my first try at it...and a great tasting one at that! (hehe, lookie here, im a-praising me-self) the meat's quite rubbery though..hmm...gotta research on how to cook tender meat.
Saturday, 14 October 2006
Thursday, 12 October 2006
Super Duper Mega Hot Gambas
whoa! it does feel like your tongue's in some kind of hell..hahaha! gotta find that website again so i could make some comment on their recipe...
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Pillow Talk on Class 95
This Tuesday night's "Pillow Talk", Yaz had Dr. John Gray (the bestselling author of "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus") in her studio.
It's so so so interesting to hear him talk that i can only gape with amazement (though im only hearing him speak) and nod & laugh at his smart funny talks. I will try to blog here some of tonight's interesting topics (though i would very much would have preferred to have recorded their talk as i know i wouldnt be able to wholly capture in here what Dr. Gray said as boy, boy, boy! there just are lots of things to think about and remember. He-really-makes-sense. But I will try real hard anyways).
Dr Gray says:
1. 90% of people who go to counselling are women. It appears that what women want really is just someone to listen about their woes and to show them that somebody cares for them and hence they're willing to pay just to have someone to listen to them.
2. Three most common misunderstandings between a man and a woman:
- when women talk of how their day went, sometimes it's just like letting off steam and getting things out their minds and what they just want, is to have someone to listen to them. Men though, upon hearing the women's woes, feel like they have a problem to solve so they cut in even while the woman is still talking and offer some solutions that sometimes women really doesnt need as what they need is just a listening ear and someone to talk to. (The hormone oxytosin was mentioned and in searching for what this hormone's about, i came about THIS yet another interesting write-up).
- men cope with stress by forgetting about their problems and just by being silent but women cope with stress by talking about it. So the problem is when men begin to be silent, women begin asking "what's bothering you?" and the like when all he really wants is to forget about it and so the guy starts not feeling good about it. (I cant remember now how the talk came to it, but then Dr. Gray mentioned that men feel good when they see a woman smile at something they had done. My comment - are all men really flirts?hehehe..joke only..a twisted interpretation, my comment is).
-when a man loves a woman he thinks of things that would make her happy. But in his vocabulary, it may only be two things that he did some time ago. Like men tend to think about big things to make his woman happy. But he doesnt understand that for women, it's the every day little things that really count. It's like for the guy, giving her a dozen roses at one time is like 24 points already but for the woman, it's just one point and the scoreboard goes back to zero almost every other day. So, for the guy to make the woman he loves feel loved, he has to make that "every day little effort".
One tip on resolving arguments to keep relationships: when you've been hurt, lie low (be quiet for a bit) and wait till you've cooled down as the tendency when you're hurt is that you're likely to hurt your partner back as your defense mechanism and it gets nasty from there.
There just are so many stuff Yaz and Dr. Gray has talked about that I would have liked to have written here but, alas, that's all that I can remember..hehehe..tsk!too bad..but still.. quite helpful eh?
It's so so so interesting to hear him talk that i can only gape with amazement (though im only hearing him speak) and nod & laugh at his smart funny talks. I will try to blog here some of tonight's interesting topics (though i would very much would have preferred to have recorded their talk as i know i wouldnt be able to wholly capture in here what Dr. Gray said as boy, boy, boy! there just are lots of things to think about and remember. He-really-makes-sense. But I will try real hard anyways).
Dr Gray says:
1. 90% of people who go to counselling are women. It appears that what women want really is just someone to listen about their woes and to show them that somebody cares for them and hence they're willing to pay just to have someone to listen to them.
2. Three most common misunderstandings between a man and a woman:
- when women talk of how their day went, sometimes it's just like letting off steam and getting things out their minds and what they just want, is to have someone to listen to them. Men though, upon hearing the women's woes, feel like they have a problem to solve so they cut in even while the woman is still talking and offer some solutions that sometimes women really doesnt need as what they need is just a listening ear and someone to talk to. (The hormone oxytosin was mentioned and in searching for what this hormone's about, i came about THIS yet another interesting write-up).
