LA was fun! Visiting it the second time around gave me another 'perspective' of the overly glamorized city in the world... let me put it this way, Hollywood is better off on screen. If possible, do not disillusion yourself by trekking the stinky alleys where the Hollywood 'Stars' can be found. Leave the 'red carpet' moments to the paparazzi and the satellite feed during the Oscar's season. You cannot imagine how filthy the Hollywood Blvd. can be! Anyway, the place enthralled me with its vibrance. It surely is a melting pot of different ethnic groups and 'hollywood hopefuls'.
It's not at all bad, like in any other place there are sites that just stand out. In my nearly two days of driving around, Burbank caught my attention. It was nice, modern, clean, elegant but not flamboyant, and relaxing. Heading to Beverly Hills I enjoyed 'The Grove' sooo much! It is a mall but feels like a theme park to me. They have a dancing fountain and a trolley within the mall! A miracle though I never bought anything except food!!! I was also hoping I could spot famous stars malling around the place, but nah! We also drove around Rodeo Drive, where the stars mostly shop, and found it well 'okay' but not really impressive. I think one will enjoy Rodeo, if one has dollars to splurge! Mostly buildings around it are colonial and well kept. And do you think I'd miss the Hollywood sign? Oh no!!! We drove all the way up, reminds of you driving up to Busay, and took pictures and that's just it... aiya! Not really that spectacular. The night before we left LA we drove to Old Town Pasadena. The town is famous for their Rosebowl Parade, I heard it is mostly 'astonishing'!!!
These are just glimpses of the famous LA, but mostly I enjoyed it because I was able to see old friends. A bit of nostalgia somehow when we had midnight dinner at this place called MP Bistro (Melting Pot with the native palayok as logo). A typical parochial bar, with karaoke and sisig! Hehehe!!! It felt good to hear a Filipino singing mushy, sweet, cute ballads... and speaking of karaoke, I had a dose of magic mic experience myself! I reminisce my karaoke escapades when I visited my friend Nannette at her house in South Ardmore Avenue.
And this is of course memorable, with Mark!
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