Once a year the three foreign lawyers in our office will celebrate the traditional American holidays (usually, Thanksgiving) together in the American Club.  The American Club offers variety of traditional foods on three of American holidays which are 復活節, Thanksgiving and X'mas.



 
Since i have been Tom's secretary, i was invited to join the dinner with them on Thanksgiving.  The American club offered variety of traditional foods for "Thanksgiving" as a buffet style.  I don't think American food is decilious compared with Italian food or Chinese food.  However, i like the atmosphere of getting together in a round table and have food with family/friends.  That may be the reason i like "eating" invitations. hahahah~~ 

Not because of Thanksgiving but recently I found "pumkin" is such a delicious and healthy food for people.  I am in love with "pumkin" although I don't know how to cook a "pumkin" since it never shows up in my family dining table (as I remembered, my mom never cook any  "pumkin").  Never mind, love will make one do everything.  I will start from collecting receipies from internet and see what choiceses would be.  Pumkin soup is my favorite and it is difficult to learn.  Baked pumkin taste like sweet potato (yam) and the color is also alike (maybe it is the reason i like it now).


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最近的新歡排行榜: 1) 優酪乳, 2) 丹堤刈包, 3) 全家滿$75送表情符號磁鐵, 4) 美心面包店的 "烤饅頭". 

1) 以前喝過優酪乳只覺得有種臭酸的味道,不喜歡,直到在CC咖啡店發現的清淡又健康的水果優酪早餐,甜甜酸酸的口感加水果香很好吃,而且吃完後會促進腸子蠕動 (本來以為是喝黑咖啡的關係,多次實驗後發現其實是水果+優酪的作用), 終於有一種早餐讓我天天吃都不膩了, 最近每天起來都先喝一大杯熱開水, 再帶著水果去公司吃,配上優酪乳,真有健康的感覺! 

2) 丹堤新出產品嘍! 非常興奮的跑去買一個蔬菜口味的來吃,果然好吃,我是愛吃刈包的中國人~, 以前不愛包肥肉,所以都包花生糖粉吃,香香的,甜甜的, 今天再試一個雞肉口味的,也不錯. 

3) MSN的表情符號被做成了磁鐵, 滿$75就送, 動起收集的念頭,可是進去逛了一圈, 沒有想買的東西 (真難得有打敗我的時候), 只好放棄. 還好團結力量大, 阿迪,CC,同事都要幫我收集, 耶!! 

最近發現,夜市,路邊都在賣烤小饅頭, 好像是新興的小點心, 還有多種口味,鹹的甜的都有, 吃了幾次, 其實還滿油的,尤其是夜市的, 美心面包店的倒還不錯, 比較不油膩, 雖然只有原味的.


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  • Oct 30 Sun 2005 11:11

  • 隨筆


我想我是感冒了,喉嚨痛,鼻水流不停,噴嚏也是,病懨懨的,不想做什麼只想靜靜的過一天. 天氣陰陰的,心情也低低的.
 
