"However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight." - Lin Yutang

My New York seed was sown in December 2007.

Stepping out into Times Square I experienced a sensory overload - the winter wind, blinking billboards, honking horns...is that a donut I can smell?

My Brisbane brain had never felt so besieged. Everything inflated, overstated, exaggerated.

Materialistic? Maybe. But noone can deny its chaotic charisma and addictive aura.

Two and a half years later and I still couldn't shake the feeling of unfinished business. I needed to return. But this time I wanted to experience it like one of the many million who work there. Bagel in one hand, blackberry in the other; both offering their own morning buzz.

I wanted to mingle with marketing masterminds and be amongst the bigwigs!

My seed has found it's sunlight, in the offer of a digital marketing traineeship, in Soho, Manhattan.

I'm coming back to you Big Apple. Here's hoping I haven't bitten off more than I can chew...

Miss Manhattan.