Wednesday, 23 January 2008
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Why why why why??!!!111!!1one!!!!1eleven?!?!
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Five Score and Seven Years Ago
By Relient K
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Saturday, 11 August 2007
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Fifty Favorite Foods
1. Favorite Main Entree: Medium rare filet from Ruth's Chris, but it has to come with potatoes and creamed spinach on the side.
2. Favorite Salad: Something with mixed greens and balsamic dressing and big shavings of cheese. I'm also very partial to cobb salad, and I like the chopped salad from La Fondue - spinach, feta, tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumbers, and honey mustard dressing.
3. Favorite Soup: Lobster bisque from Boston. I think there's a place called the New England Soup Factory, but I don't remember. There were lots of great places.
4. Favorite Appetizer: Susan's Downfall from Cafe Pro Bono, which is cheese and herb ravioli with Gorgonzola and toasted almond sauce.
5. Favorite Dessert: Who can turn down an ice cream sandwich?
6. Favorite Fruit: White nectarines.
7. Favorite Vegetable: CORN. The most versatile vegetable to ever walk the earth.
8. Favorite Sashimi: I do like hamachi and I do like tai (red snapper).
9. Favorite Sushi Roll: All overly fancy, not-so-authentic stuff - the Island Roll from Sushi House (prawn tempura, real crab, avocado, raw salmon, and fun sauce with lemon slivers) and the Mercy Roll from Joy Sushi (it's California roll with raw tuna and salmon, and fun fun sauce).
10. Favorite Soda: My typical soda of choice is diet Coke with lemon (my own lemon, not that crappy artifical stuff), although if cherry coke is available I'll take that.
11. Favorite Non-Alcoholic Beverage: Water, my two liters a day thank you.
12. Favorite Alcoholic Shot: Never had a shot.
13. Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Gin and tonic.
14. Favorite Cake: I am a huge huge fan of cakes from Draeger's, like the mango mousse cake or the berry cheesecake.
15. Favorite Pie: Banana cream from Heidi's.
16. Favorite Ice Cream: Kiwi sorbet from Gelato Naia.
17. Favorite Milkshake: Don't like milkshakes.
18. Favorite Cut Of Beef: I like prime rib...does that count? Really, anything nice and rare.
19. Favorite Cuisine: It depends on my mood, but whenever I get cravings, it's usually for Korean or for Japanese.
20. Favorite Part Of Chicken: Dark meat! Drumstick? Thigh?
21. Favorite Fried Food: Corn nuggets from Chicken Express...battered and deep-fried creamed sweet corn.
22. Favorite Cookie: Oatmeal raisin, or chocolate chip that's not too sweet.
23. Favorite Indian Curry: There was an Indian buffet place near my school in Boston that had great curries...but I don't know any specifics.
24. Favorite Gum: That Orbit White stuff...the green kind.
25. Favorite Candy: Hi-Chew!!
26. Favorite Crepe: I like savory crepes with stuff like spinach, mushroom, and cheese. But I really liked the mixte crepe from Paris that I think was ham and some sort of cheese - gruyere maybe?
27. Favorite Sandwich: The sandwiches from Little Lucca are supergreat. They cost about $6, weigh just shy of two pounds, and are super tasty because of their special hot pepper sauce and garlic sauces. I always get it on dutch crunch, with a whole lot of veggies and pepperoncini, and then I'll add slices of fresh mozzarella myself.
28. Favorite Pizza: Thin-crust mozzarella pizza from Giorgio's. Broccoli on pizza is awesome too; there was a hole-in-the-wall in Boston's North End that made a veggie/broccoli pizza that won me over.
29. Favorite Mexican Dish: Carnitas burrito from La Taqueria in the Mission
30. Favorite Thai Dish: A dish called Fisherman's Madness from Brown Sugar Cafe in Boston - sauteed shrimp, squid, mussels, scallops, onions, mushrooms, green and red peppers, and sweet basil leaves in hot chili spices.
31. Favorite Korean Dish: Seafood soondubu, spicy! Also maybe kimchi jigae, and also that raw beef from Koryo in Oakland, the stuff that's marinated in sesame oil and soy sauce and served alongside slivers of Asian pear, with a raw egg (quail?) cracked on top. Kalbi from Palace...hahaha.
32. Favorite Chinese Dish: Beef noodle soup from TaoYuan Jie in Taipei, followed closely by beef noodle soup from YongKang Jie. Spicy and flavorful with a lot of pickled mustard greens stirred in.
33. Favorite Filipino Dish: Sean's chicken adobo (did I only get to eat it once??!!?)
34. Favorite Southern Food: Corn nuggets!!! I'm more a fan of the side dishes than anything else - biscuits, mashed potatoes, green beans, mac and cheese...and of course sweet tea.
