Contemporary (2.4.12)

      Today I woke up not knowing what time it was. I guessed it was about 7:50, checked my iPod, it was 8. Big difference. I lazed around until about 9 and started getting ready to go out, yes, I did eat breakfast. My initial plan was to go to the Empire State Building and then head off to the Museum of Modern Art but the Empire State Building's line to go up to the observatory was as long as my intestines. So, we bailed that location and headed over to MoMA. MoMA is such a great museum, and I mean great. The design and architecture of it is so simple yet so mesmerizing. I was in awe of how simple it was. The moment we entered the museum, we went to the photography section but it was close for some kind of installation so we went to the contemporary arts level and I was amazed. I spent about 30 minutes on that floor, which was quite big to be honest. Colors everywhere. Random sculptures everywhere. Distorted faces everywhere. Disfigured bodies everywhere. Simple geometrical designs everywhere. It was art. I don't know how to appreciate these kind of things but the simplicity of it all captured me. The colors captured me. I saw Andy Warhol's work and I love him.

      After the contemporary arts section, we went to the sculpture garden, which was beautiful. Yet again, so simple but it all just fits. As the name suggests, the place was full of sculptures and the weather added to the already existent beauty. Blue skies, fluffy-ass, white clouds, sunshine and a light breeze. I can't believe I saw Picasso's work. We went to have lunch after we were done with the sculpture garden. I had a mushroom soup with chorizo baked ravioli for my appetizer and a homemade sausage paired with sauerkraut and some mustard sauce as my entrée. The food was really good omg. Lunch was done, off to paintings and sculptures I. Right outside the restaurant was this vibrant, colorful, just so pretty piece of artwork that spread out on the about 20ft long wall. It was at least that long and at least 7ft tall. I loved it. It was basically colored bricks going in different directions. The bricks were red, yellow, green, blue, purple and orange. Ahh, so pretty. And I love color so shut up. At some pieces, I admit I went HKDLSAJDKSAL, at some, I went 'I could've done that', at others...I pokerfaced.

     The rest of the museum wasn't as interesting as the contemporary art part. There were people just admiring some pieces that I just didn't know how to appreciate, lol shame on me I guess. I just loved that museum LOL. And the shop was sooo cool ahh. No words. We left the museum at about 430 and we started walking on Fifth Avenue towards F.A.O. Shwarz, the best toy store in the US, apparently. I agree. It's HUGE. It could be like Hamley's but their floors are sooo big even though they only have three as opposed to Hamley's' 6 floors. BUT OH WELL THAT PLACE IS AMAZING. I didn't bother to visit the toy sections so I walked my sorry little ass over to the candy section TROLS. That place is incredible to say the least. They had 2ft tall Wonka Nerds boxes, 2ft long Twizzlers, 3ft wide Rice Krispies, 3ft long Sweetarts tubes, a foot tall gummi bears, holy shit I almost died. I initially went there to look around not intending to get anything but their gummi variety was just too great. I made my mom, who was standing at some corner (LOL) of the toy store and I dragged her over to the candy section and the first thing she said upon entering was 'omg diabetes'. She saw these little chinese takeout like boxes that were really cute and said 'fill one of those up with candy. go. now.' Guess what I did? I filled that box. It cost 60 bloody ringgit, FACKEN LAWL. But oh well.

     We rode a taxi cab home and went out for dinner at some korean/japanese place and food was goooood. I had edamame, a small green salad, clam soup and some grilled beef hot rice bowl. LOL IM SOOOO FAT RIGHT NOW.

No pictures because I'm half-dead, I'll put 'em up tomorrow.


Not like you care.


Tomorrow I'm waking up super early to line up for the Empire State Building and then going on a cruise around Manhattan Island.

