Ode to Times Square

Times Square is just as spectacular, if not more so, in the daylight as it is at night. Now that I get to actually SEE it in the mornings, I am very impressed!

Happy Memorial Day!

I start my new job in midtown Manhattan tomorrow. It is located between Times Square and Central Park. yay.

I'll bet her kicks hurt!

I was on 30th Avenue by Athens Square Park last night when I saw a girl wearing a karate outfit, roller-blading across the street.

I am a mermaid!

I have been accepted as a mermaid in the Coney Island Mermaid parade! Now -- to organize an outfit where I wear seashells as a bra!

Let them eat cake!

Today at Grand Central Terminal, there is a wedding cake display and tasting! YUM! Over 50 cakes! That's great -- but what are all the other people going to eat? ha ha

http://www.brides.com/cakewalk/

That's moxie

At 10:30 am, I saw a man at the corner of E 63rd Street and 3rd Avenue, holding up a cardboard sign that read: "Can you spare some change so I can buy pot?"

Hey, pothead! At least say "please". Being stoned is no excuse for being rude.

Nature walks

Today I met my friend EXD and her dog B in the Central Park Conservancy at E 105th Street.

http://www.centralparknyc.org/

They had beautiful purple and pink tulips out in the Bethesda Terrace.

Most amazingly, we saw someone's escaped parakeet flying around with a finch. I once saw a parakeet in Boston Public Garden in 2002, just flying around and eating clover. Luckily, it was summer each time.

Whatever!

A guy just walked by the female cop at 30th St Ave and 34th Street in Astoria and said to her "You're too pretty to be a cop, you know that?"

Why isn't stupidity a crime? She then would have to power to arrest him.

No racial superiority

HADITH OF THE DAY: NO RACIAL SUPERIORITY

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said to a companion: "You are not better than people (of other races) unless you excel them in piety."

Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1361

Kareoke!

I went to Japas 55 in Times Square with a friend for a surprise birthday party. It is a Japanese tapas bar with kareoke rooms upstairs, which you rent per head per hour.

So we all went up there after dinner, sat on the long couches, and chose songs to sing. With the exception of myself, everyone was incredibly talented and better than most candidates for "American Idol", they certainly would never have to sleep with Paula Abdul (wait -- that guy got kicked off the show anyway for beating up his sister ......)

I sang Bonnie Raitt's "Something to Talk About." Only in New York is there a Pakistani singing country western songs in a Japanese tapas bar.

Warning: this is gross

I was coughing so much in my apartment tonight that I decided to go out and get some meds at Rite Aid. Out on the street, I continued coughing so much that I actually activated my gag reflex and threw up in my mouth a little.

As I was pausing, trying to figure out where I could spit it out, some stupid nasty guy stopped by me and tells me to "suck it".

I contemplated projecting my spit-vomit at him. It seemed to be a handy weapon.

But realizing that jerks like this one only want attention, I ignored him and spit it out into a bush instead.

Deja vu all over again

I have only been in NYC a year and I am already recognizing the faces (and music) of the buskers in the subway systems.

A multiple graduation

My sister graduated from The American University today, from where I graduated in 1995 and my other sister in 2000. So basically there has been one of us at AU since I started there on roughly August 26, 1991.

As my dad says, he too is graduating from paying for that school. Congratulations!!!!!

scary

There were 2 blasts at the British consulate in midtown manhattan (about 50th and Lexington) early this morning. The British elections are slated for today as well.

It happened around 5 am or so. Therer were no injuries. I was at 70th and Lexington when I heard it on the news and we could hear the helicopters outside the window (they were just taking overhead photos for the TV crews.)

All aboard the nature train!

I was on the Long Island Railroad into New York today. As we passed behind Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, I saw a swan in a marshy lake there.

Immediately after that, I saw two turtles sunning themselves on a partially submerged tire.

Ah, nature!!!

Business as usual

I attended a meeting of the Business Network International group, which was interesting.

www.manhattanbni.com

Happy May Day, all

I hope you sent out your rent checks.