i'm in new york!! staying at auntie irene's house, a friend of yi ma's. and it's been great! she cooks the food that my brother and i have been missing for like ever! curry, achar, some shrimp thingy and so much more! oooh! chrysanthemum tea! so good.
the city has been great tooooo! tuesday morning we arrived, my bro, nicholas and i. uncle david picked us up and went over to his place. nick and us parted ways. and i tried to get something together with jeff. for lunch uncle david brought us to this huge dim sum place. which was decent. their carrot cake was pretty crappy. it was like... it needs more radish/white carrots and less of the starch stuff that holds it together. the rest was good though!
later in the afternoon, my brother and i met up with jeff and we pretty much just walked around manhatten because we didn't plan out anything to do there. we visited fao schwartz.. with the GIANT piano! only i was dissapointed to see that the black keys made no sound. -.-
but it was still cool overall.
we walked forever in central park. it was beautiful. every direction you look, trees!! and buildings behind them... but it was gorgeous none the less.
wednesday we met up with nick and walked a ton again. we went to a noodle house in chinatown, walked to soho, went into a random art gallery, walked to greenwich village, saw a cheap jewelry store and bought 2 pairs of earrings for 99 cents each! (excluding tax) then went home for dinner.
yesterday we met up with jeff and nick. well, i woke up late, by an hour or so. panicked i woke my brother up. he on the other hand was like.. eh.. ok.
we finally got out onto a subway ride for a little more than an hour and waited for jeff at grand central. the original plan was to meet nick at the ticket office at 9.45. but it was like 11.30. so, i told nick to buy his tix first. jeff came and we decided to go see if there were anymoer student rush tix available and.. there still were! bought tickets and went to lunch at a thai place that had salmon curry! what? yes, you heard right, salmon curry! :D it was good. with some green tea ice cream. totally worth the money.
then we walked to central park to row a boat.. with my flippy floppies! that was a ton of fun too. we conquered an island.. but not really. :P after boating around we went in search of the museum of natural history! but we ended up navigating our way through central park that we ended with the metropolitan art museum, which was good too! :P but we also got chased out during closing time ):
then we had dinner on st mark's street and caught the train back uptown for promises promises! except i was let down that i didn't get to see kristen chenoweth live! but her understudy was great too... just that it would've been so awesome to see her live!! and sean hayes was in it too! :D
the show ended at 10.40ish and jeff, my bro and i went for the sub, parting ways with nick.. for who knows how long. maybe the next when i'm singapore we might meet up. i got home around midnight. and was pooped.
today was ok. walked and subbed around for 3 hours figuring out my way to my grand uncle's place... zzz. finally got to their place in flushing at 5 and had dinner and left around 7. came back to auntie irene's and i just had a second dinner.. so much food since i've gotten here! i have a food baby!
i'm going to bed soon.. because i'm falling into a food coma. and i'm exhausted from walking all day.
cheerio!
/Hopped!
9:35 PM
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