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After Life…

Losing someone you love either it could be
a friend or a member of your family…
is probably one of the worst
experiences in life. It doesn’t matter how
strong you are; nothing can prepare you
for the death or a separation of a loved
one. When you first hear about what’s
happened you’re in denial you can’t
believe that someone you know and love
is dead or has left you. You can’t bear the
thought of never seeing, hearing or talking
to them again. You feel numb even fearful
at the thought. You keep expecting and
hoping against hope to see them
somewhere even if it was for a second to
say the things you didn’t say but fate is
cruel and you don’t get a second chance
to say ‘sorry’, ‘thank you’ or ‘I love you’.
When you lose someone you start to think
about your life and how there are so many
things that you say and do that
are wrong and a waste of valuable time.

I would like to say that life is too short for

arguments, mistakes and waiting for
tomorrows that never come. We should
make the most of our lives and say
‘thank you’, ‘sorry’ and ‘I love you’ more
often or just give a smile to make
someone’s day, because a smile
says a lot more than a silence.
We should live each day as our last and live
our life so that we are prepared for our
death. Always remember God first in the
morning and last at night for you never
know when you may have to leave this
world and go to the afterlife where
excuses are irrelevant,
where you stand before God alone and
answer to your mistakes.

We should smile more often and not get

angry with those we love so easily
because at the end of the day we are all
humans and inclined to make mistakes
that hurt and cause pain to the ones we
love.  We should always let them know
we didn’t mean it because most of the
time we don’t and we should always
give the ones we love a second chance
because death doesn’t wait for us to say
bye or I love you. You have one chance
at this life and it is up to you to
live your life correctly and to please
God who has blessed you so much.
Death comes without warning
and gives no second chances.

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Ihorere Burundi

I laid my head on the top of my house
And started to count the stars
For every soul we have lost
1,2,3,4,5 I took a deep breathe
5 deaths are enough, told myself
But the stars were still shining
I closed my eyes , opened them again
6,7…30 I can’t breathe anymore
How did we dare??

I stood up,wondered if the sun will rise
I couldn’t stand to see the stars shining
I couldn’t stand the truth
We have lost many than we think
40,50,60,…. hundreds
I light up my candle and went inside of my house
To pray for the sun to rise


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This Day By the Lake Went Too Fast

So as you may have read, I went to a Christian all-girls sleepaway camp in 1989, the summer I turned 14. And while there were good times to be had in the form of eating contests and songwriting, for the most part, it wasn’t my jam. I’m positive it was healthy for me to do at the time, but I tend to be a homebody, and very shy (no, really!).

A week out of my comfort zone with mostly girls I’d never met before, food this picky eater did not care for, a pea-sized bladder, a love of seltzer water, and a bathroom that was a trek away in the dark, not to mention my vampiric tendencies of staying up all night, especially in the summer as a kid?

It did not add up to a week of comfort.

But there was one night/morning in particular, that would have made it all worth the experience, even if the other things had been ten times more uncomfortable. That was the night of the sleepout.

We went hiking – I feel like it was all of camp, but maybe it was just the older groups. And it wasn’t a big hike, just a little bit to the outskirts of the little island we were on.

When we got there, we laid camp. Only we didn’t set up tents. Instead, we lay heavy-duty tarps on the ground. Then we put our sleeping bags on top of them.

All the while, people were building an amazing bonfire, so when nightfall hit, we were prepared – with guitars and most importantly, s’mores ingredients. I’d never had a s’more before, and wondered exactly why it had taken me so long to try one. At the same time, I was glad it had, because there underneath the night sky, amidst the smell of upstate New York mountain air, and bonfire smoke, and the sounds of singing – that was the perfect way to lose my s’mores virginity.

Then it came time for sleep. Despite aforementioned vampiric tendencies, I crawled into my blue sleeping bag super excited, because never had I done this before – prepared for sleep under a sky of beaming stars. I lay awake for awhile, grateful to have my best friend Shannon falling asleep next to me, and marveling at the experience at large. We talked, read, and heard a lot about God that week, but that was by far the moment in which I felt closest to Him.

It would have seemed the awesome climax had been reached and in the morning, the denouement. But such was not the case because while it was sad to wake up after an amazing night, when you’re a teenager you feel as though each awesome night is just a portent of great things to come. This morning was no exception. Upon awaking, I smelled and felt the dew in the air, but thanks to the tarp, my sleeping bag was still totally cozy. And as awesome as the nighttime mountain air is in upstate New York, the morning air might be even more amazing.

We all rustled out of “bed” with varying levels of bleary eyes, and packed up our sleeping bags and the tarps, preparing for the journey “home.” But not too fast, because it was breakfast time!

This was no ordinary breakfast. Instead, we were told to group into pairs. Shannon and I were given a huge coffee can and a Sterno, and told to go set it up – find a spot on the beach, then put the Sterno under the coffee can (that had a ventilation hole in each side).

At which point, counselors came around with breakfast offerings: raw eggs, bacon, sausage. In a life twist, I got everything but the eggs – Shannon got everything. Because you see, you could take these breakfast ingredients and cook them on the coffee can! The Sterno turned it into a little stove, and the camp called them Buddy Burners.

Breakfast had never tasted so amazing as it did that morning next to the lake with my best friend. Getting out of my comfort zone actually ended up comforting me.

Afterwards, we went to the lake to scrape our coffee cans with sand from the lake, so they…could be used again? I’m not sure. But it was a good and cleansing capper to one of the best overall experiences of my life — literally and figuratively!

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Well now I finally learn how the coffee can cookers came to be! Awesome blog my friend!

  2. Anonymous says:

    That was me krysi by the way

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Life and Everyday

just surviving life

Right now, I don’t really feel like I’m actually living my life. I’m mostly surviving it.

I love my K, don’t get me wrong, but there are days or times rather that I just need a break from all the drama that comes along with her.  Seems the little things are HUGE in her life.  It’s hard to figure out what to say or do lately.  I just don’t know how to be or react.

Her acting out behavior has just gotten worse lately.   Today was a total meltdown day.  Her school behavior chart was almost all sad faces.  I just wanted to cry.  How can it go from mostly smilies yesterday to mostly sads today?  I just don’t get it.  I know we all have moody days, but with K….everyday is like this.  Maybe I don’t understand ADD enough yet.  Maybe I need  to read more or just hook with some other parents or something.  She also is  having some attachment problems.  Which I am going to start dealing with with her.  Found a really nice and knowledgeable therapist in the same building as Adam.  Her name is Peggy.  I will meet with her on the day we don’t have school.  She works specifically with attachment issues.  I need some hands on ways of dealing with K’s behaviors.  Cuz whatever I am doing is NOT working the best.

I feel inadequate. I feel defeated. Pills, therapy, exercise, just can’t and don’t fix me.  I hurt K by not being strong for her and not giving her everything she needs. I hurt myself daily with negative thinking and self loathing. I want to throw up my hand and give up. My family deserves better.

“Enough is enough,” I tell myself.

Stop the self-loathing. Stop the pity-party. My family doesn’t expect perfection. My family doesn’t need perfection. They just want me.

Enough with the idealization of what I need to be. Enough with the fears of failure. Enough with the should’ve, would’ve and could’ve.

My depression and inadequacies don’t define me. I define me.

I am a mother of an amazing daughter that is so much more than her diagnoses.
I am a literacy tutor.
I am a blogger of sorts.
I am an advocate for my daughter.
I am a friend.
I am a reader.
I am a crafter.
I am a daughter.
I am a sister.
I am an aunt.
I am a fighter.
I am me.
When I start to question my “enough,” I remind myself I am so much more than I realized. I don’t need to strive to be more, because who I am seems pretty amazing

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Being delusional or referring to one’s delusions generally is part of a negative assessment, or puts things into a negative context. “Delusions of grandeur” is one manifestation of a negative characterization.

But it can be a good thing if you believe it enough, for long enough. “Delusions of grandeur” is another way of saying a person has confidence. Confidence, within reason, is generally helpful. What about delusions of a better life, career, relationship?

