so, yesterday for breakfast ee jie fried bacon, eggs, sauteed mushrooms and cherry tomatoes on toast. we walked to school and i sat in her class for an hour - then we went to have lunch at stuyversent (how to spell i don't know) plaza and i went home while she went back to class. it drizzled in the noontimes so i went out running a little later - did 9 rounds round the track then ee jie came and we walked home then she cooked dinner - sweet corn and chicken soup; stirfried broccali and carrots and sunshine egg with maggi sauce and i just whiled the night away doing nothing.
on saturday we will be driving up to boston to meet jerrold and andrea before heading back to nyc. today's ee jie's got no school so she's doing work at home and i'm going to sew a curtain for the bathroom.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
somewhat preppy
this is the main entrance to SUNY - the general style of the university uptown campus is like that. grr. overexposed shot.
this is The Egg - a modernist concrete egg - it holds conference halls in the basement and a concert hall above. one of the admin buildings is in the background. overexposed again. the sun was so hot i couldn't really see my camera screen properly. it's super hot now in albany - it's like a hot hot day in singapore. i have to wear a cap to go running.
part of the administration building
the empire state administration buildings along the plaza
today ee jie and i went to have a walk around downtown. we had lunch at scratch, a cafe she used to frequent - beef sandwiches and ice lattes - and she showed me her old place. then we took bus 12 to the campus and stopped at the washington avenue entrance and she took me for a short tour around and introduced me to her friends and lecturers who were all very cordial and amiable. plus it was funny cos so many people were wearing green, including ee jie and me so we made sure we took pictures.
update: today i had a better run because i set off earlier in the afternoon. i ran one round around the perimeter of the school. it's pretty safe cos it's an open campus and there are many students running and doing sports all over. then i went to the track and did six rounds before ee jie came to meet me and we walked home together. she's cooking chicken teriyaki tonight. reminder - not to wear thin slippery socks when i'm doing longer distances - it's so uncomfortable. okay this is good. i should keep this up till friday. after dinner i'll be doing some ironing.
this is the main entrance to SUNY - the general style of the university uptown campus is like that. grr. overexposed shot.
this is The Egg - a modernist concrete egg - it holds conference halls in the basement and a concert hall above. one of the admin buildings is in the background. overexposed again. the sun was so hot i couldn't really see my camera screen properly. it's super hot now in albany - it's like a hot hot day in singapore. i have to wear a cap to go running.
part of the administration building
the empire state administration buildings along the plaza
today ee jie and i went to have a walk around downtown. we had lunch at scratch, a cafe she used to frequent - beef sandwiches and ice lattes - and she showed me her old place. then we took bus 12 to the campus and stopped at the washington avenue entrance and she took me for a short tour around and introduced me to her friends and lecturers who were all very cordial and amiable. plus it was funny cos so many people were wearing green, including ee jie and me so we made sure we took pictures.
update: today i had a better run because i set off earlier in the afternoon. i ran one round around the perimeter of the school. it's pretty safe cos it's an open campus and there are many students running and doing sports all over. then i went to the track and did six rounds before ee jie came to meet me and we walked home together. she's cooking chicken teriyaki tonight. reminder - not to wear thin slippery socks when i'm doing longer distances - it's so uncomfortable. okay this is good. i should keep this up till friday. after dinner i'll be doing some ironing.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
misc. misc. tuesday
today my sister went to drop off the rented car at the airport and left me at colonie centre, a typical american sprawl mall with huge everything - rather, macy's, gap and the odd and ends - it wasn't a huge mall. i was running out of shower cream so i bought a few travel bottles of different fragrances at body works at a cheap price. i crossed the road to barnes and nobles to wait for her and flipped through some magazines whilst waiting and when she arrived we crossed the neverending carpark - target seemed like a mirage in the distance in the glistening sun - and reached said place where we looked around a bit and she bought some notebooks for the children involved in her phd pilot project and we waited for a million years for our bus that came late and ee jie was late at SUNY where she dashed off to class after giving me quick instructions on how to get back and so i set off across a small field, past the track, took the wrong road out for a minute or two, turned back and walked all the way out to the western avenue entrance.
