Archive for the ‘Drinks’ Category
Friday, September 5th, 2008
A week ago I had a little something called a coffee craving. My best excuse to drink coffee is when I need to focus on a good amount of math or difficult problems (namely...proofs.)
But sometimes I'll have a little coffee for "wrong" reasons like the assurance that I can stay ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Today is the day of many firsts. And thankfully, I had my camera on me!
Law and Order.
I finally spotted celebrities in Manhattan. Angela has been spotting them since we were freshman since her dorm was on Fifth Avenue. I had an earlier lunch hour than usual and there were ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
After a determined hunt at Kam Man, a supermarket on Canal Street, I found where they keep the coffee makers. Percolators, French presses? No, not for me. I made a micro splurge-- a little less than four bucks got me a Vietnamese Coffee filter.
I've recently become a little obsessed with ...
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Thanks to an earlier incident this week on nearly choking on a piece of cinnamon, I decided to brew my spicy concoction of chai tea in my Chococat teapot.And I live to tell about it. :D
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
The night before Chinese New Year is like...having Thanksgiving dinner, but with emphasis on having symbolic food for dinner.Yes, we have symbolism for dinner. It's pretty awesome.This year, though, Mom toned things down by a lot. Randy stayed upstate since he has school there, so it was just me and ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Eugene is a hand model. Only on some days.
Emack and Bolio's is an ice cream chain that I discovered this past summer either by reading an AMNY article on ice cream places in NYC or by using Menupages. I can't decide, because I can't remember.The location I went to ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Innocently enough, Frangelico is bottled in a very monk-like bottle, complete with a thick piece of rope for his outfit.Frangelico was the first thing I recognized when my brother and I were browsing for liquers. Thanks to many food network episodes of Emeril, I knew offhand what Frangelico was-- hazelnut ...
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
The reference, of course, to Oregon Trail. (I can't begin to tell you how many times I had typhoid, low food supplies and risked drowning by not caulking my raft when fording the river...) If you're still wondering if I really do have oxen in the city...no. None at all.So ...
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