Having rice and noodle in USA

American (processed/microwaveable) food are fine, but when it comes to rice or noodle products, they suck.

The rice products are too oily, seems that Americans want to make their food appear as "Asian" as possible that they immerse the rice in any oil greases they could add it to.

The noodle products, on the other hand, are bland.

Totally bland, accompanied by one seasoning powder and nothing else.

The only choice for me to look for tastier Asian food is of course, Chinese restaurants. There, I could have fried rice for as low as $4.00 per portion.

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Indo-lyric: Gelora Asmara (Duo Derby)

English translation:

Love Passion

Come and express your love
Say that you want me
Come and bring the flowers
So that you could make me fly

Reff:
I am here waiting sweetly for your coming
I just wanna make sure that you will not regret
For having chosen me
Who will always make your life beautiful

Come and express the promise of love
Coz this one is gonna be your last
Come and bring me with you
Together with all love passion

repeat Reff

Your life's beautiful
Your life's beautiful

Original lyric in Indonesian:

Datanglah nyatakanlah cintamu
Katakan bahwa kau menginginkan diriku
Datanglah bawalah bunga-bunga
Agar kau dapat membuat diriku terbang

Reff:
Aku disini duduk manis menantimu
Akupun ingin membuat kau tak menyesal
Bahwa kau telah memilih diriku ini
Yang akan terus membuat hidupmu indah

Datanglah nyatakan janji cinta
Yang akan kau ucapkan itu yang terakhir
Datanglah bawalah aku pergi
Bersama dengan semua gelora asmara

kembali ke Reff

Hidupmu indah
Hidupmu indah

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Fortune cookies

Cooking is easy, doing dishes is the hard part


~from a Chinese Restaurant in Florence, KY

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Amuses and Muses (2)

by Catherine Lim

… Amuses

Said the priest: 'Beware this sinful organ'
I shall not mention it by name
It gives man so much pleasure
But causes much regret and shame!

'Though it's only a small roll of flesh
From it all mischief has sprung
I will now show you this monster!'
And the priest put out his tongue

… Muses

At death it's back to ashes
Our destiny is clear and set
Since matter is indestructible
We may have immortality yet.

But what if Hitler's particles
Blowing randomly in creation
Get mixed up with other matter
And enter a future generation?

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French Gmail and Facebook

I've set my Gmail and Facebook account to French, and have no plan to reset it back to English. It's just safer to have some of my personal links in French, for the sake of confidentiality.

Because both of those accounts are always logged in to mine and anyone else in the house could have opened it by accident anytime.

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