Plain. is. good.

Recently I’ve been craving fancy pastries, particularly cheesecake! Yes, cheesecake is my new comfort food. If you google “history of cheesecake”, you will learn that the Greeks are the inventor of the original cheesecake going back 2,000 years. That recipe consisted of a simple mixture of pounded cheese, honey, and wheat  flour. It was the Roman who later spread the joy of cheesecake throughout Europe giving rise to the modern day cheesecake. And the man responsible for the beloved Classic New York Cheesecake is no other than Arnold Reuben, the same man who created the Reuben sandwich.

I just had a very random thought going through my mind. I remember distinctly two instances when I caught a glimpse of someone’s face on a mirror reflection, only to realize seconds later that it’s my OWN reflection.

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On my to read list

“When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family’s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but also herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.”

Getting messy

I had the pleasure of finally trying out oil painting. After looking around for classes, I decided it was best for me to get one-on-one instruction with this awesome artist Aimee, whose profile I found on teachstreet.com. The biggest appeal of her art work is the color composition, and the fact that she is not afraid to use bright colors. So under her instruction, I completed my first oil painting using a palette knife.

Soul Searching…

“each gain in life represents the loss of something else.”

“Many of us must also give up needing to have the person who hurt us understand the agony that they have caused”

“Being right often costs us being loved”

Source: Katherine Woodward

China Trip, 2011 (Part II)

Whew, writing a decent blog about traveling is alot of work. Especially when I’m not in the moment of the trip. I’m trying to write more posts before the momentum runs out….

广州，香港 (Guangzhou, Hong Kong):::

I’m lumping these two because I only spent a short time in each place.  My Guangzhou relative invited us to view light displays along the river banks.  After the promenade by the river, we squeezed into a crowd and watched  a musical fountain for an hour.  In my desperate attempt to take pictures, I got up onto a railing, and stuck my arm out to snap pics the whole time. But this guy in the front row kept opening his damn umbrella at the most inopportune time!