New York Day 2

It's currently 430AM here and I'm wide awake. I actually woke up at 1AM thinking I had slept for hours and it was near morning... But nope checked my phone and got a deja vu moment because it was exactly how it had been in the plane.

I got up and went to the washroom and when I came back I realized A was wide awake too! Guess the jet lag is really messing with our minds.

Update: 540 AM and I'm still awake. The jet lag is real.

Anyway we took around 2 hours to clear US customs when we reached JFK. It was pretty straightforward for us because we are Singaporean, but there were a lot of hold ups because many others took way longer to clear the check. It was better than I had expected though!

We are heading for brunch later at 9+ and I cannot wait - I'm starving. Shall try to catch a few more winks for now!

We took the subway from the station near our place to get to brunch, and you can see Empire State in the far distance.

📍Cafe Ghia - 24 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn buildings are just gorgeous.

Lumberjack Stack ($14)

J's pick this morning. The waffles were soft and fluffy and when paired with the maple syrup... 👌🏻

Seasonal Omelette with Cheddar ($14)

This was mine, which was so, so good. It's stuffed with cherry tomatoes, eggplant and mushrooms, paired with roasted potatoes.

I paid about $18 with tips, which makes it a very pricey brunch! But the portion was honestly huge, all of us ate one meal each and decided we don't need lunch anymore. It's 4PM now and we haven't eaten anything since then.

A flatlay of some of our plates. 😛

I don't know, y'all, but the skies overseas always look picture perfect.

The weather's odd. The sun beats down mercilessly and harshly, yet there is a strong and cooling wind that blows perpetually. I've never experienced Fall weather before, but it's not too bad.

A lot of buildings are very photogenic but it's difficult to get ootds with them because it's too hot and I'm lazy to keep taking my camera out and passing it to my friend. 😅

Saw some shoes dangling from the telephone wires, and we wondered who put them there and why.

Saw this spray painted in one of the train stations!

We bought the 7 day unlimited train pass BUT one thing to take note is that you have to wait 18 minutes between each use. We entered the wrong station without checking and ended up not being able to enter the right one... So we walked to the next station just to kill the 18 minutes of time.

Today's #FOTD
Tried my new color icon blush and boy is it pigmented. I made the mistake of just dumping it straight on my cheeks and looked like an absolute clown. Thank goodness I had powder foundation so I could fix it. It looks peachy in the pan but actually applies more of a rosy plum?

Also wearing Mellow Wine on the lips! My lips are super cracked and dry because I'm sick.

Look at how picturesque these graffitied walls are. And that sky behind it.

Then we took the metro into Manhattan and checked out a couple of shops. This is Urban Outfitters.

I actually ducked into every CVS/Walgreens that we passed by... Thanks to all my travel buddies who waited patiently for me at every stop. 😅

Saw this in one of the drugstores and almost got it because it looked too pretty. Not a valid reason to get a palette though, so I put it back.

We walked for so long today. 😵

The Empire State Building in the far distance.

We didn't want to pay the price to go up, so... A photo in the lobby will have to do!

Chrysler Building

The New York Library. It's so grand and majestic looking! Imagine studying in this room.

There were lots of gorgeous lamps in the library.

Godiva Soft Serve! Chose the raspberry & rose cone but regretted because it's really sour.

This was 6 USD but somehow we were only charged 9 USD for 2. Maybe there was an offer?

 Wait, where are we going now? An actual place, or Pokemon? 

Our most-asked question today. Because we spent quite some time rushing from place to place just to try to snag the Pokemon we wanted. 😂 Until we had no idea whether we were still walking to places we wanted to visit or just to get near the Pokemon.

Our Magmar story is actually pretty hilarious. We were in the library when I discovered that Magmar was in my sightings. One of the guys checked his radar app and we realized that Magmar was really close, in the library itself, but near a room which we had no access to.

We ended up walking around, and found Magmar right outside the ladies. The guys joked that if Magmar had been in the ladies I would have had to take all their phones in to catch it. 😂

I forgot what this is called... 😳 Times Square Central Station?

Anyway I feel really sick. I think I'm going to pop some panadol and get some sleep. I don't want to be sick for the rest of my holiday!

Forgot to update my #ootd so I'm backdating! I was too messed up last night to remember.

We took this outside my Airbnb and there was an old man sitting outside on the steps enjoying the morning air... And probably wondering what the heck these girls were doing. A passerby even shouted to us that the buildings on the other side were prettier as she walked past.

It was hot, but I didn't sweat. That's the best part about being in another country. 😂

Also my pants are really tight, so this is a sign that I'd better stop eating.

I felt so bad last night that I shared 15 pieces of sushi with my friend at 9pm though. The sushi was so so bad, please don't get any from Walgreens'.

I only ate brunch, the Godiva chocolate cone, and 7 pieces of sushi the whole day. The strange thing is that after brunch, I didn't feel hungry until 8pm when we were on the way back.

When we were on the metro, a guy wanted us to budge over in our seats so that he could sit down. Granted that he was carrying a kid, it was still rude. He literally pointed to me and my friend and said "can you move?".

At that point my head hurt so bad that I wanted to just puke my guts out... So we ended up just moving away from our seats. Thankfully we only had a few more stops!

#hazelnutinNY #hazelnutonExchange