In Summary - Life in LA

a picture speaks a thousand words, so i guess i'll just add a few lines here and there to tell the story of my great american adventure. i'll start off with our LA life. enjoy.

the view of the hospital from the junction of beverly blvd and san vicente blvd. on the left are the wards ("8 southwest" or "5 northeast") and on the right is an entire block of icu wards called the sapperstein critical care tower. i was in the surgical icu on the top floor, and it's referred to as "8 icu" or "8 sapperstein" amongst the staff.

and being on the top floor, it offered a fantastic view of the surrounding area from the bridge. that is beverly center in the foreground, a rather atas shopping centre which is just next to our apartment, and beyond, it's hollywood! in fact, the famous sign is obscured by the bar on the left - that's right, we're at the doorstep of glitz and glamour. haha. no wonder so many stars come as patients.


home was a two bedroom apartment situated right across the road from the hospital. and yes that messy bedstand is my corner. as you can see, mumbler can be quite a messy person.





















"hangouts" were jan's restaurant and the grove. jan's was where we'd have an enormous breakfast on sundays which could last us till dinner time, while it was at the grove/ farmer's market that we watched 3 movies and ate several good meals, so both deserve special mention.

there was also church, but 1) i don't have a good photo of the building and 2) it's just an ordinary block shared by various religious groups from the university. what i'd have to love to put up are the photos of the laundry room, but they're with someone who's still happily touring the states right now, so that will have to wait. we spent several hours waiting for our laundry (from wash to dryer it took 2 hours) and met a very gay-looking neighbour who smelled of weed on one of our trips, who kept warning us to be careful because an old man was once shot in the garage. it didn't matter that it was a crime of passion, he spent half an hour talking to us about that in the laundry room.

well, that's it for life in LA. it was only 3 weeks so i never really got to know the area well enough. besides, LA is a place where you must drive. things in LA are very far apart from each other so it's hard to walk around, and the transport system leaves much to be desired. some buses run only once an hour and most run partial services on weekends or don't run at all. we were blessed to know someone who's been living there for 30 years, so we kinda got eased into LA. heh.

coming up next, attractions in and around LA! stay tuned.