Sure, there are extremes we wouldn’t want to go to, and it’s probably not wise to get too disconnected from reality for too long, but give delusion a chance and it can help take you to new heights. Believe it can happen. That and love are the antidotes to the fear.

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Science and Creativity

I have never really understood the idea that people are either creative or logical, artsy or sciencey.
I remember being told this and of course, yes, some people do follow this trend. However, during my time at university I have discovered that I am not alone in enjoying and taking part in both.
Take my a levels- I did biology chemistry maths and classical civilisations. It was a struggle having it at that as at school drama and music had been huge parts of my life and I have always loved the reading and writing of fiction (though I sadly do little of the latter anymore, can never seem to start them or get my ideas going).

I then watched a documentary yesterday from BBC, unsurprisingly from the Horizon team looking at the creativity mind or the neuroscience of insight. This is what inspired this post really, it was fascinating stuff but it did also fall into looking at the differences and not the similarities.

If you think about it, all scientists have to have that creative spark inside of them to think of the experiments and hypotheses that have led us to where we are now. And it’s beautiful.

Don’t get me wrong, human biology has its share of ick factors and there’s some pretty grim stuff I get to learn about. But if you really think about it, the way the ideas flow into each other, the processes of the body (and yes even plants) is pretty astounding.
And it takes an incredibly creative mind to look at life and think…there’s more to this. And you know, then there’s the people that looked at fish and thought, you know what they need?

Before this becomes a ramble about the beauty of life, there’s also the fact that biology and science in general can lead to some pretty creative outlets. There’s science journalism, science photography, colour manipulation of scanning electron microscopy (SEM)…in fact I’m just going to show you some incredible examples of these SEM images. You’d be amazed at how pretty the common cold can look…

Look at how cool the common cold is! Then the other pic is pretty-in-purple chromosome.

And finally, who knew a tangled hair could look this pretty?!

Graduation: Where do we go from here?

Apologies for the delay in my blog- it has been one hell of a time recently and not in a woohoo! way. Reports, being poorly and the second half of my dissertation module…it’s a busy busy time.

It is a shame I started this blog in my final year as I keep thinking of things I want to write about but I just have so much to do! I have only just come to realise that I have just under 3 weeks of my undergraduate degree left. I now feel slightly nauseated, especially as I still have coursework deadlines and revision season looming…

Add to that the ever-present knowledge that I have to keep filling in applications for PhDs, for graduate schemes, for funding, for jobs. I know that this summer, I will be unemployed most likely (though my fingers are firmly crossed for the applications I’ve sent off/interviews I’ve done).

That’s the climate we’re in now and whereas the other summers I’ve known uni will be there in September. God knows, I wish I could be applying for an MRes or MSc but I just don’t have the money, so I need to follow different routes to hopefully get to the place I want to get to.

As a graduating biologist, there are many routes I could go down and that’s going to be the main body of this post or it’ll just end up in me talking about being in something of a blind panic and if you wanted to read an incoherent mess of babble then you’d be back on Facebook.

NB. The pros and cons are what I have heard of others opinions. I don’t want to insult anyone’s jobs/future career choices!

This is a large area of recruitment for science graduates and that makes sense. There are a variety of different areas for all interests, from pharmaceutical research to agricultural.

There are large numbers of graduate schemes to ease you into this new environment from university because let me assure you, it is a very different experience. I have some industrial experience at a cell line manufacturing company and the volume information you needed to take in and the hours you needed to put in were astounding. If you are working with cells, you work around the cells, so you work when they dictate you work, which meant that there were staff coming in on weekends, on evenings, on weekend evenings! But this is not the case at other companies, but going from your university hours to 37.5+ hour weeks, every week is a lot more exhausting than you will expect.

There are pros and cons to his area of work. The pay is good and the opportunity for career progression is immense. You will get to work with a variety of companies so there is the opportunity for a lot of networking as well as carrying out work and research.

The con is mainly that you are not in control of what you research and there is the potential for some to feel restricted in the area of work you’ll be doing.

So the big draws of industry I just mentioned? Don’t be banking on those straight into your career of research scientist and academic. A lot of PhDs are funded to some extent at least, though that often only applies if you’re interested in the ‘right’ area of biosciences. There are large funding bodies like the BBSRC and the MRC who fund a lot of the medically beneficial research but that is absolutely not saying that there aren’t studentships for animal biology, plant sciences and all other realms but I’ve been told there aren’t as many (please correct me if I am wrong!). The benefits obviously include you getting to choose the area of research you go into, you direct it and follow it from the beginning to the end. The pay is different depending on the studentship but I very much doubt that is why anyone goes into undertaking a PhD. You need to have the passion and the drive for it. You have to motivate yourself; it’s your project after all, your results at the end of it.
Also, having a PhD put you in excellent stead if you eventually want to leave academia for, say, scientific publishing or editing.

In the UK, the NHS offers the NHS Scientist Training Pathway that is highly competitive and a tough 3 year course. If lucky enough to get on it, there are a whole number of specialisms for you to choose from (though you can only apply for two) from microbiology to genetics to reproductive sciences, there’s something to interest everyone. Some roles are very much lab based but others, like Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Sleep and Reproductive have large patient contact aspects as well. Over the 3 years, you work throughout your department, learning a variety of laboratory skills which you will be assessed on. You will also be working on an MSc degree at a university that the NHS has accredited. At the end of the course then, you have 3 years full time work in a hospital/clinical setting and a masters funded by the NHS.

I can imagine you can see why it is so competitive.

Obviously, many science graduates don’t go into either of these options, as a science degree sets you up well for many areas of life! There are graduate schemes in all areas that respect the work ethic and knowledge from a strong degree, there’s obviously teaching which is especially important for sciences at the moment, even though biology is seen as one of the more popularly subscribed sciences, there is still a huge demand for teachers.

There’s going into health and safety work for councils, helping with policies…in fact, let’s face it, you could do anything! Not everyone who enjoys and has an interest in science wants to do it as a career. Fortunately, at university there are graduate talks from all sectors and careers fairs and the Cv clinic to make sure you have the best chance at getting into your graduate career of your choice.

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The Eeyore Complex

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” – Romans 8:37

Humility.  It’s a great thing.  It’s important.  But can we overdo it sometimes?

Christians can be so hung up on humility that we tend to fall into, what I like to call, the Eeyore Complex.  When we fall into the Eeyore Complex we can’t do anything right; “woe is me” becomes our mantra.  We quickly label ourselves “the chief of sinners” and we get into a competition to see who is doing the worst job at following Jesus.  We’re quick to use phrases like “I suck at following Jesus” or “just trying to say on the straight and narrow”.  But, is that really the attitude that Jesus intended for us to have when he saved us?  I would say absolutely not.

There is certainly a place for good, healthy self-examination in the Christian life.  Paul tells us to examine ourselves in 2 Corinthians 13:5.  Peter calls us to make our calling and election sure in 2 Peter 1:10.  So there is definitely room for taking a survey of one’s life.  However, nowhere in scripture are we called to sulk in our failures.  (Yes, Paul does say he will boast in his weaknesses (2 Cor. 12:9) but the point of that is to make much of Jesus, not draw attention to his (Paul’s) shortcomings and failures.)

In fact, we are told that we are more than conquerors.  Yes we fall short, but we can rejoice because Jesus has freed us from the failure of sin.  We can rejoice because our sins are washed clean.  We are not defined by our failures any more.  We are defined by His grace!

So, don’t fall into the Eeyore Complex… a little more lively, like Tigger!

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Go-To Skincare Goconuts Event

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Last night I attended the Go-To Skincare Goconuts event. Not knowing what to expect my pal Jess and I rocked up to the very glamorous Langham Hotel feeling slightly out of place (as we are use to being poor uni students) but very excited to see what was a head of us for the evening. If you haven’t heard of Go-To Skincare then let me be that friend that you use to have in high school who knew all the latest goss. It’s a brand created by Zoe Foster Blake who was beauty editor for Cosmo Magazine, has written multiple fiction books and even has a beauty book on the market. She has tried and tested a lifetimes worth of products and has created her range to simplify skincare whilst still getting great results. So now that you’re in the loop lets get on to the good stuff!

