Change

"I've been afraid of changing cause I have built my life around you

But time makes you bolder

Children get older

I'm getting older, too"

This lyrics makes me think of my career...

Pumpkin Fun

Autumn has arrived the harvest time of year has just begun. Followed by boxes and boxes of apples, it's time to have fun with all the fresh pumpkins and squash!

There are so many ways to be creative with this beautiful colour, hard shell, and full of flavour veggies.

Here are some past recipes I tried to share with all of you.

Have fun curving, cooking, baking with your pumpkins!

Rissotto in Pumpkin dish casserole

Pumpkin Pie: Recipe

Double layer Pumpkin Cheesecake: Recipe

and the best I've tried this year... Pumpkin crème brûlée!!! (recipe)

It was a big hit on the Thanksgiving night this year, but unfortunately... I forgot to take a picture! But it's so good that I will soon make it another time so the pictures will be posted soon! Keep exploring!

Time to Paella!!

My first time to try out Paella because the difficulty on ingredients search.

One of the most important magic spice for Paella is Saffron. I searched entire grocery store and got lucky to meet the spice vendor who was just displayed the newly ordered spices. So I ordered Spanish Saffron from him but I should've asked the price first really. It's well known as the world's most expensive spice regarding the price per weight unit. A little bit of Saffron can cost 7-10 CAD. Although you may find the non-Spanish ones in Asian market or in a lot of Fusion recipes, they just use more turmeric instead.

The 2nd task is to find the right rice for it. Since I NEVER saw it in the grocery store, plus as a proud big rice-eater for over 30 years, I don't believe I need to order the special 'Paella' rice online to make it right.

Therefore, after viewing several Paella recipes online, I decide to give this a try with creativities and guts to substitute lots ingredients and alert the cooking time by 'sense'... um...must be a rice-eater thing ;)

I will have to make it again some time before posting a recipe but here are some pictures and reference website to share first in case some of you have been waiting for a homemade Paella for ages. :)

Enjoy~

Recipes online for reference

深夜... 與麻木自己的把戲周旋，又再次地....厭倦了、膩了.... 生活是在尋找著什麼刺激，還是再尋找著什麼熟悉...什麼可以依附著就不再空虛的熟悉...

---with Music "Looking back" by Kerry Muzzey

Ideas and Insprirations

Inspiring stories of life:

1. Kurt (Chris Colfer) from Glee

He went for audition for a character in wheelchair (Arty) but turned out he's so special that the crew not only hired him but created a whole new character specially for him.

2. Andy Serkis who played Caesar in the rise of the planet of apes. He also played Gollum in the lord of the ring and King Kong which he spent 3 months in forest to observe monkeys. He became an expert actor for motion capture techniques.

and....

a Catch 22 example: Being a photographer for living!! :)

批R

應該是快樂的日子...怎麼沒有開心的感覺...

我應該努力讓自己開心...不管開心的來源是什麼...

人就以這個方向認真努力就對了...加油吧~

人生

30歲的五月，體驗了人生的豐富，喜怒哀樂都用上了...

5/6 拿到了人生第一棟房子的鑰匙

5/7 第一次在台灣以外的地方考試 (IELTS)

5/14 搬進了我們的第一個'家'

5/23 好朋友從台灣來訪，Nancy的第一趟加拿大之旅

5/25 好友Apan的女兒出生了

5/27 得知考試分數沒達到預期...

5/28 Fifi 走了...

5/31 zu驗孕, 發現小寶懷上了

六月，又是嶄新的月份... 晚上和著紅酒來複習一下慾望城市吧...

(可惜Nancy來的時候沒有電視，不然就應該這樣過~)

to my dear fi

Would you know my name

If I saw you in heaven

Would you be the same

If I saw you in heaven

I must be strong

and carry on

Cause I know I don't belong

here in heaven

Would you hold my hand

if I saw you in heaven

Would you help me stand

if I saw you in heaven

I'll find my way

through night and day

Cause I know I just can't stay

here in heaven

Time can bring you down

Time can bend your knee

Time can break your heart

Have you begging please

begging please

Beyond the door

There's peace I'm sure

And I know there'll be no more

Tears in heaven

Would you know my name

If I saw you in heaven

Would you be the same

if I saw you in heaven

I must be strong and carry on

Cause I know I don't belong

here in heaven

Cause I know I don't belong

Here in heaven

Good night, my sweet Fi~ I'll love you forever. See you later...

