5th Ave is evil.

*updated*

It crept up behind me, entered my bag and sucked up the money out of my bank card!!

Seriously, shopping is FAB here.

MAC eye shadow is $12 for each pot... that's like less than AUD 20. And Lancome Juicy Tubes are $16 compared to AUD 46. Exchange rate? 1.33 AUD to a USD. Score!

It's really easy to get around town in New York. Subway or bus - you can get anywhere and the trains come so often you hardly have to wait that long (unless you're at the subway at 2am of course). It's not like Melbourne where you have to walk like six million miles to get to a station. We got the whole MTA system down pat on our first day.

Other random New York observations:

Shoe shine stores! The one in Rockefeller Centre today was PACKED! We stood outside stunned watching all these people getting their shoe shined.

L'Oreal, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Dior - all very cheap here. But SK II is costs a bomb.

I don't think they have cordial here... They have Kool-aid and it's powdered. POWDERED!!

Supermarkets are small but with an okay selection of everything you need to get by. The gourmet salad bars and incredible delis make up for the miniscule selection of margerine.

Guys tend to make comments when you (not entirely refering to myself but also comments made to other women) wear mini-skirts and such. They also make very sexist comments and no wonder feminism is so much more prevailant here. Comments such as "Daamn baby, why don't you buy me a hot dog?", "Daamn look at those shorts on that bitch!" I don't know about you but the latter is definitely slap worthy in Melbourne!

Which brings me to the subject of "Just ignore them". And people do. There is hardly any eye contact on the subway - New Yorkers are very good at minding their own business. So if you get some crazy dude muttering how he wants to dominate the world (I had this guy sitting opposite me today going on about how this world is so fucked up and he wants to get rid of "fucking immigrants" and how he'd do so) or some guy wanting to sell batteries for a dollar, or even a man busking in the train beautifully singing "O Happy Day", everyone will have their heads down or a blank stare straight ahead. It's rather entertaining to see. I think I'm the only person in the subway looking at other people.

Like Melbourne, jay walking is totally acceptable in New York. Unlike LA. When they are absolutely NO CARS, people still wait for the light. Incredible!

Taking photos in the subway is totally uncool. People look at you funny. (This is something they DON'T ignore - I think they have negative leanings towards tourists...)

I hate how the tax system here works. ADD THE FRIGGIN TAX TO THE PRICE SO WE DON'T GET THIS MASSIVE SHOCK AT THE CASH REGISTER! OR WHEN I WANT TO BUY A $5 SANDWICH AND I ONLY HAVE A $5 BILL!!!

There still seems to be a huge segregation between the black and white. I hardly ever see them hanging out with one another. I'm sorry if this wasn't PC.

Major cities in America tend to be very PC. Or atleast try to be. Which is good of course. But sometimes I don't know when I'm going to offend. Australia isn't very PC.

There is massive snobness going on in the upmarket stores. I mean, even DKNY for christsakes and their stuff isn't THAT good to begin with. Such as today, I wandered in with my $10 polo tee, a year old Dangerfield mini-skirt finished off with a pair of pink and white Dunlop Volleys. They wouldn't even look at me. Same with Hugo Boss. I tried on a $1869 dress, looked as though I was interested, and said it looked shit on me. Muahahahaha. (Well, it did. I wasn't lying.)

The subways don't smell as bad as Paris.

Lacoste is extremely expensive. WHY WHY WHY!!
But A|X is much cheaper :)

Ok, I've ran out of things to say because I can't think of any more right this moment!! I mean, these observations aren't even deep. God, I've turned into a bimbo! But pardon me, I'm tired... and I don't seem to have a care about the world right this moment apart from little funny and not very challenging trivia.

Adios!