Archive for March, 2006

Light Bulb Lessons

March 23, 2006 at 11:44 am · Filed under Daily Living

I have been worrying about the light bulb above our stairs since we moved in this townhouse. Many times I looked up the ceiling then I thought “there would be nothing we can do about it if this bulb was broken”. It is at least 4 meters high from the ground (actually the stairs), which is out of a distance that we could handle even with a chair or anything we could use to reach. It’s like a mission impossible. I used to imagine that it was done by some professionals who had a special ladder when they built this house, although it sounds quite unrealistic because even the light bulb with the best quality would not last for more than 5 years, which is much younger than the age of this building would have. Anyway I didn’t bother thinking too much about it for quite a while, and I didn’t even try to really see whether I could handle the worst situation.

But guess what? The bulb was broken tonight. The first thing came to my mind was “well, this is not happening!!” But unfortunately it was. I took a little while to estimate the situation and in no more half a minute, I made up my mind. Maybe I can climb up and stand on the handrails!!!!! I did it, with my right hand tightly grabbing the bedroom’s door frame, left hand streching out to reach the bulb. It does need a little bit acrobat skills and it looks absolutely dangerous, but I made it!!!!

I was just so surprised to find out the fact that the thing I have been wondering and worrying for such a long time is not that hard at all as what I thought. The only thing I need is to take actions and give it a shot with my actual physical movement, not just some bloody imaginary spatial operation in the mind. Eyes sometimes could lie to us, so could the brain. So if there is anything I could learn from today, I would take it down as a lesson which is “nothing is impossible or at least nothing is really difficult if you do get yourself into it”.

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Would Long Weekends Do Us Any Good

March 21, 2006 at 10:16 am · Filed under Opinions & Thoughts

It was funny. In the past one month, I got 3 long weekends. The first one was because I was sick, actually a serious headache made me suffer for two days; and then the second one was some bloody ACT Union picnic day, Gods know what the hell this one is; the third one was the one just passed by yesterday, Canberra day, but I spent all my time cowering in the corner of my Queanbeyan’s home, did nothing except a little morning walk in the nearby streets.

This morning, Simon rang in sick, Sasha looks tired and Alesia kept yawning at her desk. I also happened to know a few people talking about their miserable feelings this morning in the lady’s room. It can’t be, people, after a long weekend! You guys are kidding me? If there was someone not feeling well, it should be me!!! I should be the one feels not good at all with talking no more than 3 sentences within the whole 3 days. They were some cashiers in the suppermarket and Joesph & Ronda couple, none of each interested me.

I guess only the Gods know why people are so hard to be pleased and why they always look so fragile even they have already got what they want.

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Farfalle：蝴蝶+奶油+蘑菇

March 20, 2006 at 3:20 am · Filed under Food & Cusine

意大利的Pasta，最让我欣赏的不是味道，而是各种Pasta千变万化的形状和煮出来沥干后仍然个个粳稻独立、毫不粘在一起的性格。走在一排堆满了各种 Pasta的货架前，我的眼睛最会被那些接近于自然世界中的形状所吸引。我喜欢Conchiglie（象贝壳形状的），也喜欢Radiatore （象小时候玩的玩具插件儿），看到螺丝钉般的Cavatappi，我会很着迷，但麻花状的Gemelli明显就要平淡得多。我到底为什么这样，想想可能是 “食物可以被当成玩物”的概念让我觉得很有趣。谁想把做饭真的当成严肃的艺术啊？要不是为了玩，干吗要在厨房里花上几个小时站得腰酸背疼呢？

这 就是我选了Farfalle的原因。我喜欢它的蝴蝶设计，看着那么可爱；而我也喜欢蘑菇奶油的味道，所以我不光用了包装内本身的Sauce，还特地加入了 若干新鲜的钮扣蘑菇和两小片切碎的Bacon，最后撒上碎香菜叶子。这是一顿完美的午餐，配新买的“绿豆”果汁和饭后一个Royal Gala小苹果，我谈不上满足，但很知足。这样的日子——在想起了意大利的浓汁酱味儿时，花不到20分钟就可以马上自己做出来享受——又还有什么可以抱怨 的呢！？所以，我吃……吃……吃……

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贪婪：一种新果汁口味

March 19, 2006 at 10:20 am · Filed under Food & Cusine

昨天尝试买了一种Aldi的纸盒装果汁，主要是原来的橙汁虽好，但有点喝腻了。而且就自己一个人，一瓶恨不得要喝两个星期，赶上天气热时可以猛灌，赶上下雨刮风再加晚上冷飕飕只有六、七度时，怎么鼓励自己也没有喝的欲望。