the SUNY campus has interesting architecture - post modernist concrete mostly with pillars that curve to the ceiling at the top and slim windows that alternate vertically. ee jie said she prefers the downtown campus which is of an older gothic typical campus architecture, but i find this uptown campus's architecture pretty interesting as well. i shall take pictures when i go there tomorrow. i shall go for a run at the campus at six o' clock - which makes me a little nervous because everybody running around campus are young, athletic tanned university kids. well, i shall just gear up on the cap and i-nano and do an hour as a trial run today.
update: i went for a short run to the campus and around the track three times before i saw ee jie waiting for me at the side - she was on the way home and saw me running. so i walked home with her and we had macaroni soup for dinner - she cooks and i clean up. tomorrow i will go earlier and run the whole campus then arrange to meet her at the track again after her class. we're going to have lunch at washington park near downtown before her class.
today my sister went to drop off the rented car at the airport and left me at colonie centre, a typical american sprawl mall with huge everything - rather, macy's, gap and the odd and ends - it wasn't a huge mall. i was running out of shower cream so i bought a few travel bottles of different fragrances at body works at a cheap price. i crossed the road to barnes and nobles to wait for her and flipped through some magazines whilst waiting and when she arrived we crossed the neverending carpark - target seemed like a mirage in the distance in the glistening sun - and reached said place where we looked around a bit and she bought some notebooks for the children involved in her phd pilot project and we waited for a million years for our bus that came late and ee jie was late at SUNY where she dashed off to class after giving me quick instructions on how to get back and so i set off across a small field, past the track, took the wrong road out for a minute or two, turned back and walked all the way out to the western avenue entrance.
the SUNY campus has interesting architecture - post modernist concrete mostly with pillars that curve to the ceiling at the top and slim windows that alternate vertically. ee jie said she prefers the downtown campus which is of an older gothic typical campus architecture, but i find this uptown campus's architecture pretty interesting as well. i shall take pictures when i go there tomorrow. i shall go for a run at the campus at six o' clock - which makes me a little nervous because everybody running around campus are young, athletic tanned university kids. well, i shall just gear up on the cap and i-nano and do an hour as a trial run today.
update: i went for a short run to the campus and around the track three times before i saw ee jie waiting for me at the side - she was on the way home and saw me running. so i walked home with her and we had macaroni soup for dinner - she cooks and i clean up. tomorrow i will go earlier and run the whole campus then arrange to meet her at the track again after her class. we're going to have lunch at washington park near downtown before her class.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
a glimpse of quebec city in the fall
stop! the copper cladded part of the building is the carpark. it's got a green roof.
a house, somewhere
fall colours are out - it seemed like somebody poured a bucket of coloured sugar over the hills that are awashed with reds, yellows and oranges and the assortment of pine trees make the hills look like a furry carpet
in the gelato shop, mini rain on the outside, and st. laurent river beyond
sketching, reading and tea in a cafe in vieux-quebec
maple leaf on the car door
on the city wall in the morning before leaving for albany
stop! the copper cladded part of the building is the carpark. it's got a green roof.
a house, somewhere
fall colours are out - it seemed like somebody poured a bucket of coloured sugar over the hills that are awashed with reds, yellows and oranges and the assortment of pine trees make the hills look like a furry carpet
in the gelato shop, mini rain on the outside, and st. laurent river beyond
sketching, reading and tea in a cafe in vieux-quebec
maple leaf on the car door
on the city wall in the morning before leaving for albany
Monday, September 24, 2007
i'm currently in quebec. it is beautiful in an european way with cobblestone pavements and stone houses with bright windows and stone steps. the weather was warm yesterday and we walked about town and drove over the bridge to ile d orleans where there was farm produce - apple farms and a gelato store and other fresh produce farms. it drizzled abit but that was over in a few minutes. so we had some gelato - ee jie and i shared vanilla, chocolate and pistacho and trish and janice had sorbet. we bought apples, raspberries and strawberries and ee bought apple butter. then we headed back to town and meandered about a few hours more before having dinner at a very nice french restaurant.
today it is colder. ee jie and i are sauntering about town. trish and janice have gone on a scenic drive. we're going to do the sit at cafe arty farty read and write thingy later.
back to albany tomorrow night.
today it is colder. ee jie and i are sauntering about town. trish and janice have gone on a scenic drive. we're going to do the sit at cafe arty farty read and write thingy later.
back to albany tomorrow night.
