About City Boy

This is Amortya Ray’s personal blog. He is passionate about technology, all things Apple, New York, Dunkin Donuts and of course Scarlett Johansson. Amongst others.

Dear Mr. NYC Cab Driver

Dear Mr. NYC Cab Driver,

In the remote chance that you do happen to come across my message on twitter, and happened to visit this site, I formally welcome you to Amortya’s blog. You picked me and 2 other buddies of mine from the corner of 34th and 1st Ave on Saturday night. And dropped us [...]

Goodbye MJ

Like countless others across the web, here’s my tribute to the man who made grabbing one’s crotch socially acceptable and in a weird way kinda cool.

There’s no denying that Michael Jackson was a talented. He was just a bundle of energy. No one can argue that he was a true showman, [...]

Shame on you, Letterman

Sarah Palin is not one of my favorite politicians. I find her positions on same-sex marriage, gun control, creationism, not to mention her unwavering support of Bush’s foreign policy in Iraq rather stupid. Her disastrous interviews with Katie Couric probably contributed to McCain’s loss in the Presidential elections late last year. However, during a recent [...]

Love Aaj Kal Music

Some background on what I’ve been through yesterday. I spent an entire day in a rather pointless training class. By the time if was 5 in the pm, I had figured out all the steps in the global life cycle of a trade, tasted the best free coffee that corporate America [...]

Summer Bummer

It’s nearing the end of June, and here in New York, it still doesn’t feel like its summer. Its been raining incessantly ever since the weather changed to non-winter-jacket-wearing levels. It’s bad enough that we had a rather prolonged winter this year, but this is ridiculous. I wonder what needs to be done [...]

Friday night debauchery

Its funny how you end up discovering the greatest spots in New York City at the unlikeliest of places. Last night, I hung out with my buddies at one such place.

The area between 31st and 36th streets between Fifth and Sixth Ave. is referred to as Koreatown. To the average tourist, it looks a lot [...]