"Somebody loves you if they don't mind the quiet. They don't mind running errands with you or cleaning your apartment while blasting some annoying music. There's no pressure, no need to fill the silences. You know how with some of your friends there needs to be some sort of activity for you to hang out? You don't feel comfortable just shooting the shit...
It's been two months. And for some reason, I just felt I needed to finish watching Before Midnight today. I started watching it a few days back but didn't get past the scene where Jesse was watching the kids swim in the lake. “If you want true love, then this is it,” Jesse says. “And if you can’t see it, then you’re blind.”...
"I would like to communicate with you about Difficult Things. We have connected. I would like to love you if that is how it is. I would like to honor our connection with mutual openness. Or, I would like to lose you if that is how it is. I would not like to dishonor our connection with a lack of communication about the...
I wanted to make a cake. Yes, make. Since I do not have an oven and I'm not willing to use the turbo broiler. And as if by divine intervention, I found this link on Big Momma's Li'l Kitchen on 21 Things You can Make using your rice cooker. I found two things I needed remembering so decided to post them here. Apple...
"When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the...
I was writing an article for a magazine and I needed to check if kandinga, had coconut milk or not. From what I could remember, it didn't. But what was served in a famous local joint, it had. So I had to call my mom. And by golly, it felt nice to speak my third (but really my first) language. In any case,...
LEMON CHICKEN STIR FRY 2 tbsp. soy sauce 1 tbsp. cornstarch 1 tbsp. gin 1/2 kg boneless chicken, cut into strips 1/8 cup white vinegar 2 tbsp. rice wine vinegar 4 tsp. sugar 1 tbsp. vegetable oil 3 sliced green onions 1 sliced carrot 1 cup sliced green pepper 1 tsp. minced garlic 2 tbsp. oil Mix soy sauce, cornstarch and gin. Add...
This is my version of TGI Friday's Oriental Chicken Salad (or something like that). Found a copycat recipe and tweaked it a bit. Basically, I used mixed greens and chicken (if you can grill chicken breast, great. In my case, I substituted it with roasted chicken meat without the skin) and then 1 can (11 oz) of Mandarin Oranges (mine is First...
While browsing through feeds Facebook, I found this link to 50 Life Hacks to Simplify Your World and I just had to keep a copy of the brownie in a mug hack.Photo credit is stated in the site. Happy Sunday! ...
"I think the most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in...
