The third day…. Central Park and Time Square were our destinations where all the pictures were taken. The rest of the day was spent on wandering along 5th avenue for some shopping. Facts revealed during the day: I didn’t like plain pretzels, at all, even that I was trying hard to like it. If you see the third picture (from the top) is me holding plain pretzel with some salt spread on top of it. I should have had it with cinnamon or sugar then I would be happy. Those from Auntie Anne’s are dainty, though. Sick of having junkfood everyday, we were being adventurous-eaters that day and stopped by a restaurant nearby the Central Park, which name was Park Cafe. I love the place, a bit classic and simple and as it turned out, I fell in love with the beef barley soup or something like that. I forget the exact name (see the fourth from the top picture, the soup was right on my table). It’s rich of taste, definitely food of my liking!

Three day trip of NYC is not enough for me. I love NYC, despite the hatred or woes some people share about the city. Some friends of mine who had also been here appeared to have love and hate relationship with this city. I was the other way round, though. That’s love and love relationship I was having! haha. Well, nothing’s perfect, nowhere is perfect. It’s only the matter of how we see the thing or the place that makes things feel perfect. Coming again to this city? I really wouldn’t mind one bit, but that’s only if my bank account is fat enough to afford the jaunt. haha.

The weather in NYC on this second day was a bit more bearable than was the first day. With maps in our hands, we made our way to the downtown, immersed with the crowd in the Battery Park, took a ferry to the Liberty Island, passed the famous Brooklyn Bridge, and spent quite some time in the Rockefeller Centre. If you were in town that day and you spotted two little girls looking very touristy, holding maps whilst looking for directions, speaking in different language, being occupied by cameras, silly-ing around, taking endless photographs everywhere (as in E V E R Y W H E R E), and smiling all the way…. that must be us! ha! We are two adventurous tourists! Cheers!

Anyway, we had a great time that day. People looked so happy. It was Saturday, and a bright day one in the morning-afternoon (showers at around 5 pm but that wasn’t a big deal). New York is one of those cities (together with Paris and London) where chicest people live. I really enjoyed the view of chic people of different style trafficking the road (and moi was the ugly duckling one, haha). They had alluring gestures and as weird as it may sound, this kind of view felt magical to me. ha!

My sister also wrote interesting stories in her blog about this particular trip, I believe you don’t want to miss it. Find the link attached and feel free to have one quick reading or two.

Nope, I’m not finished yet with this New York thingy. tee hee.. Keep an eye for “Part 3″ post.

Our first day in the New York wasn’t so much of a lucky day. It was that kind of weather I much hate during travelling that actually got to us. Adding to that, my outfit didn’t really fit the weather. I’m telling you now, wearing a long skirt during rainy day is actually a complete fallacy. Enough is enough. Lesson learnt, for me. However.. bad weather, dressing-fallacy or whatever bad situation you name it can never make strong reasons not to enjoy holiday. So I fast got back to happy-holiday mood (ok, I come clean, my mood recovered only after I grabbed a glass of strawberry milk frappuccino, tee hee).

Our hotel was located in about the centre of NYC, between the downtown and uptown, east and west. It was exactly in the Madison Avenue, East 31st Street which took only short walking distance to the nearest Subway station, and only one block away from the 5th avenue. So the location helped us big time.

This first day we didn’t do much of sightseeing. We picked places where could be safe from rain, wise enough, eh? To the shopping centres, we went! This time we headed to the Soho area and 5th avenue. I love New York for the ease in map-reading. I was a map-illiterate before, but in New York everything was just so easy and even some dumb like me could head to the right direction. No hassle at all! Here I’m proudly saying that we didn’t get lost as often as we used to! haha. Isn’t that great? Absolutely yes.

New york is a big city. Just as any big cities, New York City is very bustling and bursting, packed with people. Skyscrapers and shopping centres are all over. Traffic jam is quite an issue, so is crime, but I like it that way eventhough living there might be another story that I can’t tell yet. It felt amazing that I got to see with these naked eyes what I usually saw in television or magazines. More importantly, I was over the moon that I got to feel the ambiance which for the first few moments felt so surreal to me. haha.

I’m coming with the second day story. Keep an eye ; )

As far as I’ve noticed, it hasn’t been any different since the past years that the end of travelling/holiday/vacation always leaves me with two essential things: (1) exhiliration (new travelling experience is reallyyyyy exhilirating given that I’m a wanderlust, and that I feel good to finally be back home; wherever it is I call “home”) and (2) exhaustion. These five days, my both feet have been overabused as always when I go travelling. I should tell you that in my travelling dictionary, there’s no go-back-to-the-hotel word until my feet themselves cry for a rest, which I often late-realised that they needed to. My feet are in deep pain and bruised at the moment, haha. By now, I should really understand that there’s limit in everything. Note to self!

I’m back in my sister’s apartment now. The jaunt went really well, we had a great time and enjoyed every inch of it from the nicest to the weirdest. I have lots of things and pictures to share but I’m gonna keep them for tomorrow. I’m too powerless to sort out the enormous collection of new pictures in my folder. But there I gave you my attempted street-style pictures during my travel (do tell me if you are already sickened by seeing my pictures all over, haha). My sister and I have teamed up to become personal photographer to each other, haha. Those are her captures! She’s got talent, don’t you think?! As for now, I can’t be bothered to do things other than enjoy a Chinese takeaway for dinner and lots of cookies from the fridge as I’m working out with the post-travelling energy-recovery.

Good night, people! Or good morning, whatever!

The way my sister and I dressed up these last two days pretty much took my memories back to our childhood (those old dayssss, oh yeah) when people often mistook us as twins at first glances. That’s all because of mum!! She made us wear similar outfits everyday, or if not exactly the same, they only came different in colours but still, similar style. Whilst the second picture didn’t quite prove that, the first picture got something surely. Striped t-shirt? Blazer? skinny trousers? Yes, a lot to tell.

We’ve got most of my sister’s college thingy settle in at the moment and following that exciting news, we’re starting our east coast jaunt tomorrow for 6 days ahead! The weather forecast for this weekend scared us to some bits as it said sulky weather will get us this weekend. A bunch of luck is all we need here in order to get as much as lovely weather as we can. But no matter what, we’re giddy excited!