For those of you who don’t know, my company sent me to hong kong in mid-july and I’ve been there ever since.  So I only got to see the beginnings of summer in New York…but tried to enjoy as much of it as possible!

Spent most of the month:

-          apartment hunting (was going to try living by myself or a different part of town..but in the end decided to stay with my wonderful roommates in our wonderful apartment. =))

-          watching the ballet (saw 3 ballets in the span of a month)

Travel: for memorial day, I went to visit Carol in Austin, TX.  Krystle came all the way from the Philippines!

with the UT longhorn..

we went ziplining:

met my parents and alice (who's never been to texas before and was in town for a volleyball tournament) for dinner:

my friends are pretty. :)

krystle got a tattoo...

which was painful,

but worth it. (it means 'while i breathe, i hope')

there was also a lot of this going on.

between the 3 of us, there were SIX cameras. (and i only had one...)

and just chilled and enjoyed each other's company. =)

Back in new york...we threw our semi-annual party (this time at Katra):

..to catch up with old friends...

(younger girls from my sorority visiting the town)

(first year analysts at m.stanley)

one of my favorite plano girls =)

and spend time with a certain cute new one ;)

also spent some quality time with other good friends:

(dave came to visit. we took a picture because we loved the shorts+long dress socks+sneakers look. haha he was on his way to get his real shoes from his car)

since both audrey and i were going to be spending a few months in asia and missing winnie's baby shower, we decided to celebrate with her on our own...she doesn't even look 6 months pregnant does she? haha i bet you can't even tell which one is the pregnant one. =)

cynthia AND val came to town. wow this is a whole lot of texas in a few months..(bet you didn't know there were so many asian people in texas huh? hehe)

spent a lovely afternoon with nancy+alice.  muah.

our monthly brunch at vento:

And then, sadly…said good bye to nyc.  My last evening in town: some friends came over to help me pack and see me off...before i flew off to the other side of the world.

that night was so fun. doing absolutely nothing.

the end. =)  next update will probably be in 2008 haha. but there will be a whole lot of asia....