Chill (1.4.12)

     There's really nothing much to write about today. It was a rather chill day to say the least. My morning started at 8:50 in the morning and I had Trader Joe's cereal nut and honey O's for breakfast. We left the apartment at about 10 to Bloomingdales again. Mom was getting some shirts for my uncles and at 11, we crossed 3rd Avenue to Dylan's Candy Bar! I was planning to go crazy but I held back a little because my mom was watching. And my body was...already fat so. But I basically got a jar of candy (a rather small one), four bars of chocolate (not ALL for me haha), personalized chocolate bars and pajamas! Then I went back to Bloomingdales and mom walked around as I tagged along. We then had lunch at David Burke's again but this time I had the soooo bloody sinful mac & cheese but I had a salad too so..meh.

     Mom decided to shop more and I had nothing else to do so she allowed em to walk over to Dylan's again alone. So I did. I crossed the roads and shit alone like a badass. But today's weather was amazing. It wasn't as chilly as yesterday but it wasn't....'warm' per say. I got more candy...but I intend to share it so. I won't eat a lot of it HAHA. But I had to pay it with my own money so my mom is at no loss, weow. After I got back to Bloomingdales and met my mom, she sent me home and then her and her friend went out to Saks Fifth Avenue and shopped until about 7. Meanwhile, I chilled at home doing nothing, yay. We left for dinner at about 8 to Momokawa on E 328th street. The food there is really, really good and it's Japanese btw...HA. I shared the beef shabu-shabu with my mom's friend and me and her finished it. LOL. I'm such a fatass...I need mixed touch. I WANT IT. NOW. Anyways. The food was really good aaand I didn't take any pictures of the food LOL. But make sure to visit it if you ever come to New York!

     That's it. That was my day. I've either not written well or my brain's deep fried.

Backpack from Urban Outfitters from the first day

Keds from Bloomingdales from yesterday

From Bloomingdales yesterday

From Bloomingdales yesterday

Dylan's Candy Bar

Cambridge Satchel

Lexington Ave. (31.3.12)

Today's post isn't gonna be a long post. I'm writing this at 12:23am and my brain is absolutely FRIED.

     Majority of my day, more like from 12pm to 6pm. was spent at Bloomingdales on 3rd Avenue. Oh lord, that place is full of stuff. I ventured to the second floor with mother. It was where the shoes and other designer clothes were located. My mom basically walked around the whole floor and I just tagged along. But I got ....three pairs of shoes form that floor, WOO! A pair of Tory Burch flats and two pairs of Keds! Then, on the same floor, I went to the other side where they had younger fashion and I got a Pink Floyd off-shoulder sweater and a New York City tank. Don't worry, it's not the typical tourist shit you'd expect.

     Next, the ground floor for lunch at David Burke @ Bloomingdales. It was such a nice place. It was sort of like an American Diner. I had a Kobe Hot Dog and a Caesar salad. After lunch, I went to the fourth floor with my mom and she went around the floor to shop while I was sat at the seats in DKNY waiting for her, reading. We then made way to the first floor because my mom was looking for handbags. But I actually found THE CAMBRIDGE SATCHEL OMG. And I got a black one! And also a MBMJ sling bag hehehe. After that, we went up to the sixth floor to chill and have some coffee and the B Café. B for Bloomingdales I guess. I had a hot chocolate annnnd the most sinful chocolate chip cookie ever.

     It was 6pm before we got a cab and came home. I had to get ready for my dinner at 240, Central Park South. Well, the restaurant next to that address, Marea. Marea is a modern Italian restaurant with two Michelin stars and has absolutely scrumptious food. I loved it but the servings were a little big and I just couldn't finish my food....ha. I had some frog legs for my antipasti and pasta with housemade pork sausages and kale for my main course. They also gave us this salad with lightly tossed blue crab with some citrus and also a perfectly cooked pasta with tomato based sauce. The sauce was cooked to perfection. It didn't possess that sour-y tangy feeling that you normally get after having some tomato-based sauce. And the pasta wasn't too cooked or undercooked. It was perfect. Ahh, I loved it but I just couldn't finish anything.

     I didn't take any pictures today, sigh. Except for some of my food but oh well, I'm lazy and it's late.