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今天晚上(10/22) 9點在大稻程碼頭看了一場從頭 "哇" 到尾的煙火秀,睽違五年之後所放的煙火秀果然引起民眾熱烈的反應,碼頭裡是萬頭鑽動的景像.大家或坐或站,磨肩擦踵. 我還天真的想帶件大毛巾,想像躺在草地上看烟火的情景. 實際上,能找到視野好的位子站著就得慶幸了. 碼頭外,從一位兩仟的淡水船票到一人三仟的河邊賞烟火特餐都一位難求,過了不久,果然約有十艄船緩緩的駛近煙火. 想想,從家裡走來二十分鐘的路程省了2000大洋也算是值得。 煙火開始,CC就忙著拍照,芽沒帶相機,因為芽上次在日本洞爺湖看煙火,拍了半天,螢幕上只有黑壓壓一片加上兩個小光點,儘管用錄影的效果有了放煙火的感覺,還是沒有眼睛看到的,想"哇, 哇, 哇" 的震撼效果. 這是芽比較記得的第三次看煙火; 第一次是在波士頓,美國獨立紀念日的煙火,大家帶著毛毯,先野餐,聊天,天黑了就躺下來等著看烟火,第一次的感覺當然是, 哇~ 哇~ 哇~ . 因為感覺實在太棒了,所以到現在我還以為看煙火都是帶著毛毯,野餐,躺在草地上看. 第二次就是洞爺湖啦!因為飯店的地點實在太好,一天片的透明玻璃窗看出去就是大大的湖,位置又高,晚上外面冷颼颼的,當然是待在房間的禢禢米上,泡個好茶邊喝邊欣賞,煙花從湖的左岸開始綻放到右岸,搭著音樂很有盪氣迴腸的效果. 芽個人覺得煙火還是要躺下來看,沐浴在星空下,看煙花綻放的美麗,亂想被煙花的火星砸中的感覺,這樣才會有想"哇!"的感覺.
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第1天: 
不想開車所以坐國光的直達車下去,5個多小時,坐骨神經都要抽痛了,真是遠哪!從埔里到日月潭整台車只有我們2人,怎麼每次都會有這種好像只為我們開車的好運,
放下行囊後先去湖邊晃晃,921 後大部份的建築物都是重建的,所以看起來都很乾淨,新穎,環湖步道也設置的很完善. 散步到一旁的函碧步道想要看看一窺貴的出名的函碧樓長的是什麼樣,不知為什麼卻走到了一坐教堂,遠離了人潮,有一種安靜的美感.天黑了,在步道旁試著照出枯枝伴月的景色,效果不佳,相機到了晚上有種使不上力的遺憾,發現一隻美麗的毛毛蟲,當下研究起近拍的功能 (我的相機Canon IXUS 400讓我覺的美中不足的是沒有近拍的功能,今天測試終於發現原來是我沒有開起這個功能,"暈"…., 所以它還是第一名的啦!)
天黑之後,再繼續試試湖邊夜景的拍攝,漁船剪影伴隨點點燈光 (結果只照岀黑幕中閃爍著幾許光點, 唉!). 回飯店吃附贈的晚餐,現做的三菜一湯,香菇炒肉絲,滑蛋山貓菜[本來以為是龍鬚菜], 三杯雞, 竹荀湯,雖然一半的菜我都不吃,可是覺得每道菜都很好吃,夠味而不油膩,吃的飽飽出去散步,買了一小瓶葡萄酒回去喝 

第2天:

美好的一天從早餐開始,因為很早睡,所以也很早起,躺在床上想著要不要去看日初,想著想著,還是去吃豐富的早餐好了. 我帶著哈利波特去吃早餐,有好久沒吃的蕃薯粥,配小菜,好棒! 租了一台電動車,一台腳踏車開始我們的日月潭環湖之旅嘍!

藍藍的天,白白的雲,波光粼粼的湖,徐徐的風都在環湖步道中伴隨著;不料,一段路後發現沒有環湖道路了,要繼續向前走只能把車從斜波下牽到柏油路上,短短5公尺的斜波,這才發現吃電的電動車是很笨重的,費了九牛二虎之力終於把它拖上柏油路繼續我們中斷的環湖之旅. 經過一彎又一彎的迀迴山路到了第一站[文武廟],其實已近中午,很熱很餓的快速拍了照繼續向前行進.



第二站是"號稱"曾有上萬隻,其實只有數十隻的[孔雀園],實在沒什麼….,第三站到了[青年服務社],決定在此用午餐.  覺得應該離終點不遠了(後來發現其實還很遠),把腳踏車停在青年服務社,兩人共騎電動車繼續我們的旅程,不久就到了[伊xx部落的老街],先去充電,再晃晃晃,買了手工竹編的手機座,看到一家看起來很高級的新飯店,峇里島的風格,一晚要價$6,000,雖然住不起,吃個英式下午茶也不無小補心中的遺憾,三層的點心,有現烤的起酥厚片,手工小餅乾,起士蛋糕,CC一直忙著測試室內近拍,自己先嚐為快~ O E Si~ 吃下午茶就是會有幸福的滿足感.