Friday, September 21, 2007
home-cooked is best
i don't quite get the mac. my photo is still sideways and i can't be bothered to try to turn it anymore.
ee jie cooked sa po fan for dinner and it was familiarly delicious. dozed off on the couch after dinner. we're leaving pretty early tomorrow, gone by eight thirty, so no more updates till monday.
i don't quite get the mac. my photo is still sideways and i can't be bothered to try to turn it anymore.
ee jie cooked sa po fan for dinner and it was familiarly delicious. dozed off on the couch after dinner. we're leaving pretty early tomorrow, gone by eight thirty, so no more updates till monday.
misc. misc.
i walked with ee jie to a small cluster of shops nearby - midway we stopped by a fresh produce van and bought some fruits. when she went off to school i walked about at the shops - hung out mostly at the music store since the rest were not very interesting. i discovered that 'jem' is the the one behind some of the songs i hear on radio and wonder who that is. and feist is really beautiful to listen to in the dusk - i am currently listening to it while typing this.
i took bus 10 to the mall and walked around for an hour and a half. they have all the regular stuff there. i wanted to go for a run at the albany campus but i got back too late. i will probably go next week when i return from quebec. now i'm waiting for ee jie to return and we'll have dinner.
i will do some reading tonight.
i walked with ee jie to a small cluster of shops nearby - midway we stopped by a fresh produce van and bought some fruits. when she went off to school i walked about at the shops - hung out mostly at the music store since the rest were not very interesting. i discovered that 'jem' is the the one behind some of the songs i hear on radio and wonder who that is. and feist is really beautiful to listen to in the dusk - i am currently listening to it while typing this.
i took bus 10 to the mall and walked around for an hour and a half. they have all the regular stuff there. i wanted to go for a run at the albany campus but i got back too late. i will probably go next week when i return from quebec. now i'm waiting for ee jie to return and we'll have dinner.
i will do some reading tonight.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
thoughts on a cool morning in albany
i think, part of growing up, or having grown a little more is how one reconciles with fear - fear of failure, fear of how people think about you, fear of how you're going to encounter Big Things You Have Never Seen Or Done. i think this year is a whole series of conquering fears in small steps and i think that has been good for me. just doing without worrying so much beforehand does alot of good for one's character.
i love new york. it is huge and i have yet to really explore it.
i love visiting my sister and i love meeting new people and meeting up with old friends - i am very much rejuvinated by things like that - plus enough rest. that should do me quite a lot of good - maybe it's a sort of healing for the first part of the year. i think i was broken quite alot and after that i went into a rigour that was good for me. now is the time of soothing and evening the gaps.
the world's as scary as it is but nothing worth worrying over. there's so much to love and so much to do - keep focused, but don't think too much, all at once.
"the secret of seeing is, then, the pearl of great price. if i thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever i would stagger barefoot against a hundred desserts after any lunatic at all. but although the pearl may be found, it many not be sought. the literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise.
i return from one walk knowing where the killdeer nests in the field by the creek and the hour and the laurel blooms. i return from the same walk a day later scarcely knowing my own name. litanies hum in my ears; my tongue flaps in my mouth ailinon, alleluia! i cannot cause light; the most i can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. it is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go.
the secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to hte nearest puff."
