Moved In!

I'm into my new place -just need to unpack and clean the place up to my standard. I'm now a proud resident of Long Island City! Woot! My summer plans seems up in the air as everything seems to have not worked out...hmmm maybe I shall travel afterall.

Wow.

I can't believe that time passes by so quickly.

Done my first year of teaching.

It's been challenging and exciting. Next year will be better. I know it.

Shoe Heaven

I've never been quite a big shoe lover until I moved to NYC. I remember from an episode on Lipstick Jungle where the girls visited "Shoe Heaven" in this wondrous store. I didn't catch where it was but I did enter shoe heaven this memorial day weekend.

It's located on the 8th floor of Saks Fifth Avenue. It's fun trying on $500+ shoes on your feet. Even though I can't afford Louboutin, Gucci or Jimmy Choos it was a fun window shopping experience!

Williamsburg Weekend!



Jennifer wanted to try out Williamsburg in Brooklyn for an outing. I was estatic to have Pan Asian Cuisine! Something that Toronto is overflowing with but hasn't overrun NYC yet. We went to Planet Thai for Dinner and spent a good long time enjoying our meal. We started with a mango shrimp roll and a spicy squid salad. For the main course I had the peanut curry shrimp and dessert was shared among us was the green tea creme brulee and also a coconut rice with mango dish. :) Dinner was very enjoyable.

We walked around Williamsburg and was looking for a second place to hang out at. We looked o a side street which was curiously named Tacu Tacu. Peering in we saw that it had a karaoke lounge in the basement. Feeling daring, we went in and stayed, having a surprisingly good time.

Weekend Round-up



I had my ex-roomate from my China trip come visit me over the weekend! She brought her good friend Andrea with her also.



Went to plenty of places. Usual sighseeing stuff plus places to Eat!

Highlights = Places that we ate!

Dinner Thursday = Crocodile lounge -where they have free pizza with every Beer Purchase!

Dinner Friday = Little Italy. I had a seafood pasta.

Dinner Saturday = Verlaine in the lower east side with southasian inspired tapas and happy hour that lasted til 10:30 pm!


Current Read = A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith


Latest Frivilous purchase = BCBGirls Yellow Patent Leather Peeptoe Pumps with matching nine west clutch. Sweet!

First Celebrity Sighting!

Went out Saturday night, had dinner at five points restaurant in NoHo. I ordered the pan seared scallops. It was okay but not the greatest dish -the same reviews came from my friends dinner at the restaurant too. For dessert I had the cheesecake which was expectionally rich so dinner was saved by the good dessert. After dinner we walked to the lower eastside and had drinks at Back Room. It was pretty cool -there's no sign and you walk through an alley to a 'speakeasy' themed bar. The drinks were served in teacups and beer bottles were served in bags in a vintage decorated back room. It was crowded so we moved on and went to salt bar. Inside I had my first celebrity sighting. Lame yes. But it was Josh Harnett. He's pretty cute but the funniest thing was when we were leaving the bar. We dared Tien to tell him that his jeans did nothing for his butt. She runs back and tells him that but unfortunately my drunk, clueless friend tells his friend standing with him for a smoke this statement instead of him! Too funny!

Recent Reads

Riding the subway gives me time to enjoy reading novels again. Recently I've read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Red Pony by John Steinbeck and currently I'm reading a collection of Short Stories by Roald Dahl.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what I should read next?