充電完成,老板還是保險起見換了一台給我們,也才發現原來我們努力的騎了半天(10am ~ 4pm)才騎不到湖一圈的1/3,真是晴天霹靂! 看來不能完成環湖的壯舉,也要走完景點,再往上到了[玄奘寺],就著夕陽再拍拍照,晚風漸涼,該往回騎了,回程不再走走停停(除了折回去充電的地方換回原來的腳踏車鎖),約一個小時的時間就騎回了原點. 肚子咕嚕咕嚕,有了之前的經驗不想冒險吃別家的當地風味餐,決定回去昨天住宿的飯店吃晚餐,依然是吃得飽飽



第三天~ 
依然是早早起來吃早餐開始美好的一天,cc依然在床上掙扎.今天是星期一,日月潭顯得人煙稀少, 問過老板娘的意見,決定搭公車到水里再搭火車到集集.時間還早,就去湖邊做最後一次的巡禮,下次不知何時會在來訪.等了很久終於看到小公車,一路搖搖晃晃到了水里,火車還得再等一小時, 吃了好吃越南河粉當午餐才去搭火車.集集是個很小的鎮,老街,規化好的自行車步道繞一圈可以逛完全部的景點,時間已過中午,為了把握時間我們租了一台蛋蛋車(speed miles is limited to 40km/hr),照著拿來的景點地圖迅速的在2hr裡逛完一圈, [集集火車站,風車的花園,軍史館,明新書院,老街,老樟檥,xx窯,都江堰,找了很久的綠色隧道]. 還車時老板還送兩枝冰棒,最後吃了晚午餐就坐著公車踏上歸途,回程的司機伯伯開的挺快的,不久到了台北也將近8點,去夜市吃了晚餐結束3天的假期.

心得感想:

很久沒去日月潭,果然很不一樣,921過後,很多建築都是新的,有建設,有進步,美麗而清新的日月潭,花了很多時間在照相,有些步道沒去走走,騎腳踏車爬山果然辛苦辛苦~ ,沒有計劃的結果就是很隨興的玩, 沒有開車的壞處就是多花了點等車,坐車的時間,坐車坐到累.

相機測試,天氣好照什麼都漂亮,陽光充足照什麼都閃閃亮亮.




