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- It semi snowed this week! What a lovely (yet belated) surprise. I do enjoy light snow but when it gets really vicious, I get surly like everyone else.

- I've used up half of my favorite candles! They're both seasonal so it's my last Homemade Cookies by Slatkin & Co and Christmas Cookies by Yankee candle. Next year, I'm hoarding!

- Had lunch with Nick at William's last week. The Cobb salad really is excellent with sesame dressing.

- I've been making myself fruit platters at night. I am completely out of bananas though, so a trek to Metro is necessary this week.

- Nick and I went to Ikea for Saturday brunch. Fact: We bought three bags of Ikea meatballs.

- I had an interview really early this Monday so I stayed over with Geneva (who I frequently refer to as my wife) in Toronto. We were shopping at Eatons so I got Gyozas from Kenzo Ramen since they were down the street. They're absolutely delicious. Kenzo ramen looks a bit sketchy from the outside, which means the food must be stellar.

- Super fun slumber ~ party ~ night was spent watching Friends and the Golden Globes. I ate half of Geneva's oranges supply and lots of salami.

- Got a new Clarisonic brush head. Went for Sensitive skin this time, rather than Delicate. This is a much better choice. For anyone interested, it goes Delicate - > Sensitive - > Normal.

The normal is very harsh though, I wouldn't recommend it.

- Also included in Geneva's christmas package: Her Mario Badescu Drying lotion. I have rekindled my eternal love for it. It's a lot more gentle than my DDF clay. The PINK MONSTER RETURNS. I actually use them in combination now. I'm like extra scary at night now.

- Christmas candles at 50% off at Bath & Body works. I got two of the Marshmellow Peppermint. I don't like it as much as the cookie series but I'll live :p

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- I went out for dim sum with Simon this week! How I miss my precious light bulb-headed friend. We had fun nomming at a dim sum place in Downtown Hamilton. It wasn't too bad. They had this fairly yummy bamboo wrap that was surprisingly good. It came down to $20 so we paid $10 each. Quite a good deal since we got a lot of food (not shown here, clearly :p).

- Christmas PJs were 50% off at La Senza! My housemates keep telling me how warm and cozy I look this week. This set don't look too Christmasy until you read the words imprinted on there :p

- I've been taking Vitamin E pills every day because it's supposed to helps with dry skin and redness. These are my primary ailments so I thought "What the hell". Not quite sure if it's working but I figure Vitamin E can't kill me. I poured some into a little jelly bean jar I got from my Glymm Box a few months back.

- Someone said that Homemade Cookie from Slatkin & Co may be seasonal? No, don't let it be!

- Hadi came to Hamilton this week! I love it when friends come for a visit. We all had tea together at Williams but I was dying of hunger so I ate a Cobb salad. It's actually very good with the sesame dressing.

- Friday breakfasts with Nick has continued (yes, I've given up on screening names), except this time we had it at the Pancake house instead of Williams. I had the Western omelet with a hint of sugar in my tea. Nick drinks tea the british way (no sugar, just milk). I ended up giving him most my home fries because I can't eat oily food that early in the morning.

- Rice milk was on sale this week! $1.99, down from $3.60! I bought what was left over, the shelves were almost cleaned out.

- Favorite snack of the week: Corn pops and rice milk in a Christmas cup.

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Prepare yourself for the foodiest weekly collage ever

- I found these multigrain tortilla chips at the student center the other day. It had these fetching lime green stripes and I love healthy snacks so I bought a pack. These are delicious! If anyone wants a healthy, yummy snack, I highly recommend!

- I had lunch with The Boy and a mutual friend last week at the Bean Bar. I ordered their Moroccan Stew but the star of the show is really their corn bread. It's absolutely amazing, especially when its fresh out of the oven. I actually bought 4 of them for $2 to take home for breakfast.

- Second Cup's new cup designs are beautiful. It's like a less corporate starbucks. The little hand drawn trees at the bottom adds a nice touch.

- IKEA DOLLA BREAKFASTS ARE AMAZING. The Boy spent less than $10 for food there and we had both breakfast and lunch there (although to be fair, that was within 2 hours of each other). The meatballs were so good, I bought a frozen stash to take home.

- I went to Montfort Ancaster for the first time last week. I also went to Montfort Westadale this week with (guess who?) the Boy and the one in Ancaster has much better food. Their fries were delicious and the rice had sort of a lemony flavoring.

I feel like a pretentious foody now.

