8:12:00 PM
I have a new favorite hangout: Barnes & Noble bookstore. I seem to go there at least once a week lately. And each time, I always carry home a handful of books :D The newest novel that I bought is Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell. Need I say more of the reason? It's New York! ^^

Here are some excerpts...
Love at the Bowery Bar
"It's Friday night at the Bowery Bar. It's snowing outside and buzzing inside. There's the actress from Los Angeles, looking delightfully out of place in her vinyl gray jacket and mini-skirt, with her gold-medallioned, too-tanned escort. There's the actor, singer, and party boy Donovan Leitch in a green down jacket and a fuzzy beige hat with earflaps. There's Francis Ford Coppola at a table with his wife. There's an empty chair at Francis Ford Coppola's table. It's not just empty: It's alluringly, temptingly, tauntingly, provocatively empty. It's so empty that it's more full than any other chair in the place. And then, just when the chair's emptiness threatens to cause a scene, Donovan Leitch sits down for a chat. Everyone in the room is immediately jealous. Pissed off. The energy of the room lurches violently. This is romance in New York."

Now, I am not a New Yorker. But I've been there so many times that I have begun to understand the city in depth. It's much more than just the savvy 5th Ave, or the Ground Zero and Sept 11 tragedy, or the Canal St and SoHo, or An Affair To Remember at the Empire State Building, or iceskating at the Rockefeller Center, or the Statue of Liberty, ... the list goes on and on. It's more to New York than that.

Welcome to the Age of Un-Innocence.