it was so nice out today… regardless of the fact that it’s freakin’ -19 the whole day, it’s still nice out and i’m happy that it was bright and sunny.
decided that i should continue the habit of waking up early. i honestly think that doing nothing during the holidays is ruining me. it makes me lazy and sloth-y — like an old computer that takes too long to load. for a moment there it makes me so scared to think that i might have lost my mindset. my dreams, my goals, my determination to achieve all of the things that i’ve wanted so badly. because i know myself… i am the type of person who diffuses. i am all over the place. i want everything. i want to live everyone’s lives. and my dreams are what anchored me to this one place where i can set my mind on something and really focus on it. it helps me condense a little and at least retain some sort of shape to achieve a part of what i want. not everything certainly… but i guess no one can have everything. right?
anyways~ Kei is sleeping over today since it’s too cold to metro back. we had spinach and feta cheese wrap for lunch–our staple– and a really really unhealthy dinner. in the middle of dying in the library, we decided to go to provigo and buy these assortment of junk foods (and some healthy food stashed in) and assembled bananas, craisins and melted dark chocolate for dinner. after that we had round two: water crackers and blueberry cheese siesta accompanied with a mug of steaming hot green tea. but of course, after all of that we felt guilty and naturally spent 40 minutes in the gym burning our calories off after pigging out.
and now i’m really late for bed… which is not good since i’ll be having my first ever quiz tomorrow morning at 8.30 and it’ll be freezing outside. the temperature has nothing to do with my morning class, it’s just that during my time staying in Montreal, the weather is never irrelevant, so i felt like it’s necessary to blurb in the fact that it’s going to be frigid tomorrow.
farewell for now. i hope i’ll be writing again soon (:
for whatever reason, i remember that i went to this dumpling place two weeks ago and realized that i haven’t wrote about it yet, which was stupid because that dumpling place was phenomenal. the restaurant’s called Qing Hua and their dumplings are amazing. it isn’t anything close to being a fine-dining restaurant, but the place is pretty decent. when i went there two weeks ago, it was so cold outside and it was drizzling which didn’t help with the temperature but it’s very comfortable and warm and cozy inside, not to mention that the whole place smelled like dumplings, so A+ for that.
basically it was a Saturday lunch date with Joelle. she ordered the cabbage and mushroom dumplings and i chose the pork and shrimp dumpling which was said to be good (it is good fyi), we were served tea and we just talked there while concocting our own sauce of vinegar, soy sauce and spicy oil.
the food was great. great. it was … great. i’ve always loved dumplings, but these ones… i adore them. we had 15 dumplings each and i finished all of mine. granted i got a stomach ache in the afternoon, but it was all worth it. it was magic inside steamed pouches, those dumplings are… Joelle told me that apparently, you should bite a little section of the dumpling, suck in the flavoured broth inside the dumplings and then eat them whole with the sauce because the broth was the essence of the dumpling.
we talked about our families and how we miss them… she’s going back to Luxembourg for Christmas and i won’t, but i would be fine. i think i might go to the Notre Dame church for the Sunday Christmas mass, but i digress.
anyways~ there you have it! the dumpling post (: i really have to study right now, considering how i wasted almost an hour procrastinating already. >.<
hey (: i thought i’d drop by before i engage in a game called ‘brain frying’ also known as studying. i know that’s not funny, but bear with me.
i guess i’ll dedicate this post as an account of how i’m doing so far. first, the weather is so weird here. 4 days ago it was hot and sunny and fine, and then two days ago it was suddenly so cold. today was okay, although it is a little chilly than what i’m used to, but i can still tolerate the weather… i just hope it’s not going to be so cold so soon. :/ i might have to prepare myself for that. maybe arrange a mini hibernation trip?
second: i just can’t understand why i am now two weeks into school and is already so behind on my readings. well, to be fair, i do understand the issue as McGill commences in September and finishes in April, but still… i can’t wrap it around in my head how i can already be behind on my schedule.
the other nitty gritty stuff aren’t too important. at least for me. i find that i get tired a lot now… probably because i’m walking most of the time from classes to classes (especially the back to back ones. they’re the worst).
what else? …
i’m still not used to sleeping on a queen sized bed as i usually sleep on a small narrow sleeping mattress on the floor and i’m now bam!~ sleeping on a queen-sized ‘actual’ bed. i still sleep on one side, but i’m working towards dominating the other side as well… we’ll see how i make progress.
i’m still not used to eating peach and the feeling of its ‘fur’ grazing my tongue. we don’t have peaches back at home, or at least for me… the first time i ate peach was here in Montreal, so that was quite the milestone.
