i keep having dried blood in my nose. stick my little finger in and it comes out all red. yuck. i need to drink more water cos i'm too heaty already. decided to go online and check wat other foods i can eat that are cooling cos i got no chinese tea and i don't like the bananas here.

here's what i found. highlighted are the some of the things (sortof) i've consumed in the past week days...

Cool (yin) Foods:
Bamboo shoot, banana, bitter gourd, clam, crab, grapefruit, lettuce, persimmon, salt, seaweed, star fruit, sugar cane, water chestnut, watermelon, lotus root, cucumber, barley, bean curd, chicken egg white, marjoram, oyster (sauce?), pear, peppermint, radish, strawberry, tangerine, and yogurt, broccoli, cauliflower, zuccini, corn, tomatoes, pineapple, turmeric.

Neutral (balanced yin and yang) Foods:
Corn, abalone, apricot, beef, beetroot, black fungus, carp, carrot, celery, chicken egg yolk, cuttlefish, duck, fig, honey, kidney bean, lotus fruit and seed, milk (cream), olive (oil), oyster, papaya, pork, potato, pumpkin, radish leaf, red bean, plum, sunflower seed, sweet rice, sweet potato, white fungus, yellow soybean, brussels sprouts, snow peas, sweet potato, taro, dates, figs, raspberries, raisins, sage, rosemary, thyme, brown rice, apple.

Heaty (yang) Foods:
Pepper, cinnamon bark, ginger, soybean oil, red and green pepper, chicken, apricot seed, brown sugar, cherry, chestnut, chive, cinnamon twig, clove, coconut, coffee, coriander (Chinese parsley), date, dillseed, eel, garlic, grapefruit peel, green onion, guava, ham, leaf mustard, leek, longan, mutton, nutmeg, peach, raspberry, rosemary, shrimp, spearmint, sweet basil, tobacco, vinegar, walnut, jackfruit, durian, leek, shallots, spring onion, , apricots, blackberries, black currant, mangoes, peaches, cherry, mandarin orange, grape.

How a food is prepared also matters. E.g Beef is considered as neutral, but if you have it deep fried or grilled, it would be considered as heaty.


since i fry nearly EVERYTHING, that makes half my diet heaty. j'ai vraiment besoin de boire l'eau de plus.. j'en ai jamais envie. tant pis. pfft.

i had a really rich dinner last night- pasta in a sauce made from garlic, liverwurst, blood sausage and cream. thought it was gonna make me sick but because i didn't put too much cream, it wasn't jelak at all. aussies matt and nik want to take turns with me to cook. i don't mind cooking for them; i'm only worried about their questionable cooking skills because i saw nik having a pack of kraft-dinner for lunch today and matt frying a can of beans and putting it on a pita for dinner. anyhow's matt is cooking my dinner on tues cos i'll be working. so we'll see how it goes.

iris and haida want me to move to m-hse but i'm not too keen cos i'm such a fucking social whore. haha.

hier soir, c’était le fun.. heather et moi, on était ennuyeux alors, on est allée là-bas pour fumer une clope et jouer de la guitare. nous avons inventé nos propres chansons en regardant ceux qui sortaient pour ses soirées. quelques gars bizarres, beaucoup de rire; il faisait de plus en plus froid mais on s’amusait trop et on s’en fichait.

hmm. i should practise my french more. sent my thanksgiving pics home via email. did i tell you i watched my first ice hockey match? nothing big scale but it was exciting nevertheless. i was worried suddenly last night. that i wasn't taking advantage of my time here as an exchange student to go travel on the weekends and all that. but then edmen reminded me i got to go to kat's place for thanksgiving and that all the touristy stuff you can alsways do another time. ya well, i guess that is true.. and i did see niagara falls after all. i guess it's not that i'm losing out. not being close to other exchange students just means i get a more local experience. plus, davin's really keen to take me home for his bowling tournament/tryouts thing in nov. i'll get to watch real canadian 5-pin bowling! and claudia said she'll ask her dad if they can take me to see quebec to see omega park (some cool nature park tt mathilde visited two days back). so sweet of claudia.

i guess i just got a bit dwn in the first place because i realised that all the exchange students i know have been travelling every week and none of them ever ask me if i wanna go. i'm trying not to think too much of this. maybe if i can make enough and if my french exams are early enough, i'll go to NYC by myself for two weeks before ling exam. i just thought of florence. maybe she'd like to go too. i'll ask.

i was doing some calculations today and if i'm not wrong, i've made about CA$456 so far frm work and work training. which is a pretty neat sum. i'm extremely proud of myself.

found good looking north indian food in the market today. opens till 10 everyday. {:o)

pics akan datang cos image-uploader is down. laundry now. then hmwk. got to work tmr. bring in the dough, sucker!