columbus

Saturday, October 7, 2006

This is like, how long ago but yes I went down to Columbus, Ohio. It's supposed to be the capital of Ohio, i mean it IS the capital of Ohio but there isn't really anything fantastic/exciting there, pretty much as bad as Cleveland i suppose. Haha. But erwin, sebast n me still decided to pop by cos erwin's friend felix is staying there and he could bring us around.

started the day with a chicken teriyaki subway sandwich. I rike. Oh, notice my hair? I cut it myself!!! it is really addictive once i start cutting i can't stop.. and it isnt all that difficult.. nxt time I can cut my own fringe liao. Well I cut it myself because the hair salons here can't be trusted man. They look really orbit like those aunty kinds. And the guys' haircuts have proven that they cannot make it. Most of them came back with super short army hair.. the poor things. Not cheap summore! The hair at the back is a lot more challenging though, luckily my hair is always messy so i just contributed to the mess. But when my hair dresser sees it nxt yr she's so gonna kill me haha.

reaching columbus!

we finally reached his apartment after 2+ hours.. and upon calling him we realised we parked at the wrong side, supposed to go to the other side.

pretty nice apartment. so we met felix, and i happily passed my car keys to him so that he could bring us around.. haha. i was quite surprised to hear him speak with an american accent, but well he's been staying here for many years so it shldn't be surprising.

Ohio State University

We first went to the Ohio State University where Felix studies. Apparently it was a Saturday and there was an Ohio State football game going on so no one was on the streets. And we saw those going for the game, interesting! they were all wearing red! Can really feel the school spirit and the atmosphere was really exciting. Especially cos Ohio State usually comes up champs and all. Luckily none of us were wearing blue [michigan] cos apparently we would be beaten up.

We later also saw many parties, after they completely thrashed whoever they were playing against.. and it was so American! The typical college parties at american homes with lots of good looking americans around with their alcohol, hanging about in the porches. Hehe just like in the movies.

well, apparently some of them get so happy that they strip and jump into the lake when it is freezing cold. Wah, college life is so exciting over here. i don't mind getting to watch cute naked college football champs frolickin in the lake. *grins widely*

Short North

Short North, and my lil cherry air freshener. It's supposed to be an artsy place and all.. Read that it was a nice place to visit, kinda like SoHo of NYC but we only drove by and by the look of things it didn't look terribly exciting. Also has many pubs and gay pubs.

speaking of gay here's a happy bookshop called 'An Open Book'. i love the gay pride banner. it is soo happy. Felix says that columbus is the 2nd most gay city in US, followed by [was it san francisco?] i think. they even have a 'Gay Street'. ha.

i love slanted quirky architecture

German Village

Again, we just drove by.. The only thing I know about this place is that the roads are made of bricks. Heh heh. And they sell German sausages, fudge, pastries. Beer as well I suppose. We didn't stay to eat the sausages/cream puffs (humongous) though even though Felix was probably hungry. I don't know why we didn't. Maybe we didn't look hungry so Felix brought us away. Well each sausage was like, $4 so i guess that was a good choice.

sausage place.

felix bought us fudge covered pretzels.. quite good. jialat, now i am introduced to a new american delicacy, how.

heehee

city area

budweiser factory

Easton Town Center

We next went to Polaris Mall where we decided it was not worth spending time there, and went down to Easton Town Center, which is entirely like Legacy Village. Bigger I guess.

retro looking mcdonalds

can imagine kids going crazy in the fountain in summer

fountain again. as felix says, 'Real men wear pink' how abt that pb?

my strawberry-banana smoothie

cool car

Ruth's Chris Steak House

After a boliao walk in easton town center where I didn't buy anything except the smoothie [we're here to check out the scenery not shop right!] we went for a steak dinner..

best calamari i've ever had. the pretty yellow thing is the lemon! i didnt even know until felix started squeezing it. hurhur. so pretty hor!!!

my petite filet of medium steak [really petite leh. and no more medium rare for me after merlion incident] and the remains of an ONION RING. it is so huge that it has to be in capital letters. dunno how they grow their ONIONS one.

steak was Fantastic.

After which, we drove around a lil, down to a lake near the zoo, but too bad it was all dark and we cldn't see a thing. Haiya, shld have gone there in the afternoon instead of the shopping malls!! And felix was to catch a movie that night and he sent himself home first. Hope he wasn't late for his movie.

So that was my columbus trip. Nothing fantastically exciting like I said, but the company was great, felix was hilarious and a great host/tourguide. The highlight would be the steak [heehee] and seeing the throngs of red-clad OSU football fans congregating at the stadiums. priceless. Well, it was also great that I hardly spent any money that day.. cheapest 'holiday' ever. heeheeee... ok back to work.