Circus Circus

I just went for a Cirque du Soleil show and I have to say that it was damn bloody cun. Stylo habis!

The show is called "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour". Michael wasn't there obviously, but the Cirque du Soleil crew used his music in their performances. It was held at the Pepsi Center in Denver, home of the Denver Nuggets basketball team.

Pepsi Center, Denver

Me and Raymond got the cheapest seats available (50 bucks) but we could still enjoy the show although the legroom was as if you're seating in a bus.

The view from our seats. The show was just starting

Anyway, the crew was damn professional, the dancers, the musicians, the stage people all did their job perfectly. Respect.

The highlight of the show for me were the light suits (pun intended), like the one in StepUp 3. Damn stylo. And then there's a guy who only has one leg, but he can breakdance like nobody's business. With crutches. There's also one part where they changed the entire stage into some sort of trampoline and no one knew or saw them doing it. We only realized the trampoline thingy when one of the dancers was thrown up and let to bounce of the floor on his belly. Respect the crews, like ninjas.

The light shows, the fireworks, the high flying moves kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the whole thing. And the best songs for me were smooth criminal, I want you back and bilie jean. The dances that they did during these songs were really really really good.

The end. See Michael Jackson on the curtains?

If you get the chance to watch a Cirque du Soleil show I'd highly recommend you watching it. Music, dance, acrobatics, lights, fireworks, ninja crew members. Confirm no regrets.

Listen Listen 2

Local music this time. Make sure you check it out. Its a recap of events in Malaysia in 2011. Pay attention, listen properly.

This is why I listen to rap.

GG GG

What is GG? Stands for Garden of the Gods actually. Its just that I dont know how to come up with a title for this post. haha.. Laugh lah, try naming this post and see.

Saw the lighting or not. Click for a better view.

Anyway, Garden of the Gods is located in Colorado Springs and its not a flower garden or one with fountains and ornaments. Its full of rocks. Big rocks. Big enough to go rock climbing.

See the rock climber?

These are all natural rocks located on a big piece of land owned by one man. This man decided to preserve the land and the rocks and made it a place for the public. For free. Things to there include rock climbing, hiking, jogging and of course sight seeing.So here are the sights:

Everyone going for the guided tour.

This one is called the kissing camels.

There are even white rocks.
Supposed to look like a buffalo but bad camera angle.

Garden of the Gods.

Tried to catch the sunset but the mountains are too tall.

Hike Hike 5

Flatiron 1 or 2? Boulder, CO

The flatirons in winter. (Bad picture taking skills though)

Finally I managed to reach the top of one of the flatirons. This time I did it with Chi Liang, Raymond and Suresh. In the winter time!

Pose!

Took us slightly more than 3 hours to to go the top and down again. Shouldn't be that long though, the path was filled with snow and slippery ice, that's why. But then again it just adds to the challenge and I have to say it was really really challenging.

Near the base, not so hard going up.

Going up was not so difficult. Everyone semangat kept walking and climbing. Coming down was a different story. We were slipping and falling and trying to hold on to the smallest of roots at times because we might just slip and tumble all the way down the mountain. The path is not like a road with side barriers. If you fall here, then you really fall.

See how scary going down with all that ice.

As usual, the moment we reach the top is the most satisfying moment for me at that time. Just sitting there in the outdoors, having a kit kat, with the cool breeze and the hot sun on your skin.

Aaaahhhhh.....

Looking down where we came up from

See the sun?

How would I rate it? The climb? Best so far because of the challenge . The view? Bear Peak still the best. Maybe I should go again in the summer and get a faster time.

Hike Hike 4

Bear Peak, Boulder, CO

Where we start. At the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

So far this is the longest hike I've been on. 6 hours plus total. But once you reach the top, everything is worth it. Really worth it..

Actually it shouldn't take that long to complete the hike. The thing is, we had a big group. 50 something people, very big group for a hike. So faham faham lah, macam macam orang ada.

