Nope, it wasn't just about Vegas itself, it was more about the fun time with good friends! :)
Winter break 2004 was when my friends and I enjoyed the sights and
2004 New Year's Eve
street party in the
Sin City with a BFF.sounds of Las Vegas. It was my first time to explore the "Sin City" in the Nevada desert. My first time to experience the incredible glitter, exciting entertainment, vibrant parties... the "sinful" excesses - almost all of what the City could offer to its fun-seeking visitors, you name it, we dipped our fingers in as many bowls as possible! ;) Uhm, ahem, except the fast-track wedding, of course. Not that I wasn't curious... it's a shame that there weren't too many football and tennis players around! Ah-haha...
While I'd say that it is truly an interesting place, I cannot say that I liked the Sin City. But, admittedly, the engineer in me was absolutely fascinated! However, with the same engineering geekiness, it was hard not to imagine how the First and the Second Laws of Thermodynamics play up in that City. And then when I started thinking about the power needed to run its tremendously mechanized fixtures, and actually dared to estimate their energy requirements... it was a horrific experience! Just to think about the source of the daily Giga-quantity of energy requirement and the needed heat sink to keep the fixtures
The Strip, what a trip!working in all the City's excessive glory - all for human pleasure and entertainment - was awesome... and aweful! The "guilt" after the fun was sickening! Ah, mother nature is, indeed, one tremendously patient mother!
After winter break 2004, I only went back once... and only to attend a summer conference and relax with friends from Grad School - just to enjoy our momentary freedom from "slavery" in the laboratory. ;) While sharing light moments with good friends over a rich variety of gourmet foods, creative cocktails and artisan confectionery products was heavenly, since it was summertime, we had a truly "scorching experience"! Ugh! For me, there was nothing about the City that was compelling enough for another Nevada desert "rendezvous". Uhm... actually, if one dangled a ticket to "The Beatles LOVE" by Cirque du Soleil in front of me, hmm... I might reconsider. ;) Actually, I will reconsider! =)
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