update
too lazy to write about events so here's an email i sent to some people.
Hi there

I have so much time to kill in New York so I must as well write an email to y'all and tell you about the wonderful Christmas/New Year holiday I had *gloat*.

Ie-Tsen, myself and two other people (if you know Lip Yoong and someone else from Cornell) went to Boston for Christmas and it was glorious. Okay, maybe a little exaggeration there but it was good nonetheless. Boston is very historic and quaint but it does have its modern bits too. The Boston guidebook described the night scene as "a few notches below pathetic" though so we didn't get to gyrate our hips and swig the Bacardi. We did however visit a gay club on Christmas eve but left soon after we entered because we were uncomfortable (read: naked man on stage!). Visited Harvard (kicking myself for not scoring having a perfect score on the SATs, starting my own charity, and finding a cure to AIDS), the Freedom Trail (a bunch of landmarks around Boston that symbolize American Independence), went shopping (blew way too much cash. Hope I don't get stranded in New York), and ate a lot (I mean a lot! We roughly had two meals a day but we had two GOOD meals. I had really authentic Italian pasta in Little Italy, lotsa Malaysian food at a restaurant called Penang (they're everywhere, it's scary. They even have one in Harvard.) We went on a ferry ride across the Charles River at sunset and the view was spectacular (photos to come).

Okay, enough of Boston. Let's talk about New York City baby. It's New Year's Eve. The city is crowded. Everyone doesn't speak in an American accent. The city holds its breath for a miniscule ball to drop. And Wee Lee was smack in the middle of everything. We arrived at Times Square at 2pm and already it was crowded. We made a beeline for the bathroom, eased ourselves and then waited impatiently for the next 10 hours to watch the infamous Times Square Ball to drop. There was reportedly 650,000 people at the event and we were so close to the ball though we did pay a steep price (no toilet for 10 hours, no food, COLD). We were directly opposite the MTV studios and if you watch TRL enough you'd know that they have an open studio so we were watching Hillary Duff, Clay Aiken, and a band that looked like A Simple Plan (no sound mah, cannot hear) while freezing our butts off. But I've done it. Neh neh ni boo boo. I was at Times Square when the ball dropped. I got a free orange hat. I may or may not have made a TV appearance. Hurrah.

Other places that I've visited at NYC are Columbia University (miniature Harvard, spectacular still), Fifth Avenue (wah so expensive, Ie-Tsen went crazy), the WTC site (only constructions site now), Wall Street, Central Park, Macy's and Chinatown. Great Malaysian food here. There's another Penang, there's a restaurant called 'Nyonya', and there's 'Taste Good' all Malaysian.

Right now I'm in the New York Public Library and it is really awesome. The architecture is marvellous, I feel like it isn't real. Very intricate ceilings (one Michaelangelo like mural), chandeliers, and free internet access. Hurrah.

Okay, I hope the computer doesn't eat up my entry. Hope I didn't offend you by bragging too much. Later.

Regards

Wee Lee