- pg. 35, 'pilgrim at tinker creek', annie dillard
i must be grateful for everything i have.
i think, part of growing up, or having grown a little more is how one reconciles with fear - fear of failure, fear of how people think about you, fear of how you're going to encounter Big Things You Have Never Seen Or Done. i think this year is a whole series of conquering fears in small steps and i think that has been good for me. just doing without worrying so much beforehand does alot of good for one's character.
i love new york. it is huge and i have yet to really explore it.
i love visiting my sister and i love meeting new people and meeting up with old friends - i am very much rejuvinated by things like that - plus enough rest. that should do me quite a lot of good - maybe it's a sort of healing for the first part of the year. i think i was broken quite alot and after that i went into a rigour that was good for me. now is the time of soothing and evening the gaps.
the world's as scary as it is but nothing worth worrying over. there's so much to love and so much to do - keep focused, but don't think too much, all at once.
"the secret of seeing is, then, the pearl of great price. if i thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever i would stagger barefoot against a hundred desserts after any lunatic at all. but although the pearl may be found, it many not be sought. the literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise.
i return from one walk knowing where the killdeer nests in the field by the creek and the hour and the laurel blooms. i return from the same walk a day later scarcely knowing my own name. litanies hum in my ears; my tongue flaps in my mouth ailinon, alleluia! i cannot cause light; the most i can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. it is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go.
the secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to hte nearest puff."
- pg. 35, 'pilgrim at tinker creek', annie dillard
i must be grateful for everything i have.
day five
pic: yale aki school's temporary building while the actual school is under renovation.
yesterday i went to sit in cheng's aki theory lecture after a brunch of eggs benedict then when he went off to class i went to walk about yale by myself. i ended up just browsing in the shops, mainly urban outfitters and jcrew and the other miscellaneous boutiques along broadway and chapel street, for two and a half hours. i can be in student mode anytime. i really enjoyed the one and a half hours lecture about 'character' and 'type'. i bought annie dillard's 'pilgrim at tinker creek' book at the yale barnes and nobles bookshop but i'll return it when i get back to nyc because i realised that chin ee has it in albany so i can read it. the weather was very nice for walking - i didn't have to bundle up and just went around in one layer - i guess that was because i was mainly in the shops. sometimes i run my fingers along the old stone walls and marvel at the ancient-ness of the places - and the sharp yellow of the sun piercing through the picturesque foliage makes everything look like a rousseau painting. rousseau for the countryside - and nyc feels like an edward hopper painting.
at four thirty i went back to rest and got a call saying chin ee was in albany at five. so we all went for a nice dinner at a small nearby restaurant - ee jie and i shared grilled ahi tuna with herb sauce and clam chowder and cheng had a burger - and we walked to buy some groceries before we headed off in the car. it was a long three hour drive back to albany from new haven - we got lost a bit but asked for directions at the petrol station along the way. finally arrived home at about eleven. ee jie stays in an upstairs apartment of a two storey house - there is a direct stairs going up so she doesn't have to pass through the front door of the first storey. her pad is very comfortable and spacious for the both of us.
i spoke to mingyao via skpe in the morning. yay! can't wait to walk the streets of nyc with him - the Moma and the Met too. later i'm going to cook lunch and ee jie will come home from school to eat. i'll probably head out with her to take a look around albany while she goes off for classes at four.
she's got lotsa books and stuff to watch when i laze about the house. but i won't laze for very much. i hope to take a run sometime later in the afternoon. and we'll be headed off to quebec tomorrow morning with her friend tish and tish's cousin who's arriving from singapore today. it will be really wonderful to see quebec in the fall. the last time wynnie and i went it was beautiful but too cold to stay for long. a little bit of the county is nice for the trip - afterall mingyao and i will be in the city for two weeks when he arrives - which i don't mind cos i think i'm really a city girl at heart anyways. uniqlo and the other shops await me in nyc.
update: ee jie is back. she's cooking lunch instead. i'm going to do my laundry
pic: yale aki school's temporary building while the actual school is under renovation.