When the doors to the Alto room opened we were greet with drinks and the most spectacular view of the CBD you could imagine. As the room began to fill up with other guests, mostly of beautiful girls dressed to the nines, you couldn’t help your eyes from darting around the room and thinking ‘I love those shoes‘ ‘What lipstick is she wearing?‘ ‘How did she get her hair like that?‘.

However when Zoe and her facialist, Brooke took the stage all eyes were on them. Zoe began by introducing the skincare line and then the Q&A was off. Both Brooke and Zoe were so well spoken, relaxed and really funny. It was really enjoyable to watch them speak and better yet it was informative, I almost wish I had taken a pen and paper to take notes. The night ended with peanut butter cupcakes and a photo with Zoe.

On my way out I purchased the Exfoliating Swipies and my goodie bag had the Go-To Lip Balm in it so you can be sure that I will posting a review when I have had a good go at playing with them. Overall it was a really fun night that honestly made me fall in love again with skincare.


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Mental shift

Manage your mind and you can manage your life

In the name of God

Posted by jytmkh on September 10, 2008

VIJAY SIMHA examines the consequences of lessons taught by men of religion, among the desperately poor in Orissa

WHEN THEY came for Narmada Digal, she wasn’t there. She had fled, five children and mother-inlaw in tow, to the safety of the jungles a kilometre away. So, they set about what she left behind. A framed picture of Jesus, a Bible in Oriya, utensils in the kitchen, some clothes, and linen. By the time Narmada tiptoed back, her home was gone. What was left was still hot from the ashes, and smoking. The neighbours came to commiserate. Narmada took a good look, stood erect, and pulled her sari over her head. She began to pray.

“Lord, forgive us our sins. Jesus, you are the only one. Save us from our misfortune. Free us, Lord.” The words are tumbling out. Narmada’s children have joined her. She is weeping as she pleads for deliverance. So is everybody else. It’s a simple bond that no human wrath can sever, a woman and her God. “I will die. But I won’t stop being a Christian,” Narmada says.

This is in the heart of Kandhamal, a district at the geographical centre of Orissa, ravaged by probably the worst fighting in India between Hindus and Christians. Kandhamal is young, constituted as recently as 1994. It has 2,515 villages spread over 7,649 sq km. The terrain is inaccessible, full of hills and narrow lanes crisscrossing the villages. There isn’t a single industrial unit here. There are no railway lines, and so no trains come here. Buses are rare. It’s so far behind that even the official website of Kandhamal says, “Overall, the district is ranked as a backward district in the state of Orissa .”

In this doleful land live close to eight lakh people. In terms of castes and tribes, the Kandha tribe constitute more than half the population of Kandhmal. The Panos, who are the dalits, form the next big chunk. The Kandha tribe is almost fully under the control of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an 83-year-old socio-political organisation, which is the fountainhead of many Hindu outfits in India. The Panos are where the Christian community gets its numbers.

In terms of population, nearly a quarter of Kandhamal are Christians, the rest almost wholly Hindus. The percentage of Christians in Kandhamal — 25 percent — is astonishingly high compared to the 2.44 percent for the whole of Orissa. In percentage terms, Orissa has the third-largest concentration of Hindus in India (nearly 95 percent in the 2001 Census). Muslims are barely two percent.

The rise in the number of Christians in Kandhamal is offering radical Hindu outfits like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) the perfect alibi to launch an aggressive anti- Christian movement. The movement has two aims: to reconvert Christians to Hinduism, and to stop the alleged slaughter of cows.

An 81-year-old RSS activist, Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati, was heading the VHP movement in Kandhamal. He operated largely from two ashrams 150 km from each other. He was a member of the VHP’s Kendriya Margadarshak Mandal, a powerful decisionmaking panel. On August 23, Saraswati was gunned down in one of the ashrams at night while celebrating Janmashtami. It was the tenth attempt at killing Saraswati, a figure disliked by the Christians, but revered by a band of fanatic Hindu male followers in his ashram.

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Proud Of You

Some people heard this all the time while growing up.

While many others did not.

We have kids walking around asking and looking for approval or acceptance from anything and everything.  Their actions scream “tell me I matter!”

Hell, we have adults walking around asking and looking for approval or acceptance, too.

I wonder what would happen if this simple statement was said more to everyone (no matter what age) how much it could change our world.

These 5 simple words rocked some deep wounds in my own heart.

(Thank you Sid Falco)

The first time I remember someone saying it to me knocked the snot out of me.  I instantly asked, “For what?!”

The response “…just because…”

I questioned it.  Me?  You are proud of me? What did I do? Are you sure?  Just because? Something in me wonder what did he want? What did he know?  Was I really actually in trouble and this is just the phrase before the “but”.

For a girl who has always felt like she wasn’t worth a crap, ruined everything and sucked at life; hearing these words changed my heart.  These words opened up my mind to just maybe my life mattered and I was not a complete mess.

So many people are walking  around this world asking the wrong things and people “ I enough? Do I belong? Does anyone hear me? Does anyone see me? Does my life matter? What do I need to do or buy to be accepted?”

When their hearts and mind don’t hear the right words they are searching for, they go on to the next thing, place or person.

We walk around with these huge heavy questions for many different reasons but I believe maybe if we might have had (or could have) a few more pat on the backs, a few more “I love you” moments and definitely a few more “I am proud of you” conversations that we would question our self worth less

So what if a few of us got together and started saying more positive things.  What if we said I am proud of you?  I love you.  You are loved.  I see you.  I hear you. Way to go.  What if we said these things a lot more?  Could it change the actions, thoughts or words of others? Could we change our kids?  Could we change some adults?

I am willing to bet we could.

So in case you have never heard it.  Hear you go.

I am so stinking proud of you.  I am proud of you just because.  I am proud of you for being you.  I am proud of you for absolutely nothing.  I am proud of you just for being right where you are today.

You do matter.  You are enough.  You are loved.  You rock.  Keep it up.

 (Insert high five here).


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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Happily Dressed

Our "announcement" blogpost has elicited some good questions that I thought I'd take a moment to answer.

1) Will our baby be born in France or the USA? Barring any unforeseen emergencies, this little one will be American. If calculations are correct, I will be about 31 weeks along when we fly back, so as long as I can convince the airlines that I'm not 41 weeks, we should be fine. :)

2) Did Brooklyn really notice that I was pregnant before I did?
Nope. Sorry, the last post was too vague. I've known since the beginning of January when the stick popped up with that little plus sign (some things don't change no matter where in the world you go.) Jason was in Paris at the time, so I e-mailed him a little movie to share the news. It's embarrassingly cheesy, but I'm feeling daring so I'll share anyway...
Back to Brooklyn, when she noticed my growing belly at six weeks, I was A) horrified to be big so soon, and B) not quite ready to share the news, knowing that she would immediately make it public knowledge. And so, I tried (rather unsuccessfully) to convince her that it was simply fat.

3) When is the expected due date? The ETA for this little one is September 12th when calculated with a French wheel, and September 10th when calculated American-style.

4) Are we having a boy or a girl? We don't know, and we probably won't find out. The ultrasound technician actually asked me last week if I wanted to know the gender. After a tough moment of deliberation, I said that no, we'd rather have a surprise. She smiled and said that it was "plus magique comme ça." (By the way, I was utterly shocked that she could even make a prediction at twelve weeks!)

