Cooking

It's been too long since I spent more than half an hour in the kitchen cooking. I finally picked out a recipe and made some broccoli soup. The recipe is from one of the Moosewood cookbooks and this soup has no cheese or heavy cream. Just milk and oatmeal for the creamy texture. Tastes just as good, and I actually like it more less greasy anyway -- a great cookbook, heh.

Burrenchilada

Two friends of mine in Korea and I went out to Panchos for the first Mexican dinner in Seoul. I got their "Super Burrito" with beans, which turned out to be something more like a huge enchilada with rice in it. It was good nonetheless -- they had great chips and salsa, and even decent guacamole. Can't complain.

Also had a glass of great red wine at this bar called "The Bungalow," with sand on the floor and beach chairs everywhere. With my tolerance possibly at its lowest point, I was pretty happy coming home last night after finishing the entire glass. It was also the first night I had a lot of fun just hanging out and chatting over drinks, without going crazy and coming home at 3am. I think I was singing pretty loud on the way home? Oops :$

Inconvenience!

Nothing opens before 9am!

Can't get cash without charging myself an extra dollar before 9am (yes, I'm still not over the fact that my own bank charges me money for taking out my own money from their ATM).

Can't get a cup of decent coffee at a cafe (if I want some, I have to get one from Starbucks and practice the master act of balancing with the coffee in my hand, carrying a purse, and trying to find a bar or a handle to hold on on the crazy bus ride.

Can't even get a can of crappy coffee from a "convenience" store because they open at 10am.

Ugh.

Finally!

I've finally found a loaf of good multigrain bread in Seoul! It smells great, has a very chewy texture (amaizing when toasted too), and most importantly has 9 different grains, extra fiber from apples, walnuts and sunflower seeds! It's called "Energy Bread," LOL.

From Iris's email earlier today:

I Wish I Could Go Back to College (Avenue Q)

I wish I could go back to college.
Life was so simple back then.
What would I give to go back and live in a dorm with a meal plan again!
I wish I could go back to college.
In college you know who you are.
You sit in the quad, and think, "Oh my God!
I am totally gonna go far!"

How do I go back to college?
I don't know who I am anymore!

I wanna go back to my room and find a message in dry-erase pen on the door!
Ohhh...
I wish I could just drop a class...
Or get into a play...
Or change my major...
Or fuck my T.A.

I need an academic advisor to point the way!
We could be...
Sitting in the computer lab,
4 A.M. before the final paper is due,
Cursing the world 'cause I didn't start sooner,
And seeing the rest of the class there, too!

I wish I could go back to college!

How do I go back to college?!
AHHHH...