yesterday i went to sit in cheng's aki theory lecture after a brunch of eggs benedict then when he went off to class i went to walk about yale by myself. i ended up just browsing in the shops, mainly urban outfitters and jcrew and the other miscellaneous boutiques along broadway and chapel street, for two and a half hours. i can be in student mode anytime. i really enjoyed the one and a half hours lecture about 'character' and 'type'. i bought annie dillard's 'pilgrim at tinker creek' book at the yale barnes and nobles bookshop but i'll return it when i get back to nyc because i realised that chin ee has it in albany so i can read it. the weather was very nice for walking - i didn't have to bundle up and just went around in one layer - i guess that was because i was mainly in the shops. sometimes i run my fingers along the old stone walls and marvel at the ancient-ness of the places - and the sharp yellow of the sun piercing through the picturesque foliage makes everything look like a rousseau painting. rousseau for the countryside - and nyc feels like an edward hopper painting.
at four thirty i went back to rest and got a call saying chin ee was in albany at five. so we all went for a nice dinner at a small nearby restaurant - ee jie and i shared grilled ahi tuna with herb sauce and clam chowder and cheng had a burger - and we walked to buy some groceries before we headed off in the car. it was a long three hour drive back to albany from new haven - we got lost a bit but asked for directions at the petrol station along the way. finally arrived home at about eleven. ee jie stays in an upstairs apartment of a two storey house - there is a direct stairs going up so she doesn't have to pass through the front door of the first storey. her pad is very comfortable and spacious for the both of us.
i spoke to mingyao via skpe in the morning. yay! can't wait to walk the streets of nyc with him - the Moma and the Met too. later i'm going to cook lunch and ee jie will come home from school to eat. i'll probably head out with her to take a look around albany while she goes off for classes at four.
she's got lotsa books and stuff to watch when i laze about the house. but i won't laze for very much. i hope to take a run sometime later in the afternoon. and we'll be headed off to quebec tomorrow morning with her friend tish and tish's cousin who's arriving from singapore today. it will be really wonderful to see quebec in the fall. the last time wynnie and i went it was beautiful but too cold to stay for long. a little bit of the county is nice for the trip - afterall mingyao and i will be in the city for two weeks when he arrives - which i don't mind cos i think i'm really a city girl at heart anyways. uniqlo and the other shops await me in nyc.
update: ee jie is back. she's cooking lunch instead. i'm going to do my laundry
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
hello, yale.
this morning i took the 7 train from flushing to penn station and bought tickets for the 1pm amtrak train to new haven. i went too early though and walked around as well as bought a bun and a magazine and sat at the waiting area. we took a long walk around yale and he pointed out the different buildings. i really like the library - looks like a gothic cathedral inside and outside. i pretty much like the other 'newer' 70s buildings as well. they sit in very well with the other old gothic buildings in terms of scale and proportion.
i went to the yale shop and got my brother a frisbee and i got a yale shirt to run in. then we walked to the architecture school and met chiew hong at her studio and we walked to a chinese eatery to have dinner.
this morning i took the 7 train from flushing to penn station and bought tickets for the 1pm amtrak train to new haven. i went too early though and walked around as well as bought a bun and a magazine and sat at the waiting area. we took a long walk around yale and he pointed out the different buildings. i really like the library - looks like a gothic cathedral inside and outside. i pretty much like the other 'newer' 70s buildings as well. they sit in very well with the other old gothic buildings in terms of scale and proportion.
i went to the yale shop and got my brother a frisbee and i got a yale shirt to run in. then we walked to the architecture school and met chiew hong at her studio and we walked to a chinese eatery to have dinner.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
today was,
pics: walk down fifth avenue - balconies reflected on the opposite block; the g. museum; chinese takeaway
a one hour morning walk down fifth avenue all the way past madison sq park and union sq, then towards greenwich village where i browsed in a second hand bookshop, took a tube to columbia uni to meet dionne for lunch and then to penn station to meet r. we went to the guggenheim museum then down to rockefeller centre for a drink and some snacks then to flushing, queens for chinese dinner with the relatives.
cool.
