733. Christmas Part 3 & New Year's

Finally the first post of 2020! I haven't had much time to blog these days (or motivation) unfortunately as I've just relaxed during the holidays, then got quite busy with work after the new year. Also I've been in my reading phase so I've just been doing that a lot in my spare time. Here is what we did over Christmas and New Year's Eve. This was my building's NYE decorations. They always go pretty over-the-top with them but I love it! (The bottom part of my building used to be a bank many years ago (the headquarters of TD) so that's why we have a vault downstairs). The first year I moved in here, I celebrated NYE in my lobby. I remember that was quite an eventful night as there was a shooting at the party in the vault (I think it was 2-3 shots fired and nobody got hurt though). I didn't see it happen as I was in the lobby but I did see the guy run out with a gun.



On Christmas Eve, my boyfriend & I went for dinner at Akira Back.


Our favourite dish..the tuna pizza!





Christmas puzzle of Santorini! Unfortunately it's still maybe only 15% completed.


On Christmas Day we went to Gyu-Kaku (one of the few restaurants open)




Then a dim sum lunch with my mom.



A nice surprise from my friend who spent the holidays in Australia!



Making our favourite matcha cookies.


One of the books I recently read. I think I'll do a big post soon of all the books I've read lately (and my review)


For NYE we went for dinner at Chotto Matte.



Pisco Sours






My 80s aerobics style inspired outfit.


Another recent book I've just read.


One of my work spots.

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638. Recent Life

Every time when I make a "recent life" post I either feel like typing a lot/getting somewhat personal, or having nothing to write at all. Tonight it's the latter. This is just for the sake of having some text here. Sometimes I wish I could go back to how my blog was a few years ago when I was more comfortable writing about every detail of my life lol.
So I've been making more of an effort to not have all my posts consist strictly of food photos. I think I'm getting better at it..slowly.


Warmer weather = more and longer dog walks! & more colours.

My sister gave me this as one of my Christmas gifts a few months ago and I only got around to reading it this past weekend (prior to that I spent a lot of time catching up on my huuuuge stack of magazines which I was really behind on. I have that more under control now). This is the first fiction book I've read in a really long time. Several years ago I no longer had any interest in fiction books since I didn't have much time to read for leisure and I felt they were a waste of time. I usually just read non-fiction books and magazines if they contribute something to my knowledge/life but reading this provided some much needed stress relief. It's a pretty entertaining book and I can relate to some Chinese cultural things they talk about so that makes it even more interesting for me. I even went to buy the second one in the series today.


Starting to get back into cooking again.



The gym in my building is finally, finally open again!! It was under renovations for several months. It is a lot bigger than it used to be and there are more machines now. I thought it would take me awhile to get back into the routine of going but so far so good. I've been going every other day or every two days.
I took this photo above using self timer on my phone. After many attempts. I really hope they weren't watching me on the security cameras..I was setting it then running back to get in position, quickly doing a downward dog in time for the snap while trying to have a perfect form. All while hoping nobody would walk by and see hahah.


Oh and here are my "gym sandals" ;)




Dinner at Gyu-Kaku. Normally I don't like these places where you have to "cook your own food". But I really enjoyed this and their meats were all delicious!



I was excited to see taiyaki on the menu but unfortunately it didn't taste that good. So I was inspired to go and get my own....

I discovered this H Mart opened in downtown and within walking distance to my place. It's a Korean grocery store and they sell a lot of different Asian foods. I came in search of ice cream which I successfully found..and also found a lot of other things I wanted to buy and try. Many Asian foods and snacks that I used to eat when I was younger. I felt so nostalgic lol. I will definitely be going back a lot more.






Dinner last night at La Carnita.


This corn was so good!! But messy to eat..



Then late night dessert at home.

I realize now I wrote quite a lot in this post even though I said in the beginning I wouldn't hahah.

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