Motivation came in the form of going out to the supermarket, getting some stuff.  Then I’m back home to whip up something for lunch.  I was still recovering from the shock at the check out counter, one tomato for $3.50 thereabouts.  I had eight in my bag.   Anyway I decided to return them. 

So after an hour in the kitchen back home, this is what I prepared for lunch.

Bruschetta, Fetuccine Spinachi con Fungi, Roasted Red Peppers.

The tomatos that you see above came from my fridge.  Thank goodness for that.  Anyway, if I’m going to make a Pomodoro sauce base, I’m going to use fresh produce.  Can’t put up with the processed and bottled stuff much longer.

Feeling a little guilty about all that food, so I just had to down a coffee and continue with some drum practice.  Here’s a pic of the current setup. 

This time it's a Pearl set with my timbales and add-on piccolo snare

Right! After an hour, I’m sort of feeling warmed up and ready to get out again to to burn some calories in a run.  Have to do it, or else all that food is going to make me too heavy. 

Enjoy your weekend!

Then get back to bed to sleep.  It’s bad.  Down for four weeks. 

This time I’m sharing with everyone a picture of a meal I prepared for lunch earlier this week. 

Fusilli arrabiata con fungi e “Swedish Meatballs.” 

Enjoy looking at it, because it tasted good. 

Pasta that hits the spot

I am now up to my neck in paperwork, drafting letters, proposals and designing training programs ( largely internet based forms, applications, research and reports), a good number of gigs for Christmas and New Year season, and lots of unexpected things have been happening at my workstation.

This post has been long held back, and a compilation of the photos should tell a story of why I’ve been away from some of my friends.

A picture is worth a thousand words, or as the old chinese proverb says “One picture is worth ten thousand words.” In any case, I hope to leave people like Ernestx feeling very word-rich by the end of this post. Here’s to you because you asked for it.

Good cheese

The cheese is one of a selection of fine foods delivered to my fridge by my sister. Knowing that these things need to be consumed in 2 to 4 weeks, I just had to make sure it didn’t go to waste. Not forgetting all that honey baked ham.

My New Nike Shoes

These running shoes helped me ease my aching knees. I was using my old trail running shoes since Feb 2007. The pain was so bad in May 2008 that I could run anymore. Now it’s back to square one. I lost 1 kg, and put on 2kg more, thanks to all that cheese.

Little Dragon Dumplings

These Xiao Long Bao, taste great eaten with dark vinegar and fine sliced young ginger. I helped to wrap up the dumplings on the afternoon of one of the pre-new year parties. Yum. That tray was what I brought back home after the party.

A cool machine.

I setup this machine with XP home and all that wireless connectivity, also with all the chat stuff like Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Skype and with an external CD-RW burner. I like it, it’s now running very cool, and stable with that ECC RAM.

Repeater Hub Circuit

I just needed to get all the machines at my workstation linked up together again, but my hub was down, I ripped it apart and found the problematic components, but really didn’t have the time to go to the specialists to get them. Besides, three computers running as servers plus virtual machines running on different NICs was not going to be happy talking on a hub. So I went out and got a switch to link up to my router.

My new switch for the workstation

I thought all was going to run smooth, but no, the Pentium 4, the one that I had the CPU cooler upgraded decided to go down. This time it was the Power Supply Unit (PSU). So I transfered the HEC PSU from my Dual Core machine to the P4 and replaced it with a Cooler Master 460Watt PSU. I was quite worried about my Dual Core, because it runs so hot with the RAID array in it.

Installed a new PSU in black

I also added a Disk Drive Swap bay to the Dual Core machine. All along I’ve been running with that drive on all the time in a dual boot environment. Now I have the option slot in a 1.5TB drive and transfer all the backups on my subnet into it. Then when I don’t need to use the other OS, I can just unplug the drive. Less heat generated, less current consumed, more savings. Go Green!

SATA2 removable drive bay.

Everyday we ask this question “what would I like to have for dinner?” yeah then it tends to boil down to “what am I going to have for dinner?”

It all depends on location and how much time we have on our hands.  Uh huh, not forgetting (whisper) “how much cash we have in our pockets” 

I’d rather have a $2.50 bowl of noodles that taste good than spending $30 on a soggy meal.

So today I feel like having a hot bowl of Tom Yum Goong (Thai Spicy Prawn Seafood soup) with fragrant rice.

What about you?

Xiao Wan Mian?

Xiao Wan Mian

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