oh, and i know the cost of living here is high but never to the point where i was flabbergasted by it that it made me speechless. especially on essential stuff…. like books and food. i can live without buying clothes, i can live without having the luxury to buy shoes, but books and food? they’re like my holly grail. how dare they be so expensive here?!
french? je peux parler unpeu maintenant, mais je ne sais pas…. francais est tres deficil. j’essaye le mieux.
and that is the end of my ramblings before studying. i know i’ll miss you, but i’ll see you when i have time.
i did say that it doesn’t take a lot to make me happy, didn’t i? and it’s true~ so i was honestly a little bit confused as to what i should feature for this post. amongst the things that can make me happy: a familiar song. chocolate. a book. nail polish. knit sweaters. sweat pants. Running Man. …. (._.) i couldn’t possibly feature all of them.
but then my grandma (from dad’s side) came today. she traveled from Jakarta to Bogor (which is pretty far, && the traffic can be hideous most of the time) to visit me before i go for college, and she brought with her…. my favorite soup.
that there is what my family calls the ‘Red Soup’. we don’t exactly have a clear name for it, but since it’s red…. it’s basically sausage and random vegetables thrown into a tomato paste soup. you can have anything in that soup. it’s like the Doraemon of all soups… you can have carrots, peas, onions, beans… anything that you want to put in it. and of course, loads and loads of meat. you’ll never know what you’d find in this soup and maybe that’s what makes it interesting. also, i haven’t had this since… let’s just say, a long long time ago. so i was pretty excited about the soup. and she also made me pudding which has this little chocolate cakes inside it–and it’s rum concentrated. lol! my favorite.
but what was probably most touching was the fact that she came. here. she never comes here.
oh well, she does come here, but once a year? twice a year? … i’m not sure. but she can’t really come here as much because she does live far away, and she needs to take care of my cousins on the other days~ and when she did come, she brought me my favorite food. so i’m a happy girl today… really really happy.
you know the saying “you win a man’s heart through his stomach” ?
you’ll definitely win mine.
p.s. the fruit tarts are just delicious. that’s why they’re there.
good morning blog nice day today! a bit chilly for me, but i can manage.
having my Bahasa lesson atm, a bit boring tbh, but we’re actually discussing things for my government exams, so it’s pretty important.
*sigh* you know what blog? i just had breakfast, but i’m already starving again and i found this really cute bento set in the internet. my mom has never made me this kind of bento… and probably will never. i will not have the heart to eat this kind of bento anyway… it looks so picturesque i’ll just save it until everything goes bad >.< which is maybe why my mom never made me bentos in the first place xD
but i’m determined to at least make one of these in my lifetime. probably when i’m already a housewife. or probably when i’m already too old to do anything else but make bentos.
Okay, so my first statement might be something of less importance but I’m going to say it anyway.
how can taiwan girls be so damn skinny when there practically good food in every nook and crane here?
Seriously, it’s getting ridiculous. I mean,it’s stereotypical for asians (as well as myself) to want to have super skinny bodies (well not toooo skinny)…but I swear almost 75% of the girls I met in MRT stations, hospitals, schools, streets, department stores,….are all skinny! I don’t understand it. I simply DO NOT understand. The reasonings as to this rather small but significant matter escapes me.
Anyway, I’m now blogging with my roommates already miles away in dream land. Took a shower when they slept alrd and still haven’t sleep until now. Roommates are all smaller than me, have I told you that? Two are only entering junior year of middle school and even one of them which also happens to be my cousin (-_-) is only going to enter sophomore year of middle school. So this is the situation of a to-be senior year high schooler who has to take care of her ‘sisters’. Seriously…I mean,they’re more mature than their age and I certainly am more childish than what I’m supposed to be, but still…I feel like I have to take care of them. As if they’re my responsibility, all the more that my cousin’s here.
And I just found out that my adapter is either broken, or is faulty or cannot just function properly. if the adapter happens to be (in reality) broken, I will certainly march up to that grocery store and talk the man through until my mouth has no moisture left. It was quite a pricy adapter and to know that I can’t use it anyway……. *wrings salesman*
*sigh* today was fun though….tiring but fun. As always. Apart from lao she, I’m the only one who get to get 2 fishes sooo happy!!! I know that it really is just luck…maybe it was the abundant amount of shui jiao that I ate which was believed to bring luck that I get to catch 2 fishes…but still, I’m happy going to go to the zoo tomorrow!!! Woo hoo!- super excited! The zoo is most definitely one of my favorite destinations, aside from local night markets and ramen shops
I should probably be going right now….should sleep cos I’m actually going to have to wake up approx. 5 hours from now…. Until tomorrow blog <3
Okay, so my first statement might be something of less importance but I’m going to say it anyway.
how can taiwan girls be so damn skinny when there practically good food in every nook and crane here?
