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Saturday, May 14, 2011


just being bored right now and looking at the window
it's been raining every single day and it's been cold
i haven't been motivated to do my work recently
i guess that regular phase where my productivity comes to a near stop has arrived

it feels so weird to hear no sound
even though i am in the middle of the city
the higher you are from the ground, the more silent it is
the higher you are, the more emptiness you see from your window

a big gray cloud
one solid piece that almost covers the entire view
it is like a giant whale which swims heavily across the light blue background
i wonder why i often feel this way
disconnection

it is so weird to see the flags flapping in the wind
the birds flying
and the clouds moving
but all i hear is the 'clack-clack' sound from my keyboard
and my cardigan which brushes lightly over the cement wall
everything is still

the first time humans lived
i wonder if they wondered, more than we do now, their reason for existence
if you are placed within emptiness, what would you do?
just like having to put a single letter on a blank paper
it exists on its own, with only a relation to the paper
but why?

but a single letter is made up of many things
it has a color from its relation to the paper's color
it has a texture which is the paper's texture
it has a form which is the multiple relation of space and color

if we put an 'a' in the middle of a paper
what does it mean? 'a' what?

even though i don't know, but i think
there will be something for that 'a'
if we write the chinese letter 日 by itself it means day
i'm sure the typography of the 'a' will have a meaning
everything has a meaning
everything has a special individuality














Sunday Cooking: Oven-Baked Pork with Potatoes and Carrots

Sunday, May 1, 2011


I love cooking on weekends :) And then eating with a cool glass of wine, it is just nice! So this Sunday Listy and I decided to cook with what ingredients we had at the moment: pork, carrots, onion, and potatoes.






I had mine with red wine ^^

If you want to know how to make this, it is very easy.



What you need:

  • pork, as much as you like
  • carrots
  • potatoes
  • crushed dry rosemary herbs
  • onion
  • salt
  • pepper
  • olive oil
  • a baking tray for the oven
  • aluminium foil


  1. Prepare the pork. Make slits on the meat and season with salt, pepper, and send it to boil with some crushed dry rosemary herbs. Remove the meat when it is half-cooked.
  2. Peel potatoes and cut them into wedges. Season the wedges with salt and pepper, then deep fry it until almost golden.
  3. Peel carrots and season with a little pepper.
  4. Chop onions into slightly large slices (approximately the size of a 50 cent coin).
  5. Mushrooms taste very well in this dish so if you have them, wash them. In my case, I didn't have any at the moment :(
  6. Pre-heat your oven at 200 degrees.
  7. Cover a baking tray with aluminium foil, then give it some oil (not too much!!!). Arrange your meat, potatoes and carrots on the tray and put olive oil above everything (as much as you like but not excessively of course) and also sprinkle in more good dry rosemary herbs (you can put in a lot as well).
  8. Put your baking tray into the oven and cook at 180 degrees. I cooked it for 10 minutes but be your own judge for that.
  9. After my 10 minutes, I took out the tray, sprinkled my onion (and mushroom) on top of everything, and put the tray back into the oven.
  10. When it seems to be almost done, say another 7-10 minutes, I raised the temperature up to 200 degrees and then left that to bake for 1 minute, then turned off the heat.
  11. Arrange everything well, get a glass of red wine, and it is done!

Note: if this all seems a bit vague to you, I just want to make it clear that I'm only sharing this recipe which I came up with by experiment a year ago but you can find very similar recipes online that might be more accurate than mine written by professionals :) have a nice meal~


For my older readers, you might recall I cooked a very similar dish last year (and I still cook it frequently until now. But this time I use pork and I realise it tastes better than with chicken.)


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