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Sunday, March 12, 2017

Mango Mastani

Mango Mastani is a drink that is originated from Pune but it soon started spreading and being served in other cities. This is another drink that is famous for the Holi festival.
It's a thick milkshake topped with ice cream, nuts, rose petals and cherry. When the drink is made with fresh mangoes, it's delicious compared to the frozen ones.(Atleast that's my experience)

Preparation Time: 2 minutes
Serves : 3

Fresh Mango pieces : 2 cups
Milk : 2 cups
Ice cubes : 6
Sugar : 2 tablespoons
Ice cream: 2 scoops + 3 as topping
Almonds : 4 chopped for garnishing
Pistachios: 6 chopped for garnishing
Cherries : 3

Method :

Take the mango pieces, milk, ice cubes, sugar and 2 scoops of ice cream in a blender and blend for 1 minute or until the mixture is smooth and frothy.
Pour it into glasses, top them off with ice cream, almonds, pistachios, cherries and fresh mango pieces.
Serve immediately.

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  1. I was planning on making the Mango Mastani, yours look super inviting!

  2. Mango Mastani looks so delicious.Perfect for summer.

  3. Mango mastani is definitely my all time favourite, you are tempting me to make some soon.

  4. I love mastani. Its a must have when we go to Pune. Thanks for the recipe.

  5. Mango Mastani looks awesome Amara! My mouth watering .

  6. what a great summertime treat - would love to try this when mangoes are in season!

  7. This is such a summer drink. Looks so good.

  8. Perfect summer drink.. love this icecream mango combo.

  9. That looks amazing. Perfect summer drink.


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Friday, February 7, 2014

Product Showcase- China Glaze in Blue Bells Ring

Hello Lovelys!
Today, I have for you, China Glaze in Blue Bell Rings, I'm pretty sure this is part of the Christmas collection for 2013, but I'm not sure.   This is a very interesting polish, in the bottle it looks to be a icy blue polish, but swatched it comes out as a almond cobalt blue color with a silver sheen. I wore this when I was on my trip to Alabama and it caught me off guard. Best part of this, it was only 1.50$
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

The Flight has taken off!!
As I am looking at the flighttracker I can see that Bea’s flight has taken off from Charlotte Douglas Internat’l Airport. She is on her way to Germany!
I dropped her off at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Internat’l Airport this morning.
I am usually not afraid of city driving, but today we were just lucky. Yes, we were lucky that we did follow our sense of direction rather than that GPS Lady, who apparently had missed a couple of updates on Phoenix Highways. And I am proud to say that I didn’t even bother to put her back on on my return from the airport. Nope, I just followed “West Exit” and rolled straight back on I-10 West. I took the loop 101 north, which connects to Hwy60 north. And that was all there was to it.
Al from the Bayfield Bunch, who knows this area, told me where to get my bottled water refilled so I stopped by the Wickenburg Safeway before I was heading up that Vulture Peak Rd. again. Thanks Al!
So now what?
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It felt kinda strange to be in the coach – alone!! Well, there is Molly, alright, but how am I gonna use the rest of the day? Tried a walk with Molly, but the wind was downright icy and that walk turned out to be a short one. But I discovered cow shit. Amazing that cows can find something to eat here. And where were they? Hopefully they don’t come and scratch their hide on the motor home. I wouldn’t like that!
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Looking up flightracker showed me that Bea had left from Phoenix. Checked my emails and wrote a few, oh and I had lunch. I never forget that, right?
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I talked to Molly as there was no one else to talk to. I watched an old Video, then walked again, this time to the top of the hill, looking down on the rig. There I was!
A wide view also towards the North – desert to far I could see.
I guess I can make supper now. Meatballs again!
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  1. Love the last pic! It looks like you are all alone in the desert!

  2. I love, love your site. You're going to have to pass along location for that so the rest of us can share it with you.

  3. sure sounds like you are actually enjoying the time of solitude!..soon Bea will be home and life will be back to normal!!

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Memorable Perth Trip

9th Nov 08 (Sunday)
This is the day where I began my travel journey alone for the very first time of my life for a business trip. And it was my first time to Perth. Woke up around 6am to get ready to the airport. I was exited and nervous at the same time. Having the company of a girl from Guangzhou (who worked for my company as our prefered partner) does helped me eliminate all the worries I had about traveling alone. Her name is Tracy. At 9.40am sharp, our plane departed from the Main Terminal of KLIA and arivied at Perth airport 10 minutes earlier than the stated time of arrival at 4pm Perth time. Perth is an hour a head of Malaysian time due to daylight saving time. The flight experience was a blissful one.

We both took a taxi to our hotel called The Outram, located at 32 Outram Street, West Perth. The taxi driver who is a black man that has this weird English accent which sounds nothing like an Australian English, doesn't really know where our hotel is. But he has a GPS system in his taxi so we trust that he will get us to our hotel quite easily. Apparently, every taxi there has a GPS system.

Above photos taken of the hotel. It's small and cozy place. Didn't know that this is a luxury hotel until we saw what was written on the outside (pic with me in front of the hotel). No wonder it cost AUD345 for a deluxe twin bedded room per night with breakfast included. A single room cost AUD315. The hotel located in the city area about 20 minutes walk to the Perth CBD (Center Business District) area.

Our hotel room. It's smaller than we expected as we are sharing a room together. There's a jacuzzi (yippie!), two wash basin and one shower area in between the two wash basin. Enterance to the shower cum jacuzzi area is without doors to keep our privacy. How exiting is that eh? The toilet with a toilet bowl in it has a door to it though. Although there's no door to our bathing area, we kept our modest and made promises not to peep at each other when either one of us taking our bath. While one is taking bath, the other have to stay put sitting in the middle of the room, on the bed watching TV. Well, there's nothing we can do about it so we just have to trust each other. LOL... I am still laughing thinking back on the expression we had when we first discovered the hotel room having no doors to the bathing area. The jacuzzi is there to use but throughout the 5 nights we spend together, neither one of us uses it because it will force the person to "be naken and be seen..." (but I spent the 6th night alone - read below to know what I did that final night). Hey, we're Asian and we both are not that open minded yet, okay. And the room has all the amenities that we had in our basic stay at home.

After keeping our luggages at the hotel room, we headed down to the Club Lounge to have our complementary dinks. The hotel's complementary drinks is served dalily at 6pm - 7.30pm free of charged. There are selections of liquor, beers, champagnes, wines and very few non-alcoholic dirnks. Those who likes to drink would love having this free drink everyday. After quickly had our drinks, we head out of the hotel to have our first day tour around the area. The sky is still bright and sunny at 7pm or 8pm. We had a bit of a culture shock as the streets and main roads looks deserted. It was a Sunday and so most of the shops and restaurants are not open on Sunday. On weekdays, shops/ restaurants closes between 5pm - 6pm (just like office opening hours). Around the hotel vacinity, there are a lot of private specialist clinics, lawyer services and accounting firm who uses buildings that looks like bungalow houses turns into an office building. And there's a lot of luxury service appartments and high class condominiums too. I think this area is a rich man's shack.

The evening was quite windy, we walked towards the CBD hoping to find a nice restaurant where we can have our dinner and we welcome the cool breeze throughtout the journey. We were not sure of the way but the small little map provided by the hotel is very helpful. We got lost a little but we could easily find our way back because the road structures are very systematically built. We walked all the way on foot. Because it was a Sunday, it was hard to find a car passing by, hence no taxi/ buses around. Hard to find a people walking around too. Anyway, we prefer to walk so we can enjoy the beautiful scenery. There is quite a lot of churches around. Would love to be getting married in one of those beautiful churches (picutres above). We walked and we walked and we walked until the sky turns dark and we were very hungry then. Unfortunately, most of the restaurant not open on that day. The first restaurant we saw operating were Tony Romas. Oh no! We determined not to have that no matter how hungry we were as there's Tony Romas back home. So we walk further up to the CBD and found a whole stretch of fast food joint situated next to each other. They are McDonalds, Hungry Jack's and KFC at William Street. It's already 9pm so we were left with no choice but to have fast food as our first meal in Perth. Among the three fast food joint, we had choosen Hungry Jack's. You bet we were hungry!

We both ordered Grill Chicken value meal (small size cost AUD6.80 only). It was one of the best fast food I had so far. The grill chicken meat is really tasty with the savoury sauce. There are quite a lot of people in there. Three good looking guys sitting next to our table. One of them is really good looking (Ryan Seacrest kind of looks). They had the courtesy to say goodbye when we left. We just smiled and walked away because they look so silly doing that. By the time we went back to our hotel it was already 10pm. I spent a few hours preparing training material that I had not had the time to do before I came to Perth. I wished I don't have to go to work the next day.

