soon tofu

Good food is the only way that I'm surviving until now.
The green tofu place (aka Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu) opened a Chinatown location! Mad happy when I saw a "NOW OPEN" sign while walking back from Trainhead last Wednesday.

 Opening special: pork bone soup for only $3.99, sooo worth it. The meat is melt-in-your-mouth and the soup is well flavoured. Only downside is that the potato was left whole, and therefore not flavourful.

But onto the star of the meal:

Combination (beef, shrimp, and mussel) soon tofu in regular spicy, which isn't really spicy (or less so than I remember from the North York location). But the toooffuuuu, so soft and delicious. The complimentary purple rice scores bonus points.

By now I've had soon tofu at three different restaurants around the area, this, Bapbo, and Hana Korea. Will do a comparison of these tomorrow, when I will be finally done exams "orz


Until then~

Hana Korea:
I *think* their soon tofu is a bit cheaper than the rest, but you also get the smallest portion of rice. However the soup taste really good (y). Though I really like theirs because of the seafood in it,  consisting of fish, mussels, and bits if squid.

Bapbo:
Perks of being the closest to Chestnut and beside Chatime. Otherwise the soon tofu is alright, has mussels, a big shrimp, fish-tofu thing (pretty good). The complimentary rice has a nice sprinkle of sesame on top. But huge points lost for not providing a raw egg to crack over top.

oust

A sure sign of the end of frosh(-ness) is moving out. I'm officially evicted from Chestnut next Wednesday, but thought it was a good idea to move most of my stuff out today ahead of the rush.

The desk is now mostly empty except for the giant stack of MSE past finals to go through.

Living at Chestnut has been tons and tons of fun (all you amazing people), with the usual sucky parts of res mixed in (the nosy neighbours, increasing worse food, and the sketchiest elevators ever). It's going to be such a shame when we won't be able to have impromptu sgs nights and hours long dinners consisting of more laughing than eating. 

maguro

The fish actually just melts in your mouth *u*

 Spicy sashimi bibim

Ryan, Rui and I unanimously agree that this is the best sushi/sashimi we've had. There's no way I'd ever go to AYCE sushi again, $20 is so much better spent at ND Sushi.

real pine

Programming final went alright, though mark will probably be worse than expected since there's bound to be bugs in my code.
But yeeeeees 4 day break until MSE! Well 2 days until I start studying again.

Meanwhile it's stress eating and shopping :D I have 18 masks (don't be too alarmed, 16/18 are sheet masks) in my taobao shopping cart. A bunch of MBDMs, TonyMoly's egg pore packs (mixed reviews, but worth a try) and trying some Innisfree ones as well.
I figured that I like brands that focus on an/a group of ingredients, ie. Skinfood & Lush. Somehow it feels healthier? Though it's just as likely to be a marketing ploy.

But my purchases are somewhat justified because I just finished 3 of my masks (finally) :D

Laneige water sleeping pack, Kiehl's rare earth clay mask, and Skinfood rice pack (not pictured). The two above are HG though!

The Kiehl's one cleans your pores really well and minimized their appearance for roughly a day. Though it's rather expensive so I'm hoping that I can replace it with the Innisfree volcanic ash mask.

The laneige one has a really calming smell and, haha, lots of memories associated with those.
Bought this with Mel on the way to the first ever spa day at Lyndon's and got a whole bunch of complimentary samples (which eventually led to me buying the entire water bank line durr). Was so fun back then, button-mashing in Marvel vs Capcom harhar. Now all they do is play league D:
Also brought this along on Gritaly, which I sorely miss T_T The historic structures and gelato... Good thing I'm heading to England in early August *u*

collection

Let this post be a continuous record of the (most likely negative) feelings regarding finals.

To start, infinite series will be the death of me.


Mon, Apr 22:
Exam times are mentally exhausting, lecture times are physically exhausting, midterm weeks are both.

I'm slow (aka bad) at tracing through code. Debugged all my practice problems through trial (guided with the little intuition that I have) and error with the compiler (y). Majority of the finals is tracing output, gg.


Tues, Apr 23:
So not prepared for programming. I attribute this state to the following reasons:

1. Motivation ran out about half way through calculus
2. No solutions for past finals
3. Class average is too high from midterms, so the final is going to be brutal

Instead of studying the whole day, I spent time surfing taobao, eating out with friends, and generally lazing around. Not good.

Wed, Apr 24:
Trainhead pho after programming, worthhhh.

1w

Marks going into exams are:

MSE: 92%
CME: 103% ahahahaaaa whoohoo
Programming: 94%
ESP II: 75% (depressing, goodbye 4.0 cause of this)
Calc II: 88%

juuuust to put the pressure on for finals

tulips

The signs of spring has finally come! Spotted while walking to Eaton yesterday:

Except I won't have the chance to venture outside and enjoy it ;_; finals yay...