All in all, pregnancy in France has been quite the cultural initiation. After having two kids, you'd think that I would know how it's done, but in many ways, everything is shockingly different in a new system. The French are notorious for their copious paperwork--well, apparently even a pregnancy isn't official without it! Your first pre-natal visit culminates in a formal "declaration de grossesse" that consists of several colored copies of this form that must subsequently be mailed off to the respective government offices before the end of month three. Heaven forbid you forget to mail in your forms, as your baby might never be born! (The actuality is even worse--you might have to pay for your pre-natal care, labor, and delivery...) By the way, does anybody else find it rather ironic that the word for pregnancy in French is "grossesse?" It sums up in a nutshell what pregnancy feels like at week 38.

Moving on, as soon as you learn the news, you need to call the hospital and register for the "accouchement" right away because the spaces fill quickly. ("Accouchement" refers to your labor and delivery, although a literal translation would be a "lying-in." This usage to me reflects an overall cultural mentality where birth suggests that you settle in and stay a while. Life really slows down its pace for those who are nesting. Were I staying in France, I would get at least eight weeks of paid maternity leave before the birth, and another ten after!)

Of course there is the standard course of bloodwork and lab tests to be carried out. The main difference is that these labs are generally unconnected with the medical offices--you must bring in a doctor's order and set up appointments separately. Coming from the States, I unfortunately have to get blood drawn every month because I have not been immunized for taxoplasmosis. While fairly uncommon in the US, it's a big problem in Europe. Women are cautioned to be particularly vigilant in avoiding raw meat and carefully washing all of their fruits and veggies. I find it quite ironic that in the US I can't eat soft cheese (not considered much of a problem here in France), but here in France I have to be careful eating salad.

The last shocker (and let me tell you, it was a SHOCKER) was my actual visit to the gynecologist. The initial interview was pretty standard, but after the talking was over, she pointed to a chair in the corner and told me to take off my clothes--all of my clothes. Horrifically, she then stood and watched while I undressed. Without the dignity of even a paper towel to cover myself, I then had to parade across the entire room buck naked in order to get to the exam table. Jason, all the while, is still sitting in the room, trying his hardest not to laugh at my positively horrified expression.

I can't even begin to describe the indignities of my drapeless exam. It was seriously one of the most awful experiences of my life. When it comes to personal space, I am extremely reserved. While the gynecologist may have been exasperated with my Puritan prudishness, stating that in France it's much simpler, this was one place where "French-style" will never fly with me.

But wait, it gets worse! After parading across the entire room again in my birthday suit so that I could recover my modesty, the doctor stopped me with my underwear half on and half off. Apparently I hadn't weighed myself yet--she wanted to see this moment of reckoning as well without even a scrap of fabric to hide behind.

The whole ordeal was hideous. It's one of those things that I really wanted to laugh about, but it was so embarrassing that it was hard not to cry instead. To add insult to injury, I then discovered when the bill came that this lady was setting her own prices instead of using the standard pay scale reimbursed by the French government.

Needless to say, I switched doctors. Today I met for the first time with a wonderful midwife. Not only did this kind woman allow me to keep my pants on, but she talked to me like a whole person. Interested in my thoughts and feelings, she addressed my real concerns and offered good advice. Thanks to our positive encounter, I now feel like perhaps I can handle pregnancy in France after all.

Crys said...

That story is so horrible. I can't even imagine. Jason being there makes it all the more horrific! I mean yes obviously he is the father of three of your children, but still is it puritan to just want so DIGNITY! One positive to be pregnant in the middle east. That never would have happened!

chou said...

I love your video!!! And am horrified at your initial Dr's visit. We're glad to hear that the next one (with the midwife) was better.

Mom L said...

Ditto to Christy's comments! You'll be sharing birth times with Bill and Stephanie. How fun!

Tanja said...

I liked the video too - I was just wondering how long it will be with more pictures in ... let's say 10 years and a couple more family members to the whole A-W-Clan. (I erased the full name :) but now I have to think about Rootbeer)

Kes LT said...

hey, you have just expanded your comfort zone!

michelle said...

Horrible indeed! I wondered by your comments on Kristin's blog if you were just unable to be a Weight Watcher while in France because of the food or if there was something else. Congratulations!

Megan Ficek said...

I had a similar experience once. Who would place the table stirrups-first towards the door in the first place? And what nurse in her right mind would walk in and out three separate times during my exam? At least I was draped! But still, I hope there were no innocent bystanders in the hallway that day. (I hope that story makes you feel at least a little bit better)

Bruce Richards said...

Wow, you miss a few days checking the blog, and look what happens! Congratulations! I was learning how to make websites in my "teaching extension" class yesterday, so I went to my own website (our blog), then the instructor mentioned something about links, so I clicked on the link to your blog and saw a picture of Kara in the hospital and wondered why, then I realized you were expecting. Good thing my joy is not automatically verbally expressed!

Justin said...

Gee wiz, that is a fantastically horrible experience. Good call on switching care providers. I was looking at your ultrasound, and if I was a betting man, know where I would place my money... :)

Jackie said...

Okay I'm just getting around to checking your blog and wow congrats! I wonder if we'll be around to see the new little one! Big yikes for that doctor visit - I hope to never have to do that! Oh the nightmares alone!

Congrats to all of you!

The Favorite said...

CONGRATS!! I haven't checked your blog in a few weeks so it was so fun to read- and I loved the video- too sweet. Hope you feel well and when you move back you better pick a place right next to a hospital :)
(Bruce hopes it's a boy)

Bruce Richards said...

The big Bruce hopes it's a boy too.


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The invention of scuba diving has allowed us to breathe underwater but only at
very shallow depths.

