Posted in Culture, Life, Music, New York, Paris, Travel, Weather, tagged East Coast, Fred Segal, In-N-Out burgers, Kitson's, Los Angeles, Mexican food, mixing, NYC, Paris, recording, strip malls, sunshine, The Grove, Walk of Fame, West Coast on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, actually, downtown LA. This is where I’m mixing my record. We’ve started working on it and it already sounds great—I’m very excited!
It’s been almost two years since I’ve been in LA and coming from Paris now, I really see the difference between East and West Coast. People generally are more open here, friendlier, than [...]
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Posted in Culture, France, Life, Music, New York, Paris, Weather, blogs, tagged argots, blogging, French teacher, Gimme One, jetlag, LA, La Fleche D'Or, Los Angeles, Maggie Kim, models, music video, Myspace, NYC, Olivier, Paris, Place de la Concorde, slang, velib on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Funny how life catches up with you and then you believe there’s no time for the important things—like blogging!
Just landed in NYC last night and am jetlagged so up at 6 am. Plus I’m staying at a friend’s place which is wall-to-wall windows so I imagine the break-of-dawn wakeup is inevitable.
What’s been going on…
1) Show [...]
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Posted in Addresses, Exercise, France, New York, Paris, tagged Anusara, Ashtanga, Bastille, bootcamp, Centre de Yoga du Marais, flying crow, L'Usine, Left Bank, Marais, Notre Dame, NYC, Paris, Radu, Rasa, Vinyasa, yoga, yoga in paris, yogi, yogini on Sunday, April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m a lackadaisical yogini. I probably took my first yoga class ten years ago and have been dabbling in it since, but never too seriously. I loved it but preferred my workouts more hardcore: Radu, bootcamp, boxing…
But now that I’m older (ahem), I’m just not that interested in punishing my body so much and since [...]
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Posted in Advice, Celebrity, Culture, Dating, Life, Love, Movies, New York, News, Paris, Relationships, Sex, blogs, tagged Alyssa Shelasky, blogs, Carrie Bradshaw, Channeling Carrie, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Dating, dating columnist, Dating Diarist, Dear Abby, fabulous, fame, gawker.com, Henry Kissinger, Hester Prynne, homewrecker, Internet, Julia Allison, Maggie Kim, Manolos, martinis, Mr. Big, MSN, new york times, one-night stands, Paris, private life, Ralph Fiennes, real-life, rich and famous, scarlet letter, Sex, Sex and the City, Sex and the City movie trailer, slut, snarky, The Other Woman, wedding, writer on Monday, March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There was an article in the New York Times this weekend about the latest crop of Carrie Bradshaw-wannabes, who chronicle their dating lives and hope to land their own Mr. Big. The article made me smile because for as long as Sex and the City has been around, so have a slew of “real-life” Carries, [...]
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Posted in Addresses, Arrondissements, Culture, France, New York, Paris, Travel, tagged arrondissement, cold weather, Gallic, New York, Paris, Paris map, Philly, Plan de Paris, snail shell, space-time continuum, Star Wars, The Force, wormholes on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I had several errands to do today… It’s bitter cold (for Paris) right now and I lost my gloves in New York. Anyway, I walked around two opposite sides of town and got lost both times.
Paris, with its arrondissements, is built like a snail’s shell—or that’s what I read somewhere once.
The center of the shell [...]
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Posted in Asian, Desire, France, New York, Paris, Sex, Travel, tagged Air France, Air France 777-300, Asian fetish, business class, Continental Airlines, dinner party, France, intercourse, Korean girls, Mile High Club, NYC, NYC-PAR, rules and regulations, Sex on Monday, March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t purport to know all the rules when it comes to joining the Mile High Club, but as a proud member (ahem), I can attest to the topic enlivening your average dinner party.
For my last night in NYC, a group of us got together to eat, drink and send me off in high style [...]
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Posted in Advice, Dating, Fashion, Food & Drink, France, Friends, Life, Love, New York, Relationships, Uncategorized, tagged alone, bitterness, Costa Rica, couple, crackberry, Dating, divorce, engagement, fadeout, frenemy, Friends, gay, girlfriends, go-away wedding, guys, Jimmy Choo, Life, lonely, Love, marriage, married, moving, New York, Nosara, passive-aggressive, sensitivity, single, straight, wedding, wedding drama, wedding planning on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
My (first) wedding was in Costa Rica in December. I arranged everything when it came to where everyone was staying, meals, drinks, activities, the wedding itself, for one week for 20 people. (If you’ve ever done something comparable, you know how difficult it is.) All people essentially had to do was buy a plane ticket [...]
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Posted in Advice, Culture, Dating, Fashion, France, Friends, Life, Love, New York, Relationships, tagged alone, bitterness, Costa Rica, couple, crackberry, Dating, divorce, engagement, fadeout, frenemy, Friends, gay, girlfriends, go-away wedding, guys, Jimmy Choo, Kim Cattrall, Life, lonely, Love, marriage, married, moving, New York, passive-aggressive, sensitivity, Sex and the City, single, straight, wedding on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I have amazing guy friends. Across the board, my male friends (gay, straight, coupled, single) have always been kind, supportive, non-judgmental and all-around cool, treating me with plenty of love and respect. But for some reason, I haven’t had as much luck with my girlfriends. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got some wonderful girlfriends [...]
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Posted in Addresses, Asian, Beauty, Celebrity, Culture, Fashion, New York, TV, tagged America's Next Top Model, Asian hair, Beauty, fourfour: ANTM, haircut, Heidi Klum, Jude Law, lunar eclipse, NYC, Peter Buckingham, popularity contest, Project Runway, Ringo Salon, Ringo Yip, television, Tyra Banks on Thursday, February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Now that I’m in the Land of the Best Television on the Planet (yep, the good ol’ USA), I’m getting sucked back into the idiot box. I’ve always been a fan of America’s Next Top Model and the new season starts tonight. It’s a horrible popularity contest (where Tyra Banks is always the winner) and [...]
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Posted in Culture, Desire, Life, Love, New York, Paris, Relationships, Sex, tagged Barry White, boyfriend, bubbly, date, Dom Perignon, hot sex, lovers, NYC, Paris, romance, significant other, Valentine's Day on Friday, February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I kid. Mostly. For whatever reason, whether I’ve had a boyfriend/date/significant other or not, Valentine’s has always left me feeling valentine-less and somewhat sad-sackish. Even today, I’m here in NYC while Dman is in Paris and how romantic can that possibly get with nearly 4,000 miles between us and 6 hours time difference?
So of course, [...]
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