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2009年3月3日星期二

Dreams

The other day when we were working on the Jackson problems, Joe suddenly sang, "I have a dream, that is: to solve the problem..." That reminded me of the great speech delivered by the African-American civil rights activist, Dr. Martin Luther King - although I already got one day off on M.L.K. Memorial Day, ha!

So, I spent a little time listening the speech:

I have a dream

Dream, what a fantastic word! Luffy launches out because of his dream to be the King of the pirates; Panda becomes a Kungfu master because of his Kungfu dream; President Yang manages his team based on what he dreams about Buddha. Although the guy, who said "having a dream is the most beautiful, and a hope is always with you," has destroyed some people's dreams, we still have the right to have our own dreams. See! Dreams represent not only hopes and rights, but also lies, not to mention that a dream is large, and it is free.

Recently, the state of one friend's msn was that "having a fond dream is even worse than having a nightmare"; while the one of another friend's was "without sleeping, I won't have a nightmare anymore."

Dear Homepage, you got to remember who is the one encouraged me when I had tough time, who is the one told me "To waste a dream is the most luxurious behavior that a person can ever do," which provided me the bravery to have dreams again. Don't forget, even a 3x year old woman - you know who I am talking about XD - has a dream, why are we afraid of having a dream?

2009年3月1日星期日

Potato

一個人一時大意，買了Costco九顆只要$3.5的馬鈴薯，於是週末窩在家想辦法消耗馬鈴薯，也是很合理的。

有圖有真相：

首先是大同電鍋登場，管他甘藷還是馬鈴薯，先丟進去弄熟就對了。

非常有效率。

估算錯誤放太多的蛋。

來自進與出的黑胡椒粉。

沙拉醬。

水煮蛋。

剖開的水煮蛋。

把蛋黃取出拌進馬鈴薯泥。

還有蛋白。

另外是起司馬鈴薯。

用烤箱一下就完成了。

還有馬鈴薯煎餅，用了些麵粉、馬鈴薯、打顆蛋，丟進油裡煎就行了。

我的擺盤真的有問題。

2009年2月28日星期六

Griffith Observatory

感謝人氣王Terry1許我們一個精采歡樂的週末。（註１）

因為本人越來越懶惰了，所以這次只有一張遠處模糊的照片。

正如Getty Center，Griffith天文台，也是個有錢人炫耀自己多有錢的建設，而且這個射殺自己妻子卻只要做兩年牢的傢伙的姓和名，你可以一併記起來（註２），因為他老兄就叫Griffith Griffith。（註３）

當年這老兄要把地跟錢捐給洛杉磯市政府時，還被以有賄絡嫌疑婉拒；諷刺的是，當他死後數年，洛杉磯市政府還是接受的他的捐贈，正所謂「嘴巴上說不要...」；換言之，Griffith他老兄從頭到尾都不知道自己蓋了座天文台。

這裡也是LA附近的著名景點，主要是看夜景，也可遠眺Mount Hollywood上「HOLLYWOOD」的牌子（軟噗同學表示，日前曾健行到那塊牌子底下走走，不過據她的經驗，最好是把GPS隨身帶著）。另外，此處也成為多部電影的場景，例如「變形金剛」中，機器人坐在天文台整棟建築上聊天；還有「Yes Man」中的女主角帶健身操的地點；另外還有加州州長的魔鬼終結者...。

相較於夜景，館內陳列的天文科普教材就顯得普普，大概是那天太餓一心只想趕快吃到印地安吧XD。（註４）

註１： Griffith Observatory
Griffith Observatory in Wiki
註２：只做兩年牢是因為他有錢，請得起方唐鏡，喔不，是Earl Rogers，請參照Griffith J. Griffith。
註３：不過徐徐這名字可能有點怪。
註４：印地安是位於華人區的台菜餐廳。