scarf

Clover'd tofu and panda ah ha.

仰望着满天星河

那是我日夜思念深深爱着的人啊
到底我该如何表达
她会接受我吗
也许永远都不会跟她说出那句话
注定我要浪迹天涯
怎么能有牵挂
梦想总是遥不可及
是不是应该放弃
花开花落又是一季
春天啊你在哪里

青春如同奔流的江河
一去不回来不及道别
只剩下麻木的我没有了当年的热血
看那漫天飘零的花朵
在最美丽的时刻凋谢
有谁会记得这世界她来过

转眼过去多年时间多少离合悲欢
曾经志在四方少年羡慕南飞的燕
各自奔前程的身影匆匆渐行渐远
未来在哪里平凡啊谁给我答案
那时陪伴我的人啊你们如今在何方
我曾经爱过的人啊现在是什么模样

当初的愿望实现了吗
事到如今只好祭奠吗
任岁月风干理想再也找不回真的我
抬头仰望着满天星河
那时候陪伴我的那颗
这里的故事你是否还记得

生活像一把无情刻刀
改变了我们模样
未曾绽放就要枯萎吗
我有过梦想

青春如同奔流的江河
一去不回来不及道别
只剩下麻木的我没有了当年的热血
看那满天飘零的花朵
在最美丽的时刻凋谢
有谁会记得这世界它曾经来过
当初的愿望实现了吗
事到如今只好祭奠吗
任岁月风干理想再也找不回真的我
抬头仰望着满天星河
那时候陪伴我的那颗
这里的故事你是否还记得
如果有明天祝福你亲爱的

Soooo touching, is this the times that we will look back upon?
Not a good song to listen to just before sleeping.

multi

Yay new stationary for a 3-weeks-into-school-year-pick-me-up! Gotta love jetpens.

Pilot coleto (lol ignore spelling error in photo, was thinking of gelato ahaha..) so expensive e_e" It write super smoothly though, unlike my normal 0.25 Hi-Tec (guess that's the downside of super thin pens). Refill colours are apple green, clear blue, cherry pink, and apricot orange. Comparing to my current MUJI gel pens, the green and pink are darker, while blue is almost identical. Least I've got back-ups since I can't find the MUJI colours anymore.

Other two were bought just cause. Wanted to compare the two lines of gel pens, pretty similar I would say. I personally don't like clicky pens, so for that reason I would pick the Uni, but I suspect the Pilot's nib is more durable. Both again is super smooth.

In addition, slightly ironic that I picked up the new edition of Kinfolk which has the theme of "weekends". I've forgotten the meaning of that word since uni started heh.

Now to find time to actually read it (instead of my 60 page research materail for civ220 assignment...)

candle

I thought of the Macbeth soliloquy when I was showering:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

I feel the first 3 lines has been an accurate description of the passing days. Midterms are already coming durr.

backlog

I have a lot of cool stuff saved on my hard drive or instapaper for "the future" when I will "have time". Aka never. But it's such a shame to not revisit some of these things, so here's some attention that they deserve.

1. Douglas Hofstader articles from Scientific America (also old issues of the magazine I got from high school).
Seriously, I swear I'll read these one day. This one day was suppose to be sometime in the summer break that just passed. Never will I be as free as then "orz. This article (Presidential Lecture) by Hofstader I did read! I also tried reading GEB, but I don't get it. Hofstader too smart, there's an entire subreddit devoted to the book, as well as a MIT Openware courseware. Someone please commit to the course with me.

2. Lockhart's Lament.
I'm pretty sure I've posted or told some of you about this, but too lazy to check. A good read.
Bonus: very difficult math problems (lecture by David Hilbert).

3. What's Your Favourite Deep, Elegent, or Beautiful Explanation?
If quora is a book and had even better responses. ONE DAY, all of these books shall be read!

4. Classic literature
I miss summer because I miss having free reading time. It's embarassing how little of these titles I've read, though a good amount appeared on my reading list at some point in time. PEY year is when I catch up! Another list from Zen Habits

5. The Country of Blind- H.G.Wells
Funny how I got the idea of the post because I came across a H.G.Wells quotation. Not the one I posted before though, and wikiquote has different wording:

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

It also makes so much more sense in context, (the context sounds rather similar to the content of APS301). H.G. Wells reminds me of Vonnegut, like a british version that was affected by WWI instead of WWII (aka pretty awesome, gots to read his books too).

6. A lot of hotels to visit (hinthint Rui leggo).

• South Africa
• Barbadoes (this is hinthint at Dave)
• Wales
• Turkey
• England (so many places left to visit, grr! Did not make most of time there)

Moral of the post: go through my instapaper and downloads folder more often.

cornflakes

I tried to do a one liner summary of my core courses:

• Engineering Mathematics: approximate until the number is close enough.
• Tech, Society, and the Biosphere: lack of context is killing us all!
• Solid Mechanics: stress and its friends.
• Fluid Mechanics: pressure and its friends.
• Urban Engineering Ecology: let's start by doing a mass/energy balance.

Dave is too nice to me hehe.

Worth the hype (y).

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I get the feeling that the majority of my posts during the school year will either be about school, or food, but probably both.

PS. Jony Ive and Apple's philosophy. This is why I buy their products.

buckwheat

Not the best week (bad days tend to have positive feedback) but could be worse. It's just week 3 and has been a constant stream of work durr. Pretty sure I was still chilling at this time last year haha.

But shepheard's pie and chocolate tarte is a pretty good fix (y)

Also the ready-made food selection at Carlton St Loblaws is freaking amazing (non of the two are from Loblaws though).

I would really like to do nothing for the weekend, but problem sets, report and research for another report calls.
Report back soon.

33 hours

This is a good summary of my day(s).