Thanks to our inability to conquer the bends, diving below 70m still remains
astonishingly dangerous to anyone but a handful of experts. Ultra-deep
diving is so lethal that more people have walked on the moon than descended
below 240m using scuba gear.
Now an inventor in the United States believes he has solved the riddle of how
to get humans down to serious depths – by getting us to breathe liquid like
“The first trick you would have to learn is overcoming the gag reflex,”
explains Lande, a 79-year-old inventor from St Louis, Missouri. “But once
that oxygenated liquid is inside your lungs it would feel just like
breathing air.”
Lande envisages a scuba suit that would allow divers to inhale
highly-oxygenated perfluorocarbons (PFCs) – a type of liquid that can
dissolve enormous quantities of gas. The liquid would be contained in an
enclosed helmet that would replace all the air in the lungs, nose and ear
The CO2 that would normally exit our body when we breathe out would be
“scrubbed” from our blood by attaching a mechanical gill to the femoral vein
in the leg.
By using oxygen suspended in liquid, divers would no longer have to worry
about decompression sickness - the often fatal condition known as “the
bends” which occurs when nitrogen dissolved in the blood under the immense
pressures of deep water bubbles out as we rise. It could potentially allow
them to descend to far greater depths than is currently possible.
Liquid ventilation might sound like science fiction – it played a major role
in James Cameron’s 1989 sci-fi film The Abyss – but it is already used by a
handful of cutting-edge American hospitals for highly premature babies.
Children born before 28 weeks have huge difficulties breathing, often because
their lungs are not developed enough to comfortably adjust from the liquid
environment of the womb to inhaling gaseous air. Immature alveoli, the final
branchings inside the lung that feed oxygen into the blood, lack vital
surfactants which stop the tiny cavities sticking together when we breathe
Place a mouse in oxygenated liquid and instinct immediately kicks in as the
animal flounders wildly. Everything the mouse has ever learned screams at it
to avoid inhaling a solution it thinks will kill it.
Yet when we drown there comes a moment when the instinct not to breathe liquid
is overridden by a stronger instinct to take in one last breath. It is a
desperate final attempt to get oxygen into the blood. If the liquid we are
in contains oxygen molecules that happily cross from the solution into our
blood stream, life will return. After all, it is not water that kills us
when we drown. It’s our inability to take oxygen from the water that
condemns us.
By the mid-1990s, Shaffer and a handful of doctors had begun using liquid
ventilation techniques on premature babies and were stunned by the results.
“A lot of the children I see have less than a 5% survival rate,” he explains.
“But when we get them on to liquid breathing we see close to 60% going on to
lead fully healthy lives.”
The technique remains rare, however, because of a chronic lack of investment.
“Liquid ventilation is not used widely because there is very little funding
from the drug companies,” he says. “Unfortunately premature babies don’t
have a voice. They don’t bring in money, so no-one really wants to invest.
But it does work. Physiologically, liquid ventilation is very do-able.”
The recent oil spill in the Gulf may change that lack of interest. Although
drug companies are reluctant to fully explore liquid breathing, the Deep
Water Horizon disaster has reignited the debate over how to get divers
safely down to extreme depths.
Currently the only way divers can work for long spells in the deep is either
from the safety of robotic vessels and submarines; or by using saturation
diving, an incredibly complicated technique where divers have to be brought
up to the surface in a pressurised container over a matter of weeks.
With saturation diving, the deepest anyone has gone is 701m. Using scuba
equipment the record is 318m, set by the South African diver Nuno Gomes in
June 2005. It took him 14 minutes to descend and 12 hours to come back up to
the surface.
The reason for these slow ascents is our reliance on compressed gasses to
breathe in water. Under the incredible pressure exerted by billions of
tonnes of ocean, gasses like nitrogen and helium dissolve into our
bloodstream, much like CO2 is dissolved in a soda bottle.
Ascending towards the surface is like opening that soda bottle - the gas comes
out of solution and into our bodies. If we don’t give our bodies enough time
to expel those gasses by ascending slowly, we die.
“The beauty of doing it all from a liquid is that you don’t have to use these
highly compressed gasses in the lungs that are going to dissolve into the
blood,” says Dr Lande, who recently presented a paper on his patent to the
first International Conference on Applied Bionics and Biomechanics in
Venice. “You have a liquid that you can infuse just as much oxygen as you
Shaffer has previously experimented with animals and PFCs at depth and found
the technique to work. “I have personally put mammals down to a simulated
depth of 1000 feet and then decompressed them in half a second and they have
no decompression sickness,” he says.
The US Navy Seals also reportedly experimented with liquid ventilation in the
early 1980s according to Shaffer who says he met a former Seal turned doctor
that was on the team.
“This paediatrician never really revealed why they were doing it,” he
explains. “Other than going very deep I don’t know what the point was. But
they tried it. The Navy pushed them to the point where they did it several
times a week.”
Being so much more viscous than air, liquid is difficult to breathe. Some of
the Seals reportedly developed stress fractures on the ribs cause by the
sheer force of trying to get a liquid in and out of the lungs.
But Lande envisages using a cuirass, a ventilation device named after a piece
of medieval armour, which compresses the diaphragm and makes it easier to
breathe liquid.
Now all he needs now are developers and a fresh set of human guinea pigs
willing to test his ideas.
“I’m sure someone out there would be willing,” he says. “We’ve climbed the
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Cross-Asset Correlation Heatmap as of end of June 2013

I have just gotten round to churning out the next batch of correlation heatmaps, since I was very occupied over the course of the academic year, especially in the Winter Semester. Anyway, here are the high resolution heatmaps, and I will conclude this post with some of my observations.

m011012to281212 labelled

m311212to290313 labelled

m010413to280613 labelled

The increased correlation of treasuries and equities is stark, especially in Q2 2013. The developments and reasons for this is baffling (to me at least).

First, FOMC minutes released suggests that in spite of “taper talks”, slamming down the break is far from being concrete. In fact, as the FT reports, the minutes send largely mixed signals. While unemployment rate and the 2% inflation target are part of the key conditions that guides policy decisions, Fed officials also warned that they could intervene if market reaction jeapordises the achievement of these goals.

Second, the increased correlation of treasuries and equities is confusing for me. On one hand, the fact that CBs are confident enough to withdraw the QE programmes would suggest that the economy is recovering, that should be good news. But then, stock markets reacted to that by moving down, thus causing the fall in both Treasuries and Equities, a development that wasn’t confined to the USA.

On further note, it is expected that bond prices will tumble, and this is a view that is emphasised by a fancy passive investment firm who presented in one of the classes I took over the Winter. In their view, bonds are over-priced. But an increase in risk-free rates will make the expected returns of equities fall(for stocks with Beta greater than 1), making them more expensive, but would perhaps reduce volatility, which is good for risk-averse investors.

So what to look out for? Here’s my list:
1) Labour Market Conditions – I hardly hear discussions on “tightness” of the labour market, with the views emphasised in labour economics. Have we looked at the vacancy yield? (Vacancy/unemployment rate). When this improves, one of the QE tapering conditions would have been fulfilled.

2) Composition of the Treasury Yield. Pay attention to the short term interest rates (intersection of IS-LM for you Keynesians), expected inflation (proxy with “Breakeven Inflation” by subtracting yield of Treasuries with Inflation Protected Treasuries of same maturity) and the interest “term-premium.” Withdrawal of Fed support should drive up the term premium that were kept low, and a recovery would also imply higher return on capital (IS-LM) intersection.

3) What is the outlook of the economic environment? The IMF just slashed world GDP growth forecast; China’s GDP growth seems likely to contract what with the clamp down on banking liquidity, export-import data gleaned so far in China suggests a slowdown; the Euro Area seems to be segmented by core and peripheral markets, with heavy focus on Portugal recently and  talks on risks of bond “restructuring.” Don’t think ECB will follow the Fed too much, since the Euro Area are faces its own unique problem, and the PIIGS issues would not be too dependent on development in the US economy. Overall, the heuristic here is bad economic environment are bad news for equities. So withdrawal of Fed support, ceteris paribus, would make equities more expensive.If earnings outlook is bleak, then it follows the equities will take a tumble.

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On 29th July to clarify a misleading and ambiguous sentence.

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Week 12 – Classmate – Uriel Reyes

On Thursday, I had the opportunity to meet and talk to Uriel Reveles. Uriel is a sophomore that is currently attending CSULB and is majoring in engineering. He is originally from Bellflower but was raised up in Compton. He attended Centennial High School in Compton and claims that high school was fun, but college is even better. Uriel also has two older sisters that attend CSULB, making his family a CSULB family. He plans on working with cars and electronics after finishing college. Uriel enjoys working with and fixing cars and fixing their sound systems.

Uriel enjoys hobbies that I also enjoy. Uriel is athletic like me and enjoys playing soccer. He also enjoys watching television shows such as the NBA and supernatural. His favorite basketball team is the Boston Celtics, which surprised me because not many people in California are big Celtic fans. Uriel listens to Rap/hip-hop songs, but I personally prefer hip-hop/R&B. His favorite movie is Stand By Me, a movie that is truly funny and action packed. Uriel loves eating food as much as I do. He likes to eat anything that looks good and filling, especially seafood. However, the one seafood dish that Uriel will not enjoy is tuna.

The last question I asked Uriel was what he thought about art and the class Art 110. Uriel says that, in his opinion, art is a way for people to express themselves and show their creative sides. Uriel says that art is different for everyone and that it is a great subject to pursue. He believes that this class is chill and a good class, and I concur with his claims. It was great getting to know more about Uriel and his views on art.

Check out Uriel’s website here: http://urielreveles.wordpress.com/

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10 Products, 10 Minutes | Office Makeup Routine

10 Products, 10 Minutes | Office Makeup Routine

Products Used (in order):

NYX Angel Veil primer

It Cosmetics CC Cream “Light”

Bare Minerals Matte Powder Foundation “Golden Medium”

CoverGirl Cheekers Blush “Classic Pink”

Anastasia DipBrow “Auburn”

MAC Paint Pot “Rubenesque”

MAC Eye Kohl “Costa Riche”

Loreal Voluminous Miss Manga Rock

Laura Mercier Translucent Setting Powder

NUDESTIX Lip Pencil “Whisper”

It took me quite awhile to master how to wear makeup to work.  It was hard to find just the right look that ‘s fast, takes little work,  lasts 8 hours, and makes me feel confident.  With only 10 products needed, I feel like I finally have found a routine that I have tested and am comfortable doing every day.