10th Nov 08 (Monday)
Woked up early to allow time for breakfast at the Club Lounge in the hotel ground floor. They do not serve buffet breakfast but they have the same breakfast menu everyday. The service is quite slow but maybe I am not used to the laid back Australian lifestyle. However, the breakfast contains very healthty selections and is always very tasty.

We both had Homemade Toasted Grain and Nut Cereal, Mango and Yoghurt Parfait. Don't be fool that it looks like a very small portion. It was actually very filling due to the creamy yoghurt taste. I can still taste this savoury dish as I speak. Too bad we could not slowly enjoy our breakfast as we have to rush to work starts at 9am.

The office located very near where we stayed. Just 2 minutes walk from the hotel. We could even see the office building from our hotel balcony. The first day of work in the Perth office is not as bad as I thought. The staff are all very friendly and helpful. Both me and Tracy were there for different agenda. I was there for observations, meetings and conducting training whereas she was there to attend training (different sub division). We had our lunch at a cafe called IN2GO located just right below the office. I ordered Bacon Fritata with Garden Salad (AUD9.50) and English Breakfast Tea (AUD3.80) for my drinks. The food is really yummy! I was too shy to take a photo of the food because of having office colleagues around. Hehe...

Tracy was sick on our first day of work. She had fever hence she went back early to the hotel for a rest. And I finished off work quite late, left the office around 8pm but the sky were still so bright and sunny so I didn't realize how late it was. People there went home really early and it's very seldom to see them work overtime. Around 4.30pm we can see people leaving the office. If they came in for work early, they can leave the office early too. By 6pm, the whole office seems almost empty and looking out the streets at 6.30pm I felt like I'm all alone and the streets looks deserted again.

Back at the hotel room, Tracy had already ordered Mutton Curry and Green tea from the hotel room service. It was a very large portion, so we both shared a meal. The curry doesn't taste like real curry but I had that anyway. After dinner, I continued on with my work in the hotel room. Went to sleep at the wee hours in the morning, same as the night before. I was very tired but can't leave my work behind.

11th Nov 08 (Tuesday)
We woke up half an hour earlier than the day before so to have more time to had our breakfast before heading off to work. It was a very nice sunny weather same as yesterday. I can see most locals wearing sun glasses. Noticed a lot of good looking Australian guys around too. Was it generally guys there are better looking or was it because of the sun glasses? Darn! I was too overwhelm to be there to notice the difference. Everything looks too nice and clean to me.

For my 2nd day breakfast, I ordered Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs on Toast and Asparagus. The smoke salmon taste is really yummy! Instead of tea, I had mix fruit juice. What a healthy meal to start off the day though I wished they would add in more than one piece of asparagus.

Tracy is still sick so she ordered this Seasonal Fresh Fruit with Ginger and Lemongrass Syrup. I love the deco and the colour combination. It taste as yummy as it looks!

2nd day of work was a pretty busy day for me. Whereas Tracy had quite a relaxing one because her trainer was too busy completing a project that she doesn't have much time for Tracy. We went to a near by chinese restaurant for lunch. The restaurant is small and packed with people. Maybe this restaurant is quite popular to people working around the area. For the rest of the day, I had been very busy and worked overtime again. Left the office around 7pm. As usualy, most of the staff already went home.

Too bad Tracy was still not feeling well and she doesn't want to go out for food hunting. I was "forbidden" to go out alone at night so I am stuck with her in the hotel room odering room service again for our dinner. I had Prawn Risotto. Tracy ordered House Garden Salad which looks like a pile of green leaves pluged from one of the bushes outside (picture above). I didn't expect the Prawn Risotto to taste any better but it taste nice. I finished the whole dish and continue on to do some finishing touch to the training material that I am preparing for the next day. The night is late, but I got to presevere to make a good impression. After all, I am representing my office to conduct the training to the team in Perth.

12th Nov 08 (Wednesday)
It was the 3rd day going to work there. I was amaze at myself for still having the energy to go to work after two tiring days and having three nights lack of sleep. But I was really looking forward to have the breakfast because the breakfast served at the hotel is really tasty and appetizing.

The above picture is Tracy's breakfast. It's called The Outram's Express Breakfast. It contains Homemade Toasted Muesli with Athena Youghurt, Fruit, warm breakfast Tart, and a choice of tea or coffee in a ready to go box.

I ordered this hefty breakfast meal called The Outram. Contains Eggs cooked to my liking with Bacon, Mushrooms and slow cooked Tomatoes on Sour Dough Toast. I ordered this with poached eggs (the white ice-creem looking thing on top of the bread) and Mix Fruit juice for my drinks. This was the best and my favourite beakfast dish there. I decided to have this again on my last day in Perth.

My stomach still feeling full during lunch time after the heavy breakfast. So, I bought some healthy snack bar and fruit juice to eat during the afternoon.

After two days of sickness, Tracy finally had the mood to go out for dinner. We had Thai food at a near by Thai restaurant called Tim Thai Cafe located on Hay Street. I had Spicy Chicken Fried Noodle and Tracy had Sweet and Sour Chicken with a bowl of white rice. The noodle is really spicy and has a really nice flavour. I didn't know that Thai food here in Perth is that spicy. I love the amount of chilies and spicy sauce that goes well with the noodle.

13th Nov 08 (Thursday)
I hate waking up so early in the morning. By now I noticed that the only thing that I am most looking forward to in the morning is having my beautiful breakfast down at the hotel Club Lounge.

I am drooling at this food picture as I recall how good it tasted. This is Poarched Egg Choukchouka Pot with Grill Bread and American Style Bacon. The soup in the pot taste like tomato soup with some carrots and some other ingredients which I can't recall. It taste good and very appetizing. Nice to dip the toast bread in the soup. Having the eggs there make this quite a heavy breakfast. But I love it till it's last bit. Tracy having the same breakfast ordered from the day before, The Outram's Express Breakfast. I guess she has found her favorite too.

After breakfast, off we went to work of course. While enjoying our walk to the office, I saw there's people jogging or cycling along the pathways - things where I can't see here in KL. The air and the environment in Perth are so clean has made it very conducive for people to enjoy outdoors there. I would like to just skip work for the day and sit down at one of the coffee shop, buy myself a cup of local coffee while enjoying a fresh bagles, looking at the morning scenery of local blitz. But of course this is just a wishful dream that can't be made a reality while I am there for business purposes. So, back in the office is as busy as usuals. Due to the heavy breakfast I had in the morning, I had a light lunch for the day - Teriyaki Chicken Salad bought from Take Away Yamato Japanese Cafe located at Hay Street, just a few shops away from the office building. Picture on the left taken durig lunch hour. There's many cars parked at the side of the road and many people walking around - a sight that you can never see along this road after 6pm or during weekends.

For dinner it's at the hotel again because Tracy do not want to go out again. Sigh... I hoped she were more adventurous. She ordered Creamy Prawn, Bacon & Pesto Pasta and I ordered Beef Lasagna. We both got a complementary Custard Pudding for dessert. The food is not very nice because the cook is not working at that time so the staff just reheat whatever the cook had already prepared. No wonder the food served during dinner time is not as good as the food served during breakfast.

14th Nov 08 (Friday)
Friday always feels refreshing to me. Our colleagues in Perth will be treating us for a nice lunch later that day so I have choosen not to have a heavy breakfast.

I had a Savory Breakfast Tart whereas Tracy had Toasted Sour Dough Bread with a Selection of Condiments. The tart is very small in size but it's yummy.

As mentioned earlier, our colleagues there brought us out for a nice luncheon that day. At a TableSeventyEight Restaurant we had oysters, 2 starter dish (I don't know the name of the dish), and each of us ordered our own main course meal. I had Steak Sandwich (very large portion) with my favorite french fries, the best sandwich I ever had so far. I was too busy chatting and savoring to food so I have forgoten take any photos.

Later that night Tracy's friend, Tony, who is working and staying in Perth, brought us out for dinner and a tour around the city at night. Tony introduces us to this popular Korean restaurant, Tookbegi Korean Restaurant located down the east side of Hay Street (Hay street is a very long, commercial and famous street which stretches a few kilometers). We had to wait for about 30 minutes before we had a place to sit. The restaurant is quite small but it's very popular because it is opened by a Korean. So the food taste really original. I had Hot & Spicy Tofu Soup with mix veggie and seafood (the dish with red colour soup is mine). I can't recall the name of the dish which Tracy and Tony had but it taste really nice as well. The seafood omelet or they call it Korean style pizza is very tasty too. The seafood with prawn and squid is really fresh. This is the best dinner I had there. The long wait is really worth it.

