My New Laptop

The laptop that I need for school come September arrived last week. Yes, I just got around to posting it now.

Total = $1275.08 with a backpack (which hasn't arrived yet).

Specs:

• Model: Lenovo Thinkpad T430
• Screen: 14.0" HD and Anti-Glare (good for the long hours that I'll spend staring at the screen)
• Processor: Intel Core i5-3230M
• Operating System: Windows 7 home premium 64 (I don't like Windows 8)
• Memory: 8 GB (2DIMM)
• Hard Drive: 180GB solid state drive
• Optical device: DVD recordable

Happy humpday to me

I'ma Gonna Be Edjumacated

I got accepted into UBC for Computer Science.

I will complete this in 2 years instead of 4 because it will be my second Bachelor's degree. My first degree was in Commerce, specializing in Human Resource Management, also from UBC. 

Not bad for my 94th blog post, eh? (I may be good at math, but I never said I know how to count!)

Big thank you to my mother who will be paying for the $11,000 tuition and the $1200 laptop I ordered. 

Happy Mother's Day!

Shit Chinese People Eat: Chicken Butt

The only things we can't eat from the air, land, and sea

are planes, cars, and boats.

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I may not have sucked on any balls while I was in Taiwan, but I did eat a lot of ass.

On sticks, no less. They come deep fried, grilled, or marinated and are absolutely fucking delicious.

Yes, these little gems are made up of just skin, and fat, and bones; but be aware of the hollow shafts that lurk within. A hollow shaft (otherwise known as the calamus or the quill) is the very tip of a feather that is embedded inside the skin of a chicken. They are more commonly found in bigger butts because bigger butts have more feathers and so are more easily missed in the cleaning/plucking stage.

Just to be clear, hollow shafts are not edible -- at least, I don't think they are but I'm pretty sure I have swallowed some before. The happy news is that they won't kill you.

In any case, do enjoy this fatty, greasy, high calories, high cholesterol, heartburn and heart attack inducing snack!

Mmm, deep fried chicken butts on a stick.

Birthday Food Coma

My birthday started on April 19th with dinner at my favourite Italian restaurant.



Spinach ravioli at Zefferelli's

Then brunch on the 20th at IHOP (no pictures, sorry).

Mom made my favourite food on the 22nd.

Sauteed pork, tofu, and onions in tianmianjiang with grated cucumber and carrot

I had a free brunch at Denny's on my actual birthday (April 23)

Birthday Slam from Denny's

And a free burger

Baja burger from Vera's burger. The meat was so raw it might as well have been mooing.

For my birthday dinner, I made myself some pasta.

Homemade pasta <3

Also not pictured are 2 free drinks from Blenz (first time trying Royal Tea Latte and Belgian Dark Hot Chocolate; they're like orgasms in a cup) and the usual free birthday drink from Starbucks.

Can we just wind the clock back to a week ago so that I can experience all of that again? Much appreciated, thanks.

AC E-xpression's Unexpected Non-Vacation

I've worked six days in a row from April 5-10, did chores all day April 11, and now I've just finished working day five out of another six days in a row from April 12-17. I volunteer on April 18 and then work again on April 19.

What the fuck is my life?

Why the hell is it so busy?

Existentialist questions to which I have no answers other than "shit happens." And holy fuck we're already halfway through April and I turn 26 in a week. (Daayum!)

So no, I was not on vacation but here are some interesting things that happened:

I got a new phone which doesn't weigh a brick like my old HTC Sensation and I've already dropped it like ten times. (P.S. -- I did not choose the pink case; the pink case chose me like a Harry Potter wand. This reminds me of the BBC TV series Sherlock which I am now obsessed with. Thank you cell phone provider.)

Samsung Galaxy S3. Also, who the hell is April Wong and why the hell did my calendar note her birthday?

My parents were in Taiwan for three weeks and I was home alone. They're back now and I miss the quiet (and the freedom to masturbate with the door open. Oops, T.M.I. sorry)

I met John Barrowman on Friday, April 12 at the Starbucks near my work place. He's the actor who played Captain Jack Harkness on Doctor Who and is in Vancouver filming Arrow. Meeting him was truly a nerd-tastic happenstance but it was also really fucking disappointing because it means that he's not in the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who. He confirmed it too. (Grr!)

He was super friendly and had a nice, firm handshake. Furthermore, the man has impressive pectoral girth and is hotter than all hell in real life. He signed my coffee sleeve (it's the first Starbucks anything he's ever had to sign so score one for me!) because I didn't have any paper on me. I didn't get a picture with him because I didn't have my phone on me, which of all the fucking days it had to be the day that I met John Barrowman.



The fangirl squealing that comes out of my mouth is seriously not human when ever I look at this.

Let this be a lesson to you all: Fucking carry your phone with you everywhere you go and start paying for your coffee with the Starbucks app rather than the Starbucks card, because you never know when you'll bump into a celebrity on your break.

And John Barrowman, if you're reading this, thank you for making my day month infinitely better. You totally brightened up that shitty, raining Friday afternoon in Vancouver. I swear it's like you had sunshine coming out of your ass. That, or your neon orange rain jacket was radioactive.

AC E-xpression's 1st Anniversary!

Today is my one year! Holy shit!

At the beginning, the whole purpose of this blog was to gain some self-discipline in writing. I haven't always done two posts per week but I think I did pretty well considering that real life exists and all that.

I'll be sure to buy myself a treat today!

Thank you to all my readers: I hope you've been somewhat entertained by the more crazy shit I've written and you can be sure to look forward to even more in the new year!

Home Alone

While the parentals are away on a three-week trip, I have to feed myself and this is what I cooked today:

 

Kimchi hotpot. Enough to last me 4 meals.

I'm going to be so sick of eating udon soup by the time they come back, I just know it.