Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

So it's spring and the cherry blossoms are blooming. Yea I don't know what cherry blossoms are doing in Brooklyn either, but they sure are pretty! And my, there are lots of kids, aren't there?

New York Part 2

Isn't it annoying how every other post here screams "SORRY THIS IS OVERDUE!!" huh? I should either keep up with my game with updates, or drop this blog totally.

But anyway, SORRY THIS IS OVERDUE!!!

So I'll cut out the commentary and put the pictures. Though I wonder if half the entertainment value is actually the commentary?


Alright just burning through with these pics. Next up: Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.

你有多久没写华文了？

就让这当练习吧。

我也不知道为什么突然有个需要保留着我的华文能力。 也许是因为在一个陌生的环境里，有许多东西能威胁自我。 这造成一种反射行动吧。

你应该能看得出我的华文的确不是很棒，但我想说的话的价值没被我的烂透的华文影响到。

我在欺骗谁啊？平常能够在几分几秒打出来的字体现在害得我想应该的用哪个字才是最适当的。 而且我也不知很多词，打出来的篇章读起来又幼稚又无趣。

也许在我想保留着我华文能力时，有一部分的我不愿被这陌生地完全被“西化”。这就是我要和其他美国人（甚至新加坡人）不一样的地方：即使说华文对我来说有多痛苦，我不想愿意放弃母语。

也许其他新加坡人没有这个需要（天啊，我一直用“需要”这个词，应该找个新的字来代替‘desire’）因为他们觉得他们的华文不会受到美国的影响。或完全觉得留着母语有什么屁用。 说真的，有什么用处嘛，在美国练习华文？

我有很多感想想说，但由于能力限制无法完全的用华语来表达。

可笑的是当我在新加坡时，我一直抵抗着新加坡的‘现象’ - 我不愿意直接地说“我说我是新加坡人”。我对新加坡有偏见。但到了纽约反而变得好虚伪，变得像拥有一个属于我的身份。

（我刚学了一个新的字。“欲望”。）

欲望着一个能分辨“我”和其他人的身份。欲望着一个工具能让我说“我是。。。”的句子。欲望着让我觉得自己有个价值。

这可能是我的自卑感在说话吧。

words to remember:
- reflex: 反射
- desire： 欲望

Feeding time

So I decided to feed my blog to facebook. Yea I don't know why either.

Now I gotta go to facebook and see if it was fed properly. Else it might die of starvation and I'll be sued for abuse.

OMGZ A POST DON'T DIE OF SHOCK

I've decided to post something while editing the rest to be posted.



OMGZ WTF IS THAT.

It's a very sexy piece of leg.

Now the next question is: Guess who?

No prizes.

New city, new life, new beginnings, new hope? This is New York.

So if the majority of the photos are uploaded on to Facebook, what is the impetus to visit this site then? You know you only do so out of dogged perseverance that there might be something different here than on Facebook. And right you are. There are like, 4 extra pics here that are not there, I suppose. Think of it as bonus material, my immaterial audience.

Pics I like a lot (also known as lumping nice pics together so I don't have to think up of witty captions for them







So that makes it 5. Which means I have 33 more pics to caption. Bah. Oh wait here be another overarching category!

Views from my window (and are not photoshopped!)








That makes it... uh, wait I can do the math... 27?

Flying the Singapore way



I like how the German announcements have a Singapore accent to them.

We are so speeshul



We have our very own subway station with our own signs in mosaic on them!

Uh..



Wait what? So did Columbia? And their signs look prettier! Hell what are we paying our insanely expensive tuition for? Votes to have 'More pimp NYU signs at the 8th St subway station'.

Pretty statues



Columbia University has nice statues at their campus. We don't even have a campus.

Dungeons



Where Columbia students get banished to if they score below an A. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Haha.

and Dragons



Their cellars look like some crypt-y dungeon thing, and you expect to slay a dragon any moment now. All these happening in the basements of Columbia dorms.

Nice... building?



I dunno. Felt like taking a picture. I think there is some significance to this building, though I cannot remember what.

The Crows



Even the birds have it tough here in NYC. Look how stressed they are.

Library and clouds



=/

Two couples on a bench and a kaypoh kia



On surface they may seem like a loving couple...

But on closer inspection...



"WHY DO YOU ALWAYS GIVE ME THAT STONY EXPRESSION WHEN I AM TALKING TO YOU???"

Colors of the rainbow



ROYGBIV. But why is the violet weirdly placed?

The wind did it



The Stonewall Inn, where the root of LGBT-equality action began.

Narrowest building in New York



The car is longer than the house is wide. And the house is pretty expensive too.

Insubstantial



It's address is 75 1/2. Reminds me of like Platform 9 3/4.

Peedofeeliiaaa



In honor of Charmaine.

Oldest street in New York



Stone Street, because the street is paved in stone. Duh.

Pretty



Don't know what else to say about this.

Standard tourist shot



EVERYONE must take a picture of this signpost when they go to Wall St. Strangely I didn't take a picture of the bull.

Oldest surviving church building in the city



St Paul's Chapel. Built 1764, it survived The Great New York City Fire of 1776. See? My blog can be educational.

Healing Hearts and Minds



Patches sent by policemen and firefighters all around the world make up this exhibit commemorating the Sept 11 attack.

Candles



Another of the exhibit.

San Gennaro



Festival at little Italy with tons of booths with games that actually look fun and foods that looks good.

Lost Turtle



Uh. Must be some turtle, if it can escape fast enough for the owner to be unable to notice. Or some owner.

Buskers



Seriously, New York City is infested with them. I get woken up by jazz saxophonists everyday at around 9am. I understand your need to a starving artist on the streets, dear buskers, but give it a rest already. I NEED MY SLEEP.

If Peter Parker loses his job...



He could take over their jobs anyday.

And to end off...



OOOH LOOK LOCH NESS MONSTER!!! HAHAHA.