Month of Thanksgiving 2018, Day 5

Today, Mr. Sean is thankful for:

Microwavable Curry Rice

Apologies for the hastily put together post. I promise I'll have a better thing, person, people, or idea that I am thankful for tomorrow. Although I always want my mom's curry, sometimes I have to make do with Thai curry and/or Indian curries. Thanks to microwavable rice packs from Japanese grocery stores and microwavable curry sauce, I was able to enjoy Japanese curry in a few minutes and a long way from home. 

Month of Thanksgiving 2018, Day 4

Today Mr. Sean is thankful for:

His mom's cooking

Thanks to my mom, I've enjoyed many a home-cooked meal, especially Japanese favorites such as Curry Rice, Oyakodon, and Yakisoba among others. Though I goofed in choosing this photo as the middle third of the photo is not my mom's cooking at all but Drunken Noodles from a local Thai restaurant. Anyways, I hope I can cook my favorites at least half as well as my mom can.

2017 Year in Review, May

A First Friday Fiesta

First Friday is an event in Lancaster where the arts flourish on the first Friday of every month in Lancaster. I was out and about in Lancaster for First Friday in May, which so happened to fall on el Cinco de Mayo. I don't celebrate it correctly as I'm not from Puebla and didn't defeat the French in 1862, but I couldn't help but eat at Robburitos to feel a little more festive. They've got good burritos and some great BBQ sauces.

A farewell to some of my friends, but with delicious food to eat

The Thursday of finals week, the Asian and Friends Affiliation had one last farewell event. We went to the Himalayan Curry and Grill in downtown Lancaster and we had a great time feasting on Indian and Nepali dishes. I got the Chicken Tikka Masala with medium heat. It was perfect for me, but apparently too much heat for other people. Kianna, Hayley, Kianna and Hayley's friends, and I had a great time feasting then going for cupcakes at Lancaster Cupcake.

The start of an improved me, or maybe improved handwriting

Right after I got home from college after eight semesters down, I opened my package from Amazon and took out the thing I really wanted, a Leuchtturm 1917 dotted ruled journal. I was watching a video from a German YouTuber named Trixi and she was showing off her bullet journal and inspired me to try making and using my own bullet journal. So far, after about 7 months of use, I could do better, but it has been a good help to me in organizing my life and recording my life in hard copy.

Pusheen, but with sushi!

One day while going around the local mall, something caught my eye. It was a Pusheen plush eating sushi! I know that Pusheen loves to eat food (like me!) but most of the other plushes were of regular food such as chips and pizza, I knew I had to get one that better represented me, so I got the sushi Pusheen and named him Susheen (yes I know Pusheen is a she, but I decided for Susheen to be similar to me, that Susheen is a he). Susheen should really only steal my glasses if he wants to do my hard work.

Giant Spiky Origami Ball of Doom

After having folded 1000 cranes in 2016, I was on the hunt for new origami challenges. I found one in the idea of modular origami. The premise was simple, fold one sheet into a shape, then fold more sheets into the same shape with pockets and tips and put the origami shapes together to create something more than the sum of the parts. This photo shows a 30 unit Sonobe Stellated Icosahedron, but I like to call it the Giant Spiky Origami Ball of Doom.

2017 Year in Review, March

Not just any croissant, a glazed croissant

In March, I finally had the chance to visit Central Market in Lancaster. It's one of the most interesting places to be at in Lancaster, as there are so many food stands, some run by Amish, while other stands offer a taste of the world such as Narai Thai and Safie's Middle Eastern. This place is packed despite being open early, and I was looking around when two words caught my eye: Shady Maple. Turns out that the Shady Maple that my friends were raving about had a bakery operations in downtown Lancaster and they had glazed croissants, which I had to try one as it sounded delicious, it was!

The Angry Pac-Man

Over the spring break that occurred before the start of spring, my parents took me to Blaze Pizza for the first time. It was a little daunting figuring out what I wanted to put on my pizza toppings-wise, but I managed to get all the toppings I wanted on my pizza and realized there was a lot of red, so I gave my pizza the name of The Angry Pac-Man and Blaze Pizza liked that when I shared the name to social media.

Maryland's Huge Cake

Thank goodness for a restaurant called Eggspectation. Thanks to them, I didn't have to travel to Smith Island in far southern Maryland to get my hands on a slice of the state dessert Smith Island Cake. Many layers of cake and chocolate is the best explanation I can give before it got devoured by hungry ole' me.

Found my childhood inside Millersville University's Math building

I decided that if I wanted to spend my time studying, some of it had to happen in the math building rather than my dorm room. Turns out one of the study rooms had the Everyday Mathematics workbooks that constituted my math lessons while at Mission Viejo Elementary in Aurora, CO. The childhood nostalgia was strong the day I found the workbooks.

"Science is so Amazing!" - Ash Ketchum

I was told that helping out at the Science Olympiad was a very worthwhile cause. It was, and I don't say that just because I got delicious pasta salad in my lunch, no siree, it was seeing all the youth that were inspired by the science they were doing that day that made volunteering at the Science Olympiad worthwhile. Hopefully we can keep encouraging America's youth to keep going with their interest in science.

2017 Year in Review, Janurary

Hello y'all, so I'm going to take a short break from the Music and I series of posts in order to recap the year of 2017, with some photos y'all may have already seen through social media and an explanation of what I thought were significant events in 2017 for me.

My laptop and a TV that could be used for games or for a second monitor for work

Even though the TV was a Christmas gift from 2016, the TV represents the possibilities I had for extra productivity (or extra procrastination haha!) in 2017. So far I'd say it's done more good to my productivity on the computer.

Drunken Noodles

Over winter break, I had an opportunity to avenge myself for the last time I failed to finish a dish of Drunken Noodles from my local Thai restaurant. It wasn't easy but I managed to persevere and finish off the whole dish of Drunken Noodles. If you want something spicier than a lot of Thai restaurant curries, this noodle dish is your frenemy.

Some of my mother's delicious cooking

Just before the end of winter break, my mom decided to make something I had not eaten in years: Ebi Chili (or Shrimp in Chili Sauce in English or Prawns in Chili Sauce for the Iron Chef fans out there). The Ebi Chili was as delicious as ever.

I try Javaville for the first time

I figured that I had limited time to try new things while at Millersville University, so I went to eat at Javaville one day in late January and was not disappointed by their steak breakfast wrap.

Winter Wonderland

To cap off an interesting January, Mother Nature decided to snow on my parade at Millersville. At least the snow accentuated the beauty of my school.

Each month will be featured in its own post, stay tuned!

Trying New Things and Continuing Things that Work

So, throughout my life, I've been given advice, most of it good, some of it not so good. One piece of advice that stands out though comes from my father, though he usually gave it in order to convince me to eat new things: Try new things, you don't know if you like it until you try it. I can say that I will try new things if I think they'll be good or can make me a better person. In this photo, I've a bowl from Silantra in downtown Lancaster, PA and the mix of rice, grilled veggies, seaweed salad, shrimp, and yellow curry sauce was delicious. Although I've had food similar to this before, the restaurant I ate at was a new experience for me (though if my dad reads this, he'll probably bring up Chipotle's burrito bowl being a similar concept). Also pictured is my bullet journal, which I can only try to describe it as a mashup of whatever you want it to be with bulleted lists playing a central role. My bullet journal tends to be my daily planner and to-do list, with a page dedicated to tracking headaches, and other pages full of information that is relevant to me. I started it right after school let out in May and so far it's been working pretty well for me, so I'll keep writing in it.

My Bullet Journal and a recent dinner

Today I'm hungry for

Japanese Pork Katsu Curry