With the Lakers having long ago been eliminated, I am a free agent rooter. At the start of the playoffs, I was hoping that the Mavericks could pull it off after having come so close last year. Their elimination by the 8th seeded Warriors came as a shock. Now there are only three teams to [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Who to root for ? Spurs? Pistons? Cavaliers?
Posted in Sports, Uncategorized on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Waiting for the AC
Posted in American Scene, Daily Life, Life, Thoughts, Uncategorized on May 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Two weeks ago, a young acquaintance of mine was complaining that it was too cold. Last week , she complained that it was s-o-o-o hot. Her attitude is not uncommon ; many of us are unhappy unless the temperature is just perfect. As someone has said ‘ Animals adapt themselves to changes in the environment. [...]
Atlantic City Interlude
Posted in American Scene, Food, Travel, Uncategorized on May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we had some guests( a cousin, her husband and their two children) and I went several days without posting. They went on an overnight bus trip to Niagara Falls, did a whirlwind tour of New York City and all of us drove down to Atlantic City, staying for one night at the Tropicana.
It’s been awhile since [...]
Simple Pleasures- Dinner and a Movie
Posted in Daily Life, Food, Life, Uncategorized on May 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When one is working , Friday evening is perhaps the most pleasurable part of the weekend. On Friday evening, there is the prospect of two whole days for oneself; never mind that the reality is often quite different.
Our son had flown in from the West Coast for the Memorial Day weekend and we decided to [...]
Woo Lae Oak: Upscale Korean in downtown NYC
Posted in Food, Uncategorized on May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Woo Lae Oak has a plain unprepossessing exterior. That impression does not change as one goes down a few steps from the street and enters the restaurant.The long narrow room is divided in two by a floor to ceiling divider with glass shelves on which lie beautifully lacquered boxes containing ( I presume) the personalized chopsticks [...]
Gasoline Gripes
Posted in American Scene, Daily Life, Life, Uncategorized on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
May 15th was the day of National Gas Boycott and I’m sure most of us got an e-mail from a well meaning friend asking us not to gas up our cars on that day. I didn’t gas up on Tuesday but it was out of a sense of solidarity ; I had no real expectation [...]
China Anecdote
Posted in Travel on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Lenny just returned from a two week tour of China in which he visited Beijing and Shanghai and several other cities. One of them was Chongquing which with a population of 33 million is the most populous city in China. Their guide asked him about his hometown and Lenny replied that he came [...]
Diamonds and Rubies and Emeralds and ….( Yawn)
Posted in Thoughts, Travel on May 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Remember those old pirate movies in which the intrepid hero at last opens the treasure chest to reveal a treasure beyond compare: gold and diamonds and rubies and emeralds and sapphires… Well, I experienced such a moment last April in Istanbul when we visited the Topkapi Palace.
For centuries the Turks were a power in the [...]
Interesting ,perhaps…but is it art ?
Posted in Thoughts, Uncategorized on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
( Excerpted from Yahoo news): – More than 18,000 people stripped down and bared it all in Mexico City’s vast main square Sunday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick’s biggest nude shoot yet.
Standing up to salute, crouching in fetal positions and lying prone on the tiles of the Zocalo plaza, the volunteers formed a sea of flesh [...]
The Second Time Around
Posted in Thoughts, Travel on May 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have a friend who likes to vacation in the same place every year. Each May, his wife and he travel to the Dominican Republic and stay at the same all-inclusive resort, the Bavaro Princess.Once, I asked him whether he ever thought of vacationing some place else. He said that ” Why would I want to [...]
