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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Japchae!

30-Apr-06

Soaking the dang myeon

Raw ingredients

Dekita! Finished!

I got the Korean cooking bug again yesterday. For some reason for the past few days I’ve had a hankering for Japchae.
Japchae, (also spelled jabchae or chapchae) is a Korean fried noodle dish. It’s a traditional festive food, and commonly served at birthdays. (Source)
The noodles used are [...]

Mount Ainsley

29-Apr-06

These photos were taken at Mount Ainsley, in Canberra. It overlooks most of Canberra (well the important monument bits anyway, like the Parliament house and the War Memorial) so it’s got a pretty good view.
Luckily it was a nice clear day that day. Beautiful blue skies. Can’t get that sort of sky in [...]

Grand Palace #4

29-Apr-06

Phra siratana chedi”>
Today will be a lazy post since I’m too tired to do anything else. Hooray for drafts!
Drafts>> When you feel like blogging but don’t want to flood your blog with 10 posts in one day. And then when you don’t feel like blogging you already have [...]

pills cures ills

28-Apr-06

pills

Originally uploaded by modo….

For the last week I was laid up in bed with acute gastroenteritis.
It is the most unfun sickness evAR.
I have a slight cough now but that is 1000x better than gastro.
Don’t really know what brought it on. Last Tuesday I was already feeling [...]

Youtube goodness

23-Apr-06

While surfing around the top favourites over at Youtube, I chanced upon the Dormitory Boys

This is a song called 不得不愛 by Wilber Pan (潘瑋柏) and 弦子. It’s a cover of the hitsong by Korean band Freestyle, “Y (Please tell me why)”. It is EXACTLY like the original except for the change in language. So because [...]