Labless Saturday

Today is Ping's lazy day!! Had a pretty productive week - in a good way too because Ping got a result that Ping can actually write up a pretty decent conclusion, propose a few more experiments to finish it up and yoohooo!!! - that will be another chapter for the dissertation!!! At the same time, Ping put up some stuff together for a poster in 2 days - will be presenting it for the department orientation week on Monday. That means students are coming back and class will be starting soon!

Since it was a pretty good week, Ping decided to take today off. Went to lab only for a short while, to put autoclave some glasswares that Ping will need tomorrow. Spent the entire morning watching the Olympics - definitely a fun watch between the US and China. When Ping had enough of being a couch potato, went out to lab for a quick stop and then head off to Anna's for a haircut - love it!! Not super short but at least there's a style to it rather than the boring straight cut. Met up with Datuk Loo, May, MW and Tai lou for a late lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant - Asia's Finest - in Lansing. They also serve Thai food and the regular American chinese food. Ping tried their pork chop and it was pretty good. Good enough that Ping wouldn't mind going back there again. It is a little out of the way but hei, we gotta treasure good Asian food around here. It seems like their 牛肉麵 (niu rou mian/gu bak mee/beef noodle) is even better since that is what the Vietnamese are known for.
As for dinner, Ping is still pretty full from lunch so decided to go light. Wanted to have roti canai but lately, Oriental Mart seems to be running out of their plain roti canai. They only have the ones with onions in them (ewe!!). Instead, Ping had curry chicken with 饅頭 buns. The 饅頭 (mantou) buns can be pretty addictive as they are slightly sweet. When Ping was in high school, mum used to get the ones with pandan flavour for our breakfast - haven't seen them around here at all.

Definitely a lovely day!! 好久沒那麼輕鬆了!!!