Happy Birthday, Eldridge!

We celebrated Eldridge's birthday tonight at Uno. Eldridge, my sisters boyfriend is visiting us from South Central, California.......... aka Glendale. He'll be here for my birthday and most likely lose money from me because of beer-pong. I already got him addicted to Nazi Zombie on Call of Duty: World at War.. sorry i just geeked out for a sec.

the couple

the guys

the cake

a la laurel

My new friend Lola, who i met at Monika's party, asked me if I could help her take photos of her models to improve her fashion portfolio. How could I say no? So I met up with her today at her apartment at NYC to see the spots she wanted to have a shoot at. We walked around her building looking at tunnels, a waterfall (with no running water ;p), a few benches, fire stairs, and some dead end hallways. The best part was the roof top! It's rather interesting. We had a couple ideas waiting to come true (which is soon, we hope). We went back to her room and I just took pictures of whatever i saw.

the sick girl

trash on her roof top

couple blings

NYC for DUMMIES

... and an empty frame for me =)

Happy Birthday, Don!

Don is one of my buddies who I've grown fond off through out my high school years. We shared our laughs through our made up game of "dunking" in the hallways (inside joke), to dueling with our Yu-Gi-Oh cards because "the fate of the world is in our hands"... and our drunken night at my friend's party... (how did we get home again?) We celebrated in New York and bar hopped. Oh, Don... this is another memory we're taking with us until we get absurdly drunk again.

the meet up point at Souths Bar

21! OH YEAH!!

walking to the next spot

a pose in front of Bar Grill Cafe

the boys

a round at Orange Valve

a round at The Bowery Electric

and ended with 3 rounds at Asian Pub

That's Mik, btw. THE coolest bartender you will meet. Ask for him ALL the time at Asian Pub. He concocted a round for us and the birthday boy... shots WE never had before... he's good.

South Street Seaport

I'm a huge fan of Newmindspace and their out of this world public art. They had an event at South Street Seaport today where all sorts of photographers, noobs and pros, came together to snap pictures of people photographing people. It was too cool.

I went and dragged my sister along. I was never able to attend any of their other events due to work and other related excuses. It was definitely meant to be this time around now that I have a new camera. I was bubbly.... yeah, I said it... bubbly.

point and shoot

CHEESE!

candid

cool

nikon

cell phone shots

my sister snapping with her iPhone

solo

nice face

haha

couple

2 at a time!

smile

FTW!

Happy Birthday, Arlene!

Asian Pub was the venue for Arlene's 21st birthday. It took me about half an hour to find parking... which, luckily, ended up right around the corner from the pub. About 13 of us got there by 12:30. The rest came around 1:30.

It was a nice little spot. The drinks were cheap and the calamari was pretty good. The place was just a little too tight, though. It was hard enough to get chairs for everyone. The line for the bathroom was extensive. Other than that it was a whole lot of fun with the group.

I found it funny that an Asian guy was the bouncer and once you got inside, there were no other Asians working. I bought a round of 7 Jagerbombs to start off the night. Mike, the bartender was way cool. He made me only pay for 6 of them. Christian bought a round of Sprite and Vodka and Bianca spent a round for Cranberry and Vodka. After a couple drinks down, I asked Mike for 12 Jagerbombs this time. He only made me pay for 10. He's awesome! Definitely going back because of him.

Hit up Asian Pub in the weekend... it gets pretty crazy. It's in the East Village off of Bowery at 35 Cooper Sq. They do take credit/debit AND there's no admission fee! The food and the drinks are affordable but not the best you ever had... though, it'll do the trick.

the employees... and ex employees

my manager's first jagerbomb

Ashley pretending she's pro

Jose coppin' a feel on Ysis

who's paying the bill?

Bianca, Chino, Ashley

Me and the Birthday girl

some of us

sake bombs

Arlene's freinds

Happy Birthday, Adrienne!

I visited Adrienne's house a little too late to celebrate her birthday. Blame it on my EMT classes. It's all good because it's better late than never.... right? So I parked in front of her house, called her to come outside, and took a shot of Goose that I had rolling around in my trunk.

Oh man, I've known Adrienne since 3rd grade... the same time I met Moji. Elementary school buddies who grew up to be more than friends. You're so cool Adrienne, but not cooler than me though ;P We can laugh at about anything together and have fun just by being together. Love you Adrienne =) Let's get retarded this weekend haha.

the birthday girl

a couple folks

I arrived too late

Chomper scavenging for food

Pizza Tour

For Arlene's early birthday present, I reserved 2 tickets for Scott's Pizza Tour. It's been rated as top 10 tours to go to by TripAdvisor, the infamous site for the travel community. I ordered the tickets a week in advance and couldn't sleep the entire week... I was TOO excited!

Woke up today, got ready, waited for Arlene, got on the 33 bus, took the N train, and walked to meet up with Scott's group for the day. To keep it secretive, I will not mention any of the pizzerias we went to... find out which ones he took us on by taking his tour. You can either take it by foot or by bus.

The gathering point was the first pizzeria we went to. Scott talked about the history of the building, what the building use to be, and even talked about pizza ovens. It might sound silly now, but little did you know that an oven is the most important part of it all. It will be the outcome of how your pizza will turn out.

It was nice and refreshing inside.

already thinking and speaking pizza.

serving us =)

We had a little pit stop across a pizzeria called Ray's. Scott told us jokes and funny stories about the name "Ray's" and how unoriginal the other pizzerias were.

We hopped on the tour bus and waited to arrive at our second stop. This place was a little small but the pizza had a huge taste. It had a better texture than the previous pizzeria, but the first pizzeria won my taste buds.

all smiles!

The third stop was a real dope spot. It took a while to get the pizza (they were a little busy) but it was definitely worth the wait. I like their pizza best out of the 3.

The teacher we never had in high school.

Everyone pays attention when he speaks.

The fourth and last stop was pretty awesome. It was such an old school feel. The pizza was amazing as well. Huge slices... huge flavor.

It's sad to say goodbye... but I can't wait for another round of pizzas with Scott. Until then my "pizza buddy." Thank you for the experience!

And for an added bonus... guess who Arlene and I run into...

... Jim Gaffigan

HOLLA!