My name is Thaddaeus but Jac coined the term Thadii to accommodate to my multiple personalities.
I am nice and friendly and I am currently located in GeorgiaTech.
The ingredients...btw our "digestive biscuits" are called "graham crackers" here...
The crust...painstakingly handmade...had to crush every single cracker to a crumb!
The cheese and oreo mix! An entire cup of sugar was used in the making of this cake haha...
The baked cheesecake!
I purposely overbaked it slightly for a slightly brown surface because I prefer a more solid/crisp feel to my cake.
Finally, I grated some Hershey's Extra Dark Chocolate onto the cheesecake for added flavor and decorative purposes. You can see my newbie mistake here...grated the chocolate when the cake was still warm...hence some melted.
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Walking in the streets of New Orleans reminded me a lot of walking in Melaka/Bugis Street. The residential areas had lots of quaint houses while the city district had lots of shophouses with grocery stores a lot like those "mama stores" we have in Singapore! Well, except that the stores were ran by blacks.
During the tour of the city, we learnt that New Orleans, besides having a rich French Catholic history, was also a good spot for ghost tours and voodoo tradition. Yea, New Orleans has a RICH voodoo culture due to the slave trade, and most of the voodoo practices were introduced by West African slaves and syncretized with the French Catholic traditions. It was really surrealistic to tour an American city littered with French architecture and artefacts, and peppered with Voodoo and occult practitioners and stores! It didn't even feel like America anymore.
We visited the French Quarter market, and bought some beads for Mardi Gras. During Mardi Gras, people in the float procession throw random stuff out, primarily beads. Random includes toilet paper, soft toys, toilet pumps, sweets, lingerie etc, all marked with Mardi Gras. It's up to pure luck if one lands in your hands. Also apparently, if you gave beads to a girl in Mardi Gras, she would be obliged to show her breasts to you! YEP! So Alan and I decided to invest in some beads before the parade proper hahahaha...
Sadly, we couldn't take pictures in the market as it was strictly prohibited. Besides the party-gear and cheap clothes, there were crazy voodoo stuff in there like REAL alligator heads and claws, and voodoo dolls! Freaky stuff!
Saint Joan of Arc...
After visiting the church, we had an "interesting" afternoon-snack...square French doughnuts served at a place called Cafe du Monde. It was supposedly famous and had a really insane queue. I would show you a picture of it if only our hands weren't so dirty...yea...the icing sugar on the doughnut is insane. Imagine half a bag of shaker fries...now remove the fries and put in the square doughnuts, and fill HALF of the bag up with sugar. Yes...it's that insane. Every bite we took, icing sugar flew into our face, hair, and clothes. The ENTIRE street was WHITE!
It was crazy fun jumping around and reaching out for the random stuff the floats threw. The crowd went wild snatching, and everybody would proudly deck themselves up with whatever they grabbed, much like medals. The carnival atmosphere was awesome, with everybody yelling, dancing, and screaming on the streets half-drunk or otherwise in the middle of the DAY. It was really awesome to see couples, youngsters, teens, elderly...you name it...break out into song and dance in the middle of the streets.
The party lasted way into the night, and by then my camera was out of battery. Not that it would matter either, since at that point of time the streets was filled with puke and trash, people were insanely rowdy and nobody was taking pictures. Flashing a camera out at that point in time seemed...out of place. We finally returned to our hotel at 4am.
Alan and I did end up giving most of our beads away...but whether or not we saw breasts...hehehe...that's our little secret...go give Mardi Gras a try for yourself folks!
A Valentine message...(literally..check the name on the epitaph!)
I love these emo shots...really...
Confederate War Memorial!
And the Confederate lion of Atlanta that guards the unknown Confederate war dead!
And I totally love this random photo that we posed for...really cool...
Okay, peace out!
And I kid you not...but the camels loved me a lot...they kept trying to lick me when I got close...no idea why...until the farm lady touring us asked me if I had a milkshake...which I did for lunch...camels love milkshake! The smell attracted them...Hahaha...so I went to the car and grabbed my empty cup :p Mmm...chocolate-dipped strawberry flavor!
Chicken feeding! 
And what's more pretty than a peacock?
One whose feathers are opened! Just fyi, peacocks only open their tails when intimidated or to attract peahens.
And what's coolers than a peacock with opened feathers? A white peacock! Of course...this is an albino...but it's really beautiful...never seen those before even in books!
Cute little Daschunds! I would love to own my own dog one day...
Did you know, camels go to school! No joke! According to the guide, these camels are training how to pull carts.
A ram! Damn nice horns...he looks a tad sad tho...
An emu from Australia! Did you know that an emu's egg is green in color and can make up to 6 omelettes? And he's a really rough eater...pecks your hand fiercely for the feed!
Sheep...but I think they are kinda small...so probably it's more accurate to call them lambs. Reminds me of Babe...
More Babe! This pig is called Bacon! I kid you not hahaha...the farmer sure has a weird way of naming his animals :p
Mini-horses! They looks so pretty!
Ostriches...and contrary to popular believe...they do not hide their head in the sand...according to the farmer anyway...lol...but they have a mean kick! Look at those leg muscles!
And zomg llamas!!! I love llamas! Did I tell you guys that? They look really intelligent and pretty to me. Anyway, check out this cool link that made me addicted to llamas!
And now presenting to you...ladies and gentlemen...Prison Break (Farm edition!)
Love feeding the baby goats...so freakin cute...
And meet Bucket, the friendly donkey. He's really really friendly and isn't camera shy, unlike the other big animals where you have to tempt them with feed and wait for the opportune moment to capture a good shot.
An idyllic pasture...horses and cows grazing...
The horns of Diablo!!! Nah...just of a ram that used to live here...
And this is a horny pair...a rooster and a chicken in the act of f**king hahaha...
Porcupines! They look really cute and their quills make them even more awesome! Did you know, their quills are actually made of similar material to hair? And it's strong enough to pierce through rubber boots!
Meet Snowball the cockatoo. This bugger can say "hello" really really well...and respond to the question "are you a good boy?" To which he'll nod haha...smart fellow...
And this is a dove. It's really nice to touch...soft and smooth. It's down has some sort of coating I think...it really feels like the shower foam...no joke!
And according to the guide, doves are set free during events like weddings...and these doves are actually well-trained! They WILL fly back to the farm after being let go! So farmers actually can make good money out of these doves for events haha...we witnessed this "homing intelligence" first-hand as the tour let go of the above-shown dove and it came back onto the perch after circling above the farm for about 2minutes!
And here's us dressed in ski-gear for a BBQ. The irony haha...
Okok gotta admit this picture was orchestrated...they purposely pulled the hoodies up :p
GT-GIP group who went to Cartersville =) Great mates!