Shooting in NY.

When I walk around my neighborhood, these days I found many shooting notices.
I usually see actual shooting both in Brooklyn and Manhattan but I didn't see notice them before to announce their shutting down road.
Then I thought about Japan, if they shut down one road for movie shooting all day, what will happen in Japan... ummmm It's gonna be difficult!!! But here in NY, small films, big films, there are shooting everywhere!!
I remember that what I saw big shooting for the first time in NY was Japanese commercial of Softbank. And there was Tsuyoshi Kusanagi from SMAP and when I was taking pictures as usual he talked to me.
If I was in Japan he would never talk to me but same Japanese in different country made it happened!!
That was good surprise for me.

Also a few days ago I saw "HITCH" on TV. I saw this movie before a couple of times but it was first time to see after I moved to NY. So this time I could watch it different way. And there was rice pudding place where my friend took me before in the movie. And Sara was living close to dance studio I went before. This is one of fun things to live in NY:)

Now new TV season will start soon and there are so many advertisements for new shows in TV commercial, posters in stations and magazines. So I was thinking what I want to watch this season and one of drama I wanted to see was "Pan Am". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMEske3ALcU
And the other day I found notice for shooting in neighborhood of our shop.
I couldn't go to see their shooting but I can't wait to see the show and see how they show our neighborhood!!!

And this film seems this one!!

http://parkslope.patch.com/articles/hollywood-in-prospect-park?ncid=wtp-patch-readmore

My roommate told me about this article!! Sounds cool:)

Megu in NYC

Today I had a chance to go to Megu Midtown for lunch with my friends.
http://www.megurestaurants.com/
They still had restaurant week menu so it's too expensive for me to go for dinner but for lunch I could try.

This restaurant was in one of Trump towers and it was in front of United Nations Center.
It was really fancy restaurant but when I checked the website I think one in tribecca is fancier than the one we went.
The food was good but I think you need to choose carefully. Tastes were all good but portion was really different. So you should choose with thinking how much you can eat. lol
When you see the pictures you will know what I mean:)
I had madai salad and cod yuzu miso and madai salad has crunchy texture and nice flavor of dressing. So I really liked it. And cod was good too. It was juicy and good to eat with white rice!!
Now it's difficult to grill fish here in NY so that was what I wanted!!
But next time, I will try Bento platter and go there without eating breakfast!! :)
And desserts were really good too. Ice cream was the best for us:)

hamachi carpaccio

madai salad

Bento platter 

sushi combination 

cod yuzu miso

Green tea crepe and ice cream

Green tea crepe and cheese cake

CALEXICO

The other day I could finally go to calexico in Red Hook.
http://www.calexicocart.com/page/page/4364476.htm
My friend Stefanie told me many times about there and I really wanted to try but I didn't have chance.
But when we saw US open men's final together at her place, after that amazing game, we went there to have some good mexican food.
I liked food of course and also I liked the interior of restaurant.
There were several types of spice things at the counter and we could try pumpkin spicy dip, pickled vegetable, green salsa and so on... Everything was really good:)
It is a little bit far from the train station but it's worth walking there. And after my stomach was satisfied it was good to walk in cool night to go home.

Beach Volleyball Party

Last night our One Girl Cookies closed shop earlier than usual and went to Brooklyn Bridge Park to play volleyball. There was nice sand volley ball court there.
http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/go/activities-and-events/pier-6-sand-volleyball-courts

We are always too busy in the kitchen to talk with everyone so I really like to go out with everyone once in a while. I haven't played volleyball for long time I think more than 10 years. And even 10 years ago I was so bad at this so I was kind of nervous. But when we started to play, it was so much fun!! Just chase the ball and hit the ball. lol We didn't have any rules just we enjoyed.
And also it felt good running around on the sand. And dived in the sand!! (Actually I didn't dive though... ) But when I got home in my pocket there was sand. So I needed to take off my pants at entrance... I was glad that my roommate was not there that night!! lol

Beach in front of Manhattan view

Potato salad

Hot dogs and etc.

It's getting dark.

There were some super shots!!

OH Boy! cake

Today's work...

Hyogo Prefecture Party

Last night I went to party for people who is from Hyogo prefecture Japan.
I went there by myself so when I got there I had no idea what to do.
But there was one person who was familiar to me and I checked the name....
He was the father of my classmate in Jr. and high school!!!
What a coincidence!!! I had seen him before once but it was a few seconds. So I didn't expect that he would be there so it was surprising but after I knew there was someone I knew, I relieved:)
I met many people there and only common thing of us was everyone was from Hyogo.
But it was nice to talk with them about where we from, how is work and life in NY.
There was special a guest for that party too. It was governor Ido.
If I was in Japan I don't think I had chance to talk to him so it was good experience for me too.
Now I don't have much time to meet Japanese people and talk in Japanese so it was good for me to talk without thinking and be in conversations of Kansai accent... lol
And also I really like to find how world is small!!! Many people is connecting in many ways. So it was really fun night!! :)

Ayumi Cupcake Topper from mimicafe union!!!

On my birthday my friend and "senpai" Sachiko tagged many pictures of me on Facebook.

When I got those notification email, I was wondering what she tagged me because she didn't take pictures of me for long time. But when I checked Facebook, I was soooooooo surprised and also I was so happy and I cried....

On my wall of Facebook, my cupcake topper was there....

And I was with my dog Sheena too!!!

How amazing present it is!!! 

Thank you thank you so much, Sachiko!!! 

And if you want to get her topper, here is information.

If you send her picture, she can make topper of your face!!!

She is so good at this!!! 

http://web.me.com/mimicafeunion/mimicafe_Union/Welcome.html