Upper West Side (30.3.12)

     Upper West Side was where my whole day was spent. Brownstone buildings, dog walkers with at least 3 dogs attached to their arms, pigeons, leafless trees, cute little shops by the sidewalk, cloudless blue skies, construction workers, mail trucks, sedan cars, little streets, main avenues, huge stores. I arrived there at about 11:30 in the morning. The ride there was absolutely amazing. The yellow taxi went through Central Park, which was lined with green, lush trees and gray stone. The drive through the middle of Central Park was interesting. It seemed like we were in a valley because the road was sort of a 'level' (more like 7 feet) below the grass and the 'walls' were covered with gray stone slabs. But what was more interesting was that there were little goblin-like houses that were on the grass level. They were made of the same kind of stone that lined the 'walls' but they had pretty little flowers growing on them and vines and all that. Interesting.

     After crossing Central Park, we hit the Upper West Side! The first road that we were on on the Upper West Side was Central Park South and crap, it's such a pretty tree-line road. The trees were all cherry blossom trees (the stupid ones that give me my allergies) and the flowers were all white. The buildings on the Upper West Side are almost all brownstone buildings, which are seriously such pretty buildings. We dined at this Asian food restaurant called Amber and I had Pad Thai (which I didn't finish, woops), some sushi, a good salad, miso soup and some sashimi. The restaurant was surprisingly big and very, very well decorated. It was sort of modern spiritual with some LED lights and a big Buddha in the back area.

     After our scrumptious meal, we continued walking down Columbus Avenue where we stopped at several shops. Club Monaco, Theory, Burberry and Rag & Bone. We walked further down until we reached Broadway and there it was. Standing in its glorious presence: the Apple Store. It's the second one I've seen in NYC, the first on being on the East Side opposite the Plaza Hotel, and it's the first one I've walked into. Holy crap, the store was huge. Its glass panels didn't help me minimize the size. And better yet, there was a lower ground floor where all the accessories were. That trip to that Apple Store made me ponder the hardest dang ponder ever why I changed to BlackBerry... I mean, the covers for the iPhone there were AMAZING. They were SO pretty. Not to mention, they had a Keep Calm and Carry On one AND they had a nice abstract paint one. JKDSADJKALS. I have an iPod touch 4th gen. but they don't sell covers with the designs on the iPhone covers. It's so stupid. Why don't they just print the same damn design on an iPod 4 case, hm? But anyways, I bought a new cover for my iPod whereas madré bought this Marilyn Monroe case for her MacBook and an iPhone case. I left the building still pondering why the heck I changed phones and walked on to TRADER JOE'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Trader Joe's is a grocery store on 72nd and Broadway and it carries one of the widest ranges of food I have ever seen. Amazing. The shelves are all lined with either organic food, self-produced (Trader Joe's brand, which is still really good) or typical American meal ingredients. I loved it there, everything was so organized and pretty looking. The drawings on the walls, the cute decorations for each section (the egg section was made to look like a chicken's nest) and everything else. They even had escalators for the firetruck red carts we wheeled around. It was a good 30 minutes spent there. Trader Joe's O's (cereal), my TV dinner, hot puppies (mini hot dogs...see the joke?), some sushi, and eggs. We hailed down a cab on Broadway and rode home, which took about 20 minutes since we were on the East Side heading to the West Side. At one point during the ride, we were at Times Square. I didn't know... My mom did mention that we were NEAR it so I didn't think much of it. Not until I stopped gazing out the side windows of this yellow taxi cab and looked ahead. There it was: Times Square. The lights were on because by the time we reached that place it was about 5:30pm and the sun was beginning to set. Holy cow, it was amazing. However, the placed was packed like sardines in a can and before I could take a quick snapshot, we took a left and Times Square was out of my sight.

     The rest of my evening was rather chill. I consumed my lamb vindaloo meal whilst watching the Simpsons on Fox 5 (cherishing the amazing programs on TV here in the States) and started editing my photos. I was just jumping around sites and profiles when I realized it was 9pm and it was time for me to take my shower. After taking my shower, my lovely mother forced me to go to bed. But I didn't...now wait, don't think it was because I was a badass...it's because I started to read. HA. But I eventually started writing this post, the first two paragraphs, then I had to go to bed before mom caught me.

