Pat bought me a small Nici keychain to hang on my backpack when she was in HK. Nici is a new European band that makes stuff animals. The characters are very cute and it is getting popular in these few years. Normally a guy like me won’t be crazy for stuff toys. However this particular one got my attention. It is a promotional item from Ferrari, a cute version of the Ferrari mascot. This cute little horse is dressed in bright red T-shirt with the word “Horse Power”. I fall for this character instantly. I had ordered several more “Horse Power” items from eBay, a cushon and a shaving bag. Unfortunately, I havn’t seen these stuff sold anywhere here in Canada, the only way getting them is order online.
Please check out my small Nici Ferrari collection here
Censorship is one of the biggest threat to freedom. When one is not allowed to express his thought freely, he may soon lose the freedom of his mind.
Now, I must keep telling myself that Pat is a very nice girlfriend, she has a good temper, she does not get upset easily or I will get into trouble by slip of touge, or pen, or keyboard accidentally. I had spent time fixing the “errors” in my World Youth Day journal, edited out the sentences that she feels not right.
There ain’t much energy left in me to write today’s blog. I have spent half of the night writing the final chapter of my world youth day journal. (The other half of the night went to cook dinner, wash dishes and ns2) I had wrote 7 articles in total since I came back from the trip. The first one is an introduction, then 5 articles one for each stop in my trip, and the last one for some thoughts and feedbacks of the trip. I think I had wrote at least ten thousand words, or maybe even more. That is almost as many words as a real book. The only difference between my World Youth Day Journal is my writting is kinda bad, not good enough for publish.
Pat made a very tasty thanksgiving dinner tonight. It has salad, turkey, grill mushroom and japanese tea rice, quite an interesting combination. After dinner, I baked cookies for the WYD auction, where each of us promised to take turn and bake two dozen of cookies each month for a whole year. It is my first time making cookies, I cheated a bit by using ready made doughs bought from super market. The only thing I did was use cookie cutter to make the shape. The first dozen looks pretty good, it has two kinds, round and heart shape. The second dozen is looks quite odd, since I underestimated the expansion of the cookie in the oven. The cookies turned out filling all the empty spaces on the plate and pressing each other. Oh well, although the shape is irregular, the second dozen actually taste better, because I used a named brand instead of Superstore brand in the first dozen. Last month Pat baked some really fancy pretzel-like cookies and raised the bar of our donor’s expectation. This month my first-time cookies should set the standard of our donor back to normal.
For the first time, my group of friends at work had organized something that interested Pat. We had been saying to have a wine and cheese party for quite quite, and this Thanksgiving weekend I push it to become reality. The most important thing is the wine and cheese, which is taken care of by Steven who is our culinary expert. Jackson offer to host the party and Ivy taken care of the sushi dinner and head counts as usual. Steven bought six bottle of wine, three white, three red to the party. He also prepared matching cheese, bread, biscuits and dry fruit. We played foosball, pool and NHL 06 while tasting the wine. Steven also gave us a brief tutorial on wine pairing. The principle is very simple, strong taste wine pair with strong taste food, vice versa. After the wine tasting they start the poker game, but I have to go home early since Pat is getting tried. The party is very fun, much better than just the usual eat and then gamble party. Most important, Pat enjoy coming along to try something new and play with snowball.