Jardins de lumière

okay. so i look like a haggard old lady, i know… but please excuse my appearance. you guys know i never look good on camera anyway so :/

i’m posting this picture because it was taken when i went to the Chinese lantern festival with the international student club at McGill. and it was so cold there. so. cold. and i know i get cold all the time but that cold… was out of this world. i swear it must’ve been below 10 degrees celsius. but regardless of the temperature issue, i actually had fun.

my friend in the middle’s Kim Keidan (she’s a friend from my French class) and the one to her right (your left) is Catherine, her roommate. they’re both really nice people. (: i’m so happy i get to have nice friends here… they both live off campus, and that, for me, is so cool. they get to have their own Metro card and everything

anyways. i have a philosophy paper to write.

i’ll talk to you soon.

love you loads,

day 27: take a picture of your lunch ~ #30dayblogphotochallenge

i hope the picture’s not too disappointing, but that was allegedly what i had for lunch … a week ago (fail, i fail at doing this challenge -_-) i was hoping i could feature something fancy for you or something that i made myself (like my breakfast post) but i couldn’t because i wasn’t eating right at the first place.

i have been having stomach aches for the past week and it all climaxed days ago when it got so painful, i had to go to the doctor and she told me that i got the stomach flu. (see previous posts) but seriously, i wasn’t exaggerating when i say my stomach is the most problematic part of this body. it is extremely so, and i hate it. i particularly hate the part where i cannot eat above 6 PM. deprived of midnight snacks? so not cool. i have to take meds in advance if i plan to eat late, but i digress.

so that was what i had for lunch. one ‘kroket’ (idk what it’s called in English. it’s like this fried mashed potato with stuffed vegetables inside it) and broccolis. because broccolis are good for your health… someone said. i guess i was too full with drinking stomach meds before and after i eat that i don’t even bother with the actual lunch itself.

but there you go. a picture of what i had for lunch~

day 23: take a picture of something old ~ #30dayblogphotochallenge

this photograph is obviously something old.

can’t exactly remember when it was taken… it was probably when i was four, or possibly even three — but it was definitely the age when i was not scared of cameras yet. i mean not scared as in camera shy, as in scared scared, like how i am now with ghosts and the unseen. apparently i used to think that the blinding flash was just too much to take, and that explains the weird ugly duck expressions i make at a certain period of my life when i get photographed. strange.

anyway, i’m here to talk about the hair.

that hair is… phenomenal. i like to call it the bowl hair…. the one that has the edges tucked in around the neck and a straight, slightly round-ish fringe to complete it.

so here’s the deal, when i turn twenty one, and when i have (hopefully) lost most of my baby fat, i will cut my hair like that. back to the old days you guys~ back to the old days… i couldn’t cut it like that now because i’d just end up looking like hot cross buns, so that’s out of the question.

anyways~ 3 more years people… 3 more years. enough time for me to gather up the courage and pick up the shears.

day 20: take a picture of someone you love / like ~ #30dayblogphotochallenge

someone whom i love… i might have to cheat a little bit more here as i cannot feature just one. it comes with one package. the people that i love, but also the people that i hate.

you guessed right.

the thing about sisters, or siblings in general, is that you cannot just love them. but at the same time, you cannot just hate them as well. you love them while you hate them and you must hate them when you love them. it’s one way or the other. sometimes the ability of forming this love-hate relationship with my sisters are just mind-boggling, but it’s only natural that my sisters and i develop this relationship. we aren’t exactly the lovable type… we’re more of the pain in the ass type of bunch– but at the same time, we can’t get enough of each other.

they will probably be the people whom i will miss the most when i’m gone for college, along with my mom and dad. but especially my sisters, because i know that they’ll always have my back, but at the same time, they are the people i have to watch out for. my enemies and my comrades… and i have been living in the luxury of having both worlds acting back to back from each other that i will surely miss it when i’m deprived of it.

a shoutout to my sisters: may we stay awesome and kick ass until the day we die.

xxxxx

day 19: take a picture of something sweet ~ #30dayblogphotochallenge

it looks like i’m waayyy~ over the top with failing in this challenge! lol~ it was only now that i realize i’m four posts late hahahaha!! anyways… let’s just get on with it. i’ll try to continue this challenge with my best effort. for the sake of my lovely readers who are so patient with me even though they know there’s no point in doing this challenge any further

anyways~something sweet. there’s a lot of sweet things that revolves around me but i’m thinking of doing something different for this post. for this post, i’m going to say that i’m not really sure if all flowers have nectars in them…. being a science student and not knowing that… >.< oh well.

so i grow up eating this nectar. my grandma had this plant at her place and now my mom has one too. i find that if  you pick one flower, you’ll see a string sticking out of the tube-like stem. the string… maybe it’s called the pollen haha! -_-” i forgot. but let’s just assume that it’s the pollen for now. anyhow, if you tug the pollen with just the right amount of strength, a clear liquid will form on the tip of the stem and the liquid tastes so sweet especially if you lick it with the tip of your tongue.

it is very important to not pull the stem too hard or too lightly or else the nectar will not form on the tip of the stem. but when you are able to fish out the nectar, victory never felt sweeter.

i can spend the entire afternoon pulling out pollen and licking nectars from the stem of these flowers. it’s a childhood memory that i can never forget.

xx

day 18: take a picture of something you bought ~ #30dayblogphotochallenge

one Tuesday morning after yoga class, i was looking for little trinkets to bring to college (so that i wouldn’t miss home too much :’( ). i found this and immediately fell in love.

these are actually salt and pepper shakers, but they are so adorable they can pass as figurines. the female one is the shorter of the pair… so that yellow one there, is the pepper shaker, because it only has two holes in the head. the male one is the taller green one that has three holes on its head.