I have yet to ride the subway.

So....I apologize for this post being late. As if people read my blog....and as if I'm a blog people catch up with or read avidly.

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from H&M

!!!!!! found it at Urban Outfitters! I love that store.

Taxicab

Central Park South

lunch @ Amber

Upper West Side (West 70th St.)

Any Gossip Girl fans?

Columbus Ave.

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IDK man, I just really wanna compile all my tweets in one blog post.

City

Bright lights, pale face, peeling lips, cold sticks, clunking boots, yellow taxi cabs, fat pigeons, thin scarves, strong wind, leaves rustling, 'TAXIIIII!', police sirens, honking cars, store doors closing, store doors opening, sunlight on my face, blue skies, fluffy clouds, they're so fluffy i can die, marble carvings, street signs, starbucks on every corner, the smell of pretzels, hot dogs, little dogs, fresh coffee, cold air, clean pavements, disgusting cigarettes, shopping bags, big trucks, ambulances, beautiful buildings, tourist spots, new york city.

Steps (29.3.12)

     So today, I woke up at about 2:30 in the morning because I couldn't breath. Allergies, dammit. I tried to pass time by watching the Big Bang Theory and editing pictures. It worked, it was 5:00 am when my mother walked out of her room and said that I should've woken up her up, LOL. But she made me noodles and I watched the last 15 minutes or so of Nacho Libre, a movie that was not understandable. I fell back asleep at about 5:45 after I finished my noodles and managed to upload my edited pictures to Facebook.

     I woke up again at 9:50 later that morning, took my shower, at my ham and egg wrap, and then we left for 5th Avenue! The weather was rather chilly. People rushed by me at 'New York speed' but I managed to catch on with the speed by the end of the day, ha. Cars were driving by, trees were swaying in the wind, the sun was shining, the sky was blue as, clouds were flying by, and leaves rustling on the pavement. First stop, H&M! The store was only two stories but it was FULL of the most beautiful outfits EVER. Ahhh, I went...somewhat crazy. I got a few tops, a hoodie, shorts, earrings and a belt. We then continued walking and stopped at Urban Outfitters. I wouldn't mind living in that store...I can die happy now that I've visited it. 

     Urban Outfitters doesn't only sell clothing, they sell novelty books, lomo cameras, toy cameras and actual vinyl records. Ahhh. And the clothes they sell there are just..AMAZING, I loooooved it. I bought a denim vest, a top, a tribal printed backpack, the book 'Wreck This Journal' (AHFKLSJFKLSAJFKLAS), and probably two other things I've forgotten about because I'm tired as shit and can't think straight. We then walked down 5th Avenue and went to lunch at Rockefeller Plaza. 

     Rockefeller Plaza was so, so nice. HAHA vague description but then again my mind is blank and I can't think of anything else I can describe it with. Flags of countries of the world lined the outline of the plaza and sunlight poured down on the famous ice rink. Oh, and I went to Nintendo World. HAHA, I felt like such a nerd because I barely knew shit there except for some Pokémon. I walked past the NBC studios and saw the set of the Today Show! 1D performed there just last week, omgomgomgomgomg. I went into the NBC Experience Store and omg, they have so much merchandise from all the shows that air on NBC: FRIENDS, Seinfeld, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Law & Order, Burn Notice, The Today Show, the Simpsons, and other shows ha. I bought a FRIENDS mug and an NBC Studios keychain with my name on it, yay! After that, we hit Tiffany & Co. and that place is six freaking stories tall, ahh. The interiors were SO pretty. Marble floors, carved plaster ceilings, huge windows, ahhh, just so pretty. 

    Then we just continued walking and went to some hotel to rest for a bit at the bar, LOL. After that, we took a taxi cab back to the apartment and I haven't been doing anything productive... What a day.