Holiday Cheer

On Sunday, I got together with a few of my closest friends. In true, Asian time they were all 30 minutes late. And it started with Nat and Angus. Then the twins. Can I say the shutter bugs were there in full force. I’m so blinded from all that flash action.

In fact, I even hid James camera to see how long it would take for him to figure it was gone. And of course, Kevin want to see how long it would take for James to freak out. Must be a twin thing. All in all, it was great to have a good meal laughs with my friends.

Mmmm.. Eggs Benedict.

December 31, 2007 at 6:39 am · Friends & Family· Permalink ·

Holiday in New York

Holidays have always been strange for me. It’s more like most of my friends leave the city like the plague. And normally, don’t have anything to do but to watch bad TV. So what to do on this rainy Sunday? While waiting in front of the Apple store on Fifth Avenue, I climbed up onto the platform to snap a picture of the holiday decorations only to be immediately escorted off because the security guy though I was going to slip and fall.

So it didn’t take much to be lured to the Central Park Zoo to see lions, tigers and bears. Oh my! Well it was more like polar bears, penugins, monkey, and sea lions. The zoo wasn’t the Galapagos, but it was kind of neat to see animals in the middle of the city. A bird even pooped in front of me. Did I mention that was very rude.

One of the birds was so cute. He puffed up his chest so I snapped a photo of him. Reminded me of the frigate birds in the Galapagos. He was cute little bugger.

December 24, 2007 at 4:41 pm · Mishaps & MisAdventures· Permalink ·

Santacon 2007

Ho.. ho.. HO! It’s that time of year again. The annual Santa stopover in NYC on for a day of spreading holiday cheer and debauchery galore. We started off around 10 am at Pier 45 and that is where the mischief began. After last year, my friends stated specifically if I wander off I would be on my own. So of course, I wander off.

And low and behold, I saw Rudolph in his little photo op. And I had to walk right, up to him, and pull his blinking nose. Unfortunately, it snapped back onto his nose and yelped. I think that was my cue to run. And I did. With two reindeers hot on my tail. Who would expected Rudolph would have friend with him this year. My friends heard a commotion amongst the crowd of santas and was wondering what was going on. Then I suddenly appeared. And they just knew that I was the cause of all this mischief. Both Toolbelt and Dom Santa immediately told me, I was on my own. Poor little santa was being cornered by two reindeers and santas didn’t have her back. Bah Hum Bug, I say! Eventually I made peace with the reindeer. They were surrounded by santas.

Santacon was a reunion of sorts, in that Toolbelt , Dom Santa and I had bumped into the first santa we met on the train last year. It was really sweet, that we were able to run into some old friends. Even though it was pretty brief.

Soon we migrated to Time Square where we ran into some unsuspecting tourist. The pit stop was short. And then we had a long break at Tompkin Square Park.
Everything all ended in DUMBO at a fire spinning show.

And then it was time for me to head over to my cousin’s housewarming party, in which I made my entrance in a santa suit with a bag full of cheese. Can I say, Ho.. Ho.. HO!

December 8, 2007 at 9:38 pm · Essentially NY· Permalink ·