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All day Le Poisson Rouge

My favorite venue in NYC, "Le Poisson Rouge".

I was lucky enough to see "Afropean" artists (that's what they like to call), Les Nubians last night!! I went there straight from work....I was so tired and hungry, but I needed to see them.

Why is French Rap soooooooooooooooooo cool??? I have no idea what they are saying, but it just sounded so sexy!!!!

After this fabulous show, I had another work to do with Old-Soulz....party. (it was really a work.lol)

Freedom Party at LPR won the Paper Magazine's Nightlife Award's ""People's Choice" Award for Best Party 2010!

(Photo credit: Indeep NY)

As usual...Pesu is using his magic hand to paint....

But this time Concep is using his magic hand as well....two of our artists were live painting together. Doop. PERIOD!

I LIIIIIKE.

Good music, good arts, and good people make me so happy and make me wanna live up.

I am getting used to my new job along side of my job with Old-Soulz Ent. and pretty excited about how my life would be.

Social Network

So I have been neglecting my blog, which is not cool for someone who used to wrote her diary every single day. which is me. I used to did since I was in a middle school.

I guess it's because I'm in this new era of SNS. I don't have to write the whole story about what I did for last a couple of days. If I wanna tell my friends what I did or what I discovered, I can just simply either tweet or update my status. Although I'm thinking about quitting Twitter, I can't imagine the world without this virtual communication.

I watched the new movie about Facebook founder, "Social Network". If you think about how one person can change the entire world, I think it's incredible in a good way or a bad way.

Broadway Musical Awesomeness

I love broadway musicals. I was hooked when I first came to NY and saw the beautiful show which is no longer on Broadway, "Beauty and the Beast" in 2005. That was my first time experience, and I still remember how much I was moved and impressed.

Since then I saw "Chicago", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Lion King", etc....to name a few. I can't imagine the life of being a part of musical staff. They don't have one day off, people....it's a serious business....they perform 8 times a week for god knows how long!?!? During that performence, they have rehearsal, practice, and training, maintaining, and their own private life.....and don't forget about the orchestra people...they are fucking amazing each performance, and I am simply impressed by their professionalism!!!!

Million Dollar Quartet is a relatively new on Broadway.....it's about the first time and last time jam session with 4 greats....Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. I got to meet the casts after the show (all thanks to my favorite intern company!), and I got to hear how their life has been. Ahhh the guy who is acting Elvis does really look like and sound like Elvis!!!

MUST WATCH #1 LIST!!!!

FELA!

"I LOVE IT!!!!"

It's about this talented man from Nigeria who can sing, play, conduct, and can have as many wifes as he wants!lol

I won't say much about this, all I gotta say is just go watch it! You will be so energized after watching it, and you don't even need any redbull shit.

AWESOME NEW MUSICAL RIGHT HEREEEEEEEE......

You have no idea how many American people love Green Day.

Not only the teenagers who wants be a punk kids, but also there are so many older people who really love them!

I'm not a rock or punk music fan, but I liked American Idiot album, because they actually made an complete "Album" with meanings not just putting all the songs in a one place.

People don't buy albums in our generation anymore,

reason 1: the artists don't put enough effort to make good albums.

reason 2: people only buy a song online.

reason 3: people don't listen to albums and listen song by song in their iPod shuffle.

well there should be more reasons, but anyhow Greenday album was made so well, and now it's on the Broadway show, and I think it's a great thing!

They meant to make a story in their album, so the music director of the show did really really well on transforming the punk/rock tunes into musical flavored tunes without losing any intensity and energy.

When I went to see the show (for free once again, thanks to my ex-cowokers....), the main vocalist of Greenday, Billie was happened to be on the stage. I didn't know he would be there, so that was a good surprise, and I really enjoyed every scene.

Come Fly Away is now closed, but I'm very glad that I could see it!!!! (with Student Discount!)

They used All Frank Sinatra's music, and there is no single dialogs. They performed with only their facial expression and fabulous dance moves. Only thing I hated was all the dancers were too good, way too good. I couldn't focus on one dancer and missed so many good moves...

New York City...

I cannot be impressed enough.

8 Months Since I Left

Last week, I finally went back to Minnesota...

to see my gay cat, my girl friends, and other people I missed.

Besides I left quite a lot of my belongings when I moved to NY, so I needed to come back to get them anyways. lol

Ms. Kitty (apparently she is he according to the vet, but we still call her Ms. Kitty anyways.) looked fabulous as always, and I realized how much I missed her...I had love time with her, took a nap with her, and hugged her until she "meowed" at me.

Look how cute she is in J's messenger bag!!!LOL

She enjoyed the bike ride with him that day.

I also visited the Tom's farm where I worked over summer last year.

I met all the animals, and Tom and I had a fabulous brunch together. I wish I could spend more time there. :( and this is the egg plant we found from the garden. Awesome.

I spent most of my time with my dearest girl, Fabiana and Meghan.

They let me stayed at their place, and we catched up a lot of things...we could go on and on...you know how girls talk. I really really missed that kinda time. Since I moved to new place, I never felt like talking openly to anybody. Those two girls are my sisters and family, so it's really hard for me to be away....but life goes on. We can't be together forever although we are sure connected no matter where we are.

Thanks to all my friends in Minnesota...much love.

