Tim's 28th!

Monday night, right before I left for the Shore, we celebrated Tim's birthday at The Brindle Room in the East Village.



Jeremy, the head chef and owner (formerly one of the head chefs at Employee's Only), is a friend of Maggie's and so we basically had the restaurant all to ourselves.

Complete with a special 8-course birthday meal.



Yum fried oysters on guacamally!



Amazing steak tartare...



Even the lentils...I couldn't get enough...



Radish and Beet Salad....I could have done without...



Jenny took a break from managing the Goods Trailer to join us.



She had the Sea Bass...



Mags had the spaghetti...



And I had the head-sized pork chop....



And then there was a Red Velvet cake from Sugar Sweet Sunshine...




And singing...



Mags's brother Phil and fiancee Jen showed up near the end. (They'll be getting married this weekend and I'll be taking pickys!)



And then our Deerfield buddy Hiro showed up with fun gifts!



Happy Birthday to one of the kindest, warmest, most generous, (formerly) funnest people I know!



(I'd also say "best-looking", but we all say that a little too often and he gets embarrassed.)

See you at rehearsal dinner tomorrow Magothy!

Aqua / More HK arrivals

The view of Central Hong Kong at night is one of the most beautiful things you could ever witness.

And on New Years...with millions of fireworks exploding everywhere...it's just breathtaking.

We had dinner at Aqua on Tuesday night. The restaurant offers a stunning penthouse view of Hong Kong harbor. Better than at Felix.





Friends Jason and Jennifer and Mike had all just arrived from Taiwan and Singapore.




Dinner was good.

The food is tasty. But not epic.

But it is all worth it for the view.

Even though for us it was raining and super foggy.



Afterwards we descended on LKF where pre-New Years celebrations were in full-effect.



Eugene's Yale friends had all just arrived as well.



We found a random College Party at Volar.

It was packed with Asians.



And was a suuuuper fun dance party.



Someone asked me if Tim and I were brothers, and I said, "no.......but THANK YOU!!!!"



That was reason enough to celebrate.





A LOT.






All the groups of friends came together seamlessly.

It's just easy when everyone is so nice and fun and pretty!








People were semi-wastedface.



I told Tim to "look as ugly as possible" for a picture and this is the best he could do...



We'll work on it....

.......

Happily, noone met the same fate as this rando girl...



We've amassed quite the entourage for the big New Year's celebration!

Heeeere we gooooo...

Everyone has slowly been trickling into HK over the past few days.

Last night Tim arrived. And I got over my jetlag and was finally able stay up past 7pm.



We had a low-key night out. Eugene secured a private room for us in LKF.





Suuuuuuper newyears funtimes coming up soon!

OMG

TimLo has decided to stay in NYC.

We are looking at this place in an hour.



5,000 square feet.

My life is complete.

-- Post From My iPhone