friday tales - we took the subway to MOMA in the late afternoon to queue up for the free friday tickets and yeah doing the commercial thingy we went straight to the moma store once we collected our tickets before heading to the exhibits upstairs. the museum experience is more spatial than sensorial. the materiality is very cold but the layers of openings vertically and horizontally make for quite a rich visual experience where one observes not merely the art but the people at the stairs, on the bridges, in the courtyards, across the glass blocks. two museums one after another in two days is quite tiring anyhows and we had a hotdog and kebab outside, those being our first, we were overcharged.

we went home to get our coats cos it was getting chilly and then we took the train up to 110th street to meet kim li and diego. kim was eating jap curry katsu don in a little eatery and we joined her and her taiwanese aki friend judy popped by with her bf allen and diego came along later and we wanted to go to a jazz place, Smoke, down the road but there was a guest star and us being poor people on a budget decided to head somewhere else although the place looked very welcoming and we went to The Underground where there was some standup comedy going on - very bad standup comedy done by amatuers cept for one kid - smiling out of politeness got alittle to difficult after about an hour and a half and we finished our drinks and headed out. it was a short time with kim li - shoulded have told them to come down to this cute unnamed bar across our place but it was interesting nonetheless and it was nice to see kim li again after such a long time.


saturday tales - pilgrimage to dean and deluca. turned the corner at broadway and chanced upon Fishseddy store - wonderland of fancy crockery (bren, check it out!)if you want to buy new york city souvenirs you should come here instead of the typical tourist shops and get some really classy things. we bought a kebab at union square as well and later walked up to the empire state building but we didn't want to queue so long and we contemplated the price to go up and decided that we would forgo the empire state view for a good meal. we turned round the corner and discovered we were in K-town again. bought a pinkberry frozen yogurt and decided to go back to the korean bbq place for dinner. we walked down for a bit to the manhattan mall bit, skipped macy's and went to have dinner - fatty pork and medium rare beef and kim chi - goodness in abundance.

tomorrow, san francisco.