白玉翡翠

Beignets

Dear Warriors in 2066:

Thanks for the great dinner tonight. Actually, thanks for helping me consuming all my food tonight. If it were not you, I wouldn't have had a great evening and enjoy the great food (which Tom and I made), the movie (which I didn't really pay attention to), the desserts beignets (which I brought the ingredient from New Orleans), the wonderful mudslides (the only thing C.O. Neal can make) and cafe au lait (PV Farrales did a great job!). How can I lose weight then? Although I worked out for more than 1 hour today, it was invalid....

尋找新方向

電影Sideways在台灣被翻譯成一個怪怪的名字.其實故事的主角在片中並沒有刻意的尋找什麼所謂的心方向 (新方向),而是觀眾在欣賞本片的同時,從那些詼諧的片段中找出一些自己獨有的新方向吧!

在朋友的大力推薦下我滿懷期待的看了這部片,故事的本身並不令我特 別感動,但是看完以後那股深深的餘韻,繚繞在胸口的感覺,就跟片中不斷出現的美酒Pinot Noir一樣香陳.在美國住的這些日子,喝的紅白酒比我以前喝過的全部加起來十倍還要多,在價格便宜品質又好取得容易的情況驅使下,我和朋友的佐餐飲料絕 對少不了一瓶酒,所以對於酒的喜愛也與日俱增.好的酒給人的價值常常超越了喝酒的特殊場合.許多人都把好酒存起來,等待一個絕佳的時機才打開品嘗.但就像 電影中女主角說的,當你打開這瓶好酒的那一天,這一天就因為這瓶酒而變得特殊了.誰說一定要找一個特別的日子才能喝酒慶祝,怎不能為了一瓶好酒而慶祝,使 得一天變得特別呢?

好片好片,看完會想喝酒的一部好片....就來杯pinot吧!!記得看週日的奧斯卡喔!!

Smoke Detector

Tania買了一個做韓式烤肉的鍋子(看吧!我們一天到晚都在吃韓國菜),於是邀請我們一起吃她做的烤肉.沒想到我才一踏進她們家門,煙霧緊報器就狂叫了 起來,害得我們每個人都被震到耳鳴. 我們想各種辦法停止警鈴,又是煽風又是拿塑膠袋蓋的,還在狂冷的寒夜裡大開門戶"散熱",凍得我要穿起雪衣吃飯,可是烤肉實在太好吃,我就趁著警鈴大做, 所有人都忙得不可開交的時候,一口氣把肉都吃光光,哈哈哈!

The Notebook

Have you seen the movie "The Notebook"? It's a very touching movie....

This week my apartment complex offers a movie week, and we can borrow new DVDs for free every day. So far I've borrowed 5 movies and all of them were terrible (Vanity Fair, Code 46, Danny something??, Sky Captain & something) except this one. It's about an old couple's love story. I couldn't help cried several times in the middle of the movie. If one person can have a company for his/her whole life, every day he/she will full of hope waking up. That's divine~

Bowled 135!!

I thought we would have cosmic bowling tonight but it turned out just a normal game.

Good thing: I bowled 135, 119 for both games, which were my highest score in the league ever. The first game I got same score as Posen (thanks to his gutter), amazing!!

Sad thing: We lost one game so we are not unbeaten any more (Not like our school's 28-0 unbeaten record)

Finally I am not a shame in the family. Dad and Mom are both good players! BTW, my goal in this semester is to get average of 110!!

世上最難喝的飲料

應該沒有一種東西比咳嗽糖漿更可怕更難喝的吧?

偏偏我每天都咳個不停,只好買強效糖漿猛灌,只是每次都覺得自虐的嚴重!

最有效的咳嗽糖漿是Robitussin的 DM (綠色瓶身) , 可是也難喝的緊. Sam's Club有賣那種generic的配方 (就是指成分相同但沒有品牌的)兩大瓶(12 oz X 2)才三塊多錢,保證喝到上癮!!

韓式豆腐辣湯飯

今天在吃晚餐時,我一直不停的重複著說: 怎麼會那麼好吃呢?雖然聽起來有點誇張,但好吃的程度真是不輸給餐廳賣的喔!

