So this happened like 2 months ago but I feel I should post this up 🙂

Well, 2 months ago, before I was due to start my new job on the 7th, my sisters and I decided to go to NYC on a totally random excursion.

Like super totally random haha

So pretty much, we started our day with the Donut Pub for their $1 donuts which were awesome!! We had a whole bunch, like their honey glazed, boston creme, jelly, old fashioned, chocolate cake-pretty much everything that came recommended on their YELP reviews.

So good, moist, chewy, and most of all, so cheap! I mean, as much as I love the Doughnut Plant, $4 for a donut is kinda ridiculous (although totally called for if seriously craving their tres leches donut or their PB&J one-so, so GOOD!!)

Then, we decided to go to SOHO to check out the new Balenciaga store.

Let me tell you, they did not disappoint.

I was totally set on not buying anything but OMG they had the limited edition Mini City in black with the gold trim-I know there’s a name for it lol but it’s evading me atm- and OMG I wanted it so, so much. It was everything I wanted in a bag, a mini version of my most fav Balenciaga city in super luxe black chevre leather accented with the most blindingly shiny gold hardware-OMGOMGOMG I WANT!

Also, they had the new Moto jackets in this beautiful mauve pink color, OMG in MY SIZE!! OMGOMGOMG! Why, Balenciaga, WHY?!?

I totally oogled them both for about 30 minutes, and if it wasn’t for my sister J that went in with me, I would have totally swiped the AMEX, SWIPE, SWIPE, SWIPE!!

But she was totally not having it, esp. since I’d just got the giant Chanel quilted boy-I love her so much!!!

SO we ended up just walking out. 🙁

To comfort/reward myself for walking out empty handed from Balenciaga (a feat, I must say) we headed over to Anna Sui where I proceeded to drop $250-ish on various goodies, mostly makeup, including a “bribe” lol for my mom which is a super beautiful spf/pa++ translucent powder in a collectible white ornate case.

Eh, well, had I bought the goodies from Bal, it would have been $4k so there.

So then we walk over to St. Marks place to get lunch at Panna II, Indian, which is my sisters’ fav , + they have an explosion of colorful lights which is what J is in love with so we had to have lunch there.

Ta-da! LIGHTS!!

ermm yeah, sorry, no pics of the food, which BTW was good but not the best Indian I’ve ever had. But hey! The ambiance can’t be beat! 🙂 And as a ++ it was totally empty, which was fabulous since the restaurant is so, so tiny.

Then we walked past a giant explosion of color:

J, totally loving the explosion of color, so cute, look at that cheeky smile!!

H, blossoming into such a lovely lady!! And so stylish too!!

And me!

(Outfit deets:

Balenciaga Leather Jacket

Chanel Quilted Boy Bag

Oxygenwear Red blouse and jeans

Dolce Vita boots

Prada Minimal Baroque Sunglasses-gift from the sisters!! ♥o♥)

Then, for some reason, we decided to go to Central Park.

Yeah, don’t ask, like I said it was a totally random excursion day lol

(Please excuse the super chapped lips, I always seem to forget lip balm lol)

Some better photos of the sunnies my sisters got me, if you can’t tell, I totally love them.

They surprised me with them for getting a job because they are like seriously the best sisters in the world, like really, a gift for getting a job?! They’re awesome, I can’t live without them! ♥

(True story: I fell completely in love with them randomly at the airport’s duty free when we were going to the DR last december, which totally surprised even me bc I’ve always said Prada was overrated and a waste of money and I would never ever wear Prada and lo and behold! these sunnies totally took over my feels and I had to have them and I was like obsessed with them for 4 months and then when I finally got a job and was able to afford them, SURPRISE! My sisters got them for me. ♥)

And then, we were super tired.

SO we just had ramen at Setagaya Ramen and went home.

lol

Super random.

But yeah, it was awesome! Can’t wait to hang out with the sisters again soon! 😉

And goodness, I guess I should start taking photos of something else other than my big fat face lol

Well, well.

It turns out I’m back at the store today on a beautiful, perfect-for-service Sunday. What else is new?

The past week was so, so hectic it was unbelievable. Like totally BUSY.

