More work stuff & adventures

Work this week has been good. Much better and easier than the last. Either something just clicked in my head or it's the fact that I'm not constantly under someone's watchful eyes so I can be myself a little.

Speaking of being myself, I have come across one relatively question in particular that I found difficult to answer. 

'Where are you from?' 

If I say I'm from Korea, it is almost always followed by another question. 'Where does your accent come from?' Then I have to explain that I moved to NZ when I was younger and tell them my life story.

If I say I'm from NZ, it is usually followed by 'Were you born in NZ?' Then I go back to the first answer. Not winning here. 

It has made me feel somewhat like Erik.  For those who don't know him, he was a Dutch guy whom I worked with at WHR. He used to pull in tips because he was foreign and people were interested to talk to them, not because of his superb service. For which some of us resented. But now I am that guy. I don't know how much impact it has on tips at EMP but people seem to be very interested in my accent. At least 5 tables a night will ask me where my accent is from. It's fine and I'm happy to talk to them for now but according to Amba it get pretty old pretty quickly. 

Another thing about this country, when it comes to Koreans, especially the younger ones, I can't assume they will speak Korean. More than often they are second generation American Koreans who are basically Americans with Korean features. There are many Korean people at EMP and about 75% of them don't actually speak Korean. It makes for an interesting dynamics because between Koreans we would normally treat each other differently depending on age and rank etc. 

As I mentioned in the last post Samba are here in New York!! I got two days off in a row(!!!!) so we went on a little bit of an adventure (after ample sleep in of course).

On Tuesday we went to the famous Katz's Deli. One of the oldest deli's in New York and where the famous fake orgasm scene from when Harry met Sally was filmed. It was absolutely packed when we arrived with 4-5 deep lines to get a sandwich. Of course the crowd disappeared as soon as we got our food and sat down at a table.

He is clearly having such a great time

I got a Ruben with pastrami. It was like $18 but I didn't really need the whole thing. I read a lot of reviews saying it's over rated and over priced but I thought it was worth it for the atmosphere and and the GIGANTIC sandwich you get. While our guy was carving the meat another dude bumped him from behind running past him. 

'Ay yo! WTF!!!!' (With a big chef's knife in his hand) 

I was sure this would be the moment I experience the 'real' New York I've been seeing on TV shows and movies. My first stabbing. But (un)fortunately this did not eventuate. The Ruben sandwich was amazing though!

What else did we do..the photos tell me we went and had some delicious oysters in Williamsburg. They were massive! And they were a dollar each! A DOLLAR!!!! A dozen of fresh, giant oysters for all of $12. I was in heaven. After that we went to Duff's where they had a dollar PBR. A DOLLAR!!! As far as I know PBR is what all the poor hipster artistic type drink cuz it's 'cool' and cheap. Probably only cuz it's cheap. I wasn't complaining though. It was beer all the same.

Oysters!!

After that, got some more booze and carried on at home. I'm sure other exciting things happened in there somewhere but can't remember. Sorry!

Lame.. I had written another few paragraphs about what we did the next day but it's all gone!! (Rage face) I can't be bothered re-writing it so I'm just gonna put up the photos. Feel free to make your own story up. It involves walking, booze, Harlem, lots of meat, dogs, bone marrow poppers and monochrome photos (because I'm like all deep and artsy as fuck). 

Left foot

Right foot

Very subtle guys.... 

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I also had other rant ready about how unreliable NY train system is and how it will end up getting me fired but I might leave that to the next time. Hopefully Ally will put up a post about all of her adventures too soon!! I do have a couple of different thing I want to write about re: work and life so stay tuned peeps :)