The trend now is for Malaysian food, or anything that resembles it. Here's the packet of bak kut teh I bought the other day, and how it looks inside. The brand my mom uses back home doesn't have the black sauce sachet, I dunno if it's normal to have that. But I suspect it's just soy sauce.

Plus foo chook,mushrooms, garlic and pork ribs. When I ran out of soup,I reboiled the paper sachets and added regular soy sauce, and it tasted ok to me.
Tang yuan. This is my first try, haven't made it even in Malaysia, but it's fun to try something new now and then. The colour of the balls are because I used the water from boiling the red beans for the filling, I don't think they look particularly appetizing. But I didn't like the idea of using food colouring either, after all I wasn't wanting to impress anyone, so I made it the healthier way. For the soup, I used ginger for the first round, then decided to use up the leftover red beans to make red bean soup instead. I'm not a big fan of ginger, although it did taste better after refrigeration.
Pisang goreng. Or goreng pisang, I forgot. Even after years of drilling at BM class. Me and Mandy made this morsel Monday morning. Actually I think it was Saturday evening, but that doesn't sound fun. Now I feel like experimenting with making tempura. Maybe after a few days of eating oats.
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And this is an experiment making a burrito after something I tried in a cafe. Basically you can put anything inside the tortilla, it's like chap fan. But for this I put in lettuce, carrots, pork, pumpkin, corn in mayo,rice, avocado and thai chili sauce. You should eat it with tabasco sauce though.
I learnt from the cafe that the neatest way to eat something as sloppy as this is to wrap it tightly in foil/cling wrap.

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Here are some pictures from my shopping adventures.
The stuff at Flax is so ridiculously overpriced, but they did have a massive discount on the paper that I bought. It's a good place to go if you like scrapbooking or crafts and don't mind paying through the nose. They have a lot of pretty paper, greeting cards, and other accessories.
A new type of hoodie that they were selling at Old Navy. It has earplugs built in to the hood drawstrings, which is pretty unique, but otherwise useless, since your MP3 player would have earplugs in the first place.

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Started my online classes for Winter on Monday. So far so good.I'm taking Ideology of the 20th century, so lots of heavy reading about philosophical stuff.Wonder how the ESL students manage it, I have to use a dictionary quite frequently myself, and a lot of the information is so abstract. The first day was a marathon from 11am until midnight, on and off, since I was so busy absorbing all the other technical stuff like class rules, classmates' profiles, etc. Today was 6 hours on and off, but the thing about online classes is that you have to check back on the discussion boards and leave comments on your classmates' entries if you want higher marks. The minimum is 2 entries. It's pretty hectic for some students in other time zones because while people in SF have a full 24 hours to do their stuff, they have only a certain number of hours to complete theirs, and most of the interesting discussion entries are posted 10pm onwards in SF (last minute students with a burst of inspiration) while they are probably deep in slumber.

Marks are based primarily on discussions (so think hard, lecturers don't appreciate answers that just say that you agree, you need to write a paragraph about why you agree), then there are quizzes for every module (everyday) and 2 assignments. I wasn't expecting any assignments, but I have my Wacom and a few basic art materials, so I think that should be enough.