The past couple of days there has been a flood of news about the devastating typhoon Nargis in Burma. Now as I sit watching the news in my living room, I feel the pain and sadness that the Burmese people are feeling. It's said that it might have killed 150, 000 people in its wake. That is a lot of innocent lives lost.
Maybe this is a sign for the Burmese military junta/government that what they are doing is wrong. Just a few months ago that they were violently clamping down on both Buddhist monks and civilians who were doing a peaceful protest for the atrocities that the Burmese military junta has been carrying out and with the years of house arrest Syu Kyi has been placed in.
Even more atrocious was while the Burmese people are fighting against Nargis and recovering, the government was putting famous stars on tv to urge people to go vote! Shouldn't they get their priorities straight? How many more of these atrocities need to happen before these inhuman junta will realise their wrongdoings? It is sad that the people are at the receiving end of the whole thing, natural or not.
My heart goes out to them and I hope they will recover from it all.
May 11, 2008
May 5, 2008
Food, Glorious FOOD!!!
After moving to our new place, I have rediscovered my passion for cooking as a therapeutic relaxation. Manlok and me love to cook but back in our old place, the kitchen was too small to do any serious cooking. As a result, we haven't really do any full on cooking for 2 years. :( I know, how sad, aye?
But ever since we moved to this new place, we have started cooking again! And after reading some of my friend's blogs about their weekend, I felt inspired to indulge details of my weekend that just passed. :D
After lazing around and doing some laps in the clubhouse's lap pool on Saturday (serious lazing around the house....), I decided to do some cooking on Sunday. I wanted to make Roti Canai (yes, from scratch), Curry Chicken (yes, again from scratch) and n Italian Chocolate Tart. But we din go for grocery shopping till 4pm and therefore have to shelf the tart and I cooked only Roti Canai and Curry Chicken. :(
Tried to toss the roti like those mamak stalls, but not much skill la! hahahaha.. but anyway, here are some pics of what I cooked...
The roti dough I made
Spices that needs to be stir fried with the curry
Coconut milk
Other spices that I made with my blender
...and the chicken
... with some potatoes
with the help of a kitchen
frying the spice paste + chicken + spices + potatoes
TADAA!!!
And the roti TOO! (ok, I admit, it's quite out of shape! hahahah....)
It was a bit spicy for Manlok, but he loved it... hehe.. next time mebbe I should reduce the chilli even more...
Anyway, here's a pic of what I made 2 weeks ago... garlic foccacia! (pic quality is a bit bad.. sorry!)
ENJOY!
But ever since we moved to this new place, we have started cooking again! And after reading some of my friend's blogs about their weekend, I felt inspired to indulge details of my weekend that just passed. :D
After lazing around and doing some laps in the clubhouse's lap pool on Saturday (serious lazing around the house....), I decided to do some cooking on Sunday. I wanted to make Roti Canai (yes, from scratch), Curry Chicken (yes, again from scratch) and n Italian Chocolate Tart. But we din go for grocery shopping till 4pm and therefore have to shelf the tart and I cooked only Roti Canai and Curry Chicken. :(
Tried to toss the roti like those mamak stalls, but not much skill la! hahahaha.. but anyway, here are some pics of what I cooked...
The roti dough I made
Spices that needs to be stir fried with the curry
Coconut milk
Other spices that I made with my blender
...and the chicken
... with some potatoes
with the help of a kitchen
frying the spice paste + chicken + spices + potatoes
TADAA!!!
And the roti TOO! (ok, I admit, it's quite out of shape! hahahah....)It was a bit spicy for Manlok, but he loved it... hehe.. next time mebbe I should reduce the chilli even more...
Anyway, here's a pic of what I made 2 weeks ago... garlic foccacia! (pic quality is a bit bad.. sorry!)
ENJOY!
April 23, 2008
Mondays Mondays
Mondays are bad days for me. Apart from the fact that it’s the first day back to work after a weekend, it also happens to be the longest day for me in the week! As usual, my day starts a little after 7am and then it’s to the office till about 4ish. After that, it’s onto the tram into uni to meet my supervisor for my weekly research meeting. At 6pm, I get into my tutor mode and go for my first tutorial of the day which lasts for an hour and after that it’s 20mins walk to the next tutorial which is another 2 hours. So, by the time I finish my day, it will be nearly 10pm!!!
Although it’s tiring, but weirdly so, it’s very satisfying as well. Tutoring provides some sort of retreat and it really allows my mind to think more critically, rather than normal work day where its either or, neither nor. Those boring kinda stuff, you know. You don’t get a chance to actually think about ideas and how they are relevant to everyday life. It’s funny how society today looks at philosophy and theory as mumbo jumbo when really, they are very much based on every day life! Hopefully one day, people will realize that for a fact. No wonder there are so many people out there being depressed, unsatisfied and frustrated.
Anyway, the Monday that just passed was quite a good one, for me at least. Sometimes I wonder, why these students come all the way here to study and spend all that money, and not put an equal amount of dedication into it. All kinds of excuses for not doing things, not bringing things. I gave them a piece of my mind on Monday evening. Finally they got it. Sometimes some brute telling off works wonders! Hahahahah.
Don’t get me wrong, I am quite a dedicated ‘educator’ (ok, I can hear the snickers coming…. Believe it or not!) which is why I think I get very agitated and annoyed when I have students who don’t take it seriously. I have been very patient (ok, more snickers..) but last week was the last straw. Hahaha.. hope I didn’t traumatize them too much. I didn’t raise my voice or stuff like that. Just using my very firm and condescending tone… hmm……
Although it’s tiring, but weirdly so, it’s very satisfying as well. Tutoring provides some sort of retreat and it really allows my mind to think more critically, rather than normal work day where its either or, neither nor. Those boring kinda stuff, you know. You don’t get a chance to actually think about ideas and how they are relevant to everyday life. It’s funny how society today looks at philosophy and theory as mumbo jumbo when really, they are very much based on every day life! Hopefully one day, people will realize that for a fact. No wonder there are so many people out there being depressed, unsatisfied and frustrated.
Anyway, the Monday that just passed was quite a good one, for me at least. Sometimes I wonder, why these students come all the way here to study and spend all that money, and not put an equal amount of dedication into it. All kinds of excuses for not doing things, not bringing things. I gave them a piece of my mind on Monday evening. Finally they got it. Sometimes some brute telling off works wonders! Hahahahah.
Don’t get me wrong, I am quite a dedicated ‘educator’ (ok, I can hear the snickers coming…. Believe it or not!) which is why I think I get very agitated and annoyed when I have students who don’t take it seriously. I have been very patient (ok, more snickers..) but last week was the last straw. Hahaha.. hope I didn’t traumatize them too much. I didn’t raise my voice or stuff like that. Just using my very firm and condescending tone… hmm……
April 15, 2008
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