My least favorite look to do is work makeup. This is not meant to be anything more than “put together”. I wish I had time to do special eyeshadow looks with defined brows and dark lip colors every day but it is not realistic. I wake up about 30 minutes before I need to leave to go to an office setting. My goal is to look awake and pulled together around my coworkers. The makeup depicted in the photo is the look I do that when I exert 10 to 15 minutes worth of effort to be presentable. On days where I am half asleep or couldn’t care less about my appearance, my routine breaks down to only primer, Bare Minerals powder, mascara, brow gel, and blush.

For the sake of this blog being helpful and having to post a picture of myself online, I photographed the more in depth version.  I feel comfortable in this for a full day of work with only a touch up or two of powder at lunchtime.

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  1. Sheer layer of foundation– I get oily during the day no matter what products I use. In my opinion the best way to do foundation for work is to apply a sheer layer so that when I get greasy, it wont cake up and fades less noticeably. I have been using the It Cosmetics CC Cream for years because of the full coverage and skin benefits. The bottle lasts forever.
  2. EcoTools Domed Bronzer Brush- I have owned this brush for years and have been neglecting it for a long time. One day I tried it instead of a normal foundation brush. This brush soaks up any extra product, applies quickly because it is large and fluffy, and puts on a very light layer of coverage.
  3. Bare Minerals- this staple powder foundation is something I always come back to. On minimal makeup days, I dust this all over my face instead of using liquid to cover and even out my skin.
  4. Blush- makes me look alive and with a generous amount I do not feel the need to use bronzer
  5. Translucent powder- the more the better for my oily skin. If I skip this step I’ll be oily by 8:30. (I start work at 6AM)

  1. MAC Paint Pot- slap it on with a finger and the Rubenesque color gives a subtle hint of gold. An alternative to this one is Maybelline Color Tattoo in Barely Branded.
  2. Eyeliner- Wings take too long when I’m getting ready at 5:30AM. Brown smudgy liner is effortless and gives just enough definition. If you mess up just smudge it more!
  3. Mascara- the Miss Manga Rock Maybelline Mascara is the first I’ve used that does not transfer all over my face. It only requires about 2 coats to build up.

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God of Cooking – Chapter 32: A well made dish and good food (3)

He couldn’t get asleep. Jo Minjoon closed his eyes trying to sleep, but ended up opening them. He glanced at his handphone and it was already midnight. He buried his face on the pillow, and in the end stood up from the place. He thought that laying like this would be wasting time.

The reason he didn’t get sleepy was simple. Because of the case of the low score. Precisely speaking, it was a little different than the score. It was about the limits of cooking. Chloe’s potato soup was perfect. If she added something more, then that dish would become something else. But would that potato soup remain as a sloppy 6 points?

“……Stats window.”

[Jo Minjoon]
Cooking level: 6
Baking level: 4
Tasting level: 7
Decorations level: 5

Jo Minjoon kept looking at his stat window. Excluding the decorations level that went up by one when he teamed up with Kaya, there was nothing different.

“Level 7….. When will I reach it?”

As he was mumbling, Jo Minjoon’s face froze. Since when did he start to care about his level this much? He started to think that at one point, the dishes he made weren’t for cooking, but for raising his cooking level.

But he couldn’t help but be like that. He was different to Chloe or Kaya. He couldn’t ignore the score that was being shown in front of him.

‘Even so, the potato soup…..’

He started to remember the flavor. It was thick and stable. It was well cooked so there wasn’t even a trace of a bad smell coming from the potato. And also the buttercup aroma. Even though it wasn’t splendid, it was delicious. It was fun.
Also, Kaya, who reached the top level 10 in tasting, didn’t point anything wrong with the dish. Was it because it was the best the potato soup could get? Or because the potato soup itself was a good dish?

The cooking score was perfect for the system. How much creativity was used while cooking that dish, how stably a skill was used, how harmonious the ingredients became, etc. It was a score taking into account all of that.

A dish with high cooking score was certainly a good dish. However, a dish with a low cooking score was a bad one? Jo Minjoon couldn’t stop thinking about that.

Jo Minjoon let out a sigh. His head hurt. And the way he relieved stress was quite simple. To eat.

He opened the door, and the hallway was really dark. Jo Minjoon walked the hallway guided by the flashlight of his handphone. His destination was the pantry, and the kitchen.

As he reached the kitchen, there was an unexpected guest. It was Anderson. It seemed like he was making some gravy. He put onions, pumpkins,etc. in the boiling water and looked at Jo Minjoon. Jo Minjoon waved his hand expressionlessly.

“…..What are you doing here?”
“What do you mean? I came to cook.”

Jo Minjoon replied as if he was being asked something obvious. Anderson didn’t particularly like Jo Minjoon, but it was also the same otherwise. After the first broadcast ended and after what Jo Minjoon said about Kaya winning, he still remembered what Anderson had told him back then. He was beating around the bush, but in the end it meant that first, he had to have some skills to talk.

Of course, Jo Minjoon understood the hidden meaning. He wasn’t someone who liked people that disliked him.

The conversation ended with just that. Jo Minjoon went to the pantry and looked for ingredients. Instead of saying that he wanted to practice cooking, he needed food to fill his belly. He wanted to make some kimchi jjigae with pork moksal, but there was no kimchi in the pantry.

‘Should I ask for it later?’

He thought like that, but it was pointless. Although it was a representing item in Korea, it didn’t work in the world. Precisely speaking, only half of it worked. The reason was because of the fishy smell left. In conclusion, it was a difficult ingredient to use in this kind of competition. Even if he did ask for some kimchi, in the end, he was going to use it to make the things he used to eat. To ask some to eat by himself was being a nuisance.
Because he couldn’t make kimchi jjigae, the next thing he thought of was doenjang jjigae. In the pantry, there were all kinds of things related to condiments of the whole world. There was of course doenjang. Although a commercial one of course, but the flavor wasn’t bad. Rather, Jo Minjoon favoured commercial doenjang. Compared to the homemade ones, it’s colour was lighter, and the flavor was as light as the colour.

When cooking doenjang jjigae with commercial doenjang, there was only one disadvantage. That the more you cooked it, the more flavor it lost. However, it was a disadvantage he didn’t need to take into account when you were going to eat it once like this time.

Jo Minjoon handled the anchovies. To say that he was going to handle it, it was a rather simple process. To remove the dung and the guts. Depending on whether you did this or not, the sour flavor changed drastically. And Jo Minjoon wasn’t the type to roughly prepare what he was going to eat.

The next step after handling the anchovies was simple. To put the anchovies and kelp in the water, boil it and make the gravy. Depending on the person, they could fry meat to make the gravy, but Jo Minjoon didn’t like the combination of doenjang jjigae and meat. He didn’t like the flavor of the doenjang to be contaminated with the oil coming out from the meat. It was his philosophy that doenjang jjigae needed to be cool and clean.

Jo Minjoon chopped the radish, onions, potatoes, pumpkin, mushrooms and tofu to the size of dices. Anderson glanced at him and asked.

“What are you making?”
“Doenjang jjigae. Do you know about it?”
“No. Looking at the ingredient, it looks like japanese miso soup. Is it tasty?”
“I wonder. I don’t think that it will suit your tastes.”

Jo Minjoon replied displeased. Korean people couldn’t notice it, but people around the world felt the flavor to be really thick. It was also the same when they tried the sweet and light japanese doenjang jjigae. So would they like the korean one? He wondered if Anderson would enjoy doenjang jjigae.

Anderson didn’t keep talking to him. Jo Minjoon took out the anchovies and the kelp and put in the doenjang and chilli powder. When the soup was moderately done, he put in the vegetables he sliced. And after he boiled it for some time, putting the tofu and sliced green chili was the end.

The doenjang jjigae was completed. The score was 6 points. However he didn’t mind. In the first place, it wasn’t a dish made hoping that it ends with a good score. In the first place, cooking doenjang jjigae with commercial doenjang was difficult to get a high score. Even getting 6 points was good enough.