- men cope with stress by forgetting about their problems and just by being silent but women cope with stress by talking about it. So the problem is when men begin to be silent, women begin asking "what's bothering you?" and the like when all he really wants is to forget about it and so the guy starts not feeling good about it. (I cant remember now how the talk came to it, but then Dr. Gray mentioned that men feel good when they see a woman smile at something they had done. My comment - are all men really flirts?hehehe..joke only..a twisted interpretation, my comment is).
-when a man loves a woman he thinks of things that would make her happy. But in his vocabulary, it may only be two things that he did some time ago. Like men tend to think about big things to make his woman happy. But he doesnt understand that for women, it's the every day little things that really count. It's like for the guy, giving her a dozen roses at one time is like 24 points already but for the woman, it's just one point and the scoreboard goes back to zero almost every other day. So, for the guy to make the woman he loves feel loved, he has to make that "every day little effort".
One tip on resolving arguments to keep relationships: when you've been hurt, lie low (be quiet for a bit) and wait till you've cooled down as the tendency when you're hurt is that you're likely to hurt your partner back as your defense mechanism and it gets nasty from there.
There just are so many stuff Yaz and Dr. Gray has talked about that I would have liked to have written here but, alas, that's all that I can remember..hehehe..tsk!too bad..but still.. quite helpful eh?
Sunday, 8 October 2006
Indulgence
Ah! After a year of stay here in our condo (well, 10 days to a year to be exact, hehe), ive finally made use of our condo's steam bath.
After a number of laps and lounging in the pool, i headed to the steam bath room. Carefully reading the instructions on the wall, I experimented on the panel for the room temp and steam bath duration and afterwhich, finally snuggled at a corner. I laughed at myself, when i tensed as the steam generator revved up. I was all alone in the room and as the room got hazy, morbid thoughts crept up at me...thoughts like, I could suffocate in here and it might be sometime before somebody could find my body..brrr! But after a few minutes, I relaxed and enjoyed as I look at the fats sweating out my body (i hope! hehe).
That-was-good...though i've been sneezing every now and then since i took the shower. Hmmm..gotta discover too how the sauna works...
After a number of laps and lounging in the pool, i headed to the steam bath room. Carefully reading the instructions on the wall, I experimented on the panel for the room temp and steam bath duration and afterwhich, finally snuggled at a corner. I laughed at myself, when i tensed as the steam generator revved up. I was all alone in the room and as the room got hazy, morbid thoughts crept up at me...thoughts like, I could suffocate in here and it might be sometime before somebody could find my body..brrr! But after a few minutes, I relaxed and enjoyed as I look at the fats sweating out my body (i hope! hehe).
That-was-good...though i've been sneezing every now and then since i took the shower. Hmmm..gotta discover too how the sauna works...
Friday, 6 October 2006
Some Girls are Just so Dang Lucky
Our internet connection's already turned off and all, but I still took the trouble to turn on my laptop and connect to the web thru the generosity of our neighbors (hihihi) just to blog what I have just heard from Class 95. (sigh)
I'm a true-blooded hopeless romantic alright and I just cant help but sigh over what Yaz shared with her listeners.
Right after some commercials, I heard a phone ringing on the radio and a girl named Lanys answered Yaz' call. Yaz confirmed if she called up the right person and if she knows a guy named Eric. When Lanys affirmed, Yaz then said she has a message from Eric and immediately played the recorded phone conversation with Eric. Boy, I myself am surprised as I just imagined Yaz would read something out so I could only imagine Lanys' reaction (Lanys' tone though was a guarded one..hmm..a wise woman).
Turned out this Eric, having had no courage to call up Lanys, asked Yaz to relay his message on air and ask Lanys to call him if she heard his message. Yaz though, went beyond by really airing out her phone conversation with Eric and hearing the sincerity in Eric's voice.....WOW!
He says he's been a fool to have been blind and to have wasted what he had had all along. That he truly does treasure all the moments they had shared together and would like to have them making new memories again if only she'd give him another chance.
Lanys' voice held some skepticism but I do hope she'd give Eric a chance, as, for all the sincerity (and near desperation) in Eric's voice, I think he deserves a second chance....
