lazy me

been back to chicago for almost 2 weeks...life goes on slowly, staying in cafe becomes part of my daily life. t is right, it's summer, let's get something done. i'm toooooo lazy & slow...and now i should return the iphone and get a macbook.

today is kinda special day for me...coz i got a frd from hk visiting me~! she's the cute spoiled gal who i've known for 20 years~!! (seriously we were neighbors since we're 2-3) how nice she became a filght attendant for the US line...3 days ago i told her on msn it would be great if she could come coz we're having the annual "taste of chicago" here, then next morning got her sms saying she's coming today...wow..so i was really happy to meet my old frd here...alongside she bought me a magazine and some instant curry she took from the cabin, ha

We were in the "bean"...

went to downtown to the millenium park and took pics with "the bean", went to grand park and ate some "taste of portion" (whenever we saw names of food that we dunno, we ordered 'em...bravo)

it was only around 22C but was really hot when u walked under that strong sun...so plz dun say i'm crazy when u know i bought like 10 bottles of sunblock from hk....i really need them..and the ones here are just not as good....ppl wish to be tanned here but i dun..

Part of my sunblock collections-_-"

i miss HK but there's lots of fun here in summer time, esp when i work only parttime. but anyway work work work hard first and then i can play play play hard:)

star of siam

到carmax跟了t7年的おくるま說再見
臨別秋波,今天它出奇地聽話
可會憶是起過往一起穿州過省的日子?
他日街上再遇,恐怕都再難相認了

今天天氣異常溫和,就是風大了點點
本來想跟campus一棵棵紅黃啡褐的大樹留影
風先生一下呵欠就叫所有樹木都變得光脫脫
給哈囉喂帶來淒然肅穆的氣氛

晚上回到芝城,到star of siam
泰式風味帶來驚喜
















pad thai +curry +crab rangoon

原來早就在summer 的taste of chicago嘗過 -->




























回歸途中還拍下了興建中的trump tower

bubble cars

上週五去了在Crystal Lake舉行之micro/mini auto meeting
d車勁迷你勁cute~~車展其實係各州車主自己揸/運架車o黎
大部分車生產於50s-60s, 勁可愛,可惜都已停產加絕版了
有兩個佬揸左兩部smart car黎, too modern<

























t's favorate BMW isetta




好想買架beetle~~><

good mornings

總算搞好點了時差,晚上能好好睡一覺

昨天是週日,到了附近的maxwell flea market
(星期天變了flea market day)
maxwell以mexican開的攤檔居多
跟wolff不同,maxwell賣的以雜貨為主
林林總總各式各樣的,有點像女人街
街頭巷尾還有些載歌載舞的,十足嘉年華會

路上還有許多食店,賣相十分吸引

t 說如果在mexican city光顧食店的話,你有100%會肚瀉
so we're lucky we can eat there~

食店的員工都不太會英文,我們又搞不清楚哪個是哪
於是用最原始的手指指方法點菜
要了兩客sandwich (mexcian bread + meat都叫sandwich 架呵?)
還有好勇的試了米白色的sweet rice drink (tastes ok but i dun like the cinnamon)












收穫還算ok吧
愛極早起,逛了3句鐘仍是11點多而已
之後還可以到peets嘆coffee
到blick art store, design within reach












@design within reach,坐住58k * Eames La Chaise $7,330 (USD)

walmart (tissue shopping)
-->sushi station最後到mitsuwa

我想jet lag過後,要我早起該會很難~

今天 t 說要到sport bar去
早上800 Australia vs Japan
到了ESPN zone, WC breakfast 盛惠$14.99
(送$10的game card,還有souvenir,不賴吧)


lunch到downtown super fancy McDoanld's












想像不到m記會用這般佈置,而可惜大部分食客未有好好愛惜+欣賞














panton chair (verner panton) $225





Prince Aha Stool (Philippe Starck)$87, Vitra (Isamu Noguchi) Prismatic Table $455




Pinot Bistro Table - Round $258











dcw (Eames R) $549














Here comes my favorite heart cone chair by Vernor Panton (1959) $3,175 沒看錯吧~!?

食客就是食客,薯條汽水灑到名師作品都懵然不知
我建議m記應在旁介紹一下這些designer furniture
不然都應標個價,or要求弄髒桌椅的人賠償,好等食客"愛惜公物"

最後"飽覽"m記後,到了nordstrom
竟然又碰上了kite chair~! 還要載了幾塊薯片-_-"















Kite chair (Karim Rashid) $498

好了,我的資料搜集到此為止,多謝觀賞~

downtown leisure

想起要寫entry的時候剛過了十二時,不知如何可以adjust回昨天的日期…

這幾天總下著雨,樹上剛長出的嫩葉都給打落了,零零落落的掉滿在停泊路邊的車子上 (looks funny though)
到peets去,計劃一下下週的行程,的確未出發,先興奮

之後到了downtown的apple store,看見人頭湧湧
圍觀最新出品的macbook,我也不甘示弱
















好吸引呀~~

T想到museum of contemporary art去看andy warhol的exhibit,可惜來得太晚,都閉館了
















mca館外攝,有d旅行feel

唯有到museum store逛逛
發現許多新奇有趣的製品,很想把它們都買下來
















但鑒於它們都含 “藝術成分”,價格也就…
















最後就只買了pinochio measure tape,來量度我天天長大的粗腰