Last week was my boss's birthday party. It was the same night as the Vassar Young Alum party in NYC (which I had already committed to go). I'm usually a little wary of hanging out with my bosses outside of work (especially since my bosses are so young) but he had graciously invited me to join and for the sake of cultivating a good working relationship with him, I agreed to go. I dressed nicely that day (my hair for once, cooperating in the heat) in a blue lace dress and dark cardigan - as the AP also came to the office to interview my friend and...
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012
So I have officially made it back to Amsterdam for an extended vacation period (19 days is not your standard vacation). Seeing as I arrived only about 36 hours ago, the plan is still to kind of get through my jet lag at the moment...to quiet my mind and think about life for a bit. I have plans to relax on the Museumplein grass for that on Monday or Tuesday. Maybe I will just walk all the way up to the Dam and rediscover my old haunts along the way. Pick up a cup of coffee in Kaldi in Jordaan....For me, Amsterdam has always been about the...
Sunday, May 27, 2012
So this morning I woke up in a pretty good mood so I made myself a pretty delicious bowl of scrambled eggs with vegetables and feta cheese with mediterranean herbs. I documented it with my new Canon t2i as an exercise in close-up and food photography. So here it is!
You will need:
1 tomato, diced.
1/6 of a Yellow onion, chopped.
1/4 of a green pepper, chopped.
1/3 of a box of mushrooms, cut into thick cubes.
a handful...
So a few weeks ago, NW from Wei Ningqi Does China invited me to eat at this amazing restaurant in Flushing, Queens called Fu Run, but I was unable to make it due to a last minute conflict. But NW reported back that the restaurant was amazing, and the lamb was incredible so I rounded up my friend JS and he rounded up his friend from Serious Eats and we all trekked up to Flushing yesterday afternoon for some authentic Chinese food.
Our first...
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
I was just re-reading the post I wrote about Hangzhou a year ago and found I had written this:
"Next time I will come back to Hangzhou, and go to the edge of the desert to see Dunhuang and geek out at the collection of Buddhist caves there (and ride out to the Gobi in a camel), and go to see the Xinjiang Autonomous region in Urumqi, and the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, the panda bears in Chengdu, a re-visit to beautiful Qingdao, the Shaolin temple near Luoyang (which, much to my chagrin, I realized was really close much too late), and the gardens...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
I sit here in the gloom of my room at 11:43 pm on Tuesday May 8th and my fingers itch to write something meaningful, but nothing comes. Instead, I listen to "Somebody That You Used To Know" for the umpteenth time today. Certain phrases in that song swirl throughout my head.
Is that what it feels like? What I did months back?
I actually identify much more with Kimbra's part: "Now and then I think about all the times that you screwed me over. But had me believing it was always something that I'd done. I don't wanna live that way. Reading into...
Sunday, April 8, 2012
I made it! I've been telling people about making it for a few weeks now, but I finally got around to doing it. Mostly because I found Matzo at $0.99 per box at the supermarket (where I originally went to get a soda and some butter). I made them with chicken stock. The only problem is, I made enough of them to feed a small army, so if anyone has a hankering for Matzo Ball Soup, I'd be happy to send some your way (provided, of course, it does not entail...
Saturday, April 7, 2012
When Routine Bites Hard,And ambitions are low.And resentment rides high,But emotions won't grow.And we're changing our ways,taking different roads.Love, love will tear us apart again.Love, love will tear us apart again.Why is the bedroom so cold?Turned away on your side.Is my timing that flawed?Our respect run so dry?Yet there's still this appeal,that we've kept through our lives.Love, love will tear us apart again.Love, love will tear us apart again.Do you cry out in your sleep?All my failings exposed...Gets a taste in my mouthAs desperation takes...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
My fingers stroked the keys of the Steinway in the Villard Room with the same ease and familiarity they always had - as if they had been practicing on it every day. Philip Glass's Mad Rush echoed throughout the College Center, bringing back old memories long forgotten - the taste of sweet potato fries at the retreat, snowy days in the warmth of the music practice rooms, late nights at the Vogelstein editing rooms - the endless battle against our heavy eyelids, the smell of maple syrup boiling in our stove, perfectly cooked fried eggs on an english...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Filmmaking often feels like climbing up a mountain. It often feels like trying to scale a huge cliff on that mountain with few footholds. Sometimes you slip and dangle above the precipice, hanging on to dear life from the pick that is firmly wedged into the side. When then happens, you breathe in and out. You sweat cold. And for a moment just think to yourself "I'm done with this shit", but never actually let go.Being reminded that you're doing alright. That you're actually impressive. That you actually might make it by just the sheer will you...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
I order thai food on Monday night after having a particularly stressful allergic reaction towards the end of the day. Well, it wasn't so much the reaction itself as much as the fact that I had to chow down some Benadryl on an empty stomach, which is always so much fun.By the time I got home, I was dizzy and tired and had a massive headache. It was cold outside, and the wind made me wish that I had thought of wearing my winter coat that day like Accuweather.com told me to. So I ordered Thai off of a place nearby through seamless.com. I got crab...
Sunday, March 25, 2012
So it is 6:26 am on a Sunday and I'm unfortunately wide awake and have been for about an hour and a half. Something is clearly wrong with me.That something is called drinking a whole bottle of Riesling last night and expecting to sleep until midday today.Of course, what actually happened is I woke up at 4:30 am with really bad cramps and a seemingly unquenchable thirst for delicious cold water. I was still feeling a little drunk then, which made the climb down from my loft bed an unpleasant experience of pain and dizziness. After stumbling through...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Last night my eyes flew open at 4:30 am after a surprisingly vivid nightmare. The last time this happened, the nightmare was beautifully terrifying enough to be turned into a screenplay. As in the moment I woke up, I understood it to be a dream, and I understood its potential in my story catalogue. This time it was different. As I lay there for a few moments, I looked at my window suspiciously trying to make out if the eschatological event I had just dreamt about had come to pass or not. Eschatology, for those who don't know, is described by the...
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Last night I came home after taking a small, but much necessary and well-deserved two-day break from the city. I really love NYC but it is always important to go out and get some fresh country air once in a while. If only to remind yourself that there are places in this world where people live in spaces bigger than a matchbox. The last two days were spent in beautiful Norwalk, CT with a Canon T1i camera in hand filming interviews and being around cats and dogs all day. I got to pet many many cats which made me very very happy. It also made me want...
Monday, February 27, 2012
I was scolded by S about not posting for a long time earlier this weekend (sorry S!) when he was in the city with D visiting M and Me for the Coffee and Tea Festival. S is right of course, I should return to the habit of posting on here. If only for my own sanity. But there are many habits I should start getting back into.Like running. I haven't really run with much regularity since I left Boston in early December which is of course a problematic situation. But I guess I should get on about what has happened since I felt Quito almost four months...
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