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Spring is finally here, I was driving to work one day and suddenly realized how nice and pleasant the morning was; The sun is warm, the clouds flowing in from the West. The highway is not packed with cars. I'm feeling calm and refresh after a good night of rest and It's perfect. The lighting is good and has that wide-angle/3D feel.

It is one of those 'smell the rose' moments for me. (while driving?)

Blah blah ha ha blah, I blah blah and blah. Butthen it choke and bleh. So haha blah bleh.

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I hope my future girlfriend uses the same shampoo....

ReJoice

I just read a comment in slashdot this morning that blogs are just narcissistic rantings, I guess there are many views to it and I certainly don't see it this way.

I believed blogging is a way for people to keep journal of themselves, voice their opinions about things, and make their marks on earth. It's like people have their own homepage in the old days (yeah, I make it sound ancient, but it just barely over 10 years ago), and that's that. Are those empty me-too, hello-world like homepages just narcissistic rantings? Maybe. But it's called "Freedom of speech".

Yes, maybe search engine need to be smarter so people can filter out blog/moblog when searching for "information" and don't want to know someone's opinion about it.

To me, blogging is a way for me to horn my writing skills and critical thinking. I often found myself too "whatever" and "soft" to things I read, which I could be more sensitive to. It comes down to make some analysis and form an opinion on things I read. That's why I do blogging.

So, I got the blackmail material now. Hahaha.

Ryan 1
Ryan 2

Vincent,

Here's to find the 2 pictures. Click to open, then right mouse to save image.

Picture 1
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Chinese black bean is commonly used in Chinese dishes and I think everyone from Hong Kong know how to make at least one dish using it.

One simple way to cook with Chinese black bean is steaming ribs with Chinese black beans, which put salty favour to it when the sauce can be mixed with rich (so it won't taste blended).

Ingredients:
- Pork ribs
- Black beans
- Oil

Procedures:
- Cut up ribs in small pieces
- Rinse the black bean to allow it moists
- Mix ribs, black bean and some oil
- Let it sit for 10-15 minutes
- Boil up water in wok
- Steam the ribs in wok until cooked.

It's simple and yummy.

When I went to Toronto last time, my Uncle Nick shown me how to make this green onion pancake. Of course he makes it look so easy, and so yummy. So, I tried it when joining the parents x2 and Heng for a BBQ night followed by Starcraft.

Ingrediants:
- Green onion
- Oil
- Salt
- Flour

Procedures:
1 - Mix flour with warm water, scale ~3:1
2 - Let dough stall for 15 minutes to allow flour absorb the moisture
3 - Massage the dough until it's moist and soft (~1/2 hours)
4 - Apply some flour on table/surface, iron the dough flat on the table into thin sheet with roller
5 - Apply layer of oil on top, add a lot of salt (4 spoons) and green onion (1.5 bunch)
6 - Roll up the green onion in dough
7 - Cut in 3-4 inches piece, iron flat the piece
8 - Pan fry it.

I turns out ok, but it lacks salt and green onion and the pancake a bit too tough after cool off. I guess I need to work more on it.

When I think of picking up chick for one night stand (no, I don't mean the act of pickup done by me, just "pickup" in general), this image always pop up in my mind; A Bar or some sort of clubing place, a lot of trendy/cool looking people, loud techno music, people engaging in ear-to-ear chat, eye contacts, flirting, buying drinks, dancing closely, and newly met "love bird" head out of the place to do the deed or whatever they desired.

With modern technology, it becomes a whole new ball game:

Place: Anywhere - a mall, shopping strip in downtown, a book store, a subway
Time: Anytime - during rush hour, at lunch time, a Sunday afternoon

All you need is a cellphone with bluetooth turns on and you can send a simple message (via bluetooth business card function) like "toothing? 613-xxx-xxxx". You send someone a message and if she replies back or via SMS, you've got game! It's better than ICQ, MSN and Friendster.

Once becomes outreaching to all nearby devices and whatever it reaches is real (ok, it might be a pork-chop...) and close-by. It needs not to be a sex advanture with a stranger, it could be just a chat with some stranger you "bump" into. It's up to you. The closest thing I can think of is someone saw your stat or pick you randomly out of millions and ICQ/MSN you saying "wanna chat? I'm bored."

Gee, I got the best reason to get a Bluetooth phone now.

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Some thinks he is a laughing stock and should go home.

Some thinks he is talented, funny and comical.

I just found him a bit wierd..... handsome? He's not. Talented? I failed to see that with my bias taste on things. But hey, he has his 15 minutes. I respect him has this level of self-esteem and confident to go national on TV, knowing many think he is an idiot. But I still somewhat embarassed by him being from Hong Kong like me... and performing she "bangs".

Oh well, I need my fix of self-esteem boosting. Hahaha.

She Bangs and William Hung's page