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psst, hey. yeah, you. come here for a second, will ya. i've got something to tell you. nah, don't be afraid, this'll only take a second.

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and that's fun in the kitchen

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"how does he do it?" you wonder. come on, admit it. you do, you so do. and i'm gonna be nice. instead of blogging about the marvel that is girls (how beautiful they are, how they won't date me, how i don't understand them) this post's to be about... cooking. that's right - i cook. what i did tonight though hardly constitutes cooking. it's soo easy, yet tasty. because i rock. i rock, and i give you *drum roll* ramen.

that's right, ramen. we all know it, right? if you don't, you should consider going to uni - it's good for you. "but wait" you think. "i've had ramen, and it's not tasty. not in the least." well, perhaps you didn't prepare it properly? huh?

this is what you start with.



i know the ramen isn't included, but we've all seen it and truth be told it's not that interesting. what we do see is salmon (1 block), garlic (3 cloves, feel free to use more, but not less), chili (1 pepper) and cabbage. and that's it. well, you also need oil (for frying), and about a large glass of water. write that down - water, 1 glass. make sure you have it, and if you don't, go borrow from your neighbour. just remember to return it.


unrelated picture. this t-shirt hangs on the wall in my office. i think if i'm ever drunk when there i'm prone to steal it. seriously, it's the awsomest tee i've ever seen.


as you can see i've started chopping the garlic. it should be chopped fairly thin. also chop the pepper, thin as well. for this course the pips stay in - awesome spiciness is the good.



pour oil in your wok (i use peanut oil, but sesame seed oil is also good - make sure you use one that stands heat) and turn the stove on max. when the oil's ridiculously hot add garlic and chili.



now it's time to cut the cabbage. you don't need a whole head (if you've got one on your shoulders, and if you don't it's probably a good idea to stay away from knives) - about this much should do it.



put in wok and turn off heat for a while, while tossing the contents. when it's cooled down a bit turn up to mid heat and add the water.



let the cabbage boil while you cut the salmon - i like to cut it about this thin.



then add it and the ramen (including spices but not bag) as well.



when ramen's done, serve in bowl.



and that's it. no whining about girls, no music tips no nothing. just dinner. enjoy.

unholy alliance

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gbg is cold as hell. traveled by bus for the first time. i found out a while ago there's a company running busses that are cheap yet comfy - they have electricity at all seats (which i need when i surf on my phone - battery time is non-existant) and free internet (which i don't need - yay flatrate). apart from the toilet not working on the way home due to it being bloody cold i'm very happy, though it takes almost an hour more than when driving.
fri we stopped by my friend's gf, because she'd made cupcakes - they were awesome - then went for drinks. met sappina at bishop's which was nice, then went to exxet. a girl i wasn't interested tried really hard to pick me up, and i feel a bit bad about rejecting her, though i guess really i shouldn't.
sat we cooked pork chops, went for more cupcakes and then went to liseberg, having a beer and ice skating before the unholy alliance. buffy failed to fix me a date, but there were two cute girls at the skating rink, one of which couldn't skate, so buffy and i got to help her. not a date, but at least i got to skate arm in arm with a girl :smile:
unholy alliance was ok. not counting the pre-band (missed everything but half the last song, and don't know who they were) mastodon played first. they were lacking their comp guitarist (checked it up on the internet afterwards when we went for beers, apparently he's in the hospital) but still managed to kick massive ass - they're insanely skilled. ammon ammarth are (imo) silly, so i slept in my seat for most of their time playing. slayer were tighter than last time i saw them, and chemical warfare was real groovy. we left when they started playing their last song since neither i nor my friend care too much for them and we'd checked our jackets.
on the way i'd seen this pub seemed really nice, so that's where we went (after a stop at bk). the place was nice, the people not so. we sat in front of their fire for a while (after asking a bouncer if it was ok to do so), but then one of the bartenders told us not to, and when we moved to the bar gave us the reason: he was afraid it might spark, since it hadn't been on for a while. went home early, so as to be able to rise in time for brunch before my bus left. this time i asked my tea be really strong, and it was good :smile: last time it was real watery.