1. I went to Trenton ALL WEEK for training which was totally not fun. But very informative so I can’t really complain, at least now I know what I’m doing lol

2. Korean C/O visit this week which means my family was busy as it was w/o:

3. Grandma had her TKR this week and ended up with a reaction (dare I say allergic?) to the anesthetic and ended up feeling ill and staying in the hospital for longer than expected

4. A very dear sister in the Korean Abbott Congregation passed away 🙁 and her wake was held Saturday morning at 11AM (she opted to be cremated so no burial)

5. The Korean Bethelites had no where to stay so they ended up staying over at our place last minute

Wow.

That’s quite a list!!

And to add to all these events, Sultana “voluntarily resigned” as per my sister who left a vitriolic VM on her cell and we haven’t heard back from her since so the family has been pretty much taking turns coming to the store to cover the cashier.

My, my. At least the CO visit will end today, Grandma is feeling better and I no longer have to go to Trenton.

And hopefully no more deaths.

Man, its been a very sad last couple of weeks, what with 3 deaths of people I cared about, all due to some form of cancer or other which is terrifying quite frankly.

Cancer is one of those things that is still not very treatable if not caught in time. I mean, yeah there is surgery and chemo and radiation but really, all it really serves to do is prolong the death in a very painful way and the patient wastes away until you can’t really say they’re alive, all bones and skin and pain, most of the time they aren’t even conscious from being all drugged up. 🙁

But the alternative, death, is horrible too, and the family most of the time has such a hard time letting go. It’s heartbreaking, really, but until the new system, what can we do?

That’s why it’s imperative that people screen for cancers regularly and catch it before it metastasizes (which means it spreads to other parts of the body and evolves until the cells aren’t even recognizable). Some cancers are easier to check for than others, i.e, regular breast self examinations for ladies and mole/skin checks for everyone else. Others, like colon/stomach, you have to undergo endoscopic procedures which, while unpleasant, will be able to catch most polyps before they turn into cancerous tumors (easily tx with extractions right during the endoscopy and sent straight a ways for a biopsy).

And of course, educate yourselves about the s/s of major cancers, i.e, if you see blood in your stool or black, tarry stools that can indicate colon/rectal cancers, persistant dry cough can indicate lung cancer, sudden weight loss is a s/s of almost all cancers.

Seriously, it can save your life.

And while others really can’t be screened or treated early like pancreatic or brain cancers, it does help to increase your chances by a lot.

So that’s pretty much my spiel for today lol

On a much happier note, today I was able to do service with the J’s who are expecting baby M! I’m super excited for them, can’t wait for M to arrive. We were talking about having a scavenger hunt baby shower which sounds amazingly fun, like have people bring baby carrots, baby spinach, take a photo of a grown person with a bib…etc. And then we can all converge at one place and party which is pretty much what Towaco Mandarin Chinese excels at :0

But then again, getting a date where relatively most people can come is key esp with the conventions starting this month and people going away and what not. Hmmm…

Oh and S and D were engaged Monday at the NYC Public Library at the Children’s exhibit because that’s totally them and so cute and aww, the ring even looks like S, small and petite and super conservative 🙂

And that pretty much sums up my week. Heh, I got so fat this week, what with eating out for lunch every day and kale/carrot smoothies and David’s Cookies peanut butter cookies and eating out pretty much all weekend for the CO visit and going to the store-argh totally gained like 10 lbs which I worked so hard to lose.

Meh, that just means I will have to super detox this week and start exercising again which is a challenge because really, who wants to be working out in 90 degree weather?

certainly not me.

Memorial day started out pretty good, I was supposed to go to Morning Worship but eh, didn’t quite work out.

(lol so the night before we had a little gathering, like I said, at S’s place where I had a vodka drink, which was very good, but you know, vodka, so I kinda knocked out lol)

I woke up like around 645AM which is before MW but still, I have to get ready and stuff and looking good takes time.