35. Favorite Instant Noodles Brand: Just the regular Maruchan kind, beef flavored, and then I'll crack an egg in it and cook it with a lot of kimchi. Instant wonderful tasty goodness.
36. Favorite Juice: Strangely enough, I don't really like juice that much anymore. Freshly squeezed orange juice?
37. Favorite Snack Food: Cheetos, both the regular crunchy kind and sometimes the flaming hot ones. I also like steak fries (thick and soggy) as a snack...or meal. And of course, cheese and crackers - aged goudas, teleme, Red Hawk (sans rind), and this stuff called Fromager d'Affinois.
38. Favorite Fish: I love most kinds of shellfish. I love the New Zealand green shell mussels in garlic, white wine, and butter from the Crown and Anchor in Monterey, but I also love lobster and crab too.
39. Favorite Cereal: Plain Cheerios and Special K.
40. Favorite Pho: Pho tai, with the rare steak on the side so I can cook it myself in the broth.
41. Favorite Breakfast Food: Eggs blackstone from Stack's, which is eggs benedict but with bacon, mushroom, and tomatoes. Pretty much anything with hollandaise sauce. The other day I did have a pretty awesome bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich from Waffle House that was grilled in butter, with crispity hash browns. Breakfast food makes me so happy.
42. Favorite French Food: Um, I dunno. Oddly enough, my favorite meals from Paris were from the Greek sandwich shops, a sandwich and fries all stuffed in a little white paper bag.
43. Favorite McDonald's Food: For breakfast, the sausage burrito and hash brown. For any other meal, two cheeseburgers with lots of ketchup, and fries.
44. Favorite Pasta Dish: Risotto!!! There's this place in Manhattan called Risotteria and I had a risotto with roasted portobello and truffle oil that was so so good. More recently I was at La Strada in Palo Alto and had risotto with asparagus tips and spring onions, in a crispy bowl made of casera cheese.
45. Favorite Bread: Savory westernized breads from the bakeries in Taiwan! So so so so so good, I would go to at least one bakery every day and just buy whatever they had.
46. Favorite Tea: Sweet tea from Atlanta! Or the sweet tea from Charley's in Fort Worth.
47. Favorite 7-11 Slurpee Flavor: Coke, of course.
48. Favorite Hershey's Kiss: Um, plain.
49. Favorite Flavor of M&Ms: Peanut.
50. Favorite Candy Bar: Cadbury milk chocolate bar with roasted almonds.
Monday, 23 July 2007
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i've been playing this educational game called real lives, which is like oregon trail but so much better. statistically based on the world's population, geography, economic and political climates, the game randomly places your character in some city with some kind of financial/health situation and you get to make decisions as you age in years. so most likely you're going to get randomly placed in a third-world country in a disease-infested village and somehow you have to make your way through life about how you spend your free time and what kind of job you'll look for and how many kids you're going to have, that sort of thing.
the first handful of games i played, i died before i reached my teens. flood, malaria, TB, dontchaknow. so finally i was born into a village in india and my parents made a decent wage...i went to school, fell and suffered a paralyzing injury, decided not to pursue a lesbian relationship because i was insecure about my paralysis, ended up marrying some guy instead, and got a job doing admin work and artsy-craftsy stuff. i was so happy because finally my character was actually staying alive and doing things, investing money, moving into a more comfortable home. i think my character made it to her 60's, suffered from depression and overspending, and then just died. and for some reason after that i got really angry, because i thought, what's the point? what's the point of that life if i just made a little bit of money, saved it, spent it, and then died?
i've been worried about financial stability and comfortability lately, obsessing (prematurely, of course) about things like how am i (we?) going to support a family, or buy a home? what if i want to stop working after i have children - is it possible to make it as a single-income family? what if my kids need braces or music lessons? am i still going to be able to go out to eat if i want to? and after playing real lives and getting all indignant about it, i dunno, maybe i've got the wrong perspective. life is so much more than being comfortable, and saving money and spending it, because i'm just going to die anyway, right?
there have been a lot of good-byes lately. people at work, and then other friends who maybe aren't leaving for good but are leaving for a time, entering a new kind of life with new responsibilities and new things that will compete for their attention. and i hate good-byes. i hate change. i always think that life is just a bunch of intersecting lines - you cross paths with other people for a time, and it may be a long while or it may be really short, and then eventually you move on. yeah, you'll be friends still, but it'll never be the same again and you'll never have that part of your life back. but maybe that's the point, that's the adventure. and maybe i spend too much time worrying about being comfortable and padding my life with security, protecting myself from change. there are bigger things in life. i think i am satisfied with too little.
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