I finally finished the second sock to my first pair of socks. The actual knitting part was pretty easy after I learned how to start the toe (these are toe-up socks) and turn the heel.
The cuffs were a pain in the ass because I had to learn how to do an elastic bind off [...]
Our Chinese New Year dinner included (top to bottom left to right): soy sauce chicken, roasted duck, vegetable stir fry*, bell pepper and mushroom stir fry*, niengao*, kungpao chicken*, shrimp and sugar peas.
*vegan dishes
Tea Habitat, a friend’s tea shop was having a Chinese New Year mini-party, which I stopped by for. They had a snack table with delicious home-made chicken and mango salad finger sandwiches and restaurant-made deep fried shrimp balls.
The little corner in the back is where we usually have tea when we visit.
My dad is a smart man. But sometimes he says strange things such as:
Did you know that Jewish people don’t celebrate Christmas?!
Heath Ledger would never have died if it were not for Brokeback Mountain.
Some may say that a game about underwater diving without the stresses of running out of oxygen or being eaten by sharks is boring, but Endless Ocean is fun in a relaxing kind of way. It’s the perfect thing to play after dealing with problem people at work.
Even though the game is fairly open [...]
Since it’s been colder these past few days, I’ve been craving warm soupy stuff. Last night for dinner, I made a nutritious (I think, at least) brown rice porridge with carrots, shiitake mushroom, radish, mung bean, and flavored with ginger and miso paste. I topped it off with fried shallots and bonito. [...]
