| Yew Kwang Hooi |
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| New York City |
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| Manhattan, New York City - Trade and Financial Center, symbol of the wealth and glory of capitalism |
| Welcome to the United States, land of opportunities and glory... |
| Lively night lit up with neon lights from bill boards mounted on skyscrapers, as corporations compete in branding and media marketing... |
| Common scene at Broadway Street - busy street, tourists, police officers (horseback unit, patrol car unit, constable), theater goers, street performers, and petty traders ... |
| Dozens of theaters, convenience/souvenir stalls to ultra-modern business outlets - Planet Hollywood, the biggest TGI Friday's in the States, Toy's R Us, Hershey, MTV Stall, and Madame Tussaud's wax museum... |
| Thou shalt not die in vain... the boards enlist the names of fallen police officers, fire rescue workers and other volunteers in line of duty. |
| Some of the very old but standing solid skyscrapers along Wall Street. |
| Wall Street, with skyscrapers in the background and around the square I was in. Note again the Empire State Building far in the background of the photo. |
| In front of and across the road from Trump International Hotel and Tower which belongs to Donald Trump, a self-made celebrity from the reality TV show, The Apprentice. |
| Typical neighbourhood in New York City, brings back the childhood memory of "Sesame Street" children's TV series. |
| Ellis Island, the next stop of the "Statue of Liberty" trip. In picture here are my coursemate Lai Shi-Kai and I in front of the Immigration Museum. The museum was once an immigration complex. Ellis Island was the entry point to the United States by immigrants coming from mostly Europe. Some 100 million people had crossed this entry point before dispersing to the South and to the West. This 100 million people were the foreparents of the majority of the Americans today. These two immigrants were rejected because they were late by hundreds of years. |
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| The Empire State Building far in the background of the photo. |
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| Wall Street's New York Stock Exchange in the background. |
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| The cross made from 911 ruin reminds the huge loss of lives. Some 6800 lives were lost or still missing. Works are still undergoing to rebuild a new building on the spot with a commemorative museum at the basement. |
| The globe artifact which once stood proud at WTC compound was now resting at Battery Park as a monument of the 911 tragedy. |
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| At a busy street in Chinatown in a drizzly late afternoon. |
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| Some urban walls are "decorated" with graffiti done by unpaid artists. |
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| In Malaysia, trishaw is fast disappearing. At Central Park, it is a new money-generating business. |
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| Some of the exhibit items at the American Museum of Natural History. The 6-floor museum houses a large and varied collection of dinosaur and prehistoric animal skeletons; replicas of animals; and items as well as photos of human cultures from diversed geographies and timeframes. |
| Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States as a gesture of friendship at its centennial celebration of independence from the British Colony, was a brainchild of a successful French sculptor, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi. The originally bronze-colored statue eventually turned green due to the oxidation of the copper on the surface (unlike Incredible Hulk, there is no relationship between the two). The statue had taken nearly 30 years for the full color transformation. "To a sculptor form is everything and is nothing. It is nothing without the spirit, with the idea it is everything." - Victor Hugo, 1885 |
| (Above) Ahoy!... Liberty Island is straight ahead. |
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