NYC
In another two hours, it would be exactly one week since I landed in NYC. It's only been a week?! What the heck. It feels a lot longer than a week at this point. Yet I have been "doing" things here and there for this whole week. Ate good at times, and other times, i just skip meals. In my friend's words, I don't wake up early enough for meals. Which is not entirely true, since i refused to eat anything at my aunt's house. I'll spare you the details.
I had NY pizza twice for lunch already, it's the best deal really. $2 for a slice of NY pizza and a drink. Can't beat NY pizza. Two Italian meals, one at Carmine, huge portion, and the other one at my favorite Italian place in the village. Carmine was good, but really expensive this time. My friend wanted the special, which is this huge prime steak, a pasta dish, and a fish dish. Three dishes were enough to feed 7 of us. But the prime steak didn't come with a cheap price tag, $70 for the dish. It was good though. My favorite place in the village is still better, seafood dish, with mussels, clams, lobster tails, and a shrimp pasta dish with mushroom an cream sauce. Total comes to under $40, which is much better deal than Carmine. Oh, and i had my Eileen's cheesecake two nights in a row. Not too bad...
Enough about food. NY is an interesting place, you can love it or hate it. Either way, you feel something towards it. On any given day, you can hear more than 5 different languages just standing at the train station. Then of course, you get the crazy NYer, like today, who started singing in the middle of the train. No one bothers to tell him to stop, h was singing pretty good, but still. Keep it to yourself man. I realized i get so irriated here because you see some many people every second and there is no such thing as personal space. Seriously, some people need to wear more deodorant or just don't lift up your arms!!! Especially in a hot summer, humid day in NY.
Yet i discovered a gem in the city the other day. Googled Borders in the city, there is one on 57th and Park. I went there to pick up a traveling journal for my roadtrip (at this point, i wish i am leaving tomorrow), and not expecting to find a whole lot at the store. But this borders turns out to be huge! It is three stories, with plenty of seatings, i was there for close to two hours, and i didn't want to leave. I found what i was looking for, and i end up reading a great book which Sandee showed me the other day. It was a great story, but i can't remember the name of the book. Seriously, why can't i remember these things.
Believe it or not, i still manage to watch K-drama in NY. My mom took me to the video store to see what we can watch. I have been telling her about k-drama for years, but for some reasons, she is really biased toward k-drama. She thinks they are all sad and overly dramatic, and depressing. But i assured her that this one was really good and funny. So we end up renting "My name is Kim Sam Soon", even though I have seen it before, i didn't mind watching it again. It didn't take long before my mom realized why I liked it so much. She thinks the main character acts just like me, crazy and wrack. At least she is true to herself and honest.
Obviously i am really bored to be blogging. It is really sad that i don't feel like there is a place for me to stay when i come "home". I am staying over at a friend's house for the next couple of nights. She is really busy with summer school tho, so i have to stay out of her way. I am thinking next time I come home, i should just find a short term place to lease for a couple of weeks, and that will be better. A place in the city or something.
I told myself that this time i will go to the museums and see a broadway shows, but at this point, i don't see myself doing any of those things. I still have 1.5 weeks, and will spend the rest of this week up in Albany with my cousin.
I am ready to come back to LA though. I missed my apt. I think my bensai will be dead by the time i get back to LA, since i didn't tell anyone to go water it. Oh well.
Enough venting. Let me find another way to amuse myself.
I had NY pizza twice for lunch already, it's the best deal really. $2 for a slice of NY pizza and a drink. Can't beat NY pizza. Two Italian meals, one at Carmine, huge portion, and the other one at my favorite Italian place in the village. Carmine was good, but really expensive this time. My friend wanted the special, which is this huge prime steak, a pasta dish, and a fish dish. Three dishes were enough to feed 7 of us. But the prime steak didn't come with a cheap price tag, $70 for the dish. It was good though. My favorite place in the village is still better, seafood dish, with mussels, clams, lobster tails, and a shrimp pasta dish with mushroom an cream sauce. Total comes to under $40, which is much better deal than Carmine. Oh, and i had my Eileen's cheesecake two nights in a row. Not too bad...
Enough about food. NY is an interesting place, you can love it or hate it. Either way, you feel something towards it. On any given day, you can hear more than 5 different languages just standing at the train station. Then of course, you get the crazy NYer, like today, who started singing in the middle of the train. No one bothers to tell him to stop, h was singing pretty good, but still. Keep it to yourself man. I realized i get so irriated here because you see some many people every second and there is no such thing as personal space. Seriously, some people need to wear more deodorant or just don't lift up your arms!!! Especially in a hot summer, humid day in NY.
Yet i discovered a gem in the city the other day. Googled Borders in the city, there is one on 57th and Park. I went there to pick up a traveling journal for my roadtrip (at this point, i wish i am leaving tomorrow), and not expecting to find a whole lot at the store. But this borders turns out to be huge! It is three stories, with plenty of seatings, i was there for close to two hours, and i didn't want to leave. I found what i was looking for, and i end up reading a great book which Sandee showed me the other day. It was a great story, but i can't remember the name of the book. Seriously, why can't i remember these things.
Believe it or not, i still manage to watch K-drama in NY. My mom took me to the video store to see what we can watch. I have been telling her about k-drama for years, but for some reasons, she is really biased toward k-drama. She thinks they are all sad and overly dramatic, and depressing. But i assured her that this one was really good and funny. So we end up renting "My name is Kim Sam Soon", even though I have seen it before, i didn't mind watching it again. It didn't take long before my mom realized why I liked it so much. She thinks the main character acts just like me, crazy and wrack. At least she is true to herself and honest.
Obviously i am really bored to be blogging. It is really sad that i don't feel like there is a place for me to stay when i come "home". I am staying over at a friend's house for the next couple of nights. She is really busy with summer school tho, so i have to stay out of her way. I am thinking next time I come home, i should just find a short term place to lease for a couple of weeks, and that will be better. A place in the city or something.
I told myself that this time i will go to the museums and see a broadway shows, but at this point, i don't see myself doing any of those things. I still have 1.5 weeks, and will spend the rest of this week up in Albany with my cousin.
I am ready to come back to LA though. I missed my apt. I think my bensai will be dead by the time i get back to LA, since i didn't tell anyone to go water it. Oh well.
Enough venting. Let me find another way to amuse myself.
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