Finally, it's here! The formula 1 Grand Prix,....in Singapore!!
Many do not know that there are 2 Singaporean drivers in the Porsche Carrera cup (a supporting race to the Formula 1 race). Here one of the very few places without the fence!
Kimi Raikkonen!! Difficult conditions with high fences and poor lighting!
Jarno Trulli's Toyota racing pass the Padang straight in front of the old Supreme court.
Kangaroo TV, an amazing application which allows one to tune in to 8 channels of live video!
Nico Rosberg trying to get pass Jarno Trulli @ Turn 7. Nico managed to get past Jarno on the next lap.
A wider view of turn 7. See the crowd of people lining the fence and all the way up the slopes for the free-standing platform. People must have started camping ~3hours before the race start!!
A fantastic weekend on the whole, though disappointment with Ferrari finishing out of the points.
Singapore Fireworks Festival 2008 at the Marina Bay floating platform. Truly spectacular! Just great to be SOOO near and get blasted by the choreography of lights/sound/fireworks!
Thanks for Wifey, I went to the NDP National Education show part 2 with my parents!
Ushers and cheerleaders... 
Excited audience using caps and flags to peer on the dots in the sky as 
Dudes watching the show (what concentration!)
Majula Singapura!!! 
The finale, with the usual medley of 'We are Singapore, Count on me Singapore' meted out in perfection with the fireworks!!! Really love this part!!
Alas, already kept the tripod after the 1st series of bursts...and scrabble to get this final shot!
Streets of Strasbourg
The new, the old, and the old.
Pancake's Rose blossoming a even a few days after the birthday
The lucky gal!
One guy in a flower shirt,
The surprise package in the car, 'repeat' of Vday 2000!
Ahh, finally...Hotel 81!
Our first meal at Boston, the very best Boston Lobster + clams...ever!
How do you know you're in Boston?
One of many delightful treats found in their 'food court'. Cookies embedded with M&Ms!
The reason for the trip, studying music at Berklee college.
We went for 2 recitals by their student groups. This Japanese group was great, especially the pianist! (can't rem her name though).
Quincy Market on a winter night. Sort of their 'town hall' or 'main square'.
We went for bus tour the following afternoon and 'hopped off' at the Boston Commons (city park).
The light was simply fantastic!
Would be great to shoot weddings here!
Caught a glimpse of the 'Green monster' of Fenway park, home of the Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Managed to rush to 50th storey of Prudential tower to catch the skyline before dark. Here a very detail audio tour at every direction that we face.
Twilight in Boston. Fenway park can be clearly seen, you can almost here the fans cheering! (This is the off-season...though)
And we're off to New York City! Here Wenhui controlled a slow shutter to perfection while I was behind the wheel.
Inter-city/states drives will always bring up great sceneries. Here a beautiful cloud formation just before sunset.
Manhattan traffic was terrible on a Friday evening. After checking into Hotel 17, we went around for dinner and some sight-seeing, and where else to go at night but Time Square? My lens wasn't as wide as I'd like it to be, hence the scale of the square is not captured. Electronic billboard displays can go several storeys high! It's a must-see!
The first morning. The big breakfast looking as lovely as Wenhui. I had the heaviest breakfast ever, (can't remember the name), it was to the tune of sausages cooked in soft eggs with a delicious serving of 'rosti'.
The original Kiehl's shop since 1851!! Wenhui a fan of the products and they're great..and expensive!
A short subway right lead us to the city of skyscrapers. Tall buildings line the grid-like roads, straining one's neck as you try to grapple as much visual information as possible! Empire state building in the background! Again, no lens is wide enough...
A pilgrimage to the holiest camera shop known - BHphoto store! A 2-storey super store selling everything a photobug can ever dream off! Almost bought a new set up......and thanks to the 8% state tax, they 
New York City is also know for its art galleries, we dropped by a few. Many were too abstract to grapple..... I was hopping for more galleries on photography though.
Trump tower! Didn't see any apprentice on the inside nor the main man himself.
Again, rushed the sunset to capture the Empire State building and the New York City skyline in the best light. This was at the top fo the Rockefella building and the wind was freezing!
For this trip, we also tried to attend a few Jazz giggs as New York is famous for that! Here we attending a Sax battle at Dizzy's club, a club dedicated to the great Trombone player - Dizzy Gillespie.
Rockefella ice skating rink + the Xmas tree = The most touristy place in NYC! It'll be great to skate there if time permits! The tree is ugly though..:P
The New York Subway. A square crop with focal points on diagonal portions of the image, not sure if it'll work!?
We also went to NBC & Radio City for a tour. Here its snowing!!
Inside Radio City, a huge hall where they used to host movie premieres and now mostly award shows, plays etc. Here its the x'mas specials.
A x'mas tree made from Swarovski crystals! In the Radio City foyer.
Knowing that a few inches of snow has fallen, we headed to Central park!
Imagine there's no Heaven 
Love the angle of this, with my favourite Wenhui and Pancakes!
Ice rink in Central park! Again, we were not prepared to skate...
We spent the last hours in NYC simply walking the streets. Here the first & last look at Crysler building, we didn't manage to catch a close glimpse of it all trip! Then it was back to the hotel and airport for a late flight back to summer in Singapura...
