5 Year Anniversary - A New Beginning?

It passed by pretty quickly... can't believe it's now been 5 years since I've been here.

Tonight is the first time I celebrated my 5 years with someone. I have to say - It was a pretty fun night. Had some yummy Japanese cuisine, then I was to get a suprise.

It was a cute surprise ... especially since at some point I realized where we were going and we were walking in the wrong direction. I was told to dress in orange, turns out I was suppose to look a like a space needle (that had an orange top on).

5 years later... a new beginning?

Quick Trip to Toronto: Friday Drink Day

Today woke up, then hung out with Law for the most part of the day.  We started eating little dragon dumplings, then migrated to a bar to watch the Euro with some Rickard's White.  Then after I got my Rickard's White fit, we moved on to the Heineken big bottle specials.  Beautiful day, beautiful scenery, was a pretty chillaxing atmosphere. 

A couple drinks in, then we headed to meet up with his bro for some Korean food at Leslie and Finch.  Good times there too and that snail was really yummy (though really expensive!).  Alex also came all the way up from downtown to meet up - which is pretty awesome.

Ended the night with yet more drinking.  3 drink limit.. broken...

Quick Trip To Toronto: Cousins' Convo

Red eye-ing in last night, today woke up bright and early (6am-ish early) to go see my cousin's convocation. She's now a PhD!!!  Waaaaaaa....  Soooo smark!
I think it was alot more fun watching hers than showing up to mine :).
Got to play in her lab with dry ice and wearing those lab robes. One of these days I gotta get those pictures and videos from it. Pipettes and dry ice is super fun.

After lunch at a pho place (reminded me of Waterloo hahaha). Took cous's car and drove back. The drive back was pretty tiring (and semi dangerous). Was falling asleep after the first 30 minutes or so. So actually ended up pulling off the highway into a gas station and took a quick 15 minutes nap before continuing the trek. With no A/C, no music, and most importantly, no speeding... it was a tough ride. Also experienced the rush hour traffic jam again... definitely don't miss that!

Brain Juice

Bought some smart juice today.  After finishing my dinner, I realized why I bought it... must have been me subconsciously needing some inspiration :).

Makes me wonder.. .I wonder if there really does exist something as a subconscious.  ie. People do things even though they don't know why, but just 'know' or feels right to do at that moment in time.  Can there really be things that people do that we can make sense of it alot later, or even never realize why we did it?  Or no such as a subconscious exist exist and really we are just trying to find a justification or excuse for actions that we spontaneously decided to do without thinking about the consequences... Hrmm...

But back to the topic at hand... once it dethaws... let's see what happens.
Will it still be like the old days where it makes me smart?.. hahaha.

A Master's Student with a Bachelor's Mindset

So today I was trying to decide whether to do an optional assignment.

Pulling some bachelor's math, realized if I didn't do the assignment, I would need a 65% on that last project I am doing to hit that 80 mark...

Me != Master student at all.. .hahahaha

One more week..  one more week.

Mashiko.. Once more

Another month, another appearance at Mashiko.  This time the food was pretty much the same as last time.  I really gotta start writing down what they serve.  Maybe I will start recording them.

As my graduation reward for myself, I think I will book the 2 week in advance Omakase and try it out. Mmmm... I wonder what kind of food they'd serve... and what kind of tab that would run... hahahaha

Pear with some fish

abalone (body, intestine, et. al)	Oysters
Clam?	baby shrimp on top of a melon?
spearfish in some sauce	Albacore Poke
Salmon Tartar	3 pieces of sushi
Mackerel + Rice	Abalaone Dish
Rosated Oysters	Forgot :(
Seafood Pancake	Fried apple with Cinamon and Frosting Served with Ice Cream

Another parking ticket

Demo Today Parking $2.50
Parking Ticket $44
Finding out there was no take home finals... Priceless! :)

I have to say I don't mind parking tickets. I am now 3 for 5 in terms of good things that happen.

Though technically, today was a so-so day... :(...

3 more weeks..

June 1st... it should all end by then!

Hurrrting... ... .

Slept only a few hours last night, woke up early (11:30am.. lol) for a soccer game.

After the game (which we lost... again...), just laid down for a few minutes on the field.  It's been awhile since I've done this.  Very relaxing to hear the wind and the feeling of sleeping on grass.

Then at night, got pushed weirdly from the back, sprained by left ankle.  Was so excited to too... bummer.

4 more weeks....

Fooocus.. fooocus... gotta land this and I will be done. Counting down towards the next chapter.

On another note, 24 blog drafts in last 2 months... time to finish and publish them all :)