{"id":1318,"date":"2009-09-04T16:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T16:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2020-11-04T03:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T03:57:35","slug":"may_in_september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"may in september"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ooh\u2026a slight chill is starting to blow thru new york city. at night anyway\u2026and early morning too. it\u2019s actually making my apartment uncomfortable, given that they tend to crank the communal a\/c regardless (which affects my bedroom, but not my living room), so i may go to bed slightly hot, but wake up freezing. its weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so here\u2019s the typical summary of my life up to now. having had this journal now for 6 fucking years really takes its toll on the quality of writing im willing to expend on these posts. not that my oldest posts were in any way eloquent. i can say however that i probably put a bit more effort into writing them. whatever, thats not the case anymore. so rewinding back\u2026plusan and her friends showed up in the city right around my birthday. it was the first time in nyc for a few of them. i met up with plusan for brunch in the morning at cafe henri<\/i> in west village, but i technically spent the majority of my birthday in woodbury commons shopping with them. for 6 and a half hours. yea. well, i insisted\u2026so we could have time to hang out. regardless tho\u2026i just wanted to highlight. SIX. AND. A. HALF. HOURS.<\/b> after we got back into the city, we immediately headed to kun jip<\/i> to nosh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

friday nite i met up with them again at jadis<\/i> for some wine and relaxation. saturday was our reservations at gordon ramsay\u2019s maze<\/i>, which was good, but surprisingly unspectacular, given how big of a raging dick he is about food and cooking. we followed this up with my mini-berfday drink-ups at en<\/i> (like last year, yep)\u2026sake and food all around. we even rounded out the nite with a bit of a crawl over to ear inn<\/i> afterwards til the wee hours. ah fun fun. and sunday i made breakfast at my place for plusan\u2026then a pinkberry<\/i> run before they caught their flight out of the city. bai bai!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hmm\u2026what did i do the rest of the time? oh right\u2026korean with sally, then dinner with hosan at city winery<\/i> (that place is massive) along with follow-up drinks at en<\/i> (i like the place\u2026deal with it). then i made my way back home to see my niece, whos now all grown and stuff and is talking and dancing around. shit they really do grow fast. after that, i bussed it back into the city because we had a rooftop party in my building. that was all kinds of awesome\u2026ill admit i hadnt even been up there since i started looking to buy there in the first place. and now we wind up at this week, where i had intended to meet up with sara for ramen at ippudo<\/i>. but because that place is still overrun by fucking nyu kids, pushing wait times to an hour (for ramen\u2026seriously!?) we decided on setagaya<\/i> instead, where we waited approximately 2 minutes after we ordered before they brought our hearty bowls of ramen out to us. <3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

prague is coming up fast\u2026word. this time next week, i will be on a plane headed over the atlantic. wait, is it friday?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* checks email *<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

this time+1 day\u2026yes, i will be on a plane headed over the atlantic. woot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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