It's loud. It's really busy. There are cabs and bicycles zooming in to and fro, and pedestrians manifest rebellion by their refusal to respect the lights; "jaywalking ... what jaywalking?"

The last time we met with Mary before she left for the Philippines was when she had to come to the city to pick up her security deposit refund from when she used to live here. She used to go to NYU so her apartment was located at the East Village, or the epicenter of hipsterdom, as I'd always jokingly liked to call it.

Here's me with Karla. We were outside the renting office, waiting for Mer.

For a typical Spring weather, that day had been pretty warm. Perfect for walking outside! So after eating lunch at Cosi, we headed towards SoHo to check out the shops ... but not before stopping by Pinkberry first.

Karla, being the shopaholic that she is, had made a list of all the stores she wanted to look at. Among others, it incuded DASH, Longchamp, Uniqlo, TopShop, Muji, Tory Burch, Urban Outfitters and Cath Kidston.

It's so quirky, the things they sell at Urban, haha!

Mary still had to go back to Philadelphia so we needed to head up Midtown so she could make it to her scheduled train in Penn Station. Karla was sleeping over my place so after saying goodbye to Mer, we had some more cupcakes from Crumbs, ehe. treasure metal detectors

YUM! NOM!

The next day, it was just me and K so obviously it became a 'local-takes-the-tourist-around' kind of day. This time we focused on Fifth Avenue : Apple Store, FAO Schwarz, Bloomingdale's, The Trump Tower, Rockefeller Center, NBC Studios, St. Patrick's, Bryant Park (etc)

Madeline!

NAdeline! :P

The best thing about New York is that there's always something interesting, something different to look at. (Streets almost always congested that no velvet rope, crowd control, even barricades and stanchions can hold the public). It's full of women, beautiful, at all ages. Men, so metrosexual, I have no idea who's gay or not, lol. But srsly! It's still amusing to me how this city manages to completely sweep me off my feet. It's just so awesome, so electrically-positively charged that it pulsates me - tells me that everything is possible - and I believe it.

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