Idle time
My winter break days are dwindling down. I realize that not enough of my peers take advantage of the fact that they’re still college students. What other time in life is it possible to go to school for four months, take a four month summer vacation, go back to school for four months, and then take a month-long winter break? That’s being off for nearly half the year. Cramming fastidiously for midterms and finals every semester seems like a pretty good trade-off for the breaks. College is freaking SWELL.
The last of my break is being spent de-cluttering, as well as going through old magazines and making collages out of cut-outs. I have four issues of Uniqlo’s “magazine” from when they distributed them during the opening of their flagship in the US, and such high quality productions they are. Gorgeous paper, thread-bound, really well-conducted interviews, great editorials. Drool. (I can’t believe the NY Soho store is the only Uniqlo in the entire US. What the dealio?)
And while I declutter, I munch. Above are my favorite candies, both Japanese. The two on the left are soda candies that feel fizzy in your mouth and taste like lychee soda, or maybe Sprite in candy form. The candies on the left are chewable almond + chocolate tablets. Mmmm, cavities …
Speaking of food, #1. I’ve been watching “Pasta,” and the first three episodes essentially revolve around the making of ONE pasta dish. Watching it being made over and over is making me want to make my own, which I will, when I gather the proper cooking ingredients.
Speaking of food, #2. I have, sadly and unfortunately, broken two water pitchers and thus we now have no place to store our water so I’ve resorted to consuming 2-3 bottles of spring water daily, and drinking so much tea that I can’t even sleep at night till 4-5 in the morning. Woe.
ack! i love uniqlo and I AM SO SAD that the only us store is in new york. i was so excited to visit it in china (although the store there wasn’t that great) and japan.
oh, i’ve never tried the first candy. it looks like ramune soda candy! i’ve been craving lychee lately. i’m going to try to look for it next time.
do you like pasta so far? i’m thinking of watching it but i’m afraid it will make me hungrier than i usually am when watching kdramas!
i’ve never been to the store in china (it’s in guangzhou, right?) but my brother got me something from that store once haha.
it is ramune soda candy! so good.
“pasta” is okay because i really like gong hyo jin and i fangirl lee seon kyun, but my patience is wearing thin and it’s only been four eps. this drama is “about” cooking, but it’s really not. i’m pretty sure another four episodes in and it’ll deviate to purely romance, or at least half-ass the cooking aspect of it. and it’s so sexist! so incredibly sexist, spun in a “modern” way as to say how it’s really not sexist, but IT IS ANYWAY. the worse kind of sexism.
ramune’s packaging reminds me of toothpaste. that’s what i thought it was at first! but i understand. japanese candy was my guilty pleasure back in l.a. morinaga caramels… *faint*