6/13 - 6/19
Being in SURP, a lot of my friends need subjects to experiment from. I was in a study for my friend that in the end pays you an iPod. However, I did not believe that a mere ‘hour’ you can earn $50 and an iPod, so I did not do the study as well as they planned. In the end, I spent 10 minutes and got $24 and an iPod shuffle. I feel really bad because it might have skewed their data, but then I asked some friends what they would have done and their bidding style is almost the same. I want to describe it on here but I’m not sure how much I can say.
Anyway, on Tuesday I went to watch another Broadway show called Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Jane and Charley. At first, I thought it was a cool magician and Bengal tiger act. Wow, was I mistaken…the story was not a typical Broadway, no songs, just acting. It was very deep to a point where I only understood the surface. Something about war, corruption, America, etc. but I lost it there. I wish I understood it more because I probably would’ve found it very interesting.
Wednesday I met up with Joewin and NJ. We went to this place called Tori Shin for their charcoal bamboo ‘special’ oyako don haha, sounds fancy right? It is supposed to be a yakitori place, however, their food is soooo expensive (each person $55 if you wanna get what most people eat). Thankfully the oyako don was not that bad, and probably the best flavored one I’ve ever had. We then walked from 65th street to 10th (didn’t feel like a long walk though!), got Kung Fu bubble tea, and then 8th to go to a hookah place at St. Marks with some other Pi brothers and two girls from some sorority. I feel really weird hanging around with Greeks sometime, all they talk about is the Greek system and I never have much to say. Nonetheless, it was the first time I tried hookah, but it wasn’t good or bad. I couldn’t taste or feel anything lol.
Thursday I went bar hopping with Ellen and some SURP + roommates for her 21st birthday. We went to Keybar first for a free round of delicious birthday shots and then went to a karaoke bar called SingSing. Unfortunately, at this hour, they don’t let under 21 go in so 3 of them left when we could not find a place. We walked a bit to West 4th street, where we played some foosball (lost) and then a pirate bar with lots of rum. Later, we just chilled and went to a pizza place. It was a fun night, I’m finally starting to feel like a New Yorkan.
Friday I went to International Center for Photography with Jane and Sining. I thought this place was going to be huge like MoMa. Unfortunately, it was only two stories and some of photos were interesting, others not so much. However, I understood it much more than MoMa. Thank god for these free museums (although they did make us pay $1 for donation -.-) We then went to Schnitzel and Things for dinner. The fried chicken just tasted like a big chicken tender haha. This place was ok, good for cart food though. I’m sad it turned into a restaurant, but good for them. At night I went to chill with some SURP people and celebrate Ellen’s birthday again. I made these cool orange peel jello shots with sake and Chaia made a chocolate cake. We were having fun, playing kings, talking and what not when this RA knocked on our door and told us to quiet down. And we did…however, 10 minutes later this other RA came and wrote us all up. We weren’t even doing anything and it was 11pm! Wow NYU people are so strict and the girl had a very bad attitude about it. But yeah, interesting experience.
Saturday I went kayaking with Jane, Stephen x2, and Joewin at Hudson River. It was free and SO MUCH FUN!! I’m going again next weekend haha. Being in NY has made me miss the outdoors so much and this was definitely a good break from the city life. There was also this small wave that a far away steam boat made, I rode it and even got a little air! We then went to Empanada Mama and ate good, greasy Latin American food. At night, Jane, Stephen, Peter, and I headed to Flushing and ate beef noodle at a noodle shop (originally it was going to be Picnic Garden, but it didn’t work out). The soup was ok, the noodle was great, but one of my friends and my mom actually makes it better haha. There is this other new place for bubble tea called “CoCo” and I really love the black tea, haven’t tried the rest (well, I technically just tried a sip) We were then going to a rooftop party, but that failed since they moved it. We ended up chilling on Jane’s apartment rooftop which was super cool with an awesome view! I guess this is the “NY experience”?
Sunday was the most I’ve ever worked my whole time here, which is really sad. I got lunch at Xian Famous Foods (they ran out of the famous buns, but the noodles were good), then stayed at the lab, had two hours of computer problems, and tested myself for three hours which ended up useless because the data sucked, and then analyzed and was lazy for another two hours haha. I finally feel productive with 7 hours of work. I then had dinner at Otafuku where I got okonomiyaki (it was just ok because I don’t like ginger that much, I should’ve gotten the takoyaki).
Another weekend gone!
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