For some reason I woke up so dan early this morning. I woke at 5:00am and kind of just laid in bed.

At around 5:30ish I decided to make the time useful by playing with my iPad.

I took a nice hot bath at 7:00am and now it’s almost 8:00am. Breakfast w Pete is at 8:15pm.

Hard to see the sunrise through the haze of Hong Kong but still a cool pic.

Wow. So just got back to our hotel. Its around 9:45pm and so fucken exhausted. We had Korean for dinner and had several cups of Sake so thats making me want to pass out.

Had a very productive day and it looks like there will be plenty of things that I need to get done before the end of my trip so I am happy that at least there will be lots to get done to make this trip productive.

Waiting till 9:15 which is the time that I can call my boss via Facetime.

Nite nite

So its officially my third time in China.

On the long ass flight to China I was watching Sex and The City 2. The movie was mostly about all different types of marriages gay/straight and seeing Carrie and Mr. Big together really made me miss my Furry. I got sad just thinking about this long week without him but hopefully it will go by very fast.

Right now i am writing from my hotel in Hong Kong. We are being picked up tomorrow morning from one of the people at the factory. I believe it will be Rommy.

When we landed Pete and I took a cab over to Hotel Nikko and after that we scheduled a room massage. We both got 1 hour massages that were fantastic.

Afterwards we grabbed some dinner at the cafe at the Hotel.

I walked around for 10 minutes after dinner but most of the shops were closed so I decided to just head back to the room and get some rest.

I fucken love love my new iPad. Its the most fantastic pretty toy. I am really glad that I did not end up getting the macbook air because it would have just been a dinky little laptop.

Okay-Thats all for now. Nite nite.

So Today I got my very own iPad. Yup- 3G+Wifi.

I am so fucken happy because its kind of like my gift to myself for finally paying off my credit card bills.

It was several years of struggling with paying them off but I finally fucken did it.

To be honest I didn’t even know what I was going to end up getting today. I really thought that I was going to get the MacbookAir but in the end Furry convinced me to get the iPad.

He basically told me that I would have more fun using the iPad and also I would use the iPad more often than a dinky weak laptop.

Furry was totally right on the money and I don’t regret my decision one bit.

This is the first of many many posts on my new iPad.

Its fucken awesome because tomorrow I am going on a business trip to china and totally need my iPad to make my life a whole lot easier.

Okay-Time to go pack. Yayyyy!!!

So the launch of my collection has finally paid off. I recently did a launch with an online retailer. The exciting part of this launch was that this site normally does discounted sales which over 3 million people look at every single day.

So a total of 103 pieces sold out of the 150 we sold to them. It was very exciting since all we needed to do was get the word out there and it totally worked.

It has been a full week since the sale and I have received two orders on my website along with hundreds of hits which is so amazing. I am really happy with the brand and feel very strong about the future of the brand. Lots of people are loving the limited edition aspect of the brand and I feel that once the word spreads the brand will be a huge success.

I had the best 28th bday ever.

Furry made delicious pancakes for me and after we had breakki and watched some TV he gave me my bday gift.

He got us a Tuscany cooking class together which is so amazing. Something I have always wanted to do. The cooking class will be in November so looking forward to it.

After that we got ready and made a trip to Target to make a return. I got some Tretorn rubber boots at DSW and then we went back home.

We had reservations for dinner at Purple Yam with Adam and Lolli. I honestly had the best night because to me I enjoyed that much more than a party with lots of people only because it’s less intimate.

Adam got me this lovely J Spade card case and a cute Jonathan Adler box. Super sweet gifts. Lollise got me a book which was so nice because I feel that its much more personal. It is called “the boy that harnessed the wind”.

So it’s been insanely fucken busy at work this whole entire month. Actually past two months.

I remember when I got back from my trip to China it was insanely busy but now it has been like two and a half months since I it back and it has not slowed down one bit.

Wow. I can’t believe what just happened.

I went to Newark airport and after having some problems checking in the clerk realized that I was at the wrong airport.

I looked ad the ticket said JFK. I was like stressing.

Anyways they were able to put me on the flight to Rome Which would even land me in Rome a few hours earlier.

I was so fucken thankful that they allowed me to get on this flight.

Anyways I’m thrilled that I was able to get on this because if I missed the flight I would be in big ass trouble.

So I’m on my way to Rome now flying AllItalia which actually sucks. Seats are ghetto and not comfy at all.

It sucks because on my last trip I was able to fly business class to Italy but now they have become really strict with budgets.

Hoping for a smooth quick flight.

Having a lovely Saturday so far.

Went into the city and had brunch with Furrry at Home restaurant on Cornelia street in the west village.

Had this yummy duck confit. In place of bread they give you this delicious corn muffin with butter. I also had this amazing mushroom soup that was so amazing that it totally inspired me to make mushroom soup this week.

Afterwards Furry and I went to J&R to buy some computer speakers. They were originally like 50bucks but they were on sale for 35$.

Now Furry and I are at the IFC about to see “enter the void”. Trailer looked fantastically trippy.

Today is such an awesome fucken day.

I just got confirmation that Stephen Alan agreed to carry my AToy collection.

I am so fucken thrilled. Also refineri 29 and NYC mag may do write ups on the brand so i am super excited about that.

Also Gilted is going to do a full priced launch for my brand which is fucken huge because thousands of people get those emails. It will be so amazing. I can’t wait!

Also a few other great accounts wrote for the spring collection which is super super exciting.

So glad that good things are happening with the brand. I was kind of getting down about the whole thing because I felt like people were not into the whole utilitarian thing.

Fingers crossed let’s hope spring goes well.

Yayyyy to this awesome fucken day.

My mom came back into town and spent Saturday with B and I.

B let me go alone to Rent a zip car to pick her up. It was kind of fun driving alone.

I was so happy to have her come over because she was going to teach me several delicious Korean recipes. I was so excited to learn them. :-)

Mint leaves with Fish cake
Bean sprouts
Turnip leaves with miso paste
Fatty pork dish
Denjang (miso stew)
Radish Kimchi

It was amazing how simple all of the dishes were to make. The only thing was that none o the dishes had specific measurements but were done with kind of a dash of this and a little of this so the next time I make the dishes it will be all from memory really.

After dinner we watched “the curse of the red shoes”. A Korean horror movie. Movie was okay but more importantly was the QT spent with mom and Dump.

The next morning we this amazing nut powder with milk and bananas. It was amazing because it actually tasted good and held our hunger for more than a couple of hours.

After breakfast we drove my mom back to queens and then did a quick stop at Target.