New York Part 7

My last night in NY..!!! After Les Miserables, went to Virgin Musicstore to look for Jeanie, then head up to O' Lunney's for a drink or two. =P Or more..ahah.

Competing..!! Downing irish car bombs!

That's me after 1 shot of 70% alcohol shiat ( dunno what's it called) and 2 Irish car bombs. Bit tipsy and red-faced. Heh. p.s.: Dad, rest assure that your daughter doesn't usually do this okay?! Only occasionally. Realllyyyyy. =P

Jessoms and moi. =) Best friends foreva! ;)

Supercool picture. :)

The girls blowing kisses....

AP and the girls.. Lucky guy! =P

Jessoms, moi, Jo, and Mazen =)

Dunno what to write hahahhaha i seriously need to go to bed can't think right now really a bit drunk haha ramsey this is me talking crap drunk talk no okay im not drunk just a bit speech impaired and not able to think properly~~

New York Part 6

So after a satisfying meal, we headed back to Hoboken. But cuz Sureen had a sorority meeting with her sist-ahs that night, we gotta find somewhere to hang out till the meeting's over. Guess where? (Look at above pic for answer.) HEY it's not our fault for not being more adventurous okayyy. The friggin area that is within walking distance is so damn quiet on a Monday evening, and there's just nowhere to go! It's like a dead town! And the rain and the wind ain't helping at all, so we had to seek shelter in the only bright-lit place around. Or more like the only hang out place available. Picture caption: Tah-dah! Welcome to Starbucks @ Hudson Street, Hoboken.

Boredom hits. The above sketch produced, by yours truly. =) A bit ugly, but who cares?! And then boredom hits another notch - us taking the above picture. We should've just stayed in NYC and roam around till late night before coming back!!! Urghhh.

Chean ate her banana. I drew my copyright smiley and the peace sign, imitating the statue of liberty. heh. :P I'd have drawn more stuff, but due to my limited drawing skills..... well. :)

The next day! Tuesday! Our last day in NY. Had so much cheeese I swear it can last me for two whole months.. So I decided I would stop having cheese for a while unless I wanna stop having cheese for the rest of my life :)

Marble cheesecake. Chean decided to skip the real food and go straight for the dessert. It's really really REALLY good! No regrets. =P

Trump Tower on 5th Avenue. Really nice building. Didn't get to go in though, was in a rush so we just walked pass it. Chean said she's gonna live in their penthouse one day. I'm waiting, Chean!!! Invite me over!!!

Time Square. Forever brightly lit. A place that never sleeps.

The play that we watched. Real goood stuff. Couldn't explain to you how good it is, you've got to watch it for yourself.. I'd have written a lil bout the storyline, plot, theme and my thoughts bout the whole play, but I'm kinda under alcohol influence right now and can't think straight.... so pardon me, I shall stop here. Go google it or something. :)

A remembrance. More to go, Chean my travel partner!! We shall come back for more!! ;)

New York Part 5

Ahhh so lemme continue my story. At that bread and pastry coffeeshop, in the midst of expressing our disappointment over the cupcakes, this lady (in the picture) sat next to our table. Somehow we started talking, she said she's originally from Trinidad and then migrated to Canada then now she's here. Her son's my age, and when we told her we're from Malaysia, she exclaimed "Really?? My son's girlfriend is from Malaysia too!" Went on to tell us the girl's father is a diplomat and that the son's gonna ask her to marry him. Anyway, that's besides the point. She told us bout this Malaysian Restaurant called Jaya, and that the food there is real good, the roti she said. We got all excited and asked her for the address! So that's our next stop! :)

On our way there, there were small shop lots along the road, some high end expensive design shit. And the owner of one of them that we walked into told us that Carrie from SATC stayed just across the street! Hah, whaddaya know! The things that you can find out just by talking to the locals. :D So glad we went in with the cupcakes (cuz that's how he started talking to us). Oh for you info, I didn't finish my cupcakes. Brought them back for Chean's friend Sureen. The picture above, was where Carrie Bradshaw lived. :)

And it's called Charles Street.

So here we are... in the middle of Chinatown, trying to figure out which direction to go in order to get to Jaya the Msian Restaurant @ Baxter St. Can't believe we're looking for food, right after we just ate those diabetic-causing cupcakes....

The long LONG walk was worth it. We shared asam laksa, bubur chacha and otak otak. The asam laksa wasn't the authentic Penang kind, but still was relatively good. A tad too spicy if you ask me. But cuz I love spicy food, I don't mind at all. :)

To those who don't know, bubur cha cha, is a kind of sweet coconut milk dessert with sweet potatoes, taro and sago pearls in it, boiled with screwpine leaves i think. And the ones they have there was real good. And I mean it. It's almost comparable to those in Msia! Not too sweet, served hot (unlike those in 'Penang' Restaurant, who served it in martini plastic cup!! i mean, hello??? who the hell serves it that way?!), just nice.

Otak-otak wasn't that great. Tasted more like fishcake. But we had fun talking to the peeps working there, all in all, a fun experience. :) not just referring to gastronomical experience, ehem, but in general. And it's fun to see how the couple at the next table fumbling through the menu, having trouble putting orders cuz there's just too many choices I bet they didn't know what's really special and what's not. So tempted to go over and introduce them some good stuff, but that would make them think I'm crazy or smthg...

