New York City Trip

Ok, i know i shud upload all these two months ago. But was quite busy and lazy :P. 13 Feb 2010 to 15 Feb 2010, it is the period of Chinese New Year. My friends and I planned to take those days off and travel to New York City.

13 Feb 2010
The day before, I had to work till 3am (YES!! IS 3 AM). Then, after that, my friend drove the rented car to NYC. Due to tireness, I slept in the car. When reaches NYC, we took a city tour package like what we did in Boston. We started with the most boring loop, the Uptown tour.

Basically, Uptown tour is travelling in the neighbourhood. The neighbourhood in NYC is peaceful but i think is not that spacious. However, it was a peaceful place.

We also visited one of the famous M&M shop in NYC. There are other two store, one in Orlando and another in Las Vegas

M&M store

The largest Toy r Us store is also located in NYC, with a feris wheel in it.

Where are the above both stores located? It is at the famous Times Square. I highly believe this is the most expensive place in the world. As this is the centre of NYC, the world most populous city.

Times Square

By the way, on the road 5 out of 10 cars will be a cab. Seems new yorkers are pretty proud of the cab. They even made a statue to symbolize the icon of new york city.

"Taxi!!"

14 Feb 2010
It is Chinese New Year, and I believe it is one of my highlight in my life. We allocated the most important trip on this day, which is the downtown trip.

The largest store in the world

The tallest building in NYC, Empire state building, before the twin tower is built and after the terrorist had attacked NYC

However, I myself was very exciting to see this:

Statue of Liberty

Even now, I myself, still can't resist its beauty...

Ok, i know, this look ugly

Evening, we took a ferry cruise to go around the island and underneath the brigde. The night view of NYC is splendid...

Night time, we went to the Top of the Rock, to view the night view. It was rather winding and chill. The picture below shows the Empire State Building. See, the light is red. It is not normally red. It is red as it is Chinese New Year...

At the entrance of Top of the Rock, funny name yeah...

Of course, Times Square is as merry as always. We found a nice spot to take a photo of four

15 Feb 2010

Today, is rather chilling. We have more time walking around this USA most population city. Morning, we went to Chinatown and found a Guan Yin temple there. We prayed as we didn't do that during the 1st day of chinese new year. Then, we went to a famous restaurant, Congee House (something like that) in Chinatown, and we had our "reunion dinner".
Not only that, Chinatown has quite a lot of nice chinese grocery =)

We also visited the 911 incident place, the twin tower. There is a memorial centre for it and lots of information for the incident is there. Feel like I was there, cause everything is so familiar to me now. The airline, the destination and all those photos. As if I am witnessing the whole incident.

A construction is taking place at the old address of WTC

The tour guide share his photo collection of the WTC Twin Tower


Make sure u always remember =)

We took the subways around the city

We visited the Wall Street as well. This is one of the most financial district in USA. you know, the share of USA took place here?

Night view of Wall Street

Madison Square Garden, just like TD Garden, NBA games took place here

Koreatown. just like Chinatown, but this is smaller, just one street

This ends our NYC trip. We might just explored a ice tip of this city, but the memory is always there

On the street of NYC

Places that you should go:

1. Statue of Liberty
2. Top of the Rock
3. Chinatown