Where are the lenses?!?!?!

I noticed this trend going around these days especially in my college and I'm kinda wondering 'What are these ppl thinking?'

Hmmm...it just look awkward!

chinese food

Masakan Tionghoa-Indonesia mempunyai ciri khas campuran antara masakan Tionghoa dengan masakan tradisional Indonesia. Masakan ini biasanya mirip dengan masakan Tionghoa yang dimodifikasi dengan cabai, santan dan bumbu-bumbu dari masakan Indonesia. Beberapa masakan dan kue menyerupai masakan di Malaysia.

You Win Some, You Lose Some

Kurt often says, "Sometimes you eat the bear. Sometimes the bear eats you." I'm assuming it's a movie quote of some sort, and I just don't have the cultural literacy to know where it comes from. That happens more than one might guess. In any case, Wednesday night was the perfect time to use that quote. Seems that we got eaten by the bear, and then got to eat some very good corn chowder afterwards. Hmmm, that's a bit "Jonah and the Whale-ish," isn't it?

In any case, Wednesday night started off very promising. During work, I had been smelling the corn chowder that was available in the cafeteria. Now, I've learned my lesson--actually, learned it a few too many times--about eating food at my company's cafeteria. Namely, don't do it. And, if you do it, knowing full well that you shouldn't, do not, under any circumstances, get the soup. The soups there must be loaded with MSG because the kinds of headaches I get immediately after consuming it are excruciating.

Anyway, I really wanted corn chowder after smelling it all day, so I searched around for a recipe. See, I have a problem with corn chowder. I love it when I get it at restaurants. But, I haven't found a recipe I like to make at home. This, no doubt, has everything to do with my hesitancy to use ingredients like cream, or bacon. I finally decided that it must be these items that make the difference, though, and started rationalizing about how, it's bound to be moderately healthier made at home, even with those ingredients, and it would certainly be cheaper, per-serving. So, I found this recipe and we went for it. According to the link, it is originally from The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, which, thanks to this recipe, is now very high on my "Cookbooks to Buy" list.

We made a few changes. We used turkey bacon rather than "real" bacon. We didn't have turmeric in the house, so we skipped it. We did have heavy cream in the house for some reason, so we used that instead of the half-and-half. And we halved the recipe because I saw no need for 10 to 12 servings of something with such a dubious nutritional profile for just two people.

The results were incredible. Really, this recipe finally matches up to what I can get at the restaurants.

Unfortunately, while the soup was simmering for its 15 minutes uncovered, my computer met with catastrophe. I don't know what I did wrong, but all of a sudden, there were pop-ups everywhere telling me about how my computer was under attack. Except, those pop-ups weren't from my antivirus software. They were from, well, a virus. This virus--spyware--whatever you want to call it--made my computer completely useless. And so began days of alternately wanting to cry, throw my laptop against a wall, and get revenge on whoever had done this to my precious laptop. On top of all this, I feared the worst--What would happen if I went into labor while my laptop was dead? GASP. As Kurt so appropriately asked, "If a baby is born, and The Jam Girls don't know about it, did it still happen?" I'm not sure, and I'm VERY glad not to have to find out.

So, in the end, the bear--also known as the virus--ate us, but we had some damn good corn chowder in the process.

Oh, and for those who would like to know, this program is what finally resuscitated my laptop this morning. I highly recommend it.

You Win Some, You Lose Some

Kurt often says, "Sometimes you eat the bear. Sometimes the bear eats you." I'm assuming it's a movie quote of some sort, and I just don't have the cultural literacy to know where it comes from. That happens more than one might guess. In any case, Wednesday night was the perfect time to use that quote. Seems that we got eaten by the bear, and then got to eat some very good corn chowder afterwards. Hmmm, that's a bit "Jonah and the Whale-ish," isn't it?

In any case, Wednesday night started off very promising. During work, I had been smelling the corn chowder that was available in the cafeteria. Now, I've learned my lesson--actually, learned it a few too many times--about eating food at my company's cafeteria. Namely, don't do it. And, if you do it, knowing full well that you shouldn't, do not, under any circumstances, get the soup. The soups there must be loaded with MSG because the kinds of headaches I get immediately after consuming it are excruciating.

Anyway, I really wanted corn chowder after smelling it all day, so I searched around for a recipe. See, I have a problem with corn chowder. I love it when I get it at restaurants. But, I haven't found a recipe I like to make at home. This, no doubt, has everything to do with my hesitancy to use ingredients like cream, or bacon. I finally decided that it must be these items that make the difference, though, and started rationalizing about how, it's bound to be moderately healthier made at home, even with those ingredients, and it would certainly be cheaper, per-serving. So, I found this recipe and we went for it. According to the link, it is originally from The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, which, thanks to this recipe, is now very high on my "Cookbooks to Buy" list.

We made a few changes. We used turkey bacon rather than "real" bacon. We didn't have turmeric in the house, so we skipped it. We did have heavy cream in the house for some reason, so we used that instead of the half-and-half. And we halved the recipe because I saw no need for 10 to 12 servings of something with such a dubious nutritional profile for just two people.

The results were incredible. Really, this recipe finally matches up to what I can get at the restaurants.

