Day 1

Woke up at 6 am in the morning... only to find out that some storm had hit Atlanta while i was sleeping.. Tornado warning was issued that morning.. News also reported that a tornado hit Georgia that same night.. That's something to be scared about... :/ anyway .. life still goes on.. Here are some pics:

Here's hyatt regency hotel =)

Temp there is really really cold.. though it's spring.. could hardly walk sometimes and the extremely strong wind can like cause me to lose balance.. HAHA!
Here's Georgia's aquarium.. the world largest aquarium... will be going there on day 3 =)

Some random statue

~ Zhao Ye, ME, Wei Chao, David ~

At Georgia World Congress Centre (GWCC) .. doing some registration =)

Here's breakfast at CNN centre... Scramble eggs... and some other american breakfast stuff...


Haha.. here's Wendy's stall!! =))

After breakfast we went back to the hotel for more poster presentation practicing... oh well.. that's the boring part.. Then, we walked back to GWCC to set up our posters.. The exhibition hall was like super super huge.. hmm... basically everything there was huge la...

Went for some shoptalk about communication skills... and i realize how enthu the americans are... when the speaker asked for volunteers.. there'll always be an overwhelming response... wow... that's like kind of rare here in Singapore...

At night.. we had some pin-exchange activities... all of us were given 80 Singapore pins for exchange... that's where i had the opportunity to meet like thousands of pple from all over the world.. it was really exciting and pple there were really social.. David met some familiar faces from RSI (MIT attachment programme) and he was telling me how smart they are... haha!! WeiChao and Zhao Ye too met pple there whom they already know before from some other international competitions... haha... I am the only one who don't know anyone from there at all... !!! haha... my first pin-exchange experience... =)

Oh and not forgetting the food served there... it was really good though i did not eat much as the teachers brought us for dinner earlier already... sad man..

Pics during pin-exchange:

People from brasil =)

err.. i guess here are pple from like many different countries =)

Went out at night by ourselves to explore the place a bit... night life there was really cool and here's one of my favourite resturants =) HARD ROCK ... haha.. hope we get to go there to eat =)

This is my room =) ... a bit big for me huh... there were like 2 queen size beds =) ... and i stayed alone though..

Dressed in Singapore blazer... [in my hotel room] =)