Just for Fun - Totally Random
1.You say "the city" and expect everyone to know that this means Manhattan.

2.You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.

3.You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.

4.Hookers and the homeless are invisible.

5.The subway makes sense.

6.You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.

7.You've considered stabbing someone just for saying "The Big Apple".

8.The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.

9.You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a yard.

10.You consider Westchester "upstate".

11.You think Central Park is "nature."

12.You see nothing odd about the speed of an auctioneer's speaking.

13.You're paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you think it’s a "steal."

14.You've been to New Jersey twice and got hopelessly lost both times.

15.You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the U.S. pay in rent.

16.You haven't seen more than twelve stars in the night sky since you went away to camp as a kid.

17.You go to dinner at 9 and head out to the clubs when most Americans are heading to bed.

18.Your closet is filled with black clothes.

19.You haven't heard the sound of true absolute silence since the 80s, and when you did, it terrified you.

20.You pay $5 without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28 cents.

21.You take fashion seriously.

22.Being truly alone makes you nervous.

23.You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.

24.Going to Brooklyn is considered a "road trip."

25.America west of the Hudson is still theoretical to you.

26.You've gotten jaywalking down to an art form.

27.You take a taxi to get to your health club to exercise.

28.Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.

29.$50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.

30.You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever" stories.

31.You don't notice sirens anymore.

32.You live in a building with a larger population than most American towns.

33.Your doorman is Russian, your grocer is Korean your deli man is Israeli, your building super is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favorite bartender is Irish, your favorite diner owner is Greek, the watchseller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your newsstand guy is Indian and your favorite falafel guy is Egyptian.

34.You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

35.You secretly envy cabbies for their driving skills.

36.You think $7.00 to cross a bridge is a fair price.

37.Your door has more than three locks.

38.Your favorite movie has DeNiro in it.

39.You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

40.You run when you see a flashing "Do Not Walk" sign at the intersection.

41.You're 35 years old and don't have a driver's license.

42.You ride in a subway car with no air conditioning just because there are seats available.

43.You're willing to take in strange people as roommates simply to help pay the rent.

44.There is no North and South...

45.It's uptown or downtown.

46.When you're away from home, you miss "real" pizza and "real" bagels.

47.You know the differences between all the different Ray's Pizzas.

48.You're not in the least bit interested in going to Times Square on New Year's Eve.

49.Your internal clock is permanently set to know when Alternate Side of the Street parking regulations are in effect.

50.You know what a bodega is.

51.You know how to fold the New York Times in half, vertically, so that you can read it on the subway or bus without knocking off other passenger's hats.

52.Someone bumps into you, and you check for your wallet.....

53.You cringe at hearing people pronounce Houston St. like the city in Texas

54.Film crews on your block annoy you, not excite you.

55. People from other states cant tell a polar bear from a peanut, but they know you're from NY the second you open your mouth.

56. When you are able to make a right turn at a red light.. you think it's the best thing ever.

57. Rather than waiting safely on the sidewalk to cross the street, you wait inches away from speeding traffic waiting to cut through it.

58. Your local news is national news.

59. You walk a mile in 13 minutes and think that everything should be open 24/7.

60. You know who Dr. Z is...

61. You think you know better than everyone else in the world.. when in reality.. well.. you do.

62. Yellow light means speed up.

63. Red light means speed up because you know have that 1 second pause until the other light turns green.

64. Communicating with people on the road only takes one finger.

65. You order your dinner and have it delivered.. from the place across the street.

66. You cross the street on a greenlight, and if you get hit by a car you blame the driver for "not watching where they're going.

67. You can tell a gunshot from a firecracker and not get scared, but when you go to the burbs you get scared of hearing a cricket.

68. You know the lights above the skyscrapers is the closest thing we have to stars.

Usually I see Sunday as the beginning of a week, this time I make it the end. Look at this week.

I were sitting at the roof of Jacob building, where nearly nobody around. There I had a really good nap in the warm afternoon sunshine.

I also taught my roomata Huang Buxuan to play baseball in a morning. We spent an hour in the baseball field near our house, throwing and catching the ball. He learnt really good, which meant I taught well haha XD. We will have a wood bat in the coming week. Haven't swung a bat like forever, I really looking forward it.

Graveyard is a quite and cold place to go at night. I was on my way to buy some drinks when I took this picture, which I think really cool. Of course it would be better if I had a real camera.

