I am a practicing clinician, a recent doctoral graduate who finally graduated school but will never leave school, a huge technology lover, a man constantly fighting off the fat, and a father.
M and I ate at Quizno’s and McDonald’s on Friday and watched a few movies- The intruders with Clive Owen and The Raid. The Raid was easily the best action movie I have seen since Rambo IV and the Expendables. It was very very awesome and took the overdone martial arts and action moveis of late and put them right back into the spotlight. These nights are always super fun, and I can’t wait for W to get back to have our own “not school/work” time with takeout food!
Yesterdays lunch with some veggies and dumplings that W affectionally left in a bag in the freezer labeled for the fat kid.
Quick lunch of ha gee mein. Very simple and the shrimp were actually really salty even though I didn’t put any seasoning in them, just boiled them to the right tenderness. I like quick meals like this sometimes when I have so many things on my mind.
Made mushrooms and pork the other night with teriyaki sauce (tried to emulate Edo Japan’s teppanyaki style cooking) but it just tasted not that ok. Well it wasn’t bad but it definitely wasn’t great. But it will be tomorrow’s work lunch. Overcooked the pork. 😦 But I did learn that the slightly frozen pork was way easier to cut thinly than when it is totally defrosted.
Green beans with ground beef and some salmon rice with Japanese seasoning the other night. The rice was done really well and would have been better if I had the right sized seaweed to wrap it up with. I left a container of it for breakfast the next day and it was superb.
Tried to make Laksa, after reminiscing how good the soup was when I was in Singapore with H (we got it at one of the local malls where H did the entire order in Mandarin and managed to anger two store owners somehow). This one turned out to be more of a curry dish than a soup. It was still really good, but not quite like the dish that it was supposed to be. V gave me a box for ba kuh teh soup, a pork and pepper dish that is freaking awesome. I am determined not to ruin that one too.
I am really excited to pick up this album soon! Its just ten bucks at HMV, and I definitely enjoy its sound. Wish I had picked it up earlier as I am in a dearth of good music lately. Sixteen Saltines sounds awesome and I need this now.
Oh and also did I mention that I locked my effing car keys in the car yesterday? Thank goodness this happened on university campus and not in the middle of a crappy neighbourhood but it was still crappy all the same. Sixty five dollars for a towing company to break in my car (it is actually kind of scary how good the guy at the towing company was!) and an hour wait in the parking lot with mosquitoes everywhere. My buddy W was kind enough to hang out while I waited. Just stupid of me. I usually don’t leave my bag in the car either because its such a thief target, but that night I figured, oh I am just running in for a sex. And then I close the door and I am like oh, look my keys are in my bag. EFF. Brilliant move of me. I talked to the towing guy and he said once, he locked his own towing truck in Whyte ave in the middle of the night (in a move to make me feel less stupid).
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