tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101434432024-03-24T01:43:36.899+08:00in the world...I lost my oilcan.nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.comBlogger1224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-56207445137838543322016-02-29T13:03:00.001+08:002016-02-29T13:03:58.028+08:00Lost+Since+1/11/16:+Orange+Tabby+Cat+With+Blunt+Tail+EndLost+Since+1/11/16:+Orange+Tabby+Cat+With+Blunt+Tail+Endnedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-79191802613264185682009-09-10T13:41:00.000+08:002009-09-10T13:41:42.678+08:00nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-33441494910457570072009-07-19T11:32:00.000+08:002009-07-19T11:32:27.075+08:00nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-27376784478622902912009-05-12T04:39:00.005+08:002009-06-13T08:01:59.070+08:00Reverse MSG Shock IIAfter discovering that the FDA allows MSG to be labeled under many different names, especially if the substance is 98% or less MSG, I started re-reading labels. First, I looked at the labels at Red Robbin, where I ate lunch the other day, then at all of the labels I could find at home.At Red Robbin, the MSG laced products were:Red Robbin Seasoning (It listed 4 MSG ingredients: 1 or 2 were nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-349221209704089962009-05-11T06:09:00.004+08:002009-05-11T07:14:30.955+08:00Reverse MSG ShockLast year, I was feeling kind of relieved to be getting away from a place where Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is often added to the food, especially in restaurants and in packaged food and snack food. I'm sensitive to MSG. Besides often making my head ache and feel spacy, it tends to make my heart palpitate or race (any nervous system stimulant does because of my heart defect), which also makes menedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-54641730949142127682009-04-21T08:29:00.002+08:002009-04-21T08:31:30.897+08:00nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-16367924756735523592009-04-07T21:40:00.004+08:002009-04-08T03:06:05.270+08:00Negative Thinking Part II've been familiar with Philippians 4:8 from the time I was a small child. I thought I did pretty well at not thinking negatively until I read Secrets of Attraction, which uses quantum physics to explain the laws of interpersonal relationships and how we attract and repel people. It uses romantic attraction as an example, but shows how these laws apply to all of our interactions with other nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-24061029044078126002009-03-20T09:04:00.009+08:002009-03-20T09:20:27.903+08:00assumptions of stupidity: talking down a ten-foot pole<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 <![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-marginnedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-85343889861332991882009-03-10T08:32:00.002+08:002009-03-10T08:37:20.607+08:00webcam snapshotsnedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-50544425864414882382009-03-05T07:03:00.005+08:002009-03-07T06:43:48.087+08:00Self-Esteem vs. EgoI just finished a great book: You Can Read Anyone by David J. Lieberman, Ph.D. In this book, Lieberman devotes several chapters to the topic of self-esteem and ego, along with factors such as interest, confidence, mood, and humility. He goes into more detail, but basically defined self-esteem as our sense of self-worth, and equated ego with arrogance and insecurity.The interplay of self-esteem nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-21499440430797884532009-02-05T06:18:00.000+08:002009-02-05T06:19:28.904+08:00Frogs (why I lost my oilcan)When I read this in Frogs, 405 B.C., I absolutely howled. It might loose some of it's humor here because I pulled the passage out of the play, but it's about when Dionysus traveled down to Hades to bring back a good poet because all of the poets left on the earth weren't any good. After arriving in Hades, he engaged Euripides and Aeschylus in a contest to decide which of them would leave Hades nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-11114084872768623882009-01-12T02:28:00.016+08:002010-03-18T05:19:45.643+08:00Reverse Accent ShockAfter living in the Philippines for three years and in Canada the year before that, I was shocked to hear the accent that people have in the place where I grew up. Canadians and Filipinos definitely have an accent, but I had always thought that the people in the area where I am from speak basically the standard English of this country, not because I was arrogant, but because I didn't hear the nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-72965274431279484622009-01-09T07:21:00.006+08:002009-01-15T08:56:11.731+08:00only a little room left for dessert? eat another double quarter pounder w/cheese insteadI saw a tiny piece of cake being sold individually. It was regular cake, not cheese cake, and had the deluxe sounding name Velvet Creme Cake with creme cheese frosting, though I doubt that it's much different from any other store-bought cake (yuck!). I looked on the bottom of the package, and was shocked to see that it had 580 calories and 29 grams of fat. I showed it to someone else, who saidnedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-25177165503063892112009-01-09T06:10:00.000+08:002009-01-09T06:38:30.062+08:00nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-79252103433766927402009-01-07T08:18:00.002+08:002009-01-07T08:24:11.921+08:00Happy New Year!<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 <![endif]--> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Book Antiqua"; panose-1:2 4 6 2 5 3 5 3 3 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-81100507606969679972008-08-14T00:43:00.003+08:002008-08-14T01:14:38.215+08:00The Obssessive Compulsive Puddy TatWhen I arrived, my old man puddy tat was missing for the second time, but he showed up on the back porch the Sunday after I came. I noticed several changes in him. One was that he had lost his voice and had aged since I'd been there. He now has white hair and gray fuzz in his beautiful black coat. The other change that I noticed, other than his fur all over, was that he had become obsessive nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-6424211120032956912008-08-09T04:54:00.006+08:002008-08-09T05:08:26.610+08:00Sevn Bays, August 7 Dad, Grandma, and I spent the day with Aunt Katy and Uncle Doug on a really nice beach that we had all to ourselves. Then we went back to their house and ate BBQ chicken, yellow tomatoes, potato salad, and peanut butter pie.nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-12579849445297126702008-08-09T04:52:00.001+08:002008-08-09T04:54:20.913+08:00nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-39742613251883357022008-08-09T04:47:00.005+08:002008-08-09T05:03:52.095+08:00nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-1195359731849979762008-08-09T04:43:00.003+08:002008-08-09T04:47:39.723+08:00a bald eaglenedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-63712803976154784552008-08-09T04:33:00.004+08:002008-08-09T04:42:19.085+08:00dad on on air mattress and me paddling around an on an inflatable boatnedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-62308256235227934792008-07-31T05:59:00.007+08:002008-07-31T06:24:49.598+08:00My good friend in this picture was in the area for two days this week (she doesn't live around here anymore), and invited me and some of our other friends that we went to high-school with to get together on Tuesday night. It happened that one of them was having a Birthday party for her 3-year old son in a park that night, but said that we could all join. Praise has a very cute 15-month old boy,nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-42640633112126385062008-07-31T05:46:00.003+08:002008-07-31T05:57:25.337+08:00I'm HomeI'm home. My Dad took this just after I arrived. The flight took around 20 hours, which was shorter than when I went because my layovers were both short this time. I saw the greatest sunrise from the plane. It had vibrant yellow stripes on top, deep orange stripes in the middle, and deep, bright red stripes at the base, with one exceptionally bright red stripe where sun was coming up. The nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-73199538012003965892008-07-31T05:07:00.002+08:002008-07-31T05:45:22.140+08:00Bangkok, Thailand and Cambodianedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10143443.post-545800807654126492008-07-02T22:17:00.001+08:002008-07-31T05:07:10.798+08:00Bangkok, ThailandThis is the part of the Grand Palace where the "royal residences" are. nedrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12077129851209580882noreply@blogger.com0