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Serenity

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration
that comes to one when he discovers
that someone else believes in him and
is willing to trust him with his friendship.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy Mother’s Day

picnic in a park with family .....

H A P P Y M O T H E R ' S D A Y 2 0 0 7

Spring .. there you are!

fresh flowers ....

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought
keeps pace with the sun,
the day is a perpetual morning.
– Henry David Thoreau

31 days in April?

An actual coupon from a flyer I got for “Popeyes Chicken & Seafood” restaurant:

Hehehee … the danger of deleting just the name of the month and replacing it with another … or I actually lost one day in April .. hmm …

Spring Cleaning

A fresh drop of maple sap

Earlier in the year, I thought of making some changes to this site while still keeping it simple .. so here they are:

Header now has a background image (if you don't see it, just refresh the page until you see it .. LOL!) ..
Thought of changing the layout from 1 column to two columns .. but then since I already have a menu at the top (and added one at the bottom), I figured I don't need menu/stuff on the side. Besides, if I put the menu on the side, you've got to scroll back up to access them (if the page is long) — and I'm not big on that floating menu that scrolls up/down with your page.
The Categorized and Archived list pages now have paging (displaying 10 posts at a time).
There's no more “Archived by Category” .. it's now either Categorized or Archived
You can click on the title to go to the item detail page, you can click the Comment link to jump to the corresponding post's comment section
The comment area (item detail page) is changed a bit .. hopefully it's now easier to read. My comments will be marked as well.
Once you submit a comment, your name/email/link will be saved in a cookie (YUMM! .. uh, ok, stop thinking about food!) .. so you don't have to retype the information everytime (until you clear your browser cookies).
There are links to the previous post and next post on the item detail page. So you don't have to go to the main page first. The links depend on where you get to the item detail page from … so you can see all posts or within a category or within an archived month.
NO, I'm not putting any dancing pink and blinking elephant (sorry, fruityoaty)

Next, I'll fix my RSS feed — it is working fine now, I just want to know what else I can do with the thing. And a link to my Flickr page from the Album area (gotta play around with Flickr first .. hehe). And then start attacking SEO stuff … hmm ..

Hmmm … wait, on second thought .. maybe I should spring clean my bookshelves first ….. ugh … YIKES!!

Earth Day

My jasmine flower

H a p p y E a r t h D a y

FOOD!! YUMM! (yes, food again)

Last Sunday we had an “Indonesian food day” gathering at ES' place (the only place where we can do BBQ in the “terrace” ).

Took a lot of time to prepare the food (marinade, skewer, etc.).
Took a while to BBQ the satay (yes, we used charcoal).
But it took only a few minutes to gorge most of them. LOL! Yeah, we're a hungry bunch (apparently, always). Even the smallest person in the bunch could eat a lot (and fast too ) .. don't be fooled by the appearance now, eh, JD? Hahaha!

SATAY!!!!!!!!

Here are the tons of food … let's see .. there's the satay (some of them … OH YEAH!! YUMM!!) and lontong (made from rice), martabak (bottom left) plus the acar (pickled cucumber), somay bandung (bottom right — Indonesian version of the chinese shumai — regular shumai, tofu, potato, cabbage .. no bittermelon though this time) and rujak pengantin (top right — some kind of Indonesian salad). And the peanut sauce (one for the satay and one for the somay) .. OOOHHH!!

The food

And here are the dessert .. chocolate chips cookies, pandan cake (the green one at the bottom), some mango/pomelo stuff (the orange stuff) and es teler (the colourful one — lots of good stuff in there: avocado, coconut, jackfruit, some red stuff, some white stuff .. some other stuff .. LOL!).

The dessert

I drool just by looking at the satay pic …..

GO RAPTORS!!

GO RAPTORS!!!

Let the Playoff begins ….. LET'S GO RAPTORS!!
(image source: The Toronto Star)

Pizza Night

Ookay .. this Pizza Night blog is long overdue.

Last month, a whole bunch of us went to ES' place for a pizza night. SW brought pizza dough that felt so sooooofffftt (soft like a baby bottom), and ES already had tomato sauce and toppings at her place .. she even wrote down the menu:

The menu....