ummm...where to start?

Much has happened since the last post...which really makes me want to keep updating this so it's not like I'm lost on which event I should blab about.

To resolve this I will write about two of my favourite things: Sports and Food

For starters I was pretty sad the day I watched the Korea vs. Uraguay game...it was heartbreaking to seem them lose when they really should have had that game. There have been many shockers so far in the World Cup with the performance, or lack of, of England, Italy, France...and Portugual now out. Another shocker was to see that the Germany vs Argentina game was not even close!...I expected a 1 goal difference...not 4! And bye bye to Brazil. I'm looking forward to watching the Germany vs. Spain game...hope that one is a close one =)

Just a few days ago I went to Ribfest in Toronto...and I'm so glad I went this time, unlike all the other years where I would always find out too late. The ribs were delicious, the beans were delicious, it was all just so delicious! I'll post a couple pictures up soon.
This year I want to try to go to all the festivals in Toronto like the Taste of Danforth (never gone), Jazz Festival, Summerlicious (to a yummy place), and whatever else there may be. To add to that...must try all these yummy food places I've been hearing about..like this place that's suppose to make really really good sandwiches. Where have I been to have not tried any of these unheard of restaurants??
Tomorrow...I will be feasting on lobster at Wah Sing! =) I'm so excited...that even my stomach is excited. I feel hungry just thinking about eating black bean lobster!...and corn soup!...drooooooooools*

oh mannn...time to get a snack...I am seriously starving now after thinking about food and for what is to come tomorrow! =D

Sports...bringing people together

It's been awhile since I last posted...it seems to be harder to keep a blog during the summer than it was when I was in school.  It's probably because my blog was my time to take a break from studying...whereas now I don't need a break since I'm enjoying my summer before I have to get serious about looking for a job..a career.  It can be a frightening thought since I'm not entirely sure what it is I want to do exactly.  All I know is that I want to travel around before I settle down; starting with teaching in Korea.  I was busy getting started on the process of the whole thing but now I've slowed down a lot.  Although now I have to pick it up again and get all the documents completed as I have a deadline once again to get it all done.  There is another opportunity that has come up ...to work in Korea but I don't think I can commit to living in Korea for more than a year.  Plus, that would mean I'm settling and that will take away from my freedom to travel around the world.  So much to get done in the next couple of days....eeeeeeeeek!  I should get started on that now...and I will after finishing this post.

Well that was quite a tangent...

Moving on to what I originally planned to write about and that's WORLD CUP!! The time is finally near, and S.Korea's first game will be against Greece this Saturday! Even if it's at 7:30 in the morning on a weekend (although everyday is like the weekend for me I guess...I should find something part time at least for now..lol another item on my list of things to do) I will be up and ready to watch! and of course I will be wearing the S.Korea shirt I bought from Roots! =) yays!

What an exciting time! Another sporting event that brings the world together.  Maybe not cheering for the same country, but we'll all be watching.

DAE HAN MIN GOOK! Let's go S.Korea!

=)

Stranger Danger!

It's been awhile since I have posted, but this one is quite the short story hehe.

I'm lying on my couch in the sitting/living room area.  My mom has the front door open, which she tends to do when she's cooking (since Korean food can smell).  It's not too big of a deal since we're both home and we have another screen door type thing anyhow.

So like I said I'm lying on the couch when I hear someone open the screen door and walk in.  A man is calling out..."Lexi? Lexi?...Lex-eeee?"

In my head I'm like what the hell?  Who is this random stranger calling out a random unknown name in this house?

I get up and walk to the front door/foyer area and see this fairly tall older man with brown hair and glasses dressed in a brown suit. Oh and he was ..WEARING HIS SHOES inside the house! I guess that's a Caucasian thing...cause us Asians like to take our shoes off to keep the floors clean lol.

Me: Sorry, who are you looking for?
Random Stranger: Is Lexi here?
Me: ummm no, sorry I think you're at the wrong house.
RS: So this isn't the jsiofjsiojajfiod (I don't know what he said)
Me: no it's not...
RS: oh okay...sorry about that.
Me: it's alright..

RS departs and I shut the door.  Then I see him drive off in his Audi.

I guess he might have confused our house with the one that's 2 houses down...they do pretty much look exactly the same hahaha.