I bought a lot of drinks home. Red wine, white wine from california and my current favorite, Tequila. I had this serious sleep trouble since two weeks ago, so I tried alcohol. It turned out great, and drinking within moderation is good to your health. In fact, I became interested in alcohol when I entered that huge Liquido Store, where they have thousands of different alcohol drinks. I wanna learn making cocktails like Margarita, like Monica did in "Friends", and they seemed really enjoy that.

Cheers to the Boston Red Sox! After losing straight 3 games to Cleveland Indians in the ALCS(American League Championship Series), they fought their way back. Tonight they beat the Indians 11-2 in Game 7 of ALCS to complete the dramatic comeback from a 1-3 deficit, and the pitcher tonight is my favorive Japanese player Dice-K, Matzuzaka. Red Sox becomes the Champion of American League, and surely will be the Champion of the World Series! Cheers for Boston and Cheers to Sunday night baseball again, this Tequila is really great~

Lastly, check this out, Sherlock Lee...:

Today is the third Saturday in October, which makes it is Sweetest Day in America. This holiday is celebrated to make someone happy, someone you care about the most. That will be the sweetest thing, hopefully...

独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。
遥知兄弟登高处，遍插茱萸少一人。

虽然敲出王维同学(是王维吧?)一首这么符合现状的诗词，但是还是没有什么特别的感觉...早上起来看到是重阳佳节，于是给家里打了个电话，给几个知道email的老朋友发了email什么的，想念和朋友们hang out的时光，到这边以后都没有过什么好玩的聚会可以开心放松一下(因为参加的都很boring...)。

晚上又有一个CUSA，本科生中国学生会，的聚会，去看看然后吃点久违的中餐应该也不错。

Anyway, have a great Chung Yeung Festival to everyone:) Make phone calls to people who you care about and cares about you.

It ends...

十月初的时候去中央公园，穿过中部的观鸟林，虽然头上还是一片绿色，但是脚下咔咔作响的落叶和吸入胸口的冰凉的空气都提醒着夏天已经结束了。

于是纽约转眼就开始天寒地冻的。When I stay up till late at night(my Mom will know I stay up late if I wrote it in Chinese-_-)会冷得全身发抖，只是去泡上一杯热乎乎的绿茶(话说在国内我喝很多咖啡，结果跑到米国来变成喝绿茶了...)，而不想去加衣服，仿佛这样就能让自己多过几个夏夜。诞生在一年最炎热的时候的狮子们一定是只是属于夏天的，otherwise, why we got into downturn with the summer ending?

Two weeks that passed, here I am, still stuck in phase 1. However the life sucks, with the midterm and lab works coming up, I gotta move on and deal with my trouble. That's right, I remembered what Lynette yelled to in DH S03E07, "Yes, we all have pain sometimes, but we deal with it, we have to swallow the pain and get going with our life... ...". Though it seems really hard for me, such a self-controlless guy, to handle my life, but damn it I gotta try. As I said to my other Leo friends, our summer will come again when the cold winter's over.

So after another self-pity and faineant weekend, I decide to at least do something positive to start over, for the coming new week. I cooked a big boiler of curry chicken for roommates and of course myself, as Monday lunch to be brought to school, then write about this here. New week, new life, hopefully...

By the way, you want to know why I wrote lots of English? Right, as I said, my Mom knows about this place now, she's gonna see me talking about these disturbing crap and get some serious worry. Thank god she doesn't understand any English.

一周多前，消失好像快一年的某兔出现在msn上，介绍给我一位已经在纽约待了很久的她的好朋友，让我这个刚来纽约圈子狭窄的家伙从New Yoker那里了解一下该知道的事情。

于是在Shea Stadium的球赛结束之后，我没有回布鲁克林，而是来到7号线的最后一站，法拉盛，纽约最好的China town。见到这位叫作Maya的女生，然后在这里过了来纽约后胃最幸福的一个夜晚...

