Thank you for simply asking!

Yes, I am alive and am counting my blessing for having survived magnitude 5.0 earthquake, tornado

and the scariest (and standing!) rollercoster in the world – here.

Love and live life.

Speaking of the other side of the world, I am now at

the home of Lululemon, M.A.C, Alanis Morissette, errr.. Justin Bieber and the one who’s got my heart

..survived the longest day of the year

where 10,000 New Yorkers performed sun salutations at Times Square

..survived Dharma Mittra master class

where everybody tucked their leg behind their head (standing up)!

..and survived

meeting the parents .

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Pheww!

My Petrovsky was more ecstatic than me – to see many many many carts of  Halal food on the streets of Manhattan and kept throwing remarks such as, “Finally sayang, there’s something (Halal food) for you to eat here!”, forgetting he’s been feeding me until I gained like 20 pounds, right (I sound much heavier in pound)!

only to get “But it’s kind of oxymoron No, baby? I don’t eat meat let alone kebabs and sausages, duh!” from me.

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So hurrah to a city where I can get healthy snacks, veggie burgers & organic food anywhere!

I have always been a tiny scrawny 40kg mini Ninie.

Photo from Bali Spirit Festival Facebook Page

TODAY – I am a round 48kg  .

At my happiest

I blame the cheap(er) access and overload of

- Starbucks. Try the White Chocolate Mocha, I had three of these on my second day!

- Super greasy American food at 24-hour American diner

My face is so fat it’s even bigger than the super sliced pie!

- Ok lahhh, Magnolia Bakery cupcakes (apparently the ones at DELIcious KL taste / are the very same)

.. and Snapples!

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Welcome to America, Ninie!

A Malaysian Dreamer & A Small Big Fan of SATC’s Guide To New York Virgins

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5 Things You Should Know & Be Prepared Of in New York

• Lotsa small bills for tips (in hotels, tip bellhops at least $1 per bag and tip the chamber staff $1 to $2 per day if you’ve left a disaster for them to clean up. Tip the doorman or concierge if they have provided you with special service, like calling a cab. In restaurants & bars, tip service staff 15% to 20% of the check and tip bartenders 10% to 15%. Tip cab drivers 15% of the fare.)

And TIPPING IS A-MUST except at cafeterias & fast-food outlets only!

They said only share this photo on Facebook if they look cute, how cute!

And yes, the American jargons – check (instead of bill), bill (instead of notes), change (instead of coins) & drugstore (instead of pharmacy)

• There is almost no free Internet / wi-fi service anywhere except for some smaller parks! Yes, not even in Starbucks or McDonald’s. I heard some American birds tweeted and celebrated the news that Starbucks will start offering free wi-fi from July 1st. And we complain on the limitless places (mamaks also have wi-fi now ya?) albeit slow connection in KL.

How have I been blogging & tweeting, you asked? iPhone around town & $19.95 PER DAY (about RM70 sehari!) for Internet in my hotel room.

• Lotsa practical scarves if you weren’t prepared for summer to be this cold!

You’ll want to wear your scarf like this too after you watch Sex And The City II!

• Sunnies for the summer. And to hide undrawn eyebrows for the walk back after yoga..

I brought FIVE from home, just in case . And say nothing about the bangles & dangles please.

and comfortable walking shoes. See how I bold the ‘comfortable’?

Listen, I need to match different yoga pants & those heels are for fancy dinners!

•  Walk, walk, walk, walk (I took the yellow cab to yoga at 5th Avenue every morning. When I finally use the Map on my iPhone,  I realize 5th Avenue is just 5 minutes walk from the hotel I’m staying at )

Look who’s walking too behind me?

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5 Things To Do On Your First Day In NY Manhattan

•  Watch Sex And The City II movie, D-U-H! With typical American junkfood overload.

•  Dump your LUXE New York guide & buy TimeOut New York For Visitors

•  Hate yourself a little for packing only summer dresses & hot pants when the weather is 22ºC in the afternoon (except that they use Fahrenheit here). And you thought it’s summerrrrrrrrrrrrrr..

•  Eat lotsa crispy big apples. Usually they are complimentary by your hotel’s concierge.

•  Don’t forget to make reservations for all the fancy schmancy restaurants to have dinner at (the famous restaurants get booked by months ahead sometimes, yes. So we have to give up on Pastis, Nobu and Le Bernadine)

At La Grenouille, one of the most romantic (and expensive) dinner I ever had.

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5 Places To Go On Your Second Day In Manhattan

•  World Trade Centre ‘bathtub’ site

•  Empire State Building’s observatory deck

• Statue of Liberty via Staten Island Ferry (it’s my fifth day and I still haven’t )

•  St Patrick’s Cathedral on 5th Avenue (although I bet, you’d end up spending the rest of the day on 5th Avenue. Who are these Americans kidding, the church is designated in between Versace, H. Stern & Saks!)

I swear I was IN FRONT of St Patrick’s Cathedral! Can I blame St Patrick the photographer? Anywayyyy, if you take a look across, that’s the very Bergdorf Goodman which they shot the opening scene of SATCII in

•  Picnic (or yoga) at the park

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5 Places You Have To Try And Go Anyway Anytime In Manhattan

•  Museum of Modern Art, West 53 Street

•  Museum of Sex , 5th Avenue

•  Chrysler Building

•  Classic movie screening at Bryant Park

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5 Things You Just Have To Do In NY

•  Dress up for the ballet at Lincoln Centre on Thursday night

•  Stand-up comedy at West Village (I didn’t dare snap photos, I was being made fun of for coming from Malaysia enough..)