I'm a true-blooded hopeless romantic alright and I just cant help but sigh over what Yaz shared with her listeners.
Right after some commercials, I heard a phone ringing on the radio and a girl named Lanys answered Yaz' call. Yaz confirmed if she called up the right person and if she knows a guy named Eric. When Lanys affirmed, Yaz then said she has a message from Eric and immediately played the recorded phone conversation with Eric. Boy, I myself am surprised as I just imagined Yaz would read something out so I could only imagine Lanys' reaction (Lanys' tone though was a guarded one..hmm..a wise woman).
Turned out this Eric, having had no courage to call up Lanys, asked Yaz to relay his message on air and ask Lanys to call him if she heard his message. Yaz though, went beyond by really airing out her phone conversation with Eric and hearing the sincerity in Eric's voice.....WOW!
He says he's been a fool to have been blind and to have wasted what he had had all along. That he truly does treasure all the moments they had shared together and would like to have them making new memories again if only she'd give him another chance.
Lanys' voice held some skepticism but I do hope she'd give Eric a chance, as, for all the sincerity (and near desperation) in Eric's voice, I think he deserves a second chance....
Thursday, 28 September 2006
Stardust
Neil Gaiman has enchanted me again.
I was sooo caught up with his book I was able to finish it in less than a week's time.
Hehe, quite slower than the average reader but if you'd seen me with a book, you would agree with me that this time, im fast.
It was like i myself am under a spell, with the way he wrought his fairy tale. Just a warning though. Albeit the book wasn't graphic, I was near belching my stomach out on some scenes,hehe
But it-is-a-good-book. =)
"It will happen; if you just believe. You might just be the first star who have fallen who made it back to the sky".
I was sooo caught up with his book I was able to finish it in less than a week's time.
Hehe, quite slower than the average reader but if you'd seen me with a book, you would agree with me that this time, im fast.
It was like i myself am under a spell, with the way he wrought his fairy tale. Just a warning though. Albeit the book wasn't graphic, I was near belching my stomach out on some scenes,hehe
But it-is-a-good-book. =)
"It will happen; if you just believe. You might just be the first star who have fallen who made it back to the sky".
Friday, 22 September 2006
Chopsuey con Afritada..hehe
...our experiment for the night..=D
it tastes like chopsuey really. just that the shrimp juice made it somewhat orangy; making it look like afritada..hehehe...
in fairness, the veggies were cooked just about right. =)
it tastes like chopsuey really. just that the shrimp juice made it somewhat orangy; making it look like afritada..hehehe...
in fairness, the veggies were cooked just about right. =)
Friday, 15 September 2006
The First Time
Weeeeeeeee!!!!
Class 95 has just played Robin Beck's "The First Time"...
Aaaahhhhhhh! After more than 2 years (those oh-so-good-ol' days), I heard it again. I've almost forgotten how passssssionate Robin Beck interpreted this song. It feels like she has just had her first kiss herself and was oh-so ecstatic with it you could almost imagine she was singing the song on the clouds and not just on Cloud 9.
Perhaps, that was the missing element with my SI. I am yet to have my first time so i wasn't passionate enough, wehehehehe..
Class 95 has just played Robin Beck's "The First Time"...
Aaaahhhhhhh! After more than 2 years (those oh-so-good-ol' days), I heard it again. I've almost forgotten how passssssionate Robin Beck interpreted this song. It feels like she has just had her first kiss herself and was oh-so ecstatic with it you could almost imagine she was singing the song on the clouds and not just on Cloud 9.
Perhaps, that was the missing element with my SI. I am yet to have my first time so i wasn't passionate enough, wehehehehe..
Looking Young
It felt like a compliment way back then, when people comment on how young I look. But frankly, it is a bother for me now...
On my first few days at Site, those "adults" either call me young lady or girl. It was all I could do to stop myself from wailing with indignance. For sure no one there considers me a "grown-up woman" (categorizing myself as a woman is another issue though, hehe).
