cooking

It has been a while since I login and blabber. While I was thinking about what to put at the Title, I had a thought "Who cares?". So the reason why I put 'cooking' was because I just had an argument with my wife about cooking. I remembered during my Tokyo trip I was sharing with Akira-san and Sai-charn the fact that I like cooking. I remembers Sai says "One likes to cook because (s)he has someone to cook for." This is so true and I see a lot in intelligence in this sentence.

Dinner with Sai and Akira:

random thoughts

The idea of Blog is powerful. Sometimes it is addictive. It's like smoking or drinking I guess. It's something you have to do/get/access regularly. Otherwise you feel like something is missing. So here I'm, expressing my thoughts.

The other day I heard that there are three kinds of family where 'Christian' kids came from. The first kind (let's call this Group A) is that the parents and the families are devoted Christians and they live their lives as committed and devoted Christians. The second kind (Group B) is that the parents and/or relatives are not Christian at all. The third kind (Group C) is where the parents and/or relatives claim that they are Christians and they go to churches, but their daily lives are no different from non-believers.

It's reported that devoted Christian kids usually came from Group A and Group B. And it's difficult for kids from Group C to become 'good' Christians. Sometimes they (kids from Group C) even hate the idea of the 'Christian' thing too....

I think it's something that worths to think about... Which Group am I coming from? And which Group are you coming from???

I personally hate the idea of treating the belief a 'religion', which I think 'religion' was never the intention of God. God never asks us to believe in Christianity. He asks us to believe in Him. However, I feel that people nowadays emphasize more on the idea of Christianity than on Christ. Seems like they even have their own 'Christianity' language! It's not difficult to hear phrases like "So which church do you go to?", or "Do you serve at church?" going back and forth between two newly met "Christians".

I think there's a difference between "Christ followers" and "Church go-ers". And there's a difference between "Serving God" (which emphasizes on a serving heart) and "Performers at Church"(which requires serving techniques). Not that I'm saying anything against anyone who genuinely serve God at church (by the way, some people do think that church must be inside a physical church building), but I'm just pointing out there's a difference between the two.

ok, time to change topic -- my dinner last night (Fried eggs with tomato):

Dinner with Timothy and Marina

It's indeed great to have good friends visiting us for dinner. Friends are indeed a blessing from God. We had a very good time at home that night. Thanks Tim Tim and Marina for coming.

Tim Tim prepared premium beef steaks, while Marina prepared Bruchetta and Raclette Cheese with Potato. My wife Valerie prepared Tiramisu, and I prepared soup, spaghetti, vegies, and fish.

Dinner starts:


Bruchetta:



Raclette Cheese with Potato:



Steam "Wong Far" fish:


Fried "Tong Choi" (Aquatic Morning Glory / Water Spinach) with garlic and chili :


Spaghetti Aglio e Olio:


Tiramisu:

Breakfast with love

My wife cooked me breakfast for the first time :)

Sausage and Onion Omelette;
Cornflakes.

second meal

Steam "wong keuk lap";
"Bo Jai Farn";
Fried mixed veggies


Before:




After:

the first meal I cooked

Fried spaghetti;
Tomato, potato, and lean pork soup;
Steam Garoupa.

finally I got my blog

I'm always late when it comes to technology. I still remembered the time where people start using broadband to access the Internet, and I was still using 56k modem. The excuse I used was "I don't have the need to use Broadband, 56k is enough". The real story behind was I can't be bothered to change. Like everyone else, I just hate changes.

I think blog has been around for several years now. Again my excuse is the same: "I don't need to write blogs". Well, of course there's no "need" to write blogs. But while was in the toilet this afternoon (by the way, toilet is the best place to think), I wonder why not having my own blog? I can use this to share my photos, my thoughts, express my feelings...etc.

So here I am, finally I can get my ass moving and set up a blog account. And I can have my 'space' to express my feelings without having to care about how my grammar sucks, how my choice of vocabulary is wrong...etc.

Yesterday my relative came to my place and it really amazed me how fast young people are when it comes to technology. I myself are being seen as the "IT" guy whenever my friends have anything wrong with their computers. However, it really impresses me how fast young people are with new things. Actually I don't really know how to use "Facebook", but those young people are just really fast!

And since this is my blog, I don't really have to care how well the paragraphs are inter-relating. This means that I can change topic any time. So here it comes.

I would like to post some photos of the food I cook. The first meal I cooked has the following:
1. Tomato, potato, and lean pork soup;
2. Fried spaghetti; and
3. Steam fish