How I enjoy the moment

I was alone this noon, hungry, and bored. My mom left me chunks of chicken fillet in the fridge. I'm sick of eating fried chicken, so I decided to make another kind of food. Unfortunately, I've got no spices at all! I could only find onion, garlic, celery, and a piece of rotten tomato..

I opened the fridge again, searching for something interesting for cooking... voila! I found a jar of cheddar cheese! So I decided to make bake the chicken fillet (without alumunium foil, 'coz I couldn't find it anywhere!) with a very few ingredients!

These are what I need:

- 1/4 piece of onion (cut into very small pieces)

- some celeries (also cut into small pieces)

- some chicken fillet

- corn oil (i don't have olive oil, so i use this)

- salt & pepper

- cheddar cheese

- lettuce

Now, follow the steps:

Mix the onion & celery, pour a small amount of corn oil and stir. Then, put salt & pepper inside (the amount is up to your taste) and stir again.

Put the chicken fillet on the baking plate, pour a small amount of corn oil on them, then put the onion & celery mix on it.

Put some cheddar cheese on the top until it covers the chicken fillet.

Bake them inside the stove with small fire (don't set the fire too big, it'll be crust)

After it gets half-baked, put some lettuces on the top (rip them with hands, don't use knives) and bake them again.

After a few minutes, it's done!

I never imagined it'd taste sooooo good!

Simply, we can cook delicious food with very limited ingredients in a short time, and (of course) enjoy every single bite of it.

Just clear your mind and open for any creativities!

p.s: I think it'll taste better if we wrap them with alumunium foil. I've watched few times on tv cooking programs, wrapping them will make the taste of spices soak into the meat. I think I'll do some other variations on it someday =p

Adoring Burt Bacharach

My appreciation to this maestro started after I found the fact that he was the one who composed the song "What The World Needs Now is Love" - I wrote about it on my previous post.

Maybe it's too bad for me for not knowing him before, but since I don't live in America and (also) not living in his era, I think it's fine. At least I know him now - while he's still alive, and am appreciating his works.

Actually, I knew some of his famous works and have been adoring them. I just never know that he was the one who made them.

Some of my favourite works of his are:

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, (They Long To Be) Close To You, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, and of course.. What The World Needs Now is Love.

Burt Bacharach ([ˈbækəræk]; born May 12, 1928) is an American pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick. As of 2006, Bacharach had written a total of 70 Top 40 hits in the US, and 52 Top 40 hits in the UK.

For further information, be pleasure to check the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Bacharach

What made me adore him so much is that he could make lots of wonderful works with enjoyable melody & unique arrangements. And of course... because his works last forever! For me, great works are those which would stay known forever, I think everybody agrees with that.

Salute to Burt Bacharach and the lyricists Hal David. I wish I'll be able to make great compositions too!

Let's Fly to Europe!

I always want to go to Europe, whether for just a trip or even going to college. Since it's too hard to get the scholarship, I took this funny thing instead. Well, who knows...? Hahaa..

So, just click it and let's fly together!

Music World

I want to live in the music world.

I'm sick of living in this cruel and pathetic world.

This thought occured after I read so many news about violence and crime.

Look what's happening in Gaza. What's actually in their minds? Killing innocent people and proud of doing that... Are they really humans???

I'm not supporting Palestine because I am moslem, but it's more about humanity!

My friend sent me an e-mail which contains some pictures taken in Gaza. The sender was American; even an American thinks that Israel has gone too far. The pictures she sent were never published in the US media, because they don't want people know what actually happen there. Even an American activist was killed by

I feel so lucky & blessed that I'm living in a peaceful place where I'm currently staying, but every time I think of what happen in Gaza.... I feel the pain in my heart. I can't imagine how people could live in such situation. And I can't also imagine how Israel could be so MEAN. Why can't we live in peace? Why's everything should be measured by weapons & arms?

In music, we have no big fights. In music, we're all in peace.
No countries or regions, no races, we're all living in the same world and concerning one thing: music.

Remember how New York Philmarmonic Orchestra performed in Pyongyang last year? There's no politic in music. We're in peace.