update: there is so much to see in nyc. new york is huge. i'm glad i didn't plan to visit too many cities. in the parks there are caged areas for dog owners to let their dogs run about and i like standing there looking at the different breeds of dogs all having fun with one another. i really liked being in The Strand bookshop because there are just so many books, old ones and new ones and the staff were students talking about poetry, authors, etc. etc. while sitting on ladders packing books. i bought two books, both taschen publications. - pone is about koenig's houses and the other is neutra's houses. i've taken an interest in their works recently.
i wanted to walk up broadway all the way to columbia uni but i didn't have enough time because i got lost for abit around lexington and union sq and i spent quite a while at the bookshop so i walked to a station with the number 1 train, took the express train and changed to 116st columbia uni station. i met dionne at the main gate and we walked upwards to some eateries and had lunch at a burger place. it was really quite amazing, sitting there talking to dionne. she sat in front of me in secondary school and we couldn't imagine we would be in nyc having lunch. she is doing her masters in education and shared with me how much she was blessed - seems like a reminder from God for me to give proper tithing.
half of the guggenheim was closed for preparation for a new exhibit so i couldn't go up the central spiral. there is still the metropolitan museum of art and MOMA that i want to go to. in the museum shop, frank lloyd wright was really commercialised. i didn't explore much of the rocker feller centre - will have to go there with mingyao again when he comes. can't wait for mingyao to join me in nyc. we shall have such a blast.
at my grandaunt's house i stay in the attic because there is a husband and wife pair of professors from china - aunt's friend - staying in the first storey guest room. they were very impressed with my mandarin. ah hem. my grandaunt is pretty strong and alert for a 90 year old. she is quite fiesty still and we are able to converse well.
pics: walk down fifth avenue - balconies reflected on the opposite block; the g. museum; chinese takeaway
a one hour morning walk down fifth avenue all the way past madison sq park and union sq, then towards greenwich village where i browsed in a second hand bookshop, took a tube to columbia uni to meet dionne for lunch and then to penn station to meet r. we went to the guggenheim museum then down to rockefeller centre for a drink and some snacks then to flushing, queens for chinese dinner with the relatives.
cool.
update: there is so much to see in nyc. new york is huge. i'm glad i didn't plan to visit too many cities. in the parks there are caged areas for dog owners to let their dogs run about and i like standing there looking at the different breeds of dogs all having fun with one another. i really liked being in The Strand bookshop because there are just so many books, old ones and new ones and the staff were students talking about poetry, authors, etc. etc. while sitting on ladders packing books. i bought two books, both taschen publications. - pone is about koenig's houses and the other is neutra's houses. i've taken an interest in their works recently.
i wanted to walk up broadway all the way to columbia uni but i didn't have enough time because i got lost for abit around lexington and union sq and i spent quite a while at the bookshop so i walked to a station with the number 1 train, took the express train and changed to 116st columbia uni station. i met dionne at the main gate and we walked upwards to some eateries and had lunch at a burger place. it was really quite amazing, sitting there talking to dionne. she sat in front of me in secondary school and we couldn't imagine we would be in nyc having lunch. she is doing her masters in education and shared with me how much she was blessed - seems like a reminder from God for me to give proper tithing.
half of the guggenheim was closed for preparation for a new exhibit so i couldn't go up the central spiral. there is still the metropolitan museum of art and MOMA that i want to go to. in the museum shop, frank lloyd wright was really commercialised. i didn't explore much of the rocker feller centre - will have to go there with mingyao again when he comes. can't wait for mingyao to join me in nyc. we shall have such a blast.
at my grandaunt's house i stay in the attic because there is a husband and wife pair of professors from china - aunt's friend - staying in the first storey guest room. they were very impressed with my mandarin. ah hem. my grandaunt is pretty strong and alert for a 90 year old. she is quite fiesty still and we are able to converse well.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
hi all
i arrived in nyc last night and my cousin david picked me up. i'm staying at his place in flushing, near queens. met my grandaunt for the first time and she looks like my granny. i met some interesting people on the flight so it wasn't so boring. i'll update later tonight.
i'm hungry. breakfast time.
