Too much planned – musical, excursions to London and then to other parts of the UK, castle, random pieces of rock…
It’d be great to have family with me on CNY at last. =)
January 31, 2010
I have something for washing dishes after a meal. It’s weird, I know, but I like the time it forces me to methodically soap up, stack aside, then rinse each individual bowl or fork or ladle. I take really long to wash dishes, but I like to think it’s because I’m really thorough and clean. Maybe it’s my OCD talking, but I even like it when it’s really oily and you can’t just rinse once but you have to do it a couple of times to really get the grime out.
If only it’s as easy to ‘wash up’ our lives: to soap up and conceal all the dark spots, stack aside, then rinse away everything, and come away with a completely clean dish again.
January 31, 2010
I get bored easily and pick up a lot of random hobbies that strike me seemingly out of nowhere. Like right now, I’m learning the flute, cooking Szechuan food, and (learning to) scrapbook.
The thing is that it’s hard to know whether my interests are short-lived or can sustain me for a while. This is important not only for obvious limitations like money (buying a flute, buying materials for scrapbooking, etc), but also other things like whether it is something I’m really interested in or just a little distraction I’m creating for myself so that I can procrastinate.
The difficulty is in telling the difference.
January 26, 2010
I like receiving emails.
Especially when they have the words ‘lecture‘ and ‘cancelled‘ in a sentence.
=D
January 25, 2010
Members of particular racial groups are generally better at identifying members of the same group than members of other racial groups, and this seems to be true of all groups.
(Identification Evidence: The Problems of Eyewitness Evidence of Identity, p258, from DENNIS, I. The Law of Evidence)
No wonder people can’t tell the difference between Chinese / Japanese / Korean girls.
And no wonder I can’t tell the difference between the angmohs as well as I can with the Chinese.
January 23, 2010
I said I would blog about it, so here’s the photographic evidence. How the staff found out that it was Cheryl’s birthday.
Yee Hung with his handiwork.
Me with my work of art
Final products
The glowing birthday girl
The three of us
I think you can pretty much piece together how. 
January 22, 2010
The most disgusting moment ever happened this week when YP, YH and I were in the car, and we were all feeling quite hungry.
For some reason, the conversation turned to taking a dump.
Which was disgusting enough as it is, but turned much worse when YH was boasting about how good his digestive system is, etc.
And also how he’s had shits so good and smooth that he didn’t need to clean afterwards.
It didn’t make me feel any better when he qualified his statement by saying that yes-he-did-clean-but-no-there-was-nothing-so-he-could-have-not-cleaned-too.
Sick.
January 21, 2010
I love cooking, but I love eating the food I cook more.
Which is why it sucks for me right now since I’ve been trying to cook Sichuan food: kung pao chicken, fish-fragrant pork slices, and dry fried chicken. Sichuan food two days in a row – seriously. So much spicy food. I feel like I need some food I can eat easily soon!
I love Fuchsia Dunlop’s book on Sichuan Cookery. She gives such precise instructions, and precise measurements as well. I don’t like the lack of pictures though. It gets a little frustrating to turn to where all the photos are bundled together instead of having them right next to the recipes!
Everything’s turned out great so far. I’ve found that Sichuan cooking uses just about the same kind of ingredients (spices, pastes, vegetables) so now that I’ve stocked up on chilli bean paste (fermented broad bean paste!), pickled chillis (not the paste, I think I need to find that! Or just make it into a paste myself) and chilli oil, I am ready to take on most recipes!
Yee Hung’s really happy though, he says he really loves spicy food. (News to me, he never really got a chance to eat spicy food with me around.) Cheryl will be so proud of me.
I would be to, if I could taste the food.
January 19, 2010
The correct spelling for crème brûlée is
CRAMBRULAY.
-.-”
January 14, 2010
I’ve always felt that submitting essays in 12 point Arial font makes it really butt-ugly. But I usually print it off before I succumb to changing my entire essay to Comic Sans MS.
Talking about fonts reminded me of this.
I remembered a (sad, sad) time when I would watch that video a few times a day.
Youtube-surfing led to me discovering this too – I love the part at the end!
