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The How Berkeley Can You Be? Parade and Festival is an annual event held in downtown Berkeley. There's a parade of decorated cars in any fancy design you can imagine. You can probably think of the parade to be similar to the floats on NUS Rag Day. There's a festival held in Civic Center Park where there's performances, food and drink booths. But we arrived there in the late morning and missed much of the parade. But the festival was ongoing for the whole day but there wasn't much to watch... We went in 3 cars and it's a long drive to Berkeley (see map). We met at Buildfolio around Palo Alto and drove to Fermont to pick up 2 other guys before moving on to Berkeley. It was my first drive to a place so far away, but had my seniors to guide us along the way.

The parade of cars!

Eu Jin and me
The car has tons of old cameras stuck onto it	The park where the festival was held
Food, drinks and item booths	Sherine, Eu Jin and me
The rest of the NCSV people on the left	A performance
Heng Wai posing with a banana vehicle. =P

After lunch at 2pm, we decided to check out the University of California, Berkeley or called Cal for short. We walked and explored the beautiful campus. And we visited Telegraph Ave where there's a bunch of street vendors and selling handmade crafts... Then, we went back home on another long drive and it was a tiring day for us. =P

A squirrel in the campus =P	Along the Telegraph Ave
Street vendors by the roadside