My secret recipe / Pappardelle in pesto cream sauce with bayley leave

let's go for veggie to clear your stomach & your soul :)

It's healthy with an exotic touch - thanks to the barley leave, I start to use it quite often in my cooking, which blends into the favour of soup/ pasta perfectly.


ingredients (serve for 2-3 ppl)
pappardelle                              10 pcs
tomato                                     1-2 pcs         
whipping cream                        1 box


seasonings
sea salt & pepper          as you like
mixed herb                   as you like
pesto dips                     2 tablespoon


method 
1) boil the pasta for 10 mins, add salt, make sure it's al dente
2) slice tomato into half, then pieces
3) add whipping cream, mixed with pesto sauce
4) cut the barley leaves into pieces & mix it with the dish
4) season it w/ basil + pepper > done! easy peasy ;)


small tips
spice up the dish with the pesto dips, the one I'm using is from wingreens farms. You could probably buy any pesto sauce in supermarket too to uplift your dish to the next level!

The Six Degrees

What a small world we are living at... there's no doubt that our world looks big, our nature is stunning. I often thought how tiny our human is in front of it. However, in terms of people connection, it's still small. Have you ever met a new friend in a party - and realize he / she is your friend's friend? If you heard of Six degrees of separation, probably you know what I'm trying to say then -

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all living things and everything else in the world are six or fewer steps away from each other so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.


We connect each other so easily these days - by internet, social media, work, gathering, dating apps... Establishing a new connection is not hard - the point is - how you maintain it. It's like growing a new plant, you need to nurture it with water & sunlight, most important - love. It may sounds a bit weird to love a new friend, but I'm trying to say is, if you meet someone you'd like to establish your connection with, do nurture this relationship with love & care.

You meet different people - probably you know who you like & hate. What matter is their personality / feeling / outlook / soul / career. Sometimes I do feel maybe the education level isn't that important. What matter is you do share the same world. Some people you could never share the world with him / her even though how hard you've tried - you've struggling yourself to fit yourself in - you change yourself - but still you could never live with him / her - you just fail to fit into his / her world which is so much different from yours.

To match someone, maybe personality isn't that important too. However, what it DO matter is the living environment probably construct someone - construct your habit / lifestyle / taste / preference / vision / way of thinking / behaviour / what you do. Can you communicate with someone well? It's a matter of mixing of the above factors to see if you could live into his / her world.

It seems a easy theory, but it really depends on luck to whether you could meet that person who lives the same world with you. Isn't it?

The Trophy Gal

According the urban dictionary, the trophy girlfriend is someone who is extremely beautiful, to be considered as a prize. Unfortunately her love by an older man is kind of trick love. He just uses her for his own pleasures to show-off to his buddies, will lose his interest once she begins to age sadly. Or it refers to type of playful woman who is model-like & look for sugar daddy. Neither of them love / care each other. This type of mutually beneficial relationship sounds weird but it do commonly exist in the reality.

Sometimes I feel like guys are looking for a trophy gal instead of a life-long partner. It works for both way. The trophy gal might be searching for a trophy boy too.

What's relationship? Why are we seeking for a better half? Don't you wanna grow up with your life-long partner? Or else he/ she is just a piece of medal for you to show-off ironically?

Miss our school days... those were the pure love that you trust your instant feeling. You love someone in the way they are. Not in terms of calculation - what they do, how old, how much they earn, where do they live, what are their hobbies... Or school kids do concern of these criteria these days? I might be too old to know haha, but anyways, what I'm trying to say is that when you grow up,  you start to lose the ability to love the true human nature. Maybe I shud put it in this way - you know yourself better, in a sense that you could only allow certain type of people to get into your world. You know which type of guy/ gal would attract you the most. That's still good at least you know what your preference are. Isn't it?

At the end of the day, we're simply a piece of social recognition, a piece of medal to show-off in front of the peer, a piece of certificate to gain the cultural influence. Aren't we?

Do you want to be the trophy gal? Or are you consider yourself as a trophy guy?

Life is a book

Don't judge a book by its cover.

I like this idiom when I was small. However, in this commercial world, everyone is only attracted by a fancy cover, or jump into the ending chapter, without read the book in patient. Everyone still prejudge without fully understand its content. Everything is about packaging. That's why we need fashion to cover yourself.

Or do you still read newspaper / book / magazine today? Press industry is one of the evening industry sadly. I am a bookworm since I was small and I still enjoy reading now. Reading can unwind your mind & soul, nurture you, get yourself explore to a new world. I like holding a book to read instead of kindle, probably I'm type of old school person or I shud say I'm keen on physical stuff which is substantial. I guess nowadays people like watching short video than reading. So I feel really thankful for you to read this blog ;)

Life is a book, in a sense it's so tempting that you never know what's next until you read till to the last chapter.

Someone asked me how would I write our story. I said I hope it's good ending - which is getting married & die. Then that person kept asking what's the bad ending - I said die - it comes to the laughter. How come all the endings are related to the death. That's the ultimate ending, isn't it? However, have you ever imagined an ending that you can't live / die. You could only live with a sweet poison?
 
The sweet poison is the little surprise of your life. It's the secret chapter that you don't expect while you read.

That's the fun of reading a book, or live your life. Life is full of surprises and new experience. Sometimes it's exciting & happy, it could be tough & heart broken also. As long as you have a strong mind & love to live with it, that's nothing to fear. Isn't it?

Enjoy the sweet & spice in your book.