It was at that moment when he put the instantaneous rice in the microwave. Anderson came to him and opened his mouth.
“Let’s share.”
“You even shared the catfish dish with Kaya. Why, you don’t want to with me?”
“Rather than I don’t want to….. You don’t like me that much.”

Jo Minjoon didn’t hit around the bush and answered directly. Anderson shrugged his shoulders.

“It’s true that I don’t like you. But there’s no reason to not like your dish. That doenjang jjigae thing, it’s the first time i see it. And I have to eat what I see for the first time to ease my curiosity.”
“……If you say it like that. Then bring yours too.”

At those words Anderson laughed.

“Mine is going to taste better. Won’t you get discouraged by it?”
“You have to try it to know.”

Jo Minjoon replied while snorting. Actually, he had the rights to act like that. Because Anderson’s dish, the tomato chicken stew, was merely 6 points.

Jo Minjoon and Anderson sat on a table facing each other. The first thing Jo Minjoon ate was the doenjang jjigae. The flavor of the doenjang jjigae he didn’t eat for a while was exceptional. Because of the chili powder and the green chili, it was spicy. And the unique coolness of the anchovy gravy passed through his throat cleanly.

The flavor of eating tofu, pumpkin and soup along with rice was perfect. Honestly speaking, it was incomparable to the dishes of Chloe, and Kaya.

And now, Jo Minjoon ate the tomato chicken stew. The aroma of butter could be felt in the soup, and the sweet flavor of the tomato could be felt. The main point of tomato chicken stew was saving the sweet flavor, and this stew was one that was really sweet.

However, it wasn’t in the level of the doenjang jjigae he just ate. Of course, it was the same for Anderson. Anderson frowned after trying the doenjang jjigae.

“It doesn’t feel fresh.”
“It’s that kind of dish.”
“It would be a difficult dish to use in a mission.”
“……About that.”

Jo Minjoon opened his mouth. Anderson flinched when he looked at Jo Minjoon that seemed to want to talk about something serious.

“The dishes in a top restaurant. So the dishes made with the best technique and ingredients, and normal homemade food. Will you be able to evaluate both of the dishes? No, I’ll speak more directly. What holds more value and what doesn’t?”
“What are you talking about so suddenly?”
“I just thought of that. That what people use to eat isn’t made by professional skills nor thought about the harmony of the ingredients. But just because of that do they hold no value? I’m curious.”

Anderson didn’t reply. He just looked at Jo Minjoon. Jo Minjoon took one more spoon of the doenjang jjigae and looked at it. And talked in a silent voice.

“Suddenly, my mind is a mess. If a well made dish is good food….No, it’s not. Precisely speaking, a dish made without outstanding skills can become good food. It’s confusing.”

Anderson didn’t say a thing and fell in his thoughts. It seemed that it wasn’t an easy question to answer. However, when he opened his mouth, the words that flowed through his lips were quite deep.

“If it was delicious for the person eating it, then isn’t that good food?”
“It’s like the hot dog made in the streets. If the person that ate it says that it was delicious, then it is good food. Of course, I know that what you are trying to say is a little different. I know that you are not talking about the idea, but about the quality. But I think that the basis is that. Look at this.”

Anderson pointed the table in front of him. A tomato chicken stew, and doenjang jjigae. It was a simple table.

“We can make even more luxurious and splendid dishes. But we are eating this simple dishes. And it won’t be different for an epicurean. The person who checked the searing point of a steak in a top restaurant, could be eating frozen pizza and think that it is delicious.”
“……But you can’t place that frozen pizza on a dish.”
“Of course not.”
“In the afternoon I tried Chloe’s potato soup. It was delicious. But I thought that it was a dish that couldn’t be presented in a top class restaurant. Because it lacked splendour. It would be better to cook it with one’s family. It was a good dish. Even so, it can’t be presented in a top restaurant. ……Isn’t it weird? It is delicious, it certainly is delicious food…..”
“Hold on.”

Anderson raised his hand and interrupted him. Jo Minjoon looked at him. Anderson spoke with his usual calm face.

“Aren’t you mistaken about something?”
“The flavor isn’t it all in cooking. It’s just a part of it. The shape, ingredients. At times, the ingredients fees, the chef’s fame, interior, all of that is included at what the customers pay for. But, a dish that contains potato soup you usually eat? Do you think that it will be able to please them?”
Jo Minjoon couldn’t reply back. Anderson continued.

“It must be a dish that can’t be imitated at home. And the better the quality of the ingredients, then, the better. The reason cooking is not the same as homemade cooking is because of that. Homemade cooking can be done by anyone if they practice a little.”
“Then how do you think the flavor is given?”
“Isn’t that a question that can be answered just by looking at this table?”

At those words, Jo Minjoon looked at the doenjang jjigae and tomato chicken stew. He was staring for a while and soon, Jo Minjoon smiled brightly.

“Yes. That’s right! A well done dish and good food are completely different things!”

He started to think about many things in his head. The naengmyeon(냉면) he ate after finishing his finals, or the tonkatsu(돈까스) he ate when he got admitted to the army, the jelly made by Jessie….

It wasn’t that he realized it just know. He knew it all along. Just that he wasn’t conscious of it. Looking at the system’s score, he forgot what cooking meant, and what was food.

The cooking score, was in the end, the technique used while cooking. If a better technique was used, then the quality of the food and the level couldn’t be helped but be high. So it couldn’t be helped that the quality of the food and the level of it was almost similar. Only then could Jo Minjoon realize it.

The situation wasn’t any different. This was Grand Chef. It was a place where he showed his skills, and the dish with high cooking score could get good compliments.

However, Jo Minjoon’s way of thinking changed. Just because the cooking score was low, it didn’t mean that it was bad. Of course, while the cooking score was higher, the flavor would get more complex and more refined. Because cooking techniques existed for that.

But just because it wasn’t complex, and wasn’t refined didn’t mean that it was bad. Just like how he yearned for doenjang jjigae right now, at times, that simplicity reached even deeper. Perhaps, a 5 points dish could taste better than the 10 points dish.

Jo Minjoon stood up. He walked towards Anderson and shook his hand. Anderson looked at Jo Minjoon with a perplexed face. Jo Minjoon said seriously.

“Thank you. Anderson. I really thank you. It was a  good counseling.”
“Wha, what? So suddenly..”
“I think that I would be able to sleep well. I say it once again but, thank you. I won’t forget about today.”

Jo Minjoon talked like that and left the place. Anderson looked confusedly at the back of Jo Minjoon. After a while, his eyes looked back at the table. Anderson grumbled.
“At least wash the dishes, crazy bastard……”

< A well done dish and good food (3) > End

Translator’s note: Regular chapter! Thanks for reading and your support!

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Translator : Subak
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  1. fitzwalter

    It’s funny how this kind of enlightment reminds the ones done in xianxia regarding the progress with martial techniques. And I wonder if Anderson will end up in MC’s crew at some point!

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Archive for October, 2012

Color and Using Color

Posted: October 15, 2012 in Fund. Visual Literacy

There are two different types of color methods: additive color and subtractive color. Both methods are based on the concept of light. Different wavelengths produce different colors. With the additive color method only the wavelengths of the colors you want to view are only produced. The subtractive color method does the opposite. With this method all the wavelengths are shown, but the colors you do not want to show are absorbed and the colors you do want to show will reflect back to the viewer.

The primary colors of the additive color method are red, blue, and green. When these light colors mix they create the secondary colors of yellow, magenta, and cyan. When you mix all three together you get pure white.

The primary colors of the subtractive color method are closer to the color wheel of reality. In the color wheel of the subtractive color method the primary colors are red, blue, and yellow and the secondary colors are orange, green and violet.

When you are looking at the color wheel for either color method you can see complimentary and contrasting colors. Complimentary colors are colors across from each other on the wheel. Complimentary colors help make a design brighter. Contrasting colors help colors stand out. When using contrasting colors you will use a light and a dark color together.

