How to make Post-midterm-exams Pesto

  Making pesto from scratch requires very little ingredients actually! All you need is

1. Basil leaves (important!)
2. Garlic (also important!)
3. Some nice fine cheese (yes)
4. Olive oil
5. A lovely jar for storing

Figure 54.1: Olive oil not in picture

  The tough part is in the mincing. First you chop the garlic, then you mince it together with the leaves. Don't put all the leaves together all at once though, or else it's gonna be too clumpy to mince! (Still possible, just more effort now). After you're done mincing it, toss in the shredded cheese (I use Parmesan) and mince that together with the minced garlic/basil combination! Keep on mincing, if you think it's fine, it's not fine and go back to work. Keep on doing it until your thumb goes numb and then you can toss it all into the jar.

  Once in the jar, pour in some olive oil and stir. Don't pour in too much at first, so you know if it's not enough you could always pour more, rather than overflowing it... and Voila! Pesto done! Now just store it in a fridge and use it for your pasta or whatever else dishes!

  FUN FACT: Apparently we're not supposed to cook pesto. What you're supposed to do is just lather it on something like butter to toast, and then stir it around. It seems I have been "cooking" pesto wrong this whole time. The reason is cause you'll spoil the fresh basil basically. It's gonna turn dark and meh.

Figure 54.2: Finished product! Might need some more oil.

  Although it sounds easy, the hard part is really just the chopping part. It felt endless. And the mess! Make sure you use a big chopping board or bits of cheese, basil, and garlic will go all over the counter!

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  Boy oh boy was midterms tough. It had been an extremely stressful week. I performed well on some of the exam, not too well on some too... ah well, I just have to be better for the upcoming finals and the rest of the assignments.

  I've begun applying for jobs. Both in Canada and Sweden. Surprisingly, it's much harder to look for a position in Canada than in Sweden.

  For the Swedish job board, I could literally just skip through all the jobs that have their description in Swedish, and just look for those in English. As for the Canada job market, I have to sift through lots of junk. A sales associate at some store is in the same market as a company looking for their next district manager or something. Unfortunately, both countries describe their "entry level" positions as: requiring a masters degree, and having at least 3 years of experience in something. Huh. Entry level eh?

  As for some of the Canadian jobs... those that seems to good to be true, usually are. There are some jobs, upon reading, is perfect for people like me: immigrants. It seems like it's a professional enough job that the government will not hound me about looking for a job and all, until I read their Glassdoor reviews. It turns out, they ARE actually targeting immigrants. They give them jobs, pay them the minimum wage, while burning them out at the job. The reviews weren't good. It sounds like a corporate sweatshop of sorts, aiming for all these poor immigrants looking to stay in Canada. Thank god for sites like Glassdoor. 

  If you guys still remember. back in my 29th blog post titled: "Silly Little Post", I mentioned about this horrible fire hydrant leakage. Well... it's fixed now! Yippee!

Figure 54.3: No more leaks!

  Well, yeah... that's about it. Oh yeah, my name was given to the folks working at MUN Sustainability. Apparently one of the office workers noticed that I'm trying to go green, and now I could be joining this huge project in MUN! Yippee again!

Figure 54.4: Full moon

Figure 54.5: The problem of learning two similar languages