Chicken and Tamarind Stir-fry

Ingredients:

Chicken breast fillets, sliced thinly

Tamarind paste (Asam Jawa paste)

Garlic

Red chilies, slice thinly

Sugar

Lime Juice

Onion, sliced thickly

Coriander leaves (Chinese Parsley)

Method:

1) Combine lime juice with tamarind paste and sugar, mix them together and put aside.

2) Cook garlic on hotpan with oil.

3) Put chicken fillet, chilies and onion into the pan.

4) Add the lime juice mixture into the pan.

5) Cook them few minutes and ready to serve. Garnish with some coriander leaves.

Chicken with tomato and herbs

Ingredients: Chicken Breast, Tomatoes, Pasley, Asrapagus, Dried Rosemary, Orange Juice or Lemon Juice

Method:

1) Marinade chicken breast with salt and pepper (more pepper)

2) Chop tomato in cube, chop pasley, and cut asparagus shorter so that easy to be eaten.

3) Put the chicken on hot pan with olive oil. Grill it until it is cooked. Remove from pan and put aside.

4) Add finely chopped tomatoes, pasley, asparagus and orange juice in the pan. Also, add some salt and pepper and cook it.

5) Lastly, add the chicken inside the pan and let the juice run inside the meat.

Peaks and Valleys

It is natural for everyone, everywhere to have peaks and valleys at work and in life.

Human cannot always control external works. But we can control our personal peaks and valleys by what we believe and what we do.

We can change our valley into a peak, when we find and use the good which is hidden in the bad time.

We can have fewer bad times when we try to appreciate and manage our good times wisely.

The Reader

这是来自德国的一本小说的故事。这其实并不是一个说谓的爱情故事。

述说一个16岁青少年与大约30岁的女人有着亲密关系，而在这关系中这男孩也时常为她朗读一些书籍，为她说不同的故事。

可是这女人背后却有着一个说不出的秘密 -- 她其实是文盲。

她因为这样她感到羞耻，为了守着这秘密， 她丢了工作，也无辜的把别人的罪名套在自己的身上。

当这念着法律系的男孩到法院开庭去实习时，才得知这女人被告因为签了一些有关文件，牵涉纵火事件。

而那时候男孩从中才回想起这女人其实从来都没有在他面前郎读过那些书籍，才得知她是文盲，她是被冤枉的，因为她是无法读那些文件。可是这男孩却没有勇气站在庭上说出当时的真相，也没勇气面对她。他内疚，怜惜，可是却没有做出任何的行动，那是因为他也要为了守着之前她与他的关系。

为了补偿，男孩时常把记录了他朗读的卡带和书都寄给这女人。当卡带和书寄出越多，她从中认识的文字就变更多。当这女人接近出狱时， 他们俩终于再次相见，他已经不是当年的男孩，而是个成熟的男人。而她，却一头白发，脸上也显得苍老。也许以前的关系，有或许是年龄的差异，这男人还是始终不敢面对她。出狱之前，她站在叠着的书上，结束自己的生命。

Nights in Rodanthe

A 2008 film with Richard Gere and Diane Lane.

A divorced woman who has two children met a surgeon in romantic Rodanthe.

They are writing letter to each other after separated. She believes that she deserves this man and this relationship even she is a mother of two children and a widow.

However, the surgeon unfortunely has an accident, she is left alone with her nearly unbearable grief.

Sometimes we should always go for what we deserve. Even the time that they get together is short, but I believe that try to live for today and love for those who are loving you, and nothing is much important than that.

Pumpkin and Carrot Rice

Ingredients A: Garlic, Mushroom, Carrot, Pumpkin, unknown Indian Spice(Please kindly refer picture below for more information), Rice

Ingredients B : Dried Shrimp, Chinese Pasley (Xiang Chai)

Sauce: Oyster Sauce, Oil, Sesame Oil

Methods
1) Fry the dried shrimp first and put aside.

2) Cook with garlic and little bit of unknow indian spice with hot pan and oil.

3) Add some sesame oil to make it more fragrant.

4) Add all the carrot, pumpkin, mushroom and fry it. Add some oyster sauce and may be little bit of salt. You can add little bit of water as well.

5) Add in the rice and cook for a while.

6) Ready with the rice cooker and put all the things inside. Add water inside ( if there is 1 cup of rice, just put 2 cups of water).

7) When rice is done (press button of rice cooker pop up), add the fried shrimp inside and let them for a while.

8) After 5 minutes, put Chinese pasley on top and ready to serve.

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Zebra

My new family member from Guardian.. and his name Zebra..or you can call him Big Nose