SO I had a pretty lonely breakfast by myself, which consisted of a banana and a mango lol

but that’s ok because today is Memorial Day, I reasoned with myself, and at Teaneck BBQs, there is food. I mean like a ton of food and good stuff too, like skirt steak and kimchi jjigaes and salads and ddukbokki 🙂 YUM

But my mood is quite quickly soured because of SULTANA. HMPH. Can I just say I’ve like totally hated her since February when she started acting all flaky and all and I’ve been advocating for her voluntary resignation since then. Too bad my dad is too sweet and he’s letting her slide by, but OH MY, the next time I see her she’s going to get it bad from me. Anyways, this girl calls and says she can’t make it because she’s sick, how convenient that she’s fine all weekend and the second its beautiful and its a holiday she’s sick? uh-uh. Who you takin for a fool? this girl wasn’t born yesterday, please, you’d need bap for brains to think she was actually “sick” like she says she was, an “allergic reaction” to a shot she received like last week? Uh yeah, no that doesn’t happen.

Puh-lease, trying to pull that over our heads. ME AND MY SISTERS ARE NURSES, FYI. WOW, you’re a real smart one, aren’t you?? SO DUMB.

More likely than not, this little sneak is tying to get out of working on a beautiful holiday. HMPH. NO SYMPATHY FROM ME.

And guess what?? I’m writing this from the store on a beautiful Sunday because why?!? SULTANA’S SICK. Suprise, suprise. Everytime the weather is nice, she’s “sick”, especially on the weekends.

So here’s my solution:

VOLUNTARY RESIGNATION the next time she pulls this on us.

Which means:

1. She doesn’t have a valid MD signed note excusing her from work

2. This happens 3 times in a quarter (3months)

3. She did not notify us and receive prior approval for time off at least 72hours in advance

4. She is NOT able to file for unemployment

HAHA! SO TIRED OF HAVING HER BAIL WHEN WE NEED HER. And she’s always 30MIN LATE!! EVERY TIME! I don’t think she’s ever been on time and my sister can vouch for that.

So really, we hired her for OUR convenience, we are not a charity, no we will not continue with this nonsense!

HA!

Stupid.

(BTW the voluntary resignation is something included in my own job contracts for the VNANNJ and AHS so it’s totally legal and fair!)

SO yeah, poor daddy couldn’t come to the one day he was so, so excited for.

Like so excited that he actually bought a hat for the occasion and was outfit planning. And he couldn’t come.

Can I just say again, I really, really, really hate that girl?

ARGH!

And what makes it worse was that the weather was just so nice and so beautiful and the food was amazing as always, like you can’t get meat grilled like at Teaneck BBQs like anywhere, IK, who is the Teaneck griller, is the best. YUM.

The meat is so tender and juicy and succulent and paired with the chimichuri (is that how it’s spelled?) OMG its like a party in your mouth delicious. And why is watermelon so good? What is it about eating cold watermelon outside that is just so classic? I love it.

And this year, my grandma came with us so it was really nice to have her there, she totally enjoyed herself and she made new friends too! (lol, someone slipped her a tract, I saw it in her bag haha)

Too bad grandpa didn’t come as well.

Well at least grandma was there so she could enjoy the outdoors and a proper BBQ before her TKR surgery next week 🙂

Goodness it’s going to be a busy week next week.

First, I will be at Trenton for work training.

Second, Teaneck C/O visit.

Third, Grandma’s TKR.

Wow, this year is like totally flying by!

But yah, I don’t really remember much of Memorial day bc I was also feeling under the weather and was coughing up a storm and I sounded like I had a frog stuck in my throat and I took like a 2 hour nap 🙂

Meh

Next year 🙂

Oh and yest. Sat. I was hospitality so I took K.W, S.Y, R.C, A.B, L.J, Q.A, A.M for lunch at Saigon Pho, and man, it was unexpectedly good haha

and then service with the girls ♥ my sisters H&J, Y & G 🙂 hehe I had green tea ice cream and also thai ice tea bubble tea w/o bubbles which btw whatever happened to it? I was going to finish drinking that today…hmmm….

and then! Marshalls! hahaha I got 2 shoes, very boring bong-sa appropriate shoes and work flats 🙂 well actually I think the shoes are from TJ Maxx and we just spent like an hour at Marshalls but eh w/e.

♥