Friday, March 30, 2007

i need a "blog post title generator"...

It's finally sinking in. It started to sink in at the beginning of March. Four more weeks! One month! [However many] hours! Technically, I finish on Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Done classes, assignments, exams, e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. Unless I decide to defer something, or hand in an essay late. Or something. And my last day of work at my university library is on Wednesday. And although I'm excited (can you tell?), I hate when things end, beginnings are always so much more fun. I hate the last lecture, the last day of school, saying goodbye, packing up. I get all nostalgic-y. Right at the end, at the finish line, is another start line, a new beginning. Sometimes you don't know what it is you're starting, and oftentimes you're pushed right into it, not knowing in which direction you're heading.

So what's next?
Well, my room is kinda messy..

P.S. Sorry if the font size is weird, I tried.....

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

this makes me smile...

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

- Robert Fulghum

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Monday, March 12, 2007

things that stink...

A not-so-comprehensive-or-profound list of things that stink according to queenie:

1) Seeing your old crush/"almost" around

2) Having your old crush/"almost" hang out with the your new crush/"hope-to-be"

3) Being very limited in communicating with new crush/"hope-to-be"

4) Not succeeding in ending useless relationship

5) When your ideal zodiac matches don't work out (see #4)

6) People not taking initiative/making the next move (see #4 & #3)

 

I'm pretty sure there's more to come...

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

La cuisine est un art! - my French presentation last Thursday

A : Bienvenue à notre spectacle Yum Yum avec [ma partenaire] et [moi]!

B : Aujourd’hui, nous avons quelque chose d’excitant à vous montrer.

A : Nous allons aller en France pour preparer un dessert délicieux – les crêpes bretonnes!

B : Crêpes d’origine bretonne, une région à l’ouest de la France.

A : On lui dit que des crêpes ont été soutenus dans cette région parce qu’ils ne pouvaient pas cultiver assez de blé pour cuire du pain au four dû à la terre pauvre.

B : En Bretagne, les crêpes sont servis traditionnellement avec du cidre.

A : En France, il y a les endroits que s’appelle des crêperies, où on peut s'asseoir et manger des crêpes. À Paris, on peut les acheter au kiosque de nourriture sur le trottoir.

B : Ils sont servis traditionnellement aussi sur la fete de la Chandeleur, le deux février. Maintenant, le jour s’appelle le Jour des Crêpe.

A : On croit que si on peut attraper un crêpe avec une poêle avec se main gauche, tandis qu’on tient une pièce en or, on devient riche!

B : Je pense que je peux le faire! Je vais devenir riche!

A : Nous allons voir…Maintenant, la recette des crêpes…

B : Il y a deux types des crêpes – les crêpes sucrées, qui sont fait avec la farine de blé, et les crêpes salées, ou les galettes, qui sont fait avec la farine de sarrasin .

A : Nous allons faire les crêpes sucrées, on peut les utiliser pour le dessert comme Mille Crêpe, Crêpe Suzette, ou avec des fraises, du chocolat, et de la glace.

B : Pour cette recette, il faut :
- une verre de farine de blé
- deux œufs
- moitié de verre de lait
- moitié de verre d’eau
- quart d'une cuillère de sel
- six cuillères de sucre
- deux cuillères
de beurre fondu

A : Pour la première étape, mélangez la farine et les œufs dans une grande cuvette. Ajoutez le lait et l’eau tandis que vous remuez. Ajoutez le sel, le sucre, et la beurre jusqu'à ce que ce soit lisse.

B : Puis, chauffez une poêle légèrement huilée à haute température moyen.

A : Versez ou écopez la pâte lisse sur la poêle. Utilisez un quart d’un verre pour chaque crêpe.

B : Inclinez la poêle avec un mouvement circulaire de sorte que la pâte lisse enduise la surface également.

A : Faites cuire le crêpe pendant environ deux minutes, jusqu'à ce que le fond soit brun clair.

B : Avec une spatule, tournez et faites cuire l'autre côté.

A : Fais attention! C’est considéré de la mauvaise chance de laisser une crêpe tomber sur le plancher tout en la jetant en l'air.

B : Tu as raison, Napoléon a blâmé l'échec de sa campagne russe sur une qu'il s'avait laissée tomber!

A : Et….Voila ! La crêpe française.

B : Vous pouvez ajouter les fruits et les écrous à la pâte avant de la verser sur la poêle.

A : ...Ou, vous pouvez éliminer le sucre de la recette et ajouter plus de sel pour faire une galette.

B : C'est très facile, bon appétit.

A: Merci pour regarder Yum Yum, à demain mes amis!

 

Cheesy? Definately, but the professor liked it :p Sorry to those who don't get the French, I just had to share this masterpiece, I put my heart and soul into it!
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

:)

Happy International Women's Day
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

facebooked

Has anybody noticed how blogger-reader interactions on Facebook are different? It's as if the anonymity and privacy you try so hard to maintain behind aliases and vagueness is gone with a simple click of the "Add to Friends" button. At the same time it's great finding out more about the people whose posts you read, and having more flexibilty to communicate with them beyond the "comment" feature.

Yeay for Facebook!

Except for the weirdos who add me.

What's your take on it? Fill in the blank: Facebook is ___________ .

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Thursday, March 01, 2007

snail mail...

Bethlehem is hills, ups and downs and virtually no flat land. You stand in one place, and you see the whole city around you and you can't get lost because you'll always find a building or house you recognize a couple of hills away. Except where there's a nine meter concrete thing, you can't see beyond it. Even with all the hills and ups and downs, the concerete becomes your horizon, so in fact, you can get lost.

I sent postcards to my friends and coworkers when I was in Amman, Jordan. It was such a pain finding a post office. You'd think in a city that has just started to be introduced to the wonders of the email that they would have had a complex postal service to take care of their communication needs and carry them over into this century, but no. We had to go all the way to downtown Amman, and even there, store owners and city-folk didn't know where it was. It shared an office with a wireless communication company, go figure. Amman has its share of hills too, minus the nine meter concrete thing, donc, tu ne te perd pas.

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