New York, New York

There is this commercial in Canada which I find really irritating. It goes like this:

"If you want to get fit, you go for a run. If you want to save on food, you go to Save On Food."

My ass lah, Save On Food. If you want to Save On Food, you withdraw all your money out of the Dining Convenience Plan and go out and buy food from Safeway or wherever, and cook it at home. And I am getting to be a pretty good cook even though my culinary repertoire now consists of rice, pasta, fried rice, chicken, dumplings erm...(the dumplings were ready-to-cook), and basically, stuff with cheese. Anyway, as a result of my "new-found fortune" once left formenting in the rubbish bin that is my Dining Convenience Plan, I have decided to go back to the U.S. of A.

And where better to go in the U.S. of A. than New York, New York? I know I should visit other places, but they don't hold the mystique that New York holds for me! I went to Seattle. I didn't like Seattle that much. I went to Portland. I didn't like Portland that much either. But I loved New York! I'm still deciding whether I want to wait for my roommate (the other David) to come along because his exams end later, or whether I should go first and meet him in NYC.

But this time, I'm prepared. The last time I was in NYC, I made a big mess of my touristing. I didn't finish the Met, I didn't finish MOMA, and I went to the Museum of Cartoons and Comics or someshit which was horrible. This time, I've got everything planned out. I'll finish the Met and MOMA, then I'll do the Museum of Skyscrapers and Museum of New York and I'll go to Central Park and pay homage to my hero. And I'll climb up the Empire State Building. Yeah, I'm prepared. And yes, I'll definitely see if I can buy that I Heart NY t-shirt.

Because, I Heart NY.