strange death not investigated

Read about it here:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-254189

L'Occitane Baume Apres Rasage

I bought a present for a friend a while back. I went to TimeWorld Galleria and picked up some girly stuff at L'Occitane. I don't usually buy stuff for myself, but I do go to L'Occitane for gifts when I have to buy something for a girl. Inside the box of stupid expensive stuff were two samples of after shave balm. Today I used one of them.

My face feels like it was kissed by the Smooth and Soft Fairy. I have to findout how much this stuff costs.

Pancit Bihon Earl Style

 

Serves: Me

  

INGREDIENTS

1 (500 gram) package thin rice noodles—I like the flat ones that are not too thin

250 grams boneless chicken thighs cut into bite-size pieces

350 grams pound lean pork cut into bite-size pieces, but I like to throw in some pork belly too because when it comes to pork, it’s all about the fat.

225 ml soy sauce

225 ml tamarind extract, but not the bottle kind, get it straight from the pulp

225 ml stock, any kind handy

3 tablespoons patis or any other Asian salty fish sauce.

ground black pepper to taste

500 grams bok choy (most people use cabbage but I use bok choy these days)

2 dildo-sized carrots, shredded

200 grams of snow peas

1 large onion, sliced thin, but not too thin.

1 bottle of nice beer

5 cloves of garlic, minced

5 green onions, diced for garnish

600 grams 21-25 count shrimp, peeled and deveined

A dozen calamansi, but if you can’t source them, fresh limes will do.

 

 

 

 

 

DIRECTIONS

Place the rice noodles in a large bowl and cover with warm water. Fold hands and give thanks to The Blue Light for making all things possible. When soft, drain, and set aside. Make sure they are no longer 8 inches or you’ll struggle to eat them.

 

Open the beer and pour into a frosty mug. Drink this while you cook.

 

In a wok over medium-high heat, brown the chicken and pork until no pink shows. Season with soy sauce and pepper. Remove from the wok and snack on some, but not all, of these while you cook.

Saute the onions, then add the garlic.  Toss in the bok choy and carrots. Snow peas go in last because you want them to crunch. Add the tamarind extract and the patis. Pause to smell the fishy salty aroma.  Thank the Blue Light for fish sauce and its lovely umami qualities.

Stir in the noodles, half the green onions and shrimp. Cook for 4 to 5 minutes, stir in the chicken and pork, and cook for 5 more minutes.  Use the stock to manage the moisture of the dish. Squeeze a bunch of calamansi on prior to serving.

People Keep Hitting my Car

People keep hitting my car and I don't know why. Is there a sign above my car that says "Smack my ride" that I can't see?

When I was in my apartment I heard a loud crunch and I looked out the window to find some guy had taken my bumper clean off the car trying to force his gas guzzling SUV through a space too small.  I went down and asked what happened and the driver and three passengers looked at me and said "Hmmm.  Don't know what happened here."  Also, when I got downstairs, my bumper was magically back on my car.  After they realized I was the owner of the car, they admitted they hit the car and then asked if it looked alright to me.  I touched the bumper with my finger and it fell off.

Last week I was searching for a parking space so I could visit my friend who manages a coffee shop in Gungdong.  Driving round and round searching for the elusive space.  I started to turn left down this one street when I saw a large SUV barreling down the road.  I stopped abruptly and then a scooter rammed into the back of my car.  I got out to look at the damage when the guy on the scooter (no helmet with a passenger) started wingeing about his leg.

"Shut up!" I yelled.  "You hit my car.  Shut up!"

The winger shut up and then started to moan again.  I noticed that half of his fender was coming off the scooter. People tend to follow to closely when they drive motor vehicles here in this country.

April Fool's Day with Megan Hollinger

I played my first April Fool's joke of the day early this morning.  A friend of mine's cousin in Cheonan sent an invite for people to come to her kid sister's birthday party.  I wrote:

"Sorry, who are you?"

and she totally bit it.

Megan:

"It's Megan! Chris Bemrose's cousin. Remember I ate your turkey at Todd's wedding???

Me: 

April Fool's you twit.

I'm going to Cheonan sometime soon, maybe this weekend. Let's hook up.

Megan: 

OMG! You're awesome. I totally forgot it's April 1st. ASA! you just made my day. I'm going to have so much now. haha

For sure, let me know if you make down to Cheonan this weekend. I'm actually off Thursday/Friday this week. Gotta luv those uni birthday.

Student Posts

My students in my writing class are now writing blogs as part of the class assignments.  There are no requirements other than to post and I thought I should do the same thing.  I only used this blog in the past for functionality checks for my website but now I am glad i have it.  My own website got hammered in a CMS upgrade and most of the data was lost.  I have to rebuild it, bit by bit, before it is completely functional.  I only started the website to learn more about website construction and sadly, I still don;t know much despite the fact that I have learned more than I ever cared to know.  Why is knowledge acquisition so painful?