adventures in cooking: falafel edition.

This week when I went grocery shopping, I really wanted to try something new, so I picked up frozen falafel. And I already had the accoutrements to make a sandwich! I used pita bread, lettuce, feta cheese and hummus. I would recommend going for tahini over hummus, because the consistency is less viscous than hummus, and I think it might be more flavorful. I also made sweet potato fries to go with the sandwich. 

 Overall I really liked how light and healthy this meal is, but it's not as flavorful as when you buy falafel from a halal cart. And the fries gave the right amount of sweetness to the savory sandwich.

my week in food and fall breaks.

Last weekend, I randomly had a five day weekend because NYU gave us Monday and Tuesday off for Columbus Day! Super random, since I've never had Columbus Day off before, but certainly welcome! Going home would have been nice, but I was able to relax in an empty apartment, watch lots of TV and catch up with friends.
Sunday, I finally went to the Hell's Kitchen Food Truck Bazaar! I've been trying to go all summer, but the August one was postponed twice, and eventually cancelled due to rain. And I got to go with my friend David!! who I haven't seen since before I left for Shanghai. There were only five food trucks, since it was the last food truck bazaar of the year. I had Kimchi Tacos and a pear citrus Kelvin Slush! David had a pulled pork Gorilla cheese. After we ate, we browsed the flea market, tried on lots of hats, jewelry and looked at old pictures.

Since I had Monday off from school, I volunteered to go to my internship on my day off to help with the Thomas Lau photo shoot. The clothes seen on the runway are actually only a percentage of the collection, about a third I think. So, Thomas Lau, the photographer, comes in each season to photograph all the garments and accessories that weren't in the show. It was pretty exhausting, just constantly changing mannequins, and getting the next looks ready. It was really cool to see all his equipment though!

Thursday I had dinner with Eunice!! We grabbed lobster rolls from Luke's Lobster truck, located conveniently a block from Carlyle that night. We went back to my room to eat and chat. I've been having a lot of anxiety about  internships and jobs lately, and she really helped ease my anxiety. And I just found out yesterday that I have an interview for an internship next semester!
Friday after my internship, I went to the new Uniqlo 5th ave! It's huge! Everything is so sleek, clean, modern and really beautiful. The store is definitely a must see, especially if you love Uniqlo.

+J jacket with an adorably massive hood!

snapshots from the week:

new Halloweenie kitty stickers!

sweet potato fries and falafel sandwich that I made! 

berries in the Carlyle courtyard

night photoshoot next to the Flatiron building

more doodles

pumpkin cream cheese!

my week in mehness.

This week was pretty meh. I have a five day weekend, which is quite nice and unexpected. I'm jealous of everyone who got to go home, I kind of wish I had.
Since Mondays I finish school early, I decided to make pasta and nutella cookies for diner. Next time I need to add more than two tomatoes—two simply isn't enough! The cookies were disappointing. For all the nutella that went into making them, I could hardly taste any!

Wednesday, I helped at a admitted study abroad students event. I kind of liked answering all their questions. Study abroad is really an experience I think everyone who is able to, should partake in. I hope my answers made sense and were actually helpful.
Right outside of Carlyle on Thursday, there was a beauty truck event thing going on. They were doing makeovers and I got some samples of Olay and Pantene products! Union Sq seems to be the place to get beauty samples. who knew.

After my internship on Friday, I went to the International Center of Photography to see the Harper's Bazaar exhibit. I quite like the fashion photography genre. After spending so much time in the showroom for my internship and sending clothes to magazines it's interesting to see the end result. The clothes really come to life.

image courtesy icp.org.

On my way home from ICP, there was a crowd on Broadway in the 20s (I don't remember exactly which street) watching two guys put up new posters. I know they're not actually posters, but I'm not sure if they're advertisements. hmm.

Today, I went to brunch with my friends Ben and Nick. Ben wanted to take me to a new Thai restaurant in the East Village, Ngam, which he frequents. They unveiled their brunch menu this weekend. We were the second ones to try it. I had the Thai wings and waffels. The waffels were made with coconut milk, topped coconut shreds, coconut butter and orange zest. Chef Hong said it was the most popular item so far. I also had a Thai iced coffee, which could have been a little bit sweeter, but it was still refreshing.

snapshots from the week:

doodles from Advertising

wore my Tods for the first time

Meatpacking apple store

gummy tummies penguins. I think they look more like monsters.

package from mums! including PUMPKIN PIE poptarts!

doodles from EMI 

yuca fries from Big D's that Gian tried to finish/gave everyone a bite.

new mural on 14th and 3rd ave

my week in baby parades!

