While I threw up the recap post very quickly (was preparing it through the week), I had not originally intended on posting about the food we had. But NPY asked about it and I’m all to happy to throw this together while getting caught up on television shows from the week. I want to honour the week of cooking and dining and sharing in the way I know how–blogging about it.
Home-cooking Chinese meal
I really wanted to share the very homestyle-tasting bamboo shoots and mushrooms dish I learned to make recently. …

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There’s a square of finger-oil you can see on my iPhone screen that shows up even better under different light. It comes from back-to-back-to-back games of Scramble with Friends (freshly brought to us from the team that introduced us to Words with Friends and Hanging with Friends). The latest game is like Boggle so I’ve been dragging my finger across the 4×4 grid of letters frantically for two minutes at a time to create as many words from adjacent letters as possible!
NPY and I are addicted to …

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Post-op meal: avocado, steamed heirloom tomatoes, non-spicy mapo tofu, Japanese rice. Everything overcooked to slide down with minimal chewing effort involved.
 
I totally psyched myself out about my “mini surgery” today until NPY convinced me that it would all be okay. But during the procedure, the periodontist gave me a running commentary, which included him noticing something else wrong, and modified his procedure away his original plan. While in the dentist chair, I squeezed out a tear because the very thought of having to go to that office …

I thought I would take a gander through my Flickr photostream (double-checking my tagging system works, you know) to see if I had photographs from meals each time on the same day in June for the past five years. While we are ultra-practical when it comes to most dining out (read: Chinese diners), for special occasions we tend to end up at a French restaurant. It’s not too odd in the grand scheme of things but I find it cute how NPY so loves his Chinese food… and then we …

A Smart Canucks post, “Do we take multiculturalism for granted here in Canada?” (warning: a NSFW image is first thing in that post) alerted me to this seemingly surreal book, a recently published exposé by former Wall Street money manager J.C. Davies, I Got the Fever. Her credentials to write this book include, according to her bio, an undergraduate degree in psychology, a masters degree in public health, and 20 years of dating men of different cultures*. The book purports to cover from her own experiences and interviews with women …

After three years of seeing me run like one possessed, NPY started running for fitness and we did a 5K “fun run” together in October. Not satisfied with not knowing exactly how long it took us, I suggested we do another race… or a longer race. I originally wanted to do the 10K Sun Run with 40,000+ other runners and walkers; a lot of our friends would usually participate in some way, and it’s really fun for that aspect, but I’m not in town that weekend and I found the …

Somehow, time has passed such that NPY and I have made it to the three-year mark. Yes siree, three years ago, June 16 was a Friday and I dolled myself up (a rarity) for a tentatively made dinner date with with a boy that turned out to exceed all my expectations. And, I might add, after all the years and mis-starts, my expectations were finally in the right place.
Other than that, I’m quite loathed to prattle on about our relationship – it’s not in my tagline above ;-) – except …

Yay, I’m back and it feels like I’ve had a second job this week uploading, captioning, tagging, and deliberating on photographs from a mere ten days spend on the Right, er, East Coast….
First off, you must know that NPY was along for the ride – and I do plan a crazy ride – and he was Meeting the Parents for the first time. However, it went smoothly, much unlike the movie, and only I felt a twinge of guilt that while I was physically in Halifax, I kind of had …

NPY surprised me arranging that we go to Seattle this weekend. It it is President’s Day on the Monday the 16th. Oh, and it’s Valentine’s Day on Saturday!
All he did was book the hotel. I’m doing the rest. =P
The following list is racing through my head like a ticker.
Red Mango. P.F. Chang’s. Cheesecake Factory. Oh gosh, will we get to dine anywhere on V-Day? University Village. Bellevue Square. Ann Taylor. Banana Republic Outlet shopping. Don’t forget your $150 GC. Don’t forget your USD cash. Don’t forget your passport. Finish Line …

I was making fun of NPY on account of his Chinese dollar store slippers when he explained how he came to acquire them.
Me: Those are such dorky slippers. You’re such a dork.
Him: Do you know why I got them? It’s got your name on it.
Me: Wha? It says… uhm… feng. Wha?
Him: Yeah. In English, “wind”. Wynd.
Me: Aww! You’re so sweet. And still a dork!
You might see me posting more in this fashion because NPY got me a pretty little present for our two-year anniversary. To protect it, of course I …