Showing posts with label East Village. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Village. Show all posts

10.13.08 HEY THERE BOY..... GURLLLLL

I started off the day by mailing off my Free People project off to Philly.... I had the greatest feeling... I felt like i was freed from a sweat shop.... Well... with that finished....... I had take a shower for my 1st hair cut in 10 years....... As some of you know... I usually cut my own hair.... straight across and I am good...... no layers... nothing..... I tried something new a few months ago... i gave myself bangs..... i didn't give myself good bangs at that... but hey i give myself credit...i had bangs for about a week. Well anyways back to my 1st hair cut in 10 years....... I take my shower and i forget what I did the rest of the day....all i know is that I didn't eat anything.... I head out to the East Village.... I get there about 45 minutes early but I needed to find a WAMU to get some cash out.... I pretty much go around in a circle and realize that there is a WAMU around the block from her apartment. So I am about starving...... and go to McDonald's for some french fries..... I go to order my fries.... she goes to get the fries and I hand her a 20 but she did not have enough to give me change.... she calls the manager and he looks at the fries and tells her that she gave me too much fries..... and went on to lecture her that she should only be putting 4 oz in and that is it....She replies.... do you want me to put it back..... Okay at this point... I am staring at the manager thinking.... WTF.... its 3 more pieces of fries..... I hate McDonald's...... READ FAST FOOD NATION! So I finally get to her apartment.... okay.... it is kinda ghetto... but I had to give her a chance... Kathy loves her!!! She gave her bangs and a layers.... and she looks great...... So i had to give her a chance... So this is what I wanted....... Full bangs and kinda of a straight hair cut..... I talk to her about it and she says.... its a mushroom haircut.... I say.... yeah kinda but straighter across the bottom.... and then tell her.... do what you thinks looks best.... This should have been the tip off.....she looks at the picture and asks is that a boy...AHHHHHH.....not soo good So we talk and 30 minutes later she is finished...... She styles my hair similar to the photo..... and I think to myself... this is short! and I look like a boy...... AHHHHH at this point... she starts to give me a neck massage..... Which was amazing! granted it was only a 5 minute massage.. it felt amazing!!! totally worth it! hahahhah i wish i brought by beanie with me..... but I hair pinned it up instead... I needed to get use to the hair.... So, I go home that evening and my family wants to skype with me....... Yen screams and says what the hell did i do to my hair... Tuan sees it and says YOU LOOK LIKE A BOY... I AM NOW HIS BIG BROTHER.. :( do you get to see a photo..... ummmm not so much!!

9.27.08 Movie night

So the day started off pretty early.......about 9ish. I needed to go to Target to get more hangers to finally hang up all my clothes that have been in the boxes. Why did I wait so long to buy hangers? Well, the week before I went with Kathy and they ran out and would not get any until maybe Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. So another week of boxes.... okay, okay... I know I could get hangers anywhere, but I wanted the ones from target, they have the special hanger with the 'groove' for tank tops with wide straps....do you know what I mean. I DO NOT like the ones that are just straight! They do not hold the tanks at all and all my tanks end up on the ground. I mean this is probably lame to tons of you.... oh wait...it's NOT...you are reading the blog cuz you care! :P
We back to my Target trip, I got there and got a grip load of hangers and finally felt complete! But since it was still early and I knew the girls were not up yet, I decided to stop by Marshall's to look around a bit. I found myself in home section and found an amazing rug....take a look see! It was only $29.99.

I got home around 11ish and start to hang up my clothes and put my rug around the table....look...its already full! I feel at home now.... and my room is a mess! IT IS HOME!

I did not have anything planned for the day but Kathy finds out that 'Choke' just opened and wants to go see it..... I asked who is in the movie and she says Sam Rockwell and Angelica Houston. Those two names alone made me get off my computer chair....I mean I totally could have been at home blogging about nothing but I felt like this was a better choice......I hope....
...GO SEE IT!...

So we finally get off the couch and head out in the humid, rainy city. But 1st stop is Home Depot for the bed stablizers. Great invention!

