Post graduation (Cars)

After sending my parents off, I stayed in LA for another night before flying back to AA. For the month following that, I would call 536 South Forest Ave, Apt 1603 my new home. Staying in U-Towers was fun; its location was perfect, there was free air-con (included in rent), I had another 2 "pig friend dog buddy" as my roommates, and most importantly Pei Ying and I were just 2 floors apart. 

Life was easy, but deep inside me there was this uneasiness due to the fact that I was about to start working soon, very soon. So there were quite a few things that I needed to settle first before I could actually slack, for example arranging for a place to stay when I work and getting a car.

My car search actually started since before graduation, but did not bear any fruits. That was probably because I had plenty of time. It was amazing how pressure worked wonders (or I should say how money bought "wonders"). Once I felt the heat, I got a car and decided where to live all in just one weekend.

So my new baby is a 2000 Toyota Corolla. It is rather ironic because my first car (a 2001 Mitsubishi Mirage) was newer than my 2nd car. I did not like the Toyota very much initially, because it was manual, and it did not look cool. I had to convince myself to buy it (ask Wei Chieh about that). But I have grown to like it the more I drive it. It is spacious (had enough room for a computer desk, a set of dining table complete with 4 chairs, kitchen set, plates set, and bags of groceries - the guys who helped us loading the stuff had a look of utter disbelief) yet petite in size. Most importantly, it has good gas mileage.

Look at these pictures:

My first car (gosh, look at me!! ......)    -Summer 2005

                                  

                                   Wasn't it nice and new?

 

I was bored and wuliao enough to take a picture of mileage reaching 88888. (Remind me to do so for my current car...it's now at 82k + :P)

VS my current car:

Toyota Corolla 2000 (I don't like the GANLEY thing, but lazy to take it down)

Parked across the road from my apartment

Yup so that's the very short story about my car. Will blog more on post-grad activities....