Come HAZOP for FRCCS, it was worse. On our first day (we were having the afternoon snacks then...just ample time for people to gage one another and have their first impressions of one another), a colleague thought I was a student trainee attached to their company for a time. Another one uttered that famous Jap "Ehhh??!!" when he knew I've already been working a number of years and that he should call me his sempai. He said by my looks he thought I was younger than him (he was by the way, 2 years younger than me).
Then yesterday, we had our LPG changed (boy, how we waited for that "coming!" and "on their way already" for us to cook our marinated porkchop. Good thing there was Wheel of Time and Initial D). The delivery guy chitchatted with us a bit. He assumed we were students here. And he was talking to me.
Surely im not that naive-looking. Am I?
On my first few days at Site, those "adults" either call me young lady or girl. It was all I could do to stop myself from wailing with indignance. For sure no one there considers me a "grown-up woman" (categorizing myself as a woman is another issue though, hehe).
Come HAZOP for FRCCS, it was worse. On our first day (we were having the afternoon snacks then...just ample time for people to gage one another and have their first impressions of one another), a colleague thought I was a student trainee attached to their company for a time. Another one uttered that famous Jap "Ehhh??!!" when he knew I've already been working a number of years and that he should call me his sempai. He said by my looks he thought I was younger than him (he was by the way, 2 years younger than me).
Then yesterday, we had our LPG changed (boy, how we waited for that "coming!" and "on their way already" for us to cook our marinated porkchop. Good thing there was Wheel of Time and Initial D). The delivery guy chitchatted with us a bit. He assumed we were students here. And he was talking to me.
Surely im not that naive-looking. Am I?
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
Pinakbet....minus the bagoong..
tsadan! Our masterpiece for the night..=D
we sure could use some bagoong for a tastier pinakbet though...hehe..Anyways, i posted the pictures using Picasa. It's soooo much easier than what ive previously been doing! thanks Flounder for sharing this..=)
Friday, 8 September 2006
Both Sides Now
I was again reminded of how nice this song is when I heard it over the radio in the bus on my way to work yesterday. Feeling like humming the song myself, I searched for the lyrics this evening. I came upon this site which gave the lyrics of the song with some comments from enthusiasts. This post from Aseem Kaul just hit the right spots...
"...But most of all, this is a song that even read aloud has a voice all its own. It's the voice of a generation that grew up too quickly, the voice of cynicism, the voice of tiredness. But it is also the voice of hope - of the spirit's struggle to reclaim lost wonder, of an acceptance of one's own limitations that is both humility and joy. It is at once the voice of our defeat and the voice of our renewal."
Both Sides Now
Rows and flows of angel's hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feathered canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and they snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way.
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, but still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all.
Moon and Junes and Ferris wheels
That dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show
You leave them laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away.
I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, but still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all.
Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day.
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose, but still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.
-- Joni Mitchell
"...But most of all, this is a song that even read aloud has a voice all its own. It's the voice of a generation that grew up too quickly, the voice of cynicism, the voice of tiredness. But it is also the voice of hope - of the spirit's struggle to reclaim lost wonder, of an acceptance of one's own limitations that is both humility and joy. It is at once the voice of our defeat and the voice of our renewal."
Both Sides Now
Rows and flows of angel's hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feathered canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and they snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way.
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, but still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all.
Moon and Junes and Ferris wheels
That dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show
You leave them laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away.
I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, but still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all.
Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day.
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose, but still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.
-- Joni Mitchell
Wednesday, 9 August 2006
Even the Nights are Better ( i know it's jologs)
Heard this song again...
