What a memorable birthday it was for me. Totally unplanned dinner/wine bar with friends from san francisco and an old friend from insession days!! vlad happened
to be in town for the RSA conference. What ensued was talk of the past and the present over wine. The setting was Solstice in Pacific Heights. The ambience of the place and the chance for two chapters of my life to be able to come together on my birthday was just surreal :)
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Tue, 02 Feb 2010
The last 3 months
Have been epic. I almost made the choice to leave San Francisco and in the process discovered how much I love that city. I arrived in New York and after 3 days resigned from my job there. I then spent the next month pretending to be a New Yorker but living a fake life of eating at all the restaraunts and being a tourist. It was cold, dark, hectic but I met some really good people along the way. It really did feel like that Empire State of mind song. So many people going about their lives. My base camp was the upper west side closed to 72nd st station, its always an experience I will remember.
Leaving New York I transited thru San Francisco and caught up with friends there for 48hrs we went to the Punk Drunkers brand launch in lower haight, they had live art, music and dance going on it was a really cool event!! The night before I left I had dinner with larz and miki its kinda symbolic my last meal was sichuan with friends that traverse life in australia and the united states. Needless to say my tongue was on fire and I was heavily sweating, not the best meal to have before a 14hr trans continental flight too......
Sydney...another 3 weeks if epicness, chilling at bronte beach with the water temperature just right, having the opportunity to live in my old house in the rocks by the worlds most beautiful harbour and then in the most awesome loft studio by hyde park and oxford street! Then catching up with old friends but making so many new ones *____*. I am too lucky. Good food good company good weather and so much love being shown to me. I had second thoughts if only I could live in two places at once!!!!
It feels like I had a three month sabbatical but instead of reflecting on life my life it became even more of a blur. For now I start a new chapter the project for the
next few months is to work like I never have before and to try and start dancing again. Looking back though, the last three months is more than I could hope for in the
experiences I wanted to have...to jetset, to cross paths with so many amazing people and to be given the opportunity to put my efforts into something I believe in. I'm
such a lucky bastard >_______<
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009
If San Francisco is the mother...
New York is the father and I am the child. How do you ask a child to make a choice between its parents?
Walking through the streets of San Francisco, the sky is blue, the climate is perfect, hustle and bustle in chinatown on the stockton 45 bus, the froth of my white mocha from cafe bean, meanwhile encountering a bunch of locals supsrised to see me, chester my barista, ming my hairdresser and my banker at bank of america hehehehe.
Rewind 48hrs, I'm in the east village, the cold is biting, sharing (or at
least trying) to share the warmth, we chill in a cafe on 10th and Ave
A/1st Ave sheltering from the cold, endless conversation, then onto the
subway taking us to so many places, the city is so crowded and I
have feelings of solitude and closeness all at the same
time. The E train, a taxi, a plane takes me away but now it has left an
impression on my heart and mind.
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009
Serendipity moments
My last few days in New York passed by like magic, today I get on a taxi to JFK and from there a plane back to San Francisco. It feels bittersweet and I'm going with mixed feelings both happy and sad at the same time. The movie title sums things up, 'New York, I love you'.
Spanish Tapas @ Casa
Mono, Union Square. Slightly salty :)
Lychee Martini's @ Verlaine,
Lower East Side. Literally sweet :)
5pm Fashion Ave, midtown
New York, I love You @ Quad Cinema. Several short stories while creating a
story of our own :)
Dinner @ Tuck Shop, Lower East
Side. A lesson in aussie culture!
Coffee @ The Crippled Tree, East Village. Hiding from the cold outside
And all throughout, effortless, flowing conversation about moments in
time, experiences growing up, new york, immigration, political
science, relationships, horoscope astrology, travel and good old getting
to know you :)
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Sun, 13 Dec 2009
ping jazz pong
In new york live jazz accompanies everything...at a catholic church 6pm mass at morning side heights you get live jazz, while playing ping pong at fat cats in the west village, you get live jazz! Suprisingly at live jazz houses you even get live jazz! :)
I only ate alcohol today, we went to this house dance competition @ public assembly it was so raw!! Also I got to see Williamsburb for the first time, it is definitley super trendy as soon as I got off the L @ Bedford I got that vibe.
