Saturday, October 29, 2016

Rest of October


1. Went to the National Gallery to visit the Vangoh, Monet Daubigny Inspiring Impressionism exhibition and it was a-m-a-z-i-n-g 






Sat on a bench and drank pumpkin spice lattes to this view :') 




2. Lunch at 10-to-10! Super good and affordable Indian food here


3. Bfast!! Fav combination at the moment is dates with peanut butter :)


4. Went to Leith and the view here was so pretttyyy 




5. Acai Bowl for bfast! Frozen bananas, berries and mangoes as the base with Acai powder and it was the creamiest Acai bowl I've ever made !!


6. Had a sushi party in De Rui's flat to Celebrate Beverly's birthday! 





7. Met up with Lizzy!! She's studying in Aberdeen and came to visit Edinburgh for a couple of days :) It felt so weird but cool at the same time because I never would have thought that I would be seeing a St.Nicks classmate in Edinburgh! It was such a great catch up over yummy ramen and hopefully we will see each other more in the future :')


8. Principles of Ecology group!! We're doing our project on the variation of tar spot size on different sized Sycamore leaves - may sound fancy but trust me its not. But I'm glad to be in this group who makes me dread doing the report a little less 


9. It feels like winter has dawned upon us overnight, which means transitioning to warmer breakfasts now! Had a delicious bowl of berry-oatmeal for breakfast ft. mr pumpkin carved out by Lucie! 


I've got a policy brief coming up due on Wednesday for my International Development, Aid and Humanitarianism module! It's taking such a long time to get done not just content wise but the fact that we have to design the thing ourselves such that it looks fancy and like an actual policy brief, but I must say I am enjoying the process because it's something I've never done before and I'm so into my topic on Improving Menstrual Hygiene in Informal Settlements in Rwanda!! I think this is my favourite module this semester because the content is so interesting and also the tutorials are debate styled. Some of the debate topics we had so far were ' This house believes that there is no such thing as natural disasters ' and ' Celebrities do more harm than good when it comes to humanitarian aid ' :) So I'm glad that for once I am actually enjoying my tutorials and going to lectures - just maybe not so keen on the readings but that's all part of the uni experience right? 

Anyway, gotta go back to my policy brief now! It's coming to the end of October already - time is passing by so quickly! But I'm taking it as a positive because I am enjoying second year so much :') My cousins are also coming up to London in 2 weeks so I'll be going down to meet them and I'm so incredibly excited!! 

Hoping that November is going to be a good month too despite the cold, byeeeeeee xxxx



Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Qin and Christy's Visit!

Qin and Christy came to visit Edinburgh last week and they stayed over for a night :) 
I was so incredibly happy when I saw Qin at 50 George square where agreed to meet and we immediately hugged and let out a lil' squeal as well hahahaha I'm so glad we kept in touch since primary school!! I absolutely love it when people come to visit Edinburgh because it's such a warm and nice feeling to see a familiar face and also it makes me 'see' my own city again and almost revisit it, reminding me of how amazing Edinburgh is and how lucky I am to be here :') 

We took loads of photos with their cameras and Qin even developed some of the pics she took with her film camera! Went to the usual places: Royal Mile, the Castle, Grassmarket, Holyrood Park, Calton Hill, Arthur's Seat and the Water of Leith (They also went up the Scott's monument)



The wind was insane at Calton Hill! We were literally having to crouch down so as to have some sense of balance and not be blown off by the wind!


Amazing rainbow that Qin and Christy fortunately saw when they went up the Scott's Monument


Holyrood Park en route to Arthur's Seat








On the way up Arthur's seat, we picked brambles (aka blackberries) off the bushes and ate them! They were so sweet and fresh :') 


Smiling through the pain - cos it was tiring as hell, and it will be equally as tiring no matter how many times I've been up Arthur's seat








One of my fav pics :)



The grass was super bouncy and it was almost like 'lying down on a mattress' - Qin 


Yet again, the wind was so intense and scary but we somehow just stayed up here for about an hour before heading down just because the view was amazing :) But boy was I glad when we headed down as my fingers, face and feet were getting numb! We headed to Maki and Ramen for delicious hot bowls of ramen after - a perfect end to the day! 


Water of Leith the next day! 

Thank you so much for visiting Qin and Christy! Enjoyed you guys' company so so much :')


Sunday, October 2, 2016

Settling In

The 2nd week of Uni has just come to an end just in time for the start of a new month! I feel like these 2 weeks have just been a whirlwind of activities not necessarily because I had so much going on but I just felt so overwhelmed with the many things I needed to handle, getting into the swing of going to classes and just managing time and emotions in general 

But I'm so ready for the new month and I'm ready to make it a good one! 


Breakfast has continued being my most favourite meal of the day - It's usually oatmeal with fruit or a smoothie bowl!! 



Love this decor in my room - got them at Brick lane market at a photography booth where they sold 10 films for £1! 



Met Juliette at the Grassmarket for brunch! 



We tried out Pumpkin Brown Cafe and it was really good! The staff were so friendly and their cakes were just mmhmmm!!!



Had to go up Arthur's seat in Freshers' Week (apparently people say its bad luck if you don't, I'm not taking chances!!)


Glorious berry-nana smoothie bowl :))))



The sunset on the 18th of September was absolutely gorgeous! 


Maki and Ramen with Topo after a day's of lectures! Their Miso ramen is the only vegan ramen on the menu but boy is it good 


Walking through the Meadows to meet Sophie for lunch at Moon and Hare in Bruntsfield


Sophie's no-avo taco with 'bacon' coconut chips!


My coconut-butter waffle!


Matcha oatmeal w fruit! :) 

Going to be super productive today and try to catch up on my readings and lectures and hopefully I'll be on par with everything before the third week of school starts tomorrow! 

Hope you have a lovely day :')