Marc Ecko store window in Chelsea

So I have been craving some sushi since I got here...... All I wanted was GOOD sushi! What did I get... okay sushi, but found a new beer! Kirin Light! WOOOO WHOOOO!!!! Its all about the beer now.....Beer gut here I come! Follow in my Father's foot steps!
After the movie, we walk down to Chinatown to have a drink with Paolo at Fontana's. Before we walk in, the bouncer says to go all the way to the back......that's all he says.... we walk in and this place is packed! Right when we walk in we already saw people right at the door and eyes on us....I felt very violated...... after about 5 minutes in that place and not finding Paolo we walked right back out. On our journey of pushing people out of the way and side stepping to the front door I almost tripped a girl with my bag. I obviously apologize to her (like the nice person I am) but she looks back at me with the death stare.....I guess she did not want me to apologize...huh..... Well at that point...I wished I had just made her fall flat on her face.....
At this point, it is about 1am, so we walk to the train station to catch the train home. On our walk there.... we see Douche #3- we walks pass us saying 'Ching, chong, chen.' Apparently we were supposed to understand this, I start to look over at Kathy and at moment she says 'F YOU!'
So question..... do all Asians speak the same language? Do we all look the same? Or was this douche just trying to make us swoon over his ignorance? Please enlighten me...I would LOVE to know! Oh man....... I heart NY!

I walk up the stairs and there is grip load of people trying to get out onto the streets....walking up the stairs..I walk the pace everyone else on the stairs is walking....I get the surface and the Douche #4 behind me says under is breathe, 'F*** can you walk any faster.' I turn around and I looked at him with the death stare 'Uhhhhhhh ooooooookkkkkayyyyy.' I find Kathy and complain that people here are F***ing rude here. I mean seriously....was I supposed to zig and zag thru people walking up the stairs...cuz seriously.... we were like ants walking up the stairs....or was I supposed to grow longer legs so that I can skip steps like him.....I don't get it.... I mean seriously...he was not going to get any where faster....he had to wait for the bus like everyone else.....

TIP #9: If people would just grab the stick out of their asses...I think their outlook on life would be a much brighter one...or at least much more comfortable one.

9.18.08 CHA GIO FEAST?

After talking with Jill (the staffing agent) I decided I wanted to discover one part of the city and see if I could find any galleries.
I got to discover the East Village.
I took the A train to the L train that runs across town.
WELL, on the L train this Bum #1 comes into the car and starts to preach/yelling to us, let me see if I can remember what he said.......
-'you can at least look at me, we are all the same, black, white, Asian, Persian, Caucasian'
-'you are all hyprocrites'
-'all you with money and power should do some good, if you are THANK YOU! If you are not, stop bullshitting everyone and wake up!'
I have been scared numerous times, but he takes the wedding cake! I was seriously afraid to look at him, and if he asked for money, I would have given him everything!

I finally got off the L train and started to walk down 14th Ave and saw this pretty building blowing up smoke, like most NY'ers!

Isn't he pretty?
9th St Park (corner)
Gallery I went into. I reminded me of a blog kinda..... Gallery had photographs of friends, buildings, and things. I think all the photos were taken in Japan. What I really liked out of the gallery was an image of a side of an apartment building with clothes out on the fire escape drying.... my bad...I just looked up the website and the artist name is Haruto Hoshi. And the other image I liked was of a girl in her PJs in the middle of the street. I would totally steal the image (like the good Asian girl I am) but I do not want any headaches or you guys turning me in for shits and giggles! So check out the link below.... http://mwakasapresents.com/artists/hoshi/hoshi_w09.html

I do not know why I took this...

Okay there was totally good reason for this photo! Approximately 5 seconds before my stupid camera was ready to take the photo, this doggy was in full stride, walking
nonchalantly, then all of the sudden he his on his stomach with all legs at 90 degree angles. Oh man! Stupid camera! that would have been an amazing shot! I mean don't get me wrong, this photo is good too with his sunglasses but only if! only if I was 2 seconds faster!

Red Door #1: I guess I am gonna start taking photos of doors now.....

Trying to take a photo very discreetly!
It reminds me of the Patel Family! Pray anywhere!



Pile of wood.
So.....walking around the East Village, I started to think about dog S***. Why you might ask...well.....the city is covered it! Uh huh! If you are too cool and are looking straight at head and not at the ground...you are gonna step in dog S***, NY'ers stop trying to look cool and watch for the S***!
Tip #7: Watch for the Dog S***, people here do not curb there dogs!
Anyways, I was thinking that one day I will be off guard and my shoe will be in dog S***, and thought it would be a great post! Who wants to see this post! I do! I do!

Outside Virgin Megastore. These guys were AMAZING! They were just rocking out!

34th St entertainer! I HAVE video!!! I love his dance moooves.

The color is amazing!

Charity man! Supposedly this guy walks around asking people to donate .25 to the charity. Kathy said that one time he came up to her and asked for a quarter and he full out yelled at her! People here are crazy! Well, did I want the chance of getting yelled at....ummmm no not so much! I forked over a quarter to save myself.

Smokers on Broadway! I HATE YOU ALL!


