Are you ever alone?

They say that no one is ever alone. They say that you have family, friends and colleagues, thus, how can you ever be alone?

I beg to differ.

You ARE alone, well, not 24/7, but at minutes and hours when there is no one besides you except, YOU. Therefore, you are alone. Heck, if you are at the toilet cubicle, doing your own private stuffs, you are alone, yes?

The difference to this word ALONE is, do you take it with a pinch of salt (lightly) or with a major dose of vinegar (heavily!). ;-)

To summarize it, and since I brought up the topic myself, you can safely say that you already know how I take my ALONE ... heavily, pretty heavily! Luckily I love my shark's fin soup with lots of vinegar! Otherwise, I would have long committed! hehe

Marriage

I hate attedning weddings! I have nothing against the food they serve though, just the fact that here we have, a couple in their most joyous day, celebrating with everyone of their decision to tie the knot. Yadda-yadda ... you two are happy, i get it!

Right, where was I? oh yeah, i hate weddings! And why?

COS ITS NOT ME GETTING MARRIED AND FROM THE LOOKS OF IT, IT IS NO WHERE CLOSE FOR ME TOO! So there ..! I HATE WEDDINGS!! .. unless ...its MY WEDDING. HUH!

Why Does One Blogs?

For many reasons definitely. For fame, for fortune, out of boredom, for oneself, anonymously, creativity, honesty, make believe .. etc.

For me, its purely out of curiosity. You see, back when I was in school, dairy writing was pretty much a norm ... IN A GIRL SCHOOL! I would hear my sisters talking about their dairy writing and sorts, on who and who wrote what and such. Heck, I even sneak into their room and took their dairy out to read without them knowing...hehe.

One thing I have learn from the good old days of dairy writing was, it a private affair! You pour out your lifetime wishes (which to a school going kid, that was already his/her entire life), your secrets, your everything .. into this small little book called a dairy. You will write down the date and time, some even the weather or one's feeling for the day.

Anyway, fast forward, you aged. One fine day, while performing your once a decade spring cleaning rituals, you chance upon your book. You read thru the pages diligently, silently laughing at yourself for all the 'messages' you have written, then you look up or close your eyes, perhaps shed a tear or two, on how you missed those days of innocence. Compared that to your recent years of sinful delight, you brushed it off.

Not that all the above were my personal experiences, gossiping around helps to 'spice' up the beginning of it all summary ma.

And thus, I said to myself, blogs are very in now, and almost everyone whom is anyone has a blog (so not true, I discovered, much later), let me start one too.

Initially, I would write my blogs ala Carrie Bradshaw style. You know, a cup of coffee, or a tall glass of ice water and ice cubes (must chew some like Carrie Bradshaw too), or a glass of vodka lime (the only drink I know how to make and likes), sitting on a comfy sofa. I even tried on numerous occasions to source for a leather arm chair with a heavy wood arm rest panel, you know, the very same chair that Carrie sits on after she bought it from Aidan, but alas, I could not find it in the KL market. Bummer.

I recently purchased a very plush recliner leather chair (for watching TV), but that's a different topic altogether.

As I was saying, YES, I initially wrote my blogs ala Carrie Bradshaw style, but soon I was writing my blogs Vincent Wong style! Who you might ask? Exactly ... a NOBODY in the blogging world and in other words, like Vincent, I stopped blogging. ;-) Well, not exactly 100% cease operation, but the occasional update.

I will write on stuffs that I am currently working on, which has no heads or tails or allows the readers to understand. Then again, you don't need to understand ma, cos the only reader is myself and a few close friends, which they BETTER know what is going thru my life as I blog randomly!

Yeah ... YOU ... see la...DAI DIEW!

The Various Types Of Soups

Did you know that there are different kinds of ingredients used to make soups? You simply boil the ingredients together with water, add in seasoning (you usually don't have to if you use enough good ingredients), and it becomes soup. Soups can be essentially categorized into the following 5 categories :

1. Clear Soup
2. Stock
3. Chowder
4. Thick Soup
5. Sweet Soup

CLEAR SOUP
Clear soup is light and clear. As preparation only takes a few minutes, the full flavor of the soup is not achieved in the process. Therefore, clear soups require extra ingredients, or mixed with stock, to taste better. Vegetable bean curd soup and egg are examples of clear soups.

STOCK
Stock is a flavoured liquid. Stock is prepared by simmering various ingredients in water, including pig bones, chicken bones and fish bones.

CHOWDER
Chowder is thick soup made from stock, enriched with different ingredients and thickened with flour. It then turns into thick soup and named as chowder, such as corn chowder.

THICK SOUP
Thick soup is thickened with corn flour and is slightly different from chowder. To make thick soup, all ingredients should be chopped finely. Otherwise, it will take more time to soften the ingredients so that they do not stick together, these include seafood and meat based thick soups.

SWEET SOUP
Sweet soup, also known as tong shui, is a sweer cantonese soup or warm custard served as a dessert at the end of a meal. There are various types of sweet soups, such as red bean soup, green bean soup, black sesame soup, etc.

Having said all these, my concentration is on soups, be it clear, stock, chowder, thick or sweet, that are nourishing to the well....ahem...soul. Therefore, all soups tried out at a later stage will only use one electrical 'machine', the SLOW COOKER. ;-)

Introduction extracted from The World of Nourishing & Fine Soups

Step One To Cooking Herbal Nourishing Soup

Get a slow cooker. Personally, I prefer the Panasonic brand. It usually comes in 3 sizes, small (good for about 2 bowls of soup, medium (good for 4 bowls) and large (more than 4 bowls loh). All cooker comes with 3 heating options, LOW, HIGH and AUTO.