pics: (double clink) the UN building; statue of liberty
update: i took a 3 hr boat ride around the island with cousin david. the city is really pretty and the statue of liberty looks smaller than my impression of it. the boat went around the hudson river. i was trying to beat jet lag on the boat and had to get a coffee. later we walked down to union square and to soho area for a bit where i spied The Strand bookshop and vowed to return the next day. we went to little italy where there was some sort of festival going on and we ate pasta for dinner. then we took the 7 train back to flushing, queens.
i arrived in nyc last night and my cousin david picked me up. i'm staying at his place in flushing, near queens. met my grandaunt for the first time and she looks like my granny. i met some interesting people on the flight so it wasn't so boring. i'll update later tonight.
i'm hungry. breakfast time.
pics: (double clink) the UN building; statue of liberty
update: i took a 3 hr boat ride around the island with cousin david. the city is really pretty and the statue of liberty looks smaller than my impression of it. the boat went around the hudson river. i was trying to beat jet lag on the boat and had to get a coffee. later we walked down to union square and to soho area for a bit where i spied The Strand bookshop and vowed to return the next day. we went to little italy where there was some sort of festival going on and we ate pasta for dinner. then we took the 7 train back to flushing, queens.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Sunday, September 09, 2007
i've got a super pretty new moniter - black - goes with my relatively new CPU from a while back and the keyboards that mingyao bought for me yesterday. lots of work to be done today, plus i need to start packing. i leave on saturday early in the morning and it seems like there's so much to do, including a long run - i haven't done any exercise for two weeks and that is not good.
on friday i tagged along with my bosses and collegues for the Designer's Forum talk at Singapore Institute of Architects. The female boss from Lekker Design is way cool - she's so brainy - brainy with enough aloofness and passion that's very captivating. anyway it was an interesting session because there were old friends plus inspiration plus i met up with kelly and junyi and we had a late dinner and dessert at maxwell market after. i would really love to go for the rest of the sessions but i'm away.
anyways mingyao i think it is this 'hag' chair that you are talking about? from style:nordic
anyway spring fasion 2008 is out. presenting snippets from doo ri and bcbg max azria.
spring fashion is always breezy and simple but chic. spring's not very stand-outish, it's like, in between the other cool seasons but i think that's what i like about it's understated nature - very new. very clean.
on friday i tagged along with my bosses and collegues for the Designer's Forum talk at Singapore Institute of Architects. The female boss from Lekker Design is way cool - she's so brainy - brainy with enough aloofness and passion that's very captivating. anyway it was an interesting session because there were old friends plus inspiration plus i met up with kelly and junyi and we had a late dinner and dessert at maxwell market after. i would really love to go for the rest of the sessions but i'm away.
anyways mingyao i think it is this 'hag' chair that you are talking about? from style:nordic
anyway spring fasion 2008 is out. presenting snippets from doo ri and bcbg max azria.
spring fashion is always breezy and simple but chic. spring's not very stand-outish, it's like, in between the other cool seasons but i think that's what i like about it's understated nature - very new. very clean.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
last night we met the gang at villa frangipani at alexandra area - a world war two building with a food court-like eatery serving reasonably proportioned and priced indonesian/thai/western dinners plus it was a cool night and we had comfortable conversation.
mingyao fetched me home and stopped at the petrol station to get a drink. want anything, he asks me and i say no, but he comes back into the car with two cornetto ice cream cones, and we drive to the car park and sit there for some moments in the quiet, grinning and eating our ice creams.
plus i went to the office pantry in the morning and snipped a blunt fringe. i was afraid mingyao might think it was icky but he thinks it's quite cool so all's good.
mingyao fetched me home and stopped at the petrol station to get a drink. want anything, he asks me and i say no, but he comes back into the car with two cornetto ice cream cones, and we drive to the car park and sit there for some moments in the quiet, grinning and eating our ice creams.
plus i went to the office pantry in the morning and snipped a blunt fringe. i was afraid mingyao might think it was icky but he thinks it's quite cool so all's good.