而我知道

而我知道那真愛不一定能白頭到老

而我知道有一天你可能就這麼走掉

而我知道我知道 這一切我全都知道

我就是受不了

而我知道我們曾天真的一起哭一起笑

而我知道放開手但不知道怎麼忘掉

而我知道你走了以後的每一分一秒

卻還是這麼難熬

微笑緊緊咬牙給你祝福你自由飛吧

就這樣吧 就這樣吧

我同意可是我淚如雨下

It's time to let you go

It's time to say goodbye

There's no more excuses

No more tears to cry

There's been so many changes

I was so confused

All along you were the one

All the time I never knew

I want you to be happy

You're my best friend

But it's so hard to let you go now

All that could have been

I'll always have the memories

She'll always have you

Fate has a way of changing

Just when you don't want it to

Throw away the chains

Let love fly away

Till love comes again

I'll be okay

Life passes quickly

You gotta take the time

Or you'll miss what really matters

Miss all the signs

I've spent my life searching

For what was always there

Sometimes it will be too late

Sometimes it won't be fair

願病痛早日遠離my dear Fi...

an ideal day of life

I saw a video on TED that it's an Australian author who wrote a book about how he got himself back from the status of 'Fat, Forty and Fired'. His 2nd book, which I was more interested in, is called 'overworked, underlaid'. Which has nothing to do with my current situation but his first couple sentences in the speech was attractive to me. He said he was working 24-7 for his previous company and had no life at all although later on he found himself could do a great job to balance his life and work when he doesn't have a job. He spent a year not working and try to find his life back then realized he can't never learn how to keep these two elements balanced without working. Therefore, he emphasized that it's depending on ourselves to make the two balanced, not the companies, not your bosses.

First step, you need to set up an ideal life you want. Then he shared his ideal day which involved lots of sex :P with his wife and of course that's not gonna happen. Which means, there are lots things you want to accomplish but one day is too short and one life is too long. We need to find the adequate time period in between as a goal to your life goal. With that, you will then have a better picture and ideas of how to make it happen on time.

I found that very true. Most of time, people waste their time for endless work because they don't have anything else to do. To fill in that emptiness, they work and make themselves look busy while someone in the same situation might have energy and always have plans for the night after works or on the weekends.

It's a question that we should all ask ourselves while complaining.... What do you really want for yourself? and how to make it happen?

Within a month, I'm going to move in to our new house, the first real estate possession of ours.

While skim through pages of Home magazines, I can see myself more and more standing in a 'home' again. And this time, it'll be permanent which I haven't been for a location for a while, another big commitment of life, to a location, to a city, to a country. Things from here are all more clear now. No matter what an ideal day of mine will be determined, I've always have a home to reach at the end of the day, a home that I don't need to spend 24hrs on plane to reach on this side of the globe.

元宵

今天元宵節，晚餐當然要是中式，還要來個飯後甜點-花生湯圓~~ ^^幸福滿分...

除了網路新發現的食譜味噌燒肉，還做了炸豆腐，配上媽媽教的沾醬，和蠔油青江菜，整桌滿滿的臺灣味呢.. (因為都有加糖... 哈哈)

p.s. 肚子太餓來不及照相 >_< 如果我妹這時候還在就好了... 呵...

照片、食譜出自楊桃文化 他們網站有很多值得參考的小食譜，可以用食材搜尋很實用喔~ ^^

【材　 料】
五花肉片	200公克
洋蔥	1/4個
熟芝麻	1茶匙
萵苣葉	10片
蒜泥	1/2茶匙
【調 味 料】
味噌	1大匙
糖	2茶匙
米酒	2茶匙
水	2大匙

【做　 法】

1.洋蔥切絲，備用。

2.將調味料混合均勻，再加入蒜泥拌勻，即為味噌醃醬，備用。

3.將五花肉片加入作法2的味噌醃醬內拌勻，醃漬約3分鐘。

4.熱鍋，加入3大匙沙拉油，放入作法3的肉片以半煎炒方式煎約3分鐘，再加入作法1的洋蔥絲炒約2分鐘炒勻，盛盤後撒上熟芝麻即可，食用時可用萵苣葉包裹肉片搭配食用。

Vimeo, my new found land.

Vimeo這個網站常常會有另我驚奇及喜愛的影片

最近又有了一些新的發現，在這裡記錄下來也做分享囉~

Clemento專業的影像傳達：

還有這個人喜愛將喜愛的音樂和電影配做堆，這是我最喜歡的作品:

Witchi Tai To 和 Into the wild