New mouse on the board in the year of tiger!!!

Wish you all have a fabulous new year of tiger.


During the new year holiday, a female hamster, Marshmallow Silverstone,  joined our family.  I am her main caretaker.


We choose this baby girl because Jeff wanted to make the sex ratio in our family more balanced....


Since hamsters are nocturnal animals, Ms. Silverstone is more active in the night time.  I saw her crawled over the wire cage and played the exercise wheel again and again.


What a cute babe!!

喝得苦中苦 方能去敏感

看著那像墨汁般的中藥,我的胃立即翻了幾次°但苦,總是要受,還要痛快地受°我提起碗,快狠準的喝下,再鯨吞一顆陳皮梅°


現在,我靜靜享受那每個毛孔冒出細汗的感覺,好像毒素也一併蒸發°

Rashes and nightmare

I had rashes since the night before yesterday.


The rashes look like mosquito bites, locate mainly at my right thighs...two on my right face.


This early morning, I had a nightmare.


I dreamed that I had got a new full time job since this Monday, then I woke up in the dream and discovered that it was already 10:30am.  I was so panicking because it was only the fifth day of this job then I was absent.  I was thinking if I should apply an annual leave or report a sick leave.  Then (still in the dream) I remembered I had rashes and it would be a good excuse to call for a sick leave.  Then I felt itchy, I woke up (no more in the dream).


Weird!!

The life of a busy mom

Have had my full time mom life for a month.  It is pretty good.  At least, I got enough sleeping now.


Yesterday my helper took a half day leave in the afternoon to run some personal errands.  It was my first time to REALLY look after two babies all by myself.


I fed them and bathed them and brought them to poo poo and made them napped and cooked dinner and fed them again.  Just half day, I was totally physically exhausted.


I am so lucky because we have a helper who is really helpful.


This morning, I could not wake up until 10:30am, part of the reason was a bastard/idiot/asshole somewhere made noise in 3 something early morning and woke me up.  I guess another reason was I had been a REAL full time mom for half day.


I wholeheartedly appreciate all those REAL full time moms.

Passion of cooking

I did not know I love cooking until very lately.

A year ago, my cooking skill was limited to scrambled egg.

Then we moved to our new flat, the kitchen was big and nice and there was an oven.  Finally I had my own kitchen, not my mom's or my mom-in-law's or our helpers' kitchen - but MY VERY OWN KITCHEN.

I then started to cook, especially baking.  Once I started, I was addicted in it.

Since I quit my job at the beginning of this month, I bake or cook or make desserts almost twice a week.

I received praise from my family (even my father-in-law who used to be a picky person), my mom was so happy that her daughter finally could use fire to turn food edible.

I am still reading Julie & Julia.  It sounds a bit lame but it does inspire me.  Cooking is a delicious journey of self exploration, and it is also love expressing in an aromatic form.

Sometimes, recipes are my night time reading before bed.

I reminded my ex-bosses (or a suck country manager?  whatever) in the nut company mentioned that if you had passion in market research, you could do market research 24x7.  Sorry that I am not passionate enough in this profession.  I would not save a chunk of data from work and "play" regression at home and feel ecstatic when a beautiful trend line is form. I would not download market research 101 note from the web and read it until the midnight.  I have also never looked forward to get back work on Monday because I could not wait to write an insightful report to impress the client.

I think I had done some good jobs in the previous work, but they did not turn into 'excellent' because I am lack of that kind of passion I mentioned.

However, my point is, I do have the passion of cooking.  You know what, I enjoy eating much more than before, because I understand each delicious dish requires wholeheartedly dedication .

I am going to start a new category "Passion of cooking" in this blog.  I hope you will love it.

Everybody's fine

I saw this movie with my sister yesterday.


Thanks god we saw it in the afternoon, there were not many audience in the theater.  I bet no one noticed I cried from the beginning to the end (surely except my sister, I guess she was not better than me, I saw she used tissue).


Well, it seems no body was fine in this movie.  I don't mean the acting, I mean the life of each character.


It is about a widower, Frank,  who wanted to reconnect with his kids after his wife passed away.  He wanted to surprise his four grown children then he set off a trip to travel across the State in order to meet them.  


Frank's wife was a good listener and he was a good talker, she always told him the good news about the kids. However, in the trip, he discovered that the kids were actually facing many problems in their daily life, despite that were trying to cover them up.  The children felt awful to tell the dad the truth, because they did not want to disappoint him, they did not want dad to know end up they did not turn into the persons he expected them to be.


Well, I am just like them... Up to now, I did not turn into a successful career woman, I do not earn a big fortune, I disappointed my dad.


However, please give me more time, I quit my job not because I want to have an easy life.  Instead, I know what is the most valuable to me at the moment and I want to spend more time on it.  Please trust me, I believe my achievement will be more than what I made.


Anyway, since this is a Hollywood movie, there was a happy ending.  If you want to know, please check it out in the movie by yourself.

The world will totally be changed by this gadget

Apple is going to rock the world by iPad.


http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video


It's electronic book function is really appealing, I am dreaming I can read whatever book I want, just simply click a few buttons.


I am really wondering how our next generation's living with be with all these avant garde items.