Now I Know~

Now I realise why westerners are so FAT.

I've been eating out quite a lot this few days, partly due to lazyness in cooking, partly due to studies(if you can believe it), so that day, I went out for dinner. Had shish taouk(don't mind the spelling) and once I paid for it, only then did I realise, I'm eating bread, with chicken and vege inside, served with a big box of potatoes, and a soft drink. For the box of potatoes, I have a choice of having potatoes with rice, or just potatoes.

That's when I realise, this is so full of carbs! Carbs here, there, everywhere, even the choices given to me was full of carbs! And no, there's no usual rice with vege and meat, its was all bread... I swear not to go to these kinds of places anymore, it makes the patrons so god damn full that we can hardly walk after that. I'm definitely going to eat at a place opened by chinese people nowadays, because they, at least, still have some common sense about the capacity of the human stomach.

Just Something, Ponder About It~

Just recently, I posted this as my private message on msn, just something I wanted to find out:

Given f(x,y,z) = (2x+3y-z)/(4(x^2) + y^(2z-2x))... find 4+2.

And from the response that I got:

1 said that it was confusing,

2 got it right immediately,

2 got it right after being pushed a little to think further.

Its quite funny really, because the answer is quite obvious. 4+2 = 6, right? And yet, some people say that its confusing, its difficult, some needed more time to think about it.

And this is my point in mind when I posted this,

STOP THINKING SO MUCH!

This also applies in life I guess, when one thinks too much about something, one tends to think about all the complications that doesn't really actually matter.

Take the question for example, it gives a function of three variables, but it asked an elementary question which any being that knows how to add can answer. The equation is just to mess things up. It applies in life, we think about way too much things that isn't related to the problem, and thus, we can't see the simple clear solution that happens to be right in front of us.

I'll leave you to your thoughts right now and ponder this... but then again, don't think too long...

"Life is a bed of roses, but if we worry too much about the thorns, how are we going to appreciate the beauty of the roses?"

Snow!

Woohoo~! It snowed! Too bad I only get to go out at 12am because of a dumb MATH 133 (linear algebra) assignment. Anyway, initially was to go out, take a few pics, and come in... but then again, the power of friends and *ahem*... well... these things tend to drag on a little while longer, and one thing led to another..

And so... we went out to play! (Although finals are looming but who cares?! It's snowing! xD)

Now, I'm wet all over... but it was worth it... hehe~

Night scene during snow

That is the thickness... and its still snowing!

Three sitting in the snow... tired liao i guess from running around...

Smile!

Problem

I just noticed something. I have a very terrible habit when I'm cooking...

I love to nibble everything that I cook.

I love to use my fork and start poking around. I dunno why. Just felt like it. And, well, one thing leads to another, and the fork, eventually pokes something and takes it to my mouth. Its like a robotic action for my hand to feed my mouth with the fork.

Argh... I gotta stop this habit, otherwise, when my rice is done and my chicken(usually it takes the longest time to cook) is fried, I have nothing left! Sure, one might argue that eventually it all ends up in my tummy but... I wanna eat them all together!!! I don't wanna separate them... Let them have one last gathering outside my stomach before they regroup again in that huge space at the end of the esofagus.

I blame this entirely on my fork, because if it weren't there, my hand wouldn't grab hold of it, and start poking, and start feeding. Bad fork! Bad fork! I think I'm going to have to write a note and stick it on the fork,

"DO NOT TOUCH UNLESS EVERYTHING IS GATHERED ON THE PLATE"

That should do it.

"The fact of the matter is, we can blame everyone, and everyone will improve, but the question is... what about ourselves?"

Fire Drill... zzzz~

Just had a fire drill in my residence, and to tell you the truth, I do not like it at all. >.<

The freaking alarm was loud, continuous but monotonous. Haiz, they should have make it so that the alarm has some funky tune that will make people dance out of their houses. It just pisses me off to hear that alarm, reminds me of the fire drills back in secondary school.

Since this is our first fire drill, the man in the black uniform with reflective thingy said that they will perform this drill twice... I hope its per year because my ears were temporarily snuffed out of its primary function due to the incessant ringing. After that, he said, sorry(I think... or he better) and said that we can go back. And I'm like ok... that's it? Damn it, I shouldn't have came down in the first place...

Right now, I'm feeling a little agitated... lucky for the man, it ain't to the point where I start cursing people to kingdom come, otherwise, he is my first target...

This Is What I Call "All In"

Hehe, due to fear of food going bad, I tossed everything into the pan and started frying.
This is the end result... muahaha... this is what they call "yat wok sok" in cantonese I think.

Hahaha, success!

Muahaha, I finally did it! Huhuhu... success is mine! Wakakaka~ feel so happy right now. Wheeee...

For those of you that is wondering what the heck is this, its called deep fried ice-cream.

The pic above is the second try, first try, ice-cream melted, enough said.

"In life, one should always learn something new, otherwise, one tends to regret in life later on. So learn, and keep on learning, for in life, learning is an endless journey, with the prize found along the way..."

ChinaTown~ Alone... Jeng Jeng Jeng...

