ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE ME!

You know what I love about people?
How relate-able, loveable, and amazing they(we) are.

I had a wonderful smiley sunny day today. I handed in my drop out form, and the only sad part about it really was turning over my student card!

I don't know if it's the weather or what, but customers at the restaurant today seem to be overall very pleasant! Maybe I just have a different demeanour today because I woke up on the right side of bed. Anywho, the Vitamin D is doing the people good.

An adorable customer of mine, who is a girl in Grade 12 going into Science, popped by tonight for her usual order. She dismally mentioned she just finished a course, whilst on her March Break, bummer, yes, but she then turned the tables on me, and asked how my day went. I casually told her I officially dropped out today. AND HER EYES WERE LIKE SAUCERS.

You see as second generation Canadians. We have this immense pressure from our parents to create a life that they did not have and struggled to pave for us.
(Yes, this is not the first time you are hearing it, but I'm reiterating it hokay)

She then jumps to ask me "SO THEN WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?!"

To which I replied; "Culinary at George Brown"

Turns out she LOVES to cook and her dream would be to live in Italy for 6 months "PURELY to learn to cook"

I advised her not to run home and tell her mother "Lily at the store is dropping out to learn to cook, so I will too!"

It was adorable to see the sparkle in her eye when we talked about our goals and aspirations. She seems like a smart cookie, so I hope she follows her heart and doesn't get blinded by the riffraff on the sidelines.

Sayonara,
Lil

SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT

Time and time again I have the same argument with my [pa]rentals(mainly my father), about the time I'm wasting with the constant change of direction in my life.

I see it as priceless experience. How can you discount the experiences you go through that teach you and nurture you into the being that you are today?

Yes, I don't take the straight and narrow path. We have our conflicting views.
But once again, I preach "Gotta stick to your guns"

It's a lonely battle, and you have to stay strong and fight for what you believe in and love.

When life gets discouraging, don't second-guess yourself, keep on truckin on, and don't give up your hopes and dreams. Those are your reasons for living, non?

I know it doesn't help having conservative Chinese parents who want you to live a struggle-free life unlike the one they have experienced, but guess what, we all have to go through some obstacles in order to learn. Just remember, there are some things they just can't prevent you from and save you from.

It all comes down to you. And you have it in you. Just keep your head up, take deep breaths, and move past it.

GREEN SPACE DOWNTOWN PLEASE

Whilst taking the street car with my dad towards Union Station, I noticed how beige-brown and ugly the view out the street car window was.
Why doesn't Toronto have a beautiful Central Park.
How amazing would it be to head into the downtown core and sit in a beautiful park.
GET ON IT URBAN LANDSCAPERS.

When your vocabulary is limited to only so many words, your communication and conveying of messages becomes limited as well.

Superhero: Sheer Tranny of Will

Bit once, twice shy

If you don't ask, you don't know.

EAU NATURALE

Hello internet,

This past month has been quite hectic juggling school, work, and LIFE.

School has come to an end, with the exception of exams in the next two weeks, yay...

I am looking forward to playing a shitload of guitar, painting, and playing for the next semester, seeing as I have taken the school semester off; to I suppose find myself. haha

My friend Masa and I got together the other night for "studying" and what ended up happening was... nothing related... except I checked out what was to be expected on the exam. so yay!

We got into talks about politics and social issues, which I think would make amazing podcasts, because she and I have amazing deep intellectual conversations.

We also made an interesting lasagna... haha it was tasty but... interesting.

We are also planning on making homemade lipbalms/cheek tint with beet juice. with organic and all natural ingredients. yay!

Two nights ago, I started crunchybetty.com's honey face wash challenge, and I have to say, despite it being the 2nd day I've been doing it, I think I see positive results!

I've had a nice long conversation with the lady at The Big Carrot's beauty department about toothpaste, skin care regimen, and shampoo.

For the next two weeks, I am going to take up Crunchy Betty's face wash challenge, which consists of washing my face with raw honey. It also tastes delicious.

After I rinse, I spritz rose-water, and then moisturize with rosehip seed oil.

So far so good, and it's only day 2!

I have very blemish prone skin, and thus far, I've noticed that my face feels more supple and the rose water and rosehip oil seems to have a nice calming effect on my skin.

I will try and keep this up for at least 2 more weeks, I work better with short term goals, but at the same time, I don't see a problem with this new skincare regimen that I wouldn't be able to adopt it as a longterm thing.

www.crunchybetty.com

has awesome, wicked recipes for skin care, hair care, etc. to do with food!