Sunday, January 31, 2010

...what do you want to do ?





Before I die I would like to...
see the Aurora Borealis
learn the secret to making delicious crepes
be someone's hero
run the NYC marathon!
find true love
see peace in the world
take a road trip across the USA
take really great
photographs, like these
ride a horse
have more time!!

Looking back at NYC Ballet's Sleeping Beauty

 

On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of zipping to Lincoln Center after classes with my friend and classmate to see the evening showing of Sleeping Beauty. It was the first ballet I had been to, and it was spectacular! The costumes were really imaginative and dazzled with color and sparkles, and the dancing was so captivating it kept my attention for its entire three hours duration. The music, composed by Tchaikovsky, was lighthearted and beautiful. The performance included an array of talented dancers who illuminated the stage and gave life to the well known love story of princess Aurora and prince DÈsirÈ. I'm pretty sure that sometime during the show, the little dancing girl inside of me pirouetted back to life, just like the sleeping beauty awakened in this fairytale story.

It was a successful night, and of course no outing is complete without stopping for dinner (which is nicely pictured here :). Yum!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

City in hibernation

NYC is cold today. So cold that Herald Square was absolutely desolate compared to the normal Saturday. I stepped out of the 34th Street subway station this morning expecting to be surrounded by the mobs of people (tourist crowds, that is) who usually venture to this spot, but instead there was hardly anyone in sight. And the same is true for Bryant Park - in all its glory, today it is frozen and still, reduced to lonesome stone benches and ironclad seats.

Friday, January 29, 2010

do you want to travel the world






































with me?

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010

dream big...



...and no matter how old you get and where life leads, create your fairytale

Sunday, January 24, 2010

premonition...?

Three nights ago right before waking up I had an odd, amusing, and incredibly vivid dream, but now I can only remember the very last part of it. I am sitting on the train going to a far away place, and while talking to the woman sitting next to me, a stranger, she casually mentions that the train will be taking a sharp turn.. a turn downward, but not to worry, she says. The next thing I know, the train is running off the cliff into a humongous hole. Right before it falls off the edge, I'm thrown up into the air (I guess this train didn't have a top to it) and as I'm in the air an intense free-falling sensation comes over me. I feel myself take a sharp breath while still asleep in my bed. In the dream, I start free falling into a huge hole which looks very much like the Grand Canyon. The train is gone, making its way down to the bottom, and I'm right behind, following it, falling. At this time I hear the woman's voice saying,

"Don't worry, it's going to be okay, it will come back around to catch you, don't worry."

Ha ha. Really! Although I realize that that can't possibly be true, I still try to balance myself to fall straight and not tumble in air. The ground's getting closer by the millisecond, and the last thing I remember is looking down where the ground is supposed to be, but there is only a great gray space.

And then I woke up.
...

Strangely enough, my real-life experiences later that day mimicked the blueprint of my dream... so will the woman in my dream be right? I think and I hope so, but only time will tell.

Friday, January 22, 2010

sometimes i feel like the life i'm living is not my own. how did i get so lucky to be living the life i've always wanted to live? residing in the most amazing city on the globe, having friends and family I wouldn't trade for the world, and going to the graduate school of my dreams? but I haven't done anything to deserve any of it, and I'm not sure that i every will, but I sure am grateful for it

the sky looks like it's on fire tonight as part of a spectacular sunset, and i have an amazing view of the empire state building. with all the beauty around me, how can I be sad

Monday, January 18, 2010

ahhhhhhh, i miss europe


London eye at nighttime


La Boqueria - the most amazing and entertaining market I've ever experienced.. even better than Trader Joe's!


One awesome travel buddy!


Secret view through a secret peephole


"London bridge is falling down"? I think not


The Seine and one of the 3 pedestrian-only bridges in the city of lovers (and if you look close you can see the Eiffel Tower in the distance)


A peek through the leaves at Barcelona's port


What you see through stores' windows at any street corner in Barcelona

Sunday, January 17, 2010

justathought

a conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good