currently craving June 20, 2008

crispy fish at aston’s (yes, still)
拉面小笼包
yami yoghurt
korean barbecue
1 week more to go

la cheapa June 14, 2008

i just stumbled upon the realisation that affordability moderates my perception of the attractiveness of items. what do i mean by this?
well, for example, while bumming my way through the night shift (during which i may have incurred a sprained thumb due to overobsessive polishing of silver) last night, i was suddenly, from about midnight [...]

shallow consumerism June 2, 2008

whenever i do go to hk (most likely within the next 12 months), that’s my number one must-buy. not that particular palette, and not necessarily just one either. it’s not particularly economical, though for the number of individual shades the price (in hk dollars, mind) isn’t unreasonable. however, the chief pull factor is the sheer [...]

come on let’s go! May 11, 2008

it’s interesting to realise that though i never used to listen to jay chou during my teenage years when everyone else was mad about him (everyone still is mad about him, but they are no longer ‘else’), the songs he put out during that period are in retrospect uncannily applicable to [...]

小小的天有大大的夢想 April 3, 2008

the best news! it looks as though i might finally have found a job that doesn’t require me to spin around the shop floor in a blur or leave me with a headache by the end of the shift. after expending a great deal of effort trying to get yourself employment, why is [...]

mind over matter March 26, 2008

here’s a clip from i’m a cyborg and that’s okay, which i recently watched. the moral of the story is that “normal” people, including mental health professionals, can be more abnormal than the patients, something i find to be increasingly true the older i get.
the first korean lesson of the year went well considering [...]

快使用雙截棍! March 23, 2008

everybody knows who bruce lee is, right? well, for some reason one day i started thinking about it, and realised that for the life of me i had no idea even whether his movies were in english or canto (as it turns out, they are in both). well, 35 years after the fact, [...]

lab barbecue March 14, 2008

as it turned out, the mango cake was subsequently sequestrated by aunty yin fong, leaving me with a choice of green tea cake or tiramisu. and, since there seems to be a surfeit of chocolate cakes on the increasingly emergent menu, i decided to go for green tea. they still have about 40 hours to [...]

in the red March 12, 2008

thanks to a tip-off from aika, i called up the tie rack at the airport this morning to enquire about job applications. they said that they were looking for someone to work in the mornings, as opposed to the (uber-lucrative) night shift that i had been hoping to work.
anyway, i will have to (snail — how backward!) [...]

鬼佬 = 热气-immune? March 12, 2008

sunday is the annual lab barbecue, which does not involve roasted rodents or pigeons (though the latter might be nice). the main lecturer is supplying the roastables, but has subcontracted snacks and desserts to the rest of us.
my mother has volunteered to donate a cake, after all she will be making a mango cake and a [...]