new york city

The holidays are here! No classes from Thursday to Sunday due to the Jewish holidays of Yom Kippur.

I just came back from a chinese buffer (yin yang chinese buffet near stony brook), with my room mate who drove there. food was crazy, we ate like shrek (esp my room mate who tears and munches the alaskan crabs). Oh yes, alaskan crabs are HUGE! its shell is not brittle, but tough and flexible, we had to use a nut cracker to break into it.

The M'sian gang took the LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) to jamaica, queens. then bought a day pass and switched to the infamous new york subway. yes, it's dirty and humid at the bottom. despite it's infamous reputation, it is life line of new york city.
we went to the lower and midtown of manhattan isle.

places we visited:
little italy - ate in a fancy italian restaurant at mulbery street.
chinatown - oh yes, it does look like petaling street only bigger and much more diverse
battery park - seen liberty isle with the famous lady of liberty at a distance, we lie down on the grass and chilled for an hour
city hall - just the outside
rockefelle center - just seen it at a distance, it's close to MoMA (museum of modern art which i planed to visit even when i was still back in m'sia)
6th street - where we lined up for 1 hour just for the famous chicken and rice
1st street - where we ate at a friend's japanese restaurant
serendipity - an ice cream shop famous for its $1000 ice cream sprinkled with gold dust, this shop was featured in a scene from serendipity
world trade center site - pretty touching to see a site where once 2 buildings stood now destroyed, names of the perished now immortalized on a plaque

i was kinda blur throughout the whole trip, i didn't talked much, so kinda forgot where we actually went. but i enjoyed myself. i haven't got a dSLR yet :-( but i can share pictures from my friends' camera.

conclusion? returning to the city is definite. i can't wait to take pictures of balding trees, blanketing the ground with its yellow and red leaves.. what a picturesque sight it might be!