BEDA #18 - My Birthday!

Yesterday I turned twenty!

It was overall a very unexciting day. I had class all morning, work all afternoon, and a fair amount of homework to do after I got home. But I will share a few highlights.

Highlight #1: Right before I woke up in the morning, I had a dream that my boyfriend had abruptly turned into a psychopathic serial killer and was out to murder me. It was incredibly vivid and pretty horrifying. But I was incredibly relieved when I woke up.

Highlight #2: I got a midterm back that I did very well on. This was a relief since almost the entire class did horribly on the first one (myself included). I was particularly glad because the data problem, which is worth a lot of the test, seemed to me to be able to be reduced further to fewer underlying representations, but I made the judgment call that it would be strange and wouldn't work too smoothly so I stuck with three. And that judgment call was the correct one!

Highlight #3: My boss at work made me brownies! They were delicious. Additionally, I spent the last hour of "work" chatting with my boss and my coworker. I actually lost track of time and clocked out late.

Highlight #4: I am not sure if I've mentioned this before but I'm currently the co-Editor in Chief of a campus publication called Vagabond. We publish student and staff works written in languages other than English, as well as visual art. We are all new to the group (long story) and really haven't known exactly what we were doing all year. However, WE ARE FINALLY GOING TO PUBLISH. We actually have a layout to be printed and distributed. It's going to be pretty fantastic.

Highlight #5: I went to a new pizza place with some of my friends last night. It was rather Italian in that you purchase a personal pizza that's made in front of your eyes. It was both delicious and relatively inexpensive and I will definitely be returning in the future.

Highlight #6: After we got back from pizza my roommates and I ate some mochi and some mochi ice cream (of which I definitely prefer the non-ice cream sort) and these waffly things called "butter cookies". I also got a Toblerone and a laptop case.

Highlight #7: My boyfriend gave me sunscreen for my birthday, which was exactly what I wanted and asked for. It's getting fairly bright outside and I am fairly pale (and moley).

Overall it was a pretty good birthday. My top birthday activity of choice is just hanging out with people I like. And I got to do that quite a bit! Now it's time to feel slightly old but not THAT old.

Also...does anyone else have a problem with writing the date on their birthday? I kept wanting to write 1993 on things. It was a bit frustrating.

Millie procrastinates

This place sure is dead. I have exams... but what better way to procrastinate then to try and revive this place?

I know I missed the food theme, but I thought it was necessary to introduce you to Nasi Lemak, a Malaysian specialty. Literally translated it's Rice Fats. Which should give you an idea of how unhealthy it can be. Essentially it's rice cooked in coconut milk, served with a boiled egg, fried peanuts/anchovies, slices of cucumbers and a spicy "sambal" which is some sort of chilli.. gravy/sauce type thing. It has onions most of the time.

Okay, moving on to this week's theme: Favourite Activity.

Simple enough: Sleep, Listen to music, Read, Internet and talk to people.

Yes, I'm boring like that. I've never been one to have extraordinary hobbies like crafting or playing football or anything, so I always stick to my usual. Unfortunately nowadays I spend wayyyy too much time on the internet. Whether watching videos, finding music, blog hopping, reading articles/trivia or looking at random stuff, it entertains me for most of my day if I'm not doing other important things.

Well.. that was a post.

My One True Love aka Food

Food, glorious wonderful fantastic food.

There is nothing like a nice big juicy steak, or a platter of fresh sushi. When it comes down to it, I'm pretty much willing to try everything.

Luckily enough for me, my boyfriend shares this love of food. Since he travels a lot for work this gives us an opportunity to go to many different restaurants in many different places. In this post I will discuss some of my favourite places that I've been to in the past few years.

Ye's Sushi: An All You Can Eat Feast
http://www.yessushi.com/home.html

Eat ALL OF THE SUSHI

When I moved to Waterloo, I wasn't that experienced in the eating of sushi. My friends and I used to walk over to the grocery store near our high school and grab sushi to go there. When I got to university though, a friend of mine insisted that we go for All You Can Eat Sushi. A monster was born.

It took a lot of convincing to get my boyfriend to try sushi (three years to be exact). But now, every Saturday the two of us make the trek to Ye's and have lunch. This picture is taken during one of our many of our lunch ventures.

The Keg: Super Expensive Steak
http://www.kegsteakhouse.com/en/
The Keg is expensive, and when I say expensive, I mean sell all your textbooks, don't go to school for a term and miss two rent checks. That might be overstating it a little bit, but I'm assuming you guys get my drift. But let me tell you... it's TOTALLY WORTH IT. In the handful of times I've gone to this place, I HAVE NEVER had a bad steak. EVER. It's like magic. The steaks are juicy and thick and as I type this my mouth has started watering.

I feel like I'm a horrible person if any of you are Vegetarians or Vegans. I'm a monster. :(

Caesars: Welcome to Your Italian Food Coma
http://www.caesarssf.com/
This place is fantastic. I've been twice, what you do is you sit down and choose how many courses you want and then your entree. The last time we were there we had the seven course meal with the entree of veal. I have never had a bean salad as good as I had at that place. If you love your italian food, this is the best place for you to go. It's in San Francisco in the North Beach area. So if you're ever in California this is worth the trip, it's even better then the Golden Gate Bridge (I SWEAR).

Carmines: Homestyle Italian-y Goodness
http://carminesnyc.com/
The first time I went to Carmines I was on the New York City Film Trip in Highschool. My friend's Mom told him that he should get a group together and go to this restaurant. Which we did. Carmines presents its meals in a family style. Each dish is around 26 dollars but can feed four people. You have to go into this with the same mentality of all you can eat sushi, the more people you bring the more varieties of dishes you can order. Every time I have returned to New York City I've made sure to stop here at some point. To my glee I found out that there was another one of these places in Washington DC.

And I will end this off with:

Lombardi's Pizza: To Good to Describe in Words
http://www.firstpizza.com/
If you're ever in NYC, you need to go here. It's located in Little Italy, the wait is around 40 minutes, but it's worth every second. We had a spinach and cheese pizza... and it was the best pizza I have ever tasted. I have accepted the fact that I will never find pizza this good... ever again. And once I excepted it... everything felt a little bit better.


But today is Saturday, which means I have to run soon... Saturday as you have guessed is sushi day... and its time to go eat my weight in fish!

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Now for some off topic things:

Sorry I haven't been posting a lot lately. School has been kicking my butt. I'm taking summer courses to get myself ahead for the next term. Yup, I know I'm crazy.

On top of that I am also working away on summer NaNoWriMo.... So hopefully by the end of this month I will have a 50,000 word manuscript of a new novel.

Wish me luck and I'll keep you guys updated!