Seriously, it’s getting ridiculous. I mean,it’s stereotypical for asians (as well as myself) to want to have super skinny bodies (well not toooo skinny)…but I swear almost 75% of the girls I met in MRT stations, hospitals, schools, streets, department stores,….are all skinny! I don’t understand it. I simply DO NOT understand. The reasonings as to this rather small but significant matter escapes me.
Anyway, I’m now blogging with my roommates already miles away in dream land. Took a shower when they slept alrd and still haven’t sleep until now. Roommates are all smaller than me, have I told you that? Two are only entering junior year of middle school and even one of them which also happens to be my cousin (-_-) is only going to enter sophomore year of middle school. So this is the situation of a to-be senior year high schooler who has to take care of her ‘sisters’. Seriously…I mean,they’re more mature than their age and I certainly am more childish than what I’m supposed to be, but still…I feel like I have to take care of them. As if they’re my responsibility, all the more that my cousin’s here.
And I just found out that my adapter is either broken, or is faulty or cannot just function properly. if the adapter happens to be (in reality) broken, I will certainly march up to that grocery store and talk the man through until my mouth has no moisture left. It was quite a pricy adapter and to know that I can’t use it anyway……. *wrings salesman*
*sigh* today was fun though….tiring but fun. As always. Apart from lao she, I’m the only one who get to get 2 fishes sooo happy!!! I know that it really is just luck…maybe it was the abundant amount of shui jiao that I ate which was believed to bring luck that I get to catch 2 fishes…but still, I’m happy going to go to the zoo tomorrow!!! Woo hoo!- super excited! The zoo is most definitely one of my favorite destinations, aside from local night markets and ramen shops
I should probably be going right now….should sleep cos I’m actually going to have to wake up approx. 5 hours from now…. Until tomorrow blog <3
lol! It looks like I’m still blogging anyway so yes, I’m back…very tired,and my body is aching,but it was worth it!!!! Oh man was it worth it.
So yesterday, I went to Jiou Fen and as I have mentioned before, it’s located in the mountains, so it does take quite a long time to get there…and we had to take a train as well as a bus to get there…but the journey was fun as it was exhausting. So I can’t really complain
Again, idk how much money I spent…but it was all good…I’ll just count them later lol. What I know is that I only have 1/10th left of the original money given. My defense: O.P.I nail polishes are HALF the price of what they are in indo and I bought 6 >< so……. *end of discussion*
Anyways, I'm going to fish after this…we are going to ping lin and then maybe go to dan shui after that. So I'm going now blog….
hey sweethearts … so… i haven’t been able to blog yesterday since i have to prepare for today’s math project, which thankfully is, conducted successfully. (we made profit babyyy!~ )
so, a short recap: i have been selling food with my group members for the last two days. we came to the agreement of selling chocolate balls, pineapple cookies, brownies, jelly and ice desserts. so we worked hard to cook all of those on the last two days respectively, and we’re glad to know that all that hard work pays off. cooking them was a lot of fun! and we sold them clean. not even one of each variety was left. >< it felt so good to know that people like our homemade food xD at least, i’m a little relieved knowing that i can actually cook if i want to .. lol. anyways, i stayed up until 1.15 AM yesterday. Marcelle went home at approx. midnight when the last batch of pineapple cookies was cooking in the oven. but 1.15 AM was when i’m finally done with all the packaging, and not to mention, cleaning the super messy kitchen ><
so now i’m super zombified. i told you i’m not like other teens who can survive a month by only sleeping 3-5 hours each night! i’m still a child at heart… and maybe physically as well xD and i need enough sleep. this is why you don’t let a toddler sleep for only, say… 5 hours. because they’ll whine nonstop. like what i’m doing now.
so that’s it. oh! and that video up there is my current song-crush. it’s so hip, it’s so catchy, and it’s titled ‘Go’… i’m definitely abusing that play button up there. i love their English, despite them being solo Korean singers who team up and form the group “Aziatix”. they even have this slight accent which is very appealing. so, you guys know that i can’t really be classified as a ‘KPoper’ ( who basically knows a LOT about Korean boybands and girlbands) because i only adore (i’m only obsessed) with my one and only bias band. but i know this band from a friend of mine who is a legit ‘KPoper’ and ‘JPoper’ in this case (fans of Japanese boybands and girlbands) and i’m immediately fond of them. i especially like the voice of the first guy… again, learnt from my friend that his name is Eddie Shin. he doesn’t look bad either but please please please, loose the long locks Eddie… T.T
until then bloghearts. i shall go to bed and catch up with the sleep that i’ve lost.
