“Like wind”

My co-workers’ English have improved a lot since I’ve started working at Robuchon. They’ve  never really had to speak in English before. I am the first non Chinese person work in their pastry kitchen. Everyday, they are practicing their English with me.

As a result, I have been a little less motivated to learn Cantonese. The number of words I officially know how to say has been stagnant at 20. They’re still mostly kitchen words.

My verbal English skills on the other hand, have been steadily declining.

Bird is the word

Today, one of my pastry chef’s friends dropped by with a gift.

Inside nestled in tin foil was a flame-licked chicken sitting in its juices. And a container of roasted potatoes. 

Courage in words

Not a day goes by where Bruce and I don’t talk about our future together.

We have opposite schedules for 6 days a week.

I sleep really early and he gets home really late. I’m awake by 5 and he’ll still be knocked out.

By the time we have the same day off, we are just so happy to both be conscious at the same time.

But everyday in between our work schedule and alternating consciousness, we are constantly communicating.

One hundred twenty five

125. The approximate number of nights since I’ve had a good night’s sleep.

Coincidentally, the same number of days we’ve lived in Hong Kong.

Everyday, a new day

The saying is you are what you eat.

I am a blob of French pastry, with cream and butter in my veins coursing through fat that’s masquerading as the body of a pastry cook.

Conscious decisions

I’m finding that my extreme lifestyle has been catching up to me. All of the drinking, partying and restless nights have left me weary and without energy.

Oh wait.

porcelain bowls

My mom rarely used the tiny oven in our little apartment while I was growing up. For the longest time, I thought that everyone just used ovens as storage for other pots and pans.

Renew

I’ve made a couple of really big changes for myself this week.

And I’m feeling really good.

It involved a gym contract. I’ll elaborate more once my muscles stop screaming at me.