i love love love it!! it reminds me of Blue’s Clues’s Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper.

it is adorable and charming. i bought it as soon as i saw it.

i just wished i could get baby paprika too :”(

day 17: take a picture of your water ~ #30dayblogphotochallenge

hey so, i know it has been four days…. i might have lost count to think about it hahaha lol! i’m such a fail >.<

it has been a journey, doing this challenge. but this challenge has indeed made me take pictures of something that i may never take in a daily basis. particularly this one. i know i wouldn’t take a picture of my water if i’m not doing a challenge like this one.

anyhow. my water…. it would be a little hardcore to take a picture of my saliva, or my tears, or my urine, or even worse, my blood. so bodily fluids is out of the question you guys. it makes me cringe just to think about taking pictures about those stuff. so i randomly took a glass of water and took a picture of it.

so there you have it. my water.

this might just be the most boring post that i have written.

day 2: take a picture of your breakfast ~ #30dayblogphotochallenge

i’m back! and with two pictures for the second day challenge.

as the self-explanatory title has explained, today i’m going to be featuring my breakfast.

so i love breakfast. period. i love breakfast, can’t do anything without them, brain’s not functioning well without them, i will not be happy without them. they’re my holy grail meal, and i always make it a point to always have breakfast. i may skip lunch or dinner but not breakfast, and if i don’t get to have breakfast, i always make sure i eat brunch. that’s the only way out of the breakfast rule.

i don’t understand people who skips breakfast. really, i don’t. they’re literally skipping the best meal of the day… but i may be biased (as you well know). i prefer breakfast than the other meals probably because it is the only meal that has never made me feel bloated. as of the day i turned 15 (approximately), my stomach started doing these weird things. i get stomachache if i eat too much or if i eat too late, and it’s not the kind of stomachache that you can be rid of easily if you know what i mean. it’s the stay-there-all-day stomachache and it’s driving me nuts sometimes. breakfast is the only meal that my stomach tolerates even if i ate too much. so breakfast it is !

despite that, the amount of breakfast i eat depends on my mood (and level of hunger). i can just eat one banana or have a huge toast with scrambled eggs with cheese and maple syrup feast. today, i decided to just have boiled eggs, a bowl of fruits with yogurt and honey, and hot chocolate.

i did make an effort on the heart-shaped boiled eggs if you guys don’t already know (it is very much obvious), just because it is a hassle to make, and i usually get too hungry to wait for the egg to take shape. but since i’m featuring my breakfast today, i might as well make the extra effort. the bowl of fruits however is something that i have almost everyday, up to the point where it’s mind-boggling that i never get tired of it. because really… fruits + plain yogurt + honey is divine. the hot chocolate is just a packet of hot chocolate mix mixed with hot water.

and there you have it ^^

happy morning everyone~ and enjoy your breakfast!

xx

day 1: take a picture of you + provide 10 facts about yourself ~ #30dayblogphotochallenge

first day of the 30 day challenge!~

so this is me–literally just one and a half hour after i woke up for the morning Sunday mass– with my unkempt hair, acne scarred skin, barely-there eyebrows, chubby cheeks and sharp chin. i had no make up on, nor did i photoshop this (just because i’m so mentally incapable of doing photoshop. rest assured, i was tempted).

for the 10 facts… i’m not really sure. you guys know more about me than anyone else~ sometimes i think you guys know me even better than i know myself. and the things that you don’t know about me, you can learn from my bio page~ which really sums up everything. but thisisa challenge~ so here’s the ten facts anyway.

1. i don’t find the purpose of drinking ice water. i prefer to drink something hot or lukewarm. if i want something cold, i’d rather chew ice cubes rather than drink ice water.

2. i find pleasure in doing / learning / buying something that is utterly useless. like learning Latin, or Russian (no one that i know of speaks Russian, i’ll probably talk to myself in Russian)–which i think is one of the most beautiful language in the world.

3. it is so easy to make me happy up to the point where it becomes ridiculous. just give me one piece of dark chocolate and it will last me through the day.

4. i regret not continuing ballet. i did ballet once, and stopped because mom said it wouldn’t be good for my bones once i get older. now i always have this sheer envy for people who are amazingly great at ballet.

5. i speak with an American accent, but the voice in my head always has this British accent. believe me on this one… i like to talk to myself and the voice inside this head always has a British accent.

6. i’m not sure how to describe this, but i really love it when a particularly concentrated ray of sunlight shines through a piece of foliage. it’s like looking at lace patterns on the blue sky~ gorgeous.

7. i’m happy when my friends, or just the people that i care about in general, are happy. but i assure you, it really is not something entirely selfless… it’s like i feed from their happiness. it can really make my day when the people around me are at peace.

8. i don’t like lipglosses. i don’t completely hate it, and i can tolerate it, but given the option, i’d choose lipsticks over lipglosses any day. honestly speaking, i just realized this fact when i’m writing this post. shows just how much i’m still learning to know myself.

9. i can’t coin up the exact term for this, but i’m not the type of girl who will try to kill herself if her boyfriend dumps her. i do cry now, but i don’t mope around senseless– that is something i promise i will never do to myself, because i don’t like to feel helpless and i don’t like to see other girls accepting themselves as ‘helpless people’. i like fierce. ferocity is absolutely a necessity.

10. i absolutely abhor blood tests. i think that it is positively unhinging. i’m not scared of getting hurt, i don’t mind the needle, i just cannot stand the blood. blood truly is the one thing that i’m so scared about, i can pee my pants.

that’s that. until the next challenge post ~

xx