My secret recipe / Taiwanese pancake

Time to try some Taiwanese pancake! It's salty, crispy, easy & yummy of course!


ingredients (serve for 2 ppl)
Taiwanese pancake                   2 pcs
crispy seaweed                          2 pcs
egg                                           2 pcs  
                                  

toppings
scallion                        as you like
pork floss                     1 tablespoon


method 
1) heat the Taiwanese pancake with some cooking oil until it's crispy
2) fry an egg, put it above of the seaweed
3) add and scallion on top, wrap it and cut it into half


small tips
I simply brought a package of Taiwanese pancake in supermaket instead of rolling it for my own to save time & effort ;)

The Golden Formula

Chemistry of love is always intriguing...  it's like a new experiment you explore, by trial & error and apply different formula. You never knows the result - Will it be an explosion or not? Success or failure? Enjoying the uncertainty is the key. We are all scientists in the world of life experiment.

Somehow I trust my intuition towards these experiment. I'm an INFJ as mentioned earlier. My gut feeling is what I believe in - to know what the result will be instinctively without any ground reason.

Specifically, I know exactly how does it work out when I meet someone, or even before I meet them. This is fascinating as if I almost have the sixth sense. My instinct does help me in calculating the golden formula in the life experiment. I know exactly which element should I input in and proceed. In this case I won't waste any time to those independent variables.

Did you work out your golden formula yet?

Step out

I love January, it is a brand new start of a year. You seems refreshed yourself by the time, anything bad or unhappy happened in last year, stays in the old times. Here is the new journey begin.

This year I will again challenge myself with a new hobby. Last year I learnt aerobics, Muay Thai boxing and bouldering. I really enjoy doing sports as I don't do it often in the past. Most importantly, I make myself dedicated to this blog - at least publish a article per month. Well, I insist & succeed in doing it for a year. I'm proud of myself in achieving the goal.

The new challenge of the year will be playing the music band. I guess it is much more difficult as it involves team play and persistent practice. No matter what, I do enjoy the process of completing a new challenge.

Step out of your comfort zone, take up a new challenge to yourself in a new year. Once you success, it is like building a better "me", nothing can replace the satisfaction.

Repeating your life is boring, why not doing something different? Not only because it is a new year.
Simply because we should enjoy every single day of our life. Live the moment.

Stepping out of your comfort zone means breaking your own rule too. We used to stick on our way of thinking and working. Try a new way, think in a new way. It might inspire your life.

Ready for a new breakthrough in this new year? 

My secret recipe / 3-min avocado tuna rice

When you are starving, you always something quick & easy.
I can't think of anything which is easier than this ;)


ingredients (serve for 1 ppl)
avocado                                     2 pcs
tuna                                           1 can  


seasonings
sea salt & pepper         as you like
soya sauce                   2 tablespoon
miso sauce                  1/2 tablespoon
lemon                           1/4 pc


method 
1) cut the avocado into small piece, squeeze some lemon juice into it
2) pour the tuna into a big bowl, mix it with avocado & soya sauce
3) season it with salt & pepper, and some miso sauce on top > all done! how easy is that?


small tips
squeeze the lemon juice into the avocado to prevent oxidation

The Seventh Second

It takes only 7 seconds to determine whether you like someone or not.

There is a saying about when you meet a new friend, the first impression you have for him / her within the first 7 second can determine whether she / he can be your better half. You may call it love at first sight. Frankly speaking I'm the typical person. I can easily fall on someone when I met him for the first time. Sometimes I enjoy the crush, sometimes don't. When the crush makes me lose myself, I kind of not enjoying anymore - and I hate myself of being like that, Love at first sight can be dangerous, emotional people like me can't take control of ourselves when they fall in love.

 

Someone builds up the love story by friendship. It just never works for me unfortunately. The first few months I met a new guy are the most tempting moment. Are there sparkles? But when the time passes, the love is gone too. Have you ever used to fancy someone for a long time, but if there were no more drama, no more feeling eventually too?


So people may say, that means you are easily attracted by physical attributes - maybe yes. Everyone tends to like beauty. I never heard someone is looking for someone who is not attractive. Everybody is being attracted by the appearance first nowadays. The fancy package do attract you to open its content. Apart from that, physical attributes are really subjective. People have different standards towards beauty. I would rather say my law of attraction is the chemistry.



Sounds vague? Love is always ambiguous.

Sometimes I wonder, if it only takes me a while to like someone, why can't I just forget someone easily?

My secret recipe / pesto tortellini with tomato & mushroom

Let's have Italian! Getting bored of pasta? You might want to try something new & easy -
Buon appetito ;)


ingredients (serve for 2-3 ppl)
dried tortellini        30 pcs
tomato                    1 pc
mushroom              10 pc


seasonings
salt & pepper          as you like
pesto sauce             2 tablespoon
rosemary                1 teaspoon


method 
1) boil the tortellini for 15 mins with salt, or simply follow the instructions on box
2) cut the mushroom into slices, fry them in a saucepan until it's soft with garlic
3) cut tomato into small pieces, add into the pan
4) add tortellini into the pan with mushroom, together with tomato & rosemary
5) mix all food with pesto sauce > done!


small tips
if you're smart enough to notice, the cooking procedure is almost as same as pasta, the only trick is to boil the tortellini a bit longer to make sure the filling is fully cooked :)

Live the moment

Eat, work, sleep... here's another day... eat, work, sleep.... we keep repeating the same cycle every day... Sometimes I wonder how much time we devote to work and how much time we live for our life?

I used to plan a lot in the past, or what we call to be prepared for your future - like I start doing part-time jobs in my secondary school life, while my classmates are having fun. Until now, I won't say I am a workaholic, I dun mean to be, but I am still working hard. Especially when I am fortunate enough to work for something I enjoyed doing. The designer is a job to make people's lives better. Work hard for the future, so that we could enjoy a better life afterwards, sounds logical? But no one knows the future, even if you've tried so hard. Life is not a plan, it won't go as you want.

When some of my friends talk about how much they hate their jobs, but we are still doing it everyday - for a living. Isn't it a waste of time, waste of your life? Think about that - if tomorrow is the last day of your life, what will you do? That's the thing you find most meaningful. Find something can motivate you, and do that now. Tell your love ones how much you treasure them. If there's any one you are infatuated with, let them know your feeling no matter what, sometimes the result might not be what you are fond of, but at least you've tried. Don't let yourself to regret of not trying.

Don't live for the others.
Live your life.