March Break

The March break is almost coming to an end! Sad sad.
My week has been spent well and very fattening doe! :3
Basically got to chill with almost everyone at least ONCE this week so that's good :D.

Did a lot of eating, baking and shopping ... and very little homework Q_Q.
Been browsing for prom dresses this week and sadly still didn't run into any that I like for prom, except this one really nice lace dress, but it was more suitable for a summer dress (and $99), but to be honest, prom has lost the meaning of "formal" to me, I'm also not a type of person who likes formal long, blinged out, puffy dresses... simplicity is my thing so... I'm down to wear a summer dress for prom NGL. And I gotta start getting fit again to fit into a dress (LOL jk im okay but I dont want to get fat over the months)... so speaking of food... This is what I ate or baked this week :D


Mac & Cheese @ Panera, over priced and it wasn't SUPER amazing... but my friend really liked it



Made miniature taro cakes Michelle, Chef Mach and Leslie~


Ate Fish and Chips for the first time with Michelle, at some super old (ghetto looking) place by our house. Turned out to be really good~


Baked a cookies & cream cake (basically an Oreo cake) with Zemil today~ :3... it tasted like a Tim Horton's chocolate muffin in the end LOL But it was good :D

Spent the rest of the day just watching Aladdin with Zemil. This is what happens when you put two Disney fanatics together... HAHA :P But yea, had a good day today ^^.
Oh.. and also "found" this on my desk too...lol, a "surprise" gift from him. HAHA too cute :3 thank you so much!!


sorry for the very inconsistent photo mediums...
anywho, time to do homework!........ for the next 3 days.

"What happened to my sweet potatooooo?"

my friend gave this to me for Christmas because of a sweet potato inside joke... but not bad not bad...taste pretty good

At Burrito Boys for lunch the other day.
So cheap, so good, so heavy.Managed to finish but ended up burping it out for the next 3 hours or so.

Happy Birthday Mum! ♥
You've done so much for us these last 21 years of being a mother. It must of been difficult being a single mother and all but you pulled through and taught us well. Your patients, understanding, love, spirit and inspiration is what I look up to. I really want to grow up into someone like you, and hope to be as good of a mother as you are. You've done so much and gave us so must support, I honestly cannot tell you how thankful and lucky I am to call you as my mum and to be your daughter.
Thank you for living up with my stupidness, stuburness and my anger issues. I know I'm difficult but you still love me no matter what I do. I'm blessed to be loved by you. ♥


Mum loves vermicelli and seafood! So when I found this recipe I knew we had to make it. And it turned out AWESOME!! SOOO GOOODD! Guess I have better cooking skills than I thought I did! :B



The birthday cake we hid in our basement fridge. HAHA she had no idea.

my first attempt at making bread!... sort of burnt a bit :c.. and tastes not super great... suspecting something's wrong with the flour :/

Jen's Nutella coffee-tea

If you know me, you know I absolutely ADORE tea. Doesn't matter what kind of tea, I'll drink it!
Since the harsh weather is approaching, everyone starts busting out the hot chocolate and coffee! One of my favourite things to do is to mix coffee and tea together, but why not add hot chocolate with that delightful combo right?! Sadly I don't have hot chocolate right now... So I resorted to using Nutella (Coco mmmm~~).. But hot chocolate works just as well!

This is simple to make and tastes amazing (according to my taste buds)!~

What you'll need:
Instant coffee
A tea bag(s) (So orange or black tea)
Nutella (Or hot chocolate!)
Water
Cream or milk (optional)

Add water to a small pot and bring to a boil.
Add the tea bag(s) to the water and turn the heat down to simmer (to bring out the taste of the tea!).
Take out the tea bag squeezing out the water.


Turn the heat back on medium high and add the instant coffee.


Using a knife or spoon, scoop out a fair amount of Nutella (or hot chocolate) and stir into the pot until Nutella is completely dissolved (or most of it at least).


Pour out and adjust to your liking by adding cream, milk or sugar.



Sit down and enjoy this orgasmic drink

Whats good Toronto?

Having to walk 10 stations to get from Korea town to Kensington to China town then to Eatons was a total mission but was extremely exhilarating.

Luckily, I got some spending money to hunt for birthday gifts, and to do a bit of shopping for myself.
Jeans - XXI / Beaded Bracelet - China Town / Sunglasses - Kensington Market / 2% & Hi-Chew - P.A.T. Central


But my goal of the day was to get a Kensington's caramel filled churro~! Which I did, and t'was delicious.

Our original plan was to eat at Salad King but a friend suggested to eat at Ajisen Ramen in China Town instead. One of my all time favourite places to eat. Totally worth your money, and their ramens are one of the best you will ever eat.

