where thoughts materialise.

So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

27 April 2008

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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or Hollywood.
I'm taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River line
I'm in a New York state of mind.

Something about New York draws me. And to me, and many others - New York is certainly a state of mind we want to be in. Just like this Billy Joel song, an open love letter to the city.

I seen all the movie stars in their fancy cars and their limousines,
Been high in the Rockies under the evergreens,
But I know what I'm needing and I don't want to waste more time
I'm in a New York state of mind.

Capital city of the world, people call it. Everything there in magnificance and all due exaggeration stuns and stupifies. Even the greatest reality tv scene of the 21st century was staged in NY - 9/11 that is. Everything seems to be happening in New York.

It was so easy living day by day
Out of touch with the rhythm and the blues,
But now I need a little give and take,
The New York Times, the Daily News...

Or perhaps it's its icons that defines what New York means to us. Staten Island, Empire State, Trump, yellow cabs, Times Square just to name a few. The hustle and bustle of the streets with fast paced citizens in cloaks and suits, hands clutching onto a steaming frappe.

It comes down to reality-
and it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide,
Don't care if it's Chinatown or Riverside,
I don't have any reasons, I've left them all behind
I'm in a New York state of mind.

No, I reckon it's more than just skyscrapers or the Statue of Liberty. New York is to us what we dream of. A postcard city, breakfast at Tiffany's with Miss Hepburn. We may have not visited New York, but yet we know it so well, as if it were tucked away somewhere in our backyards. And that's the New York state of mind, a paragon which allows us to escape and be free from the shakles of mundanity.

I'm just taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River line
'Cause I'm in a New York state of mind.

New York will always be exciting. A gargantuan stage set, an idyllic realm where dreams are created - and always room for reverie.

nimgnoy let the night fall at 10:30 AM

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