Ate this for four meals (not including Siu Ye) in a row! Made this missing two of the ingredients from the original recipe and the flavouring sauce! Ended up just using Cantonese soy sauce, was good anyways! Also remembered how delicious shiitake mushrooms are! Shiitake! Tuna! Fried Tofu! Are! Awesome!
Started my holiday job today as a stock associate at a culinary goods store unwrapping culinary goods from America, ripping off the American Dollar price tags on them, and putting on a new, much more expensive, Canadian Dollar price tag on them. As I was staring downwards on to the goods, half asleep, I noticed a very familiar pair of feet nearby. They were clad with a very familiar pair of black pair of Adidas sneakers, the same pair that the very kind and lovely exchange student wore. What reminded me more about him was that these feet were attached to a pair of legs clad in dark skinny jeans. Ironic how this is such a common way for a young male to dress. I guess he really is typical, maybe just much more intelligent and kind (to me) and that's why my mind still puts so much emphasis on him. I did however, talk to the owner of these familiar shoes, and the conversation went well, possibly because he was very knowledgable of everything we talked about, and was kind enough to withstand my meek comments and patient enough to continue explaining everything he told me in detail.
Through most of this whole semester, I was giving minimal thought to school work and trying to find a part-time job to pay for an expensive trip in May. I dealt with school in a manner that one would deal with an uninteresting job that will only pay their rent; school still meant to me, only the key to prestige, which meant to me personal empowerment and hence a satisfactory life. Has it occurred to me that personal empowerment, or the ability to enjoy reality, is through knowledge? It is the ability to understand the details of what happens when an uranium shell hits a tank, the ability to see the reasons behind a nations' actions, etc. which ultimately results in the ability to question the concept of fate, and be in control of it.
One should never forget who are friends, but one should never rely on the past.