而 这种的果汁只有一升，但混合了至少五种口味的水果——波萝、苹果、香蕉、芒果、西番莲和橙子，听着都觉得很诱人。不过当我从盒子里把果汁倒到玻璃杯里准备 享用的时候，却着实吓了一大跳。我看到的是若干混合物组成的可怕的颜色——很绿，绿得就象绿豆粥煮出来的颜色。想想果汁是绿豆粥的颜色，能让人有喝果汁的 胃口吗？不过喝着没有问题，只不过分不太出来具体都有哪种口味。

唉！想想其实这人的本质就是贪哪！总是想一口就尝遍全世界。等什么都涵盖 了、包括了，就什么都不是了。都说简单的就是最好的，为什么我怎么不长记性呢？再看看盒子上的名称“Go Green”，我差点要吐血！中国人说绿色是贪婪的表现，怎么这名字也印证了我的假设呀？太邪乎了……

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Scientific way sucks

March 19, 2006 at 10:18 am · Filed under Opinions & Thoughts

I was tired, indeed, mostly caused by being mentally bored. I had more than 7 hours spent on some translation work which had nothing interested me even a little bit. I kept doing and doing until the last word done, apart from in the middle at least no less than 5 times’ restarting my laptop and losing some paragraphs of the work because of the computer problem. I can’t believe that I am still alive, and it was Saturday!!!!

Well the article I did was about how to introduce the ecological analysis into children’s free play. I was used to do such kind of topic quite well and I could do it all day and all night one year ago. Don’t ask me how I did it, I guess I was just crazy. But not any more!!! No….I find it extremely boring and too theoretic to be really sensible and to be understood by any normal human being. At the end of day, I found underneath its logical cover there are only no more than 5 sentences worth reading and really count, but the number of references given by this 7 pages article go far beyond 20.

Don’t get me wrong. I respect any researcher who puts his/her heart into in and works really hard to explore the mysteries in any unknown domians of this world because I was one of them and I know how people do the work, present their findings and write an essay. Everything is systematically and structurally well built, and we have too much things not allowed to say in this or that certain way, and we are not given a permission to show any emotion when we are doing it. That’s exactly what I saw in the article I just had translated. It was an author or a researcher who is highly required a strong passion on his or her topic but prohibited to show his or her feelings. S/he ended up being an academic machine producing lifeless facts or truths only because s/he is doing some bloody scientific business.

I am giving in. The work made me realise that how much I have gotten sick of this kind of stuff. No matter I admit it or not, I found that I am no longer a person for that and I am no longer a person who can be impressed by that way of talking and writing. I don’t know why it was like that, I mean suddenly I got to know it is not something I want and I could enjoy. But with every word I read through my work, I became more and more certain of how I felt about it. To be honest, there is no fun!!

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烧卖还是点心

March 14, 2006 at 11:01 am · Filed under Food & Cusine

真受不了这里把烧卖统统成为DimSum。点心这种东西至少在大陆普通民众的说法里是一种很外围的甜食，它可以出现在稻乡村或杏花楼的货架上或柜台里，或者给小姐太太们作为解闷儿和互相馈赠的小玩意儿，但决不可以严肃到作为点菜的内容。

今 天晚上我就做了所谓的点心，主要是因为有剩的馄饨皮需要尽快处理，家里又有鸡腿肉和香菇。我经过一番猛烈的敲打（自以为有剑士侠客的手腕遗风），终于将四 只鸡腿彻底肢解后捣成肉酱，拌以切碎的香菇和煮熟的糯米，再加生鸡蛋一个和若干调味（主要以盐和酱油为主），两瓣蒜泥，然后想尽办法把它们挤塞到馄饨皮 里。这个手法我一点也不陌生，这是我在包子店干活学得最好的一门手艺，然后上屉锅蒸15分钟。因为糯米先蒸熟过，所以也就是给生鸡肉过腥和整个馅料互相融 合的时间。

数 了数，一不小心就包了50多个，而这个东西一个就有快一两，一顿我最多吃3个就歇菜了！！到底是不是该带点儿给同事们品尝呢？我还没决定，我又不欠他们 的。不过自己一个人吃的话又得吃三天，估计到第一天半的时候，我就已经腻味死了。唉！分享也许不是个坏主意，特别是如果他们真觉得好吃的话，我就会觉得我 的努力比较值，否则的话就没什么太大必要了。

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