奶油咪咪的喵言貓語

This past weekend was the Easter long weekend. It's the third most important holiday in the western society. Christian or not, most people were just relieved to have another long weekend (3 or 4 days. usually a friday or monday is also a holiday). It's interesting how back in Taiwan, we used to go to work or school on Saturdays too. The change to two-day weekend is a big deal for us. However, Canadians often look forward to the coming of long weekends which almost occur once per month.



So this long weekend, a friend invited a bunch of us from the lab over to his place for a pot-luck dinner. It was not a traditional Easter dinner because we each brought our own ethnic dishes that ended up looking like a miniature UN (聯合國) meeting ( the second picture). There were the tofu dish I brought, a Mexican chili dish, a Parkistan rice and sauce, Italian ravioli. The Italian ravioli was made from ground up by the host as shown in the first dish. It is like our dumpling only it's stuffed with chesse and spinach.



I found myself lucky that I have met all these great people in the lab. Their support, be it social, technical or emotional have helped me through some dark times. Sometimes, just merely knowing that we are experiencing the same hard time in graduate school calm my self-doubt too. I mean life can be worse without friends, right?

Thank you all, my friends here and there.