A Perfect Gentleman

April 27, 2012

If you’ve been reading my blog since last week, you’ll know that I’m obsessed with making my own yogurt. I had little success using the yogurt on sale in the supermarket here and I had no luck “importing” any since online retailers can’t export the live cultures overseas. Then, Hubby thought of looking for fresh [...]

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Are you a photographer?

April 19, 2012

Yes, I am. I have been taking photographs since 2002 – unfortunately, all the fantastic photos that I have taken belong to the organizations that I work with. Now what? First, I have to compile whatever photographs that I have into a decent portfolio. Then, I need to ask the people whose portraits I’ve taken [...]

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How Make Your Own Yogurt

April 13, 2012

After the success of culturing our own kefir, I want to try yogurt next because I don’t really the yogurt available at the supermarkets here. Initially, they had the usual fruit-flavoured yogurt but now they’ve come up with yogurt + kei chi and yogurt + red dates, which have become sweeter. Fortunately, Hubby found ONE [...]

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Toxic mushrooms

April 9, 2012

I was riding on the bus this morning when I heard a radio news broadcast of contaminated fresh mushrooms on sale in Chinese markets and supermarkets. From what I was hearing on the radio, side effects from eating these toxic mushrooms range from dizziness to death!!! Since my little girl *loves* fresh mushrooms, I quickly [...]

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I want to go to college…

April 6, 2012

Nothing makes me sadder than seeing bright young people who love to learn yet neither their parents nor they will ever be able to afford the fees for college. In fact, during the economic recession of 1998, I’ve had to say goodbye to a few of my students whose parents’ businesses took a tumble or [...]

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