NYC Dude!

Haha Ya I know I'm writing this like a week late but whatever! Better late than never. So last week I went to NYC on my pseudo-week off between jobs where I still got paid. :D

I had a pretty good time. I stayed with suju and got to see some old friends from college. In case you didn't go to college with me, the title is an inside joke. There used to be this scrawny ass indian kid in my college who was absolutely obsessed with NYC, he thought it was the greatest place in the world. He was one of those from a pretty well to do family in bombay, kind of fake indian. He always talked about raves and dropping acid, though I doubt he'd touched a drug in his life. He walked around campus wearing slippers with cartoon characters on them, pants that were neither shorts nor pants, but somewhere inbetween. He was also very opinionated, which was why most people didn't really like him. One last interesting tidbit about K before I stop this tangent. He drank a 40 that was half piss once, and said to the host of the party "Hey Dood, this beer tastes kinda flat. hahaha.

Ok now that I've lost any direction in this post lets talk about NYC. Its still dirty and full of people. But at least my friends are there. I started waiting for sujan to come meet me in chinatown to pick me up from the bus stop. We had planned to go eat momo(nepali dumplings) with some of his friends. We were supposed to meet his friends somewhere, and knowing Sujan, things got mixed up and we were tracking all around nyc subway. One annoying thing about the trains in NYC, there is no cell phone reception, so once you enter the station, you have no ties to the outside world, making it near impossible to meet up with someone.

Well we finally made it, and I hadn't ate the whole day so I was STARVED. I ate like 100 momos(not really, but you get the picture) and was completely stuffed. Then Sujan and I left and we were going to one of his uncles houses because it was some Nepali religious holliday. Sujan failed to inform me there would be another meal....
So we arrived at his uncles place and then I met everyone. Then they decided to do the nepali ceremony and gave everyone some fruit and red dot. I got one too, so I am officially a dot head :D. Then his uncle spoke the fatal words, "It's time for dinner". My jaw dropped. I couldn't be rude and refuse, but I also couldn't eat anymore. I need to hollow out my leg in case something like this happens in the future. But I ended up eating again, it was really good food, but at a certain point nothing tastes good. I was very appreciative for their hospitality though. Sujan proceeded to get drunk off beer and whiskey, and Sujan drunk isn't a pretty site. He started getting really chatty in Nepali, he was talking to his uncles and cousins, and I could tell he was saying the same kinds of things he says in english when he's drunk. So classic hah, I miss suju!

Anyway the next few days were filled mostly with chilling. I got to meet Xiu mei after not seeing her since 04 when I graduated, watching her obsess about some korean boy band, even buying a dvd set that she can't even play because she doesn't have the right player....girls.....

I also got to meet up with Jin who cooked me awesome meat filled dinner. I also got to see the newest chinese movie, that probably wont be in the US for another 2 years haha.

It was a pretty uneventful week, but I needed some relaxing time. I hardly danced at all, which was probably good for my muscles, but its been hard getting back into the gear of things this week.