先来到一个韩国餐馆，韩国菜十分正宗，跟在国内有些不同，国内的韩国菜貌似基本上就是各式烧烤了，在这里吃到了很独特并且好吃的豆腐(鸡蛋？)石锅、茶泡饭、烤牛排还有海鲜葱饼。之后逛了逛Macy's和号称北美日本漫画最全的小店...最后在一家生意兴隆的饼屋品尝了冷饮。虽然肚子十分满足，但是十分丢脸...因为家里还没有寄钱过来，我提出用信用卡支付，Maya就大方的掏出了大把现金...囧。说好下次我要准备好钞票回请一次，才让我心头的黑线隐去...不过现在SSN已经到了，等不久拿到第一份工资就能奢侈一下了。

PS: 其实最近几篇日志都是上周末写的...这周过的比较...，不过新的一周即将从哥伦布纪念日(每年十月第二个周一)开始，我也开始要发现生活的新大陆。

美好的皇后区一日游...让我觉得，布鲁克林真是无聊和脏乱。想起来Chandler和意大利女人聊天说过一个冷笑话(当然，他说过无数个冷笑话，所以不记得是正常的)，"One time I took a train to Brooklyn, and...I survived back..."。是的，布鲁克林就是一个又危险又无趣的地方，任何人说起布鲁克林首先想到的是这里的黑人还有不安全，而我就住在这里。

还是来说周六的皇后区之行吧。最让人兴奋的当然还是:

　　　I went to the Ballgame!

N多天前我和小黄买了这张15块钱的纽约大都会队的主场球赛票。位置还不错，比起洋基的比赛来说真是划算多了。当时Mets处在国联东区第一的位置，而且差距还不小，我说这一定是场无关紧要的狂虐东区垫底球队佛罗里达马林鱼队的球赛。

不过二十来天过去了，不争气的Mets竟然沦落到了东区第二。Wild Card是没有希望了，想要出现就只能保证最后这两场比赛全胜，并且期望费城人队输球。不过前一天刚被马林鱼横扫的Mets看起来并不是太可靠，于是教练团派出了牛棚中的王牌，John Maine。他不负众望地让不少因为Mets处境艰难而临时赶过来买票(竟然还能到球场临时买票...之前Yankees的最后几场主场比赛早就以抢而空...)的球迷们欣赏了一场我很早就预料到的狂虐比赛。

所谓狂虐，不只是John Maine在8局中送给Marlins 14次三振并且只被击出1只安打；Mets全场共击出19支安打轰下13分把Marlins的牛棚打爆；并且，在球赛中间两队上演的火拼！

在第五局下半，Jose Reyes前进到第三垒，不知道原因的，Marlins球员和三垒指导员和Reyes发生了矛盾。只见场上所有球员一下子打在一起，而两队休息区的Mets、Marlins球员也跑上去，更让人惊讶的是，从外场两队的牛棚区鱼贯而出更多的人涌向三垒，当然Mets的人居多。也不知道他们是打架还是劝架，场上乱做一团。但是马上他们就被驱散了，比赛继续进行。让满场激动的球迷们失望不已。

不过失望并没有多久，几分钟后，纠纷再次在三垒附近发生，大量的两队球员和教练人员再次冲锋到一起打做一团。而全场Mets球迷都血液沸腾站起 来挥舞着拳头呐喊"Let's Go Mets! Let's Go Mets! Let's Go Mets!!!"。看起来大家看结果已毫无悬念的比赛已经有了无聊的感觉，这才值回了票价哈哈XD 不过值得一提的是，MLB球员打架之前确实先把球棒和手套往地上一扔才上。这之后，比赛中的火药味并没有消散。John Maine的投球一定让一位Marlin球员三振几个打席了，他竟然故意将球棒甩向场内很远的地方，差点又打起来，当然了，这又是一个三振。

比赛最后以Mets vs. Marlins 13:0结束，MVP当然是John Maine莫属，主场球迷十分满意的离去。更让Mets球迷激动的是，费城人输给了国民队，这样只需要周日最后一场比赛取胜，Mets就应该能够进入季后赛！而比赛对手仍然是Marlins，看起来应该没有什么问题。

可是...不争气的Mets真是扶不上墙，第二天一直让人信赖的老将Glavine先发却第一局就送出7分给Marlins，提前葬送了比赛和季后赛。

相比之下，科罗拉多洛基队就真是让人敬佩，他们凭着13场连胜赢得了和圣地亚哥教士队加赛争夺国联Wild Card的机会，并且最终经过13局艰难的比赛，在最后一局落后两分的情况下反超赢得了球赛。

昨天竟然忘记发文纪念了...罪过罪过

祖国万岁！

打倒XX功，这些每天出现在我们餐桌上当作桌布的恶心的报纸-_-，受不了了，本来以为到了国外，丫能让我见到一点make sense的东西，结果全是扯蛋，看着哇哇想吐...这些人要不是神经有毛病就是只要参加相关活动就能发美钞...tnnd