- Adding to this food-dominated Collage, we went to August 8 after Christmas shopping last Saturday. The spicy salmon there is really good so I usually feast my heart on it (I dive in and resurface much later). I also enjoy the Salmon sashimi and the dim sum. Om nom nom.

Now I'm hungry

- So I bought this little snack plate from Shoppers last week. It's now sitting beside my bedside table and holds the items I use before bed. I have: Origin's Sensory Therapy (I dab it on to relax before bed), Lush bubblegum lip scrub, EOS lip balm in Summer Fruit and the little white jar has a bit of DDF's sulfur mask. Sometimes I get splotches before bed. I dab a bit of this on (and turn into CLAYMONSTER) and its gone by the next day. I'm going to do a review on this soon!

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- My mom went on a business trip in Wuhan for a month so she took a detour to Hong Kong to relax for a few days. She had never been there before and came back with a bag of very girly, frilly goodies. Of course, I squee-ed at the Iphone case she bought me and snapped it on. I used it for a few days but realized that I just couldn't whip out something that ridiculous looking.

I tried prying it off but the thing was stuck on there with the jaws of life. A coworker of mine ended up wrenching it off. I am now very thankful for my classic Moshi case.

- I went home for a few days and my mom fed me a ton of Asian food because she insisted that I looked too thin (it's plausible after living on oatmeal and chicken). For breakfast, I was given a bowl of black bean soup, an egg and flour omelet and a seasoned black tea egg.

Om nom nom, I miss my mom's cooking

- This is a nice shot of my house! I'm really excited to help my dad decorate for Christmas next week. Fun fact: the kids in my neighborhood used to call my house the Haunted Mansion during Halloween. My parents are really shy and doesn't know how to interact with children so they hide in the basement and turn off ALL THE LIGHTS on Halloween.

- The Eaton's Center has really stepped up the Christmas decor this season. They have these giant light structures in the shape of reindeers now. There were all these adorable kids running around them because they didn't know what they were!

- I know, I know. You see this every week. The Boy and I grab breakfast at William's Fresh cafe every Friday morning. I discovered this week that you can actually order poached eggs instead of the flavorless scrambled one. This is a much better option, I like dipping my whole wheat toast in the egg. Yum!

- My hunt for the perfect Ipad case has concluded! I had my eye on a black leather one I saw at the Apple store but it was almost $100 and I kept debating if I wanted to splurge on it. I went to Aritzia and saw that they had the Marc by Marc Jacobs Ipad case for $55. It's very sturdy, well made and it looks great. I really like Marc by Marc Jacob products. If I had an infinite amount of money, I would probably live in it.

- Lord, my attempts to write my essay has been futile. I'm really trying here. The most I've hammered out is an outline. Thank god I still have 2 more days.

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- Mmmm. This is a BLT & A (Avocado) sandwich from William's (also known as my second home). Although it is a delicious sandwich, I also calculated that I could have made this for a toonie.

- Please ignore the pink box with the little girls in the background (DAMN LACK OF DECORATIVE STORAGE CHOICES). This is my favorite brush at the moment. It's a Real Techniques angled foundation brush. I use it to blend my tinted moisturizer every morning.

It's great at giving you a very very light coverage and blending is wonderfully easy. My Mac foundation brush gives me unnecessarily heavy coverage so I like this one much better. It's also easy to clean and I love that the brush can stand on a solid surface!

- I bought this Azami soy sauce for the sweet logo. It tastes the same as the Kikoman but the red against the black makes me feel like a bad-ass when I'm cooking chicken.

- I overdid my candle obsession. I was using this candle for about 10 hours a day and managed to use it up in a week! This habit is getting expensive. Candles are for nocturnal uses only from now on.

- Favorite tea of the moment: Tetley's Cleanse with lemon and honey. I never put sugar in my tea but this one tastes mildly sweet and really relaxes me before bed. I ran out so I bought a new one from Fortinos (along with Roobio and Mint chocolate -_-).

- I'm great at cooking two things: Chicken and soba noodles.

I boil the noodles for about 20 minutes and then heat it in a pan with a mix of spices and sauces. I know it looks slightly scary in the bowl but I assure you, it's delicious ^_^ (asian fob face guarantee!)

- Haphazardly cut snack apple. I'm going to buy some nutella for dipping this week.

- Best. Omelette. I've ever made. Usually I have trouble flipping it but this one came out nicely! I was so amazed that I almost didn't want to eat it.

- I'm burning a new candle now. It's Slatin & Co's "Mint chocolate". Smells amazing and looks like a pool of chocolate when it melts. Sometimes I stare at it and wonder if it would taste like chocolate syrup.