Our Little House

Last Thursday, as I wrote in earlier posting, our plan for the day was to send off Keti and Ricad to SFO. However, we didn't plan to meet them at the airport, we're supposed to pick them up and help them with their baggage. Since they lived in Milpitas, my husband - who is currently working for a client in Milpitas - told me to go with him so that he didn't need to go back and forth. While he worked, I could enjoy myself in Milpitas library. So, that was what I did the whole noon from 2 p.m. to around 6 p.m.    Often, people ask me how I can survive all day reading in the library. Hmmm, that's an easy one. I enjoy reading book a lot. It's a treat for me. When I was in Indo, I used to spend my money borrowing books from book rental. Although I think most private schools have library in Indo, I have never heard about their public library. Now in the US, I don't have to spend a dime! Can you imagine how happy I was when I first visited a library in the US? Not t...

Hmm.. today I don't know what to do, so I just stay home. I'm thinking of buying a tea jug ... well its actually a coffee press like this one here:  I've been wanting to buy this thing ever since we moved in to our new place. Moreover, i just got these dried tea leaves from my friend. They smell so good... I can hardly wait to taste them.  So I guess I'll wait for my hubby to come home and then we can go buy the tea press or coffee press. Hmm.. I might need to ask him to go home early since we are going to send off our friends at SFO tonight. We will also send off our other friends tomorrow night. This year's Christmas will not be as fun as last year =(    

When I studied for my gruesome finals last week, every time I felt that I couldn't focus anymore, I thought about what I would do during the winter break. One thing that I wanted to do was to update this blog =P I also thought about how breaks seem to end so fast. Sometimes when the break ended, I wondered what I've been doing during the break. So this time, I thought it would be a great idea to write a journal during this winter break. In the next 8 months, whenever I'm struggling with my MBA program, at least I could look back and assure myself that I already did my best to enjoy my break. However, when the break is finally here, I feel reluctant to write as usual =P That's why I missed recording the first day.  Anyway, this was what I did yesterday: cooking for my friend Keti who will leave California this coming Thursday. She is a very nice person ... and I will miss her a lot. However, I believe this decision is the best decision for both of keti and her husband...

Hi! I know it's been a while ... I've been very busy with school and moving ... So many things happened and i really don't know where to start. Let me begin by giving you this cute picture of our balcony: So yeah, this is our new place and we love it! The size, the location, the serenity ... it's just perfect! =) Looking back, our apartment hunting was not fun. It was frustrating. I was in my final weeks - well it was two or three weeks before final when we started looking intensively. So in addition to busy weekdays, i also had hectic weekends. My typical weekend was like this : Saturday morning we went apartment hunting, around 1 PM I had group meeting until around 6 PM ish ... Sunday after church, we visited 1 or 2 prospective places before my hubby drove me to King Library for another group meeting or study session. Before we decided to choose this apartment, we almost rent another apartment in North San Jose. After further consideration, we canceled our booki...

Gosh, I've been super busy lately. A lot of life changing events happened this month. Unpredictable... yes. Hard... yes. Meaningless? No. I just want to take all this as an opportunity to learn and to grow. Anyway, my MBA One has started last week. This means I'll be even busier throughout this year. Basically until the program ends August next year, I'll have no "me time." Vacations and all sort of fun stuffs must be postponed because this program will be my first priority. I know this will be really really hard... especially when your friends are planning to go to interesting places that you really want to visit... Tough luck, I need to postponed those travel plan for a year then.   I will only hope that I could do the best I can do. I want to put as much effort as i can into the program because I'm hoping to get as much as I can fro...

Hi.. I've been really busy lately. My life was in such a frenzy ever since the beginning of spring quarter. I made a mistake by choosing an ECON class taught by a Stanford Professor. Also by squeezing two ECON classes in one quarter. I thought since I've taken it before during my undergraduate study, it will be easy for me. Turns out many things have changed in world economy ... and now I'm learning ECON from America's point of view so in a way it is really different! Anyway, so here I am, trying to cope with endless exams and quizzes... Just two days ago in the midst of all this frenzy i received a good news. Last night I got another convincing email but I'm still waiting for the formal letter. Hopefully this is another miracle that I've been waiting for =) 

A long due post about my cooking attempts during Spring Break. This is the ingredient for "Quail soup" ... I got the idea from here . Since I didn't have chicken ready at that time (and to lazy to buy one =P), I substituted it with squid balls and meat balls! LOL That's something that I always have ready in my refrigerator. I shaped the carrots like little flower. Eniwei, my substitution decision turned out to be a disaster. I forgot my husband doesn't even like the smell of squid balls. He complained that the soup tasted fishy =( Well for me, this was still a good soup, but I might be biased since I like all kind of soupy dishes. Next time, i will stay true to the original recipe and use chicken. I want to know the original taste. Oh, i forgot to take the finished picture =P The second recipe here, come from a very talented little chef which happens to be our friend =) Bacon Wrapped Asparagus   Ingredients: asparagus (2 stalks for 1 pers...