The start of a beautiful friendship.

Went to tutto bene with tash lukman for lunch. Risotto with gorgonzola cream was delish! I was def delighted. Soo good! Id want to go back also because service was really good as well! Food was decently priced and atmosphere was nice. Id want to try the other restaurants there in southgate too. It was great catching up. Def did not just do small talk. I feel that shes honest about how she feels. I like it. I can relate to her when she says that she often feels like shes not part of any culture. Went to crown to see the casino. This is how luxury living feels like. Somehow it feels too grandeur and just plain wrong. I want to strive to live like warren buffett. Enough to get by and the rest donated to charity.

After seeing a game of roulette (i was mortified when i saw each chip was worth 5 dollars and this lady had a huge stack...all i could think of was the plates of amazing food i could have instead. Wow i think about food wayy too much), anyways, it makes me wonder why do people gamble in spite of knowing they will lose money overall? Its mystifying me. Then i ate rum and raisin ice cream at the crown food court while in the company of tash drawing in her sketchbook. Was delish! It was cool seeing tash sketch, too bad i didnt get a picture of her sketching. Then i asked her about where she gets her inspirations from. She wishes to someday perhaps to be a fashion designer. She wants to live in the suburbs and reckons it would be nice to also have an apartment in the city. Thats a cool idea. Id want a studio in the city where i get away alone and just self reflect and unleash my creativity. Weird but though we were both in canada before, we never really hung out or talked. Somehow i feel that we are in similar shoes with regards to our parent situations. We made plans to hang out in december and i intend to keep it. On the way to southern cross train station on the train, we had a discussion on religion. Didnt know that shes not very religious. Had a great discussion. This could be the start of a blossoming and beautiful friendship.

The Facebook Project

I am stopping my blog updates temporarily as I find that my life is too much of an open book and I have recently found this unsettling because I've come to realize that trust is earned. People should earn your trust first before gaining knowledge about you. Also, I'm beginning to realize that my musings here on this public blog are too one way and I don't really get to understand or find out what the reader (whoever they are) thinks. I miss many face to face conversations. This move to stop blogging temporarily also coincides with my personal project I call "the Facebook Project" that involves me deactivating facebook for a full year for multitudes of reasons that I have chosen not to discuss publicly.

What the f*ck moment

Just woke up. It is currently 1130am. You know when you wake up and try to make yourself feel better by saying that you need at least 8 hours of sleep...well not this time because I went to bed at 130am. EPIC FAIL ON MY PART!!! RAWR RAWR RAWR

This is yet another what the fuck moment.

Slow down everyone, you're moving too fast...

Frames can't catch you when you're moving like that.

Oh, WHAT GLUTTONY!

Oh my goddd. I just got back from KFC&Hungry Jacks after a sudden urge (very very strong craving) to get their Zinger burger, their 2 piece original chicken & mashed potatoes and gravy and an orange pop. GOT ALL OF THAT! Then before leaving the plaza, I went to Hungry Jacks and got myself a vanilla soft serve cone...MMM HEAVEN! (Note, this is after a full dinner of honey soy chicken, steamed white rice AND bananas dipped with chocolate) Well I made myself feel better by studying after eating all of that in kfc AND hungry jack's. So it's not AS BAD...I guess?

all this time while eating all these things I'm thinking to myself OH WHAT GLUTTONY!

I guess today's theme is satisfy your cravings! FML. Obesity, here I come...

Honey soy chicken with ginger

In the spirit of procrastination in the afternoon, I decided to make a honey soy marinade. I've never actually let my food marinate over 2 hours (blame it on my impatience) so I decided to try that today. It was quite rewarding as the flavours really seeped through the chicken! I mixed honey, soy sauce, raw sugar, ginger and garlic and let my chicken thighs sit in this marinade for about 5-6 hours. I then pan fried to brown the chicken and then baked at 175C for 20 minutes (let it bake while I went for an evening jog). Voila! I then ate it with a side of steamed white rice. Yumm! The ginger gave it a more Asian flavour and made me miss home/ my mother's cooking.

Entering Exam Studying Mode

So I officially have 9 full days before my mid year examinations and about 49 lecture topics to cover. Then it's HOLIDAYS (I'm going to Melbourne and Sydney to travel so I def want to have a relaxing and great break!) The amount of material we need to know is quite a lot, so I'm going to revert to what I call my exam studying mode. The plan is to get into my regular early morning jog routine (yes, I stopped jogging before) starting tomorrow. So I'll wake up at 6am, jog until 630am & then have breakfast /shower and start studying for the day. Then in the afternoon I'll go for an intense bike ride (high gear on bike) for 15-20 minutes as a study break. I might even go for a dip in my swimming pool as a break right after my bike ride in the afternoon before going for another shower.

I'm actually looking forward to this to see how well this works!