a day trip to area surrounding san francisco

This can be done in one day, if you dare.

Morning - visiting Muir wood nation park (looking for direction Muir wood road, Mill Valley, CA)
Late morning - retreats to Marin Headlands to visit Point Bonita light house
Noon - arrives at Sausalito old town to have lunch
Afternoon - proceed to sausalito water front, sausalito fort baker, golden gate recreation area.
Evening - driving back to golden gate park in san francisco
Evening - going up to Twin peaks to have a perfect view and "enjoy" the cold breeze during summer. (via Twin Peak Blvd)

心淡 容祖兒

心淡 容祖兒
作曲：徐繼宗　填詞：黃偉文　編曲：唐奕聰　監製：陳永明/舒文

想不起　怎麼會病到不分好歹
連受苦都甜美　我每日捱著　不睬不理
但卻捱不死　又去痴纏你
難道終此一生　都要這麼　不可爭一口氣
很謙卑　只不過是我太過愛你
連自尊都忘記　跌到極麻木　只好相信
又再爬得起　就會有轉機
若我不懂憎你　如何離別你　亦怕不會飛☆

＃由這一分鐘開始計起　春風秋雨間
限我對你以半年時間　慢慢的心淡
付清　賬單　平靜的對你熱度褪減

一天一點傷心過　這一百數十晚
大概也夠我　送我來回地獄又折返人間
春天分手　秋天會習慣　苦沖開了便淡 ＃

(說甚麼再平反)只怕被迫一起更礙眼
(往後這半年間)只愛自己　雖說不太習慣
畢竟有限　就當　過關

Quote of the day

"An amateur expects things to work, and is surprised when they don't; a professional expects things to not work and is surprised when they do."

Busy searching for truth(s)

If there is ever a truth or a number of truths for the matter of life, I would be delighted to know that. Spending most of my time looking for it/them and has no success so far makes me wonder if the effort worthwhile. It might be just a puppy chasing its tail action, which is something that I will never know.
What I do realize is that, the truth can come in different degrees of certainty (so as evidence in legal). As an engineer, what works in the lab and still reproducible every time (most of the time up to 99.9%) it shows that you have got something right. The hard part is the one to get there, but once you are there, you are fine. As a patent engineer, I think it works differently. You might be able to draft a good argument in minutes or hours. The effort required depends on how much you are willing to spend. However, you would think that you have come to the result, the fact is it is still subjected to the interpretation of all other people who will read your work at some point of time in the future (or never). The contrast is, you think you have parked well at the destination, it is never a "sure" thing, and always subjected to further discussion. When you think that you will be having easier life because now you don't have to work to the absolute rightness, the target of absolute rightness has become multiple targets. You get one of them, you dont get to cover them all.

meal of the day

Meal that on lunch and dinner table

a. chilli fried drumstick meat
b. chilli fried rice
c. steam drumstick
d. fried rice with mixed beans

e. tofu soup and tomato soup
f. chicken stew with tomato
g. lettuce - fried?
h. steam chicken piece on rice (chicken rice)
i. fried scramble egg wrap rice - ham and mixed bean
j. oyster source with vegetables


General tips
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Vegetables take longer to cook - but it is fine to eat raw. Beans even longer.
Meat is shorter - pan fried takes more than 5 mins
Food is easier to cook in boiling.
cut in small piece for easy to cook.
Think how to make sure things are cook and how the seasoning adds up.

Thaw time
1. meat should not be frozen and rethawed.
2. Meat thawed at room temperature (drumstick) takes longer than 1 hour.



Fried rice
1. heat rice in microwave ( add water if necessary) keep it at dry as possible
2. heat mixed bean in microwave 1 min or more to cook
3. Pan + oil (heat) . Let the beans in first for 2-3 mins
4. Add rice in ( by right no more water is required).
5. Add oyster sause / chilli sauce

Chicken rice
1. cook the chicken broth with chicken cube. 2 cube for 2 cups of rice. boil water as little as possible to dissolve the chicken cube.
2. chicken strips seasoned with soya bean and salt
3. wash rice in the rice pot, then add mixed bean/ vegatable first, followed by chicken strips
4. add in the broth. add more water to the suggestion line in rice pot if necessary.
5. cook.

Steamed chicken
1. chicken - cut and add salt and soya sauce
2. put in the steam pan for 20 mins


Fried rice
1. cut chicken strips (0r cube size) so that it is easy to cook
2. heat pan + oil
3. Add in chili sauce and seasoned chicken
4. cook for 3 mins
5. Add in rice to cook. Try to avoid adding water ( add a bit if required)

Tofu fried
1. Heat pan + oil
2. Add in Chilli sauce and tofu and egg at the same time
3. Cook for 10 mins
4. Add any salt / soya sauce

Tofu soup
1. boil water, add chicken essense 1 cube is enough
2. Add bean / vegetables - 5 mins or more (after water is boiled)
3. Add chicken strips (soya/salt seasoned) , add tofu at the same time.
4. cook for another 5 mins

searching for free air

Not knowing that air is so precious in california, I searched literally all the gas stations along El camino. To my disappointment, air is only fee at Colorado but the offer does not extend to California.
Here in california, everything is about money. If Singapore is materialistic, California is the place that you live buried in dimes and pennies. Everything is attached to a price here. Every service is charged by hour. The only thing that I treasure most and still free is the library access. Although I am not sure how long the priviledge will be available.

I remembered back in 90's, EON service had an advertisement that showcased a lady who sent her car to a service center for the steering was too hard to turn. Acting defensely, she argued that the price quoted for service was too expensive, when the service agent told her that "air is free for the car tires."

What if the economy of US really collapses? What does it mean when the economy collapses. Are the people do not produce enough? OR they produce less relatively? If the consumption is less than the production, does it result to the disaster? What about the huge investment of US funds?
While I am not sure how would I survive for the rest of the life if the money issue keep hovering over my head.