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Music from the Meister

Leah and I were at the Lincoln Center last night attending John Williams’ performance with the New York City Philharmonic.

It was fantastic hearing the master of cinematic composing conducting his own music. The program contains a wide varieties of scores from John Williams’ collection. I was disappointed that Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Born on the Forth of July were not on the program. But the performance of the theme from Schindler’s List was excellent and we were treated with three encore performances, one of which was the Star Wars main theme!

It was, by far, the best birthday present I have had.

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My love of glass

This weekend I spent my time assembling new furniture. Leah and I bought a new bookshelf and desk from Crate & Barrel last week using gift certificate I got using my AMEX points (courtesy from my business travels last year).

As I love glass top desk, of course I chose it when I saw that Crate & Barrel has one. And since I have to transfer everything off my existing desk to the new one, I also did a tidy up. Now the printer, which used to occupy the right side of the desk, is under the desk on top of a storage box. This free up the right side so my PC laptop can be placed there. So now I can finally have both computers on the desk and work on them at the same time! Very cool!

Picture of new desk with both laptops

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Spectacles Saga

After waitng for two months for my Oakley eye glasses, they’ve finally arrived in the optician and should be ready by the end of next week. Can’t wait to have new glasses to wear after over 6 years!

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Finding Sushi

Leah and I had just have the worst dinning experience at Sushi House @ Hoboken. First we were ignored for 20 minutes before our orders were taken. Then over 30 minutes elapsed before our food arrived and both of our orders were wrong. I accepted mine but Leah’s was completely out of wack! She replaced her order of Torikatsudon (Chicken Katsu Don) with a Veggie Combo Sushi, hoping that it would be quick to make. That took another 45 minutes before her sushi arrived and by then we had to have it to-go. By that time we had been in the restaurant for over an hour and a half! We could have watched a movie! Meanwhile, our waters were never re-filled, waiters were ignoring us, and the chief apologized to the tables on both of our sides but not us (by the way, they had much more elaborate orders and arrived on time).

And I broke tradition and paid no tips whatsoever! And after seeing what Leah’s sushi was like after we got home, I think we should have a refund.

Sushi House @ Hoboken had lost a pair of regular customers since we have sushi at least once a week. Instead, we are sticking to our favorite, Westside Sushi, on West 50th St./9 Ave in Manhattan.

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