Later on we hit up Fat Cats on
the upper west side to play ping pong to live jazz hahahahahaha Props to
shino for showing us this place :)
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Fri, 11 Dec 2009
Observations of new york
Winter coats fucking awesome. duffle coats, pea coats, trench coats, single brested, double brested etc etc....gloves, scarves, boots I love it!
When I exit the subway, as the train pulls away my contact lense almost pops out from the breeze, when I'm having a conversation on the subway and a train passes by we have to stop because its just too loud.
East village. My neighbourhood for sure. Like minded people congregate here...but then after that what more is there? St Mark's Place, any cross street of 1st avenue below 14th st = WIN
NYC is a scenester scene, people are there to be seen. Case in point BNE art show.
Random chat #1 (socialising...) - Oh what is BNE? I'm here with my sister for the advertising agency thats backing this event!
Random chat #2 (boys toilet line): Yooo this crowd is fading y0 where the next cr0wd @ mangggggg
1 million restraunts, 1 million clubs, 1 million bars, 1 million events which one to goto????
I walk into the bathroom of random vietnamese restaraunt in 14st Union Square and see my friends sticker in the bathroom. I have dinner in East village on 6th and 1st ave and see my friends friends sticker, 4am in the morning trying to get a cab mate is randomly tagging between Avenue C to D.
I'm so torn on what to do :(
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Sun, 06 Dec 2009
migs first friday in NYC
st marks pl dinner
random sake lounge
sunburnt cow happy hour
rejected from dj red alert club in chelsea
accepted into APT @ meatpacking
buzzzzzzzzed
somewhere on E train
wake up somewhere in Queens
back to Manhattan
upper west side
off to MOMA!
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Mon, 28 Sep 2009
Greetings from New England
Or Boston, MA to be exact. I took a random flight booked 12hrs before hand to see some friends from North Eastern University and MIT. Landing Saturday night, bouncing Monday night. Sunday night met up with an old friend from high school days, my friend is a PhD in crazy physics (cosmology) and is currently assisting for a nobel prize winner @ MIT WTF!!! Last time we saw each other was townhall steps, george street ~ 2004 so its kinda surreal to be kickin it on the east coast 5 years later...
Earlier that weekend I hit up shabuzen for lunch and then ended up at King's Chapel cemetery looking at gravestones as old as 1681!! All in all Boston is really quaint, I see a lot of gorgeous old school buildings, and elements that remind me of Seattle, New York and Sydney rolled into one. Props to Lynn and Peng for letting me crash over @ their place >___<
Yes I know I haven't blogged in a while, 2009 has been a noop for me on
certain fronts, hopefully I have something positive to report to you guys
and myself in the months to come!! For anyone that still reads this
greetz!!!
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Thu, 04 Jun 2009
Lost in Scandinavia :)
And now we deviate from our regular programming, here's an email from my parents who are lost in scandinavia!
Hi boys & all,
Yesterday we were in Stockholm and whilst touring the place, the weather was cold and wet and unfortunately our winter gear were in the hotel. So it sort of spoiled it for us when we got off the couch to go on foot. It was chilly so we opted to stay indoors, i.e. NK dept store and browsed! What a shame.
We boarded a large cruise ship called Silja Lines at 5pm same day and arrived this morning at Helsinki - not quite the rest of Europe we've seen so far but still beautiful. And would you' believe we visited a Lutheran Cathedral which I had the mistaken notion of being an Orthodox Church. Not quite. Again I met Mr Luther standing in a church nook. Finland has both Swedish and Russian influences having been once occupied by the 2. Now we pay 50 euro cents to use the toilets and 5 swedish krone whilst in stockholm. the Swedes are nice along with Danes and Finns coz we always make a point of conversing with locals to check out their niceness!! We had lunch across the road from the hotel in a flea market - fried bait and vegs - really yummy. But nothing beats the salmon spread at the cruise ship - the smorgasbord really fantastic.
Cant send pics coz we cant download but will show you them when we get home. Take care all. The 2 of us.
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Fri, 29 May 2009
The world is small
Last week some friends from australia visited me here and I realised something. I really enjoy seeing friends in a place thats far away from where our friendships first blossomed :)
Case in point, australian friends in the states, seattle friends in japan,
montreal friends in san francisco, san francisco friends in japan, etc etc
etc. So next time we hang out, lets meet up in a place thats mutually
exclusive to the both of us ok? :p
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