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First week living in West Coast

A view of Hollywood Hills from our Office

This week has been quite a week and glad that finally I can put down my first message since I came to Los Angeles. Between settling in the new apartment and office in Hollywood, and going sightseeing and bar hopping with our cor-worker from New York City, not to mention tasting different ethnic food. I think I have very good first impression to Los Angeles and California, even though New York is still my choice for the final job location. Some of the good things I and my roommates found out about our new life here include:

1) Our townhouse apartment is smaller but it is nicely furnished and we even have a backyard that we can do grilling and exercises, etc.

2) There are plenty of restaurants around and we can pick from different cuisines, especially we have so many Japanese sushi and restaurants around our home, in which I am very delighted!

3) The office location is right in Hollywood and the business is so interesting! We even share a great office building with the Corporate office of House of Blues, and there are a lot of studios and media companies around.

4) A great disscovery - The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, a great chain and we also have one down on first floor at our office building on Sunset Boulevard.

5) I love the lanscape here - mountains, water and gorgeous looking houses, etc. The driving experience is so different (though the traffic congestion could be a headache sometimes).

6) Weather here is great now - around 15-22 degree mostly now, which is really really comfortable; plus, the humidity is pretty low in my opinion.

7) The Santa Monica area is awesome; we went to the 3rd Street Promenade tonight and it was a great spot to hang out. One thing happened which was really interesting I saw: there was a guy who claimed he would give out US$250,000 for someone who can give empirical evidence to prove evolution (he believes in God who creates the world and us, of course) - so literally, he was debating with multiple people on the street. That was quite an experience.

8) There are so many celebrity kind of people. One night we went down to a bar at our office, it turned out our bartender actually filmed in various commercials. Maybe there are a lot of people come over to Hollywood and just looking for their acting career!

posted by CalvinCK @ 3:21 AM