The schedule took way too long to make, which means there's some shortcut in ID that I'm not aware of. Can you create arrays of guidelines? *u* (or just repeat in the same direction at a set interval?)

Wheeee iOS7!

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Spent a lot of money since school year (eSPI why would you have an $100 registration fee? "orz) started and just committed to spending more (MOO sale and splitting Jetpens order with friend). Also sharing groceries with others is expensive too.
I want my income ;_;

eat

Good bibimbap at Hosu, and the most home tasting homecooked meal.

Ps. smoothies are awesome breakfast food, super fast to make with an immersion blender too.

peanut butter dragon

^the most relevant title in a long time

A benefit of a condo over res is that you have a fully equipped kitchen. With an oven. So that you can bake emergency study cookies. I remember Janice saying a long time ago that she bakes when she's stressed, touche.

recipe via stonesoup

Or you can hug a cuddly stuffed animal, that works too.

(ignore the poor image quality, I want iPhone 5S' new camera *u*)

I stole the name Dragon from Mel's idea for Nick's dog. Too cool of a name not to be used. I also think he looks better in the jacket.

go

Here's nice music to work to :)


Love the humming in the first 30s, so calming~

mix

Somehow in this week of no tutorials, all free time seem to vanish somewhere. I blame cooking, takes so freakin long. It's a miracle that my mom can make 3 dishes in one hour, whereas I'm about 1/2-1/3 as efficient.

To illustrate why, here's fancy cold noodles. I shouldn't have such high standards for food now that I'm personally cooking, but habits die hard:

Second year isn't that bad so far, hours keep dropping as labs occur rarely, and some tutorials are out right being told by profs as optional. So maybe hovering around the mid-20s in terms of hours so far. Lots of assignments though, so another time sink.

Have lots of photos to use as catch-up/filler materials, but too lazy to open PS and resize them (actually takes less than 10mins). They'll be up eventually. Dragon.

rune

All done fieldbook! The quality of work is debatable, but done is done (y). Man it's the first assignment and my attitude is already like this, will never get PEY at Arup at this rate gg.

But today is mostly a chill day, Dave took me out on birthday date. Watched The Mortal Instruments (Godfrey Gao as the warlock! hooooot) & dinner at Don Don Izakaya (impressive sake menu).

I feel like this is the equivalent of Hunger Games but supernatural, and maybe hotter guys. But then again I never watched Hunger Games so what do I know. I also think it would have been a much better plot if Valentine happened to be the good guy in the end. But then again I haven't read the books so maybe that is what happens (I hope). If only this was a Kaori Yuki manga (the sibling love is cutting a close).

Dinner :D


Izakayas are like Japanese dim sum, but more expensive and is usually eaten for dinner.
Clockwise, honey plum shochu cocktail, seafood fried noodles, agedashi tofu (the sauce is good!), tako wasabi (really strong wasabi taste, would have been good with steamed rice), hokke with garlic butter (delicious!) and chirashi (my cheap way of eating sashimi).

Good day with the boyfriend, but then again so is pretty much everyday with him. I promise this is the cheesiest thing you'll see in a while.

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Dinner from previous times


Left is cold noodles made long ago (the toppings make a difference!) and right is pad thai from Papaya at chestnut reunion. They have good portion sizes for how much you pay, I got two meals from that, and tasty too :)

record

Still working on fieldbook from civ201. Almost 90 pages of work for a 3 day course "orz

More vscocam'd photos as filler:

Digital zoom really destroys the quality of photos e_e"

 Low light also destroys the quality of photos. But delicious delicious hotdog charred in the campfire.

I was not aware that quarries can look this beautiful. I can probably pass this off as a foreign land or something.

total tower

Don't let the beauty of the lake deceive you, so much work has to be done "orz

scavenge

Went on a tour of downtown today because civ201 dictates so. Can't believe classes started already, sob.

vscocam'd shots:

 Baldwin

 Gardiner

and some surprisingly discoveries of graffiti along College

ups and downs

Starting from yesterday afternoon,

Good: Tempt 9 taste delicious (and has pretty packaging, which is how Rui ended up buying it)
Bad: drinking it on an empty stomach led to immediate redness on my entire face, followed by being too dizzy to stand up. I've pretty much had equal amount of times of good and bad reactions to alcohol.
Good: seeing high school friends again at dinner and teasing Rui :D love youuu
Bad: sleeping late after waking up at 7 cause the twins picked a really early flight.
Good: cake for breakfast, cake for any meal is good (y)
Bad: cleaning. Needs no elaboration other than the fact that I swear this place has never been cleaned for years.
Good: Odo and Amy came over for SGS, fun times.
Bad: deciding to go for late night ayce kbbq. It's hard to appreciate the taste of meat when you've had way too much of it.

and finally,
Good: hearing the cheers of f!roshs as they wake around downtown. Second year leggo!

curd tart

More catching up via food photos (y)

Nabeyaki at Ema-Tei, one of the few Japanese restaurants with Japanese staff (and authentic food according to reviews).

It was really good, and comforting like a hotpot dish is suppose to be. Was on lunch special for $8.50 (normal price $13.50), which is a really good deal as you get a lot of seafood. Recommended!

I remember a line in The Devil Wears Prada that says something like the internship is the lowest pay highest perk job, which is kind of like the Sky Garden job. It's minimum wage, but you get a selection of the freshest produce and an amaaazing view.

There's quite a few varieties of pepper that we grow. This week was a bumper crop of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and beans (so pretty much everything). Was such a workout carrying them all to the food bank.

But nothing beats having a nice dinner with friends ;D One Hour has a wonderful atmosphere for that, they also never rush you out.

Thanks Janice/Nick/David for the delicious cake. They sorta got smushed on the way back, but all the more excuse to eat them all!