Fresh Steamed Sponge Cake

Advertisements Ma Lai Gao or Sponge Cake is a quintessential component of the life and childhood times of me. Having canvassed various dim sum cart ladies to bring me a centre piece of delicious, fluffy yellow cake heaven throughout my formative years I, more accurately my dad, have learned to make the coveted recipe. Recipe…

P.D.A Pretty Damn Awkward

Advertisements Every girl get’s crushes: celebrity crushes, man crush monday’s #mcm, girl crushes #wcw the list continues in perpetuity. What I’m trying to get out is please enjoy my trials and tribulations attempting to get my next door neighbour to notice me. Which is P.D.A. (Pretty Damn Awkward) if you ask me. The course of…

Metropolitan Museum

Advertisements The Museum Mile Festival is one night a year when 5th ave is closed off on museum mile for a street festival. For us who had class from 9-4, Monday to Friday or work during those same hours visiting a museum can be difficult. Because of this one night Marianne and I decided to…

Movers and Shakers

Advertisements I’ve talked about these two girls quite a bit, not directly but enough to the point where they know I’m talking about them… or at least in Marianne’s cause her pictures are ALL OVER the blog. These two wonderful women are the two crazies who put up with my crazy and they are my…

The Boathouse Central Park

Advertisements June 8th is a day I will not forget. Why? I went to the Boathouse for dinner. The Boathouse overlooks the pond in Central park and Bethesda Terrace. While dining under its red awnings it’s common to catch a glimpse of the turtles and fish who live in these waters. The grandeur of the…

Central Park City

Advertisements Central Park is gorgeous, an oasis within the concrete jungle. It’s where you can disappear in New York and find yourself not within a crowd. Where being alone doesn’t feel lonely. Around Park Avenue Princes and Princesses, tourists and the occasional downtown dweller who ventured up town for the park, the looming canopy is…

Rockefeller Centre Dreams

Advertisements Rockefeller is a world unto itself. Tucked between avenues cushioned by sky scrapers the sounds of traffic and tourists fighting through hoards of different tourists makes you feel that this is what the good city life must be. Sitting in what is normally a skating rink during the colder months you look up to…