Color is viewed in regards of temperature. There are cool colors and warm colors. Cool colors are mainly blues, violets, and green; while warm colors are mainly reds, oranges, and yellows. Though one color is not warmer than the other, they appear as though they are.

Shape Illustration

Posted: October 15, 2012 in Fund. Visual Literacy

Barack Obama Shape Illustration

Here is the illustration of President Barack Obama I  made using only shapes, no lines.

Line Illustration

Posted: October 15, 2012 in Fund. Visual Literacy

Morgan Freeman Line Illustration

Here is an illustration I made of Morgan Freeman using only the concept of lines.


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Concert by VVS, Saarang 2008 Classical Nite.

(23rd Jan 2008)

This time, Saarang 2008’s classical nite was a concert by Violin Maestro Prof. V. V. Subramaniam accompanied by his son and disciple Sri V V S Murari on the Violin, Sri Tiruvarur M Bhaktavatsalam on the mRdaNgam, and Vykom Sri Gopalakrishnan on the ghaTam.

Prof VVS initially played light songs like vAtApi (hamsadhwani), parAtpara (vAcaspati). On of the best pieces was janani ninnuvinA in rItigauLe. The main piece, SrI vaLLi dEvasenApatE in naTabhairavi was excellent. The taniyAvartanam was very good, needless to say.

There was a nice kRti in bEhAg followed by a KavaLi cindu and finally a sindhubhairavi kRti.

It was nice to listen to a concert at the OAT!


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VB1708 flight timetable

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Flight VB1708: Monterrey - Mexico City

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Arrival day 25th February (Sunday)
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Trust & Estates

We keep a close watch on laws and regulations that affect trust and estate planning, as well as taxes. Jeanne Goussev, LNWM’s Managing Director of Fiduciary Services, has nearly two decades of experience working on estate planning strategies. Kristi Mathisen, LNWM’s Director of Tax & Financial Planning, has for more than more than 25 years advised on complex tax issues at the local, state and federal levels.
Back to What We Think.

Too complicated. Too costly. Not necessary. That’s what is often said about trusts. So it may surprise you that trusts can be as simple and cost-effective as you want them to be while resolving all sorts of issues and concerns.

3 questions to guide where you give your time and money, from Jeanne Goussev, LNWM’s director of fiduciary services. That way, each year’s philanthropic efforts can build on the year before, creating purpose and a family legacy for generations to come.

If you think trust and estate planning is boring, you haven’t met Jeanne Goussev, LNWM’s new Managing Director of Fiduciary Services. Jeanne joined LNWM in mid-June, bringing with her a passion for helping clients plan for the future.

With the holiday season nearly upon us, many of us start thinking about giving to our favorite charity. For gifts to work out well for everyone – donors and donees — it’s important to start early (before the holidays) and explore the different ways to give.

College acceptance letters were out by early April (along with many woops and howls). So now a major dinner-table topic is: how to pay for that grand education?

One of the best ways to ensure that your assets are managed according to your wishes is to place them in a trust. But with all the different trust options available, it’s hard to know where to begin. Read this piece to learn what a trust is, how you can benefit from a trust, common types of trusts, and how to get started.

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The Early Days of Base Ball in Lambertville

Scott “Snuffy” Hengst, a professional researcher, amateur genealogist, and 19th century base ball enthusiast spoke about the origins and early matches of base ball in Lambertville and vicinity on September 10, 2017 at the Pittore Justice Center.

Hengst lives in Lambertville and spent nearly seven years working at Major League Baseball.  He’s been an active ballist for the Flemington Neshanock Base Ball Club since 2010.

See Scott’s baseball presentation PDF here!

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World Energy Outlook 2012

Today, the International Energy Agency issues its annual report on energy – World Energy Outlook 2012The report is especially instructive in the role of technology in our energy future, an argument made consistently in this blog.  The report identifies the substantial changes to our energy availability that are driven by technological developments, including the growing abundance of natural gas and oil.

By 2030 the report forecasts that the United States becomes the largest global oil producer, outpacing Saudi Arabia by 2020, and it forecasts that North America becomes a net oil exporter by 2030.  The success of the US and Canada is due to upstream technologies that have been relatively recently deployed.

The Outlook report forecasts that energy efficiency is expected to have a very significant impact on the reduction in US demand for oil, contributing to its becoming energy independent. This forecast is not based on the development of new technology.  However, the development of more energy efficient technology such as devices for storage of electricity is already underway, as I noted elsewhere in Domestic Energy and Scientific Research.  And these technological developments have the potential to make energy efficiency an even more central player in reducing US energy demand as demand grows elsewhere.

The report observes that the importance of energy efficiency deployment can be especially well understood in terms of its impact on slowing climate change.  Earlier editions of the report have addressed the challenges of limiting warming to no more than 2° C.  However, “Rapid deployment of energy-efficient technologies . . . would postpone this complete lock-in to 2022, buying time to secure a much –needed global agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.”

Natural gas remains, according to the Outlook report, a very important aspect of our energy future.  Again, it is technology development that has allowed the efficient extraction of natural gas from shale.  With the potential for the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the US becomes a major source of energy for developed and developing countries.  There is a growing demand for energy in developing countries and a relatively rapid shift from nuclear to alternative sources of energy in developed countries such as Japan and Germany.  Both contribute to growing demand for natural gas and the importance of the role of the US as an exporter of LNG.

Advances in Energy Research are making renewables increasingly capable of playing a more important role in our energy mix.  The World Energy Outlook 2012 report forecasts that renewables will account for almost one-third of our total electricity output by 2035.  This would be a very significant development.  Without new technology much of these changes would not be occurring.  The Outlook report is a reminder of the very critical role of R&D spending by corporations, the US funding agencies, and universities.  With that technology development, the energy landscape is altered considerably.

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Attorney General Olens Supports Right to Use Criminal Background Checks

July 24, 2013

Attorney General Sam Olens announced today that he and eight other attorneys general have sent a letter to the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to express concern over two recent lawsuits filed by the commission dealing with employers’ use of criminal background checks. The EEOC, for the first time, claims that the employers’ use of criminal background checks constitutes unlawful discrimination against potential employees under federal law.

In the letter, the attorneys general say that the lawsuits, filed against Dollar General and BMW Manufacturing Co. LLC, are “misguided and a quintessential example of gross federal overreach.” The letter urges Commission Chair Jacqueline Berrien and the other four Commissioners to reconsider the lawsuits. The attorneys general also ask that the EEOC revise the agency guidance driving the lawsuits, which asserts that using generally applicable criminal background checks as a bright-line screening tool in the hiring process will often violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“The EEOC has gone well beyond the confines of the law. Businesses may decide for a variety of legitimate reasons that it is not in their best interest to hire people who have been convicted of certain — or any — crimes,” Olens said. “At a time when Georgia businesses are already saddled with a multitude of burdensome regulations, the last thing we need is another federal regulation imposing even more unnecessary requirements.”

Title VII prohibits intentional discrimination (known as “disparate treatment”) as well as, in some cases, practices that are not intended to discriminate but have a disproportionally adverse effect on minorities (known as “disparate impact”). In published agency guidance and in the lawsuits, the EEOC argues that using criminal background checks as a bright-line screening tool in the hiring process will in many cases violate the disparate impact prohibition.

The attorneys general disagree that race discrimination is the EEOC’s actual concern and believe the agency simply seeks to expand Title VII protection to former criminals—something Congress has never approved.

“It defies common sense to suggest that a bright-line criminal conviction screen will only rarely be ‘job related’ and ‘consistent with business necessity.’ An employer may have any number of business-driven reasons for not wanting to hire individuals who have been convicted of rape, assault, child abuse, weapons violations, or murder—all crimes specifically mentioned in the complaints,” the attorneys general wrote. “No matter how unfair a bright-line criminal background check might seem to some, it is not your agency’s role to expand the protections of Title VII under the pretext of preventing racial discrimination.”

Other states to sign on to the letter were Alabama, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina West Virginia and Utah.

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