we're gonna need to the some cleanin'

hee, today i cooked yet again! somehow, i think its somewhat an achievement everytime i cooked without burning down the kitchen or stuff.. sigh.. haha.. and dunno, just particularly heartened to know that i very nearly managed to recreate one of my favourite dishes of spinach+box thorn+eggs dish.

even though somehow the soup turned out too greenish. but.. hmmz. it's amazing how just add chicken stock, eggs and spinach i can get good soup! =) so happy.

haha. oh wellz, summer is really zooming by. it's gonna be the last week already next week and haha, haven really accomplished much, but heyz, it's been fun. =) and yeah, the house is becoming quite dirty despite my haughty proclamations that we would keep the place sparkling clean.

hehe. this calls for some spring cleaning. hopefully it'll work. =)

skaneateles

well, woke up groggy and tired after ploughing through the entire potter finale and thoroughly enjoying it. dun feel connected with any of the characters though, so their deaths didnt quite matter, hmmz.. wellz except one.. but haha.. wun spoil the book.

we went skaneateles today! wierd spelling and wierd name for a place that's basically a crystal clear lake with a row of shops.. lol.. nice place though to rent a boat/sail and just careem off towards the center of the lake and enjoy.


pretty as a picture


the skies.. are just real pretty


sailing anyone? lol


had doug's fish fry for lunch.. where the best thing was probably the root beer float.. lol

potter mania

yay! i have the last book! and yeah, i was one of those crazy people who went queuing at the stroke of midnight at borders to get my book, but haha.. there was such fanfare inside the bookstore! people were wearing all sorts of witches costumes and splitting into factions supporting snape or not, saw rita skeeter and mad eye moody lol.. can see that the pple here are equally crazy. the queue was crazy too. haha.. kinda din expect it.

aniwez, before that i went to eat a sumptuous dinner at applebee's and then headed to watch the potter movie, which in my opinion was just mystifyingly disjointed. and after the first scene i gave up trying to point out discrepancies. it was obvious that there was no hell's way that the book could be squeezed into a movie. oh wellz, at leastluna was enigmatically charming...

alritey, tmr gonna go roadtrippin' to some lake and then heading to syracuse.. haha, summer's been fun!

glimpses of ithaca

i cooked! haha! i managed to serve up two dishes of quasi-japanese stuff for my first stab at cooking and oh my.. i'm so glad yankai didn't die of laughing at my stupidity in the kitchen. it err.. was very reminscient of sissy song in the teenage workbook. -_-

but hey.. it turned out alrite! i loved the omurice with ketchup combi (though yankai fried the eggs) and though the curry turned out errm stewy.. but it was delicious and "drinkable"! hee..

too bad i forgot to take photo of the end product, but mom, i think you would be proud of me. =).. haha.. and i guess my sis would be giggling gleefully when they realise i finally have to get my hands down and dirty and start cooking, washing up at the likes.. lol...



curry at one pot, ingredients for omurice in the other pan


my room!

choices

man! summer has really just blown past and i'm now like in the mid-term of summer school with work piled high and prelims looming ahead. -_-

oh well i deserved it. i kinda played played played way too much dota and zelda till the point i woke up from a dream thinking i was in hyrule castle. -_- haha ok time to switch gears and earn my worth. =)

u noe i kinda wonder whether my this current attitude towards things actually does me good. like last sem i was hell bent to make the most use out of my time in summer, get a job, get a research, fill my time up etc..

yet, when it came to the crunch, i mostly dun wanna fill my time up. i wanna be able to relax at home, play wii, chill with frens, go six mile creek, play tennis, watch the pros from the other courts play tennis and wistfully wondering when i can ever (if possible) be as good etc.

i have this idea that life is too short to just frantically work away and slog away for that elusive goal of cluttering up one's resume or just to make one's standing better when he/she comes out into society. not that being self motivated or self driven is wrong.. but.. hmmz.. maybe i'm just making excuses for being slack, but i kinda think that's not really the path i want. =)

oh wellz.. that being said, i still needa get work done. so back to the books (for the first time in weeks... hmmz)

death by cherries

phew.. just finished my first CS assignment. took waay too long man, i finally have some time to (a) finish the book i bought in the airport, (b) start really arranging my room (henry said it looked it a storeroom -_- and (c) start catching up on my physics. lol.. forgot everything liao.

aniwez, today we managed to find time to go to the nearby (nearby= 1/2 hr ride) farms to pick cherries and strawberries!



this way for berries!


ripe for picking!


climbing cherry trees. i distinctly remembered an episode involving my dad climbing a tree at a park near thomson plaza and then falling, causing my mom to convulse with worry and insist he go to a clinic.. lol


harvest!!


cute little boy sitting amidst the trees eating apple cider donuts!! yummy!!


next up: strawberries!