tortillas

After a rather terrible week of midterms, report, and job, this long weekend is strictly for chilling. To start that, Dave and I went on a food tour of Kensington Market.

To start off, two of Dave's favourite nibbles:

The crust of this pie is so delicious. From now on I'm judging pies by how good the crust is (which imo is harder to get right than the filling). Definitely more economical to buy whole pies, I saw people walk out with 3-5 in their hands /sojelly.

 Not surprised that they're all sweet, 上海人 pshhh.

Next up is my favourite:

It's a thick tortilla with a filling of refined beans, pork and cheese, topped with a coleslaw-y thing and spicy sauce. The taste of the three components work really well together. Bonus that it's freshly made, which unfortunately amounts to a long wait time.

So while we waited, we headed across the street:

Mm more flaky pastry. Taste of green olives was a tad strong though.

Though we later found the empanadas place I actually intended on going to:

Was alright quite full, so ordered a mini version instead. The pastry is thinner, so consequently there's more filling (and also consequently more expensive). The salsa is incredible though, adds a nice kick of sourness. This place was also quite popular so we had to wait a bit.

Lastly, after eating too much meat and flour, we topped off with some juice:

Here I witnessed the might of the Vitamix blender (or I think it is, looked similar). Smoothie was good, the addition of mint gives it a nice accent (though Dave found it too strong). The hibiscus jucie tasted rose-y, which was quite interesting (in a good way).

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But, in addition to the nice foods, I found Cereal Magazine!!! A Canadian stockist at last! No more kicking myself for not buying it in Bath!
Though I still didn't buy it this time, $24 is a lot to swallow especially after spending so much last night for Jordy's birthday (no pics cause my phone's still glitchy). It's okay though, as long as I know I can buy it, it's all good.

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A short interlude before back to editing report:

Finally saw the pink concrete truck!

Thought this mushroom looked cute while cleaning up the garden (such hard work)

 

My statics prof last year retired after teaching my class. She's been teaching for a long, long time. She was the professor of my current solid mech prof (a PhD student) and his supervisor (a full prof).

sunny

Photo featured on vsco grid!

Whee I feel a sense of accomplishment.
But is then again crushed by the report I gotta finish by Friday, it's a bit of a tall order. So back to work.

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So I finished draft 1, leaving editing till tomorrow.
Read a post from back in Feb, how right I was. No res = can't afford caffeine and fancy cereal. Except I just went to Bulk Barn and bought ingredients for granola. Except I won't have time to make it until the report is done.

crystals!

Motivation also coming from FFXIV, decided to continue the choose-an-mmorpg-to-play-during-the-summer-together tradition (heh Trickster days).

The trailer is awesome, no?

winter groud

Short dinner with Rui and Kate today, I miss girl talk so much. Also motivated to work harder by our talk, so go go cover letter writing.

growth

Went to Arup info session yesterday, shall concentrate my energy in praying to internship deity that that require a summer intern (and meanwhile polish resume and cover letter). It's also really sad that I think of great cover letter lines while I shower, don't write them down before going to sleep, and completely forget them the next day "orz
Actually that happens to a lot of good ideas.

Was talking to a rep about their sustainability division and my disappointment that the Toronto office didn't have that. He said a good line that (and I paraphrase) "sustainability should be in everything you do as an engineer", and that the division is more for auditing. I feel sufficiently cheered up and encouraged by that haha.

Aecon had an info session the day before yesterday, that was pretty good too! I'm impressed that the company invests so much in their employee with extensive training programs. They would definitely be my first pick for a construction related co-op. While I would love to co-op at Arup this year, the chances are next to none. So instead I think it would be good to get practical experience on the construction side, and then do consulting work for PEY.

Whee job searching.

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Another interesting magazine (that you can read online!): modern farmer on food waste

milky

Various food that has made the past week a little less grueling:

Curry udon from Tokyo Grill, an awesome homecooked style Japanese restaurant at Yonge and Wellesley. A major downside is that no complementary appetizer, or miso soup/salad is provided. But the food is good enough to warrant coming back, especially for homemade soba on the last Saturday of every month.

UHA milk candy that Dave brought back from China. I cannot be left alone with these, the entire bag will be gone in a day e_e" Bonus that the chocolate centers in these are absolutely delicious.

Pasta made from (sky)garden fresh ingredients (minus the canned tuna). First time at using pesto (made it with too much olive oil, opps) instead of a tomato based sauce, tasted pretty good! The fresh cherry tomatoes were so sweet too.