Picture of the three of us (looks like we are wearing uniform due to coincidentally wearing almost the same colour outfit). Later that night, Tony sent Tracy to the airport for she had a flight to catch. She went back to Guangzhou via Sydney. So, I were left alone for another night. I do not feel scared at all being alone there as I had quickly acustom to living in Perth. I was feeling ecstatic to be left alone for that short little while in a foreign country.....

After the nice dinner and back to my hotel room alone, I finally get to enjoy my self indulged spa treat. I had enjoyed the jacuzzi and bubble bath using the expensive L'Occitane products provided by the hotel. When I saw the brand of soap, shampoo, conditioners, and body lotion they provide in the hotel room, I was in like.. Wow! I don't even dare to buy myself such expensive product except The Body Shop brand which is not that expensive compare to L'Occitane. No wonder it's called a Luxury Hotel. It was the most relaxing and fun bath time I ever experienced. First time taken over an hour for my bath... haha. After my relaxing bath, I spend time watching TV and only went to sleep at 3.30am because it was my last night in Perth.

15th Nov 08 (Saturday)
I woke up very early in the morning dispite that I do not have to go to work on this day. I had planed to do some sight seeing before I left for the airport. Thank goodness got a later flight back to KL which is at 5.30pm (Perth time). So I have about half a day to enjoy my last day in Perth. Not to waste any time, at 8.30am I quickly had my favorite breakfast in the menu, which is called The Outram (till this day, I had tried almost all of the dishes in the breakfast menu). Checked with the receptionist, they could not extend my check-out time because the room were already booked for the next occupant. I've got to checked out by 11.30am. So, after my breakfast I went to the famous Kings Park & Botanic Gardens which only takes me 10-15mins walk from the hotel. I plan to take some pictures there during the day time as I had went there for a very short while during night time 3 days ago, I did not managed to take that many pictures during the first time I was there. For my sight seeing, I have had everything planed out already.

Below are some of the pictures I took during my trip to Kings Park & Botanic Gardens.

The landscape of Kings Park & Botanic Gardens is very large. I only managed to visit about 20% of the place. I think it probably need at least half a day to fully explore it. There is a tourist bus that you can register when you are there, to take you for the tour. Too bad I did not have enough time to join that tour.

(Night and day scene) Dedicated to the memory of the men and women of the Australian defence forces who served with the British Commonwealth occupation forces in Japan from 1945 to 1952 and to those who died as a result of that service.

There are a lot of monuments and memorial statues being built around the park. I only managed to snap a few pictures of it.

Victoria, Queen and Empress (1837 - 1901). During her reign, Australia was colonized and federated.

Along the main enterance road to Kings Park, there's Trees of Fraser Avenue (read the information on top left picture). There's Conservation Garden and the Western Australian Botanic Garden. Really beautiful trees and garden they planted there. Unfortunately, I do not have enough time to go in to see more of the majestically beautiful garden. So, I only managed to take pictures of the infromation board at the enterance to the gardens.

There's Lotterywest Federation Walkway where you can take a walk in the treetops. Too bad, I really do not have time to take a walk in this walkway. Now I can only read through the internet review about the spectacular views that can be seen along the walkway. I would really love to come back here for a visit again to fully experience it if I had the opportunity in the future.

(Left picture) Aspects of Kings Park, a very small shopping mall where I purchase most of my souvenirs for my love and family. I spent AUD190 on the gift purchased here. Things sold here are quite expensive but it's worth to buy it for all those dearest to me. (Middle picture) Fraser's Restaurant, it's a high class restaurant. (Right picture) A nice garden just outside of Fraser's Restaurant and in between Aspects of Kings Park.

I saw many people taking their dogs out for a walk in the beautiful park. This reminded me how much I miss Jojo (my beloved dog). I am sure she would love having the opportunity to have a walk there and she will sure be very happy and contented about it.

(Left picture) A beautiful mansion along the left side of Kings Park enterance and a nice beautiful house which I would love to own (Right picture).

Just some random shots taken while I was in Kings Park. There's the Swan River in between the settlement (middle picture).

Night and day view of Perth city. I purposely went back to the same spot where I took the picture of the night view 3 days before. Really spectacular view can be seen from Kings Park.

I hurriedly went back to the hotel for check-out and had my luggage taken care by the hotel concierge after visiting Kings Park. Around 11.45am, I head out to another destination which is to the Perth CBD, Murray Street and Hay Street Mall. Every states in Australia has a CBD. It's were the center hub for all public transport is located and so there is where the center commercial and business area lies too. I went there all the way by foot in the hot scorching sun. It was a very long walk, took me around 30 minutes to arrived. Throughout the journey, I had enjoyed looking at the buildings architectures and shops along the way. As I walk towards the city center, I can see more and more people and cars on the roads. As it was a Saturday and it's near Christmas time, there were many people shopping and out for leisure with family and friends. Though the city looks busy as it may be, the place will be quite empty again after 5.30pm on Saturday as most of the shops and restaurant ended their operating hours by then.

Below are some of the pictures I took during my trip to Perth CBD, the well known Murray Street & Hay Street shopping area.

Restaurants, malls, individual shops, all located along both sides of Hay Street Mall and Murray Street Mall intersection with Barrack Street at one corner. There were season sale going on. I was really tempted to go for shopping there but I was running out of time.

This picture of me taken with the statue of Percy Button. He was a local street entertainer and one of Perth's best known faces from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Christmas decorations along the streets all around Perth CBD area.

The Jacaranda trees can be widely seen almost everywhere in Perth. Purple is my favorite colour that's why I love this trees too.

After a walking and sight seeing, I stoped by Dome Cafe to have a break, drinking Chocolate Shakes and eating a dessert which looks like muffins called Sour... something (I forgoten the name) which has some kind of strong spices in it. I did not finish the dessert because I do not like the taste. Actually this was my lunch for the day.

After my light lunch, I headed back to the hotel to wait for my pre-arranged taxi to take me to the airport. The taxi came very punctual at 2.30pm sharp. I took one last look around, trying to capture and remember every details I had experienced, vowing to kept it as a memories not to be forgotten.

Checking in for departure at Perth International Airport.

Waiting for my 5.30pm (Perth time), MAS flight back to KL at Gate 5. Goodbye Perth...

Memorable photo taken with my colleagues in Perth office. (from Left to right) Mark, Jai, Gil, me, Daphnie and Shane. They are all wonderful people.

Uncle Lee said...

Hello Amidrin, wow! I love your pics here. Well taken.
And I must add, Amidrin, you sure look like a Million bucks!
And here's wishing you the best of Seasons greetings and a very happy new year....may your lovely smile be as beautiful next year as it is today.
Best regards, Lee.

Martini said...

wow, no door for the bathroom, excellent, hahaha! and hey, not bad, the hotel provides the L'Occitane for guest.

What a nice experience you get! will come back later to read it...

Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!

lolipoops said...

wahhhh, girl this is probably the longest blog entry i ever seen! You're making me interested in Perth already :D

Martini said...

hi Amidrin, I come back to read your story, heheh...

nice food you had at Perth! I enjoy reading your experience there and wish you will have another trip to Perth in the near future *wink*

firethorn said...

whoa..Perth looks like a nice place for FOOD. haha..cos the only thing I can remember after reading your post is food, foOD and FOOD :P
The food from the hotel looks really yummy.

The nice weather and the big park sounds inviting too. I wish I could be there too.

Agree with lolipoops, this must be the longest post haha. but nice read for the rest of us. ;-)

lemonjude said...

Well written business trip post with all foods name recorded down well too...

It would be great if your trip can extend for another few days...well...back there if there is a chance...after looking all the pic, i like Perth too...

sting said...

oh wow! I had a great time reading this post :-) worth the wait! hehehe...

love all those pics of food and that was a great trip wasn't it ;-)

Amidrin said...

U.Lee: Thanks for the kind comments. As usual, is sure sweeten and brighten up my smile whenever I reads them.

Martini: Gosh! I am glad you like reading this blog post. I thought it is too long and boring that no ones would really read all of them through. Thank you. Thank you for dropping by again.

lolipoops: Hehe... ya. Took me a 2-3 days to get this post written up :p

firethorn: Yup! It's a nice place for food and leisure too. Nice weather during the month of November... not too hot, not too cold. You should go there for holidays if you have the chance.

lemonjude: Yeah... I wish my trip then was extended for a few more days. Did not feel like comming home just yet during that time.

sting: Thanks! I'm glad you like reading and looking at the pics :p


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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Lunch Bag Art

When my girls were younger I frequently did more than just write their name on their lunch bags. I'd do a quick doodle or sketch of something to amuse them or show them I loved them. And apparently Teen2 has decided to continue that tradition because lately she has been drawing on her lunch bags.
I really liked this elephant and asked her to save it for me. Below is today's art. I don't always know who the characters are, but I always like them. I'm thinking of a grouping of framed lunch bag art on the wall in the kitchen. What do you think?

