Revisiting Older Posts

This was my favorite one this year.

One Boy, One Girl, Seven Cups

It all started innocently enough, at a big family dinner in Chinatown. Went to Mandarin Garden to meet the extended family (not mine). Well not actually Mandarin Garden, it had to be either Mandarin Court or Shanghai Garden (right next to each other on Mott). After a gut busting meal (7 courses?) at MC, we trekked over to Zinc Bar for some bossa nova.

More drinking, music.

More walking, past the sculpture near NYU housing, past the cheese caves at Murray's, past Caliente Cab Co., past 85 Bedford, finally landing at White Horse Tavern.

More drinking, more food.

We discussed why I should never, ever marry.

A subway ride to the 24hr Starbucks on the UWS.

And then we had 7 cups of coffee & tea in less than an hour (along with some tips on health and fitness from our baristas, Exodus & Dan).

That's why I'm still up at 5:30, argh.

Back Back Back

It's been months since I've done any updates, so I'll try to fill in as much as possible these next few days/weeks...

UPDATED
late July thru mid August (now with lots and lots pics!)

UPDATED
thru first week of September.

My favorite new web comic

This made me laugh out loud at 4am in the morning.

And this was one of the best episodes ever.

Power of 10

You might see me on TV tonight, that is if you happen to flip over to CBS and watch that other Drew Carey game show.

Staten Island Yankees 2007 Finale

It wasn't actually the end since the SI Yanks advanced to the Penn-League playoffs, but it was the last day of the regular season and it was Friday so that meant fireworks!!!

AB and JV seemed to enjoy the beer too. :)

Check out the rest of the flickr set.

Opera for All (second time around)

Back to Hong Kong Station for lunch.

Then it was off to Lincoln Center for another year of Opera for All at City Opera!

It was a great preview for the season, especially Don Giovanni which I was seeing with my bro two days hence. EVOC provided the after-party entertainment again.

AW and I stopped in to a local pizza joint (hi Mario) to grab a quick bite and then I had one of those surreal New York encounters - Xian walked in along with a posse of HCHS kids. Xian and I caught up briefly before we went on into the night.

Power of 10 (taping)

Feel the power (that's what she said).

Followed by a visit to Boston Pizza (in Astoria).

Sunnyside über alles

I'm not sure how I ended up in the East Village on Labor Day, but I had lunch at Rai Rai Ken before meeting EH's journalism school classmate for a tour of Sunnyside. Walked around for a bit and we stopped in to a Sunnyside dinner party (not hosted by me). I might have been the only non-writer/journalist there.

More Béisbol

Another baseball game, this time in the Bronx.

The NY teams lost more often than they won (at least when I went to the games).
It was probably my fault in some way.
Le sigh...

Serra Serra

Finally saw the Serra exhibit at MoMA tonight.

AB was late, I almost left to go home.
I don't like it when people are late/don't RSVP/don't call.
When I say "don't like" it's actually more like "fucking hate".

Mets at the Movies

My bro and I had tickets to watch the Mets play the Phillies on the big screen inside the Ziegfield.

Was this the beginning of the end?

Check Out

I had fun at this, my first singles event ever. I actually ran into a couple of people I knew and made a new friend at the fair trade table.

Some others didn't seem to have such a good time.

Loreley & Ceci Cela

All I ever do is wander around and eat and drink and drink and eat.

But sometimes I am content. And sometimes it's only content.