(Mmmm, Cream Collon!, originally uploaded by firda.) The boy and I went to the Asian food market in Kitchener yesterday (but not before having a nice lunch in a Vietnamese restaurant) for our weekly Asian food shopping and we picked up a bunch of fun Asian snacks. Our favourite acquisitions are pictured above. I finished…… Continue reading Mmmm, Cream Collon!

Apparently, you guys have done a marvellous job pimping up my weblog that it’s once again become one of the Bloggies™ finalists. Thank you! I’m flattered, as always. Unfortunately, the Bloggies™ site is currently down (the dreaded “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”) and I wouldn’t have known in which category my weblog has become a finalist hadn’t…… Continue reading The 2005 Bloggies™ Finalists

(Dining Table, originally uploaded by firda.) We finally got ourselves a dining table set a couple of days ago after the boy finally got tired of not having enough space to put things on when we are cooking. It’s now sitting pretty in the corner of our tiny little kitchen, right by the window where…… Continue reading A Dining Table, Finally!

Here’s another quiz from the PBS show “Do You Speak American” that American readers might be interested in taking: the regional dialect quiz. Match the dialect in a sound sample with a U.S. region. The boy and I did it together and we only got 4 out of 12 right (it was mostly just guesswork,…… Continue reading Where is the Speaker From?

If my weblog had a Frustrating Game of the Day (FGotD) feature, Ripley’s IQ Game would be it for today. The object of the game is to jump the balls over each other like you do in a checkers game until you only have one ball left. The least ball I can get so far…… Continue reading FGotD: Ripley’s IQ Game

If my weblog had a Frustrating Game of the Day (FGotD) feature, Shove It would be it for today. I’m stuck at level 4. I’m sure the solution is very, very simple but I just can’t see it. Yet. Maybe if I try playing it for another hour, I’ll be able to see it. Maybe.…… Continue reading FGotD: Shove It

It’s been a slow blogging day. Well, make it two days. And the sky hasn’t been clear for, like, ever so I’m going to miss seeing Saturn (the planet, not the car) tonight. If the sky is clear where you are, step outside tonight around 7:30pm, look up and look east. You’re bound to notice…… Continue reading Slow Blogging Day

Pad Thai is the boy’s favourite Asian food so I thought I’d try to cook us some for supper. My Pad Thai recipe is basically a bastardised version of this recipe. I put chicken livers instead of shrimps in my version because I thought it would make it more interesting. Sadly, the boy wasn’t so…… Continue reading Pad Thai

Today is your last chance to nominate your favourite blogs in the Fifth Annual Weblog Awards a.k.a. the Bloggies. The boy has casted his votes last week and, being a good boyfriend that he is, he nominated me in a couple categories. Of course I’m going to wait until the last minute to cast mine.…… Continue reading Oh the Randomness!

I’ve never ever played any videogames in my whole life until a couple of weeks ago when I started playing Mario Party 5 with the boy, for a very silly reason. See, last month I told the boy that I wanted to beat him at Halo 2. Then the boy told me that I needed…… Continue reading Mario Party 5 vs. Halo 2