Beach, and a little bit of everything in Manhattan

 the girls at manhattan beach

Wednesday: Planned to go to Manhattan Beach today because it's super hot out! Viv & I took the train/bus there, which felt like forever in the heat. Calvin was already there and Viv & I just tanned until Jon, Jen, and Alex came to join later on. They had a beach umbrella so we didn't melt under the hot sun haha. Then we talked and drew silly cartoons on Jen's sketchbook. We left the beach around 5-6PM and Jon drove us to eat pho at 86st. After that I went home to take a nice, cleansing shower. That night, Sunny walked his new doggie, Telly, over. It was super adorable and friendly! We talked for a few hours and then I went to bed.

my chicken cutlet @ Cafe Orlin

Thursday: Viv & I were supposed to watch Sex & City and then hop to Letters to Juliet but that didn't happen because I ended up being super late because my internet suddenly stopped working right before I had to leave my house. My mom and cousin were nagging me to fix it and I frantically tried to somehow make it work but failed anyways. We saw Sex & City at a later time and then walked to St.Marks for some food. Viv got kind of cold so she quickly bought a sweater at American Apparrel haha. We wandered around looking for a new place to try out but couldn't find anything other than Japanese Ramen places (which I love but must try new things!). So we ended up at Cafe Orlin (Mediterranean food) at Jimmy's suggestion. Unfortunately it suddenly started raining so after we ate, we just went home :(

playing with the military gear

Friday: Last day to hang out with Viv :'( We decided to go out for Fleet Week. We first went to Times Sq where we got to see and climb aboard a tank. There were a lot of people from the Army and the Navy all around. Viv even tried to do chin ups on this high bar, which was pretty impressive since she was so tiny. There was a bunch of stuff going on, like mini shows of push-ups, and equipment exhibitions. We then migrated towards the pier at 48th and 12th ave to the ship tours. They didnt allow drinks nor pepper spray so we both chugged our drinks and Viv stuffed her pepper spray down her pants LOL. We made it through the bag search & metal detectors though so it was all good. We went aboard to one of the fleets and it was HUGE. There were tons of tanks and other big vehicles on the bottom level. We took pics with some of them but there were lines so we kept moving. There was also a big equipment exhibition so we both took pics with guns and helmets and vests, etc. Pretty cool.

the navy band

We then made our way up to the deck where there were many types of military helicopters. We took some more pics and then tried to go over to the 2nd fleet, which had really colorful helicopters. Unfortunately, it was starting to close so we couldn't get in. We walked back to Times Sq for the Fleet Week concert. We didn't know what to expect and Jon met up with us, but the concert turned out to be awesome! The navy band did many covers of popular songs and everybody had a blast. Viv thought the drummer was cute and we ended up getting a photo with him, yes! 

Went to eat Korean at 32nd street after that. I love free side dishes :) But then I realized that my the little monster doll I had gotten with the seniors was gone. It hadn't fallen off my bag because the clip is also gone. I think someone stole it :'( Damn NYC hooligans. Went home after that.

congee village, yum!!

Saturday: Today was a super, super eventful day. Met up with Google in Chinatown and went to eat at Congee Village. So delicious, I gotta go back there!! Then I tried to get a haircut but the wait was too long so I didn't end up getting one. 

 what do you think?? he looks creepy here hahah!

So we walked down to St.Marks to get sunglasses. Tried on a few pairs and we both found ones that we liked.  At first the salesman said they were 10 each. We then said no way and he just dropped the price down to $6 each. Nice.

After that Google wanted to get some lobster rolls so we went to this little place to get some. After peeing at Starbucks, we decided to go see McGruber at the movie theatre. Didn't turn out to be such a good movie but it was alright. 

Then, we went to play pool. I sucked, of course, but I learned a lot! Practiced some shots and Google of course recorded me doing terribly :( 

We then went to Khyber Pass to smoke hookah for my first time :) We had the peach and mango mix flavor. It was pretty interesting. Took a little getting used to but eventually I think I got the hang of it.

Afterwards, we got Pomme Frites as promised. We had the Vietnamese Pineapple and something Mango sauce for dipping. It was sooo good. I must go back again. We ate at a random park and then snuck inside this church to try to find a place to pee, but no success. Went back to Khyber Pass and peed hahaha. 

some guy spittin out rhymes @ union sq

THEN went to Union Square to sit on the steps. There was actually a poetry slam/rap taping going on. People were giving their best lines and some were really good, others were ehhh. It was really entertaining and I'm definitely going to miss these kinds of night-life things in NYC. Other people were dancing, music was playing, and everyone was just chilling at 1AM in the morning on these steps. I never felt more alive in NYC then now.