Unfortunately, while the soup was simmering for its 15 minutes uncovered, my computer met with catastrophe. I don't know what I did wrong, but all of a sudden, there were pop-ups everywhere telling me about how my computer was under attack. Except, those pop-ups weren't from my antivirus software. They were from, well, a virus. This virus--spyware--whatever you want to call it--made my computer completely useless. And so began days of alternately wanting to cry, throw my laptop against a wall, and get revenge on whoever had done this to my precious laptop. On top of all this, I feared the worst--What would happen if I went into labor while my laptop was dead? GASP. As Kurt so appropriately asked, "If a baby is born, and The Jam Girls don't know about it, did it still happen?" I'm not sure, and I'm VERY glad not to have to find out.

So, in the end, the bear--also known as the virus--ate us, but we had some damn good corn chowder in the process.

Oh, and for those who would like to know, this program is what finally resuscitated my laptop this morning. I highly recommend it.

WISDOM OF THE WORLD - WEEK 85

The Ointment

A young woman, newly married, moved in with her husband and his mother. She found her new mother in law very critical of everything she did. Whatever she did, the older woman put her down, complained about her and generally made her feel like she had no value. Finally in desperation the young wife went to see the herbalist, a wise old woman who lived in the village. She opened her heart to the healer and begged for some potion that would kill her mother-in law off. The herbalist gave her an ointment and told her that she must rub it into the older women’s feet for half an hour a day for a month.

After three weeks the young daughter in law turned up at the healer’s house asking for an antidote. The mother in law had completely transformed and the two women had resolved all their differences and there was a lot of love and affection between them both. The healer smiled explaining that the herbs were harmless and that the loving attention the daughter in law had shown the elder woman was what had worked the miracle.

The Arash Concert!

I know some might be wondering who that is?!?! Well, I didn’t know who it was at 1st till recently when my bf’s band was busy practicing for his concert opening here in KL. And after listening to some of his songs, I realized that I’ve heard some of the songs before and I know them, just that I never get to know who the singer was.
Anyway, Arash is this Iranian famous RnB singer and frankly, some of his songs are not bad actually. They’re quite addictive.

He has this song called ‘Temptation’ which the video clip was recorded in Malaysia, and honestly it doesn’t look like KL at all! Bukit Bintang looks so nice in the clip not to mention Sunway Pyramid! And the quality of the video clip is really good unlike most of the Malaysian video clips which just look…..*sigh*!

The concert!

Us taking pics with him backstage! *It's just so nice to have the VIP treatment! u get to go backstage and take pics!*

Me & Neusha before the concert starts! She's really sweet! =)

Runway 18 doing their thing for the opening!

Ok let’s get to the part where I went for his concert! Well, it was great! My bf’s band played for the 1st one hour. Then, it was the concert. The best part was that, I get to sit at the VIP place cos I was in the ‘Guest List’ and it was really cool! Considering the fact that I didn’t have to pay for a single cent! *wink wink*

One of his famous hit. Try checking out 'Donya' one of his best single featuring Shaggy! i think everyone knows this one cos I listened to it before but i just never bother to find out who was the singer.

Their best night!

Last night was so far the best night of performance of my bf’s band! It was really fun and everyone enjoyed it! See, my bf’s band performs in 2 clubs (sometimes 3) a week and of all these clubs, I really love it when they’re performing in Hops & Grapes in Cyberjaya! I love the place, I love the people, I love the bar owner and I just love the crowd who went there!
Although cyberjaya is quite far from the city centre and the bar just seems kinda evergreen with working adults and some middle age customers but one thing I love about them is that they go to the bar for the love of MUSIC! They are there to enjoy the music instead of just come and drink and get fucking drunk!
And that brings the reason why I hate Envy Club in Mont Kiara and as well as Library in D’ Curve! The crowds are lifeless! They don’t respond at all! All they care about is just to get drunk and get those club PR’s to entertain them and when the band don’t play their song requests, they’ll start to complaint!
No offence (especially to all Chinese out there and as well as my Chinese friends), but I never like a club or a bar which mainly has 90% Chinese crowd cos :
1. They never seem to pay attention at the band playing (if you know that you’re going to a live band club or bar, why not give sometimes to enjoy them play or at least give some responds rather than just sit there and start to talk business and start complaining that the band is too loud!)
2. They just don’t appreciate Music! Honestly I’ve met bunch and thousands of Chinese who doesn’t even know the song Black Magic Woman! Come on! This is like the legend! It was the best song ever in its era! And they’ll start coming to me and ask, “What song is this?” Gosh!
3. Ok, it’s fair if you don’t like live band and it’s understood if you wanna go to the club to have fun, drink and enjoy dancing (cos even me if I’m in the mood to club and dance I rather go to a place where the DJ’s playing not a live band cos live band do tend to get sucky sometimes…) but if you know that you’re gonna do that, why go to the Live band club in the 1st place and start complaining again after that or just sit at the corner?
Ok enough on that, I’ll get a lot of burning complaints after this.
Anyway, last night was really really awesome! Everyone got so crazy and started to dance to Sweet Child of Mine! And the new female singer was awesome! She’s got great charisma, good voice and the crowds like her!
The best part was that I made few new friends, and at the end of the song, there’s this cute French guy who I always observe all the time cos he has this nice shoulder length hair, asked me to dance with him! Lol! And my bf was there! But it’s ok, cos my bf knows that I have a thing for guys with long hair! *wink wink*