So Kathy and some friends decide they wanted Vietnamese. Usually my answer is F no! But it has been 2 weeks and no Vietnamese food. Oddly I was very happy to go. See how happy I am below.....

This is the sad attempt at trying to jump, click my feet with jazz hands... SOOO SAD indeed!
So while outside NHA TRANG, Kathy tries to say it. Let me tell you right now....she is Asian but she is not Vietnamese! She totally butchered the name, like how everyone who first meets me calls me JUAN or OWEN! After a few failed attempts....I just told her to stop....Lets just say it sounded like NEEEEEE CHEN.
So what did everyone order..... Courtney and Jayne order Pho. Kathy and I order Rice Vermicelli. Kathy gets it with beef and I get it with Cha Gio (for you non Vietnamese and some Vietnamese peeps ( I am soo disappointed)) it is egg rolls. I am totally psyched for this dinner and I get deflated with I take the 1st bite of the Cha Gio. Ummmm not soo good! I need to go Vietnamese restaurant hunting here otherwise I am gonna go CRAZY! To be continued on the treasure hunt for Vietnamese!

A really amazing vintage store in the Lower East side. It is vintage shoe Heaven!

After a few too many drinks at the Library in the East Village.....Courtney was feeling a bit bummed so we decide she needs to give me a piggy back ride! I love these! Mark you are you ready!

Walking and texting is very dangerous!

Pomme Frites
So while at the Library I get the cravings for french fries! Fries are sooo good after drinking! On the far right, that is the lucky gentleman that got our pomme frites we did not finish! Can you see how happy he is that he did not have to pay for food and that he has more money for drinks!

The PO PO on horsies!
So how did we end the night...We go to get sake bombs! Ummm.... not so good! I tell everyone I can't do a sake bomb cuz it will totally come back up! But everyone still demands I take one!
Roger orders edamame, dry squid, sake and 5 sake bombs. But I yell to 'Garlic Mashed Potatos (the bartender)' '4', then Kathy yells '5', and I yell back '4' and then I get death stares from everyone and shut up!
We are all enjoying (kinda) the sake, edamame and squid and then the sake bombs come!
Thankfully 'Garlic Mashed Potatos' brought only 4, I guess he knew I was weak sauce! hehehe If he brought one for me the PO PO on the horsies would have to take me home!

09.08.09 The Great Walk and $5 Mondays

Sorry my peeps, I know you love to see pics of me but we were both way too tired to be taking pics this day. You all have a great imagination, now is the time to use it!
Yen and I took the subway all the way to Chambers street-near the WTC site and went to '21st Century' but it is actually called Century 21. Crazy place.... we almost saw a fight break out cuz a lady cut in line.. Women are psycho!
We went back onto the subway and got off of Canal to go thru Chinatown. We saw Vietnamese people. They live here too?
Yen got ripped off, she lost a whole $2... She went to the 3rd vendor off the subway station and bought 5 white I heart NY t shirts for $10, we went two more vendors down and he was offering 6 white I heart NY t shirts for $10. We walked down Canal for about 15 minutes and was over it!
We then walked down Broadway to get to Soho, to go to Urban Outfitters, for their summer sale. We both left with nothing in hand, just sore feet.
For lunch we saw a Dean & Deluca, went in and walked right out... Why is cut fruit soo expensive...someone please give me a knife and I will show you how to cut fruit for only $2. After this traumatizing event we saw a Wendy's, the cheapiest meal so far.... meal for 2 under $10...I am soo cheap.
After lunch we tried to walk back to the Canal station but I got side tracked my Mercer Street. I dragged Yen into APC, Opening Ceremony, and Sunglass Hut. I want Gucci glasses! Anyone want to give me $320. I started to get a bit dehydrated (big word huh) and saw my happy place, Jamba Juice, ordered my Mango-a-go-go 16oz with no ice, $4.50.......ummm $4.50....I about cried when I saw that...I will only have Mango-a-go-gos once a month! Sorry Jamba! You are too expensive for my tastes in Manhattan.
Then we walked to Washington Square. Yen swears we were walking in circles...but I didn't think so...I had the map...She didn't... On our way to walking in circles, I found my other happy place....Thrift stores! OMG..... If I wasn't so tired, I would have gone in.


For dinner we had Australian food. I had eaten hear 4 years ago. Lucky us...it was $5 Mondays...everything on the menu was $5. Total dinner cost for 3 peeps $25 for 3 entrees, 3 drinks and 2 free shots... pretty good.... I can't wait til Monday again.


$5 to who can guess what is wrong with this photo...Yen and Kathy can't say!

$5 dessert truck


Bus ride to subway station! I love this sign!