Eating Taiwanese

Today was suppose to be our 3B date, but Zemil flopped because he was grounded : (. So it just turned into a dinner date with Michelle... surprise surprise.

We went to eat at a Taiwanese cuisine called Aroma Island. I've eaten there once and thought it was pretty good and well worth my money so I decided to bring Michelle to try as well since we were both feeling nostalgic about Taiwan.

We ordered 2 main courses, spicy chicken and garlic friend rice, seafood noodle Taiwanese style and an appetizer, scallion pancakes.

The rice was the best dish. It had a nice balance taste of everything and a bit of spice in it which was the nice part. Sort of reminded me of Kimchi friend rice. If you are a person who can eat spicy foods, I would give this a go!

The noodles on the other hand was... alright. Looks plain and bland but the noodles tasted fine... just a little plain and boring. Really... "pure" is what I would call this dish in Cantonese LOL. Nothing special to it. I was expecting something AMAZINGLY LEGIT because it was "Taiwanese style" but I was sort of let down.
The scallion pancakes... tasted like scallion pancakes. Nothing special. Just onions, dough and oil.

The portions were huge... it most likely could of fed 4 people. After and hour and a half of eating, we finished everything but the noodles which we ended up packing up to go.

Despite how full we were already, we were determined to fulfill our BR (Bubble Republic) on a Friday night mission. Michelle ordered a strawberry green tea BBT while I got a peach black milk tea BBT.

I LOVE bubble tea... but this was the first time I didn't actually finish the whole thing.

The peach one was shit. I've tried the peach black tea without the milk which tasted amazing but this one was gross. It was WAY too sweet. Felt like I could get diabetes from drinking this. The strawberry one tasted like strawberry Jell-O which was... alright I guess. But I think from now on... I'm just sticking with my usual.

05/15/11

This year was my 3rd year attending the FGS annual food fair!
... and probably my 3rd year anniversary for joining YAD... or around this month.

Although it was raining the whole day through out the whole food fair... it was pretty enjoyable! It probably would of been better if it wasn't raining though.


So basically... Michelle and I just poured all our money out on buying food this year. We spent like.. at least 30 dollars together HAHA. But i'm not complaiing, the temple food is amazinggg.


We looked like rain drenched hobos eating curry noodles on the ground in the stairwell.. because there was practically NO WHERE to sit and eat since everyone was avoiding the rain.



I was so full...
But the food fair is not only about the food... its about the 'yard sale'! LOL
Another mans junk is another mans treasure!
There were a lot of cute phone charms and temple bracelets which were tempting to buy, but in the end I just bought some phone stickers and this BLIA YAD phone string which I think is REALLY REALLY cute ^^

Anyways... ended up spending money again -thumps heart- sigh... but it's all for the good of the temple~~ this month marks my 3 year anniversary with YAD... ♥, so it definatly deserves some celebration...

05/07/11

I went to Pacific Mall (pmall) today! Oh, it's been a while...
Lots of stores changed, they have some pretty nice new stores that i'm excited about. Clothing in general still not really my thing there, but stationary, toys, entertainment stuff and FOOD in general is still really really good. ^^
although I have to say, they have WAY TOO MANY bubble tea shops now...

So anyways, I ended up spending $50+ today. I basically reached all my goals, of buying a mothers day gift, my sisters birthday present and something for myself from the broadcast store.

So even though I'm broke now, I still had a lot of fun roaming, taking pictures and eating... LOL. But I mean look, they even have a crepe and waffle store upstairs now!
The food and the cook both look amazing ... LOL


One of new stores was also this. They have sorbets made from real fuits, and stuffed back into... the fruit itself. so technically, you can eat the bowl too... since it's a fruit.


tastes soo good, but it wasn't cheap.

The apple itself tasted pretty gross though. I dont even know why...

After, we went to some food court to eat Korean food! I have to say, the Korean food here are AMAZING. The old cashier man is also very very friendly. Like... he's one of those people that you randomly meet but will remember forever because of their kindness.

This is what i got. KIMCHI FRIED RICE!!! It's sooo good. Probably my new favourite Korean dish.

So besides all the food I bought... I also bought my......
FINAL BEAST ALBUM!! :D I'm really really happy about it! Although their album design went really basic.... but meh what ever.

I also got 4 tiny bottles of OPI nail polish~ ^__^ theyre so adorable! Look at the comparison between them and a regular size bottle~~

I got my mothers day present as well, but I'm too lazy to take a picture of it. It was something I know my mom would use and... hopefully like. LOL
LASTLEY Is my sister's birthday present!!

I got her this GIANT Totoro plushie. The original price was $40 but I got it for $20! YAY 50% OFF! Now I just have to hide this in my closet for another month.... orz.