Holy fucking shitttttttttttttt

since when did all these people I used to know on facebook!?
It seems like fb is becoming popular in Japan too.
Gosh these people sure have changed a lot.




ZOMG MY CRUSH AT JUNIOR HIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


One similarity among all of these people is that they all have the same hair and make up. If they washed their face and dyed their hair black, they probably look the same as how they looked 4 years ago. :P

I just want to get this out there...

I've been preparing for my presentation/essay for next week. The topic is "what are emotions and how far do you think evolutionary psychology successfully explain them?"

My answer to this is,


WHO THE FUCK CARESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Apps

Here are some apps (all are free) that I'm finding very useful for my student life.

1. ShopShop

This is a shipping list app. I tried several shopping list apps but this one turned out to be simple enough to use daily but well made so that I don't have to write "milk" all the time. You can just select one you wrote before. But for the ones that you only buy once such as bath towels, you can erase from the choises.
You can even see how many items you need to buy without opening the app as the number will appear on the top right of the icon.
I think this app prevents you from buy unnecessary food and saves you money and shopping time.

2. ToToDo

This is a to-do list app. Making a to-do list will make it clear what you need to do and that way, you are more likely to use time efficiently. (Unless you are someone like me who likes to be super lazy)You can tick off the things you have done which will hopefully save time wonder what to do next. Like the shopping list app, you will see how many things you need to do without opening the app.

Money

This is an easy to use and helpful tool to keep track of your incomes and expences. You are responsidle for your money and this app is a good way to look after it. It is a bit difficult to figure out at first, but once you strat writing what you spend your money on, you will figure it out. It even has a simple calculator! The app will automaticly make a chart of how you are spending your money. You can take note of how you paid such as cash, credit card, debit card etc. As an international student, it's good that you can choose the currency.

Farmer's Market Madness!!!!!!!!

I used to buy all of my food from Tesco when I first came to Exeter. Now 8 months later, I hardly buy anything there. Things I regularly buy at Tesco are muesli, flour, cheese, and cans of tomato/beans.

Now I buy milk from the Real Food Shop (RFS) because it's locally produced.

I buy vegetables from the farmer's market on Thursday afternoons. They are organic and locally produced so low carbon footprints. If I run out of veg or want something specific during the week, I go to the RFS. Like last week, I  needed mushrooms because I wanted to make mushroom and onion cream spaghetti. (I had double cream left over from when I made chocolate raspberry cheesecake for a birthday party. ) So I went to the RFS and got 4 small mushrooms. That dish was really tasty.

What I love about the farmer's market is that they have seasonal vegetables that Tesco will never have.

Purple Sprout Broccoli

Red Curly Kale

Carnival(?) Squash

 I bought these this week to put in my Cornish pasties (only, mine aren't called "Cornish" but rather, "Shane-ish.")
Also because Tesco had cheese for a reduced price (3 for 2), I bought the following. If you don't get good cheese, there isn't any point in living in the UK, right?!

So today is a Friday. And what do I do on a Friday? I cook.

I had prepared pastry for my pasty yesterday. And today, when my class finished at 1pm, I run back to the kitchen and started the process.
I rolled out the pastry that I kept in my cupboard. I was concerned that I would be a bit too soft but that wasn't the case at all. It was in ideal condition to roll out. I was glad I didn't keep in the fridge because that would have probably made it too hard.

Pastry:
450g plain flour
140g unsalted butter (mix with fingers to make it crumby)

About 120ml water (add slowly to the crumb and assemble into a ball)

This ended up making 6 sheets of round pastry and a bit which I used to make an "S" shape to prove that I really made it.
BTW, as I don't have a rolling pin, I used the roll of plastic wrap. It works just as well.

After I rolled out the pastry, I filled it with vegetables that I had cut up. The veg were, of course, all bought from yesterday's farmer's market. My 6 pasties contain the random combination of the following: potato, onion, beetroot, kale, sprout broccoli and ricotta cheese. Also, I stole just a little bit of thyme from the Community Garden which is in the university.

I seasoned with salt and pepper but I should have put the salt in my hand and poured it and not poured directly on to the pasty so that I know I'm adding the right amount. The one I ate today was under-seasoned and I ended up putting ketchup on it.

Bake in the oven at 190C for 45 minutes and these are what I got.

First baked

Second half-kind of looks like Superman's t-shirt

Shaneish Pasty

The back is well baked too

The one I had today was sprout broccoli, potato, onion and ricotta.

Lunch for the next 6 days is now sorted.

But I need dinner.

So I baked my weekly bread too. And this turned out to be the best bread I have baked. I used the cake tin which was deep and big enough.

So my dinner was bread that came out of the oven 10 minutes before and cheeses from Tesco. I love my food.