In other news, I started faux painting the columns last night, but they're not done yet. Pippajo asked how I attached the balls and bowls to the columns. I thought I'd use Silicone adhesive, but last night I noticed the paint had actually stuck them on pretty good. I'll leave them like that for now, but if they fall off, I'll use the Silicone.

Lynn said...

Your columns are inspired! Imagine bowl and basketballs = Greek columns!

I'm having an excellent give away! Please join in the fun of promoting ME!!!
Oh, and I'd decoupage the drawings all over an area of my kitchen!

JC said...

Your daughter is talented !!!

Stickhorsecowgirls said...

I Love this lunchbag art!!! Tell you girl to keep at it! C

Stickhorsecowgirls said...

What a fabulous idea! Lunch bag art--I think you should frame them somehow. If I can find it I will publish some art my daughter drew on a brown paper lunch bag several years ago--I always thought it was some of her best work!!

Just A Mom (Call me JAM for short) said...

Apparently, Teen2 is quite the talented artist!


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REQUESTS is a feature rich application that is intuitive and easy to use. This is achieved by using the familiar Microsoft® Outlook® interface. Use the built in security features of REQUESTS to manage who can create/submit/authorise requests. Turn the notification feature on to automatically email requesters at each phase of its life so they know exactly the status of their request.

  • Have control over who is authorised to create Jobs from the requests. This feature will ensure double-up work is reduced and trades have a single point of access to ensure they get the correct information when carrying out job requests
  • Have AMPRO automatically notify you when new requests have been added and email the requester when changes are made to their job request. All correspondence between AMPRO and Job Requests is recorded
  • As changes are made in AMPRO to the Job, the requester is kept up to date in Requests by live updates back to the requester. This reduces the number of phone calls to find out the status of the requests.
  • Have the ability to report on job requests and print and export to most common file formats (PDF, Excel, etc). Run reports showing your own job requests or your departments job requests or all job requests.

Use the built-in filters to show job requests at the various stages of completion (not actioned, to be authorised, job raised etc.). You also have the ability to view only your job requests, your department's job requests, or all job requests

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Sunday, January 06, 2013

I am blogging again!

Can you believe it? Several posts in one week! Whoo-hoo! am I doing with my HOME focus? Pretty good, if I may say so myself. I've cleaned out a few areas, thrown away things, rearranged Kendall's room, looked online for the the new bed we are buying her (probably Ikea), bought paint for the hallway-ready to start painting, found a color for the boys room (Behr's Cloudy Day), cleaned a lot, figured out what other small projects to do...and now tomorrow it's back to work. I will try to keep to my cleaning schedule as best as I can.

I'm just going to do the best I can-I am reading an awesome book called:
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead-and it's a slow go because it's a lot to take in (I keep finding myself rereading passages and thinking about my own life). Brene Brown is dismantling the common conceptions out there that we women have to do it all (be sweet, super mom, super wife, super thin, etc). She says no one can do it all-duh-but we need to be vulnerable and admit it, and just do the best we can. No sense in feeling shame. LOVE it! Don't let those voices tell you that are failing as a mom, as a wife, as a women...just do what you can and be who you are. Well, those are my words-what I am taking away from her book. It's freeing. I admit, I don't have it all together. I wish sometimes I did, and I do sometimes pretend I have it all together-but I never have, never will. I know I am a good mama, but I am not super mom. I cuddle with my kiddos all the time, read to them daily, help with homework, tell them they are loved ten times a day-but I also let them watch too much TV, don't make them take baths and showers every day, serve them mac and cheese from the blue box at minimum once a week for dinner, clean up their toys too much (instead of making them), and the list goes on. I'm on the computer right now while they are playing video games...ahhh, that feels good!
Not sure where this post is's been hijacked by this book! Have you read this???
So...anyway, this year, along with my monthly focus and resolutions, I will try to be the best I can, but not beat myself for not meeting my expectations.
Here's some Christmas and New Year's pics to share. Aren't they cute kids???

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Friday, 24 January 2014

Primark Haul

Yesterday, I went shopping with one of my best friends, Charlotte. We spent the afternoon walking round the Crawley shopping mall, as well as stopping for a nice lunch and a much needed costa coffee.
After lunch, I was on a mission to buy some formal/ office clothing wear, as I have been offered a 2 week work placement for the ‘Mother & Baby’ magazine. I start on the 3rd February and I literally cannot wait!
The first shop that I went into was Primark because this shop has just been redone in Crawley and has been brought inside the shopping mall which is far more convenient than before. Everything is much more orderly which makes shopping quite enjoyable, whereas before I found it very stressful and would avoid the shop like the plague.
Primark is generally really affordable but when I went yesterday, there was a sale on which meant that most things were ridiculously cheap.
Take a look at what I picked up …
These lovely black pumps cost just £4.00! Such a bargain!
This pretty coral coloured top was just £3.00! It was reduced from £6.00.

This is my favourite top! It was originally £10.00 down to just £5.00! I love it and can dress it up or down depending on the occasion!

This mid length skirt caught my eye as soon as I walked into Primark because I absolutely love pokka dots and this is black and white pokka dots which is perfect! It was originally £8.00 reduced down to £3.00! How amazing is that?!

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305 S Aspen Street, 2b - Central Core, Colorado

305 S Aspen Street, 2b - Central Core, Colorado

The light and bright condo is centrally located in Aspen's downtown core. Newly remodeled with granite counters and stone backsplash, modern flooring, recessed lights, overhead fan in master, and Travertine in the master bath, this condo is as functional as it is beautiful! And it's so convenient to bus, dining and shopping, not to mention skiing! Washer/dryer in unit. Rented for $3350/mo on one year lease starting 12/14/15. Dogs allowed for owners. You could go either way on this condo--investment or owner occupy. Low HOA dues are an added bonus.
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The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Mongolia and the U.S. Embassy in Mongolia successfully hosted the third annual 2016 American Days Expo at Misheel Expo on September 24-25, 2016.

The 2016 American Days Expo included over 100 companies, who are the official distributors of American products and services in Mongolia. Over 10,000 visitors attended the two-day expo to learn about, sample, and purchase the American brands. Even amid the current difficult economic situation, the 2016 American Days Expo attracted twice as many exhibitors and visitors compared to the Expo’s inception in 2014, a clear reflection of the strong performance of American brands and services in Mongolia.

During the opening ceremony, the Honorable Jennifer Zimdahl Galt, U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia highlighted that, “The U.S. Embassy and AmCham Mongolia are proud to partner with the Mongolian Government to improve the investment climate, promote free enterprise, and bring more U.S. companies and products to Mongolia.”

The Deputy Mayor of Ulaanbaatar City Mr. P. Bayarkhuu, who also attended the opening ceremony, said, “On behalf of the Mayor’s Office, I would like to officially inform you that we would be pleased and willing to cooperate with the U.S. Embassy and AmCham Mongolia in organizing this annual expo in the future.”

The Chairman of AmCham Mongolia, Jay Liotta concluded the opening ceremony noting, “I am excited to say that we have over 100 exhibitors here today who represent high-quality American products and services. This is more than double the number of exhibitors we had in 2014.”

The 2016 American Days Expo was made possible thanks to the generous support of the corporate sponsors Cummins Mongolia, G-Mobile, General Electric Mongo.


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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The land of perfection – A thought that I’ve pondered over for more than a year now.

I try and imagine what it might be like to be in such a place. Everything would be as it should be – glittering, flawless and untouchable. The natives of this land would also be perfect. Everything they want would land on their laps, negativity would be nonexistent. They would all live lives of success, beauty and wealth. Around every corner there would perfection would just be lying free– for anybody to take. In fact, the residents of this land would be so perfect that they would have nothing to yearn for – no desires no hopes for a better tomorrow, no ambitions or journeys.

In this land, everyone would sleep an undisturbed, peaceful night. Nothing would hamper their calm, nor give them the sweet pleasure of being somewhere else, albeit for a span of 8 hours. They would have no dreams. They would have nowhere to go to be anybody or anything they want unhindered by the laws of nature. The people there would just exist, day in and day out, for the sake of living absolutely devoid of any drive or motivation whatsoever.

Is that really perfection?

So often, when we, mere mortals, lust for perfection in every form, we fail to realize what emptiness that object of our desire would bring us. A life of empty fulfillment, a life where we no longer dream! The very thought is inconceivable. How can something be perfect if it is flawed in such an essential aspect of its being? Dreams and hopes are what make us human. They are the basic ground for existence and all of humanity thrives on them. Without ambition, life would be at the pinnacle of ennui and just not worth living.

