Today I attended the NYU Ballroom Social at which I could see my x-dance partner Katherine perform some open level standard dancing with her current partner. Click here for the videos.

On my way to work today I saw several ambulance and police cars at the intersection of 5th avenue and 14th street right next to Commerce Bank. As I came closer, I saw quite an unusual character in the stretcher... Only in New York...

"Sunny in Paris" (A French-American Friendship Cabaret) featuring Sunny Leigh singing songs of Josephine Baker, Eartha Kitt, Nina Simone, & Dee Dee Bridgewater accompanied by the pianist Sheldon Forrest at the Triad Theater.

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Not only Sunny has been in Paris, she's also been in Brazil.

Dancing With The Stars season 3 has begun and I started to put up the videos of the dance routines by each couple for analysis and critique. Bookmark this URL to go to my Dancing With The Stars blog: dwts.info.

I finally put together the video of Clayton's audience participation at the Ukrainian Festival back in May.

More videos of Clayton can be found here.

When you walk in Duvet, you can tell that it is a true night club, since it is full of beds.

It also features unisex bathrooms with stalls having doors made of one-way mirrors. As I was sitting on the Porcelin God, I could see some guy staring right at me fixing his hair.

Those of the women who were daring enough got to participate in a Bellydance contest:

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I will be in Rio de Janeiro until August 29th.

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Today one of my colleagues and I ended up being a part of the entertainment team at the cruise around Manhattan on board of Spirit Of New Jersey ship.

Click on the photo to see some of the breakdancers at Union Square

I don't drink alcohol, but today I tasted 7 different brands of champagne. My friend Di has organized champagne tasting dinner at her apartment. In addition to the champagne, there was a 6-course Asian dinner prepared by the girlfriend of the "champagne ambassador". She is not Asian, but is a student at a culinary school and she knew what she was doing. The food was very delicious, but I did not care for the champagne. Different kinds of it tasted differently, but I still did not enjoy the taste that much to write home about it. In fact I don't see what the big deal is about these wine tastings and champagne tastings. Why not to have the tastings of different sorts of fruit juices? I guess because they are not as ridiculously expensive as some of the wine and champagne.

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How can I choose?

...can be found in the hallways:


You will see what I mean if you compare this video to this photo.

Scenes taken from

Viennese Opera Ball 2005 Quadrille Ball 2005 Petroushka Ball 2004 New Opera Ball 2004

On the way home from work, I get the pleasure of walking by Union Square. There is always something going on there. This time there was a magician performing the tricks for the crowd on the street. From his accent I could immediately tell he was from Germany. This reminded me of the Flicking Fingers magic show that I saw several months ago put together by a group of German magicians. The magician I saw today has heard of them, but not part of their group. He was visiting New York and practiced doing closeup magic on the street. Back at home he did mostly stage magic. He visited Chamber Magic show that Kerrie and I saw more than two years ago and was quite impressed with it. I am sure performing on the street here in New York also helped to improve his English.

Matt and Andrea threw a nice party at a rooftop of a Manhattan skyscraper.

This week a new deli opened right next door to our office and they had a Grand Opening special in which the salad bar food was only $1.99/lb. Comparing it to regular price of about $5.99/lb, Christine and I decided to take advantage of the special offer and stock up with food for next week, since today was the last day of the special. Too bad it is Friday and the food will have to stay in the refrigerator for two days, but Christine turned out to be an expert on storing food for long term.

Today in Washington Square Park I saw a bellydance performance organized by the Bellyqueen Dance Theater. My friend Julia told me about it. She was also part of the show. I enjoyed watching the dancing. It was performed to very diverse music. The first act of the show even included elements of breakdancing. Bellydancers are known to have nice hips, and at this show there were several dancers who were quite hippy. The costumes had gothic feel to them. Basically the show fit the venue quite well. It was also my first time seeing a male bellydancer.


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Today it felt like 110 degrees outside and at night it started to rain. Some people chose to walk underneath an umbrella, but some decided just to treat Manhattan as a beach.

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