Summer in the city

My first week back in the city has flown by! I started a new internship at KCD and I love it. As a PR intern, my main responsibilities involve the showroom and maintaining the samples and sending them out to magazines, celebrities, etc. Everyday is kind of like a reality tv show.....lots of big personalities, but it keeps my long days interesting. Unfortunately it rained almost everyday last week, so no outfit pics. I promise they will come!
One of the perks of working in Chelsea is eating lunch in Chelsea Market every day! I'm quite drawn to the Lobster Place's salads and soups, but I just discovered a pie place! I've only tried the Thai chicken curry one but it was delish!

Friday night, I went to a surprise party for my friend Tina! It was at Butter, but we ate quite late, so I got an appetizer and a side instead of an entree. I got crab cakes with potato gnocchi. And I tried some of Melisa's duck, which was really really good.

After the party, I wasn't feeling very good, so I planned on relaxing this weekend. Instead, I ended up having a lot of fun on Saturday with my friends! First, I met up with Joe and Johnny in WSP where we watched light saber fights, and a gang of little kids on skate boards (they were actually very good). Then David and Gian called, inviting us to go to Shake Shack with Gian's family visiting from the Philippines. The line wasn't too bad, but while we were waiting for the food, a thunderstorm passed by, leaving David and I stranded in the middle of the park, while everyone else ran under the trees. Afterwards, Gian's dad took us to Big Gay Ice Cream shop where I got a cinnamax ice cream sandwich (cinnamon ice cream and snickerdoodles).

And then I ended the weekend with an afternoon of shoe shopping! I found lots of deals thanks to the Memorial Day sales. Not exactly the beach weekend I was hoping for, but super fun nevertheless.

the shoes I really, really wanted. but they did not have black. 

Kyochon honey wings.

amazing strawberries from the farmer's market.

A short stay at home

This year, I was able to go home for 10 days immediately after I finished finals, and before I started my new internship. I think it's really important to have some down time between major activities, such as school, internships, jobs, etc. I don't know how some of the interns finished school, and then started interning the following Monday!
The night before I left for home, my suitemate and I feasted (again) at Madison Sq Eats to celebrate the end of another school year. I definitely want to go back before it closes in early June. This time I got food from three different stalls: Bee Sting pizza from Roberta's Pizza, sugar cookie dough and tea time ice cream from Steve's and a nutella arancini from Arancini Bros. I would definitely recommend the pizza and the arancini (I want to go back and try a savory one!).

At home, my visit revolved around my sister, Laine's spring musical, which she starred in! She played Marcy Park in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Lots of fun and surprises at every performance!
and lastly, (but perhaps most importantly?) I ate lots of food.

An ode to food.

It is the night before my last final of the year. I am so freaking excited for many things:

1. the end of another successful school year
2. to be done with science (after a rather painful two semesters) forever!
3. to be a senior
4. and finally, for summer and my super exciting internship!

Here are some lovely pictures of the things I have eaten in the past few weeks. When it comes to exams, I think food, sleep and tv are the best remedy.

Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict at Petite Abeille

First Yankees game (vs. Tigers!)

foggy but still awesome view from the NQR as it goes over the Manhattan Bridge 

sun-dried tomato and mozzarella pitza from Bedouin Tent

the last of the world's largest strawberry shortcake at Strawberry Fest

the super cute singing card BZA got me!

parting gift: a box of chocolates from Nunu!

one of Yuri's many treats

Bachelor #6: Gian. For the record, he went for $95!

a late night Chick-Fil-A run with Joe

beef sandwich with blueberry sriracha and pickled radishes

signed Girls Generation I won at Korean Culture Night

random red carpet at school

my week in food truck faves

There are only two and a half weeks of school left and I couldn't be happier! After a long school year (though it went by super fast!) I am more than ready for summer!
Since it is now officially spring (though at times the weather says otherwise) some of my favorite food trucks are back! Last weekend, I went to the Big Gay Ice Cream shop, Waffle & Dinges Truck and Kelvin Slush in 24 hours! But I just couldn't help it! The weather was so nice and my tummy was very happy. At Big Gay, I decided to try the Mermaid, which is a vanilla ice cream cup with key lime curd, crushed graham crackers and whipped cream. Light and refreshing! I've been meaning to try the cococone (since I am very into coconut these days) and the horchata shake.

At Waffle Truck I tried three days in a row to get their waffle of the week, which was a liege waffle with peach/apricot preserves, spekuloos and whipped cream. By Saturday I had given up, until I saw an update aroun 10:30pm saying a truck was actually on St. Marks! So my suitemate and I went and enjoyed our waffles with all the crazy people on St. Marks.

I think the Arnold Palmer plus a fruit mix in is truly Kelvin Slush's best slush (though I have yet to try a slush with ice cream, saving that one for a hot day), so for my first slush of the season I had to go with my favorite. I got the Arnold Palmer with pink guava mix in. I was really pleased to see they have many more fruit mix ins this year. And luckily for me, Kelvin Slush is always near Union Sq so I'll have many opportunities to try the different combos!

Thursday, there was some free food event at school if you downloaded an app called Fondu. Sadly, I missed it literally by a minute! (I was in line furiously downloading the app when they said the event was over) So I consoled myself by getting Waffle Truck anyway, but I got a wafle cone with spekuloos cookie ice cream.

On Friday, the office wanted to take a chocolate break. So we went to Nunu Chocolates and I chose a bacon toffee bar. It was interesting. The toffee was super hard/sticky and I was scared I might chip a tooth. But the mix with bacon was much better than I expected.

Don't remember which day, but I opted to eat in the park, and I stumbled upon some lovely chalk art, including this adorable Totoro!

Spring madness

The past three weeks have been one giant blur! Two weeks ago was a very kitty week. I was so excited to get my hands on the Hello Kitty Laduree boxes I could hardly contain my excitement!! I'm not sure what I'm going to use the boxes for, besides decoration. I already have one of the Valentine's boxes for my sticky notes...maybe for my phone charger/chords? I'll have to think about it.

Last week I had a giant school project/presentation that was very..... stressful. But it's done and on to the next test/paper.
My sister and her friend Fiona visited me over the weekend. It was Fiona's first time in New York, so we tried to do a lot of stuff in a short time period. I woke up sick on Friday, so I think it might take me all week to recover. We spent a lot of time shopping and probably eating too much food.
Friday, we went shopping and had Shake Shack as a late lunch, followed by more shopping and Artichoke pizza.

 Saturday, we tried to go to Clinton St Baking Co. but there was a 2.5 hour wait!! Instead, we went to Doughnut Plant and then Smorgasburg and some thrifting. At night, the girls went to see Newsies and I went to Eunice's birthday dinner at Inoteca. Really yummy! We did the party menu, so we got to try lots of appetizers and entrees! 

Sunday, we went to Chelsea Market and ate at Sarabeths. Then, we went to the Easter Parade, followed by Laduree, Teuscher and a break in Central Park. For dinner, we went to Eataly. Four out of the five times I've been there, I've been to the pizza pasta restaurant, and it never disappoints!

Randoms

Dinner with Melisa (my future roommate!) at St.'s Alp 

the very best champagne truffles

the soap is so cute!

the Cambridge Satchel girl is totally me