So instead of going straight up the mountain along the steep path, we took a big, big loop around the mountain. It wasn't much of a hike, more like a walk because the incline wasn't even noticeable. Imagine the threads of a screw, lebih kurang like that lah the path. It only got steeper towards the top where we couldn't go around anymore and had to go straight up.

View from halfway.

Old men again.

We took a lot of stops in between to have some snacks and all that so that added a lot of time to the journey. But then again the view at the top memang gempak lah. Third highest peak in Boulder. 8000+ feet. Again, really worth it.. Everyone was talking on the way up, but once at the top, all quiet. So peaceful.

Finding a place to sit

CU campus is somewhere on the left.

Luas pemandangan...

On the way down it got more interesting because we took the steep path that went straight down. So there was a lot of jumping, and tree hugging so that we don't speed down. Took just 1 and a half hours. Much faster.

Good hike, but next day legs all sore. That just shows how satisfying the climb was.

Hike Hike 3

Flatiron Loop, Boulder, CO

Flatirons 1, 2 and 3 from Chautauqua Park

Google up Boulder and you most probably will come across the Flatirons. There are 5 Flatirons and it is called that because it looks like an ironing board. We took the trail from Chautauqua park and made our way towards Flatiron number 3. Chautauqua park itself was very high up that we can see the whole of Boulder before we even started hiking. Now the view along the way:

More old men?

Shade.

That's where we were heading. Flatiron #3

This one wasn't that long, almost 2 hours I think, up and down. But sad to say we didn't reach the tip of the Flatiron. Wasted. Damn. The problem was with the signboards. There's one that says " flatiron loop" and another direction says "flatiron access". How to decide? So we took the loop and ended up going downhill after a while. Sad.

The path not taken. Damn.

But the view and the surrounding was nice. Best one so far for me. Finally found a proper forest. The trees here in America are not as lebat as the ones in Malaysia. Climate kot. So, susah wanna find trees with a lot of leaves. Nice trees and challenging trail.

Trees! With enough leaves!

Above the trees.

The trail.

Walking on rubble.

Too bad. Definitely need to come back here another time. Maybe climb all 5 Flatirons someday.

Flatirons #3 on the left. Next time, on the edge at the top.

Denver Denver

Labor day weekend what to do? We went to Denver.


The city life is a lot different from Boulder, finally saw some big buildings after 3 weeks. Did you know Denver is called the mile high city? Actually its because there is this one step in one of the buildings that is exactly 1 mile above sea level. And the tall buildings creates like a tunnel for wind to blow through, so we were slightly shivering the whole time.


Anyway what did we do? First thing we did was have a French breakfast which cost 10 bucks. Why? Because it was cold outside and we were there too early so the other shops not opened yet.

We walked along the 16th street mall (and coincidentally its a 1 mile stretch in the mile high city) and go window shopping and people watching. People say that Boulder is one of the skinniest city in America, and after being to Denver I understand why they say that.

Next we went to the Colorado foodfest at the civic center park. You know what we saw? Gula Melaka dessert. Raymond and Suresh bangga already. But apparently on the banner, gula melaka came from Indonesia. ?????

Lego Lion at the foodfest

Then is the Denver Art museum. Damn huge. 2 buildings, 1 building 7 floors. We only managed to cover 1 building. The lady at the tourist information center in town said that it was "phenomenal". And to me it was. Really enjoyed it. The stuff there was art from each continent from different eras. And of course stuff from the wild west.

From the "Dirty Pictures" section. Big footprints on a sandy mountain. Aerial view.

Deep. Meaningful. Sad.

Tribal art.

Our last stop was the Denver Downtown Aquarium. KLCC Aquaria feels more grand to me but still this one was fun. We got to touch stingrays!

Cleaning the tank.

Jellyfish 1

Jellyfish 2

Jellyfish 3. Looked at it for quite some time. Hypnotizing.

Still got more things to do in Denver. Maybe next time. Anyway more pictures soon on facebook I think.