NYC Trip (24 Dec)...

Dec 24 2004... (NYC Trip - 2nd Day)

As Kai and I were hungry for great food, both of us decided to go to Chinatown of New York, located at the Southern part of the Manhattan Island, to have some really good food. We had some fried dumpling... Hot and fresh from the oven frying pan.... nice...

Then, we decided to go to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum...
This is the largest floating museum in the world (correct me if i'm wrong).
It was the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier, and after it was decommissioned, it was transformed into a museum.

This museum is really huge. And there's a submarine and a concorde attached to it... Too bad the submarine section was closed for some maintenance... while the concorde is really magnificent... the leather seats, the sleek shape of the plane's body... and the nose of the bird which can change it's attacking angle... wonderful

Then, we had McD for lunch... and then, we went back to meet Putt, Chia Chye and Yee Chiun(Putt's fren) at TimesSquare, at about 3.30pm...

after that, in order to stay indoor...(away from the cold weather), we decided to catch a movie... Dunno why, we decided to watch the movie : Blade:Trinity.... not to say that the movie is lousy... but, just that the plot is kinda trite... after the first and 2nd movie of blade... the plot just kinda repeating... and very predictable... anyway.... the CGI effects are not too bad... and i wonder how much Apple pay the producer to promote Ipod... can't believe it that they mentioned Ipod in the movie... and the main actress did listen to Ipod (they even show that how she upload music to her Ipod... and show her wearing the while earbuds in slow motion.... OMGoodness...

initially, movie hopping did cross our mind... but then, it is kinda against our consience..(muahaha)....that's why,we decided to go to Chinatown again for dinner...

For dinner, we had Bak Kut Teh (pork in herb soup), fried Kangkung belacan (vegetable), Pipa Duck, Tofu , all these dishes with Rice... and we did tried the Asam Laksa (noodles)... the dinner was awesome...

Then, we headed down to Rockefeller Center for the Christmas countdown... as it was Christmas Eve.... and Rockefeller Center has the largest Christmas tree around... However, it was very crowded... and we were all exhausted after a long day.. and it was only 9.30pm when we reached there... we just walked around, took quite some pictures, and decided to go back to our hostel to get some rest....

at the hostel, we met Eric and company again... and after listening to their plan for Christmas Day...both of us decided to follow them tmr...