I’ve been working on my research through the summer. It’s been tiring and eventually my participants, in their own way, sort of informed me that it’s time to take a break. That’s what I did.

I went for a 2 days 1 night trip to NYC. Visited two museums [i.e., Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) and Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)], saw two music performances (i.e., free John Scoffield show at the Madison Square Park and a chinese pipa western fusion music performance at MOMA), had Malaysian food for dinner, and walked A LOT.

Knowing that I’ll possibly end up with a case of art overload and overdose at the MET, I tried to view the art pieces through my eyes and not my camera. Didn’t take a single photo there. But still I suffered from art overload…too much to see and there was only so much my brain could absorb before it all became a blur.

The next day, I went to MOMA. I’ve never been to MOMA before, so I was able to absorb more here and had quite an enjoyable time.