MANHATTAN AGAIN





Mom in Times Square at daytime.





Mom at the front of Christine's office, PTS America.





Christine and I in PTS America's showroom.
Christine wanted us to join our other friends for lunch in Korea Town.





Us at Dae Dong, the Korean place I used to go to quite often.
Left hand side: Ben, Karen and Chao. Me and Christine on the opposite side.





Ben with his oh-so-tiny OPTIO camera that can fit into an Altoid case.





On ground zero, where 9/11 took place. Its surrounding gate has turned
into a huge commemoration of the horrible event.



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TO NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ: ANTHONY JAMES EDISON'S RESIDENCE




This is the day when I visited Anthony's town, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
This is the pic of the train platform across from me.





Me in front of the town's signature ice cream parlor, Thomas Sweet.





Bossu, the man himself standing tall.





Bossu and his dear mother.





Me and Bossu.

Before we had to his house, we had lunch together and a grand tour
of his town. We had fun reminiscing on the past... watching a few episodes
of PLANETES. One surprise he dug for me was this rolling-action Streets of
Rage-like video game he downloaded from God knows where.
And what surprised me more was the characters were all from King of Fighters.
Even the stages were literally taken out of Streets of Rage.
This was a clever spoof of SoR with a crossover of KOF characters.
I had fun kicking K dashes ass haha! Thanks a lot for everything Bossu!
So sorry time didn't permit to visit you again for the second time!



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MANHATTAN




Anna and Christine at the back entrance of Pearl Paint, THE art supply
store we used to go to a lot when we were still in Parsons.





Me in the mid of the art supply aisles in Pearl Paint.
Bristol pads and all!!





Peggy in her office in Penguin Books.
Such an awesome office she has for sure!!





Me and Tin Tin in Peggy's office.





Me, Peggy, Mom and Christine on Bowery St in Chinatown.





Mom in Grand Central Station Market.





Some of the food they sell in Grand Market Grand Central Station.
Think those are the hand-held size pizzas. Yu~~mmy!!





Kinokuniya in Manhattan near Rockefeller Plaza.
Another spot I used to go to quite often, not everyday though :P





Mom in Rockefeller Plaza's garden.





Me in front of the gate of Washington Square Park.
The park is located within New York University campus.





Mom in the neighbourhood around Washington Square Park.
The houses in this area just reminded me of houses in Boston.





These are the good old folks from my apartment.
Steve, me and ..... mmm I just can't remember his name (Osvaldo?).
I think Steve looks very similar to Harrison Ford.





Mom standing across from Macy's, a big department store.
It is here when I experienced the mean treatments from the TOILET NAZI,
in the 2nd floor ladies' room let me mind you.
When the long line got outta control, the TOILET NAZI to the rescue!
She would scream on the top of her lungs in order to direct them ladies
to the next available place to release themselves. It is just hillarious
seeing this bigger-than-life lady acting like hitler, in a toilet -__-;;
So out of place!





Me inside of H&M munching down on a chocolate doughnut
from Dunkin Donuts. You can't find these doughnuts here in Indo T_T





Dinner at Overseas Asian with friends from Parsons' CD department.
Terrence, Bryan, Kerry, Khoo and her coworkers were there.





The day I visited Sun in her apartment along with Anna.
Gonna tag along with Peggy and her friends to a new karaoke spot.
But now we are inside a diner close to Sun's apartment building.
Left to right: Rob, Sun and Anna.
Our first encounter with Anna's housemate, Kohei.





In front of the diner.





Left to right: Anna, Sun, Rob and Kohei.
After this we were heading to Duet Karaoke Box.






Me and Sun singing together. She was so nice to dedicate some songs
for me XD XD!!! This is where Peggy and I decided to sing a classic super
cheesy Indonesian pop tune called "Madu dan Racun" (Honey & Poison).
Many hummed along with no idea what the song was all about.





Rob in action.





That night we all tagged along with Peggy to this Indonesian Restaurant
in Elmhurst, Queens. But the place above was closed when we arrived,
so we went to another Indo restaurant next to it called 'Minang Asri.'





Thanks to Peggy we all had a great authentic Indonesian dinner.
Even mom was satisfied with their dishes, so that is a good sign this
place was worth going to. Hopefully my friends, who have never
had Indonesian cuisine, could enjoy their first Indo dishes.
*sigh* If only they could have this place in Manhattan, I'd be so happy.




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