Food crisis!

I am getting really fat from all the binge eating sessions for the past few days.

A quick review of traffic through my system::

Thursday
Viet beef noodles, Lunch @ !@$!$!! Viet Restaurant @ Kingsway
Coffee @ JJ Beans
Steamboat, Dinner @ Home

Friday
Mixed rice, Lunch
Pasta and Tiramisu, Dinner @ Anton's

Saturday
Dim Sum, Brunch @ Sze Chuan Restaurant
Krispy Kremes, Teatime @ Delta
Coffee @ Perky Beans
Stirfry Beef + sausages and pasta, dinner @ Home

Sunday
Viet beef noodles, Lunch @ Thai Son, Richmond
Wonton noodles, Dinner @ Ho Tak Kee

Monday
Coffee, Breakfast @ JJ Beans
Pasta, Lunch @ Anton's
Beef and broccoli rice, Dinner @ Home

Tue
Satay Horfun, Lunch @ Garlic and Ginger (Pui!)
Coffee, Teatime @ Bean Brothers
Mashed Potatoes and Drumsticks, Dinner @ HoMe

Wed
Mixed Rice, Lunch @ Yaohan
Pasta, Dinner @ HoMe

Thurs
Canfood pasta and 4 snack bars
Pizza and chicken noodle soup, Dinner @ Home

And this is on top of numerous snacking occassions that I am not keeping track of...

And the worst thing is......
I've still got quite some can foods++ to clear from the larder before I set for home~~~!
How the heck am I gonna finish all campbell soupies/canned pasta/meat sauce, when I have effectively 20 days left in Vancouver, with 5 of them to be spent in Chicago? Mama sai~~~~!!! Siao liao lah!!!! Panic panic...


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Complains about the weather::
It's getting colder and gloomier, definitely. Temperature hovers around 2 degrees, with drizzles aplenty, and traces of snow. CAn't get enough of the snow, but hate the rain.

Viet Food @ Richmond ++

Went to Richmond for Viet food today, and it was excellent. Thai Son sells excellent Tai Pho at reasonable price that I am tempted to go again for again and again, if it was not located in Richmond where there's so much other nice asian food to eat~!

Must go Richmond again before going back to Singapore.

Complains about the weather::
It's getting colder and gloomier, definitely. Temperature hovers around 2 degrees, with drizzles aplenty, and traces of snow. Love the snow, but hate the rain.

Krispy Kreme's @ Delta

Went for Dim Sum in the morning, followed by a pilgrimage to Krispie Kreme's @ Delta. The place was more accessible than the one we went to in Seattle, but we missed the most exciting icing event of the day (we found that the do that in the morning from 530 to 11)

Nevertheless, we bought some delectable doughnuts and also filmed the whole production process (the doughnuts are produced machine assembly line style, and it's really quite cool to see such an industrial feat, not to mention all those drooling doughnuts...)

Brought some back for further savouring and drooling over...

The video for the production line will be up soon. Anticipate for it. =)

Went to Eugene's uncle cafe at New Westminster and had a triple (yes, triple.) shot mocha. Caffeine overdose, I tell you... He was going on and on about the good points of moving over to Canada from Singapore though I am not the least tempted to do so. Can't stand the blasting weather [yet?])

Anton's Pasta

...was simply overwhelming in proportion. The portion is undeniably enough to feed 2 cows, judging from everyone coming out with styrofoam boxes containing leftovers after a hearty meal there.

The quality of food there? Not exactly a purist's heaven, but to the layman who has no inkling as to what defines an italian pasta or a Tiramisu, it may actually work. Bastardized versions abound in the menu, and the taste's not too shabby. But on the overall, it wins by sheer size. It's quite not possible to come out without experiencing a carbo-high.

Be prepared to wait in line if you are going there at peak periods (between 530 and 9pm.)

Last day of school

Tomorrow's the last day of school and no one's really caring here to even go for class. Except peeps who have to hand up assignments and papers and such. I'm skipping all except one class @ 2-3pm.

We've just had a pleasant gathering over a steamboat dinner, and tomorrow's simply a day to pass for the exam breaks to come. And then what? We study? No... We are exchange students from Singapore. We party. Yay. Where to? Does it matter? It does.

There's so little time to do some much things which we don't know we have to do before we can't do them anymore.

Tomorrow will be going to the famous Anton's on Hastings for dinner, followed by a bus ride west to east on Hastings.

Bro's website

I've got a wonderful brother at here =)

Updated my financial accounts again, can go here to find it. It's the excel file.

Synopsis::
Extended budget to 9k, but still got .3K left from that. Looks like I MAY have to use the full 10K from the Lee Foundation Award for the term of my stay here. Haiz, no earnings, but never mind lah, have a good time here count myself very blessed already. =)

The most important key on the keyboard

One of the most important key on the keytboard is the backspace key. With out the backspace key, we simply cnaoot corrcyt our errors and all oru entries will look very funny, much like what you are seeing now. How do we correct sentences tha t we do not want anymore? Can we simply say >ingnore last sentence? > or something like that? Probably not.

This is much like asking ourselves if we can get a fresh clean sheeat of paper from one really messed up one, without using a n eraser. Simply impossible. Perhaps this is much like what our lifes are withouthte saving frace of God. Full of errors and imncomprehensible. Jesus is the ersaer, the backspace pkey fro us, and o;nly with it can we correct our resally mesesed up lives into correcy allignment with Him.

The most important key on the keyboard

One of the most important key on the keytboard is the backspace key. With out the backspace key, we simply cnaoot corrcyt our errors and all oru entries will look very funny, much like what you are seeing now. How do we correct sentences tha t we do not want anymore? Can we simply say >ingnore last sentence? > or something like that? Probably not.

This is much like asking ourselves if we can get a fresh clean sheeat of paper from one really messed up one, without using a n eraser. Simply impossible. Perhaps this is much like what our lifes are withouthte saving frace of God. Full of errors and imncomprehensible. Jesus is the ersaer, the backspace pkey fro us, and o;nly with it can we correct our resally mesesed up lives into correcy allignment with Him.

Ouch.. static

I am quite confident that the taps in Gage are bearing a grudge against me. You can't get static-shocked 9 times on the same taps and call it coincidence. It would be illegal.

And recently the toilet door is also giving me some nerve-jabbings. It's a conspiracy, I tell you...

Things we left behind

There seems to be an intense competition which I've been either kept in the dark about or I'm just ill-informed about, in Kroener's Library's Level 1 toilet.

I am talking about the increasing number of chewing gum in the left and right urinals in the guy's toilet. There have apparently been active voluntary participation from UBC's guys (awww... how spontaneous and sweet...) in depositing their elastic remains with much accuracy (more accurate than the general aiming at the paper recycling bin in the corner) into the urinals. It's simply a marvellous sight to behold, all those blues, greens, and yellows of eclectic flavours once possessing.