•  Shake Shack at Madison Park – some New Yorkers swear that the burgers at this food stand are the best in the city. I only tried the ‘Shroom Burger (for vegetarians) on the second day and I have been coming for more almost every evening! The queue is absurdly long though but it only proves its NYC’s best dine in small parks.

•  Be amazed at the abundance of naked man figures on the street and on top of every other building

•  Yankees game (yes, God is punishing me for making my boyfriend watch Sex And The City II)

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5 Shops You Don’t Want To (or shall I write, Wanna) Miss In Manhattan

•  H&M, H&M, H&M, H&M, H&M – there is (at least one) H&M in almost every block you wouldn’t miss missing it

•  Prada flagship store Soho at Broadway

Yes, it’s the very Prada Carrie took Berger to.

•  Forget SAKS at 5th Avenue, go to Century 21 at Financial District instead. They carrie carry seriously discounted designer clothes, but – expect crowd & next-to-nothing-at-all service

•  Steve Madden flagship store Soho at Broadway

•  HBO Official Shop, 42nd & Avenue of the Americas where they house original merchanchise of True Blood, The Sopranos, Entourage, Big Love and of course, Sex And The City takes the biggest section of the store.

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5 Yoga Centres You Want To Check Out In Manhattan

•  Kula Yoga Project, Warren St

•  Yoga Sutra, 5th Avenue (highly recommended for practicing Ashtangis)

•  OM Yoga Centre, Union Square

•  Dharma Mittra NY Yoga Centre, Third Avenue

•  Bikram Yoga NYC, 5th Avenue

•  Jivamukti Yoga, Union Square

What.. that’s SIX already? I have been refraining myself from going to corporate yoga centres to why I am not suggesting Pure Yoga & Exhale but I gave in for YogaWorks as I signed for 2-weeks unlimited classes and I’ll write another entry on who was in my class in YogaWorks Soho in another entry hopefully.

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5 Things You Don’t Necessarily Have To Do

•  Empire State Building Skyride & 3D Movie. Unless you are a kid with kids.

•  The overrated Sex And The City tour. The bus only takes you to FOUR locations in the series / movies and you can’t take photos in the bus, I am not kidding! We are better off googling ALL the tour locations (because they rotate them and only go to selected four spots each tour) and walk to the locations, better still – on our heels!

•  Madame Tussauds – they don’t even have the SATC girls! And they are Madame Tussauds New York, what a shame..

•  Yes, I put much hype in Magnolia Bakery because of SATC & The Devil Wears Prada, but if you don’t have all the time in the world New York, try Katz’s Delicatessen instead. Movie lovers would know that it is the famous site for When Harry Met Sally.

•   Use the subway, maybe because I still can’t figure out how to!

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Stay tuned for my next entry on my famous encounter(s) in New York City.

Love and big apples!

I see lots of pedestrians traffic lights plastered with black tape,

forming a mudra you don’t always see in a yoga class!

Love and peace mudra.

And you wouldn’t believe where I stand on my head this morning

Kula Yoga Project

Yoga Works

And wanna take a not-so-wild guess which movie I watched in The City last night ?

This morning I woke up

..outside of a coffee shop,

.. and everything around me screams orange,

With tulips and..

funny-looking chocolate everywhere,

and asked myself, how in the world did I end up in..

Amsterdam today!

Project Alpha Season 2’s last episode (online) aired yesterday with Azwan Ali & Klubbkidd as their last two featured bloggers.

Each of them told me they have a secret crush over Ninie Ahmad.

Azwan says I look very much like his former yet biggest celebrity crush, Ziana Zain so he loves me no matter what.

Well, it’s not the first time I was told so

And Klubbkidd (aka Joe Lee) said since he’ll never be married to Xiaxue’s husband a girl, I can be his wife for a day during the Project Alpha Bloggers’ Launch.

Plus, he did Partner Yoga in public with me too just to know what it feels like having a girl on top of him

For avid followers who are already having Project Alpha Season 2 withdrawal symptom, I just found out today that there is a bonus episode mainly featuring adidas OLE KO Challenge I bragged on how confident I was on winning.

To find out who really won, yoga-ta just watch this for I’m not telling (since they DIDN’T tell me Michael ‘The Director’ Lim was gonna play and played damn well too!)

Photos from Azwan Ali

If you still can’t get enough of Project Alpha (or are not patient enough to wait for it to load on YouTube), catch us on Hitz TV (ASTRO Ch 705) every Sunday 10 to 10.30pm with repeats on every Tuesday 7:30 till 8:00pm, every Thursday 8:30 till 9.00pm and every Saturday 3:00 till 3:30pm and in this order.

May 23: Project Alpha Season 1 bloggers

May 30: Niki Cheong + Xiaxue (Part I)

June 6: Niki Cheong + Xiaxue (Part II)

June 13: Cheesie

June 10: Shaolin Tiger

June 27: KY

July 4: M-E!

July 11: Azwan Ali

July 18: Klubbkidd

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I can never thank Project Alpha sponsors enough,

Main Sponsor : Adidas Action 3
Official Broadband Sponsor : P1
Official Flight Sponsor : Malaysia Airlines
Official Cosmetics Sponsor : Rimmel
Official Hair & Make Up Sponsor : A Cut Above
Official Media Partner : Hitz FM & Era FM
Official Social Networking Site : Ruumz
Hotel Sponsors : 360Kuching & Millennium Hotel Group
Online News Portal : The Daily Chilli

for making it all happen to us (allegedly) Malaysia’s top bloggers.

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I vouch for Joyce Wong, Hanis Zalikha and Proudduck for Project Alpha Season 3!

While we are at it, if I can share this dream of mine a couple of weeks ago,

I got bitten by a cobra a couple of weeks ago.

Bhujangasana (Cobra Pose)

Does it mean what my mom told me it means?