sup tulang is an art

its not easy folks. i mean, i just had, really awesome fish for dinner. i got a fillet of basa and i lightly rubbed curry powder and salt into it and let it sit there. in the meantime, i fry some sliced potatoes in rosemary infused olive oil. oh so nice the aroma. sprinkled salt, and done. get the potatoes on the plate, leave the pan on, and chuck in some onions. few seconds later, in goes the fish, pan fried on both sides till the fish is nicely done, not overcooked, but not raw either, just perfect. that's what i like about basa. so easy to cook. when it was done, i contemplated taking a picture. but i was too hungry. all this time i'd been stewing some oxtail soup. some onion, tomatoes, and of course, the oxtails. i added the carrots later when i remembered. but yeh. shit. so hard to make good sup tulang.

so yeh. expect a lot of food to pop up in my posts. not much else to blog about.

Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; Do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.


props to cheekoh for sending that verse to me. just looked at it and thought "wow. that's awesome timing."

life in melbourne alone is generally kinda boring wherever you are i guess. sure there's friends around, but everyone's just too tired to get up and go see each other... then you bump into each other in the market and you're like "oh... hey... haven't seen you in a while. oh you're busy... yeh, k bye."

of course there's that other crowd, "lets party yeh! go clubbing and get wasted and laugh about it tomorrow!" i don't drink. i'm not an idiot either;

Matthew 5:
33"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.' 34But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; 35or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. 36And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

"I promised God i wouldn't drink... until my a levels are over." oh yeh. real tough chris. foolish. pfft. oh well. you learn as you go along. but yeh the point is. my human reasoning for not wanting to drink was cause it was expensive and i didn't want to risk letting it get in the way of my studying. and beer makes you fat. almost as bad as coke.

so... the point of this ranting... is lost to me. really. uhm. i dunno. i guess what i'm trying to say is i'm happy with where i stand, and i'm sort of still in the process of mapping out where exactly i'm standing.

but one thing's for sure. its time to cultivate a discipline. i'm ready. i'm just sorry it took so long. thanks for waiting. here i go.