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Wednesday, July 9th 2008

6:50 PM

I will temporarily stop Blogging.to all my friends here, miss you all.Have a good day to all of you.Hope to be back before too long.
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Thursday, June 12th 2008

8:29 PM

STILL IN ANCHORAGE ALASKA.PICNIC TIME AT THE PARK WITH MY PARENTS.

 

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Saturday, May 31st 2008

3:08 PM

Anchorage Alaska

Yes at last ,we're now here in Anchorage alaska with my baby.Its hard to travel coming here because I had my baby.but at last we made it.I dont know yet ti'll when I could stay here.But if I could find a good opportunity here,maybe I'll stay longer or maybe we'll just move here.I think I like staying here so far.Aside from had a chance living with my parents,the place is pretty good.  I will keep you update about my adventure here in Alaska.As of now I can't update my account very often because for now I am still busy.But for sure a lot of good events will come.

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Saturday, May 31st 2008

3:04 PM

Vacation in Alaska

 I am very much happy because I had a chance to visit my parents at anchorage Alaska.I have'nt seen them for more 10 years.And at last  we're together again.I am thankful for my husband because he allowed me to visit my parents.I can't explain how happy I am.I wish I could stay with them longer.

here's our first pictures at my parents house in Anchorage Alaska.

My dad with my spoiled baby,before dinner time.a friend of my parents took all of this pictures.

 

My mom trying to teach my baby how to stand and walk.

My baby getting tired obviously.

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Wednesday, May 7th 2008

12:13 PM

How to cut Mango


Mangos are friendly little creatures, easy to slice and easier to eat. If you know how.
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Depending on the type of mango you've got, the shape and thickness of the pit will vary. The Manila mango I'm using here has a nice flat seed, while the Hayden/Kent/Atkins mangos have thicker rounder seeds.

Using a sharp paring knife, start just off the centerline and cut parallel to the seed along the long axis of the fruit. If you contact the seed, just curve away a bit to follow the contours of the pit. You'll leave more flesh on the pit, but it's not going anywhere. Once you get a feel for the seed sizes in your mangos of choice, this process will get even tidier. You should see the white pit showing in the center piece when you're finished.

Cut both sides off of the pit in this fashion, and set them aside.

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Notch and remove the stem area, as it's usually tough and/or bitter. Continue by pulling the skin off the circumference of the pit; if the mango is perfectly ripe it should come off easily. If your mango is a bit underripe you may need to actually do a bit of trimming with your knife. Hold the exposed center of the seed to maintain a good grip, as mangos can be slippery.

Now that you've skinned the center, go ahead and eat it. This is the best part of the mango, and it's your treat for cutting up the mango for your lazy friends or family. Use your teeth to scrape all of the mangoey goodness off of the pit, then remember to floss. Mango pits are fantastic, but also the best impetus to floss this side of corn on the cob.

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Now that you've disposed of the pit, it's time to score the side pieces of your mango.

Make a series of parallel cuts, taking care not to cut through the skin. Poking through the skin results in an untidy mango, dripping mango juice, and sometimes blood. Cut the lines as close as you like, so long as you make at least two of them.

Now, spin the mango 90 degrees and repeat the process.
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Now that you've scored your mango, flip it inside out. Just push up on the skin side to create a spiky little mango hedgehog.

Note that if you've made less than two cuts in either direction, the mango won't have enough flexibility to invert neatly. The more cuts, the easier it will flip and the better it will look. Here I've gone for a middle-of-the-road approach; sometimes I like to have lots of tiny mango spikes.
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Place all of your inverted mango slices on a fancy platter and serve. Decorate as you see fit. While small children like the decorated versions, they cannot be trusted to remember that standard googley eyes are NOT edible. Check out Play With Your Food for more edible decoration suggestions.

