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Korean Beef Bowl recipe Ingredients 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 3 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 kilogram ground beef 1 onion, thinly sliced ground black pepper spring onions, minced cooking oil Procedure 1. Combine brown sugar, soy sauce, ground black pepper, and ginger 2. Heat the cooking oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add garlic until it turns brownish. 3. Add the ground beef and cook until they are light brown. Once cooked, drain the excess fat. 4. Pour in the soy sauce mixture and onions to the skillet. Allow it to simmer. 5. Take a taste test -- add more pepper as you want or add pepper flakes. 6. Take a bowl of rice and serve it with the beef recipe on top. Add spring onions as garnish. Enjoy! :)

It was nice to be out for lunch with my teammates. My Fettuccine with Meat Balls is from Carluccio's, Marina Mall.  Enjoyed too much of the photo booth with my colleagues at the Arabian Travel Market opening party at Rixos The Palm on a Sunday night. The loudest Sunday night I have been to in Dubai so far.  Eating ice creams and taking naps with my sister Rachel and her husband Melbert at Mamzar Beach Park. Trying to burn some calories as well these past few days... since the food that I almost eat everyday is fattening (or that's how I purposely think about it!) Winding down in the evening with a cup of tea to relax my chaotic mind (sometimes~) Watched two movies so far with my roommates -- Jungle Book (April) and Huntsman (May). I think we are doing it as a monthly activity!  So far it has been a good life lately. How's yours?

My view at the gym - in Al Barsha 1, Dubai Reading - I am starting to read 1984 by George Orwell. I am just a few pages in and so far it's interesting. Scary how some things in the book are somehow happening now or has happened before.  Writing - This blog entry. It's been a while that I have not written anything except work e-mails. So I am really looking forward to update my blog with my Friday happenings... ;p Listening - The Everly Brothers -- because I miss listening to old music! Back in the Philippines, we would play old music at home so loud all day. That's how some weekends should be! :p Celebrating - my brother's birthday? Well, He is in Brunei right now and he is in fact working! So I just bought some nice Madeleines and a cup of coffee to celebrate life!  Thinking - about planting again but how would I do this? There's no way for me to do gardening here. So I am wondering, when will I ever have my own garden again? Missing the home so much! Sm...

Today marks my first anniversary at work. I didn't realize it until my boss mentioned it. It's weird how I was so excited yesterday that I am going to be one year at work today... And on the very day, I completely forgot about it. Nothing exciting happened on this day except that I cooked Lo Mien Beef with Broccoli however I still could not make something that is exactly as nice-looking as the pictures on the internet. It was definitely exciting from the start and ended up feeling okay about myself for not being very good at cooking. Nothing is perfect after all! So anyways, one year... Wow. I remember asking myself how I am after a year of finally paying my own bills and doing actual adult responsibilities. you know, those serious and boring things~ Well, so far it has been fun to actually manage my own money. Keeping track of my money seems exhausting task to do but I look forward of doing my "accounting" on a weekly and monthly basis. I think I can say th...

Playlist: Eraserheads Fruitcake Rivermaya Bring Me Down Parokya ni Edgar Sampip Wolfgang Center of the Sun Put3ska Manila Girl Francis Magalona Girl Be Mine Barbie's Cradle Goodnyt Sugar Hiccup  5 years I am feeling nostalgic right now and so I decided to create a short playlist of songs that I loved since I was young. Thanks to my brothers who introduced me to rock music since I was a kid. :) A letter to self: Remember the times when your favorite place in the house is your father's office on weekends? Because you can freely use the computer and play all of your favorite songs through that black and neon green software called Winamp (then later on you found it interesting to change the skin every night). You would sit in the computer chair and turn on the speakers to its highest volume and you're day has been made! Those were the days! Simple joys filled with mostly music. No wonder you like to sing even though you're not too g...

You secretly cry in the middle of the night trying not to let everyone know that you are hurting inside. All the wide smiles, contagious laughs, and the jokes you randomly say seem to wash the thorns away. Every day, you compose yourself before going to work. In the parking lot where you sit and cry - then goes inside to do needlework. How do you let someone go, you ask? How would I know better if I have never done the same? Every day you wake, tears seem to lessen. You told me that maybe that is how you measure how much you have moved on... Maybe you are right.  Let me measure mine. *Inspired by my roommates life stories. Does not reflect my personal life.

Homemade salad -- a semi-regular lunch at work I did not do any creative ways to avoid the food -- or part of a recipe -- that I hated when I was a kid. I had my freedom of choice which is probably the reason of my lack of creativity with regards to this. Maybe I am lucky enough that my mother and father nor anyone in the family forced me to eat something nasty -- like vegetables. As far as I can remember, I just put those nasty things (aka too healthy things!) on the side and continue my journey to eating and be glad about it. Every one would ask me why I'm not eating the okra or tomatoes or onions or eggplant or the black meat of a tuna and I would instantly say graciously the reason why -- it's because it does not feel good in my mouth. And they would say, it's healthy and blah blah blah . I did not have to struggle from eating something I don't like. I was not the kind of kid who would whine about the same food. My family would give me food and I would eat it...