i love new york

new york city never fails to amaze, inspire and fascinate me. that's why i had no second thoughts when my boss told me that we're off to the big apple for a couple of weeks. yay!

not to preempt any official announcements, we are expanding our operations to cover new york city! finally! i'm quite excited to be doing the preliminary work here, in the same way that we prepared and worked hard when we opend our san francisco office in 2002 and manila in 2005. it's really challenging and mind-boggling at the same time.

lovely, lovely view. taken @ 9:45 eastern time.

took the red-eye from burbank airport last night and arrived at jfk before 6 this morning. we rested a bit after checking in our ultra-super swank hotel at the hyatt regency hudson. ayluvet. hehehe. our room has a long porch that stretches to the hudson river which gives us a million-dollar view of manhattan's skyline. awesome!

had early dinner at krystal's, a filipino turo-turo in queens. it was around 5ish in the afternoon and we were just supposed to have snacks but we were surprised to see a lot of people (full house, almost) already eating dinner. what the heck. we had sinampalukang manok (yumyum. no restaurant in LA cooks sinampalukan like this), grilled galunggong, grilled eggplant, daing na bangus. uh-oh. foooood!

photos to follow. (of the killer view from our nice room, not of the sinampalukang manok and galunggong!)