no interwebs = boo

HI GUYSS

i'm writing from my library right now because my house does not have internet. apparrently i'll be getting it next week. i hope the landlord is right. *crosses fingers*

can't be doing much of an update right now i have class in like 10 minutes but i'm all moved in and even thought i initially thought my room was sooo shoddy... it looks and feels relatively cozy. WOOHOOO.

i've met all my new housemates too. in total there are 3 girls and 3 guys which is a nice mix and they are all nice as far as they've demonstrated. we had some bonding time cleaning and bitching about our ever dependable landlord. *sarcasm*

anywhos. another year, another shit load of work.

cheers to our last year guysss :D

while the 'rents are gone...

i can:
- use the bathroom with the door open
- leave day old dishes in the sink
- eat other foods other than chinese everyday
- walk around the house in my underwear
- laugh as loud as i want
- sing as loud as i want

i'm a nerd... 8)


so i'm about half way through the "house to myself" situation. yayy even though the rest of my family is probably camping somewhere in the middle of idaho and montana, having a great view of the stars, eating smores and prancing on fields... i will generate my own forms of amusement. and if i may, i'd like to share them.

i was able to go to 2 summerlicious restaurants these past 2 weeks. first at a indian-italian fusion restaurant in yorkville called 5th element

it was pretty cool. i ordered some pomegranate, rose water mocktail (because their cocktails were $10 a glass and mocktails were a little half the price :p) and it was really yummy. for the actual meal i picked shrimp skewers as an appetizer, salmon for main and some cheese cake for dessert.




all so very yummy! :)

on my 2nd outing. i tried some french cuisine at MIDI bistro. it was like the total opposite of the first place, small but cozy feeling yay.


sadly i can't find any pictures of the foods online but it was delicious anyway (well maybe except the cod, that was a little bland lol. i had sweet potato soup as appetizer, cod with some mediterranean sauce and for dessert choux pastry with vanilla filling and chocolate sauce (as i learned, its just a fancy word for cream puffs hahaa) soo anyways i would like to thank my parents for subsidizing my meals while they are gone and my good friend timmy for company. :)


*i should probably give credit to those photos i stole (i hope they don't mind). from first to last

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Homemade Lattes

I'm a big tea person and I don't think I could ever add up all the money I've spend at countless cafes and coffee chains over the years buying myself all kinds of tea lattes(yah I'm looking at you Starbucks). They just taste sooo good! But with the fact that I have no job for the summer, I have to start watching all the little extra items I buy (especially on whim) sigh. ENTER THE HOMEMADE TEA LATTES.

It started off a couple weeks ago when I was at square one. I was walking by the Zellers with me mum when I decided to venture into the little tea shop called Teaopia (cheesy i know) to satisfy my latte craving. I ordered the mint chocolate tea latte because it intrigued me (and ok.. the guy serving me was pretty cute too). At just a little under $5 I thought it'd taste amazing, but it fell short. It was pretty good, but I didn't think it was worth $5. To say the least I was somewhat disappointed.

Fast forward to last weekend while downtown my friend suggested we go into this tea place on queen st. to have a look around. They had all these canisters of loose leaf teas on the wall with flavours I didn't even know existed. Long story short, I entered empty handed and exited the store minus $6 and a canister of their mint chocolate rooibos tea. The justification was logical really. why would I go buy a cup of 5 dollar ok tea when I could make about 25 cups of the same tea at home for $6 (WORTH IT).

This is what the tea looks like. there's even real chocolate chips in it and it smells heavenly. sometimes I just open the canister to smell it haha

So here's to homemade tea lattes complete with FOAM :D

I've found that as a steeped tea itself it tastes just like regular tea with a little bit of a chocolate mint after taste. but when you turn it into a latte, the flavour is more prominent and it's pretty dang good! and yes it's in my mug because i don't have fancy cups. i wished i had a cool cup and saucer to drink out of

and that's my tea story. the end.

its raining.

yes it is. and it's suppose to rain until sunday. pooey. what better time to update my blog i say!

on sunday i headed to the luminato festival downtown on queens quay. what is it you may ask. it is a festival of arts and creativity where all things related to art are showcased. it was quite an enjoyable day. the sun was all nice and shiney (and hot), there was endless stalls of gourmet food to choose from and then there was a free cirque du soleil show at the end of the night. i'd definitely go back next year (especially for the stalls of food yum).



(those pictures aren't mine. i found them on the luminato site haha)

new announcement .

this was actually announced in the news like a month ago..but to be honest i've only heard about it a couple weeks ago when my cousin told me... and receiving a text on my cell today reminded me to do this:

Rogers has decided to charge their customers 15 cents for every RECEIVING text msg they get if they don't already have a text msging plan (aka me because i don't text and i'm cheap on my cellphone plan). So i would really appreciate it if you don't send me any txts that aren't life changing/emergencies as i do not wish to give Robbers.. ahem.. i mean Rogers my lovely money.

please and thank you <3

i <3 arts & crafts

hehe so i've been tucked away making little figurines for the pass couple of days. i had to test-run my abilities to see if they'd turn out presentable and gift-able to my awesome special friends (yes you!). here's what i've been doing:

I've wanted to try making this stuff for a while now and to my luck Michael's decided to have a sale on practically all of my materials (woohoo for saving monies). So here's some paintbrushes, acrylic paints and sculpey clay (polymer clay)

Here's the first batch i made (thanks to deviantart for ideas). L to R: mr. octopus I, my sister's bunny face and mr. hippo.

To my disappointment the batch was ruined due to my negligence. Oddly enough, i wanted to be green and save energy so i chose to use my conventional oven to bake instead of my bigass stove oven but nope. didn't work. I had to throw them out :(

So i made a second batch and baked them in my big oven.

Then i painted and glossed them and voila! L to R: Mrs. Hippo, appleguy, cupcake, mr. toast, chocolate creamsicle, doughnut, and mr. octopus II. MIA (because i'm not finished with them): the roses pictured above, a orange flower, more doughnuts (choclate glazed and honey cruller mmm), more popsicles/creamsicles, another mr. toast and a tan coloured kitty cat.

Here's the fun part. pick one and call dibs! (but please don't choose mr. octopus II lol he was my first success so i'd like to keep him).

p.s. if what you wanted has been picked i can make another one OR if you have a special request i can see if i can make it :D. i've put a bid on ebay for some cell phone straps so hopefully i'll win and then i'll have straps for these figurines too. yayyy

GLEEEE

did anyone else catch the preview of the new fall show 'glee'? i would just like to express my fondness of it. it's like high school musical, hairspray and all those highschool cliches put together in a not lame way.. well so far. some of the characters are hilarious. sucks that i have to wait til the fall for the 2nd episode. hehe i think it's got so much potential to be a great show. GLEEEEEEE



ps. if you guys watch it. find the 55 minute uncut version. it's better than the one they showed on tv.

pps. here is the link to the lovestory/viva la vida mash up:
CLICK HERE. ENJOY!