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Another rainy day .  Last night till early this morning, I spent 2hours checking out my new MP3, installed Kuro in my laptop and downloaded more songs for my MP3.  I guess I can put 200 songs in it. After that, I spent 8 hours reading "Harry Potter 6".  At start, I think it has too many roles, specific magic words in the story, difficult to remember and difficult to get into the world of magic.  But it was getting better and better after I went through half of the story.  I think that it is a good story, but definitely is not good for children (as the words/roles like 食死人, 分靈體, 行屍, etc. appears in the story). it looks more like a ghost story for me.  I guess Curtis enjoys taking pictures by using his new camera even it is cloudy today.   上次忘了拍小綠人,記得幫我拍一張特寫!
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Rainy day. It has been a month since the last time I went to Yuga class. I decided to go today, after that, I went to hair salon and dye my hair into "black". My imagination is that I will have a new hair style as "short, black like an Egypt queen. In the meantime, I change my mind to have a hair cut so I ended up with "black" only. I think it is "dark black", too dark to like true hair. I also bring my new rented book, "Harry Potter 6" to kill time. It's a long story with 700 pages. 
Curtis showed up around 4pm so we decide to have dinner at K Mall before we went to ____ for 3C Products shopping. I decided to buy a branded MP3 player "Creative Muvo" since I cannot stand for the bad, slow reflection of the keyboard on my old MP3 any longer. Curtis bought himself the first camera (Canon 500Mn pixels [p.s. I still think it is too small to handle]. Then, we went to Ikari to share with each other our own "new toy". (P.S. I felt guilty for 3 days for spending so much money in one day. Still not like my hair very much (too dark). Well, it's worth to buy Creative Muvo, I like it! )
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Today, mother decided to join us in learning Yoga. My sister and I arranged her to start from the beginning class at 12pm, Saturday. We also took my nephew, ChingYu (who is at her age of 2), with us since her mother was not home. 
However, kids were not allowed to be in the Yuga classroom, so it comes to my turn of taking care of her while my mother and sister were in the class. That was a horrible experience. She is too active to stop moving, running, playing and jumping. Most of the time, I was chasing her around. I tried to feed her food so she can stay be quite but cleaned up the food she drop on the chair, table and everywhere also drove me nut. She is not an angel for me during those two hours. Even I didn't attend the Yuga class, but I felt I spend more energy to taken care of her than if I did. 
After Yuga class, it became sister's "business suit" shopping day. My sister, Yvonne, needs to wear business suit for "tour guide" interview and training class. Since it was raining we tried to find something for her on the way we walked from MRT station to our house rather than go to any shopping mall or department stores. We didn't like the first store we went because one set of business suit cost more than $6,000 (including 1 coat, 1 bourse and 1 skirt). Not because we were not able to afford the price but because we don't think the suit is worth for this price. You will see we made a good decision to give up from this store. 
The second store we went to was "Lace", a store sells "overtime" "brand" clothes. The quality is not bad because they are from some brand stores. The price is low (80% off) because they are the left over from last season. Since the price is so cheap compared to the first store, mother decided to buy 2 set for fall and 2 set for winter for sister. Well, based on my counting, we spent the same price (more than $6,000) but bought 10 pieces of clothes (equal to 5 set of business suit). 
In conclusion, I told my sister that today was her lucky day and she was the biggest winner. She can save the money from shopping sponsor, my mother, but also got 4 set of business suit. Mother is still the "Shopping Queen", and I am the "one day baby sitter".
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In October, I spent one month to read the most famous novels in recent years ~ Harry Potter ~ Series 1-6. (Although it became the best seller when it first came out several years ago, and continued published in the years after, i did not have the feel to read to heavy books until last October.)

Never mind, after I read the book I throug VI, the movie for IV came out this month. I and cc went to see the movie on NOV. 

My thought: 

我想蘿琳寫出這一系列的書受到廣大的歡迎是有其驕傲的. 故事的緊湊,奇想,紮實的故事證明她的成功不是偶然的. 不過看了電影覺得蘿琳最大的幸運是在對的時間寫出了這一套書,配合現今的科技,動畫及電腦特效的技術才能將她在文字底下的奇幻世界拍攝成電影而吸引更多的觀眾. 電影是細膩的,僅管砍下了很多故事的橋段,很多細節還是很用心的忠於原著來鋪陳,古老而莊嚴的城堡, ,用電腦特效彌補無法演出的魔幻效果,美麗的背景,緊湊的三巫鬥法情節使這一集比上一集更賣座

 



 
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引用: 康健雜誌83期 初秋起始，留意秋燥
台灣地處亞熱帶，直到農曆8月中秋節過後，才感覺得到微涼秋意，因此多半以中秋前後（國曆9月）做為夏轉秋的分界點。
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三時一刻,鼻子忽然敏感起來，連續的流鼻水，鼻塞，打噴嚏一起來，讓我從被窩爬出，放棄睡覺，吃了藥，等著藥效發作只好先上網，網路慢的令我發狂，連打網誌的心情也沒了，在客廳走來走去覺得好熱，鑽回被子裡去卻覺得好冷．為什麼在這個時晨醒著呢？是颱風來的關係還是天氣變化的關係，讓我想睡卻不能睡呢？明天還要早點去上班好在颱風的狂風豪雨來前下班呢！能自然的呼吸頓時成了一個奢想，床太硬也沒關係，只要能正常呼吸睡覺就好．．． 七點整，不知是生理時鐘還是姪女的哭叫終於讓我放棄睡覺，起來吃早餐．聽著mp3吃著水果加優酪乳的沙拉配著土司，耳朵聽著　”孤單太平洋”，突然覺得，一早起來，有個渾厚的男聲在耳邊唱著情歌真是一種幸福的享受！美麗的早餐可以彌補昨日的不良睡眠，溫暖的歌聲頓時心情好好，精神奕奕上班去．
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