This is especially good brunch/buffet food, as it's reasonably mess-free and doesn't require utensils. Just hold the mango and bite off the spikes.
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Tuesday, May 6th 2008

7:19 PM

"Iron Man"

Last saturday afternoon,me and my hubby watched movie at Marcus theater.we watched THE IRON MAN .  I really like it.It was Fantastic movie

    .The suit is cool, but IRON MAN belongs to Robert Downey, Jr.: His effortlessly nuanced performance as Tony Stark, a heedless, billionaire playboy arms manufacturer cast into a brutal crucible that forces a top-to-bottom reassessment of his life so far, is a dark delight that combines pop-culture wit and genuine emotional depth.

Brilliant, hedonistic industrialist Tony Stark (Downey) inherited a clutch of companies invested in everything from medical research to alternative energy, but the pulsing heart of Stark Industries is weapons: The bigger and more destructive the better. Stark's sound-bite patriotism lies over a genuine, if not deeply considered, belief that Stark munitions are making the world safe for his fellow Americans, a position he's compelled to rethink after being wounded and taken hostage by Afghan terrorists during a mega-missile demo/photo op. Held in a mountain camp bristling with Stark products and tethered to a primitive device buried in his chest -- the only thing standing between his heart and stealthy shards of shrapnel lurking in his flesh – Stark is ordered to build his captors their very own super WMD. He instead forges an iron robo-suit and escapes; his first act back in the US is to make the startling announcement that Stark Industries is out of the weapons business until further notice. While Stark devotes himself to constructing an improved version of the suit that saved his life, rumors that he's suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome threaten to destabilize Stark Industries. The three people closest to him – loyal assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow); friend and military liaison James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Terrence Howard); and longtime right-hand Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) – react in very different ways, both before and after they discover exactly what he's been working on and what he plans to do with it.

Downey, 42, gets under the skin of a character whose devil-may-care arrogance, born of lifelong privilege, is viciously ripped away, an experience that makes a better man of him, but not a different one. He's still cocky, self-centered and superficially imperious, but he knows he's not untouchable, which has as much to do with being obliged to ask Pepper to plunge her hand into the perpetually open hole in his chest and adjust the device keeping him alive as it does his newly awakened conscience. His performance grounds the film's fantastic trappings -- from the sleek Iron Man armor to Pepper's ability to sprint in strappy, sky-high heels – in emotional reality.

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Monday, May 5th 2008

5:02 PM

Ketchup Cake

introKetchup Cake
It's birthday time and you want to make a cake that is unique and customized for your friend. You want him or her to say "wow that's the coolest cake I've ever received." You don't need fondant - only some normal household cake and candy products and a little bit of creativity.
Here is an example of a cake baked for a friend that is obsessed with ketchup!
What you need:
(1) cake mix
(2) computer (for research!)
(3) icing (chocolate and vanilla)
(4) food coloring
(5) ziplock freezer bags
(6) scissors
(7) jelly beans
(8) a little creativity!





step 1The idea!
What is the first thing that you think of when your friend comes to mind? Is it a hobby? An obsession? Something quirky? Chances are it can be put on a cake. The simpler an idea it is, the better executed it can be.
For this cake, the idea was inspired by my friend's obsession with ketchup.
step 2How do I customize the cake?
So I have my idea: a ketchup cake. I've already baked my cake (I usually go for chocolate or funfetti, since I will largely use colored vanilla icing to decorate).

Now I need to customize my cake for my recipient. In this case, I went to google images and typed in "Heinz." Many a ketchup bottle came up. The idea is to create a cake that looks like a heinz ketchup bottle but has language that makes sense to the recipient.
So, looking at the heinz labels I see a few key things that the cake needs to have in order to look like a ketchup bottle:
(1) the cake needs to be red
(2) the "wrapper" needs the three-toned color border.
(3) the cake needs to say heinz
(4) it needs a pickle on it.

The rest can be embellished.

