I’m back. Here’s a really late posting which includes some photos I took from my trip in the US. I didn’t really take a lot of photos then.

I attended an oath taking ceremony for an old friend of mine in Philadelphia.

She, like several others here regained their Filipino citizenship back. I saw several familiar faces from my old life in the 90′s. They asked me if I was getting my dual citizenship. I told them I did it a few years ago already. The whole process of waiting took a day to finish. It’s good that we were close to Penang, my favorite Malaysian restaurant in Chinatown so we had a nice lunch there. This trip to the Center City Brings back old memories of my first job in the US. Oh well.

The following are picture of the Manhattan skyline close to sunset and
Manhattan skyline at sunset.

Crashed Attended a July 4 Party in Weehawken

and watched the Independence Fireworks. Met some really interesting folks. Parking was really difficult we even had to take a bus back to the parking garage where we parked the car. I am not really a New York type of person. My cousin loves New York City. I don’t. In the end, I thought the whole trip was tiring to me inspite of it all. New York is just too overwhelming for me. We went there a second time, to watch Rock of Ages the Musical and was able to watch it for $20 — only thing we needed to do was enter the raffle and wait there at the box office for around half an hour . It was quite easy to win because many people came in pairs or groups. If your name is called you get two tickets. My cousin won. Going home was a nightmare for me. To make the long story short, I got lost trying to find my way to my station and to my parked car. My cousin and I parted ways after watching the musical so that’s why I had to look for it alone. At first I felt ok with it since I’ve done things alone before but after this I swear I won’t try to do this thing again .. even go back to New York.. never liked it really that much…and also going to a big city alone however, if I would do it again it’s gotta be London and no driving. OK I might be dodging some stones now from the readers who love New York.

Here’s a video of the fireworks: Video of New York City July 4 Fireworks