brown or white eggs?

i was very curious about brown vs. white eggs. afterall, i've tasted them both and it doesn't seem to be different (after you smash them, they look the same inside!)

this website (and a few others) says that brown eggs come from brown chickens, and white eggs from white chickens. apparently you check their ears for the actual color. no nutritional difference, just that it costs more to feed brown chickens, hence you pay more for brown eggs!

i must say brown eggs are better-looking than white eggs though, but then again, who cares if an egg is good-looking?!

15 weird things about earch.

i totally got sabotaged on my OWN blog???! this is her list. collaborated with lin to come up with this:

1. goes 'hee hee hee!' and shakes her head left and right while bobbing up and down walking.
2. actually believed me when i told her that looking at this particular flower in our garden would cause blindness. in my defense, i was a) also a kid, b) ALSO avoided looking at that flower.
3. used to leave her clothes ALL over the room we shared. (wait she still does that!). instead of putting them neatly in a corner, she would just STEP OUT of her clothes (one foot at a time), and leave them in the middle of the room.
4. has 4 different accents
a. very malaysian accent
b. very american accent
c. manja voice she only uses with mum
d. the ULTRA-MANJA-TO-THE-MAX voice she uses with albert (HAHAHA lin said that lin said that!!!*points finger at lingo*)
5. is very VERY passionate about fried chicken wings.
6. would rather starve than eat vegetables.
7. has a normal cholestrol level despite (5) and (6). unbelievable. UNBELIEVABLE!
8. scratches herself when she wakes up every morning for a full 10 minutes.
9. can go to sleep even after sleeping for 12 hours.
10. is absentminded. left her backpack (that has her laptop) in an airport shuttle. she got it back eventually.
11. is absentminded. threw her wallet into the trashcan. she never found it again.
12. carried a pee-infested couch from the street to her dormroom because it was free.
13. went bungee jumping in china because 'the rope seemed safe - the person who went before her came back alive'.
14. cut a hole in the top of her car because she 'wanted a sunroof'.
15. always thinks she has just one sister when she has TWO.

15 weird things about tach.

(this is in response to my little sister's blog - instead of writing 15 weird things about myself, I'll list 15 weird things about nano!)

1. points finger up in the air ALOT.
2. always EITHER full or hungry. tach = exclusiveOR(hungry, full).
3. told me when i was a wee kid that the if i looked at this pink flower in the garden, i would go blind. i cannot remember how many years went by with me walking into the house looking ONLY one direction... :(
4. had high blood cholesterol - then stopped eating pho and claimed that lowered her cholesterol.
5. used to have monday, tuesday, wednesday underwear as a kid - haha okay i did too. it's 'cuz we forgot to pack underwear during one of our US trips!
6. used to have these red pants her roommates at berkeley called the "plastic pants". HAHA.
7. once made cream of broccoli soup and added more broccoli, but DIDN'T KNOW SHE HAD TO COOK IT so it came out ALL HARD.
8. is very anal about making her bed and room clean (i.e. always on my case :) )
9. loves candles.
10. used to have this CORAL on her elbow.
11. now has this WEIRD BLUEISH PATCH on her leg.
12. has a whirlpool right on the top right of her forehead. haha.
13. made up the word "nang nang". it's not malaysian.
14. wants me to tapau rudys from texas, bring to virginia, FREEZE UNTIL THANKSGIVING, then bring to boston.
15. looks exactly like my little sister. i really only have ONE sister. :)

ps: look what i found!!

the saddest chicken fried steak.... :(

i love love(!!) chicken fried steak. if you ask my roommates from college, they can tell you stories on how i used to look up the dorm kitchen menu and circle the dates that they'd serve chicken fried steak (and popcorn shrimp!) on my wall calendar.



i had this for lunch today. very VERY misleading from the overly promising picture on the box. :(

pinkberry!!!

pinkberry's making its debut in the bay area!! totally excited, since i don't just like ANY frozen yogurt.

oh man it's the yummiest.

article.

paris hilton making waves at the office

so over the weekend i went to a housewarming party @ my co-worker's, dave's. used the common bathroom (his roommate's, matt's) during which i spotted a paris hilton fragrance bottle. eh?

so on monday i commented to dave that his roommate used a paris hilton fragrance (i didn't even know she made fragrances!),...is that a cologne, or a perfume?

so tuesday morning, he waited around till matt was gone, snuck into his bathroom, sprayed the fragrance on a piece of paper and bagged it up in a zip lock bag. it thus got passed around at work where each one of us sniffed. the men said it was a lady's scent, the women said it was a men's scent.

i guess it may be unisex?

Salivating :)

honestly, this looks SO good!!

biden vs. palin

i never blog about politics...but i can't even BEGIN to explain what the heck happened.

biden stuck to what a debate was about - he was clear, concise, and answered what the moderator asked, not necessarily 'what the moderator expected'.

palin on the other hand, looked like she was really coached (which, given her track record, she probably was). she stuck to the strategy of only answering questions that she knew how to, and when the path deviated, she completely avoided the questions or said 'i won't say what you or the moderator expected'. gwen and biden graciously ALLOWED her to steer the conversation towards what she knows best. energy, and the war. even then she misquoted. nothing on the economy, nothing on healthcare, lack of substance on the tax policy. 'john knows how to win a war, he's done it'. we lost the vietnam war!!! She wants to 'exert more power' as VP! she didn't explain ONCE how the mccain policies are different from bush's!!

it's irritating. people expected biden to do well, and he did, and got sidelined. people expected palin to spontaneously combust, but she managed to not look like a bunny. and because she didn't crash and burn, people said she was 'great'. OH MY GOSH!

a quote from christine: 'if mccain becomes president, let's really hope he doesn't die.'

michael seitzman says on 9/11:
Stop voting for people you want to have a beer with. Stop voting for folksy. Stop voting for people who remind you of your neighbor. Stop voting for the ideologically intransigent, the staggeringly ignorant, and the blazingly incompetent.

Vote for someone smarter than you. Vote for someone who inspires you. Vote for someone who has not only traveled the world but who has also shown a deep understanding and compassion for it. The stakes are real and they’re terrifyingly high. This election matters. It matters. It really matters. Let me say that one more time. This. Really. Matters.