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Monthly Archive for August, 2011
I’ve always wanted to make beef wellington. I haven’t eaten a beef wellington at any restaurants before, so I don’t know how it should taste like. Then again, meat wrapped in ham and mushroom puree, baked in puff pastry; it has got to taste good right?
So, I make an attempt on this recipe today, substituting beef with pork.
The natural flavors of the mushrooms, pork and ham blend so well together. It is absolutely lovely. Only salt and pepper is used to season everything during the cooking. I wasn’t particularly happy when attempting to cut the wellington though. The puff pastry sorta came apart. Might have baked it a tad too long. Or maybe the mushroom puree wasn’t dry enough.
Overall, I thought it tasted good. And someone second that. So it’s all good. 
So here it is, my attempt on the pork wellington.
I have been having a love and hate relationship with my piano for the longest time. More love than hate though, since 1988. I’ve somehow neglected her ever since I started working. I play it on and off, but not often enough. Playing it today makes me realize how rusty I am. You won’t ever forget the notes, or how to play the piano once you know how to, but the playing isn’t all the smooth anymore. Super rusty.
I should play more often. I really should. I almost forgot how playing the piano calms me down. It is my go-to place when I’m in that super emo mode, and it allows me to release my emotions in any way I want. She is a friend who express how I feel in music. Nice.
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To stay positive in life is super important. But it isn’t exactly the easiest thing to do. Maybe confidence is needed from within us to gain that positivity. Maybe it’s the mindset. Maybe it’s just you telling yourself that you can do it.
Things don’t always go our way in life. When it doesn’t, that’s when negativity tends to slowly creep in and stay within us. Negativity drains every bit of energy out of a person, and it does more damage than one could ever imagine. It impacts not just the person themselves, but more importantly, the people around them who cared and loved.
Confidence is not exactly something that one can be presented with. It all comes from within. Motivation and encouragement does help, sometimes. Still, it’s something where only you and you alone can bring it out. Although, I must admit that sometimes I do wish that confidence can come in a nicely wrapped present, so I can have them for my birthday.
I’m not exactly the most optimistic person I know, and sometimes the pessimism impacts me in many ways which I, myself do not realize. It’s not good, really. I know. But I’m learning everyday the importance of staying positive, especially when things are not going as planned. The pep talk yesterday was yet another slap in the face, but it was a good slap.
I am trying. To learn the art of staying positive under all circumstances. I need to learn to build a higher level of confidence and also, to learn to trust. Trust; man that’s another tough lesson.
Well, we are all learning everyday to be a better person. aren’t we? 
Hi Greed,
I was first introduced to you when I was merely a kid. I didn’t think you were all that scary back then. But I knew you were bad. Well, at least that’s what Mum told me. I was taught that you, Greed, has a way of luring humans to doing things that will result in nothing but horrifying regretful consequences.
I remember once when I was a kid, where you grew too huge in me. I kept asking for more junk food, resulting in me making my body heat up, having a high fever for the longest time, where I ended up in the hospital for a couple of days. Not a very good experience, especially when I have the head nurse yelling at me for being greedy, eating so much of those junk food.
I grew up watching how you, Greed, took the lives of many. How the gambling, the drinking, the lying, all due to you, have led the life of many humans shattered before their very own eyes. I’ve seen how you can turn beautiful human beings into vicious lying disgusting beast. And many are not even aware how hideous they have become.
I know you are here to stay simply coz a lot of humans absolutely love you. They love you to death, literally speaking. Maybe it’s all for the money. Or lust. Maybe they have not thought of how when someone finds out about you, everything that they think they have would be gone in seconds. Why they embrace you so much is beyond my understanding. Never will I ever understand that.
Oh well. I’ll definitely kick you away if you come knocking.
-me
Everything will be okay in the end, if it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
-unknown
For you. It will be OK. It will be.
*hugs*
Sometimes, loving someone means having the need to make certain sacrifices. It is easier said than done though. But that’s just how it is when you truly love someone. Of coz we are only human. After making the necessary sacrifices big or small, over a significant period of time, one may start to question the sacrifice that has been made. Doubts may arise, for some reason. And sometimes, all one needs is to rant or scream. After letting it all out, somehow, one knows that it would be alright again, and that sacrifice, is nothing but worth it.
Love. It does things. Even after many years.
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