Food for the Stressed

Had I known that we'll be departing from the usual cafeteria food, I would have brought my camera this week. Pardon the bad phone photos.

My co-instructors and I have not dined together for a while. We've been too busy. Now that classes are done (though we still have a bunch of MS requirements and checking of papers to do), we were able to finally eat non-cafeteria food together! I miss our Maginhawa Street dinners. :)

Now this dish is from weeks ago but I'll post it anyway. It's K-spicy Katsudon from Mashitta in UP Shopping Center. It's a very weird Japanese-Korean mix. There's kimchi fried rice, kimchi, vegetables and tonkatsu. It was tasty and I like it because the kimchi is spicy!

We went to Burger Project this week. Finally, I tried the Angus beef patty. I do not like beef very much but Angus beef was worth a try. Though I think I'll be sticking to my good ol' tofu patty. :))

Angus beef patty, sesame bun, jalapenos, caramelized onions and garlic cream cheese. I promise to bring my parents to Burger Project one of these days!

Moonleaf Peach Yakult! I haven't had Moonleaf for around a month. Who cares about my cough and colds? I missed this. LOL priorities haha.

A corner in Mashitta. I've been to Mashitta countless times but last Friday was the first time I noticed this cute wall sticker. :))

What I like best about the past two weeks? I may have departed from eating [relatively cheaper] cafeteria food but I did not depart from my budget. ACHIEVE!

Happy-logue 10-13-12

One of my Aggre friends went to Italy recently. She sort of surprise-visited UP this week and gave me these: a postcard and a figurine. I've read a few articles about The Leaning Tower of Pisa for my geotechnical engineering subject before (just some supplementary reading). The underlying clay on one side of the tower is more compressible than the clay on the other side which made it tilt. And ever since I learned stuff about it, I've had a certain fascination for The Leaning Tower.

Beautiful

Karen, a high school friend who currently resides in Canada, also sent me a postcard, which I received this week. :)

What a pretty bridge :)

Ah, sembreak please come to me! Just a few more hurdles before the end of the semester. 

Happy-logue 10-06-12

hell week noun \'hel wēk\ 1. the week where all deadlines occur 2. worst week of the academic term, usually occurs at the middle and at the end of the academic term and may last more than a week

One of the many things I learned during teaching: it's not just the students; teachers experience hell week too.

Now, being both a Master student and a university instructor, I'm experiencing twice the hell. (I can't even call it hell WEEK because it's been going on for months already!) And don't even get me started with research project deadlines.

In other words, things have been totally crazy. I haven't had time to relax, to get a pedicure, etc.

However, there are still a few things that keep me happy.

1. My students. For some reason, I like it when my students ask me questions. It just shows that they're listening and they're interested in what I'm teaching. Most of the time, I get really really tired but my students make everything bearable. Last Friday was the last day of classes. I'll surely miss my students.

2. AME friend Sty-chan just got back from his one-year stay as an exchange student in Tokyo. Before he left, I asked him to get me some postcards. He got me two...

Tokyo Tower

Buddha statue

...plus this cute and shiny Christimas greeting card with Asakusa printed on it.

3. The postcard I mailed to myself during my last trip to Taiwan just arrived! Why self-mail? Well, why not? I bought postcards, I had some stamps and there was a mailbox at the hotel.

4. New Grendha sandals. Parents' gift for me. 

Ah. Two weeks. Two weeks. Come to me, sembreak.