*819 - tacos and beer

My souvenir: 40 itchy bug bites (from a combination of critters). Lovely trip, nonetheless :)

*818 - spring is here!!

Off to Mexico for the ... fourth time. I should get a loyalty card.

Puerto Vallarta, here we come :D

*817 - fake oyako-don

My version of oyako-don that included a mishmash of everything Asian in my kitchen (oyster sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, unagi sauce, etc). Completely non-authentic, especially with the brown rice (healthy, pls) but it looked real enough. About its taste though ... haha. Tasted like a (delicious) Asian-flavored chicken omelette.



Oh well, what is one to do when one has sudden Asian food cravings in the middle of the night? At least it looked cute--that's half the victory won in my opinion.

*817 - best utensil

Eating lunch with a most classy utensil: the plastic spork.

*816 - asdfjkl;

I am certainly a fool sometimes:

Skipping an entire 20% of my exam because I thought it was an optional choice between questions;
Skipping the first lecture of a course that began today because I thought it began after spring break;
And venting all of it on the person who deserves it the least.

Frustrated.

Many things looming on my mind. All those informational interviews I have yet to schedule, case study tomorrow, presentation on Wednesday, two more midterms on Thursday, churning out my thesis experiment before break begins, writing two papers due in the middle of break (so I should do them now), having to go to dance classes when all my body wants to do is to take time off to recover from the painful 4 nights of performances--basically getting my life in order.

I enjoy challenge; I constantly inundate myself with work and busy-ness and I love it; I bring everything voluntarily upon myself; I know that everything is going to be okay in the end and I'll come out stronger and happier-

But I am just frustrated for now. At myself.

*815 - cute food

These are so cute they are melting me into a puddle of goo :)









I have come to (perhaps falsely) expect things like cupcakes and cakes to be cute (or, at least, prettily done) but what overwhelms and paralyzes me with cuteness-related fuzzy feelings is unexpected cuteness like PANDAS FLOATING IN CUP NOODLES (!!!).

From Epicute!

*814 - what i lose sleep over

For once (kind of), I know what I want to do with my life
I'm trying my best; I want to get there (badly)

*813 - (but i'm still happy)

So many things to worry about
that there's no time to worry

*812 - my newest love affair

... is YEAST. Specifically, making yeast breads from scratch. Ahhhh :)

It all began when I bought that giant bottle of active dry yeast three weeks ago ... and since then, I've been kneading, baking, eating, inhaling, dreaming bread. Four loaves and a huge stack of naan devoured in three weeks? No wonder my jeans are getting tight.

Rosemary and romano foccacia with caramelized onion


Indian naan (with homemade chicken coconut curry)


Cinnamon raisin swirl


Rosemary and cracked pepper loaf with a parmesan swirl


Babka with the prettiest twists of chocolate


There's something brilliantly therapeutic about getting your fingers into mounds of dough, catching deliciously earthy whiffs of yeast, watching the dough rise and smoothen, waiting a painful half an hour for it to bake ... and then slicing through the loaf, getting a puff of steam in your face, and delighting in how pretty your swirlies turned out :) Mmmmm.

*811 - bunion twangs

I have weird bruises on places that are not easy to bruise by accident, e.g. the inside of my elbow. And the bunions are acting up again!

In happier news, Vday: a no-less-special day to celebrate the specialness of everyday :) And CNY, but all I did was to lou hei and eat Chinese food that disagreed with my tummy (must be the grease).

And in very outdated but exciting news: TAKOPACHI in 128C, thanks to Mr. Ex-Roomie. Also Mr. New-Roomie's first time eating octopus. And the flipping of balls was most exhilarating (heehee).

*810 - too many late nights

Sleep deprivation! Gyoza and broccoli! Sniffles and aches! And fresh baked rosemary parmesan bread!

*809 - save the schwartz

I'm highly disturbed by the disproportionate amount of budget cut imposed on the Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance: $2 million out of a $6 million budget cut in the College of A&S! We're just one department out of 27 in the entire A&S College. Professorial faculty are protected, but it is the practical, non-professorial type of education that complements the academic teaching and makes the department as strong and as wonderful as it is now.

The Cornell dance program changed me (cliched but true): my beliefs, my ideals, my personality, my happiness, my lenses through which I look at ... life. Don't cripple the department. The arts are no less important.

*808 - aw crikey

My favorite roomie left for Down Under :( So this is our last 128C roomie picture altogether, because we always take group pictures for our parties' fb pages (we're cool like that):



Happy kangaroos, teehee. Aussie-themed party for a send-off to Aussie!

BYE CASTO!! I will miss our fun times in the corridor, in the kitchen, and in diapers :)

*807 - flat sprite and grenadine

Not what I was expecting, but you always make me happy :)

*806 - have you?

I HAVE DISCOVERED THE G-POOP.

And the g-piggies that blink twice.

HAHAHAHA.

*805 - it's been three days into the new semester,

... and I've only cried once, almost cried twice, and flipped out about seventeen times.

We're off to a good start, folks.

Heh.

Well, that said, I'm actually basically living in some sort of blind euphoria, where my overarching emotion is "Enviable Happiness" punctuated with brief moments of panic when I realize that I'm only twenty-one, but I'm graduating in a matter of months, I'm jobless as of yet, and I don't want to be a Grown-Up. I'm not ready!!

*804 - what one does in cancun

1. Bum around in a lovely hotel





2. Lounge on the beach





3. Go out in search for traditional Mexican food





4. Drink (open bars = omg.)





5. Somewhat in that order, repeat daily

*803 - cancun #2

(While you are brushing your teeth,)

Hello from Cancun! :)

*802 - oddly enough,

... so much time, but no time to blog. Too much time spent either (1) traveling around in a frenzy, (2) cooking for a questionable number of hours each day, (3) immersing ourselves in all manners of Happy Time.

(According to Managerial Communications, the above is a poorly crafted list because not all three items are mutually exclusive.)

Well, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all, a week and a half belated! :)



(New Year's in Times Square, New York City: an experience of a lifetime not to be repeated again--in the near future, at least!)

*801 - evely says

... i have a moustache ...