I probably should’ve known that my method of cooking Chinese-y meals (aka throw everything in the wok and guestimate the rest) has less than satisfactory results when applied to baking. I tried to make chocolate cupcakes with cocoa buttercream frosting but the topping was all together too runny. Baking is especially difficult in a very [...]
Archive for October, 2008
happy halloween
Posted in Life, tagged baking, career, costumes, Halloween, mentees on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
keepin’ busy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, hospitals, MCAT, pre-med, vacation, volunteering on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How’s life? It’s strange, that’s a question I adopted from a man I used to see almost everyday and nowadays, would put in a good effort to never see again. There are some parts of my life that I like to keep in the past.
As a UCLA student who waived the school’s health insurance, it [...]
dulce et decorum est
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Maybe it’s the English Breakfast tea latte kicking in at near three in the morning, maybe it’s because no one has ever suggested it to me before now. I wrote a little poem for myself.
I wrote at the top of the page:
“Poetry Attempt.
try not to laugh too hard”
Whenever I’m writing for no one, I’m always [...]
phase and eclipse
Posted in Life, tagged costumes, Halloween, interviews, memories, restlessness, volunteering, weekends on October 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Something has been on my mind recently. It’s more of a feeling, a memory, more than anything else. It just keeps replaying over and over in my head. It’s distracting, but not entirely unpleasant. It’s like a mosquito bump: I know it will go away if I just leave it alone, but it feels so [...]
“You are too irrisistable.”
Posted in Academia, Life on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My limbs ache from dancing in heels. Even though I only stayed at the party until 12:30am, it took it’s toll on these legs that haven’t been to the gym since…well, it’s been a long time. It was a good party though. The Vegas theme didn’t really come through (hey slutty girls, Playboy bunnies are [...]
extra ordinary
Posted in Life on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Earlier, I started a post because I was in the mood to write something, for once, but couldn’t really think of any content. Which is kind of pointless anyway since this blog was never big on the content. I got sidetracked and started reading Mattan’s blog that I found via Teresa. I’ve only read a [...]