xoxo
p.s. pun was intended in that title *hint*lookatvideotitleandreadpost*hint*
dun dun dunn!~ okay, so you know that this movie must be romantic, that it must be touching and moving for me to be featuring it and also very inspirational. i never do just any movie reviews…
and you’re basically right!! my friends and i (who are mostly girls) watched this movie last Thursday. just a short recap… i haven’t had such a relaxed day as Thursday was in such a long time!!~ the only thing that we did was watch 2 movies and cooked Mexican food! and one of those movies that we watched was named: The Crazy Little Thing called Love.
WARNING: SPOILERS. continue at your own risk
so the story was about a girl named Nam and a boy named Shone. other characters, i’m going to skip since they’re not that important. i would mention others from time to time. so she really was an ugly duckling and because she met this ridiculously gorgeous male swan, she transformed into a swan herself for him; she listed herself for the school’s dance (despite not being chosen), acted in a snow white school drama, joined the drum band and studied hard to get 1st rank in class. she had loved him since she’s a high school freshman all the way until she graduated. i don’t know how it feels like.. but to love somebody and only crushing that somebody for 3 years!! 3 YEARS!!! that needs a lot of courage. close to the end, Nam finally found the courage to speak to Shone that she’s loved him all these years. but her relief was to be cut short when she soon realized that Shone has already had a girlfriend of one week, Pin. one week!! he’s that close to not having a girlfriend at all when Nam confesses. that fact itself plunged deep into my heart.
the things that i deem sweet in this movie:
*the brotherhood of Shone and Top. they were best friends since kindergarten and the experience of loving the same girl when they were Gr.5 made them swear to each other that they’d never love the same girl again.
*how Shone gave Nam a full Rose tree, not just the flower. he gave her everything, including the roots and i think that this might just have solve the problem of having a rose wilt easily.
*Shone has this hobby of taking pictures. throughout the whole movie, he took pictures of Nam… right when she was still very very ugly up until she became a princess.
*the end part of the movie. i just cannot describe it one by one. in general, the movie tugs at my heartstrings.
the trailer made me a crybaby (of which i am this past few weeks… i cry a lot nowadays *guilty*) and the producer of that trailer should be getting a promotion by now. i know through my own experience that unrequited love DOES NOT have a happy ending, no matter at what angle you look at it. if it has a happy ending (as it does to this movie) then it is no longer unrequited, but it’s still touching nonetheless. the Thai film industry is really catching up with its movies and i can tell you that they have considered a lot of things, including their market. i mean, what can go wrong with friggin’ Mario Maurer and Pimchanok Leuwisetpaiboon ?? they seriously considered their audience for this movie. there is no doubt to that.
but i have to say that the transformation of Nam is not realistic. at all. you can see that when she (looks like she) undergone plastic surgery, her friends stayed with their old self. they should probably lose their braids and their pigtails to at least match Nam, you know… and no one gets pretty that quick! believe me on that. except if you’re a trainee at SM entertainment (i’m sorry KPopers. my boyband bias debuted under SM but i just have to admit that fact) and the story line can be said as a little bit unrealistic as well. the tag line of the movie is: “everybody’s love story”; but is it really? seriously… i CANNOT believe that it was based from a true story! that real Nam girl must’ve won a love life lottery since birth. imagine bawling our eyes out for a guy, who while we’re crying, left a confession for us in the form of a picture-filled scrapbook on our doorstep? that’s what we call dreaming, people. i’m not gifted to predict the future, but not in a million years will that same thing happen to me.
really, what got me wasn’t so much the unrequited love (which is not so unrequited anymore in the end), although, unrequited loves are always touching and relate-able… but it’s more of her perseverance to become and look better to get noticed by someone she loved that hit me close to home. it’s her unending sacrifice and her willingness to go through hell for him.
so that’s my bittersweet review of the movie. despite it, go watch it!! i have to say that it does alter some things with my view on love in general, so i’m pretty glad i watched it. go watch it with your friends, family or the people whom you really love. cry and laugh, and be ready for a new perspective on love.
nice day today! a bit chilly for me, but i can manage.
sooo happy!!! I know that it really is just luck…maybe it was the abundant amount of shui jiao that I ate which was believed to bring luck that I get to catch 2 fishes…but still, I’m happy 