infatuated

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when i woke up this morning i was completely and utterly infatuated with the girl in the red dress. while nicer than when i woke up sat (hung over like mad, drank yogurt with straw from sleeping bag - really hard when there're blueberries in it that insist on getting stuck in the straw - refused to get up before hearing ocean size with jane's addiction) it was really surprising, because i wasn't the least bit when going to bed. and i didn't really speak to her at all - i wonder what strange dreams i had to make my mind do this to me. i think she tried to talk to me, at the party. i'd found a guitar in a corner in the quiet(er - not at all quiet) room that i fiddled with, but all i could think of to say to her was how vexing it was that whoever put on the high e string had done it the wrong way so you had to turn the machine head the opposite way you expected to. i think it was the braid that did it. she didn't have it at first, so she must've done it sometime during the party - it was a loose braid, sortof haphazard, but with her thick hair it made your heart melt and turned your knees to jelly - there's probably a law against that. now i'm pretty much back to normal - it's strange how the mind works sometimes. it was a nice party :smile: sappina was crazy as always - leave it to the finns to lighten up the mood. me and buffy made the best gift - a watering can that we painted (with markers) - a cowboy, complete with hat, cactuses (or, i guess, cacti if you're being silly), mountains, vultures and a red, red sun, inspired by the flag of nippon. also, we planted two things in two small pots: one with condom (with effervescent tablets, so it rises when you water it - very droll), and one with arugula.
today i did some shopping. in my usual way, decide what i want beforehand, go straight for it, try, buy, and then you're done. i bought a pair of corduroy pants (to wear at the christmas party - i hate dress codes), and an extra slim fit black shirt - i've wanted one of those slim fit shirts since forever, but never gotten around to buy one. this one looks killer though - fits me like a snake :smile: and my hat blew off for the first time. it got a bit wet, and almost run over by a car, but it's ok.

horsies

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i went riding this weekend. not like the last time, when i sat on a gigantic competition jump horse, but on a pygmy icelandic. my horse was called neisti, but he wasn't one bit nasty. we only got to walk and tölt with them though, no gallop, and no pace - booh.
after that i went home to my parents to change tyres. i changed both their cars, but one of my winter tyres was flat, so i couldn't change it. sucks - but i'll have it fixed during the week.
after spending a good month on hesse's glass bead game i finished the latest pratchett in a couple of days, and now i've started on the moon is a harch mistress. havn't liked anything i've read by heinlein apart from have space suit will travel, but i'm told this one's good. and regardless, i doubt it'll take a month to read.
mom had me bake november cake, and sent some of it home with me. will have a piece now, with a good cup of tea (three actually, yay for my new tea pot) and some (hopefully good) heinlein.

ginger

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is dope. i'm having it now, and i can already feel my cold succumbing to its awesome powers. since i know from experience that it'll kill you if eaten raw (my sis tried to have me eat it raw once when i had a cold - claims she didn't know it's illegal to kill your brother - and that's how i found out) i chopped up a fair ammount and boiled it in milk together with honey and a quill (yes i looked it up - but my, how eloquent i feel) of cinnamon. it's actually really tasty. i'll try to grate it in water and make tea later, but i can't seriously imagine it'll be anything near as good as this. hm, maybe i should put star anise in as well - now that'd be something.

scarf

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right, i'm wearing a scarf. indoors. and i'm drinking tea with sugar and whisky. a while ago i went to the store to buy ginger, with which to battle my cold, but since it's sunday the store was closed. i played really good pinball, four games i think (one of which was luck) on one credit. there where some kids there, i assume they were waiting for a movie to start, so i had a bit of an audience, which meant i couldn't curse under my breath. still reading the glass bead game, but i'm approaching the end at least - i failed to read thu to sat, so although i've read alot today i feel i've fallen behind. while it's a good book, right now i just want to get on with something else, which i guess is bad. always bad to rush things.
still havn't gotten hold of gojira's latest. i went to the record store this monday when it was released, but they claimed it was to be released fri. so i went back there fri, during lunch, and then they said it might arrive later fri. i didn't check back though, so i'll go there again tomorrow.