If we, from the ordinary, flawed earth went to this land of perfection, we would inevitably be bored and tired of its monotony and ordinary nature. We would then be yearning to return to the very place we wanted to leave. Indeed the grass is greener on the other side, or maybe its greener on our side! It’s something we’ve heard all our lives but it doesn’t really strike any chords unless we experience it ourselves or realize it for ourselves.

The day I pondered over these thoughts was the day I realized that all my late-night fantasies about being in a utopia where all my problems vaporize before they are born were quite misplaced. I had been yearning for something that I didn’t need to attain. Life was good the way it was now. However, the biggest realization that struck me was that in all our flaws we are all perfect in our own way. Despite everything that we do wrong, despite the times we hurt other people or cause problems to ourselves, there is something in all of us that is still perfect. It’s up to us to shirk it or embrace it.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Just today, I was walking down the road i saw these street boys walking, no sliding down the road on these transparency sheets.. and they were just having the time of their life.. they looked so happy! As I walked down the road I stepped over around 20 more of these transparency sheets and I looked at them in wonder.. what ingenuity must have possessed these young boys to use the transparency sheets for such a frivolous but enjoyable task!

And then I thought - would I or my 8 year old brother have EVER thought of using those sheets in any other way? All we might have done would be to pick them up and throw them!

The lateral thinking that those children displayed is not very easy to find.. and to think that 20 years down the line those boys will probably be owning a vegetable cart or at best bus drivers breaks my heart. So many brilliant minds with such great potential are probably out there tilling fields or cooking for a family of 10. Its the complete lack of opportunity that so many could-be Amartya Sens or C.V Ramans are being lost in the web of poverty..

The government is obviously trying, or making a fancy show of it. The heavy caste-based reservations made sense in the early years of independence when the maximum population below poverty line were in these SCs or STs or OBCS.. but now, most of the population who belong to the SCs and STs and are using the reservation to enter the colleges, are from as good a background as the non-SC an non-ST population. In fact, one of my batch mates who is an SC is now going to IIT though his classmates who went to the same coaching classes isn't despite him being much higher in terms of merit.

Does it really make sense to give away to students the seats that they could have earned through the general category.. Would it not be much more beneficial for the aid or special help to be given to those students who cannot afford the education? deserving students who cannot pay the comedk fees? or maybe income based reservation?

If its not blatantly obvious by now that the system is unfair at best, Its got to be worth considering atleast to make some basic amends to the current education system!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Wanderlust - 5 More Barca ...

In the process of "absorbing" city life, we toured the La Sagrada Familia - Anton Gaudi, the greatest Modernisme architect the world has known. The Familia is his piece de resistance, an as yet incomplete work - left so because of his untimely death due to being run over by a tram. What an ordinary death for so extraordinary a man. It is said that in the last 10 years of his life he became so obsessed with his work that he no longer cared for food or clothing. His hair had grown to disguise his face beyond recognition and it took over a week for his dead body to be identified.

The work in itself is like no other. There contains not one straight line in the whole structure, everything is a series of curves. The stairways are winding and steep to the point of inducing vertigo, each tower leaves your mouth gaping and head aching with the unusual. Its funny how we marvel so much at variations of the same structure time and again. In Italy or The UK, different versions of the same gothic design are photographed copiously for their "architectural brilliance".. Why?! They are al the same with a tower or a spire placed in a slightly different location. Here we have somebody who literally invented a whole style from his own imagination. And more than half the world has barely even heard of him. That, I think is a great tragedy. In fact people have gone as far as ridiculing his work-in-progress as grostesque and lacking all aesthetically pleasing element.

I think if they came to see the Familia at night-time, they would beg to differ.

This evokes another interesting question on art - is art about innovation and creativity and creating something that's absolutely fresh and new and never seen before, or is art just about pleasing the eye. Unsettling things are hard to get used to , so now there is a contradiction born.

However, once a new, refreshing idea is used time and again, it grows on the eye and becomes pleasing to watch. In my opinion, art should be more about innovation even if it lacks a certain beauty to it. But that, i think, is a question for artists to resolve.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

wanderlust 4 .. the Barcelona!

After much delay, Barcelona finally arrived. On the flight, we reached a point where all the clouds were right below us and the sky above... the puffs of white stood out like perfect bleached cotton candy and it took almost everything I had to restrain myself from breaking the glass and jumping into those gorgeous pieces of heaven. The urge to touch as beyond overwhelming. at the same time, it was scary. The clouds resembled snow-capped mountain peaks so closely and the turbulence added to the feeling of running into a massive range. It was the most unusual sight to see. Just shutting my book and watching it seemed to be the only thing I could do.

Once we landed in Barcelona (heretofore referred to as BCN), the shops were again jaw-dropping with their colourful, unattainable displays... Sigh! the city was a whole new story. It was so perfectly clean so distincty european with absolutely nothing marring its oh-so-perfect facade with buildings right from the Medieval period to Gaudi's Modermisme with were both strange and irresistible simultaneously...

In our quest for our room, we arrived at La Rambla, the biggest and most famous street in Barcelona with roaring nightlife, quaint cafes and flamenco dancing - basically, the works.

The Montmartre of Spain! We turned into our apartment road and we were greeted by grafittied walls, skateboarding punks and africans with dubious motives. It made me wonder what it must feel like to live in a city like this, perpetually surrounded by beautiful things wherever you turn. Does one live in eternal awe of your city, like a tourist at home, or does this sort of extreme loveliness just grow on you? How it must overwhelm - every single day!

But there also lies the flipside of this coin...The city is filled with immigrants from Asia - Filippinos, Indians, Pakistanis who own souvenir shops, restaurants and groceries. They are barely citizens, living forever on the peripheri of the city and not belonging. They would always remain outsiders and life for them is a grapple for the hook. They don't belong. Its one thing to live in poverty in your native country, but its another to be in a foreign place where you know neither the language nor the culture. Just talking to the Indians there, who's eyes filled with gratitude and joy to be able to talk in their mother tongue to a customer made me realize that no matter where int he world we go, where we live and what we do, home for us will always be our country... Its the only place we will always feel truly wanted and like we belong. Anywhere else, we will forever remain outsiders. And the life of an outsider is rife with pain and confusion. Of course , it is more exciting, but not for life... It would always remain just another exciting adventure.


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Friday, April 16, 2010

Devin - Dallas/Fort Worth family & wedding photographer

Today was close to one of the windiest days I have ever photographed in! We had to take a little nature hike and find some areas where the trees helped block some of the wind for this shoot!

Devin was a lot of fun to work with and she loves photography too! It is always fun to work with teens who love what I do AND want to be in front of the camera!

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

"Then you get another guy"

In the "Talk of the Town" section of the November 7, 2011, issue of The New Yorker, there's a description of the singer Gillian Welch and her guitarist David Rawlings driving from Philadelphia to New York. The article is not available on-line (except for subscribers to the magazine or the magazine's archive); here's the bit I noted:

The other thing that Rawlings had brought to divert himself was a collected works of Shakespeare. "I've been reading the histories," he said. "I'm up to the third act of 'Henry V,' and when I'm done I might even start them again. I like how fatalistic they are. They feel a little like the Iliad and the Odyssey. I like it in the Iliad when Homer introduces a warrior and says who he was and where he grew up and who his parents and his grandparents were and what they did, and then Hector disembowels him. Then you get another guy."

I love a guitarist who reads Shakespeare on the road and compares the plays to Homer, with superb comic timing in the next-to-last sentence of the passage. What would it mean to play guitar like this, with a flurry of information and then a comic twist?

Since I'd not only read that passage but also read it out loud to my son Miles (who was not as amused as I was ...), it was striking to find the same point made in a different article in the same issue: "Battle Lines," Daniel Mendelsohn's review of Stephen Mitchell's new translation of the Iliad, which begins like this (also only in the on-line archive):

For sheer weirdness, it would be hard to find a passage in the Western canon that can compete with the tenth book of Homer's Iliad—the one classicists call the Doloneia, "the bit about Dolon." Not the least of the book's oddities is that it's named after a nobody: Dolon is a character whom the poet conjures merely so that he can kill him off, a few hundred lines later, in literature's nastiest episode of trick-or-treating.

This is not the first time I have come across such a doubling in the New Yorker. I wrote about a case a few years ago, when articles by Malcolm Gladwell and Caleb Crain referred to the same thing in consecutive issues. And in April of 2006, I also wrote about two profiles in the same issue (of Pete Seeger and Maurice Sendak), which both included images of the profiled celebrity interacting with a famous poet (Seeger with Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sendak with Marianne Moore). Amusingly, the Seeger profile is by Alec Wilkinson, who also wrote the bit about Welch and Rawlings.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Michael Hulse and Quinn Latimer, reading in Basel, Monday, November 21, 2011

ESP (English Seminar Poetry) presents:

Michael Hulse and Quinn Latimer will read from their poetry on Monday, November 21 2011, in the Grosser Hörsaal of the English Seminar of the University of Basel, at Nadelberg 6 in downtown Basel.

