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light in nyc.
i wish this lovely light had no meaning.



...and,
september 22, 2008 is my 23rd (jingles!) birthday.
don't forget, nyc.

brooking

on sunday, september 01, sam and i went to the most intense bike ride eva. if you haven't read sam's blog before this, please do for more details.

but yes. it was my very first bike ride since i was 9 or 10 years old, and unsurprisingly, my exercise metabolism compare to then has changed dramatically in super negative way. i don't know how i'm still walking today, but i did gave myself an applause after surviving it.

so not knowing the fact until later that i can put a pin/tag on top of google map, i highlighted the route we took by using illustrator.


pink=on the way to amazing donut place
blue=the way back from amazing donut place

just for your note, there is manhattan on upper right of this map to compare the distance...

and, you know what...
i could have won that krispy kreme bike race they once did in raleigh. bummer. well, maybe i'll join next time.

here are more pictures from brooklyn bike ride. it was a lovely day.

food report

one of the good thing about ny is, everywhere you go, you find something yummster. urbanspoon application that i downloaded for my iphone... so unnecessary.

food report#1 | Billy's Bakery
super amazing cupcake shop. five minutes walk from where i work. dangerous. instead of using icing on top, they use very mild buttercream, which is my new favorite kind of sugar. double dangerous? i've been in ny for only five days now and i went there three times already. i am taking dakota and nicoco here when they visit.





food report#2 | Bombay Talkie
very modern indian restaurant. well, i say modern cause everything comes in white plates. their daily special drinks are displayed digitally above the bar. so high-tec. oh, and food are very tasty and spicy:)





food report#3 | Cafe Colonial
we went here for our first ny saturday brunch. we were planning to get just omelets from here, but as soon as monica send us fat text message saying "cheeeeese bread," we had to order one. and omg... she was so right. they have the best cheese bread eva!! and place is so cute. i have to go back.






trust me. more to come.
kalib, get excited.

starting a subway life

so i am in ny. got too excited about with my life. and kind of forgot to keep up with myself. oops (but not surprised). i finally respect graham for keeping up with his fat... i mean, his life story so consistently.

so my first day of job was the day after long drive from raleigh to here. thank you to sam, he drove all the way here by himself without falling asleep. compare to him, my job was nothing. i kept passing him bunch of snacks into his mouth (he's fat too) to keep him pumping and pretend like i was navigating by staring at the map. but i dont think i accomplished the second part that much anyways because i was keep falling asleep by looking at amazing green patterns created by trees on I-95. well, at least i had my sunglasses on. i don't think sam noticed.





the place i work is my new lover. it was my dream job and it was the very first place i applied right after i graduated from the red wolf university. i didn't hear back from them forever until the day before i was moving to ny for other design job. they asked me if i can start working on wednesday and my response was... o.m.f.g.h.e.l.l.y.e.a.!

studio is lovely. i got my own desk that came with my own phone (jingles!) and friday is a free bagel/muffin day for whole studio. yummster! there are about 30 people working there and building itself is three stories high. i've learned so much stuff in this past three days and i realized how much i didn't know about photoshop. oh design school... you are such a joker.





anyways, when i went to work on friday morning, i saw an amazingly long line in front of studio with bunch of gals with really thick layered make-ups and super annoyingly dressed guys. some were dancing to themselves, some were filming themselves/shouting, and most of them were eating mcdonalds' breakfast combo. i mean... something was definitely going on. so i looked around and i saw a flyers saying "making the band 4." apparently, my studio is next to this really big recording studio and these people who were creating this everlasting line was future talented musicians for mtv.com. oh, damn it. if i knew, i would have worn the biggest t-shirt i have and asked them to sign it. oh well, i guess i'll keep that in mind for the "making the band 5."

here is the picture of centipedes that left enormous fast food trashes behind on the street at the end of the day.


















... and name donnie is so unattractive.