So I bet many people share my bad habit of watching romantic movies when you're feeling shitty, only to realize you actually feel shittier after watching the movie, right? I believe this must be a common phenomenon now in modern life ( Read more... )

1. Quit my job and continue my edumacation, or defer the course and build a career ( Read more... )

I found the perfect chicken marinade mix at Chez Pim's food porn blog. The core ingredients are: oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar, lots of minced garlic, some chopped up chillies (can be dried), a souring agent (vinegar, tamarind, or citric acid), a sweet-smelling spice (five spice mix, cinnamon, nutmeg), and some oil. This can be used for grilling ( Read more... )

OK, OK, so my idea for a new reality TV show is to have a celebrity chef answer special requests from randomly selected anonymous people ( Read more... )

So I'm having lunch in this tiny office canteen, and some girl is asking the waitboys for a light ( Read more... )

*) Woke up and had cereal with cow milk - we ran out of soy milk; dry retched all the way to work (lactose intolerance). Bright point, caught Michael Smith on Chef At Large on the Asian Food Channel cooking Carribean nosh. Mental-noted recipe for later use ( Read more... )

So work is only moderately productive nowadays, while school stuff is a bit more so - I blame it on my judicious adherence to my work/work/play balance plan, which has turned me into PMS guy at work ( Read more... )

...Is that the final boss for the valkyrie chick's chapter, the lady ruler of the netherworld, has an attack animation where she lays on her back, spreads her bony, spiky legs, and reveals... A spider's head under there! So her legs are actually the spider's forelegs (shudder)...

I was a bit apprehensive about going to Seoul for work - we were meant to do research at a Korean public organization, and I wasn't sure I knew enough of what I was doing to make decent progress for the two weeks I was there. But it turned out to be such an awesome experience when I realized the people we were working with were so nice. I guess I' ( Read more... )

And it's actually really hard! NEway, Odin Sphere is this Playstation 2 game developed by Vanillaware, and it's a platformer kind of game with heavy action and some RPG elements ( Read more... )