Parent Stuff // Food Adventure! // A Good Picture

A quick thing on parents, my mom has given me less of a hard time about my computer and paying for it and ordered one for me, although she doesn't have like all this extra money lying around for a computer she still got it for me. After it all I did offer to pay for some of it but she didn't want me to. It was really nice of her to get my computer and stuff. When it all comes down to stuff.. she really will do what she needs to do for me, my sister, our house etc. Unlike my father who clearly has money lying around but is honestly too cheap to give any money to contribute for even a portion for a computer, textbooks... anything. I really don't think it's fair to my mom, my dad just always gives excuses as to why he can't spend his money, then I come to his house and see he has all new furniture, rugs and a paint job. All I'm saying... is that he better not expect ANYTHING when I get older and have a job because he hasn't really done anything for me, seriously.

/// onto lighter issues and things that make me smile more lol ///

I posted this as a comment on one of prsun2's blog posts but I felt I should mention this on mine:

I'll just tell you all the food places I've been too -- since that was the conquest this summer lol

---Bakeries
Donut Plant
Levaine Bakery
Jacques Torres Bakery
Martha's Bakery
Momofuku Milkbar
Blackhound Bakery
Viniero's Bakery
Sugar Sweet Sunshine
Amy's Bread
Bakery Bouchon


---Ice Cream / Frozen Yogurt / Gelato
Cones Ice Cream
Yogurtland
16 Handles
Larted Gelato

---French Fries
Pommes Frites

---Asian
Otafuku
Yakitori Tory's
Yakitori Totto
Yakitori Sun-Chan
Thai Market
Tokyo Cafe
Minca Ramen
Sapporo
NY HotDog and Coffee

---Italian / Mediterranean
Juice for Life
John's Pizzeria
Lombardi's Pizzeria
Otto Enoteca

---American
Telephone Bar and Grill
Wichcraft

---Seafood
Blue Water Grill

---Burgers
Wall Street Burger Shoppe
Cheeburger Cheeburger

---Hispanic
Taqueria

---Indian
Jackson Diner

---Places to go to...---
Blue 9 Burger
Five Guys Burger
Buffalo Wild Wings (lol I know...) EDIT: I went 8/26/09! haha so good, damn spicy!

just as an FYI for people who might be thinking, "Oh God! Well I've been to all these places, why hasn't he!?" I never really hung out in Manhattan until last year, let alone I had just started hanging out summer of Junior Year of High School and that was limited to Queens. I had only went to hang out in Manhattan twice until I came to Columbia. So yeah, this was my conquest because I really like food, and it would get me to explore areas I've never been to or that I have not been to often. I'm really glad I did this, because it really made me get to know New York City even better and while going to places I found other random things! What really inspired me was looking at a friend's pictures on facebook of food from different places in other countries and in the Tri-State area.

(sugar sweet sunshine cupcakes!)

now.. that's all for today! haha

okay...maybe not! OH! something else --  it seems fitting since we are carrying on to the new academic year.

a picture of my awesome suite from last year! i made it using paint and whole bunch copy and pastes because i was too lazy to install Photoshop that I downloaded. I loved my suite although a couple of people got on my nerves sometimes....(this is part of an album I made on Facebook, but not many will get it because of inside jokes haha, I made it one day when I was thinking about everyone and had no plans for 2 days haha)

(From top to bottom of each row: LaShanee, Nick, Dexter, Emma, Elissa, Danny, Kim, Me, Reanna, Sungmin, Alfredo)

hmm wonder how Schapiro will be.. probably a whole new but cool experience..