My World
The world according to me!Archive for Favourite Things
Flying High
I in MIA for a bit visiting my mother before I fly off AGAIN for school in LON. I hate flying, but I know my fear isn’t rational. Plus I love traveling, so I fight through it.
I had my camera with me in flight so I decided to take some pics to share with you.
My fear isn’t paralysing, thank God, but it makes the process all the more stressful. Hope you like the pics.
Breakfast of Champions
I made Sada this morning. I’ve been craving it whole week and today I caved. I also bought batteries for my camera so I decided to take photos of the process. For the first time I used the full recipe from the Naparima Cookbook, and it came out great.
Making sada is easy, the process is just a little messy and time consuming. But the results are so worth it. And it’s quite a filling and healthy breakfast, I don’t use any fat when cooking the roti. I use oil to cook both the tomato and bhaigan chokas, but not much.
I learned the sakaying process from the Chennette, she was commenting on TriniGourmet’s blog post on sada. It’s soo easy it’s ridiculous.
If you try it let me know how it turns out.
Bright Coloured Folder Paper
My crazy, darling Mommy bought 4 packs, and sent them with my Uncle. And now, they’re in my possession.
Walgreens has them dirt cheap, so take a little trip for a low-cost purchase that could help spruce up the course work or journaling.
Yippee!
Bright Coloured Paper
Stationary update!
I may be getting the bright coloured filler paper after all. Apparently Wausau Paper company’s Exact Brights Filler Paper is available at Walgreens. And the one near my mother has it in stock, sooo I’ve placed an order and hope to be the proud owner of ridiculously coloured folder paper in the near future.
Cause white paper is soo passé.
Ordered It!
I just placed my order for the dark gel pen paper from Miller Pens and Paper. I’ll let you know how the process goes, and what the product is really like when I get it. Next on the list the bright coloured filler paper from the Wausau Paper Company.
Happy writing peeps.
Dark Paper
I have a weakness for school supplies. I have explored my pen addiction before, it has filtered to include general office/ school supplies. Partially cause studying is so boring, I need something to distract me from the lame bits, and help keep me focused. Hence my thing for dark paper. It’s so much cooler than white. It’s kind of rebellious in a way (OK, not really but you get my point).
Pen Addict
I discovered my love of pens in primary school. Penmanship class was the place where my love/ addiction began. We’d spend many hours perfecting our letter formation. By high-school we moved on to using pens. In fact in early primary school it was called Handwriting class, when we moved up to standard 4 and started using pens they called it Penmanship.
We had rules and fancy new equipment in Penmanship class. Lovely, adult Fountain pens, blotters, ink, yea!. We had some don’ts as well: no ball points at all, because they RUIN your handwriting! I remember discussing the merits of cartridge over refillable fountain pens with classmates. I had both! I also remember getting a turquoise cartridge for my fountain pen. It made writing fun! More fun than I’d ever imagined.
Whoopie Pies
Ok I’d never heard of these before, but they sound great! Whoopie pies are a traditional Amish dessert. They look huge, fattening and yummy. Yep, I’m making this during my week home from work. Here’s the recipe.
Thank God for tag surfer or I would have missed out on this recipe.
Hello Kitty
I should have some shame, but why deny the truth? I love Hello Kitty. She’s so damn cute, how could you not love her?
I remember working in a sucky job with too much time on my hands; and a broadband connection when many others had dial-up. I searched for and found Sanrio’s Hello Kitty website where I could read up on the cute kitty. Naturally the best part of the website is the store. Honestly I would buy some of this stuff. I mean, how cute would my daughter (presently childless and not expecting) look with this bib on or toddling to school with this on her back? She’s definitely getting a stuff toy. Don’t look at me like that! She’s getting Powerpuff Girls too, so deal with it.
For me I would totally get a replacement journal, or electronic stuff. But for the fanatic, the possibilities are endless. I may not visit her town in Japan (where else?) but I’m sure someone, somewhere has outfitted their home with this stuff. I mean there’s already a Hello Kitty maternity ward. All kicks aside, I actually like the idea. Seems like a fun soothing space to give birth in.
Which brings me to this: Hello Kitty Hell. One man’s funny blog about being surrounded with this stuff because of his wife.
“If you ever see me with a smile like this on my face with that much Hello kitty crap around, you have my permission to take out any of the many Hello Kitty guns available and put me out of my misery.”
Even I could see how this could be a guy’s version of hell.
But, whatever let us have our fun. You boys get on just as silly over football, or worse: video games.
Vote for T&T
Ok every year Today show host Matt Lauer goes all over the world for his segment, “Where in the World is Matt Lauer?’ It’s a cool segment, where they feature different countries, some of which you may or may not of heard of.
They’ve never come to Trinidad and Tobago. BIG mistake! We’re a great country. Really, ask new convert Queen Latifah.
Anyways, you can go to the Today show website here and cast your vote for Trinidad and Tobago. Do it Now!
