Written work on Azrael’s blog
I submitted a short story (if you can call it that) to AZRAEL as a reply for his INVITATION. Actually this is the 2nd submission since the first one was an old work of mine which would already had been re-published quite a number of times already in the web.
Anyway, you can read it here… http://azraelworld.com/2008/11/20/rosas-by-timi/
Awards!
Thanks Mommy Gen for giving me these awards:
Thanks also for this award History of SuPeRnOvA & SwEsTpAiN for this power blog award.
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Strange things for sale in the internet
Except for web and domain hosting services, I haven’t really purchased anything online as yet. Not because I am paranoid about the security issues of buying things using the internet, it is just that I have not found any reason why I should. For some, shopping online is convenient and the variety of products and services is really almost infinite (small business for sale too) but then again, I’m currently living in the country where HUGE SHIPPING FEES will always be an issue if ever I want to buy something from a reputable e-Store. Of course, this never stopped me from surfing around AMAZON, Buy.Com and of course, eBay…the king of online auctions—and boy did I see ‘em weird things being sold over there! Let me give you some examples:
1. Scottish Title and Land
2. Wiccan Lost Spells and Potion recipes
3. Mutilated Barbie
4. Real Tsansa shrunken head without human skull
5. Bullshit repellent
6. a genuine antique hobo whiskey bottle
7. Four leaf clover
8. Some animal’s skeletons
9. A Serial Killer’s Fingernails
10. A weird tree branch
My other blog
I purchased a Windows-hosted account a few months ago for the purpose of showcasing personal projects on .NET (mostly themes and skins for open source .NET web applications) and I haven’t really done anything with it yet. I’ve decided to create another blog…A tech one this time and host it from there in the meantime.
We’ll be spending Christmas in Kuwait. Again.
As it says on the title, we’ll still be celebrating Christmas in Kuwait instead of Goa…We owe this to this very sweet airlines (BOO!), who had managed to screw up our plans in a very special way. I mean, come on! Cancelling our CONFIRMED booking we had made almost 3 months before just like that? Bloody friggin’ hell!
So how does Christmas in Kuwait go? Work. Attend midnight mass on Christmas Eve. Order something for dinner before sleeping. Wake up. Work. Go out for dinner. Very exciting.
Hopefully next year would be different. Spending Christmas this way for three years kinda sucks. And since we ain’t that rich to be planning for Orlando vacations just as yet (awesome theme parks + Christmas = amazing Christmas parades people!!!), we’re aiming of spending it in the Philippines…
Not well again.
And so we are back to Timi coughing like a maniac. Change of weather sucks. Although….
Hubby’s been awfully nice to me these past few days…am su-huch a spoiled brat. Didn’t feel like going anywhere so I convinced hubby to just stay home all weekend. Enjoyed a lot of weekend cuddles…Just love ‘em…I think I can just live on that…
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Stupid me…
So we came home one time from roaming and first thing I did was open my laptop (ME=iNET ADDICT). I wanted to see if there were any replies for my latest post but my internet was not working…or so I thought. To make the long story short it was just that my wireless router was off…DOH!
I’ve had a lot of those “DUH! Can-I-boink-meself-on-me-head-now?” moments. Actually, it’s been happening quite often lately and I really would want to know why. I had noticed that aside from when working on my programs, my level of concentration is quite low…I forget to do simple things, like washing the bowl I thawed the chicken on, putting the ice cream in the fridge as soon as we get home from shopping, things like that…And I feel that it is getting worse every day…
I wonder what is happening to me…
Timi’s vegetable fried rice…
I’ve been planning to post some of my recipes online for quite sometime now but I end up too lazy to take pictures of the dishes I had made (BOO TIMI!!!!). Anyway, because of the fact that all veg fried rice looks the same (I just cook it differently…), I figured I don’t need my own picture for that and just get on with posting the recipe….
Timi’s Veg Fried Rice
Ingredients:
For the rice:
1 cup of uncooked long grain rice
1/2 tbsp of salt
water
For for the garlic oil:
approximately 1/4 cup of cooking oil (or less)
6 minced big garlic pods
For the veggies to be mixed:
1 medium carrot cut into small cubes
1/3 cup of green peas
string beans sliced into 1/2″ pieces
1 big onion, sliced
Others:
soy sauce
3 eggs
Directions:
1. Wash the rice thoroughly and let it soak for about half an hour. Let the water boil and then put the rice. When the rice is half-done, put in the salt. Just check on your rice as often as you can because you have to take it out of the fire and drain it just when it is just about to be fully cooked. You can do this earlier and let the rice cool, mixing it lightly with a for. The whole process prevents the rice from sticking together.
2. Take about 3/4 of the oil and fry the garlic on it until the garlic is medium brown. Take the whole thing out and set it aside.
3. Slightly boil the veggies together until they are partially cooked. Drain the veggies. Pour in the remaining oil in the pan and then saute the onions along with the veggies and set this aside.
4. Beat the eggs and also set it aside.
5. It is much better to do the following procedure in batches of two cups of rice so the fried rice is cooked properly and everything is mixed evenly. Make sure that your wok (or frying pan) is hot enough. Take some of your garlic oil (with ample amount of the fried garlic) and let it heat up a bit too, then put your rice, continuously stirring but careful not to break the grains apart and let the rice cook.
6. Add in the veg, and the eggs and approximately a tablespoon of soy sauce. Keep on stirring the rice until the soy sauce is mixed evenly and the eggs had coated almost each and every grain. Add more eggs if you want some egg bits on your fried rice.
Actually, people might say that this is too much of work for just fried rice but it really does make a lot of difference on the taste. The secret of a good fried rice is a half cooked (or frozen rice), very hot wok, and the soy sauce and egg mixed evenly into the rice. The garlic oil not only gives it more of a Filipino twist (sinangag, anyone?) but it gives the dish more of an “oomph!”.
Never-ending constructions
Right now, they’re building this 100-floor giant just a few blocks away from our place. There will be a posh mall, posh movie theatres, rooftop garden and posh offices also on the upper floors…hmmm, interesting…makes me think how they’ll be able to pull it off. Actually in my area, there are probably about more or less 7 construction sites of supposedly high-rise buildings…they had finished constructing a whole bunch of them in the city, three of which has digital signage installed.
Just imagine, Kuwait is a very small country with approximately 3 to 3.5 million population of which, only nearly a third of it are Kuwaiti nationals. Only Kuwaiti nationals are allowed to open businesses and approximately 50% of them are of that age where they can own one and still not all of them do. So what are all those buildings for? I don’t know, but I guess they are planning something big for the country that’s why they’re giving it a HUGE MAKE-OVER.
I mean really, they’ve brought down a lot of old buildings and new ones are popping out left and right. The designs are more of on the modernist styles, with a lot of ‘em blue glass windows, usually having minimum of 20 floors (not sure).
I wonder how the city would look like 4 years from now….