In this New Year's 2009 concert by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the conductor was Daniel Barenboim, an Israeli-Argentinean. Though he's half Israeli, no one bothers it. Why? Because he lives in music world, not in this real cruel world. He still got standing ovation and I didn't even have a slight of hatred to him, though Israel's started their airstrikes to Palestine few days before. Because we're in the same world of music.

Why can't we just play music together and live in peace?

I'm sick of seeing people killing each other....

the moon and me

Why am I taking the topic 'moon'? Because I love it so much.

Since I was a kid, I've been adoring moon a lot. It's not just because I loved astronomy, it's more because the moon is so beautiful to be seen. Shiny, round, bright, surrounded by the dark blue night sky....

Based on my likeness to moon, maybe that caused me liking every thing about moon. Sailormoon, Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven), Clair de Lune (Debussy), Moon River (Henry Mancini)... I like them all. I also love seeing the moon in the night, whether it's full or just crescent moon.

Claire de Lune is my most favourite piece ever, and seems like it illustrates the moon perfectly for me. Composed by Claude Debussy, it is the third movements from the 'Suite Bergamasque'. Clair de Lune, named after a poem by Paul Verlaine's poem 'Clair de Lune', is the most popular above all movements. It is told that Debussy made the piece by having the poem in mind. Some sources told that Suite Bergamasque was composed during his period of study, then he revised the work before publishing it.

Anyway, let's try to read the poem (I'll write the English translation of the poem, since I don't understand French) while listening to the piece.

Clair de Lune

Your soul is a chosen landscape

Where charming masked and costumed figures go

Playing the lute and dancing and almost

Sad beneath their fantastic disguises

All sing in a minor key

Of all conquering love and careless fortune

They do not seem to believe in their happiness

And their song mingles with the moonlight

The still monlight, sad and beautiful

Which gives the birds to dream in the trees

And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy

The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues

design, all of sudden!

I've just got a work to do today, a design work, after months away absent.

Well, I don't do the whole design anyway, just making some alternatives & 3D modelling. But since my friend gave me a folder full of interior images, my design brain suddenly moved on a bit. Well, maybe it's true that my design instinct will never fade.

My brother's just got a new bedroom, and out of nowhere a thing occured in my mind:
"Fill the walls with writings!"

Yeah, I've decided to put the blue ocean colour on one side of its wall. The rests are boring, and I haven't got any other ideas. My dad's gonna buy him some racks and cupboard, or just a credenza. Well, that sounds too ordinary, doesn't it?

So I'm thinking of putting handwritings all over the other 3 sides of the walls!

Whatever writings, in random order... that sounds cool, eh? It's sooo.... contemporer and YOUTHFULL. We may put our fave lyrics, poems, or just random words on the wall. Look at the example on the left, I wrote Secret Garden lyrics on it.

Anyway, YES, you have to WRITE them down on the wall with small painting brush.

Patience makes perfect.

what the world needs now

I'm opening this page with Andrea Ross.

Have you ever heard about her? For them who haven't, just read her profile at www.andreaross.com

I started to know her accidentally, when I borrowed my sister's mp3s. I found Andrea's album, Moon River. Because I'm a big fan of Henry Mancini's Moon River - & also Breakfast at Tiffany's - so I copied the album. I was lucky, I think, 'coz the songs are wonderful! They're all remade, but I don't see anything wrong for it.

One of them titled 'what the world needs now is love'. Yeah, this world's really lack of love. If there's enough love for everyone, not just for some, then there'll be no wars or fights. Here are my fave lines of this song:

Lord, we don't need another mountains.

There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb,

there are oceans and rivers enough ch to cross, enough to last 'til the end of time.
Lord, we don't need another meadows.

There are cornfields and wheatfields enough to grow,

there are sun beams and moon beams enough to shine. Oh listen Lord, if You wanna know.

Yes, God created this world with enough mountains, rivers, meadows... But people destroyed them. Now we don't have enough rivers or meadows. The lack of love made us lost those what God gave us. This song made me think a bit more about life, about what we're really lack of. But then, who could produce love and spread it all over the world? I'd love to give as much love as I can, though I don't achieve much. Giving is much better than achieving. So, spending life by giving love is enough, isn't it?