A relaxing Sunday afternoon, mostly overcast sky with lucky sunny breaks in between, I revisited Finn Slough, a place not so far away from where I live, a tiny community with distinct looking wooden ...
Finally got some time to finish off this post!. Once again, I rely on the food and its taste and color to make the bad weather go away. I am getting tired of this gloomy wintery spring. I want ...
I walk very fast. But I do things slowly.I dont like cooking dinner after work because I have to rush everything. I like to cook slowly on weekends and enjoy the chopping, the mixing, the tasting of ...
Im here to summon spring to come as quickly as possible. The cherry trees around my neighborhood should be blooming outrageously by now. But those pinkish fairies still havent shown up ye...
This year, March seems to be a slow and hard month to get by. Winter does not want to leave. Its still freezing cold in the morning outside. Sad news keep coming in the past week. T...
The scent from the steaming of diakon cake, the oil sizzling sound of deep fried snacks, the preparation of the togetherness tray (a box of candies and snacks for greeting of guests), on the night of...
Winter is well underway. Unlike the eastern part of the continent, cool air in the west coast was not accompanied by heavy snow but pouring rain lately. When a rare sunny afternoon appeared in the we...
Ts the season to enjoy and relax oneself and sp end some great times with your family and friends. Dont strain yourself too much in holiday gifts and cooking.Sometimes ...
My mom used to call me "rice bucket" when I was a kid. In Chinese, that means a person who like to eat a lot of rice. I could have lots of plain rice with just a little amount of other food. ...
When I was young, I owed very little. All my precious things could be put in a shoebox. They were some stickers I exchanged with my friends, some letters from friends, some cassett tapes ...
Took an afternoon walk. The warmth of the late summer evening sun was soothing and comforting. All my stress accumulated through the week disappeared. You dont have to travel far to find beauty...
Just finished two rounds of golf today (Sunday). An "All You can Golf" day for $25 at a nearby golf course has given me so much excitement and disappointment, so much fun and frustration, and...
Weve been having a streak of good weather in Vancouver lately. Blue sky, light breeze, 20-ish temperature; all the complains of gloomy cold wet weather in early summer were gone. On days like these, ...
Lately, I have been making lots of bread. Making bread is a satisfying experience. Unlike desserts, bread is an essential part of the meal that you do not feel guilty for eating too much of it....
I am not a planner. I do not like to plan things ahead. Except for work related stuff, which I am paid to do and trained to do, I never good at planning anything. Even vacation, I did not...
I do not think that we have enough fish consumed in our diet. Dont know why. May be because I grew up in Hong Kong where fish were bought fresh, fresh in the sense that they were alive in the f...
Hooray! Its the first long weekend of this year. I can finally have time to do my new blog post, plus tons of other housework. This is one of the ways to enjoy my personal time. I mean the blogging p...
I did not hate vegetables when I was a kid. But I was not really fond of them either. I just did not have any special feeling about them. They were just there in every meals, as an essential di...
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