Here it comes....

Well.....This is my laguage piled on a cart at airport. I was going to Florida before school starts..... but I had to give up, which sucks. My new life here has been good but it's never been perfect.... oh....Williamsburg here we come, right back where we started from... Williamsburg~~

Anita, Ray, Tom and Kazu......

This is a Restaurant, the Mordern, just next to MOMA.
It is not easy to comete with priceless works of art by Giacometti and Picasso, but that's the challenge that chef Gabriel Kreuther faces at The Modern. Operated by Danny Meyer and housed in the boldly renovated Museum of Modern Art, thie restaurant overlooks the 31 works displayed in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden.


Sweet pea soup....


Anita with grilled shirimp....


Sausage with Ray's thumb...

Then..... it's out of the battery.......

I should get a new camera........

Go Zathura~~

Terrifying explosion blamed on suicide attempt

Latest on the blast that hurt 15

Eyewitness News

(New York - WABC, July 10, 2006) - Did a New York City doctor blow up a building and try to kill himself because of a nasty divorce? That's the theory cops are working on.

They say Dr. Nicholas Bartha started a natural gas leak at the townhouse where he lived and worked on 62nd Street near Madison on the Upper East Side.

Traffic in the area is still a mess with East 62nd closed between Madison and Fifth Avenue as authorities deal with the aftermath of a four story townhouse reduced to rubble.

There is just about nothing left of 34 East 62nd Street in Manhattan, after the Monday morning blast that hurt 15 people, destroyed the building and set off a three alarm fire. One of the most amazing things about the blast is that no one was killed.

Just one man, Dr. Nicholas Bartha, was inside the building when it exploded. Now, he is fighting for his life and authorities say they believe he caused it all, caused the blast while trying to kill himself.

A family spokesman talked to members of the media late Monday night.

Robert Kloos: "The emotional turmoil wrought by the parties in the divorce proceedings brought about an unspeakable tragedy and it's too difficult to bear. Ms. Bartha cannot at this time withstand the additional burden of the media microscope from this personal tragedy."

Heavy equipment was moved in on the scene Monday afternoon, beginning to sift through the rubble. And investigators were inside trying to determine the source of the blast. Sources say they believe it originated in the basement of that building.

Larry King, TV Show Host: "I heard the loudest sound I ever heard in my life, an incredible boom, obviously an explosion. I thought it was a bomb. The first thing you think of is 9/11, naturally."

CNN's Larry King described the blast. Residents and even restaurant workers all thought the worst.

"We saw the whole building. The television was rattling. The plants fell off. Glasses were flying off," a neighbor said.

All four stories of 34 East 62nd Street, a duplex on the top and doctors' offices on the bottom, came crashing down in a matter of seconds. The blast sent debris and glass flying, injuring a number of pedestrians.

Police believe it was intentional, a bizarre suicide attempt by the doctor who lived and worked here who nearly died when the building blew up. Sources say it was a violent turn in a bitter divorce proceeding that began in 2002. Reportedly, a judgment was just handed down against the doctor on Friday in the divorce case. The building was set to be put on the market for sale at the end of the month as part of the settlement.

For more information on details of the divorce battle, check out Jim Hoffer's report.

Hundreds of firefighters responded after the blast.

"We had fire. We had gas. We had debris that was hanging. We have a large chimney above that could have collapsed," a firefighter said.

Several firefighters suffered injuries trying to remove the mountainous debris. In the end, the doctor was the only person found underneath the debris in the basement. He was still able to communicate with his rescuers.

"He kept saying, 'I need go to a hospital. Get me out of here.' And I'll tell you, the firefighters put their lives on the line here to rescue this doctor," another firefighter said.

The doctor was removed to the hospital in critical condition. Fourteen other people were hurt, ten of them firefighters. The good news: None of those other injuries is thought to be serious tonight, and with all the hustle and bustle on this block that is truly amazing.

Witnesses told Eyewitness News this was just a full sensory experience that was really scary because they did not only see it and hear it, they smelled it and more frightningly, they felt it.

"We were just standing here, and the next thing you know we were blown back like that," a doorman said.

The force of the explosion was strong enough to knock the doorman next door around inside of the lobby.

"The doors were blown wide open. We actually saw a lot of smoke right away. Actually, a pedestrian, a young woman was brought to the front of our building that was covered in blood," the doorman said.

Above them, they had an eerie view. The building, which was there one second was suddenly gone the next.

"There was a deafening boom and I started screaming at my wife and two kids across the street to run, run, run, because I didn't know if there was going to be another explosion," a witness said.

The gas that would fuel that fire was actually first detected early this morning. A neighbor on a dog walk knew she smelled fumes. She said she told herself she was being paranoid, and didn't report it. Two hours later came the blast so strong, it blew some nearby hotel patrons right out of their beds.

Witnesses say they wanted to get as far away as possible. There was no time to grab anything, not jewelry, not cash, they just grabbed each other and ran.

Residents of a nearby apartment building didn't get back in until late this afternoon, and even then not everyone could go home. Some of them have heavy smoke and water damage to deal with. And an office complex on the other side of the scene won't be usable until the fire escape for the building is freed of debris from the blast.

(Copyright 2006 WABC-TV)

I would like to introduce four girls that have just graduated from our MBA school and back to their sucessful career in their own countries.

From right to left..... Padcha, Kazuyo,,,,,,,,maybe-70 percent sure Michelle.....and fianally,,,don't know who is this??

Should I stay or Should I go?

It's been a month since I came N.Y. and I have already been fed up with the city.
In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Jhonny Depp acting as "Captain" Jack Sparrow had a clock that indicates where is what you want the most in the world. As he can't use the clock because he dosen't know what he wants, I don't know what's I want.
I think it's time for me to move on regardless of nowhere to go.

One more thing I need to write down so I won't forget next time.
I had a short but long tirp in this holiday weekend. It was my friend birthday. Although I was extremely busy for finishing my work the week, I prepared everything to celebrate my friend's birthday but I totally forgot about "two" cakes....
I think this is all about me. I can't be completed fully, and that makes me feel I am alwasy missing something.