Guide to New York City Day 3

The weather was the nicest on the third day because it did feel like spring (the first day was too hot and the fourth day was too cold… we got the entire year's season during our 5-days stay in NYC--yup, summer, autumn, winter and spring. Lucky us.

My friends and I headed to Metropolitan Museum of Art first thing in the morning. We didn't stay long because we still need to catch up with other activities, but maintained to take pictures of the Fabergé Egg. We headed to American Museum of Natural History by crossing Central Park--killing two birds with one stone, eh--the one featured in the movie Night at the Museum, with the dinosaur and the Easter Island Head "Dum Dum". These two museums are literally across each other, bridged by a beautiful park. We bought ice cream along the way--not important, but wrote it anyway. There were several exhibitions or shows there so we picked a movie where they explained how stuff works--I'm sorry I forgot what it was called. I fell asleep in the middle, not because it was boring, but more because I was tired and you know how comfy a red velvet--no, not the cupcake--chair and a dark room can be when you were drained.

We decided to continue our day to West Village to have lunch in The Spotted Pig. The skinny fries were BOMB! It was legit the best skinny fries we've ever tasted, even better than Gourmet Burger Kitchen. After lunch, we went on a search for dessert--okay, not a search tbh because we had Magnolia Bakery on our list and we had to get our hands on their banana pudding unlike the first day that we failed to. We went to their first ever bakery in Bleecker St. I think I fell in love with the area because it reminds me of Brooklyn vibe that I saw only in movies--we didn't go to Brooklyn, and I was depressed about that. There was something so homey about the neighbourhood that makes me want to live there straightaway. There were also shops along the street--Bookmarc, M.A.C., Steve Madden, etc--so we did a little bit of shopping.

After that we just randomly got into stores, tried Big Gay Ice Cream Shop, walked to Soho then I tried Baked by Melissa tiny cupcakes, shopped in F21, took looks in shops that appeared interesting to us such as Prada--the interior was smashing--J.Crew, Balenciaga, all sorts. It was quite laid back because we just wanted to enjoy the city as it is.

Then for dinner, we went to Momofuku Noodle Bar and had some ramen. Not the best I've ever had, I still love Ippudo Singapore more. I guess the other Momofukus are better--they have several restaurants with different types of cooking. We called it a night after dinner :)

Pleated dropped waist dress - Forever 21

Sweater - H&M

Tights and socks - Monki

Shoes - Dr. Martens

Bag - Phillip Lim

Sunnies - Rayban Aviator

Some pictures are shot using my iPhone 5

Others (such as outfit shots) are photographed by Fitria Tjandra

Edited by me

Stay tuned for Day 4!

Stuttgart, Germany

In Stuttgart, my friends and I only had the chance to visit the Mercedes Benz Museum and nothing else! Really bummed because after seeing my sister's pictures when she visited Stuttgart, I kinda missed a lot. But I promised myself that someday I will come back to this city. The city itself is grey, much like other German cities. But the Benz Museum is ah-mazing! And we only paid 4€ per person as a student! (And then I remembered that in London we go to museums for free…… Pardon me, I will forever compare any city I'm going to visit to London because I am that deeply in love with it). The interior is very cool and OH MY GOD, the cars are so very sexy. I can't really describe it with other adjectives because they are sexy! And I'm not a car person. But maybe I'm bias, because I like old cars. They're so vintage and looking so classy, especially Benzies. If you watch The Great Gatsby, that's basically the car that I'm talking about. And they have loads in this museum.

The clouds opened up when we left for Paris… Such an amazing view from the car.

'Til next post!