Melodies of Life

Husband got something surprise for me today. 
Something I like a lot hehe
It's chocolate croissant from my favorite bakery~ Ceci Cela

















Fluffy and yummy haha.

William's cake

Tiramisu

so many treats from my hubby today~

First of May

When I was small, and christmas trees were tall,
We used to love while others used to play.
Don't ask me why, but time has passed us by,
Some one else moved in from far away.

Now we are tall, and christmas trees are small,
And you don't ask the time of day.
But you and I, our love will never die,
But guess who'll cry come first of may.

The apple tree that grew for you and me,
I watched the apples falling one by one.
And I recall the moment of them all,
The day I kissed your cheek and you were gone.

Ceci Cela Patisserie is a french baker located in Soho of NYC.  It has all different kind of french pastries and dessert.  Everything I try from here so far is delicious.  My favorite is the chocolate croissant!
The pastries and cakes are made by the talent chef Laurent Dupal.  They offer authentic patisseries rivaling anything from Paris.  Chef Dupal's insistence upon the best ingredients in the highest artisan quality pastry possible and that what makes this place famous.


Ceci Cela
55 Spring Street
New York, NY 10012
website: http://cecicelanyc.com/index.html

You can sit in the back and enjoy your dessert:

dining area

One of my favorite poem~

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know;
His house is in the village, though.
He will not see me stopping here 
To watch his woods fill up with snow. 

I love to collect love poems since I was in high school.  This is one of the poem that I like. I think it's such a beautiful poem:

♥ She Walks in Beauty ♥
by Lord Byron~

La Lanterna di Vittorio is an Italian restaurant located in Manhattan.  I was told that their tiramisu is really good  so we went there to give it a try.  Besides the tiramisu we also order few dish from the menu.  Unfortunately, none of them are good.  The soup is too bland, the pizza is too salty, and the sandwich is too hard.  So far only the tiramisu is good at this place.  Another thing I don't like about this restaurant is that it's way too dark to the point I was unable to read anything on the menu....

Restaurant address:
129 MacDougal St
New York, NY 10012
Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
Website: http://lalanternacaffe.com/

front entrance of the restaurant

Nan Shian Dumpling House is famous for their xiao long bao.  This place always crowded.  You usually have to wait about 30 minutes for your dumplings because they're made fresh.  I heard lots of people complaint about the service here, but I've been here many times and the service seems to be ok.  Not sure because I speak English to them maybe that's why the service is better?  No idea!
Beside the shanghainese dumpling their beef noodle soup is pretty good as well.  I don't eat the noodle soup here much as there are too much oil in them.

Restaurant address:
38-12 Prince St.
Flushing, NY 11354


Here is their infamous shanghainese dumpling (xiao long bao)

Xiao Long Bao / Shanghainese dumpling

There are two dresses that I like the most from their fall collection.  The first dress is strapless with gray and black tone.  I love the color contrast...very young and modern looking.

$1350.00

Restaurant website: http://www.westvillenyc.com/

Inside of the restaurant

Blended mint lemonade

Originally I plan to get the white Iphone4, but Apple keeps on delaying it so I decide just to go with the black phone for now. 

I add the leather on the back to make it more elegant

Giant Killing is a sport animation about soccer.  It has total of 26 episodes.

Description: East Tokyo's team is nearing the bottom of Japan's top football league table. consistently losing, team morale is low and fan support is dwindling- the ETU are in danger of being finished forever. Only the coach is blamed, but he is ready to prove that the team can win against the nation's biggest club.


















Review:   very entertaining and funny.  It feels like watching world cup all over again. 

Restaurant website: http://www.balthazarny.com/

Inside the waiting area of Balthazar

waiting area

London Lennie's is a restaurant specialized in lobster.  I think they only have 1 location here in NYC at Rego Park.  I usually don't like steam lobster as they're not that sweet, but this restaurant prove I'm wrong.  It's one of the best lobster I ever had.  The lobster is just perfect.  The meat is sweet and chewy as what the lobster suppose to be.  On top of that the service at this restaurant is excellent.  I've been here 3 times and all 3 times their service from 3 different servers are excellent.  This has to be my favorite place for lobster for now.
Here are some photos from this restaurant:


deep fried calamari:

This is my first time making authentic Pho Beef noodle.  It actually come out pretty good hehe.  My husband told me to open the restaurant here in NYC lol.  Cooking as a job ummm... no thanks lol. 

Here is the photo of my bowl of pho:

Synesthesia is something I have not heard of until I saw a movie recently from japan. 
Synesthesia is a perceptual condition of mixed sensations: a stimulus in one sensory modality (e.g., hearing) involuntarily elicits a sensation/experience in another modality (e.g. vision). Likewise, perception of a form (e.g., a letter) may induce an unusual perception in the same modality (e.g. a color).
A person experience synesthesia most of the time is unaware that they have it.

Watching Shiki 屍鬼 right now.  It's a horror animation from japan.    It has 22 episodes