Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Christmas Greetings for Mom

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Sunny Spring

Yay... it's spring now and the sun has finally shined consistently lately. My popcorn had his first BBQ party (of this year) a few days ago. Later he told me that he got sunburn. I was like, “hhhh....? sunburn?” 'Cos even though it's warm outside, it's not THAT hot that you could actually get any sunburn. Moreover, he's in Norway, the coldest place on earth I've ever visited.
My poor little popcorn.... I'm concern about how he could survive the summer if he gets sunburn so easily. And it's still the beginning of Spring, a long way to go to Summer!

Then I realize, how I've had a false conception this whole time. It begins as I had my holiday in Bali. I got myself a temporary tattoo on my upper arm. I thought it'd be cool. Well, it turned out to be more hot than cool. It was extremely hot to be precise. After some hours dipping in the salty water and grilled under the sun, the place where the black ink was carved felt like burned. It hurt so much as if I had the real tattoo needle pierced into my skin (oh well, I assume so, 'cos I've never had a real one yet).
This experience brought me to the thought, that white people are so lucky during summer, unlike black people or any other dark skins whose colors absorb the heat of the sun.
My sister second my opinion when she had her blonde friend touched her overheated black haired head. Her friend was surprised since his head has never went that hot. Yeah, my people always joke that we can fry an egg on our head.
You know, the companies of “Head and Shoulders” and “Clear” even invented menthol shampoo with the cool sensation only for us, the tropical land people. Mmm... at least I think so, 'cos I've never seen menthol shampoo here in Germany. Even though the summer in Europe can be much hotter than in my homeland.

But now I achieve a new comprehension. Dark skins may absorb more heat and feel hotter, but they don't get sunburn as easily as the whites. Nevertheless, I still think that white people are lucky because they don't get tanned so fast after being exposed to the sun (o yeah, you're lucky. We, asian ladies, use tons of whitening cream to stay yellow!). I even see they become orange instead of brown. But at least, most of color skin people wont have to go through the red-boiled-crab phase before they get darker.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Vegetarian animal for vegetarian people?

Our conversation during meal today. One of my friends mentioned, cows are vegetarians, pigs are also vegetarians. That means vegetarian people should be able to eat them, right? Hehehe... I just think he was hilarious.


Monday, April 04, 2011

God must be working part time in Starbucks' kitchen,

'cos its chocolate truffle cake tastes like heaven...
It's better than McCafe's chocolate cake, only it's smaller and more expensive :(

Nonetheless.... I'm fully satisfied tonight..... aaaah..... a warm bed would be good :D

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Appetite!


Duh...! A couple of days ago the doorman at the library caught me at the entrance and forbade me to go inside because of an empty cup and a donut I brought along inside my library basket. “Kein Becher und kein Essen,” he said firmly. I was indeed planning to use the cup for drinking later on. So I tempted to see how far my luck could go and started to say, “Oh, but it’s empty…,” but then abruptly change my mind after I saw the cold expression on his face “… heuheu… ok, ok, I’ll throw the cup away.” So I threw it in the bin and came back to him, putting the sweetest smile I could make and said, “I will not eat the donut (honestly!).” He looked at me straight in the eyes and with the chill voice replied, “Das ist mir egal, Sie dürfen es NICHT mitbringen!” Hiks… he’s not the man I should try to argue with.

So that was 2 days ago. Today, the girl sitting in front of me chewed her apple noisily. The fact that she’s better in smuggling the food had made her munching sounded extremely louder, which hurt my ears and almost brought me to tears.

Nah… lets bend the topic a little bit.
Tonight I’ll go to a dinner invitation with my usual dinner mates. These are the closest friends I found from my prior master project. Even after the project has ended, we still meet each other once in a while. We mostly have the not-so-rich-student-hang-out-style, where each of us should bring something and share, so that we would have a lot to eat and drink at the dinner. But some of these friends have their own eating rules, which at first always made me confused thinking of what kind of food I shall bring.
One of them is a vegetarian without fish, one is vegetarian with fish, and one can only eat chicken meat and hates all the other meats. These 3 people including me and one other friend REALLY love hot and spicy food. On the other hand, another two friends cannot eat spicy food at all, but they eat (almost) all kind of food. From all these people, five are into Asian food, one is willing to taste the Asian food, and the other is so-so.
After a while, I decided to always bring vegetarian food to the dinner. Sometimes a bit spicy, sometimes just normal food.

And then some months ago this gorgeous guy starts to join into my network. The first time I invited him to my place, I cooked chicken mushroom. It was a bit of a failure since I dropped too much broth powder and it was super salty. But he said it was OK, so I didn't care anymore.
Days after that I made him confess that he actually doesn't like mushroom nor chicken at all. Hahaha… still wonder how he managed to eat what I served at that time. I granted him "Gentleman of the Month" for his big effort. But he also deserves "the Pickiest Guy I Knew" for his strictly limited choice of food. (^^ popcorn if you read this.. :# lol...)

When I finally wanted to let him meet my dinner mates, the confusion struck back. This guy puts ground meat on his every meal. He claimed that he only likes German food, but thank God he actually loves Asian fried rice too. So even though in conclusion I can make fried rice for everybody, it still is not the best solution. Vegetarian fried rice = less satisfaction for the gorgeous guy. Ground meat fried rice = no satisfaction for the vegetarian and the no-meat-unless-chicken mates.

I'm still digging my brain to find what other Asian food I can cook that would fulfill everybody's appetite.

Easter Egg
PS: Best greetings to those who think dinner brings happiness ^^