Anyhow, it was a strange confusing moment.

Ciao~ 'til Next Time =)

A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words

 A Collection of Pictures (+ lil descriptions) of My Past Week

White and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies

World Cup Gear (From Roots)+ Asian Gum (there is literally only 4 lil gum balls in that tiny box lol, still it's yummy)

Waiting in line for the enter the H&M Re-Opening Event

(Invite Only - thanks to my sister who got an invite! =))

Red Carpet Style + Enjoying the Drinks and Goodies!

I don't know why I'm so yellow in the middle picture...lol

The Many Items Tried (25% off purchases WoooHooo~)

The Walk

(Garage at which we left the car to get fixed to home)

Loving My New Sunglasses! (from H&M)

 

Mushroom Risotto

If A picture is worth 1,000 words...then how about the worth of a whole bundle of pictures??....not enough words so wordless (aka priceless)??

[lol just my random silliness]

Happy Photo-Snapping Everyone~

The Weekend - "Forever Young"

Saturday...
My dad asked me during the week to play for his team for a volleyball tournament being held for the adults (most being 40+)  at the church.  On the day of the tournament (Saturday), he calls me in the morning to make sure I'm there at least by 10:30am.  I wake up and get ready, expecting the car to be there so I can get there...only to find there is no car but thankfully my sister hadn't left yet for her work event so she dropped me off.

I get there slightly late, but it didn't matter anyhow since there were two games ahead of us...

this is how the game was going...

I thought oh dear....but then the games got more intense and me and my dad make a great pair! =)

After the first game we played, all the adults would come to me and say (in Korean)...

"oh you're so good!" 

"where did you learn to play?" 

"you are definitely your father's daughter" - referring to the fact my dad is the athletic type and plays sports.  I was surprised myself of how well my dad plays.  I didn't know what to expect, but he's pretty good and can set pretty well...I guess it helps to have strong thick fingers lol.

One of the adults comes up to my dad and I saying (in Korean) "I was going to ask my son to come play but didn't but now I called him to come since you brought your daughter.  He's getting ready now and he plays for his highschool team."  It became serious business for some people...lol

Another comment or question heard often from the adults was (in Korean) 

"how old are you?"

"What grade are you in?"

I tell them I'm 23 this year and/or finished university

They respond with initial silence with shock written all over their face...

and then "wow you look so young!" ...I guess I still look like I'm a teenager? which will be a blessing later when I do age and hope that I still look young hahahaha

Well it's been awhile since I jumped that much playing volleyball, since my dad's plan was to set me for most of the time, good practice for me.

But for someone who does not stretch...boy did I feel it the next day and especially the 2nd day after.  I go up and down the stairs with a hobble.

Staying on the topic of volleyball, that same Saturday I had a banquet to go to that is for a volleyball league I play in.  At first I wasn't feeling in the mood to dress up and go since I had a headache and wasn't feeling great, but I went and I'm glad I did.  I wanted to be there to support the league and my team, especially since our team won =) 

We are missing a few people (Glen, Carli, Jess Chae)

yay back-to-back wins!

I did dress up, but kept it simple

(me and wayne)
Maybe should have added some colour...

I also won a dvd player and a bluetooth usb [which I don't need but still cool I won!].  I was really hoping for the projector though! Everyone wins something, and the prizes ranged from a deck of cards (lol poor guys who won just cards) to the projector machine.

It was a fun night, because my team is an awesome bunch =) 

<3

Sunday ...
was my closest friend's birthday =)

Such a guys night [well makes sense since they're guys] as we played video games, ordered pizza, beer....the only girly thing was the red velvet cupcakes.  They just had to check if those silver balls on top of the cupcake are okay to eat....and we found out that it's not good to eat those poisonous lil metal balls.  The cupcake was delicious though lol.  So letting you guys know that those silver balls are for decorative purposes only...don't eat!

Then ended the night watching Kindergarten Cop, a classic Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.  A good Arnold movie.

