Monday, September 06, 2010
Saturday, September 04, 2010
|| 夏行のNYC
I stopped counting the number of times I had stayed in this extraordinary city, NYC. This place has so many things to offer. I tried to do different things at different times, and in the most recent trips, the Lincoln center became one of my favorites. This year, the season had ended but I was able to catch some glimpses of the great operas from the summer HD festival. Two performances were all we could afford with our times, one of Jacques Offenbach's Les Contes D'Hoffmann, the other of Puccini's La Boheme. There were about 3000 seats in the center open platform, and people's had their paws out fighting for good seats. I'd seen all kinds of people, nationalities, who came and enjoyed the HD quality performances and Hi-Fi of powerful voices. The operas were in Italian, but there were subtitles and I immensely enjoyed both the stories and the singing. Along with the pre-installed xm's classic pop radio on our rental car in Bangor, I had to suspect that I myself had been converted into the classic music fans. People sitting around us were excited and they talked about their understandings of the singers and the productions. They were mostly senior citizens, but sure many young folks joined late in the performances, and they sat on the floor. La Boheme was fantastic, the characters of the complicated types but reflective of the lives of human being. Joys, sadness, that's how life goes ...
The hotel choice was far from being satisfactory. I couldn't resist the temptations of the food from the china town, at the same time, wanting to stay on manhattan so that I could have more time watching the performances. Sun bright hotel was like a hostel. The owner tried very hard to maintain the cleanliness, but not all people play along. There were several other shabby looking hotels, the world hotel, the pacific hotel, but I'd be seriously considering better conditioned ones because, now that I am back, I started to see the kind of fatigue I'd endured and the lack of good sleep ... I was very exhausted. However, china town was good, we were able to eat very well in a number of places.
I'm also coming back to the central park after last year's quick walk around the 72nd street. We entered from the 81st street, then walked south, passing the swedish cottage, shakespeare's garden, the belvedere castle, turtle pond then the ramble, all of a sudden the fountain dropped into our view, we had walked 9 street blocks. As expected, lots and lots of walking to the 59th entrance right on the 5th ave. The weather was hot, and the city was busy, but certainly the central park gives a moment of tranquility in the middle of the hustle and bustle.
I was wearing my favorite blue blouse. Strangely it was only the first time on picture, although I purchased this from two years ago. There are a number of blues that I liked, the royal blue, jewelry toned blue, sea blue, sea foam blue, navy blue ... this one, now more of a royal blue after some washes, looks great on camera, isn't it?
Can't help but noticed that Chase had been investing a lot on branches, while HSBC, BOC and Citibank retreated in the most recent credit crisis. Capital One is catching up, but still not quite the level of investment. In china town, Chase occupied the most important street corner locations while Capital One was only leasing smaller places. However, I was extremely pleased to see that it landed on the wall street with an ATM shop, hoping that this could be the start of something bigger and bigger in the future.
West Side Story has become my first broadway show. Most of my memories were around the intensity of the music heard from the ice rings. We were fortunate to have bought balcony box tickets and were later allowed to join the second floor at a much closer viewing place to the stage. The production was lively, and the story was riveting. Loved every bit of the dances and the singing, compared to the Phantom at LV, this was more modest production and younger cast in general ...
Here comes the 2010 big apple ...
42nd Grand Central, such a grandiose place, the chandeliers, the colored marbles ... we found the grand central market place, bought our lunches and fruits there, lovely little place that ordinary people can enjoy being at the grand ....
This year marks the 10th anniversary that I'd first came visiting the city. I once was on top of the WTC, and climbed to the crown of the liberty statue. We decided that it was time to pay a second visit, for me.
The hotel choice was far from being satisfactory. I couldn't resist the temptations of the food from the china town, at the same time, wanting to stay on manhattan so that I could have more time watching the performances. Sun bright hotel was like a hostel. The owner tried very hard to maintain the cleanliness, but not all people play along. There were several other shabby looking hotels, the world hotel, the pacific hotel, but I'd be seriously considering better conditioned ones because, now that I am back, I started to see the kind of fatigue I'd endured and the lack of good sleep ... I was very exhausted. However, china town was good, we were able to eat very well in a number of places.
I'm also coming back to the central park after last year's quick walk around the 72nd street. We entered from the 81st street, then walked south, passing the swedish cottage, shakespeare's garden, the belvedere castle, turtle pond then the ramble, all of a sudden the fountain dropped into our view, we had walked 9 street blocks. As expected, lots and lots of walking to the 59th entrance right on the 5th ave. The weather was hot, and the city was busy, but certainly the central park gives a moment of tranquility in the middle of the hustle and bustle.
I was wearing my favorite blue blouse. Strangely it was only the first time on picture, although I purchased this from two years ago. There are a number of blues that I liked, the royal blue, jewelry toned blue, sea blue, sea foam blue, navy blue ... this one, now more of a royal blue after some washes, looks great on camera, isn't it?
Can't help but noticed that Chase had been investing a lot on branches, while HSBC, BOC and Citibank retreated in the most recent credit crisis. Capital One is catching up, but still not quite the level of investment. In china town, Chase occupied the most important street corner locations while Capital One was only leasing smaller places. However, I was extremely pleased to see that it landed on the wall street with an ATM shop, hoping that this could be the start of something bigger and bigger in the future.
West Side Story has become my first broadway show. Most of my memories were around the intensity of the music heard from the ice rings. We were fortunate to have bought balcony box tickets and were later allowed to join the second floor at a much closer viewing place to the stage. The production was lively, and the story was riveting. Loved every bit of the dances and the singing, compared to the Phantom at LV, this was more modest production and younger cast in general ...
Here comes the 2010 big apple ...
42nd Grand Central, such a grandiose place, the chandeliers, the colored marbles ... we found the grand central market place, bought our lunches and fruits there, lovely little place that ordinary people can enjoy being at the grand ....
This year marks the 10th anniversary that I'd first came visiting the city. I once was on top of the WTC, and climbed to the crown of the liberty statue. We decided that it was time to pay a second visit, for me.
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