I was looking for a short book to read and I ended up with The Missing Piece Meets The Big O. I turned out to be pretty nice. It’s a story about a missing piece looking for the one it belongs with. On one level, it is a nice children’s book but on another level it’s a nice adult’s book. It is one of those classics that can be enjoyed by both children and adults. Can’t wait to read Shel Silverstein’s other works. Quite a few but good thing they’re short :D
Month: June 2008
I had a pretty amusing conversation with Eeya this morning:
btwa my keyboward isz borken
oh mewan
sztupid keybord
i szpilled juice on my keyboward
oh mwan. do u think thisz waill etter get fied/
do u think thisz keybord fi itszelf
nope. won’t get fixed.
try washing it under running water.
then drying it completely.r u crzy
wahy waould i waszh the kybord
thisz i wawa lptop
it’ swa lptop dudeoh it’s a laptop
now that’s a big problemoh mn i wasz wafriwad you’d szawy thwat
do u think i cn fi it mby mszelf
i szpiled juice wa couple of dwaysz go
the keybord wasz waorsze off bwack then
couldn’t even type nything
it’sz completely dry nwa. i szpilled juice like 3 4 szdwaysz wagooh in that case it’s prolly just the sugar stuff now.
oh okway. do u think i szhould waipe it waith wa waet cloth
wawath if i tllike clewan it waith wa dwamp cotton budyeah do that too.
Finally, the long-awaited return to Crystal Beach for more surfing.
We took the newly opened Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX). I’ll have to say that it beats NLEX hands down. It has NLEX’s nice asphalt surface PLUS Star Tollway’s low traffic. It seemed to be a very good place to open up your throttle and see what your driving machine is capable of. And open the throttle I did. Hell, everyone did. Khae, who was driving a gen 8 H car, was going at 160kph and I was doing the same (to keep up, y’know). Most everyone else were just a little bit slower and two bikers even went by at around 180kph. I noticed that the car was still moving along smoothly, no shakiness as when I tried 160kph at Star Tollway. Nice surface indeed.
At the resort, we had ready our board shorts, rash guards, and sunblock. There was only one problem: the surf was FLAT! For the two days! With surfing out of the question, it became just your regular beach outing of swimming, chilling, and kayaking.
It was my first time kayaking but I think I was able to get the hang of it. Michelle and I paddled beyond the far end of Crystal Beach to check out a big cluster of pine. We beached the kayaks then ran across the very hot sand to the pines. We stayed for a bit under the shade of the pines to rest. We then walked and ran back to the kayaks and paddled back to Crystal Beach. It was a total of only about a kilometer but our arms and backs were aching already! Seems to be good upper body work out.
Yesterday, Michelle taught me how to cook pork sinigang. And not just cook but buying the ingredients themselves. As usual, lazy me was questioning whether the effort was worth it. But of course it was: Simply the best pork sinigang . I cooked it, I had a great recipe, and I had a great teacher ;)
Below is the recipe as I recall.
4 cups water
¼ kilo pork
1 sinigang mix :P
3 sliced taro (gabi)
1 sliced eggplant (talong)
4 sliced string beans (sitaw)
4 sliced winged beans (sigarilyas)
½ sliced horse radish (labanos)
4 minced tomatoes (kamatis)
4 sliced okra (okra din)
1 sliced onion (sibuyas)
Wash everything very well ;)
Boil pork in water until tender
Add sinigang mix
Gradually add the rest of ingredients in the order they are listed
Let boil to your preferred level of mushiness