NEW YORK NEW YORK

New York is bloody cold. YA, i actually proclaimed that i'm cold. but seriously. it's damn mother f-cold. even when the temp says 6 degrees, which i can endure usually, it's the WIND that makes it so cold. soooo cold that i regretted not bringing gloves. yes roshni.. LAUGH. i actually layered my clothes (didnt even do that in France), nope not with 5 tubes. just 1 tube + 1 long sleeve shirt. haha... only rosh and adrian will understand that. anyway, the good thing is that i have my boyfriend's hands, which were just about the other thing other than my trusty Zara trenchcoat that kept me warm. AND my brown cap. there were even BLACK snow on the floor (not the ones that just fell, the blocks of ice that were there since a gazillon years ago that refuse to melt) but i still think that Europeans generally dress better. in boots and trench coats. the americans mostly wear winter jackets (wind breakers... very practical) and sweat shirts. so kudos to Zara and Mango and Topshop for contributing to the stylo-ness of the average European. :D
Some quirky things i saw on the streets of New York. These are random shots la. But there's a bloody huge M&M shop that if i bring my nieces and nephews there they will go OUT OF CONTROL. cos there's M&M cushions, M&M toys, M&M stationary, M&M in all colours u can imagine... alot of squirrels, i see them alot in Duke also. SUPER cute. an artistic shot i tried to do with the woman standing beside grafitti filled walls (i think she's an employee of some store, but she looks damn hookerish with her cigarette and standing in that pose) and the weirdest is of this round head that wants2bsquare, and proceeds to chop of the sides of him to make it a square. damn bizarre.
Wall Street. Sigh... Reminds me that i have NO internship this summer. other than the fact that most of the banking ones are for Ops (bleah) and that i have no time to do internship anyway, cos i'm only coming back in late June. BUT i shall learn driving. DA JIE, do u want to sponsor my driving lessons? PLEASE? i'm damn broke. ER JIE, if you want you can help to contribute too!
5th Avenue
Isaac told me i should have done some Audrey Hepburn pose in front of the Tiffany and Co. Regretted not doing it man.. but there was this damn excited girl who was posing with her new little blue box and her bf was taking alot of "model" shots for her, so i couldnt bear to seperate her from that sign. WHERE's MY BLUE BOX? hehe... the best thing is that i never dared to enter the store in Taka. but i actually went into the 5th Ave one. hahahhaa.. cheap thrill.
THEN i bought Abercrombie jeans for 70 USD. I know its damn ex la. but it REALLY fits me to the T and reminds me of my trusty cheap jeans that i bought from malaysia for S$20 that i wore for 4-5 years. may this pair of jeans live up to the last pair's legacy, even though it's so many more times more expensive. Adrian i thought of you! nearly called you to ask if you wanted Aber shirts, but i thought of my phone bill and gave up that thought. oops. :S ohhhh but the models wearing the shirts were damn hot. Super good body and damn tanned and very very pretty. but we realise that service is inversely proportional to hotness. the hotter the people, the lazier they are to serve you. so the fitting room staff are not as pretty but better service. oh well. that kinda explains life in a sense right. bleah.
42nd Street: Times Square
I declare this my FAVORITE place. going to Times Square makes me SO EXCITED! there's so many stores and they are all soooooo damn big and the neon lights just make the place come alive! Wish I had more time to explore all the stores though... but if you wanna come to Times Square, devote a WHOLE day to it please!

Entertainment in New York
Chilling at a Cafe in SoHo for very very long... having my New York Cheese Cake, super cheap pizza, super expensive Chicago B roadway tickets (YAY! It was damn good! Thank you baby for sponsoring the tickets, i promise i'll pay for more things when you come to Europe ok?) Super good sushi kindly sponsored by Isaac's dad as part of Isaac's b-day present (Thanks Uncle!) ohhhhhh how can i forget Village Vanguard, which is the place where alot of very good jazz players perform in. Entrance was USD35 EACH though. very expensive. wished there were vocal jazz tho, it's more my kinda jazz. but this is a must go for all jazz lovers... :D

Favorite place in NY: that little cafe in SoHo where we just read magazines and ate cheesecake
Favorite food in NY: the dan dan mian in the chinese restaurant. i miss chinese food!!!
Favorite place in Duke: Isaac's room which is sooooo nicely decorated
Favorite food in Duke: McGriddles! (Hotcakes + Egg McMuffin combined! YUMMMM)
Favorite travelling buddy: Isaac. Of course. :D