Spring with Colors

Dumplings for a month

2009-03-21T21:18:00.009+08:00

I have keep this as a habit for the past 6 or more months - cook at least one meal on weekend. For two main reasons, one is to gain more cooking skill and knowledge, the other is taking the time to relax the mind.

To improve my cooking, I not only practise cooking every week, but also bought several cooking books to get me inspiration and guidance.

This morning, these books were not helpful. It's annoying when you don't know what you want to eat. Then I decided that I could make some dumplings which I could put in to the fridge if I didn't want to eat today.

I did a little calculation as of how many I should make if I was making for the future. Then I went to the wet market and got the ingredients I planed to wrap inside the dumplings, three diferent flavor - cabbage and pork, celery with pork, tomato with pork. As I finished purchasing the ingredients and got out of the market, I realized that if I wrap everything I bought today, the dumplings would be as many as one could eat in a month...even to get one sick of dumplings.

So I only would use half of the things I bought. I chopped the ingredients for about 2 hours....then 1 more hour later I started to wrap the ingredients with dough...I wrapped carefully one by one, afraid the dough will not stick tight enough to hold the inside during boiling... at 2pm, 90 dumplings were ready to eat. I was starving. I ate about 15 of them with cabbage and pork inside. After I finished eating, I resumed the wrapping. About 3pm, I finished the first batch. 180 dumpings...I was exhausted. I took a nap for 2 hours and at 6pm, i started wrapping again. 80 more dumpings were made by 7. So today I made 260 dupmpings! I was happy and proud about this achievement...

The photo shows how my dumpings look like.

亲密爱人

2009-03-15T22:23:00.003+08:00

我喜欢CRI Easy FM的一些节目，比如周末早上的《岁月留声》-plays songs of our life time，但是上海落地的频率却被换成了Hit FM。Hit FM刚开始听得时候觉得不错，但是时间一长，发现放的歌曲就那几首，特别是早上我能听到的那段时间，而且歌曲都比较偏摇滚，所以总结下来，还是easy FM更多样化，老少皆宜。Hit FM应该比较受20岁左右青睐。

今天在线收听Easy FM Music Memories， DJ Gracie 在3月8日的录音，听到了这首很喜欢的歌。很喜欢这首歌的钢琴版，确实很动人。

亲密爱人(piano version)
歌手:梅艳芳

今夜还吹着风
想起你好温柔
有你的日子
分外的轻松
也不是无影踪
只是想你太浓
怎么会无时无刻把你梦
爱的路上有你
我并不寂寞
你对我那么的好
这次真的不同
也许我应该好好把你拥有
就像你一直为我守候
亲爱的人亲密的爱人
谢谢你这么长的时间陪着我
亲爱的人亲密的爱人
这是我一生中最兴奋的时分

Ambulance Came into Office Today

2009-02-23T18:03:00.005+08:00

Today one of the girls in the office was so sick and almost passed by from some unbearable pain. It looked like a women giving birth to a child type of pain... She was sitting at her desk and all of a sudden, she felt painful from time to time, and then she realized she was losing all her strength to the pain and at the same time she started to lose sight. In a few second, she felt dizzy and she couldn't hear any sound. She tried to call the girl next to her over a cubicle wall - for several times, she couldn't make any sound...She concentrated all the strength she had and then called that girl again... Finally she made herself heard. When she was attended, she said she wanted to sit on the floor because she was so weak. And then she started to vomit...few seconds later, she was sent to the restroom...but the pain didn't stop, on the contrast, it was getting even worse. She felt she had to lie down on the ground because she couldn't manage to stand or sit. So she was handed to a vacant room where she could lie down without anybody seeing her. Then she laid on the ground, moaning and groaning for about 10min but the pain didn't seem to stop. She was pale and really weak. Finally, she heard someone in the office called the ambulance. Then the pain continued as she moaned and cried. It seemed a million years later, the ambulance came with a stretcher finally. When she was moved to the stretcher, she felt the pain was fading away gradually. But she should go and see a doctor by any means after what happened during the past 30 min. Then the ambulance took her out of this marvelous office building with a lot of decently dressed office ladies and men, to the hospital. I guess people don't see stretchers and ambulance often in this place.

I figured the office or the building should have a small clinic with a stretcher type of bed just in case anything like today happens again in the future, perhaps the thing people needs the most is just some rest in bad moments.

New Start on blogger

2009-02-14T15:24:00.007+08:00

Today I finally started to organize the pictures I took/have for the last few years. Those photos are from the time I started work in 2004 till now. Before 2004 I didn't have a camera, no digital or film.

I found this one picture that I loved the best in my photo folders. This picture was taken in Feb'07 in Yulong Mt, Yunnan province. I took the cable car and went to the peak of the mountain which was over 4500m above sea level. The sky was so clean and so gorgeously blue. Under the sky in the cold wind was the massive borderless mountains covered with bright white snow. On the snow there were small groups of people all in the rented red downjacket enjoy the scene they could not see too many times in life. It was so beautiful and peaceful. And it was frozen out there I could hardly keep my fingers on the camera shutter because I was numb with the cold and wind.

When I was going through those pictures, many of them made me laugh. Silly young faces, gestures pretending to be cool, crazy parties with crazy poeple... I will publish a few of them in my next postings.