My week was quite mundane. School, hw, gym, new tv shows, internship. I can't believe four weeks of school have already flown by! It's nice to settle into a routine. Now that I have this nice little routine (including, a set route to school) you start to see the same people at certain times. Or, if you're lucky, you get to see a baby parade every day!! Seeing the baby parade is definitely the highlight of my day every time I see them, and I'm starting to recognize the little munchkins! I hope they start waving back to me!

This week I wanted to do super cool nails to make things exciting. I recently saw a tutorial on how to do crescent or half moon nails, which I've seen all over the blogmosphere. The trick is to use paper reinforcements. so clever! For the base, I used a fake OPI polish I got in China, so it chipped liked crazy!! And then the half moons are OPI Russian Navy suede. I don't actually like the suede effect, so I'm not sure why I originally got the polish. But, I discovered that a coat of clear polish gets rid of the suede effect.

Summer is officially over, and fall is finally here! To celebrate the last warm days I wore a dress (which I don't wear very often) on Wednesday. To make it more fall appropriate, I threw a denim shirt over it. If the weather had been a little cooler, I definitely would have worn suede boots with the dress! But I opted for light pink studded ballet flats.

I wore that dress just in time, because yesterday, October brought refreshingly chilly weather! At night (when it reached mid 50s!) I bundled up with a military jacket, my favorite bunny (and miu miu esque) scarf and a little fur stole! So excited to break out all my fall jackets and scarves!

I switched my google chrome theme, which made me surprisingly happy! I really like the color palette of my new one!

And now, the (actual) best part of the week.....I got a haircut!! It was slightly tragic at first. I had "sideswept bangs" that were not sideswept at all and dreadfully short. A few snips at home, and, well you can asses my haircut for yourself. I am quite pleased.

Random snapshots from the week:

lonely ballet slipper

on why I had a good week!

This week was quite wonderful! for a multitude of reasons!
On Monday, I got two packages!! two! One, was a children's book that my photograph is actually published in!! The other, was a package from my mums which included a nice array of treats and my Missoni bobbi pins!!

On Tuesday, I received an email from my friend Justine! She's studying abroad in Paris this semester, and I was in Shanghai last semester, so we'll be emailing for a year. After classes that day, I (purposely) bumped into my Shanghai friends in front of Stern. After chatting for 20 minutes or so, we decided to get dinner at St's Alp!

After dinner, Eunice and I were walking back to campus, and Dylan Sprouse nearly ran Eunice over on his bike! Eunice was quite happy to see him, to say the least. Then we went to the Coolhaus truck for pay what you want ice cream sandwiches!! It was my first time going to Coolhaus, but I see their truck all the time in Union Sq. I got the Makers Mark peaches ice cream with flapjack cookies.

Thursday, was just as exciting as Tuesday. Before classes I went to the gym, and when I was walking through Union Sq someone gave me a sample of mascara, full size! And one of my suitemates got an entire goody bag of Chanel products from her internship, and she gave me two lipsticks!! I die! After classes, I took my usual walk home, passing Stern and I ran into Gian. He needed my help making brownies for his frat potluck dinner. We had quite the adventure making brownies and cookies, to say the least. And then, we decided I might as well just go to the potluck dinner with him, since I know so many of the members.

Saturday was a lazy day. I slept so well Friday night because my AC unit was finally fixed!! After three nights without AC (aka, not sleeping) I could finally sleep! So, I slept in, went to the gym, went grocery shopping (and I got pumpkin ice cream!) and got a banana cupcake with pumpkin frosting from Butter Lane, my favorite cupcakes! And I got a free cake pop for checking in on foursquare! But I gobbled it up while waiting for my cupcake. I also tried to make brownies for my friend Johnny's housewarming bbq. I wasn't sure how good they were, since I don't have a shallow pan, so I made brownie muffins. They ended up being cookie brownies, which people seemed to like!

Snap shots from the week:

hehe, rainbow nails!

marimekko umbrellies!

filming a news segment in Stern