Sniffle & Burn

Yeah, the title is kinda weird but it makes sense to me. Sniffle from the cold weather, burn refers to the slight fever that i have. Yup. What a wonderful start to Day 3 in the Big Apple.

So after walking about 5 hours non-stop yesterday, i woke up to a rather stiff back. I have deceided to NOT use a sling bag for looooooong time. Gonna take my trusty backpack with me.

My mom called this morning and i tried to pretend that i was NOT sleeping. I dont think i fooled her. Mr Ho came back at abt 4:30 and i remember i took his "extra firm" pillow away for myself. Haha.

Was supposed to go to Saten Island today to check out Lady Liberty but according to my bro, it is too cold to be out near the waters. Bummer.

New plan for today:
- Chinatown for lunch
- Walking around Rockafella
- Browse a cool bookstore
- Eat a dirty water dog

Am supposed to watch some kind of movie tonight. I wonder what my bro has in mind. If it is gonna be Narnia, I think i might pass. Why? Just cause i am not into that kind of stories. Ask me in abt 3 yrs' time, i might relent and watch it and maybe, just maybe get hooked up onto it like LOTR.

Ok, time to go get some yummy food. What should i have? Pho? Wonton Mee? Charsiu Rice? Chicken Rice? Decisions, decisions....*sigh*

Randomly remembered something i wanna share from Readers Digest:

One day, my 5 yr old son & I were heading to MacDonalds when we saw a huge car accident along the way. There sirens and the police were trying to regulate the traffic flow. Usually, in such situations we say a short prayer for whoever might be in the wrecks. I turned and ask my son:"Shall we pray?" From the back seat, i could hear my son's earnest voice going:" Dear Lord, oh please don't let those cars block the entrance to MacDonalds!"
- From the Readers' Digest

Okay, now how do you get the paragraph to align after you type a quote??? Blogspot should come with a guidebook. Figure it out later. Gotta eat!

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Seriously, man, why is it that everytime i plan a day, i do not accomplish it, except for eating at Chinatown?? Dang you, Murphy's Law!! =(

Met two Taiwanese mothers in Manhatten while eating my noodles. They sat at the same table as i did. When my Charsiu Wonton noodles came, they looked at it very obviously and compared it to the one that they ate at another store. So i smiled at them and started chatting abt food with them. I found out that they are from Flushing, NY and that there is also a chinatown there. It consists of mainly Shanghainese, Shandongren, Beijingren and Taiwanese. Whereras in Manhatten, it is dominated by the Guangdong pple. According to them, the "standard" is better in flushing as the pple are not as kasar...in english that means "rough". They gave me the name of the best dimsum restaurant in Flushing - East Buffet. I recall seeing that in the movie "Saving Face". *grins*

Since it was so cold out, i didn't have the mood to walk around too much and plus, i bought food home for my bro - which according to him, was not that tasty. The charsiu & siuyok was rather tasteless...sorry! *sheepish*

An nicely toasty now in from of the computer in the apt, which always has this armenian smell floating around...the landlord is i think armenian/arab/something like that.

Ok, gonna go enjoy my cuppa tea now. Laters.