New York Part 4

New York City skyline.. taken from New Jersey. Chean and I stayed in her friend Sureen's place in Hoboken, New Jersey. It's bout 15 mins' path-train ride to the city.

Taken from the campus ground, before we left for NYC. ---> heading to the famous Magnolia Bakery!!! Oooh.. all excited! *jumping up and down*

And so! Got off the train at Christopher Street, looking for Bleeker St. where Magnolia Bakery is at. Heee. Can't help but smiling to myself. Chean and I are always always on the search for good eateries. (Oooops. I can almost see my dad and mom shake their heads in dissension.)

The Red Velvet cupcakes was their special that day. It's actually just yellow cake with apple cider and red coloring that makes the cupcake really red. Topping it up with whipped cream.

On our way there, we stopped by twice to ask for directions. And they're like, "Oh you're going there? I'll show you the way if you get me some!!" and "Ohmygod, their cupcakes are just amazing..." Is it really that good? Let's check it out!

I wanted the purple color icing one, that's sitting behind the counter. But they said they had to wait for those on the tables to be cleared before they can put out new trays of cupcakes. :( But then later on they were nice enough to 'sneak' out one purple one for me.:D awww so nice! So we took a picture with them! Sweeeeet.

What we bought. It's only to-go, so we had to find a place to test them. Settled down at a bread and pastry shop, ordered coffee to go with the rainbow cupcakes. I got myself 3 cupcakes, the three with colorful stuff on the icing sugar.

Jessoms ready to try! *posing* *snap snap snap* Many more pics, but I shall keep them for privacy reasons. :P

Chean enjoying the red velvet cake.. XD

So you're probably wondering if it's as good as everyone says. Sadly, I'll have to say - no. They're over-rated. Sorry Roy, to shatter your expectations and whatnot bout Magnolia Bakery. But seriously, the cupcakes sucked. Only the icing sugar looked extremely pretty, and it sent me right to cloud nine due to the endorphins or smthg (cant recall)... Haha but because of that sugar high, I wasn't too upset bout the disappointment. The sugar did the trick I guess! Teehee. :P

New York Part 3

I'm not a pro photographer, so this is my meager attempt of taking a picture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Couldn't take the whole thing, but this was the best I could do. It was really windy at that time and I refused to remove my gloves just to take a picture. So yeah, this shot sucked... but at that time I couldn't really be bothered. :/

So guess what's this?! Doesn't it remind you of the movie 'the haunted'? Think it's about a group of people going to this haunted house, and there are ghosts trapped inside the wall and stuff. Can't really recall... But anyway, no this ain't anything of that sort. It's a fountain sculpture thingy I saw in the Met Museum.

That's me and my friend Ker Lih who's working in NY. Only got to meet him up for a short while cuz he had to go elsewhere to work. Thanks for the lunch, my friend. Was nice seeing an old friend in a foreign land far far away from home. :) (To KerLih: Oh btw, did you know that that subway we took didn't stop at canal st. and went all the way to the last stop City Hall..?! I had to take another one back to the Grand Central station, where you got off! Funny!)

And being a choc fanatic, how can we not stop by the Hershey's Shop??? I was practically drooling all over the place when I stepped in. But it was nothing compared to the m&m's merchandise shop!!

From the outside... they have a humungous screen showing m&m's jumping around, all so colorful and yummylicious, just calling out our names to go check out the stores.

i "m" N Y. :D

This is the Cool Blue m&m :)

The green lady and us imitating her. :)

Wished I could bring all of those back home.... I want I want I WANT !!!!

New York Part 2

It's St. Patrick's Day, wear green, or you'll be pinched! I wore my green Tee underneath my big bomber jacket and the white jacket that says "You've gotta kiss many frogs to find a prince". :P And on St. Patrick's Day, what do they do, you ask?! Err... Drink till you drop?!

I was a good girl that night though, didn't drink. :) So we took crazy pics like this. ;) Diane and Chean advertising for Sony cyber-whatever-the-model-is camera. They were so awed at the fact that both of them have the exact same cam. But I think it's partly the I-can't-believe-I'm-in-New-York-high that got them so hyped up.. hehe.

This lady miming some stuff. So very cute. And I just love the backdrop. Chean thought the subway stations were a bit creepy and dodgy. I thought otherwise. I mean yes there is a tinge of those feelings, but I like the old-ness of it, I dunno why... maybe it feels like it can bring you to the past, as if there is a connection between now and then. Different times different people yet both shared a common transportation. Well it wasn't so long ago, and it's not that old. But still. It's still fun to think this way.

Like maybe, if you close your eyes and say some special magic words, you can step into the picture of a totally different world. Or when you're in the subway and it accidentally transports you to a different dimension... back to the sixties or fifties. Haahahha sorry... too much imagination there. :P Blame the tv influence on me.. heh. :P

And this is a collage of Aaron (Jess' UN team partner), Jess, moi and Chean on Central Park and subway.

Aaahhh snowwwwww :)

I didn't take a lot of pictures in this whole trip. But of the few I've taken, I reckon this one and the one below were my best shots. :) Cuz I didn't only captured the snow that I go crazy about, but also them ladies having one of the best moments of their lives, their carefree spirits laughing away. :) Charming. And always so heartwarming. ;)

Their smiles lit up my day, warm me from within. Suddenly I don't feel so cold anymore. :)