A couple of months ago, i thought of this as a harbinger of better things to come when i chanced upon it on the radio. But now, I can only wish it'd be my theme song soon...^_^
EVEN THE NIGHTS ARE BETTER
I, I was the lonely one
Wondering what went wrong
Why love had gone
And left me lonely
I, I was so confused
Feeling like Id just been used
Then you came to me
And my loneliness left me
I use to think I was tied to a heartache
That was the heartbreak
But now that Ive found you
(chorus)
Even the nights are better
Now that were here together
Even the nights are better
Since I found you
Even the days are brighter
When someone you loves beside you
Even the nights are better
Since I found you
You, you knew just what to do
Cause you had been lonely too
And you showed me how
To ease the pain
And you did more
Than mend a broken heart
Cause now youve made a fire start
And i, I can see that you feel
The same way
I used to think I was tied to a heartache
That was the heartbreak
But now that Ive found you
(repeat chorus)
A couple of months ago, i thought of this as a harbinger of better things to come when i chanced upon it on the radio. But now, I can only wish it'd be my theme song soon...^_^
EVEN THE NIGHTS ARE BETTER
I, I was the lonely one
Wondering what went wrong
Why love had gone
And left me lonely
I, I was so confused
Feeling like Id just been used
Then you came to me
And my loneliness left me
I use to think I was tied to a heartache
That was the heartbreak
But now that Ive found you
(chorus)
Even the nights are better
Now that were here together
Even the nights are better
Since I found you
Even the days are brighter
When someone you loves beside you
Even the nights are better
Since I found you
You, you knew just what to do
Cause you had been lonely too
And you showed me how
To ease the pain
And you did more
Than mend a broken heart
Cause now youve made a fire start
And i, I can see that you feel
The same way
I used to think I was tied to a heartache
That was the heartbreak
But now that Ive found you
(repeat chorus)
Friday, 4 August 2006
Assumptions
The Wheel of Time was no match with the songs played in Coffee Bean.
From reading Perrin's first Trolloc "battle" as Two River's leader, the romantic songs enticed and made me introspective yet again. Sipping on my Tea Latte and staring at a distance, thoughts in turmoil, I saw past a guy standing another girl idling with a magazine as she sipped on her own mug. The sight brought a small smile on my face as I thought, "there, there is an ally"...alone and emoting with a little help of the coffee shop's ambiance.
The small smile I had was still on when the guy blocking the view moved away, revealing a guy sitting beside the girl I was looking at earlier.
A guy happily taking pictures of the girl even though the girl wasn't paying him any attention. A guy so taken with his girl that he was staring at her lovingly when he's not taking her snapshots.
Head shaking and with a bigger smile on my face, I got back to reading how Faile got the better of Perrin.
No ally, after all.
Alone again, naturally.
From reading Perrin's first Trolloc "battle" as Two River's leader, the romantic songs enticed and made me introspective yet again. Sipping on my Tea Latte and staring at a distance, thoughts in turmoil, I saw past a guy standing another girl idling with a magazine as she sipped on her own mug. The sight brought a small smile on my face as I thought, "there, there is an ally"...alone and emoting with a little help of the coffee shop's ambiance.
The small smile I had was still on when the guy blocking the view moved away, revealing a guy sitting beside the girl I was looking at earlier.
A guy happily taking pictures of the girl even though the girl wasn't paying him any attention. A guy so taken with his girl that he was staring at her lovingly when he's not taking her snapshots.
Head shaking and with a bigger smile on my face, I got back to reading how Faile got the better of Perrin.
No ally, after all.
Alone again, naturally.
Monday, 12 June 2006
Tsukasa over Lei
Three years back, when the Meteor Garden fever was on and I myself (with flounder) spent a whole sleepless night watching the series, I was rooting for Lei to win Xian Tsai's heart. Though from the script, I know that Lei wouldnt be the leading man, my heart went out to him and I thought then that IF I'd be in Xian Tsai's position (a big laughing matter eh?hehehe), i'd definitely choose Lei...
Now though, as I watch Hana Yori Dango, I think that any woman deserves a love as passionate as Tsukasa has for Tsukushi and that Rui's (Lei's) love (if he really has something for Tsukushi) is such a mediocre one compared to his friend. Now, I know better whom to choose (though it's three years hence, the thought that i'd be in a dilemma is still a laughing matter..hahaha!)...
Now though, as I watch Hana Yori Dango, I think that any woman deserves a love as passionate as Tsukasa has for Tsukushi and that Rui's (Lei's) love (if he really has something for Tsukushi) is such a mediocre one compared to his friend. Now, I know better whom to choose (though it's three years hence, the thought that i'd be in a dilemma is still a laughing matter..hahaha!)...
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