Archive for January, 2012
Jan
23
Posted under
Events,
Occasion 
Happy Lunar New Year 2012 | Year of the Water Dragon
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Kung Hee Huat Tsai! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Kiong Hi Huat Tsai! Xin Nian Kuai Le!
These are the different greetings in Chinese that I have learned. Wishing everyone will have a great 2012 ahead of us. Praying this will be a far better year than all the years before. May the Lord guide and bless us througout so that plans will be realized. Wishing the best of health too for me, my boys and my family.
Thank you so much Lord as always!!!
Jan
23
Posted under
Home Matters,
Info,
Shopping Looking at the nice house of a friend, my attention was drawn to the kind of drapery chosen by her mom as she pointed out to me when I asked her about it. My sister had shown me before some nice drapery upholstery fabric like that kaufmann fabric for quality drapery and window cover which I have been looking for in the local stores.
What we have now in our humble abode is just a window curtain though I wish to make some changes or more of improvements to make our simple home more beautiful. Those nice draperies gave me an idea to buy one for our front window in the living room. I am going to scout for a nice fabric for a drapery and hope to finish this project in a month’s time. Wish me luck!
Jan
23
Posted under
Cooking,
Food,
Health,
Home Matters 
We cooked this brown rice for the very first time at home. I am delighted that my curiosity as to how to cook it has been satisfied. I have eaten brown rice before though that must have of a different variety. This one we cooked was darker brown while that one we have eaten at Grub Resto in town was more like violet or something close to that color.
Just as another new blogger friend said that it takes forever to cook this, it took us about an hour and fifteen minutes to cook this. Aside from the thirty minutes when we soaked this prior to turning on our ordinary rice cooker.
I like the brown rice though it’s taste and texture is different from the usual white rice that we have been accustomed to eating. I went for this brown rice (thanks to hubby’s support) because I have read and heard many times that this is more healthy and nutritious compared to the white rice. I only hope it ain’t as expensive though compared to white rice.
