. Destin, Florida
. Boise, Idaho
. Mountain Home, Idaho
. Twin Falls, Idaho
. Bossier City, Louisiana
. Saint Louis, Missouri
. Jackpot, Nevada
. Las Vegas, Nevada
. Rachel, Nevada
. Wendover, Nevada
. Salt Lake City, Utah
. 4 Corners - Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona & Utah
Next Stop :
[x] Antartica
[x] China
[x] Europe
[x] Middle East
[x] Russia
[x] South America
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