I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

The recent revival of The Iron Chef Series on Channel 5
Has got KF so excited that he records every episode every day (since we discovered it was showing), edits out the commercials, re-renders it, then saves it for when I get back so we can watch it commercial-free. It’s been great so far, they’re mostly episodes I’ve never seen, though they’re from the later seasons (the ones with Morimoto as Iron Chef Japanese and Sakai as Iron Chef French). I used to like Morimoto the best, cos he’s got Nobu sense of humour. But then he started to get a little boring. Now my favourite is Iron Chef Chinese, Chen Kenichi, but I really can’t say I’d eat the stuff he cooks. Sichuan is really not my thing.

There was an interesting theme the other day: new potatos from Nagasaki. The challenger was a (then) 25 year old food stylist and musician, Kentaro, the son of a well known chef who took on Chen Kenichi and won. I love potatoes. And the irony was that when Chen competed against Kentaro’s mother, the theme ingredient was potatos too. Older, bigger ones from Hokkaido. That was a nice match.

And of snooping
Yes, I couldn’t resist and went back onto Friendster to snoop yet again. And as if that wasn’t enough, I went back onto Orkut to snoop even more – and that’s really where more stuff happens because of the community element. Now – you’d think being the offspring of Google and sibling of Gmail, they could really let you search/sort/filter your head off around your communities right? Like I’d really like to know how many people in my communities overlap. So at least the next time I meet some of them at work, there’s one more option I could have to talk about, next to the weather.

But it’s amazing how many people change their photos, or their profiles, with such frequency and discipline. Damn, I need one of those.

*Gripe*
I seem to say this every Wednesday night/Thursday morning, but here goes. CSI Miami sucks, and if there’s only 1 reason, it’s because David Caruso is such a wannabe! Get over those over-the-top NYPD Blue heroics!

Thinking about better times

This was one of the few meals I didn’t enjoy

There is so little to look forward to at work. So here’s a shot from when I wasn’t working. All being busy does is distract you from your current discontentment. When it’s over, and you take a breather – with each breath you sink lower, until you were exactly where you were 3 weeks back, when you were bored and decided to sit on your work so that it’d avalanche later, and maybe for a moment, you’d feel some respite from the lack of motivation.

Here’s to a night of fine dreaming, and hopefully Thursday flits quicker and Friday breezes by. We’ll need it, with all that Sumatran forest fire smoke.