2/27

Today was a meatless day! I did not eat much... but what I did eat was pretty calorie heavy. Except I didn't take pictures of the calorie heavy snacks. I really need to start taking pictures of everything I eat... darn you chocolate!

Also. Another thing. Editing cover letters with your significant other can be quite frustrating. There's too many ways to say the same thing!

Meal 1: red lobster cheddar biscuit with cream cheese and grape tomatoes; plain yogurt with peach (or mango?) preserves mixed in

Meal 2: avocado, blueberry, and banana smoothie! cilantro pesto on wheat bread and my grandmother's delicious coconut taro rice congee dish. 

Snack: I hadn't finished the congee for dinner so I ate it later as a snack along with some Jarlsberg cheese I had gotten from Roots. I know you're probably thinking... two meals? She only ate two meals? Well, I snacked on a lot of chocolate and drank the broth my brother's ramen (he was just going to throw it away... better in my tummy than down the sink!). 

I didn't read much today. 

But I do have some music of the day:

• Jasmize Sullivan: 10 Seconds (link)
• Knox Hamilton: Work it out (link)
• Bad Suns: Cardiac Arrest (link)

2/26

I only ate two meals today... but my second meal was really big and I snacked on a few things. I also woke up at 11am again... but that's okay. It's better to get sleep and wake up late than wake up early for no reason? Right?! 

Meal 1: raw fish salad; miso soup, and dried seaweed. 
I ate this after I woke up around ~11:30. My mom bought my dad and I a container each of the raw fish salad because she knows we love it. 

Meal 2: the rest of the raw fish salad accompanied with carrots and pepper jack cheese. 

I went to the gym with my friends and although I really wanted to go home and make my own protein smoothie and feast, one of my friends had a hankering for some outside food. I decided not to buy anything because I didn't want to spend any money. We were out for a while though... I may have lost my gainz. I'm just kidding but when I got home to eat around 8pm, I was starving! 

Midnight snack: Blueberries. I also snacked on a bread roll and butter cream pastry throughout the day. My mom bought a lot of bakery items and it's hard to resist them haha. 

What I'm listening to

• Chris Brown: Strip feat. Kevin McCall (link)
• Lorde: Buzzcut Season (link)
• Keane: Looking Back feat. K'naan (link)

Interesting reads:

• I'm the Duke University Freshman Porn Star and for the First Time I'm Telling the Story in My Own Words (link)
• Seth Rogen opening statement on Alzheimer's Disease Comments (comment 1, comment 2)

2/25

Blog Rationale:

I started participating in Meatless Mondays (info here) this month and as a result, I've been taking pictures of my food on my meatless days. Participating has forced me to think outside the box about what I eat. Along the way I realized that when I take pictures of my food, I feel more accountable about what I eat. I take more care in choosing what to eat, incorporate more vegetables, and pay more attention to portion sizes. I recently graduated from my university and am unfortunately still unemployed... so my activity level has decreased a lot. I'm hoping to start this food blog so I can continue to eat healthier and work on other things... Spaghetti monster knows I have a lot to work on. Although this is mainly to document my food, I'll occasionally dabble on music, my work progress, my sleeping schedule, my physical activity, and so on.

Today's Om Nom Noms:

I ate a lot of leftover food today. My siblings don't eat enough of the food that my grandmother and mom make (*cough cough brother Kevin). My sleeping schedule is also a bit messed up since I don't have to wake up at a certain time so I'll skip the breakfast, lunch, dinner terms. 

Oi, I woke up and fully got up at 11:30am today. Tomorrow I'll work on getting up earlier... 

1st meal (12pm): my grandma's bun rieu (egg, tomato, cha lua, pork); my mom's peppery fish cakes; banh tet (mung bean, rice, pork belly). I only ate about a fourth of the soup. 

2nd meal (6pm): bread roll from this Korean bakery my mom frequents; my mum's braised and peppered pork belly with cooked greens (I'm not sure what the main component is, but there was green beans and cilantro); kimchi. At 7pm, I decided to eat a small piece of my sister's leftover birthday ice green cake. 

3rd meal (12am): finishing up the bowl of bun rieu I ate earlier; I also finished up the rest of the fish balls and ate a small piece of bread with Cilantro pesto. My brother made the bread in his culinary class and it's pretty good!

What I'm listening to:

• Alt-J: Breezeblocks (link)
• Marina and the Diamonds: Primadonna (link)
• Joy Wellboy: Lay down your blades (link)
• A$AP Rocky feat. Skrillex and Birdy Nam Nam: Wild for the Night (link)

Interesting Articles I read today: 

• There is no such thing as prostitution (link)
• New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To 'Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations' (link)