Saturday, August 30, 2008

Day 3 - Stanford University

For today's programme, we will be going to a few places. First for our day, we went to my boyfriend's work office (final location after shifting twice since his 1st day there) to say "Hi" to his boss and colleagues. A group of nice people...


The guy in pink is the boss... The company is www.GetQuik .com which is doing online food ordering in US. Before this group is established, my boyfriend was the ONLY employee in the company when he went over... And now it had grown and expand!!

After that, we went to Stanford University located in Palo Alto (a city in Silicon Valley), where he went for studies during his exchange programme. These houses situated along the University Ave - an avenue just outside the University are one of those well-to-do family properties. Look at them and see if you find them nice or grand? They all look normal to me.


There's one interesting thing i found out during our drive there. Look at the FedEx logo on this van. Can you see a white arrow between the words? Look closely....


The white arrow is between "E" and "x", with the arrow horizontally pointing from left to right.


It took me quite long to notice it too. The person who designed this logo is brilliant. A simple arrow between the words which means delivery from point to point. Well, i guessed very few people know about this. In fact, it was highlighted to my boyfriend by his boss and he highlighted to me. Haa... Test it with your friends the next time you see this logo.

This is the entrance to Stanford University

Watch the video i took while we were driving into the University. Looks like some kind of entrance to a grand palace. This stretch is the Palm Drive. No wonder so many palm trees!!! Haha...


This the car which took us from California to Nevada to Arizona and back to California in 2 weeks time!!


The University is an architecturally stunning campus, with Romanesque style buildings and archways. Let's take a look at the campus and its attraction:

1) Stone River - A sculpture built by a British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy


2) Stanford Main Quad


I like the archways very much and even took a video to demostrate my extent of likeliness for it. =P

3) Stanford Memorial Court and Burghers of Calais



4) Stanford Memorial Church


Catch the video here to see what's inside Memorial Church



5) Hoover Tower


Some other photos in Stanford University



After few hours at Stanford, we left the University and had our lunch at University Ave with a stretch of shops outside the campus for students to shop and eat.

Lunch time @ Andale, a Mexican food restaurant.


With a full stomach, it's time for us to move on to our next destination - Lake Tahoe. I shall end the post here and continue with the second part of our journey. See you!!

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