With Love from New Jersey

Manhattan view from Edgewater, New Jersey

Me with Manhattan as background

Sunset in New Jersey, along Hudson River

Tonight I went out with Sabine and Gill. This is the only night I didn't get myself to NYC but explore the charming part of New Jersey. Gill is very hospitable and brought Sabine and myself around NJ. We had our dinner at one of the restaurants at Edgewater promenade along Hudson River with the view of Manhattan. We sat from late afternoon till night sipping our Cosmopolitan and chatting and catch up our stories since PeopleSoft's generation. Tonight is my last night here, I have been enjoying myself so much this trip. I finally seen New York city from different perspectives as if I am already fall in love with this city. NYC, I will see you very soon, till we meet again in fall....

Manhattan by night

Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly present the night view of Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn.

Viva Big Apple!! Enjoy!!

Grand Central Station

Our last stop before heading back to Fort Lee was Grand Central Station. Although I have passed by a couple of time during my last visit, but I never actually been into the building itself. It looks more like a grand theatre than a train station. The high ceiling and the constellation drawings are great display, the chandelier also made the terminal building more impression than any other train stations in the world.

New York Stock Exchange

The A-Team posing at the New York Stock Exchange building. This is also where Accenture was listed. The A-Team consists of Shaw-Min (UK based Malaysian), Grace Yauguchi (American-Japanese mixed), Nicolas (UK based French) and Me (NL based Malaysian).

Manhattan Skyline from Brooklyn

11th July 2007, heavy rain.

Today we had another early day from work. Nicholas wanted to head to the city and so we decided to check out SoHo as it is famous for its Chic boutiques. After an hour of shopping in the rain, we head towards Brooklyn to enjoy a famous pizza meal at Grimaldi (just under the Brooklyn Bridge). As this area provide the perfect view of Manhattan, it actually was a great place to unwind in the evening. We managed to enjoy the view of Manhattan before the sunset and also the night view after our dinner.

Manhattan skyline -- Very impressive indeed!!

Empire State Building

10 July 2007, weather is extremely hot and humid, apparently NJ/NY is in the midst of heat wave this week. Well, I should count this a blessing, after all the summer in Europe has been terribly wet and cold so far..

Workshop went well with client today, finished on time. Since Grace has a rented car, we decided to cross George Washington Bridge to New York instead of staying in New Jersey.

We went to upper west side of Manhattan nearby Central Park for dinner. The Cuban dinner was excellence, we shared our starters – calamari and oyster shooters. I ordered seafood paella and it came with a giant lobster and endless of scallops, shrimps and many others. I was struggling with finishing the seafood, let alone the delicious rice.

The night is still warm and young, since this is the first trip for one of my team members; we decided to give him a crush course orientation of Manhattan. We visited Empire state building, straight up to 86^th floor for the night view of NYC. The visibility is around 10 Miles, despite of the crowds; the night view was charming and magnificent.

Glamorous NYC

9th July 2007, 35 C, Humidity 99%, New York City

When I set off from Zoetermeer it was only 15 C, by the time I arrived at Newark airport it was 35 C in the mid afternoon. I have to literally strip off my layers of clothing to adjust to the temperature. Finally after the relatively chilled and wet summer days in June, I once again welcomed by the sunshine and the heat wave in New Jersey and New York. I couldn't wait but check out the NYC and heading straight to Manhattan in the early afternoon. Good to walk on 5th Avenue again and seeing the yellow cabs and the world's famous designer store along the way. Met up with Megan and Liz who happened to be also in NJ and we had a girl night-out in the NYC.