I’m still struggling to get over my jetlag. Yesterday I woke up at 12.30PM or so, the day before at after 1PM. For the first time ever in my life, I had My Hello Kitty waking up earlier than me albeit just by half an hour or so. I’m going to be traveling a lot more too. This Thursday I’m going to Singapore for a conference and some meetings, then right after Singapore I’m going to Beijing and then Hong Kong for some business. I haven’t recovered from missing home yet… but oh well.. that’s my life.
Now let me continue telling you guys what else I did in New York.
Right after I was done visiting the Empire State Building, I went back to the hotel to meet My Hello Kitty who had just arrived. We then headed to this Pizza place in SOHO that Raymond suggested which is apparently the first and oldest pizza place in New York.
This is Raymond and Xes.
I actually met Raymond on that day itself. Raymond messaged me on Facebook to tell me that he reads my blog and offered to show me around so I met up with him. Raymond works in New York.
We did some quick ordering of the pizza and it came really soon.
That was some really great pizza right there.
And if that wasn’t enough, Raymond later brought us for what’s supposed to be the Best Cheesecake in NYC. It’s at this place called Junior’s just off Times Square.
I ordered a hot chocolate along with it too which came in this big cup and was yummy! I love the hot chocolate in the USA. I ordered it everywhere I went. I wonder why Malaysia doesn’t have such good hot chocolate.
The cheesecake was a bit of an extreme feat. I mean it looked big but not that big but by the time I was just halfway through, I couldn’t eat another bite. We went back there again the next day to meet up with another reader of mine, Ai Ling and I made sure then to share my cake with Xes. My Hello Kitty after all doesn’t eat cake. She’s the only person I know who doesn’t eat cake. Even her own birthday cake!
The next day we all went SHOPPING! We hopped on to a bus to Woodbury which is a discount outlet about an hour and a half away from New York. It was this really really nicely developed area but it was raining that day so that kinda ruined it for us. All the shopping bags we carried were all made from paper and once they were wet from the rain they easily tore apart.
This is me in the Ferragamo store, 5 minutes before learning that I couldn’t afford anything Ferragamo even when it’s at a discount outlet.
My Hello Kitty concurred so all she did there was take pictures of herself in the mirror.
I did however discover an awesome drink when I was there. Walking around I saw a vending machine and you know I love vending machines right. Especially when I see them in a foreign county… i just like seeing what different drinks they have.
This time I went for this Nestle drink called Nesquik Vanilla Milk. It was awesome! It’s just like vanilla milkshake but in a bottle. I wish they would bring that over here.
By the end of the day we were all done with our shopping but the difficult part was going back to New York. You see instead of having a fixed seat on a bus on a given time, there was just a timetable in which the buses would come. Then once the bus came you had to fight for a seat on board and if you missed the seat, you would have to wait for the next bus which was an unpleasant wait because it was raining and cold.
I felt like we were refugees struggling to get off a war-torn country… but we eventually got on and I slept all the way on the way home.
We went back and we met up with Carol who was very much our guide for much of the trip.
Here’s Carol and My Hello Kitty taking a picture in the New York Subway. The Subway is actually quite easy to use once you get the hang of it. When I first went there I was totally confused. Really doesn’t work like the way the London Underground works. I love taking subways though.
Okay everyone. That’s enough for this post. I shall leave this post with a picture of me in front of the Trump Tower.
I thought that the Trump Tower was a little bit of a disappointment. I mean if you go into it, it looks like a 4-star hotel back in the 90s or so. It’s just old looking and really unimpressive. Of course I don’t know how the upstairs look and I think this is where Donald Trump is supposed to be staying (according to some man on the street) and his crib upstairs is supposed to be some freakin mega-luxurious place. Maybe it’s just the lobby and all that wasn’t impressive looking.
I actually accidentally stumbled across the Trump Tower. I was lining up outside Abercrombie & Fitch when I looked across the road and saw “Hey look! Trump Tower!”
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Anyway, until next time everyone.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space