Magical Tipsy Toes

There is this girl who absolutely loves m&m’s. She thinks m&m’s rock to the max. Thing is she always thought that the plain m&m’s were the best. But lately everytime she craves for the plain m&m’s, she realizes that its just not there. Like its not plain enough. Shops suddenly running out of plain m&m’s. Suddenly, she finds out that peanut butter m&m’s exist. She is happy for awhile…but while she has her peanut butter m&m’s…she is still searching for the plain m&m’s. So, peanut butter m&m’s thinks it’s a substitute…when all peanut butter m&m’s really wants is to be plain m&m’s.

There was no point to this story.

Really. I just found a peanut butter m&m on my desk under my papers…and I was wondering how many more are hiding and whether its plain or peanut butter.

I love surprises.

Thursday, 28th July 2005 - The Yellow Pill

22hour flight to New York.
Legs cramped.
7 meals provided.
Food - good. Ice-cream - good.

Blanket that smelt like puke.
Turbulence that scared the fricking daylights outta me. Bless CFB’s heart though, she was patient with me.

Just remember, CFB must have water. Lots of water.

Stewardess : “Hello, coffee or tea?”

A very excited CFB : “I want, I want apple juice”

Made friends with Brother Jerry on the plane…much to CFB’s delight. No, seriously…she was a happy girl when he started talking to her.

*Note to self - Sit at the aisle seat to avoid toilet problems.

Finally met JB. She was extremely worried. Made frantic calls to airline to check on our flight. Poor girl. She didn’t know our plane was just doing circles around the airport. Jumped and grinned like fools when we met. And finally, went out to wait for our cab…we just had to do the most important thing. Had ourselves a smoke.

Saw a spectacular display of fireworks…Wanted to try get a photo, but you don’t mess around with the NY cab man. For a moment, we thought we were in a highway speed chase.

Met Steven, the apartment man. Nice fella. Brilliant apartment. We realised we didn’t have much in our fridge..so off to nearest grocery store. It was like an adventure!!! That was where I found the Magical singing toothpaste. Brush you teeth with the Magical Colgate.

Friday, 29th July 2005 - When in Jersey, go mad…go very very mad!!!!

Beautiful day. Headed down to Columbus subway, to get to the Port Authority Bus Station. Saw this along the way and could not resist..

We finally met her. “Oracle” She guided us to our right bus because we were really lost. We knew she would be in the toilet. Cause all toilet ladies are really smart. They know things we don’t. “Oracle Annie” at Port Authority Bus Station. Look for her when lost. We thanked her and as we walked away, I swear I saw her pull a cookie from the air.

Realised we were rather early for our bus. So we just chilled at the bus area.

Bus arrival : 3.15pm

We arrived : 2.00pm

Decision to have a smoke : 2.45pm

Rushed out of the bus area to go for a smoke. We heard it was a 45min journey to Jersey Gardens. Don’t think we even cared. We just wanted to shop!!

The I had a calling. A colorful calling. Of all shapes and sizes. I followed the voice…..and then I saw it. It was shiny and glowing…ok maybe it was just me…but it was beautiful.

Gumball Madness!!!!

The Aftermath!! At the bus stop.

The mess at home. Hehe…I love how messy it was!!! First day chaos!

Saturday, 30th July 2005 - “What day is it? And in what month? ”

All we needed to do was to go to get tickets for Empire & Liberty Island. That was just our morning to-do list. Thats it. Go there, get the tickets and then head down to the Bronx. We could have done it 1/2hr. Question is…did we? Nope. Not at all. Along the way, we just had to stop in shops. All kinds of shops. Shops that made us smile. Shops that made us laugh. Shops that made us think too much that we just had to purchase something so our minds would be at ease.

A 30min walk turned into a 2hr plus walk. And we enjoyed every bit of it. Of course, now we had to unload all our stuff..so back to the apartment. But we still had time to take a photo. Heh..

Rushed off again to Grand Central Terminal. And it was fricking magnificent. Stood there for 10mins to absorb everything in and even that wasn’t enough.

Tried looking for a zebra & a lion…we didn’t see any…

Next stop:

There was a game going on..so it was bloody crowded. And we witness a fight.
Noisy, rowdy & messy = Awesome.

Back to the subway to go down to Fordham Road. Shopped like crazhee people. People were really friendly.

JB: “You guys hungry?”

CFB: “Nah..not really.”

Sharkbait: “Nope…not at all”

3mins later.

CFB: “JB can you see it…can you..can you?”

JB: “What, where? Oh my GAD!!! Its WHITE CASTLE!!!!!”

Sharkbait: “White what?”

JB: “White Castle…from Harold & Kumar, the movie…this it…White Castle!!! Are you hungry? I’m hungry.”

CFB: “Yep…me too”

Sharkbait: “What they got”?

