New york, new york

I went to Stony Brook today and talked with a professor. It did not go very well. She asked me several questions in the textbooks I've learned long before and i did not answer very well. At least i know my weak pt now. I'll prepare better before I talk to another professor.

In the afternoon, I walked along the Broadway from 34th st to central park. The road was full of tourists, traders, buses and other vehicles. I saw a "spider man"'s taking picture with a kid while passing Time Square. At the entry of the central park, some youths were performing hip hop dancing. There were also painters and statue performers. Now I can say I have been to NYC.

It must be some religious festival today. Ran's mom said they got free salads in Italian restaurant today. And I saw 2 people parading with a sign"Only Roman Catholic can lead you to the Heaven".

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On the second day, I met another two profs. I prepared a bit well this time and had good talks with them. One of them is a young cute prof with shining earrings and bracelets and rings. I could not control myself but thinking he might be a gay. But he is surely a good researcher and nice prof. Another prof gave me some hope of fund supporting. But nothing was guaranteed, and patience and hardworking are appreciated before luck comes. I ended my 'business trip' and started to have some fun.
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I was asked what I was going to do in NYC. It's a hard question. NYC has so many attractive places and I had limited time. No matter how I arrange the schedule, I would have regrets. I wanted to visited the empire state building, recalling the fateful meeting of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle. I also wanted to visited the Statue of Liberty, feeling the heartbeats of Lady Liberty. I also want to take the Sex and the City tour- it's amazing that Ran's going to have a roommate who was a minor actress in the tv series. But time was limited and I had to save them for my next visit.
Ran and I spent one day looking for Japanese comic stores. We went to the semi-Japan town in east village of Manhattan. It was disappointing. We did not go there at right time. Most of the restaurants and bars there open at 6pm. The bookstore there stopped selling Japanese magazines. There's only one comic gift shop. We took subway uptown and located one fine comic store in 33th St. The shopkeeper recommended us another big japanese bookstore KINOKUNIYA in Rockefeller Plaza. We finally found a bunch of pop magazines with cute Japanese stars there.