Dear Julie
6/6/22 Recently, I bought a second home at the most center of Manhattan. I signed the contract at 5/20 (it is a natural date resulted from our purchasing progress), and I was thinking, “today is a Chinese Valentine’s day? my son was born at a western Valentine’s day, and both are my beloved products. Interesting!”. My parents were chickened when they heard this news but they fully supported me (touching!). Jeremy even doesn’t want to talk about it, haha — I am a fully trouble maker most of the time to men. Of course, I bought using my own money (muscle).
In Manhattan, excluding the tourists, probably 90% of people are younger than me, 80% are more attractive than me, 70% of are richer than me, 60% are more sophisticated/elegant than me… Julie is one of such girls and she is from Seoul. We often joke that she supports all of my play and I help her find a boy friend, haha. With her support, I have started two groups, “NYC the best girls’ night” and “Outdoor Adventures AnyWhere”. Most of the time, I am out playing with what so ever and she happily joined me. The coordination is very easy. I admire her strength of building friendships, considering that most of people in Manhattan run around for their own agenda all the time. BTW, after I heard that my industry colleague makes 800 k a year, I totally gave up my guilty of not working hard.
Julie is younger than me, but she is like my big sister. Early in the winter, I often told people “i have to dress up for Julie”, Julie then said to people “you know, she always wears this orange jacket EVERYWHERE … “. Sigh, it sounds like I am one of the homeless in NYC :). Nowadays, I learned to wear dresses and put up make ups to make sure that my friends do not look bad when going out fine dining with me. I also do charity running events with Julie. She taught me how to prepare my breakfast with black beans to increase my protein intake. My favorite part of our hangout is that we sometimes escape a day from work and play somewhere out of town.
One time, a group of girls finished high tea, and then someone asked, “where are you going next?” I said “I am going to museum of sex” “I want to go too … ” ” me too …” Shit, I don’t know so many girls are enthusiastic about going to the museum of sex. Hmm, maybe they just get bored?! Then I added “you know, there is a museum of mathematics across the museum of sex too, if you are interested, we can go there too”. “errh .. ” one girl showed an expression; “it is boring…”, Julie said. Hmm, maybe the market is I should go to museum of sex with my girl friends and going to museum of mathematics with my guy friends. At the end, Julie and I went to the museum of sex and we laughed from the beginning to the end. One place of a laughter is that when I was waiting for Julie at the entrance (it is also the gift shop), someone comes to me asking for help. “are you working here? can you help find <product name> ….” Ahh? all the people working in the gift shop wears their products, but I worn a jumpsuit covering from top to the bottom. Hmm, maybe I just look very confident in that store compared to the rest girls that hide behind their boy friends 😀
To celebrate Julie’s birthday in March (I was out of town for my dad), I recently have booked men striped club tickets (she wanted to try this as she never went before). Jeremy said that I should order a lap dance too. Haha, what a world! All these J+ people!
Outdoor Skating Rinks in New York
4/13/22 Time flies, it is already April! This semester is exciting. I worked on 7 papers (not all submitted yet), submitting 1 proposal, recruited many new students, saw many apartments, went to a lot of shows and restaurants, saw many new people, made good friends, played 3 new piano pieces, and did 1 charity run … oh, also dealt with many Covid shit for my parents. Although I did not do much online friendship making, I don’t think there is any change in terms of my love to you all. Stupid interactions only destroy the beautiful past and do not lead to anywhere.
There are many things I can write about New York. Since we ended with skating in the last post, we can continue the topic of skating. New York has three famous outdoor skating rinks, central park, rock-feller center and bryant park. The cool things about these rinks are that you can see skyscrapers, sun, travelers, you can hear the horns, city noises. I think all the skating rinks close around mid March. You will need to book reservations online before you go, only can reserve one hour a time.
Rock-feller center is most expensive but it offers free lockers. It is also the biggest rink and the least crowded (I think). Its skate rental is $10. Bryant park is free, but it is the smallest and the ice is like a piece of glass. I felt down quite a few times as my skates stuck in the ice. Bryant park is also the most crowded. Central park is the second most crowd. I went there 10:00am waiting for its opening then it is not too bad. Central park has the most expensive skates rental (20$-30$?) and locker rental ($8?). After skating at the central park, I got mad :). I went outside of Manhattan and bought my own skates. This skate shop is professional, called Westside Skate. You can make an appointment with their specialist to fit and mold a good pair of skates for your feet. (too sleepy to continue, come back later if I remember more things)
Central park
Byrant park
Rock feller center
The warmness of New York
3/6/22 Regarding Russia and Ukraine … at some point of my life, I wanted to be a journalist in the battle field. At this point of my life, I felt none of the war is worthy except the one where a mother protects the child. Reflecting in my daily life, I am only hanging out and working with kind and good people and tell the rest I am busy. Great that the earth always has some wonderland like New York (Jeremy hears this, he probably will start arguing with me, then I will tell him I am busy and not available, haha)
B-612 @ New York
Romance @ Covid Era
Best Indian food I had so far
Many more
To my beloved New York
Came to New York, I become as crazy as I used to be. For example, i went to the Madison Square Garden just waiting for this song.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BFU2VTpZIvZIAldagdrJkSCI3Fs75Mwf/view?usp=sharing
For example, late at night 11pm, i was still singing loud in the street like a drunk person. For example, 3am i was up writing my diary, xixi. Then right now, I am supposed to catch my nsf review deadline, but I am writing blog entry instead?
Came to New York, I often question myself “what the hell i was doing in the past few years?” —– New York is such an amazing place that wakes you up! i met many good people. Yeah, that’s the place you want to be, surrounded by those awesome people!
One time I met an old man in some music venue (where people wrote down their emails). Two days later, he sent me an email said “he has a ticket for XXX concert and his wife cannot come because of work. He asked if I can come” Everything reads fine. It is a famous Russian pianist so I plan to go. Then his email said “I am not looking for a “date” but just want to sit with somebody who also like piano” I WAS LAUGHING for about half an hour. Well, when I arrived that day and get the ticket, I noticed that the ticket is close to $200 and I never sit that close to see clearly the face of the pianist. Good that I remembered to buy his wife a gift.
Another time, I met a girl in my pilate class. Since we lived close, so we walked home together and noted each other’s contact. The second day she sent me a Wechat message. Then I noticed that her Wechat is all about flying around places for luxurious life. She looks like a hot movie star in those pictures. A recent one is that she was in LA some super rich people’s house attending the superbowl party. Wow
Climbing gym @ UWS (up west side)
2/20/22 yes, still there
Top rope is a mile long, felt never could finish
This gym has a lot of fun bouldering courses. I learned from some guru how to switch the feet on a small rock
not me
Chalk is free, but this dispense injects only disinfect, surprise!
Tip: going there early morning weekends. This place is filled up very quickly!
Hi :)
Good night
Entering a shopping mall, left is some kind of hot man, wooooooo, right is fancy VENUS et FlEUR, lol, totally boosting my mood, and decided to rank it as the best shopping mall for now …
