For the second time in ten years, Manchester United won the European Champions League trophy, beating Chelsea 6-5 on penalties.  And yes, I am a Manchester United supporter, so this is a completely biased post on my favorite club.  Yet, in my humble opinion - and everyone is entitled to their own opinion - every word is also entirely true.

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We found a Japanese restaurant in Chicago that serves puffer-fish!!! The dish is called Fugu Kawa, and literally translated from Japanese means "Pufferfish Skin".  Pufferfish has gained notoriety all around the world since it is highly toxic if prepared incorrectly.  Hence, when I saw it on the menu, I thought it was a must-try dish.   If I was ( Read more... )

Here is a video of me pretending to teach a cooking class with Teri as the camera-woman. The things we do when we're bored...

Stir-fried Chinese Greens:

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Last week, I worked from home Wednesday and Friday, just for the heck of it.

I was able to make some food inbetween lazing around and doing my work:


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Today, after a hard day of class, I decided to de-stress by making some more excellent food. On the menu today was Gyros and Lentil Soup.


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Last weekend, Teri and I headed north to Andersonville, a hip neighborhood on Chicago's northside, to pick up our race packets for this weekend's Wrigleyville 5k race which ends in Wrigley Field.  We had brunch there, scouted the neighboorhood, and looked at several open-houses.


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I love the Food Network series Iron Chef...

So today, Teri and I had our own Iron Chef competition.  We had to whip up a dish in under 20 minutes, and our secret ingredient: Macaroni.

Here are pictures of our creations (keep in mind we only had 20 minutes):

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This morning when I woke up, I took a peek at my phone and was surprised to find an email from my Dad. It was actually a forwarded article from the Singapore Straits Times titled “Singapore loses 1,000 top talents yearly”. In the article, MM LKY mentioned, among other things, that Singaporeans are leaving the country not for regional powerhouses ( Read more... )

I'm officially done with the third quarter of my MBA program (Woohoo!). Now I'm just awaiting my grades.

When I started this quarter, I told myself I'll never ever take two classes in a quarter again. But for the coming winter quarter that starts in January, I went ahead and signed up for two classes. Don't ask me why I did that, I just did

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