I had not been so excited about flying, in a very long time. Singapore Airlines is among the very few five star airlines, and was rated #1 in the world in the recent past. Compared to the major American airlines, this is like driving Rolls Royce over riding a water buffalo. It’s all about
Chinese Tonight Yo
Hey Yo! Tasty Chinese Tonight! I think “ho jaye” translates to “let’s have”. Found this poster on the window of Patel Brothers, an Indian chain supermarket. This wouldn’t have been so funny if it weren’t found in Flushing, where the store was surrounded by a whole city of Chinese more real than “Real Chinese”.
The Instant Noodle Project
Instant noodles taste awesome, but aren’t so healthy. Since college, I don’t eat them often any more. But I still get depressed each time my stock runs low. Then I go for a major restocking trip. This trip happens about once a year, and every single time the lady at the cash register would frown and scold me about how I
I LEGO NY
Here’s an amazing artist on the New York Times blog, making abstract representations of NYC with few simple LEGO blocks: A lot of the stuff is not really NYC specific, but some jokes are probably hard to get if you don’t live in the city. The guy apparently has tons of good humor, but nothing
NYC Out of Service
New York is a city that never sleeps. Like a person that never sleeps, this city never seems to be in a healthy shape, either. I commute through the Rockefeller Center Subway station everyday. As one of the only handicap-accessible stations in the city, there is an elevator that takes you down to the platform.
Slumdog Millionaire
We had no idea what this movie was about before it was half over. On Thursday, I heard about it for the first time. On Friday, I heard about it for the second time. On Saturday, Hong mentioned how she also heard many excellent reviews, so we hit the movie theater, paid for the tickets,
Year of the Sad Water Buffalo
This is the 11th Chinese New Year since we moved to the States. I realized that the more I grow up, the more it strikes me as a saddening holiday. Perhaps it’s because I’m in New York? Back in Virginia, sometimes it was hard to remember there were any cultures outside the White/Christian norm; but
Windows Update Crashes
Okay. Within 7 months, I’ve had two Windows-Update-related computer crashes. Kinda stinks. The first time it fatally corrupted some important system file in my XP and required a complete (nasty) reinstall of the system, which indirectly sped up my purchase of this new computer and upgrade to Vista. This time around, I started seeing the
Codfish Sperm
Have you ever eaten the food item in these pictures? Any idea what it is? We had it in a Korean restaurant. It came in a seafood jigae (a spicy hot soup that I order with most of my Korean meals). Looked like brain to us, and when we asked the waiter, we were told
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Damn… a smaller scale, but equally horrific news story from my beloved VT campus. Click to read. I suppose it’s appropriate to not attach any picture to this post. I guess, though, that nasty things like this happen all the time, everywhere, and it’s just the matter of whether we (especially the media) choose to