escapades of the elusive kat

I wouldn't go as far as to say that I'm sick, or depressed. Maybe a little down, or tired, but nothing bad really.

OK, this is Day 2 of my LJ writing streak. I find it strangely therapeutic. That's why I'm sitting here, at the foot of my bed, writing this... nonesense.

So my Mom's best friend came over today and cooked up a salt-crusted baked fish, a quinoa something and a mango-something-else-salad. The lady practically shows up once a year. She married off to Germany and is hardly rooted in one place. She stays in Germany a few months, then to Portugal, then to Sri Lanka, then to Macau/Hong Kong, and this goes on and on. It's cool and all, but I don't know... Superficially, it sounds like "wow, they get to fly around a lot!" But then again, she really only flies to these 4 places over and over again. Of course, as always, to each his own. I'm working my way to visit more places around the world.

Right.

I had something else to write about in my mind earlier. Now i don't remember what it is about.

I've recently fallen in love with my Apple TV all over again. Simply because of this little new App in it.... Tastemade! I can simply just let it stream on its own now showing and there are so many food programs.

The shows that I particularly like currently:

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And it's not like i'm ever going to make any of these that i watch anyway. But I ike watching them :-)

It's gonna be bedtime soon and I should start packing up and see what I need tomorrow. We're going to hop over quick to Hong Kong in the afternoon for work and we are trying to throw in a mini hush-hushed celebratory dinner of sorts. I don't particularly have anything to do in Hong Kong, so I should choose a good book to take with me. For some reason, I don't feel like taking my Kindle. I'd like to take a DTB (dead tree book, haha), feels more sophisticated, I guess. I also need to buy 2 boxes of an Apple Cinnamon bread mix for bread machine from a Japanese supermarket. I shall show you. It's really the only one good (I tried all the mixes they have) that makes a nice loaf of bread.

I fixed the Japanese language input thing. A reboot of my Mac fixed the problem.

Wifi is telling me I should start packing my bag and set out my clothes for tomorrow. So I shall do that. It was a tiring day today.

Lately I've gone from having corn flakes for breakfast to having bread... ah, it's so nice to have a bread machine that makes fresh bread!

This is actually quite an OK recipe that came in the Bread Machine's booklet. In Chinese it's called the "European Bread" but after these few months of speculation and reading bread machine recipe sites, I think these are actually "White Bread".

So I've already laid out some plans for when my parents get back. Once they are back and I have a little bit of free time, I will dedicate some time to doing something in Japanese: be it reading a chapter or two of a Japanese novel, doing a couple of lessons, listening to some music (and with that it means listening to the songs and reading the lyric booklet). writing the Japanese blog, or cooking from a Japanese recipe! I found this website and it's simple enough to navigate, so I will be following some recipes.


As you can see I've been cooking some more, but cooking always the same fish can get boring. I'm thinking what I can do to make a different taste. Or perhaps I'll have to buy some new fancy-pansy packet sauce base to marinate stuff then cook. I wonder if beef is a tough thing to cook??