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Monday, May 29, 2006

Beverages: Soymilk. Iced tea with lemon offered by a client while setting up their Mac.

Lunch: If you can call it lunch at almost 7pm... $0.99 chicken sandwich (added Sriracha sauce) from Jack In The Box, medium iced tea with lemon, no sugar.

Dinner: Pad prik khing gai and Thai iced tea @ Thai Noodle. The PPKG was made the alternate way again, somene different in the kitchen. It's not bad, but it's not what I wanted... more of a gravy-type sauce than the drier, chunkier chili, galangal and oil style one I like. Thai tamarind candy given with reciept.

Later: Bowl of Shin Ramyun with egg stirred in, iced bori cha. An aside, I really do enjoy both the tactile feel and the visual taper and unassuming visual design of these ramen bowls I got from Ichiban Kan. The size and shape are quite nice, I can cradle it in my left hand easily and casually while I lift my noodles with the right and slurp from it. Money well spent. Think these set me back about $3 USD apiece.

MediaBurp: It's pretty much been two things the past few days... "Drawn From Life" by Brian Eno and J. Peter Schwalm (a far more satisfying, interesting and even-keeled effort than Eno's recent hit-n-miss hodge-podge, "Another Day On Earth") and the original soundtrack recording (and they do mean that, complete with long stretches of complete silence, mirroring the film) from Pen-Ek Ratanruang's "Last Life In The Universe". The subtitle of one of the tracks, "silence = space" has now officially entered my lexicon of posey maxims, curious directives and Oblique Strategies.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Beverage: Green tea drink with basil seed.

Lunch: Sweet and sour pork over rice at Macau Cafe, tea, iced water, soup du jour. About the most gwei lo thing I've ever ordered there. It was ho hum. I think next time I'll go back to my usual things, but its always nice to try different stuff from time to time.

Beverage: A few sips from an M-150 brand energy drink from Thailand. Noticed it contains caffiene. Hrmm. I need to read those labels more closely, I was thinking it was ginseng or tongkat ali or something. It was really sickly sweet with a yucky electroluminescent Red Bull-type look and flavor, and made my mouth feel icky every time I tried a sip of it, so I eventually dumped most of it. Lesson learned. At least it was an inexpensive one.

Dinner: I can't even remember what I had for dinner. Or if I even had anything.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Lunch: I am hungry!! I am also POOR. Lunch today was a bowl of Neoguri Korean seafood flavor instant ramyun, stirfried on-choy with garlic and iced Korean barley tea.

I am going through mp3s on my server that I never listen to and either listening to them now, or deleting them straight away if I know I have no reason to keep them. (It's overwhelmingly stuff I've ripped from my own CDs, so not only does this reduce clutter and free up space, but it has the side effect of making me detatch my posterior from my chair and go to the garage if I want a specific CD. Still looking for a CD cataloging app for Windows that doesn't suck and is preferably free, or at least low cost, so at least I can have a database of what I actually own and where it's stored.)

Snack: Nasi lemak (rice cooked with coconut milk and pandan leaf) with ikan bilis (dried anchovies) and peanuts, cucmbers, chili sauce and gado-gado sauce. (Not bad, actually... my naski lemak was pretty good, especially considering it was a first attempt. Needs some protien tho', chicken rendang or somesuch would go nicely.)

Beverage: Indonesian black tea with sweetened condensed milk.

Dinner: After repeatedly putting off dinner, I finally broke down and drove through Jack In The Box at 3:30am for a sourdough Chicken club sandwich, fries and an iced tea. (lemon, no sugar... the usual) I've noticed that the people working at that Jack In The Box late at night always seem to be very pleasant and friendly, which is nice in contrast to other places where they scowl and throw your food out the window at you.