希望中国继续强大和改善，我以自己是中国人而自豪~

lung来了一周了，今天总算有机会陪他游玩一下纽约。地点决定在我们都还没有去过的下曼哈顿和自由女神像。

不过一开始就比较萎靡...俩人都在地铁睡着然后坐过车站到中曼哈顿才反应过来...先到传说中的华尔街，看到插满国旗并且其中一面异常巨大的纽约证券交易所(NYSE)。再次不得不说，纽约到处都是各式各样的国旗，处处显示出对自己国家的骄傲...美国人可能没事喜欢表示一下对政府的不满不屑，但是看得出来，生长在美国的人们对自己的超级大国还是发自内心的爽的。

华尔街(Wall St)和百老汇(Boardway)交界处是一座历史悠久的教堂，Trinity Church，为繁忙的金融区中的人们隔绝开来一片宁静，很多游人和上班族在这里午餐和休息，我们也不例外。坐在其美丽的墓地享受十分惬意的午后时光之后，我们向南边的炮台公园进发，途中经过了两处金融区有名的景点：类似民俗博物馆的一个建筑和Boardway上的大水牛。前者在Friends里面经常出现，不过不是这个角度；而后者，哈哈，have huge balls！

走进曼哈顿最南端的炮台公园，在乘上Circle Line公司的浏览船之前需要经过烦琐的安全检查。本来一切貌似OK，但是过了小门之后，安全人员把我叫住，让我把书包中电脑拿出来...我心中一沉，难道要检查电脑里面有没有小电影？！正开始编造诸如研究日本文化之类的理由的时候，他把我的背包又重新送回检测机器的入口，并且把我的电脑电池卸下进行奇怪的查看。我这才想起来入口出写着的"No Knife"而我包里好像有一把多功能小刀。果然，这把我在北京呷哺呷哺吃饭得到的小刀被检测出来，安全人员跟我说"You have to speak to the officer there"。紧张的来到警官面前，得知处理方法只能是没收小刀或者离开候船厅。实在舍不得这把小刀，于是我出去把小刀扔在公园的一个角落然后回来才终于通过安全检查上船。

几声汽笛声拉响，我们的船离开South Ferry港口，开往Circle Line第一站——自由女神。船在哈德孙河上行进中的时候，很多可爱的海鸥跟着船在我们头上几米的空中飞翔，貌似十分乐意被游人们惊奇的眼光所仰视。

船开的很快，不一会儿就到了女神像的正面。巨大的自由女神铜像举着火炬矗立在眼前，果然是令人激动人心的一幕，让我想起Titanic号最后抵达纽约时候经过女神像的场景。一两百年来，这是让无数追寻梦想和自由(或者说养家糊口和逃离政治)的欧洲移民经过漫长的航行穿越大西洋知道自己到达美国的标志。想象一下他们在Ellis岛登陆前，先看到自由女神像然后看到下曼哈顿岛的摩天大楼森林，心中一定对未来充满幸福的yy吧。

登岛后首先欣赏到的美景就是哈德孙河面和天空之间Downtown Manhattan的天际线。不过，总觉得缺少了些什么，因为在这里角度看来，有一块很不自然的空缺。是的，那就是世贸中心，原来在那里的宏伟的双子楼不复存在了。就在观景栏杆的旁边，有一副大照片向人们展示以前从这里看到的下曼哈顿是怎样的。就像下面两个照片一样，左边的是现在的skyline，右边是如果世贸大厦仍然存在，跟周围其他建筑在一起的效果。想象一下不免就有些遗憾。

之前提到的Ellis岛是游船抵达的下一站。这里曾经是欧洲移民进入美国的关口，移民们在这里踏上美国国土然后分散到整个国土。今天，这里已经称为移民博物馆，据称接近一半美国人可以在这里找到他们的祖辈，这也是博物馆除让你看到一大堆百多年前的无人认领的行李箱、各种照片和数据统计外提供给美国人的一项重要服务。

回到曼哈顿后，在炮台公园中寻找我的小刀未果...正心存对老美的鄙视，看到了公园西侧的韩战纪念碑。这个纪念碑的形象是一个联合国军的步兵，底座上一圈联合国军参战国的国旗，美国和韩国的最大。圆形的地面有各个国家的伤亡数量，韩国和美国的伤亡最大，显然。于是作为战胜国的公民，我很自豪且耀武扬威的留影纪念，哈哈