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Lattice-Top Blueberry Pie

Lattice-Top Blueberry Pie

Ingredient List Print Recipe

  • 2  1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • 6 to 8 tablespoons ice water

Blueberry Filling

  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup cornstarch
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom (optional)
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 5 cups blueberries
  • 1 teaspoon grated orange peel

Blueberry Pie with Lattice Crust

By Andrew Zimmern

Flavored with orange zest and cardamom, this pie is a great use for summer’s plump, juicy blueberries. As far as pie fillings go, this one is pretty easy—no pitting, peeling or slicing required.

Make the Crust

Combine flour and salt in medium mixing bowl. Cut shortening and butter into 1/2-inch cubes and work into flour with fingertips or pastry cutter until mixture resembles coarse meal with pea-sized pieces of fat remaining.

Toss with 6 tablespoons of water and, with fingertips, draw together in a ball. Sprinkle with remaining water, if necessary, to gather together. Divide in two. Flatten into disks. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour to firm.

Prepare the Pie

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

Stir together sugar, cornstarch, cardamom and salt in medium mixing bowl. In large mixing bowl, sprinkle blueberries with orange peel, then stir in sugar mixture. Let sit while preparing crust.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out one disk into an 11-inch circle. Line a 9-inch glass pie pan with the dough. Roll your second disk into a 10-inch circle. Cut into 1/2-inch wide strips. Place blueberry mixture in pie pan. Weave the strips into a lattice top. Seal and crimp the edges (alternatively, use any extra dough to make a braided crust, as seen here). Place on foil-lined baking sheet. Bake for 30 minutes.

Lower heat to 350 degrees F and bake for an additional 45 to 60 minutes or until bubbly and thickened. Let cool on wire rack.

NOTE  Frozen blueberries may also be used. Prepare crust first, then toss blueberries with sugar mixture, increasing cornstarch to 1/3 cup, and place directly in pan, while still frozen. Baking will take about 30 additional minutes once temperature is reduced.

Photographs by Madeleine Hill.

Like this recipe? You may also enjoy:

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How to Root HTC Inspire 4G Android Phone – Tutorial

Developers of HTC Inspire 4G finally gets inspired and ropes in the workaround with which you can easily root the device with just a simple tutorial which we will be discussing in the due course of this article. Please be informed that once you root the device, you will be able to easily install the custom ROM firmwares in your device and also once you root the device, the warranty will get void. The only way with which you can reclaim the lost warranty is by re applying the firmware update again in your device.

HTC Inspire 4G

Disclaimer: Neither we, nor developer should be held responsible for any damage happened to your device in the process of following the instructions mentioned in this article. It’s very unlikely that there will be any issues but just in case if at all there are any issues then we are committed to help you in solving the same.

Features of Rooting Work Around Kit:

  • Completely integrated/invisible gold card process
  • Only ONE menu step – HACK ACE
  • No ROM downgrade required (only radio/kernel)
  • No wiping data
  • Rom is fully functional (yes, inc wifi)
  • Fully rooted with insecure boot image (supports adb      remount for rw system)
  • Busybox manager app installed
  • S-Off, superCid & carrier sim unlock
  • Correct Radio is automagically restored for HSPA+      operation
  • Clockworkmod Recovery and Rom Manager included
  • Both stock Froyo and Gingerbread (pre Sense 3.0)      supported
  • Easy return to stock for AT&T, Telus and WWE CID      HTC__001
  • Much smaller download
  • Much smaller firmware flash to obtain the exploit –      comparatively very fast processing.

Rooting Pre Requisites:

  • Please note that before you proceed you need to ensure that you have created a backup of all the data present in your phone with the help of below mentioned steps so as to ensure that just in case if the data gets lost or corrupted, the same can be restored easily. Don’t use HTC Sync to back up the data.

SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log – Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names

  • Minimum charge left in the phone      should be 80% so as to ensure that the phone doesn’t get turned Off in the      middle of firmware update. (If you don’t follow this step then the chances      are more that your phone may get DEAD for which we should not be      responsible).
  • Disable all the security suites installed      in your computer and uninstall all antivirus tools in your computer so as      to ensure that the firmware update is not interrupted in the middle of the      process.
  • Enable the USB debugging in your      phone from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB      debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked. USB Debugging Mode      can only be enabled once you disconnect the phone from computer. USB      Debugging should be ticked.

USB Debugging

  • Ensure that your device is on the Stock / Default firmware and not on any of the custom ROM firmwares. Uninstall the HTC Sync in your computer.

So assuming that you have followed all the above mentioned instructions, you can now proceed to the next step where we have summed up a detailed tutorial on how to root HTC Inspire 4G Android Phone.

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  1. demani

    August 14, 2012 at 8:29 am

    How do you fix the sound after rooting and flashing a Rom

  2. Billy Moseley

    March 29, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    Where is the tutorial

    • Pradeep Neela

      April 8, 2012 at 10:24 pm

      its there in the article!

  3. Sivachandran

    March 28, 2012 at 11:07 pm

    How to update HTC EVO 3D with ICS 4??

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Sunday, October 2, 2011

"He who takes medicine and neglects to care for his diet wastes the skill of his doctors."
~ Chinese Proverb

I recently read an interesting article on the topic of childhood obesity.  To be honest, it proved way more disturbing than inspiring.  I'm a foodie, for sure.  I love a good meal and I get excited about eating specific foods.  And, sometimes, if I am being completely honest with myself, the promise of a delicious treat is all that gets me through a miserable situation or the drudgery of a long day.

But, back to the article.  Did you know that we live in the (supposedly) wealthiest nation, yet we have the highest rates of obesity (both childhood and adult)?  Interesting, huh?

Also, this is the first generation of children with a lower life expectancy than that of their parents.  Wow.  Disturbing, right?

How did this happen?  When did our society begin eating, as I call them, "fake foods"?  You know them, the artificial sweeteners (aka chemicals) rather than real sugar.  What??  Are you kidding me??  Is it really worth the 15 calories to cut the natural stuff and supplement with the cancer causing, molecular genetic altering agents?  Apparently so.

Somehow it also became completely legit to fill our foods with preservatives, as to ensure they last for years and years.  Take Lunchables, for instance.  Does it seem reasonable to give a developing child a chemically laced meat product, packed with calories, high-fructose corn syrup, and an "artificially sweetened" juice pouch?  Again, the answer is yes.  For $3.49 one's child can indulge in an edible chemistry set.  Woo-hoo!  May I suggest some whole-grain crackers or bread, a few pieces of roasted chicken or turkey, a cube or two of real cheese, and a cup of water?  Cheaper and real- but pish-posh.  It's all about convenience, right?

Protein bars.  Vitamin Water.  Fiber enriched fruit snacks.  Yea, real natural- note the sarcasm.

I don't want to give you the wrong idea.  I'm certainly not the perfect person, and my diet is far from organic.  But I do try.  I make a sincere and honest effort to eat natural, chemical-free, and real foods.

I just finished making Tabouli- my lunch for the week.  It's not fat-free, but it is free of chemicals and preservatives.  It's not packed with flavor enhancers or artificial sweeteners.  But it is full of flavor, lemon juice, Bulgar wheat, olive oil, cucumbers, tomatoes, and parsley.  And, I love it.

Greta said...

This makes me sad because I'm almost positive I'm killing my kids with food. I am not in the worst category but I claim ignorance because I am exhausted and definitely choose what is easier than what is healthier sometimes. And my kids aren't picky.

Please send menu for the week. I can then attempt to try if I don't have to figure out the planning and research. :)xo

Maria said...

I have to say....I cook healthy for my kids. They make good food!?!??! I let stress get to me and I eat healthy, then garbage....ugh. At least I can say, I pack my kids a healthy lunch each day and I have not had a school lunch since before Thanksgiving!!!
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Singapore, 23 January 2008 – Leading prestige skincare brand, SK-II, has once again broken new ground in whitening with the launch of Whitening Source Derm-Revival Mask and Whitening Source Derm-Renewal Essence – two new additions to SK-II’s breakthrough Whitening Source Derm Boutique.  This completes the Whitening Source Derm Boutique, designed to address each woman’s unique spots and pigmentation problems.