The LOW is to reheat, the HIGH is to continously boil the soup (you use this option when you are at home looking over the cooking process) and the AUTO is to cook the soup automatically (basically it will periodically boil between HIGH and LOW, best used when you intend to go out)

For a bachelor, a medium size should be sufficient, big is not exactly the best you know.

The cost is less than RM150.00.

Next step, the types of available herbal nourishing soups.

Hmmm

Just bought a book on Nourishing Soups and Fruit Enzymes. Should I create a food process step by step blog?

Men are like ....

For all those men who say, Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free. Here's an update for you: Nowadays, 80% of women are against marriage, WHY? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage.

Men are like....

1. Men are like Laxatives . They irritate the crap out of you.

2. Men are like. Bananas . The older they get, the less firm they are.

3. Men are like Weather . Nothing can be done to change them.

4. Men are like Blenders You need One, but you're not quite sure why.

5. Men are like Chocolate Bars . Sweet, smooth, & they usually head right for your hips.

6. Men are like Commercials . You can't believe a word they say.

7. Men are like Department Stores ... Their clothes are always 1/2 off!

8. Men are like . Government Bonds .... They take soooooooo long to mature.

9. Men are like .. Mascara . They usually run at the first sign of emotion.

10. Men are like Popcorn . They satisfy you, but only for a little while.

11. Men are like Snowstorms . You never know when they're coming, how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.

12. Men are like Lava Lamps . Fun to look at, but not very bright.

13. Men are like Parking Spots All the good ones are taken, the rest are handicapped.

As I Ponder

As I am watching all the Hong Kong and Korean series, seeing them progress and advance in the show as the episode picks up, I cant help but wonder, what am I doing with my own life?

Let me break it down, for the past couple of years, I seems to have allow myself to get wasted. How? For starters, after working hours, I spend all my time devoted to just eating, sitting in front of the tv and just laze away. It has been years since I last went out shopping or doing stuffs alone. Its been years (!) since I last gym eventhough I have a life time gym membership. Granted that I swim, on extreme rare occassions and limited to less than 5 laps around the pool with lots of resting between each lap, coffee intake has increased, so has food and ciggie. The condo is in a mess, laundry is diligently carried out, so is the weekly bedding changing, however everything else seems to have lapsed. I hardly mop the floor, or sweep my room (its parquet, I cant exactly use liquid to wash it, dressing table is in a mess, magazines are everywhere in the bedroom, dust are magically accumulated eventhough I do not open the windows or room door much!, the area next to the entrance is in a mess, dust and dirt are inches thick, living room is in a mess with stuffs left everywhere, cant recall the last time i cleaned the kitchen tabletop.

Sigh, I am just getting lazier than ever! Could it be that I am not getting any younger? That I should be officially debt free by the time I am 43? and by debt free I meant the car, the condo and credit cards!

Luckily I aint a very materialistic person, not that into branded goods (not that I do not ponder once in a while), or that I want all the luxuries in life. Sigh.

I remembered the time when I used to gym every evening without fail, granted that I eat loads after the gym, but body weight and everything else was in 'check' purely because of the daily gym, but since joining the new company 2 years ago, all these were forgone. I wonder why.

It is because I have given up hope on ever finding love? or the dating game? or the need to look good cos ... there is no one whom is gonna appreciate my efforts anyway.

Am just waiting for the moment or day where I will 'wake up' and do something with my life!

Motivation. Yes .. MOTIVATION. I am the type who definately needs motivation. I aint self motivated like Lawrence H. Boy I misses him.

Anyway ... its now 12 midnight, and as I watch tv while pondering ... away ... hmmm!

How Straight Couples Start A Fight

When I got home last night, my wife asked me to take her someplace expensive…
So I took her to a gas station.
And that’s when the fight started….

My wife stands nude in front of the mirror.She is not happy with what she sees and says, “I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.”
I replied, “Your eyesight is perfect.”
And that’s when the fight started….

My wife hints about what she wanted for her upcoming birthday:
“I want something shiny and goes from 0 to 150 in 3 seconds.”
I bought her a scale.
And that’s when the fight started….

I took my wife to a restaurant and the waiter took my order first.
“I’ll have the steak, medium rare.”
He asked, “Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?”
“Nah, she can order for herself.”
And that’s when the fight started….

My wife asked me if a certain dress made her butt look big.
I told her: “Not as much as the dress she wore yesterday.”
And that’s when the fight started….

I asked my wife to buy a case of beer while she’s at the supermarket for $11.95.
Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $37.95.
She said: “This cream will make me look gorgeous.”
I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream.
And that’s when the fight started….

My wife and I were watching “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” in bed.
I turned to her and said, “Do you want to have sex?”
“No,” she answered.
I asked, “Is that your final answer?”
She didn’t even look at me simply replied: “Yes.”
So I said, “Then I’d like to phone a friend.”
And that’s when the fight started….

I asked my wife, “Where do you want to go for our anniversary?”
“Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!” she said smilingly.
So I suggested, “How about the kitchen?”
And that’s when the fight started…

Jokes copied from Sexy Tenga ... ;-)

Its 2009!

It has been a while. How have I been? I am pretty much the same. Granted that I have gained weight, lots of it .. but HEY! the Secret says I must have positive thoughts and thus here goes ... I will loose weight and hit the gym .. SOON! hehe.

Meanwhile, Chinese New Year is just round the corner, Kong Hee Fatt Choy!!! Yup...everyone else says Gong Xi Fa Cai and yet I still stick to the cantonese greeting/spelling version, why? because I am of Cantonese dialet lo! hehe

Muaks x 1000 (this was taught by VW)...aww...i still missed him, eventhough he is now married with one child (or more?).