Another weekend in NYC was spent rather recently. Once again, my wish was granted. This time around, I wasn’t lucky enough to patronise another weekend market but I managed to witness something quite rare.
I was there when it was the Academy Awards weekend. Although it was happening in Hollywood, the strong presence of such an event was felt in the eastern side too. Well, felt in the rest of the world too actually, I almost forgot.
When I took a stroll in Time Square, I was privileged enough to witness an exhibition of Oscar, the very well-known statuette that signifies the best performance to the beholder in the pre, post and most importantly during the production of what we call, movies. I remember, walking in to this loosely guarded venue (one of the shop lots, next to Swatch) and found out that it was the last day of the exhibition.
There were about 5 items on display. Firstly, a giant Oscar, about 8 feet in height. Then there was this process of coating the statue with copper, gold etc. There was also a display of tens of Oscar statuettes that were so sparkly in gold. I think the best was the red carpet that leads to the podium where one could have an opportunity to hold a real Oscar with their picture taken. Plus, with the backdrop of what we use to see on E! Entertainment when they show the celebrities posing for premieres and many other “important” events (pun intended).
Everyone seems to be very eager to do that, a chance of a life-time to feel like a real Oscar-winning celebrity. One quite elderly Chinese lady made an impression. She has a comical face and when she grabbed the Oscar and place it near her face, wanting to kiss it, she accidentally blurted “ gee, didn’t know this thing is so damn heavy” in Cantonese. I burst out laughing in my heart! She smiled broadly, her eyes almost disappeared and her friend snapped a photo of her, both quite ignorant about the surrounding people laughing at how funny she had been on that podium. Ignorance is truly bliss sometimes.
I also took a stroll in Central Park where it was in white. The snow was not melting at all at 4 degrees Celsius. I also walked to Apple on 5th Avenue and played with the various species of iPod to make some sense of out technology.
Lastly, I took one of the photos above as I am ever-eager to get Carried away…yes, that’s the tagline of my favourite Sex and The City, soon to be on the big screen!
