Well well, it seems its finally 2009, happy new year everyone! I hope you all had a enjoyable NYE! I myself had quite an epic journey on NYE (yes thats right I said JOURNEY) I started off the day waking up at 10, my uncle took me out to yumcha (which they call dim sum here) becaue it was my grandma’ birthday. Then he gave me a metro card so I was pretty set for transport (a metro card is like a prepaid subway card).
After that I got home and layered up for NYE, this is when the epic journey began. First of all I was wearing two layers of pants, a long sleeve undershirt, a polo shirt, a jacket with a wind stopping layer that I got for christmas and another thick as jacket down jacket that I got from my uncle, thats 4 layers + beanie, scarf, ear muffs and gloves. Anyway after I layered up, got driven to the station and took the subway into the city to meet up with Kirstie and her cousins. That went well, we found each other pretty easily thanks to our wonderful cell phones. After a very early macca’s dinner we walked to Times Square to find an entrance, we walked about 10 blocks before we found one! 10 blocks! I was losing hope after the 9th =( and by then it was already freezing cold.
So we got in and about 7 blocks away from times square we had to stop because it was too crowded. So thats where we stood for the next 4 hours. It doesn’t sound like much but when ur standing still in -6 celsius temperature it actually starts to hurt even with all those layers. At this point they also started giving out the blue nivea merchandise with the 2009 stuff on it (if any of you watched times square on tv you’d know what I was talking about) We only got one confectionary bag amongst the three of us =(
After about 4 hours they opened up the BACK of the block to go into the next block and we were at the front!!! When we all realised it was like a mad rush to get to the entrance, annoying really since we were disadvantaged for getting there earlier -_-” We got in eventually however and ended up next to M&M World! Thats where st stood for the remaining 4 hours. Honestly the ball drop wasn’t too impressive, not after seeing Sydney’s fireworks for the last few year, but still it felt good being at time square for NYE. Anyway after that the crowd dispersed and we went into this diner place to defrost and fill our empty stomachs. I swear I started walking and my feet HURT. Not from standing but from the COLD, like wtf!!! It felt like pins and needles to the max, seriously… but after a few minutes in the diner it was all good. We stayed and chatted for a bit and when we left it was 2am in the morning already.
The journey home was also quite epic. My friends walked me to my station before heading off to thiers and there I stood for 15 minutes, waiting for my train to queens… until I realised MY TRAIN DIDN’T RUN THIS LATE AT NIGHT. Luckily though there was another train on a different line that ran local on late nights; I should explain this, here the subway operates either local or express, express is quite obvious I guess local is like our all stops. So anyway I needed a local train so I asked the lady at the station just in case and she confirmed that I needed to go onto the other line. She told me a station as well but I think i mis-heard her, I heard something-third st and 7th av. I assumed 43rd so I walked SIX BLOCKS to find no subway station with my line, I think now it was 53rd which would’be been much closer… Anyway at 43rd/7th there was no subway so I kept walking to 42nd just to check and luckily there WAS a subway… but it didn’t have my line at that entrance…. BUT there was a sign that said access to E line at 8th avenue (E line was my line) So I walked another block to 8th and again FOUND NO STATION. So I walked around and around and thought.. hang on this isn’t right, so I decided to check every corner of that intersection and finally I FOUND IT, a small entrance that I had missed. And so finally the epic was over, I called my cousin and asked her to pick me up from grand avenue station (which I’m SO grateful for) BUT THEN halfway through the journey the train decides to turn into an express!!! I was like !#$@$!#@$@!#$!@#T$ So I had to call my cousin and ask her to pick me up from a different station.. and this station was so dodgy… the outside was anyway, it was like dark and under a bridge with some really run down streets. I was scared… Luckily there were some cops there which made me feel safer. Anyway my cousin picked me up and got me the hell out of there THANK YOU… I got home and slept. The End.
Sorry I know it was long but I had to tell it all, it was quite epic.
New Years Day I slept until like 4, then Kirstie called and said she was going back to the ct and then heading back to New Jersey, so I decided to join her and her cousin. We didn’t do that much though, we did however go to M&M WORLD thats right 3 levels of M&M merchandise goodness (no samples though =( ) There was this awesome leather jacket with M&M logos and pictures on it and crystals and shit, selling for $3000… GG. Yeah there was ssome cool stuff there, didn’t buy nething though, trying to save up till later. If I have money afterwards though I’ll be sure to come back.
After M&M World we ate PIZZA! and this wasn’t like australian pussy pizza, this thing was like massive and it was MEDIUM SIZED WTH! It was big… and it was good… oh and did I mention epic, yes it was an epic pizza.
Unfortunately I didn’t bring my camera to any of these events, but Kirstie did!! So when I manage to steal her photos I’ll upload them and add them to this post.
Until then cya all!! Happy New Year!!! I hope 2009 holds great and exciting things for everyone!