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The visibility of a spot is determined by the contrast between the skin’s basal tone and the color of the spot.  Spots become more visible when the skin’s vertical release of excess pigmentation is disrupted, causing the accumulation of dark spots in the vertical skin layers.  The skin’s basal tone, on the other hand, is determined by the skin’s horizontal release of excess pigmentation.  When this process is disrupted, dark spots accumulate in the surface layer, causing unevenness and dullness in the skin tone.  Genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors work together, influencing the melanin vertical and horizontal release processes of every woman’s skin to different extents.

Based on these findings, SK-II scientists have discovered that women’s pigmentation problems can be categorized into four segments: low spot contrast on fair skin, high spot contrast on fair skin, low spot contrast on darker toned skin and high spot contrast on darker toned skin.  By assessing a woman’s skin tone and spots contrast, and identifying which segment her problems fall into, SK-II can help women tailor solutions for their specific pigmentation problems with its Whitening Source Derm boutique.

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POWERFUL Whitening Source DermDefinition: This beauty essence is an expert for spots reduction and overall tone improvement.  The formation of spots involves four stages – the activation of dark spot-producing melanocytes, dark spot production by melanocytes, dark spot transfer from melanocytes to skin cells (keratinocytes), and slowing down of skin turnover. Whitening Source DermDefinition targets stubborn spots and promotes overall tone improvement with Derm Complex, an advanced whitening compound that helps restore the skin’s natural fairness and radiance.  The optimized water balance in this gel-like formula ensures maximum absorption and targeted delivery of whitening actives to the skin.

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NEW Whitening Source Derm-Revival Mask: This newly formulated gel-type essence works together with the stretchable mask material to enhance delivery and penetration of whitening actives.  Providing higher and longer active penetration of up to eight hours, it ensures that whitening actives continue to work on the skin long after the mask has been removed, leaving an invisible mask layer.  Within a six-day daily regimen, Whitening Source Derm-Revival Mask significantly helps reduce the contrast of spots and brightens the skin tone, working on both the skin’s vertical and horizontal release of excess pigmentation to help reveal the skin’s natural crystal clarity.

Whitening Source Derm Brightener: Addressing skin tone issues through its unique formulation containing DMT Blocker and Vitamin C, Whitening Source Derm Brightener combats the damage caused by oxidants in the environment and helps restore the skin’s moisture levels.

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The Department of Anesthesiology at Wayne State University offers an extensive course on the basics of anesthesiology. This one-month elective course is offered to medical students in their senior year, and is facilitated through the Department of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Education Office, Wayne State University. The maximum number of students accepted is three. Interested applicants should apply through the Records and Registrants Office at (313) 577-1470 for assignment of this elective. On-line applications can be downloaded here. If there is no response from the Records and Registrants Office, please contact the Anesthesiology Education Office at (248) 858-6068. A description of the anesthesiology course follows.

Anesthesiology Research Activities

The Department of Anesthesiology welcomes third and fourth year medical students who are interested in participating in anesthesia research related activities. The department typically rotates 5-7 students every six months. All medical students will be evaluated upon completion of the research. This is an excellent opportunity for those medical students seeking more information about the practice of anesthesia. Please contact Farhad Ghoddoussi, Ph.D., at (313) 745-6949 or (313) 577-6916 for more information.

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The Anesthesiology course is offered in periods 3-11 (August-May), with the length of the elective equal to one month; 5 days per week approximately 8-10 hours per day (6:30am-3:00pm). Although there are no prerequisites for this course; coursework (academic credit) in medicine and surgery are recommended. Please note that this course may not be reduced to a two-week elective and/or combined with another related course or independent study elective.

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Students should expect to spend time (in a rotation period of 3-5 days) on a variety of services including inpatient and outpatient anesthesia, pain management, obstetrical anesthesia, and pre-operative and postoperative anesthesia. Locations include St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital and Ambulatory Surgery Center in Pontiac.

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Sunday, March 05, 2017

A Death in the Philippines

This is probably the most difficult post I will ever have to write on this blog.  My sister-in-law Mia Mascarinas-Green, who was an attorney in the province of Bohol in the Philippines, was brutally assassinated in front of her own children on February 15, 2017.

While it is not uncommon to read such stories in the news, most people never expect such a terrible thing to happen to someone they personally know, love and admire.  Mia was one of those people to me.  I first met her in the fall of 2003 when she stayed at our house for a week.  Before that, I had spoken with her on the phone several times.  I had a feeling before we even met that we would get along very well, and I was proven right when we finally met in person.  She had an easy going and likeable personality and we clicked from the start.  My wife Mae and I took her sightseeing to several places, including the Montauk light house and a Broadway showing of the musical Aida.

We would see her again less than a year later when we traveled to the Philippines in June of 2004 for Mia's wedding to Stuart, a UK national.  Stuart worked with local fishermen and elected officials in the province of Bohol to educate them about sustainable fishing and ending such destructive practices as dynamite fishing, which destroyed the very coral reefs that attracted fish to the local waters.  It was a very eye opening trip for me in many ways.  Apart from a few days in Canada, it was the first time I was outside of the United States.  I was in an environment totally unfamiliar to me, a developing country where one could see both clusters of corrugated tin shacks and fancy resorts.  I had the opportunity to get to know more of my wife's family.  It was Stuart, Mia's husband, who would inspire me to take up scuba diving.

Owing to the distance and costs involved, our visits to the Philippines were often spaced years apart.  We would make return visits in 2007, 2011 and 2015.  A number of blog posts were dedicated to the 2007 and 2011 trips, but the last visit was during a period when this blog was dormant.

During our July 2015 visit, Stuart and Mia had a family party at their house in Loon.  Stuart hired a professional photographer to take pictures of us.  The photo above was taken on an elevated deck in their backyard overlooking the Strait of Cebu and the island of Cebu in the background.  Mia is the one near the middle in black holding her infant daughter Zia with her eldest daughter Zoe beside her, with her husband near the left end in blue holding the other twin, Eli.  This and other photos taken during this time are haunting to me in retrospect, because these are the last photos to have been taken of the entire family.  Mae's father (standing behind Mia in the photo above) was about to be treated for prostate cancer, so the trip had a certain poignancy in that we had braced our children for the possibility that it could be the last time they would see their "Lolo" Jose again.  It never would have occurred to me that it would in fact be the last time we would see Mia again.

I won't delve too deeply into the circumstances of Mia's death.  In short, she represented a woman named Conrada Blomqvist Otero in a dispute with Otero's son-in-law Lloyd Lancer Gonzaga over ownership of a resort on Panglao Island (a smaller satellite island of Bohol) called the Alona Embrace Resort.  Apparently fearing that he would lose the case in court, Gonzaga thought it would be a wonderful idea to murder Mia.  On the afternoon of February 15, while Mia was driving home to Loon with her three children and their nanny sitting in the back, Gonzaga and three of his goons on tandem motorbikes, forced her to stop.  Gonzaga and one of his accomplices then fired at Mia multiple times, striking her in the head and neck.  You can read the horrifying details of the attack here.

The photo above is of the evil scumbag Lloyd Lancer Gonzaga.  It was taken after his arrest at a previous incident that took place outside of Mia's office last autumn.  At present he and his accomplices are still at large.  While he was quickly identified by witnesses, including Mia's daughter Zoe and the nanny, by the time the police decided to raid Alona Embrace resort, Gonzaga had already gone into hiding.  There have been accusations that the police deliberately delayed attempting to capture him because they either fear him or are in his pocket, as Gonzaga's family, which hails from the same Davao region as current Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte, is rather wealthy.  It is a sad reality in the Philippines that powerful business and political families employ armed goons who will murder their opponents.  Environmental attorneys and activists are often targets of such violence.

Mia was a very well known and respected attorney in Bohol province, and many people there are outraged about her murder and are determined to insist that justice be done for herThis tribute to Mia, penned by someone who knew her both as a fellow student and then as a teacher, really paints a picture of the wonderful person that she was.

I'm still in a state of shock over this, though as the days pass I find my grief giving way to anger.  Part of me still can't believe that this actually happened and wonders if maybe this is just a bad dream.  But it really did happen.  And what makes it even more tragic is how pointless it was.  Gonzaga gained nothing by having Mia murdered.  He is now in hiding and the resort is presumably closed down.  What he murdered to keep is no longer his.  I'm reminded of the scene near the end of the movie Fargo when Margie has Peter Stormare's character in the back of her police car.  As she's driving, she is recounting to him the people who have died and says "And all for what?  A little bit of money.  There's more to life than a little bit of money ya know.  Don't you know that?"

We all expect that people we know, whether family, friends, coworkers and acquaintances, will die at some point, whether due to accidents or illness.  I lost a high school friend who perished in the Twin Towers on 9/11 and had met a handful of others who died there as well.  But there is something about the murder of a loved one that affects you like no other death can.  Mia is dead because someone made a deliberate decision to riddle her with bullets in front of her own children.  It shakes me to my core.  At the risk of sounding a bit dramatic, I feel as if a part of me died in that van with Mia, the part of me that believes that the good and the just can prevail and the wicked are punished.   When I told my daughter what happened to her aunt Mia, the first thing she said was "Why is it that the good people die and the bad people get away with it?"