stood up

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so, no date for me - go figure. the last time i was scheduled to have one - which was rather a long time ago - at least i got an excuse: she had to do her laundry. (i still have the beer mat she wrote her number on, maybe i should text her and ask if she's ironing, or if she wants to go play pool.) this time i didn't even get a reason - i guess i'm just not made for dating. fuck it, like i care - i'll get a better date, you'll see P:
i've just joined twitter. i thought i'd twitter stuff on the go, but it seems not to agree with my phone (not the text service, that'd ruin me in no-time), so i'm not sure how often i'll update it. but check it out. follow me around. hell, you could twitter about me as well - "mrgnu is currently posting something to twitter", followed by "mrgnu is looking nervous, and make double turns as if trying to shake someone off". now wouldn't that be a laugh?
so i got kocky today and only brought change for one pinball credit - and of course it's the first time since i started playing on the way home from work i didn't get a replay on the first game, which resulted in me only playing once instead of my usual three to four games.
the cough isn't gone completely yet, but it seems to get better. it's time for tea and an orange now - i found smaller oranges that're much more tasty when i went shopping yesterday.
oh, and i had a wee drink of whiskey in the bath - to see if it'd do anything to my cold. i somewhat expect a knock on the door and an angry scotsman giving me a glasgow kiss, because i had rather a lot of water in it - more than half instead of a third. i just don't like whiskey very much when it's as strong as it is. but i do love wiskey and soda, although i'd never make one with stuff as good as the one i had in the bath just now. i'm not sure it did anything much to my cold, but i fell asleep in the bath for a much konger time than i usually do, so my hands looked like raisins when i woke up. no really, small, brown and wrinkly. only raisins don't usually wear black nail polish :smile:

cold

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i have the worst of colds. it's been going on for over a week now, and it sucks - i'm not usually this way. i've been drinking a pot of tea every night, and i'm eating an orange every night as well. still it won't budge. i've joked about increasing it to two pots of tea, and two oranges. well, it's a joke no longer - i'm drinking my first pot of the day now, and will have one tonight for sure. i've only got one orange left though, but i'm pondering eating a lime. if i do i guess i'll have to take photos. it's not that my nose is runny or anything, it's just this incessant cough - i'm surprised my neighbours havn't barged in yet, force-feeding me garlic.
the world's cold as well, though beautiful with the leaves yellow and on the ground. i wish i had someone to walk with, around stångån. we'd hold hands, look at the birds and talk about absolutely noting, laughing and pointing at stuff as they do in the movies. then we'd go back to my place, make tea, and snuggle in my couch. it's actually possible for two people to lay in comfort in my couch at the same time, although it's really small. it's the best couch ever, cozy and comfy. i'm actually supposed to go on a date next week. or at least i think i am - havn't heard from her in a couple of days. but we'll go play billiards, not walk around stångån.
summertime rolls is possibly the best jane's addiction song ever. "her nose is painted pepper sunlight". but now i'm listening to gojira. they're cool as well, and are releasing their new album monday :smile: and they're comming to sweden.

pinball

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i went playing pinball after work tonight, before going shopping for groceries. it's on the way and i've been meaning to countless times, yet never taken the time, or simply just havn't had it - mostly the former, so shame on me. they had two games, medieval madness (which they used to have at biljardpalatset in nkpg) and arabian nights (which they had in the soldier's home when i was in the army). i had two credits worth in one coin, so i went for medieval madness since i've played it less, and since it's really fun. i played well (for being me) the first two games, got new games (but no high scores of course) both times, then played not so good once, and decent the last time (but since i had raised the replay limit twice decent wasn't enough for another game). i've decided to go playing pinball before shopping whenever i have the time - pinball kicks ass.
now i'm making a prok stew - the new kind i invented sometime before the summer. (i'm sure there are loads of people doing something similar, but since i havn't interacted with them i take full credit P:) only this time i've got nutmeg in it as well. i forgot to buy dates though (hey, isn't that illegal? :wink:), so the couscous will have to manage with turmeric. (doesn't taste much, but does wonders for the color.)
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