Wednesday, November 29, 2006

::snow, desserts & sushi::

last saturday, we had a sorta farewell meal/mini-foodtrail for the sg exchangers (gil, joseph & huiping) who would be leaving ubc after this sem. how sad. i hate farewells:( sigh. but come to think of it, i would be seeing all of them when i get back in apr next year. haha. and karen too - when she comes back to sg during her term breaks:) yayy. anw i really enjoyed myself that evening!it was great food and company - as usual:) it started snowing that evening too!!

the view from outside my room that evening (26/11). there were just snowflakes initially. and then, the snowfall couldnt stop and it just got heavier and heavier and heavier.....

for the sake of comparison, this is the view from my room 4 days later (30/11)! oh man. too much of anything is never good. the same goes for snowing. it's so hard to move around when it snows so heavily:( the floor's so slippery and you can't really walk properly coz the pavements are covered with at least 10cm of snow? i almost slipped a few times!! it's really a matter of time before your shoes and feet will get soaked (eeks!). right now, the snow's melting and the roads/pavements are getting very muddy:( i hope the snow clears out soon!!

these days, this is the lovely sight that greets me when i leave my house each day:) but once i make my way outside, it's really no fun:(

oops sorry i digressed. back to last saturday! before we met, we had a snowfight near the busloop. it was so fun throwing snow at each other!! the snowball that gil made was v solid - and of course, it was reserved for jo! haha. jo was v sneaky - so we launched a collective attack on him! then i accidentally (REALLY!) caused him fall onto the snowbed facedown. haha. it was quite funny - though i felt quite bad after that!

anw our 1st stop was this cosy dessert cafe - true confections! yayy. karen and i were especially excited! haha. coz we are CRAZY over desserts!! they kept saying we are long-lost sisters coz we get really really excited over desserts (and food generally. haha), have the same chinese surname and apparently, we look alike too:) in the end, we chose the 4 different desserts which we all shared - coz the rest of them were too engrossed in some intellectual conversation. karen and i obviously got our priorities right:) heh.

karen and i - with the sinfully delicious desserts! we did a great job at choosing the desserts coz all of them turned out fantastic:) but then again, how wrong can one get - with chocolate and cheese!?

all of us!

a better view of our desserts - mudcake+french vanilla icecream, pecan pie, tiramisu cheesecake and a tripleberry whitechocolate cheesecake! yummy:)

the wide variety of desserts at true confections! i hope to try every single one - by the time i come back!!

our next stop was bc sushi! we had to idle at a vcd shop in the vicinity for about 30mins coz the sushi buffet special only started at 930pm. but the waiting was worth it - especially for the price we paid:) the sushi selection was not bad and they tasted quite good - though i feel samurai sushi's better. it was a pity i couldnt eat a lot (as i normally would) coz i was having a bad tummyache:( this is like the worst thing that can happen to you when you are having a buffet - wanting to eat but unable to!

all of us again! with 1 round of food before us:)

i love sushi!! some of them have weird names though.. the one 2nd from right is called dynamite sushi..

more food!! oh yes, another similarity that karen and i share - is that we both love edamame:)

after bc sushi, we all stopped by safeway to do some grocery-shopping! much thanks to gil who helped me carry most of my groceries - coz i was still having my tummyache:( by the time we reached ubc, we just missed the last shuttlebus! argh. so we had to walk all the way back to our residence! it was sucha long walk:( my feet were frozen coz i had to trudge through the 10cm-high-snow-covered pavements. it was really snowing very heavily!! not surprisingly, we played with snow again! i still joined in the snowfights - despite having a very bad tummyache. haha. the power of distraction. anw here's a picture of huiping, karen and myself, sitting on the snowbed along a slope on the way back:)