It was a good weekend =)

Hope Everyone's Weekend was Great too! =)

The Beginning of Freedom

My first official day of being finished school was spent baking =)
Two Items on the List: Coconut Cream Pie and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

The coconut cream pie needs 4 hours to chill in the fridge before putting the cream topping on/be served, so I decided to make cookies.  Elliot was over to help or more like watch while I bake so that we could hit the golf range after I was done.  I asked him to tell me the instructions so this way it could go a lil faster.  The cookies didn't turn out chewy and I couldn't figure out what I did wrong, until later when I read the instructions myself....I was suppose to take them out slightly under baked.  Elliot left this lil bit but crucial detail out.  I wanted to take some of the cookies for my lovely man-friend (haha my way of writing boyfriend), but because it was kind of a failure I didn't =(

On the bright side, the coconut cream pie turned out delicious!! messy but super YUMS!

Even Chieu-Nghi, who doesn't like coconut, and Jessica, who also is not a big fan of coconut, both enjoyed this pie! Jessica had another serving =) So even if you don't like coconut, I don't think the flavour is overpowering, but just the right amount, for all to enjoy! (:

After baking, didn't have time to go to the range cause I was going to go play some one-on-one basketball with my manfriend before he played pickup with the rest of the guys.  It's SOOO  much fun!! I'm not very good with my shot, but I'm a good defender...probably where my competitive side kicks in. Even in volleyball, my favourite thing to do is to block or pick up someone's hit; it's the best feeling.

Anyhow, the next day I had a GNI (girls night in) with Chieu-Nghi and Jessica =)  we made dinner and it was good times.  Listening and watching those two in the kitchen is hilarious.  It was obvious they don't cook much, let alone step foot in the kitchen hahahaha =).  But the food turned out DELICIOUS nonetheless!  We made chicken fingers and oven fries.  Not too difficult, since we do want to start off easy...and make something that's fairly fast (we were all starving).  I really wish though that we recorded ourselves while cooking...that way I could share with you the enjoyment I had of hearing them (especially Jessica...who will in the future need a cook and a maid ;) )  It was a good meal, and good times shared with the two of them.  <3 them~ (sorry next time I'll take pictures of all the food...usually I do...)  My parents and sister also got to enjoy the food when they came home later =)

HAPPY BAKING AND COOKING EVERYONE =)

The Wait, The Anticipation...

On Monday night, I should say late Monday night, I finally ordered the cookbook I've been meaning to get and along with that purchase I decided to get a baking book by the same company.  I ordered from Amazon.com, it was my first time, and the shipping option I was going with they said it'd be around a few days.  My thinking was great...I'm going to have to wait at least 4 days or something.  

The next day, I check to see the status and it said that it's being shipped and should be there the day after.

So now it's Wednesday, I've been focused on studying for my exam that I had that night (with a few breaks here and there of course....my stomach is my number one distractor....I always had to be eating something because I was convinced by my stomach that I was hungry) and UPS tracking info said that it should be delivered that day between 9am-7pm.  

The whole time I was waiting and anticipating...anxious to see my box of goodies!  it's still mid-day and I hear the doorbell ring.  Naturally I thought it was the UPS person with my delivery! but to my disappointment it was just another one of those guys who wanted to sell my parents on getting our lawn done.  I went back to the dining room where I was studying...feeling somewhat unsatisfied from the encounter.  

It's getting closer to the time I want to leave for my exam ..and finally after a few hours from the grassman, I see the UPS truck roll up! I was so excited (that I could just not hide it) but I told myself that if I was just standing at the door waiting it might be a lil creepish so I decided to contain myself and wait until he rang the doorbell. He rings the doorbell and I fight myself from running to the door.  I open the door and he's about to walk away and I say "hi!" I was excited to see him (well more the package) and he could care less.  

UPS Man: I have a package for Sonia Chang.

Me: YES that's ME!

UPS Man hands me the package and goes off and I say "Thank you! Bye!" and I immediately go back to my dining table with so much excitement that I instantly cut through the tape and open the box. (It's like Christmas to me!) And there lay my First Cookbook and Baking Book! My very own~ =)

I'm so excited to start cooking and baking, but I have to wait until I'm done my last exam (which is monday night then FREEEDOM my friends...Freedom!)

So stay tuned because I will soon be sharing how these recipes go! I may even have videos of the process and how people enjoy the end product =)

Thank you to Amazon/UPS for the super quick delivery! That was basically a day and half I waited...so fast! 

OOOOO I CAN'T WAIT TO BAKE/COOK!!! CAN YOU?!

HAPPPPY COOKING/BAKING EVERYONE~!