Happy Easter :)

I can't believe I managed to ward off Facebook during lent!! Yippee--- Happy Easter :) The weather was clear, and my friend was getting baptized. Went to his church (I don't go there normally because I'm a Catholic). It reminded me so much of MGS that I almost cried during the praise and worship. I really miss those days. I made braised quail eggs for my friends. I thought there wouldn't be that many people I know at that church, but it turned...

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Bread Cup

I tried this bread cutter and toasted white bread in oven toaster inside a cup. Toasted bread cups  Some of them were burnt because I left the toaster unwatched. It took only about 2 minutes to get it brown and crispy. Bread cups filled with tuna, egg, white corn, yellow sweet corn, carrot and asparagus in Kewpie (Japanese mayo) Would taste better if the salad were colder but my friends said it's yummy (and one complained that the bread was...

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Hayashi

I want to get rid of my Hayashi Rice sauce mix but I was too lazy to cook rice so I made kwetiaw (flat, broad rice noodle) with hayashi rice sauce. It says on the package that I can use noodles instead of rice and I guess they must be referring to udon. The closest noodle I can find in my cabinet is kwetiaw.  Kwetiaw with beef, cauliflowers and broccoli hayashi sauce And somehow it felt like eating jajangmyun. LOL. So I have leftovers...

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Steam!

I really miss long chili pepper stuffed with minced pork seasoned in soy sauce, white peppers and sesame oil, and then steamed. Childhood favorite ♪ I'm not a big fan of my steamer. The holed base would suddenly fall down and then I have to pull the base from the bottom of the pot using strings because it's stuck at the bottom :( I tried to make manju again (to test my perseverance). This time I used chestnut and red bean fillings. I can't...

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Another Birthday Cake

The first cheesecake I've ever made from scratch. Hurray! My friend and I kept checking the recipe because it was also her first time making cheesecake. Turned out to be pretty simple and easy. At first I thought we would screw up because I don't have pans big enough to make a water bath (bain marie? I forgot what the jargon term for water bath in baking is) for a 9" pan that we bought. We tried using Edible Markers to draw but it didn't work - probably...

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Glooom

I get really gloomy when I read news across the world. What can I do to help? At least for now, what can I do to help without sacrificing my current life goals? I can't even help people around me. How can I help the world? Are prayers enou...

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Lazy

Dump everything together and voila. Someone please bang my head for being so lazy -...

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Happy Birthday - The first cake that I made

Somehow I didn't get the chance to make a cake in FSHN 131. At all. Either I was doing an experiment (like making a cake using microwave) or it's got to be something else. I remembered making meringue but not cakes. I used a cake mix to make the Rilakkuma cake so it's actually considered cheating cuz when I say cook or bake it has to be from scratch. Anyways I didn't do it alone but I would consider this quite a feat considering I have not touched...

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Silver Spoon

A good manga about a boy who gets into an agricultural college (hmm... sounds a lot like me!) but doesn't like farming and stuffs that he wondered why he's there. What language is that?!! Yep, people like us are not good mathematicians or physicists - we suck at them even though the engineers would say "whaat, that's basic, that's easy!" and we even complain about having to take Physics 101 BUT we are pretty geeky about the technical...

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Food Science!? Food Science in Manga!?

Original link here or just click the picture to enlarge. Finally. The first manga that mentioned something about food science and nitrates and phospates in meat and myoglobin and... WOW! Sorry this was very random. It's 4:28 AM, time to go zzZZZ. By the way, TOKYOPOP America went bankrupt so I don't know what's gonna happen to the Hetalia bento contest that entered but at least from the number of likes I got from Facebook last time (over...

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Culture and Language - all the fun mashing them up

Maybe this is not really funny but on a perspective it's funny that many languages share the same pronunciation but they mean very differently. I've been reading the comments of Finnish people (thanks to Google Translate I understand Finnish!).  The video is on how Finnish surnames mean funny things in Japanese. Like Aho (means "idiot") and Ikarainen ("squid" and "next year"). Reversely, according to one of the comments, some Japanese surnames also mean funny things in Finnish like Takakura (it means something dirty like shit or something...

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First DISLIKE!! XD

Since I was a grade schooler I've been told by my parents that I have a sharp tongue and I should be a lawyer (or a judge and even a prosecutor). In any case, I don't think it's gonna be my future career, but I would have to agree with my parents that I love satires. My drawings, songs and even jokes can be pretty provocative to people who are not very receptive about criticism (and I am actually one of those people who can get a little offended by stupid jokes). I do realize that, and I still do that because picking a theme that everyone's been...

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Hanami

Two days ago, after the Ikebana written exam, a friend from my Ikebana classmate told me that she was going to have a picnic (and with the sakura trees blooming around this time of the years, it's kinda appropriate to call it a hanami, right?) So I was like, yeahhh, I want to do a hanami too! I was thinking of going during the weekend, but my friend reminded me of the nasty thunderstorm this weekend. DISLIKE!!! :( Then I was desperate to gather...

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SAI

Last time I had a light debate with my friend who also likes to draw anime/manga style stuffs. I prefer Photoshop while she prefers SAI. I decided to try SAI and guess what: I like it other than the fact that you can't insert texts (or maybe I haven't found the tool? I tried searching using the Help menu but I couldn't find any). Hetalia Nanny Wars: England (and chibi America) vs France (and chibi Canada - specifically Quebec) SAI makes really...

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Mushroom Risotto

So this is actually my get-rid-of-ingredients plan. I have so many food stuffs in my place and I only have 1 month left to finish them all! No Parmesan cheese? Use cream cheese. No fresh herbs? Use dried Italian herbs. No fresh mushroom? Use dried ones. No chicken stock? Use the water from rehydrating the dried mushroom. Makes 3 servings Ingredients: - 6 pcs dried mushroom (shitake or some forest mushrooms) - 1/2 cup water (to rehydreate the...

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Change the Season

It was like this: And before I knew it, it has turned into something like this: Beautiful! :D I'm going to miss Japan House and the squirrels. 1 month left before I leave this town >.< Last week during my Ikebana class I picked the wrong containter. I don't like sharp edges, but somehow that's the container that I got. I made my most bizzare arrangement throughout the semester: The theme was supposed to be "Hope." I feel "electrified"...

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Warm

Can't believe another winter has passed and it's almost summer again. Time to turn on my AC real soon. It's 28C out there! x___x I'm not a big fan of hot weather so I'm a little sad that I can't survive without at least the fan on. I haven't been cooking a lot these days. Seems like there are so many things to do nowadays. Country style pork ribs in garlic, apple and pear sauce, soy sauce, fried chili and dried shrimp, and Chinese red wine, topped...

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