darn these things .....

This oven/burner thing here is called ...... a "range". Who knows these things anyway?

This past Thursday I went to Ranch 99 to buy grocery stuff to do some cooking, bought chicken bones for soup, bought dumplings, bought 白菜 to cook.

I went back home, turned the oven on to pre-heat, and put a pot full of water to boil - yes that very pot in that picture. Then I go prepare the beef slices to put in the oven, crack some eggs to make an omelette (the stupid spell checker is suggesting that I spell it as omelet, who spells it like that? American people?), etc. I was happily doing that and suddenly I noticed that the oven/stove/burner thingy was dead. Lifeless. I panicked. Already cooked the rice.

What do I do? I grope around the oven/stove/burner thingy looking for a switch or anything, could not find any. Tak guna! It was late and I did not want to go out to look for food.

Anyway, what would we do with out the internet? I looked up burner thingys which go off in the middle of cooking. First response was to find the circuit breaker. Why didn't I think of that?

So I look at the circuit breaker, the switches were labeled. I looked for an oven/burner/thingy .... could not find it. To be fair, there was a pair of switches in the tripped position, which looking back, I should have reset.


So I go back to the internet, go to the GE page and look for product help, since that thing is was their product. What do I find? I see under cooking products, this oven/burner/stove thing is called a "free-standing range". Who thought of that.


Anyway, it all made sense after that, and I saw that the circuit breaker for the range was tripped. I reset it and it was ready to go. All that took an hour or more.

By then I had already kept my raw food in the fridge and eaten bread.

Anyway, I continued with the chicken soup. It was good.

Darn those ranges.

Most religious leaders are fools

'Most religious leaders are fools' says this dude. Can't blame him.

"You're" or "Your"

Lots of people are so dumb that they cannot differentiate when to use "you're" or "your". Surprisingly most of these people come from supposedly "native" English-speaking countries.

OK, you can't blame the Americans, they can't help it. But how about the others?

Flowers and pretty things ....

While waiting for Terry to get me last Friday, I stood in front of the apartment leasing office and noticed how nice the flowers and trees were. I think it is spring now.

Anyway, being the stereotypical asian person who likes to take pictures, I took out my trusty Sony Ericsson P1i and started to take some pictures.


Not bad for a camera phone eh? Or is it phone camera?


Flowers are nice and pretty and I like to take pictures of them, but like all things pretty, they tend to get boring after awhile. If they can't make intelligent conversation with you or are interesting enough to hang around more, you just have to move on.




Kids make much better photo subjects. The well behaved ones especially.

Meet Josiah.

blind people and their dogs

Something I heard on stand-up comedy from tv .... "What is it about blind people that make them like to walk their dogs?" ..... hehehehehehehe ....

that so cracked me up.

Windward

Last Friday (20th March), I followed Terry to the young adults group called Winward at Full Gospel Assembly of God San Jose. It is a Pinoy church. The people there were really fun.

We got there early, and then someone (I think it was Cynthia) uncovered the keyboard and asked who played? I said I did and got asked to play right away. It felt really good to play after so long. I was surprised I could play. God is good.


That's me playing with George on the guitar.

Group photo when it was over.
Terry is the tallest guy at the back who looks Korean. Cynthia - the leader is in front second from the right.