Well... I just came back from chinatown and guess what, it ain't easy to be in chinatown alone. Especially, when the person is me, a guy, who is chinese, but doesn't speak chinese... And what was I gonna buy? meat... of all things, because i'm sick of chicken, oh and other stuff too.

Buying the other stuff is easy, its packed and put in plastic bags, so you just take them of the shelves and pay at the counter. But meat is a whole different story. Its like at the market, and the guy chops the meat according to how much you want. I wanted pork ribs(bak kut), minced meat, and the fatty meat(sam chan yuk... dunno whether this term is really correct or not)

So, this is my conversation with the ah pak(ap):

me: lei dei yao mou pai kuat ar?

ap: yao... lei you gei dor ar?

me: erm.... tim gong le...

ap: (cutting the pai kuat) gam dak mou? sam tiu?

me: (relieved) oo... dak la dak la...

ap: zhong yao meh mou?

me: lei dei yao mou yuk sui ar? (yuk sui is minced meat in canto)

ap: yao... you gei dor ar? (stares at me)

me: lei dei tim mai ar?

ap: lei you gei dor ngor ma bei lei gei dor lo...

me: errr... (silence - because I forgot pounds in canto, almost wanted to say yat kan, one catty)

ap: lei you yat pong ar, leung pong ar?

me: oh, yat pong jou kau lo...

ap: hai hai, ji dou ji dou

me: zhong yao, lei yao mou "wu hua rou" <-- mandarin? (tempted to say mm fa yuk... lol)

ap: (strong china accent)"wu hua rou"... you you... ni yao duo shau? (Suddenly... the conversation turned to mandarin pulak...)

me: errr... ni na lai wo kan kan

ap: che yang gou ma?

me: gou liao gou liao.

ap: hai you shen me ma?

me: mei you mei you, che yang gou liao. xie xie. (rushes to the counter)

And there you have it... KY's first real canto-cum-mandarin conversation. For those that really know how I talk in chinese, you'll be laughing to bits if you were there. For those that don't know, let's just say, it's better not knowing. Anyway, I got my stuff, I'm happy, and that's all that matters.

Hmmm... what to do during free times~

Well... might as well plan my free time while I'm having a little bit of free time... haha, a bit intriguing this sentence. Well... its true, I don't have much free time nowadays and its always good to plan before hand right?

Well, let's see... I have a few things on my mind that I can think of now that can fill up my free time:

1. Study

2. Watch chinese dramas

3. Watch anime

4. Cook/Find new recipes

5. Look for more anime songs

6. Listen to more songs other than my chinese/english songs

That's about all for now, until I can find more stuff to do. These are just a few things I'm thinking so that I'll play less DoTA(seriously, getting kinda bored with it, Malaysian players make it interesting I guess...)

Until then, cheerios!

Why~

Why is it that :
When we want something to happen, another thing happens?
When we want to stay focused, our minds tend to stray?
When we want to relax, so many issues trouble our mind?
When we want to remember, we always forget?
When we want to forget, we are haunted by the memory of it?
When we want to say something, we can't get the words out?
When we want to believe in something, it will never happen?
When we want to change, we stay more the same?
When we want to think about good times, the bad times are all we recall?
When we want to remember somebody, we recall evil over good?
When we want to find something, that thing is ever so elusive?
When we want something, we will never get it?
When we want to appreciate something, it is too late?
When we want to ask for help, the words 'please' and 'thank you' is lost?
When we want to apologize, the word 'sorry' is non-existent?
When we want to be somewhere, we'll never get there?
When we want to avoid a place, no matter what we do, we end up at that particular place eventually?

So many questions, so many answers, which will lead to more questions, and answers, and the cycle continues...
But one last question:
Why is it that when we ask a question, we expect an answer?
Pondering~ thinking~
I'll leave it as such...

Roommate's Family's Here~ Lolz...

Well... my roommate's family dropped by... (still here) and the whole day, his mum's been cleaning the kitchen, his room... cleaning a whole lot of stuff. Jolly kind of mum, the type where the smile brightens up the whole room... kinda. Anyway, the mum's been busy in the kitchen, cleaning and cooking for her son so I haven't gotten the chance to even enter the kitchen to grab a bite to eat. Lol, talk about sacrifice. The mum did offer to cook for me but... for some reason, I just couldn't bring myself to accept. Smells good though, gotta give her that, hopefully she imparts some skills to my roommate because his cooking makes me feel like something's rotting in the kitchen.

The mum also got him a whole lot of stuff, food mostly, and she once in a while chats with me. Small talk, not the really-get-to-know-you interrogation type talk. And whole time, if she's not in the kitchen, she's in the room... thank god, because i like to keep my privacy. And the fact that they all speak mostly mandarin is enough to make me keep away from them for sheer embarassment worrying I utter the wrong chinese word. In fact, other than the mum, I don't see any other members of his family, although they're here. Guess this family is all about "in the room, not the outside".

But can't really say that I don't like them here, because they brought me a special gift... a microwave! Haha, they went out and got one, and said I can use it too... muahaha~ I am so gonna sayang the microwave... but first, I gotta get some microwavables to microwave first.