Be in South Asian Cultures

ヨガな雰囲気たっぷりのイーストヴィレッチにあるカフェ。（The Bhakti Cafe）

メニューはすべてベジタリアン＆オーガニック。

壁紙は仏教の神様達。

とある日の夜にここでポエムリーディング、いろんな民族楽器の生演奏、ダンスパフォーマンズにライブペイントが行なわれていた。

ヒッピー達に囲まれておだやかな空気。

ヒッピー文化にはそれほど興味はないけど、彼らの生き方はラブアンドピースでいいなって共感する。ポエムとかもゆきは全然理解できないけど、こうゆう空間を共有するのは好き。

マイガールのメグともこうゆう場所にはよく一緒に行った。

こちらはクイーンズにあるネパール料理屋。

ネパール人達に連れられてネパール音楽の生演奏を聞きながら食す。

ネパール料理ももう慣れたけど、料理の名前が全く分からない。分かるのは大好きなモモだけ。笑。いつもとにかく食べてみなと言われて食べるけど、とにかく辛い！

それでもアメリカに来て随分と辛いものに強くなった。

カレーでさえ甘口でわさびは死んでも食べられず、キムチなんて見ただけでダメだったのに、今となってはキムチは好物、コチュジャンはなんでも入れちゃうし、ジャークチキンもモリモリ食べるし、ハラペーニョもかなり食べられるようになった。もうちょっとでわさびも克服できそうだし、なんだか大人になったのかな？密かに嬉しいー。笑。

Friendship

When someone says "miss you", most of people automatically reply "I miss you, too."

Does it really have a meaning? or you are just saying it. I don't know.

But I know for sure whenever this guy says "miss you", he means it.

It has been about 3 years since I met him and he has been my soul mate since.

We still talk about the first night walk we had and say how special it was. Most of the memories I have with him are so ordinary and nothing special, but somehow I miss them all.

So I told him "I don't know why but I think I miss you the most." He said to me

"coz our friendship is genuine."

His word really touched my heart. I truly believe in friendship, so this conversation was so priceless.

INSPIRED BY MOS DEF

I just found this documentary video, and I'm totally inspired by one of the BEST hip hop artists, Mos Def.

Mos Def in Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnPWFtxGlnA

He is not only the sickest rapper, but also he is the smartest guy who I can truly respect.

This video is quite long, but it's really worth to watch.

You can see his artistic perspectives of his music as well as many Japanese cultures through his eyes.

In his interview, he is mentioning something like this....

"You can't stop history.

You can't stop the determined soul.

Don't stop, coz you don't wanna be the wrong side of history.

You don't wanna be on side of the history that poses the opposition to those spirits.

You wanna be on the history that cultivate on the spirit."

(Those are not the exact words, but he's saying something like this later in this video....)

I always tell myself.

Always, be inspired.

Don't get used to it.

I'll add his words into my dictionary from now on.

最近の生活

しばらく更新を怠ってた。

毎日がめまぐるしく過ぎていって、気がつけばもう８月。

忘れたくないから書き留めておきたいのに、あまりにもいろいろあるとどこから書けばいいのか分からず書けずにいた。

NYでの生活には半年以上すぎてもやっぱりまだ慣れてないし、まだまだミネソタが恋しくてむこうの友達としょっちゅう連絡を取ってみたり、みんなの生活が変わってきていることに違和感も感じる。自分は変わってないと思うけど、それでも周りから見たらゆきの生活は変わってきてるって思うんだろうな。でもそれでいいんだと思う。変わっていないといけないんだと思う。

ずっと続けていたバイトもきりをつけて、今はまた別の仕事を始めた。

毎日刺激があるし、自分が必要とされているのを感じるからやりがいもあるし、今後これがどう繋がるかはまだ分からないけど確実に得てるものはたくさんある。先日もその仕事関連でボストンに出向き、まさかの世界の松坂選手に会える機会をいただいて、彼と一緒に食事までさせてもらえた。今までもいろんな有名な人にも出会ってはきたけど、彼は本当に器の大きな気さくで素敵な人だった。一流の人はやっぱり違うなあと思ったし、すごくいい刺激にもなりモチベーションもさらにあがった。

大学を卒業して、インターンシップを終えて、学生から社会人へのステップを少しずつ上がっていて、今はとにかく可能性を広げるためにネットワーク作り。今までの経験が確実に役に立っているし、そこらの同世代の人よりはずっといろんな経験を積んできている自信もある。どこに行ってもそれは証明されているし、今までやってきたことが無駄じゃないんだなと日々感じることもできる。目先のお金よりも今はとにかく経験。お金はないけど、とにかく人として社会人としてまだまだ磨かないといけないから、まわりに無駄だと言われようがなんだろうが、今は潜伏期間だと思って頑張るのみ。

就職もまだできていなくて、日本にいる同級生達からは遅れを取ってはいるし自分の生活を誇れるわけでもないけど、それでも自分は着実に前には進んでいるはず。

いつもギリギリまで切羽詰まって、追いつめられてそこから這い上がってきた。

今もかなり追いつめられてはいるけど、ここまできたら自分を信じるしかないし、ここで容易に諦める事もできない。まわりと自分を比べていてもしょうがないから、ゆきはゆきらしく。

NMS: New Music Seminar

I went to help the company where I worked as an intern for the event called New Music Seminar at the Webster Hall yesterday. Even though my official intern period is over, I still help them whenever they need some extra hands. I appreciate the fact that they still like me and call me up like yesterday.

It was a great opportunity for me to know people and companies in the industry. I met some cool people...I even got to see Swizz Beatz! I have never seen him talking....I couldn't really see the talking part since I needed to be at the booth, but still I enjoyed it.