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.

Midweek shenanigans

Few things in life are better than getting wasted on a Wednesday evening. Very few things.

So I attended a charity event this evening in New York. It was a fundraiser for an organization called SAYA that is devoted to benefiting South Asian kids from New York City. It was hosted at [...]

Lost In Transcription

I was meeting a friend for dinner yesterday and it was the one thing I was looking forward to in an otherwise mundane day. Said friend leaves me a voicemail message confirming the appointment and Google Voice picks it up for me. I get an email with the message transcribed. Here’s what the email [...]

A bite of heaven

Several people in my social circle have been raving about a certain Magnolia Bakery in New York City for the longest time. It has three locations in New York, of which one was located a block away from my workplace at the time. Magnolia Bakery, I was told, makes some of the yummiest [...]

A Midsummer Update

A few noteworthy observations about my life these past few months-

Relegated to the Jersey office, for what I hope will be a temporary thing. I miss my city, I miss it’s ever so vibrant nature, I miss my Chicken Shahi Korma from Minar, I miss being crushed in the train to work in the mornings.
I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]