The minute we walked in…CFB had this urgent need to pee. She tried to open the toilet door, but it was locked. She didn’t see this sign…

And of course, when we did ask the counter staff to buzz her in…she missed it. Made her want to pee even more laughing so hard.

White Castle. Amazing shakes. Amazing tiny ass buggers.

And amazing pee buzzer.

Across White Castle. There was place called 99cent shop. 99cents or less. As you can guess…we just had to check it out.

Its funny though, how ribbons of different colors can get 2 girls crazy. They were busy talking ribbon language and trying so hard to find that perfect color. Unfortunately, that particular ribbon lied. It was only a small bit that was left. JB managed to get a kitchen cloth though. We didn’t have any in our apartment. Just in case we spill juice or something.

Walking back to the subway station. We met a man. Who sold colorful ice. We had to try. Orange, Blueberry & Strawberry. Some of the orange spilt on Sharkbait…so there was a tinge of orange on her shorts. She thought nobody saw…but both JB & CFB did. And so did the lady in the van who sold taco’s. And they laughed at the shorts that turned orange.

Left Fordham for home. Cause Ms Rich Chilli was coming over to collect her 25kg/15kg bags. Then decided to head down to Iguna’s.

Nice chill out place. Very spiffy.

Had a beer and had a few laughs. And then came a song of 3 girls in NY. Lyrics were forgotten…but not the tune. Note the table. There is no evidence.

Sunday, 31st July 2005 - “I’m tripping on words. You’ve got my head spinning”

St. Patrick’s Cathedral. 12pm mass. Amazing. Most beautiful church I’ve ever seen.

Since we were good girls who went for mass. And we were right on 5th Ave..might as well do the necessary. Shop. While walking to NBA store..we saw something like a bazaar. Hot nutella & strawberries filled the air..We had ourselves a banana crepe with nutella. That thing rocks. And this one, I can’t make it home. So there we were, 3 of us..taking bites of the damn delicious crepe and just enjoying the moment, smiling to ourselves.

Went down to H&M, Saks, Tiffany and GAP. GAP is a nice place. I like GAP. I would show you the pics of these places…but I have no idea which is which…and of course we visited NikeTown.

Then headed down to Rockefeller Centre. Again…awed by its beauty. We decided to chill there and take in the amazing sights..

Breathtaking..

“Cause it’s you and me and all of the people with nothing to do. Nothing to lose”

Sat down and chilled for awhile and watch people pass us by in the middle of Rockefeller Centre.

Had coffee from Dean & Deluca’s, thanks to CFB. Met a girl whose name we didn’t know. But gave us a tip that Meat Packing District is the place to go. But we ended up at AppleBees for dinner. The place be, to calm your stomach when its on tippytoes.

Great food. Great service. Stomach extremely happy.

Off to Radio City…Dolly Parton was playing..but tickets were sold out. Damnit!!!

And then to Times Square. So many people, so many lights. So many things. Stood in the middle of Times Square. Closed my eyes….and I could hear everything so clearly. People talking, laughing & shouting…cars zooming by, the smell of the horse drawn carriage that really stank and yet it was ok. Honking cars who were not afraid to be fined $350.

We were right in middle of it all. Fucking awesome.

Monday, 1st August 2005 - “There’s something about you now. I can’t quite figure out”

WhoooHOOO!!!! Liberty Island in the morning. Lower Manhattan here we come!! Off the see the the Island & the gorgeous lady.

Yep, thats the queue. Its a good thing we got our tickets earlier..Sunny, breezy day. Perfect.

JB & Sharkbait waiting for the ferry to move…

Guptas on the way to the Island.

View from the the boat. In CFB’s words, “Architecture Heaven” indeed.

History lesson with JB & CFB.

Decided to walk around Liberty Island. Taking alot of photographs of course. Here we again, Manhattan behind us.

And our professional photographer…

Had ourselves a hotdog, drink & ice-cream…and sat under some shady trees

trying to fix the camera, when suddenly….

Sharkbait: “Shit, i dropped my cigarette.”

JB: “Where? In your bag???”

Sharkbait: “No, no..got it out in time”

CFB: “Babe, can pass the drink?”

Sharkbait: “Oh my gad!! Smoke coming out of bag. Shit, my bag is on FIREH!!!

Sharkbait then proceeded to dumb all contents out of the bag as spiffly as she could.

The area which Sharkbait tripped. Courtesy of JB.
Back in the boat,

off to

Back to Manahattan and we visited Ground Zero. Got us all teary eyed…

Shopping at Century 21 and then off to visit Wall Street. Got held up at Borders. Too many books kept calling our names. Took a train down to Brooklyn. And the view at night….Brillantly fantastic.

Finally had kick ass pizza at Grimaldi’s Pizzaeria. And OH MY GAD!!! Amazing pizza. For a while I thought I was in pizza heaven.

Then off to..

Very Happy!!!!