Lazy Blogger-

Wow... I'm such a lazy blogger. Haha... when I first made this blog, I thought I would update a new post at least once a week, but I definitely didn't... haha... what a shame...T_T

For the last serveral months, a lot of things happened in my life... not that critical but somewhat new for me. I was sick (still sick actually...no pain though), but I didn't have a health insurance (thanks for the fucking good american health insurance system and my school), so I couldn't get any medical treatment. So I went to Korea and got a treatment, and now feel much better. I still need some more treatment but not that serious, and no need to hurry, so I decided to go back to Korea at the end of July. (the exact date is 27th of July)

hmm... it's almost the end of my NYC life... I don't know if I can come back to this city... I might go somewhere else even if I will come back for Ph.d or whatelse. I love NYC not just because this city has a lot of things to enjoy (shopping, restaurants, events, etc...), but also because I have a lot good memories in this city. It's been only little less than 2yrs, but I feel like I've been living here for my whole life... kkk... anyway...it's time to go back to Korea, my country, and whether or not I like Korea, I have to stay there for the next 3yrs. (thanks for the world's best military system...) hmm... =(

hooah... I need to change my life style little by little... I've been so lazy these days... gotta get back my old style- HARDCOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

yuhoo~

*bonus-

In Asiate, a fancy french restaurant on 3Xth floor in Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

JoJo

This week and last week are NYC's restaurant weeks - you can get a great food with 'reasonable' price. I don't really like this kind of event since as far as I experienced, no restaurant actually serves 'expensive' food in cheap price. Most of restaurants prepare a special menu for restuarant week event, and this is usually not on their regular menu. Even if you go to really good restaurant since you want to take an advantage of restaurant week, you might not get a really good food. This event is actually not good for 'customers', but for 'sellers'... =(
Anyway I went to JoJo with Jaehyun to enjoy this event. (actually we were just looking for an excuse to go to a good place~) FYI, JoJo is one of Jean-George's restaurant in Manhattan, and it's french. Since I really like french foods, I expected a lot before I got there, but the truth was kind of disapppointed...
As usual, JoJo also had a restaurant week special menu, and we got that menu. That was 3-course prix menu and for each of appetizer, entree, and dessert, they had 2 different menus, so we ordered everything.

First impression - bread and butter - was actually great. The bread was warm and pretty tasty, and the butter was little bit oily and really smooth. Appetizer was cheese ravioli and crab cake(?), and both of them was ok. My entree was somewhat disappointing, cause I expected somewhat big dish, but it was really small. Mine was hanger steak, and there were only 4 pieces of meats. Jaehyun got salmon for entree, and that was much better than mine. Both of them had a great taste, though. Dessert was good enough to be considered one of the best dessert I've ever had. Mine was a chocolate brownie thing, and I think this one is like the signature dessert of Jean-George's restaurants. The brownie has really rich warm chocolate inside of the bread, and it is also served with hazelnut ice cream. Embakum you should love this one... should try this one sometime... =) Jaehyun's was kind of lemon tart which is served with marsh-mellow bowl with whipcream underneath the bowl, but since I don't really like sour taste, for me that one was not a good dessert.

As a whole, I can give 3.5 out of 5 for JoJo. If they served enough amount of entree, I would give some more.
Enjoy the following pics~

Old day... (Before I started dating with Jaehyun - officially)

 

We went to Tarry town on the weekend of Halloween. Tarry town was a small town, but they have some sort of event house, and in that house, they have several shows - such as wandering ppl wearing ghost costumes, and so on. This was the date before we actually started dating. My loyal friend-Jinjung- told me about this event, so I made reservations and went there by train. Although the town was lil bit far from the city and pretty cold, it was a big refresh and a great experience. I also brougth those two masks as a surprise gift, so we took some pics with the masks. Personally, I think the cat mask really goes great with Jaehyun. Don't you agree with that? kk~

ok... this is it for today. =)

Christmas Eve

 

I and Jaehyun(my girlfriend) stayed in Jaehyun's new apt on Christmas eve. I made a cheese fondue for that night, and it was just awesome. =) (It's not because that I made this, that fondue was just literally AWESOME!! kk~)
We put our presents for each other under the christmas tree as you can see from the above pic - the red cube box was mine for Jaehyun, and the round-shaped white one was Jaehyun's for me. (kkkkkkkkkkkk~)

We really enjoyed the fondue, but the problem was that beacuse I prepared too much, I felt like almost dying after eating all of them... haha... >_<

Hope you guys had a great christmas last year... mine was really GREAT... kk~

Late Post-

 

Hope you all had great holidays-. I've been somewhat busy, so I couldn't really update any blog/mini homepage. This is the pic that I and my girlfriend took before christmas in front of the world's most famous christmas tree in Rockfeller Center. We don't have that many couple pictures since I usaually take pics and my camera is kind of big, so when I ask a favor to someone else, they usually even lost a focus. haha...;;

Anyway, we asked a guy standing next to us to take a pic of us, and the funny thing was that the guy told us 'enjoy your day in NY' right after he took our pic. I thought he would be a traveler, and he might think that we were travelling at that time too, but the truth is we are actually living in the city. haha... but I agree with that we might look like travelers... =)

There are many more pics, but I didn't really organize them, so they are kind of messed up... I will show some of them later after I learn something about Lightroom. I just started to use this program, and it looks great... =)

Hope you guys are having a great vacation/winter.