There is a scene in one of my favorite movies, LA Confidential, when Guy Pearce's character, Ed Exley, tells his colleague Jack Vincennes, played by Kevin Spacey, the reason why he became a police officer.  Exley's father, also a police officer, was killed while off duty and the person responsible was never found or identified.  Exley gives him a name, Rollo Teemasi, and explains to Vincennes that he decided to become a police officer because he wanted to catch the ones, like Rollo Teemasi, who thought they could get away with it.

The one hope I have now with regard to the murder of Mia is that Lloyd Lancer Gonzaga and his accomplices will not be among the ones who get away with it.  I have to admit that a part of me wishes that I could douse them with gasoline and light them on fire.  But the rational part of me wants them arrested, tried and sent to prison, because it is important for Filipino society that the system holds the powerful and the connected with responsibility for the crimes that they commit.  A vigilante killing of someone like Gonzaga, as emotionally satisfying as it might be, would not serve that purpose.

I loved my sister-in-law Mia and will miss her for the rest of my life.  She was a bright shining light in the world that was tragically snuffed out.  My wife and I used to talk about getting a house in Bohol and living there part time once we were retired.  I don't feel that way now.  Bohol will be an emptier place without Mia.

In conclusion, I hope that someone reading this post knows where Lloyd Lancer Gonzaga is and will report it to the authorities so that he can be arrested.   Justice demands no less.

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Infidel753 said...

What a ghastly event. I can barely even imagine the trauma to her children.

Based on the link, it sounds like the police are serious about catching the murderers. But there's nothing wrong with your feelings about Gonzaga. In the larger scheme of things it may be best to let the law take its course, but such a monster really deserves, at the least, to suffer the same as what he inflicted.


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Trumpets at the ready, it's time for a finishing fanfare... Toot toot toot
Merrily Meryl finished quilting her Jig-Saw quilt, if you remember a few weeks ago she  made a cushion with the same design... the Jig-Saw 'nipples' for want of a better words, were sewn into each seam before Merrily machine stitched them down... a cunning idea!
This is the backing of Merrily Meryl's Jig-Saw quilt, I really should say play mat, what a rebel I am!... Always a great idea to make kiddy quilts double sided. Merrily appliqued the crayon points using the same method she used for the 'nipples' on the front... Oooooer Missis!
Dotty Maureen finished this kiddy play mat too... toot toot toot... I'm not yet sure why she made it blurred though.tee hee. Dotty's quilt has lovely backing too, she's  appliquéd the name of the lucky little baby who will receive this quilt... "once it's been through the wash", said Dotty.
This quilt can have a little tootettytoot, not too loud, as Barbie ran out of time ... she stitched like a mad woman all day trying to get it finished... it was quite an achievement to get all the quilting finished actually. Barbie only needs to trim the crusts off and bind the whole thing... by hand! Her machine isn't prepared to help her any more... temperamental thing it is!

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Friday, March 4, 2011

One month on...

So this week has marked one month since Angus started preschool. We made it through the first month! Quite the achievement for all of us. When I think back to that first week. The first day. The orientation. I am so relieved that in fact everyone was right. It does get easier. Slowly, but surely, we have formulated our (semi) routine and it works for Angus, which in turn works for me. I am still one of the last parents to drop off and one of the first to pick up. But again, it is working for all involved.

Preschool has certainly already provided many wonderful enhancements to my big boy's development. He is making friends. All. by. himself. He even has a girlfriend. Already! He had spoken of her early on and we assumed it was a name he had just remembered. It has since been confirmed to me by one of his teachers, who tells me that Angus & April are inseparable (April, how cute... and she IS cute!) He comes home with stories about his teachers, his lessons and other children. He has learnt to say 'hello' and 'goodbye' in French. And the artwork. Oh, the artwork. At this stage I am relishing every abstract scribble on the page. Sure, there probably will come a time when I'll happily 'file' them away in a recycling style setup. But for now, they fill me with pride and are a visual reminder of how far my big boy has come.

My days, sans Angus, have also started to take shape. I find myself utilising every minute of those two days per week, to fit in catchups with friends or family. To get tedious, administrative type chores out of the way and to devote a little of the time, to working on me. Long walks on the beach or at the park are out of the question when I've got two boys to tow around, but with just the one babe in pram, it's a piece of cake. Then before we know it, Felix and I are heading back to collect our favourite preschooler. Doesn't it just melt my heart each and every time I walk through the gate and see his cheeky, sweet face light up when he first notices me. Only matched by the reaction on both my boys faces when they see each other again, after being apart for the day. It is love, love, LOVE. And in that instant, I couldn't be happier.

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Monday, August 1, 2011

It's raining babies!

There is something magical about the impending arrival of a brand new babe. August is set to be a busy month for new additions and a couple of them are very close to my heart. Yesterday we celebrated at a baby shower for my nephew's wife, who is due in 3 weeks. I was 10 when my nephew was born and have watched him grow through all life's milestones, to quite possibly his biggest yet. It is so very exciting.

My sister-in-law did a beautiful job of hosting the day and put on a delicious spread of sweet and savoury. My contribution of babycakes went down a treat. The weather was stunning, perfect for catching up with some of the wonderful women in my family. My niece has just returned from the UK and it was a good chance to get the low down from her trip. It is always nice to chatter, giggle and reminisce on a sunny Sunday arvo.

Angus and Scott spent quality father/son bonding time together, while I took Felix along to the shower. He is uber clingy at present and it's best for both of us if I just take him with me whenever possible. He was totally in his element. The only male among a house full of females, all squealing and cooing with delight at every move he made. And he lapped up the attention like a kitten drinking warm milk from a saucer. One year old and already a ladies man. It warms my heart to see how much he loves his Nana. Angus has always had a tremendous relationship with my parents and I hoped Felix would too. It would seem that he most certainly does.

  1. gorgeous photos! The grandparent bond is so special. looks like you had a lovely day! x

  2. Wonderful! He looks like he had a great time!!

  3. Oh, how beautiful!!

    The photos are just beautiful, and you can really see just how thrilled he was to be the recipient of so much attention :)

    I'm in the midst of planning my best friend's baby shower at present, and just so excited for her that she's about to become a mummy :)

    You're right ... It really is such a special time xxx

  4. Look at those gorgeous teeth! Love his smile. I found the same, when my little ones went through a clingy phase it was better for me to just embrace it (and them) Glad you had such a lovely time x

  5. Love Felix's little vest...totally adorable as is he :)

  6. Oh he is just gorgeous! He must be around the same age as my little girl... she is pretty clingy too and I couldn't agree more with you and Sarah. I just take Isobel with me wherever too.

    She is the first grandchild on both sides but she has an extra special relationship with my mum, her Nanny :o)

    Lovely post!

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Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" makes maiden flight

Boeing 787 Boeing's newest commercial aircraft, the 787 "Dreamliner", made its first test flight Tuesday in Everett, Washington at 18:00 UTC. Boeing claims that the new 290+ seat wide-body, twin engine jetliner is more fuel efficient than previous Boeing models.

The release of the "Dreamliner" is almost two and a half years behind schedule. The project has been plagued by various issues, including strike action, parts shortages and design problems. The aircraft is thought to have attracted 840 orders to date, though some have been cancelled due to the delays, making the 787 worth in the region of US$140bn (€96bn, £86bn) for Boeing.

An aerospace analyst, Richard Aboulafia, said that "[The test flight] will provide a badly needed perception that the program is on some kind of schedule again, but it's still a long way from the ultimate result." Boeing's European rival, Airbus, is preparing to release a similar aircraft, the A350, in 2013.

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Hello, Internet

We are Animal Head Vintage. This little company started out of a mild obsession for vintage clothing and goods, and a shared ability to dig through piles of other people's old things and come out with treasures.

There of three of us behind the scenes here. Aubrey takes all the pretty pictures, and all three of us shop for the clothing and help style the shoots. We all have fairly different taste in vintage wares - Aubrey is a little more cutting edge, and knew to wear sequins and stretch pants before those styles had even graced the pages of Nylon. Emily specializes in bright colors and patterns, and really unique pieces. I am a little more old fashioned and channel the 50's housewives, with cute floral dresses with pinched waists and flouncy skirts. So between the three of us, Animal Head ought to have a pretty wide array of merchandise to peruse.

Emily and I will update this blog with some of our own style inspirations, the purchases we would make if we were made of money and had a mansion to store everything in, and updates on the shop and the stuff we are finding to put inside.

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