(1) To get the cake to be red: mix a lot of red food coloring with vanilla icing and spread across cake. You may notice that the icing will be more of a dark pink color. Sprinkling red sugar crystals on top of the icing will help give the cake a more reddish hue.
step 3Incorporating other food elements
(2) While you can use colored icing for the three-toned border, another texture, such as jelly beans, can be quite visually appealing. Here I have placed a layer of green jelly beans, a layer of chocolate icing, and then a layer of white jelly beans, to vary the textures. The chocolate icing was applied by scooping a few tablespoons into a ziplock freezer bag, cutting a small hole at one end, and squeezing the icing onto the cake. NOTE: freezer bags are much easier to work with than ordinary storage bags. Also note that as long as you get the general shape of the heinz wrapper, it will be recognizable.

(3) Using the chocolate icing in the ziplock bag, write HEINZ in large letters.

(4) Using extra green jelly beans, bunch a few jelly beans together to look like a pickle!
step 4Poking Fun
Now you need to add some final touches.
Underneath the HEINZ, the bottle usually notes the year that the company was established. Here I will replace this with the year my friend was born, using red colored icing.

More recently ketchup bottles say funny expressions on them. Perfect time to mention that it is Michele's favorite food!

Finally, at the bottom of every ketchup label is the net weight. Here I add a reference to my friend's age, since this is a birthday cake.

I also add happy birthday to the top of the cake, as a more official birthday greeting.

 
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Friday, May 2nd 2008

4:16 PM

Building Confidence

Have you ever heard parents make such comments as these to their children:

"Boy, are you dumb!"

"Can't you do anything right?"

"Why are you such a pack rat?"

"Stop being such a loudmouth!"

If you flinched when you read the above comments, you probably sensed how negative, harsh, and uncompassionate they are. What do such comments communicate? Concern? Patience? Gentleness? Love? Or do they show disrespect, insensitivity, or dislike?

We are told that we should not negatively label our children. But when we use such language, we do more than give a hostile label. We show we do not really care about them. How can we avoid using such labels? We must repent of unloving feelings and show compassion and patience. It may be that our task is not as much to build confidence in our children as it is to quit stealing it from them.

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Monday, April 21st 2008

2:18 PM

  

Yes it's spring time.This is my favorite season, surroundings are beautiful because of the different kinds of flowers.I love going to some Parks and beautiful gardens.I enjoyed watching those lovely flowers.Here are some of my  beautiful  collections.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thursday, April 17th 2008

8:00 PM

Spring is for Lovers — Including Bird Lovers

The effects of spring occur beyond the garden, too. Love is in the air, with the birds searching everywhere! Male birds will shed their dreary, muddy-colored feathers in favor of new, more brilliant colors for spring and summer — all the better to capture the attention of a female. After all, what better way is there to impress the females than with colorful plumage? The bright colors also warn other males or suitors to keep their distance. By nature's design, female birds are less colorful, allowing them to hide from predators and protect the nests.

While it is best for birds to get their food naturally from the wild, it's fun to be a voyeur by attracting these lovers to your feeders. To get a front row seat on this love story, offer a smorgasbord of food that appeals to the birds in your neighborhood.

 

Variety is key to attracting a wide range of birds. If you can offer just one type of seed, make it black-oil sunflower seed, which has the highest meat-to-shell ratio, is high in fat, and is easy for birds to open. If possible, offer more than one type of food. Check with your local bird store for tips on the best menu for birds in your location.

Cluster your feeders. Birds are attracted to a variety of offerings, so your feeder "tree" should have at least four feeders with different foods. Make sure the feeders are at least eight feet below tree branches or any other overhang, and four to six feet above the ground. This placement will minimize problems with squirrels and cats.

It makes sense to place feeders where you can see them, but be sure they are also close to bushes and trees so birds can flee to safety. Small birds, such as finches and warblers, are intimidated by larger birds and tend to dine in greater numbers, so set up separate feeders just for them.

Birds need water, too, so set up a birdbath nearby. Be sure to keep it filled and change the water every few days.

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