白飯 半碗

韓式辣椒醬 一大匙
韓式辣椒粉 半大匙
泡菜兩片 切段
洋蔥 半個
青蔥 少許
馬鈴薯 一個 (切塊)
豆芽菜 適量
波菜葉 適量
牛肉片 適量 (可用少許醬油糖和蒜先醃過)
嫩豆腐 半條
糖 鹽 各1/2小匙
醬油 麻油 少許
蛋 一個
高湯 兩碗

起油鍋爆香青蔥和洋蔥,倒入高湯.泡菜及辣椒醬辣椒粉,加入馬鈴薯後中火煮三十分鐘至入味.加入豆腐和糖鹽調味.最後加入牛肉.豆芽菜.菠菜和蛋,起鍋前淋上少許麻油即可

另外我又做了韓式海鮮煎餅,簡單的很又好吃:

煎餅粉 半杯
水 半杯
泡菜 一片 切段
青蔥 一根 切段
洋蔥 1/4個 切長條
綜合海鮮 半杯

以上材料混合均勻後用小火煎至兩面金黃即可

在美國做最多和吃最多的居然是韓國菜,真是拜滿城韓國人之賜啊!

元宵節快樂

雖然沒有元宵節的氣氛,但元宵是一定要吃的啦! Tania煮了一顆芝麻湯圓還有一顆"綠茶芋頭"湯圓給我放在紅棗桂圓湯裡吃 (真是超特別的組合!),感覺好好喔!!

Got 2 cool classes!!

I took three classes this semester, and two out of them are really cool.

Spreadsheet Management: This is basically advanced Excel class and I am so into the class. People now either call me excel queen or excel nerd (I don't care) because I like Excel so much!!

B2B E-commerce: I learn something in this class too. Two weeks ago I learned how to write XML, which was new to me (10 years ago I use HTML to write my website, now there's something advanced and I didn't learn a thing for the past 10 years!!) And today I learned how to use MS Access to create queries (which I should have learned in HSBC 2 years ago but I was too lazy to understand by then)

Feel very proud of myself although I keep complaining about this MBA program, I did learn something!!

I am an aunt again!

My college friend Juliet gave birth to a baby boy in Madison, Wisconsin on Valentine's Day. And I beocme an aunt again. This is the third time in this year (and it's only February!) .

Madison must be a smaller town than here in Champaign, because the news they have a baby was released on the local paper!! Incredible....

感冒十日誌

我痛恨感冒.

從小到大抵抗力一直很糟,每次感冒都要把自己搞的形容枯槁,最慘的是通常我的各種減肥大計都會因此打住.比如說吧!之前我很熱烈的每天練"八分鐘瘦腹運動",自從感冒後就爲了維持體力再也沒練過,恨啊!

今 天覺得身體稍稍的好了一些,前幾天沒了的食慾突然的就一下子恢復了(真可惡).雖然一直告誡自己不要再吃晚餐了,可是還是忍不住的烤了一堆 blueberry muffins,因為突然想吃甜的東西.哈哈!趁著同學來家裡開會的機會趕快一人一個銷出去,我自己只吃了一個喔! (Martha White這個牌子的鬆糕粉最便宜又最好吃,尤其是banana poppy seed,讚!)

說到討人厭的感冒,我更不喜歡它的一點是,每次一感冒我就會變得消極,然後覺得找不到一個老公嫁是很慘的事情.因為覺得老了以後沒人可以互相照顧是件很悽涼的事,然後就一個人躺在床上自顧自的傷感起來.身體健康的時候每天都怕不夠玩,哪可能想那麼多!

CNY Party

On Feb 10, I invited some of my international friends to my apartment to enjoy the Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner (年夜飯), and we had lots of fun. It's actually my first time to cook for Chinese New Year, and I spent more than one week to prepare!! The delicious menu is as follows:

1. Drunk Chicken 醉雞
2. Sliced Beef 魯牛腱
3. Crispy Tofu 脆皮豆腐
4. Sticky Rice Meatball 珍珠丸子
5. Cabbage wrapped with spinach 白玉翡翠
6. mushroom beef 蘑菇醬牛肉
7. stir-fry 燴高麗菜
8. Bamboo Pork 筍乾紅燒肉
9. Fried Rice Cake 炸年糕

I made the rice cake by myself (of course from scratch, not just buy a rick cake from store), and of course I made everything step by step (I might post some of the receipes later). Incredibly 10 people finished the food I made for about 20 people....very great achievement!!

CNY food

This is the food !!

Miss Golfing

took in golf tournament 2004

啊!春天快些來吧!我收到了雙月刊 golf for woman,才發現已經好久沒有打球了耶!我的球袋上必定積了好厚的一層灰吧! 真期待可以打球的日子啊!