My Camping Gear List

=== Sleeping Gear ===

* 1. tent
* 2. camping pad or air mattress + pump
* 3. light quilt
* 4. sleeping bags or heavy quilt
* 5. tarp and threads

=== Food ===
1. cooler + ice
2. bamboo skewer/roasting fork
3. foil and plastic wrap
4. paper towel
5. facial tissue
6. plastic plates/cups/forks
7. swiss knife
8. a pot with cover
9. pot handler/gloves
10. table cloth
11. wash cloth
12. jug with filter
13. seasoning oil and/or salt and/or brush
14. breakfast noodles and spam
15. other food and fruits
16. chips
17. water/soft drinks

=== Cooking ===
1. grill
2. charcoal + lightening fluid
3. wood starter
4. newspapers to start the fire
5. matches
6. ax
7. tong
8. protane oven + protane

=== Tools ===
* 1. flashlight and/or lantern
* 2. camera + some cash
3. maps
* 4. medicine
* 5. entertaining stuff: cards, frisbies
* 6. bathroom tissue
* 7. sun block lotion
* 8. insect respellent
9. insect respellent candel
* 10. facial cream + body lotion
* 11. tooth brush + paste + shave
* 12. shampoo + soap
* 13. contact lense + glasses

=== Clothes ===
* 1. underwears / t-shirt / socks
* 2. slippers
* 3. swim wear + beach towel
* 4. coats

婚姻家庭生活

很少在blog说这个话题，不是我不看重家庭生活，而是这个事情很难说，而且可能说个三天三夜也说不清楚，费力不讨好。blog是谈开心的事情的地方，不要那么严肃。

但是昨天晚上接到一个很久不见的老朋友的电话，一上来我还在开玩笑说他良心发现了过了一年才想起给我打电话，他却告诉我前一阵心情很不好，我问怎么了，他告诉我他离婚了。我很吃惊。没有想到这样的事情会发生在我的周围。没有想到真的有这样的事情。

主要的情节梗概是他在出国读书前10天注册结婚，1年后帮助他太太申请到了同一学校的financial support，太太过来了后将近1年开始分居，又过了1年办妥离婚手续。他太太对他说，他从各个方面来说都比他低一个层次，他是在她最失意的时候捡了皮包。

他太太所说的那句话的确是让人心寒。我没话说。不过我听到的事情加起来也只有10天，可他们在一起也有3年了，所有的故事都是来自他那一面的，我来做什么结论都可能有失公平。现在说什么都晚了，也是于事无补。只能安慰他，问他好不好，说早些结束不合适的感情可能是个很好的结果。

虽然和他并不是真正地很熟悉，他主要是我劳工的好朋友。我很为他可惜。他是个很老实的男生，28岁就背上了“离过婚”的标签，会为以后的感情生活带来了很多地障碍吧。挂了电话开始想整个事情，更是想不通。虽然有过很多次对劳工很恼火，摔门而去，半天不想和他说话，但是还从来没有在脑海里有过离婚这两个字。不过，要是真的走到这一步，那就走过去，重新开始吧。

我的信条：事前仔细打算，谨慎慢行；事中循序渐进，一板一眼；事后坚决果断，不拖泥带水。//sigh 感情的事情，没有谁对谁错了。真的走到最后一步，多想想他/她给你带来快乐的时光，放手。

祝愿我的那个朋友，一切顺利。

Funny Character Analyzer

I am an Asteroid. I am a drifter. I go where life leads, which makes me usually a very calm and content sort of person. That or thoroughly apathetic. Usually I keep on doing whatever I'm doing, and it takes something special to make me change my mind. What Video Game Character Are You?

Kayaking Plan

Haven't been out for long time! Summer is almost here and now I am planning for an outing after 3 weeks.

The basic plan is camping + kayaking. Here is a link for reference. I picked Adventure Sports Canoe & Raft Trips and Kittatinny Canoes. The main reason is that they are in PA so it is closer to us and they have better rates on that website. Propably I will go with Kittatinny since it owns camping site also. So I don't need to bother to find a camping spot closer to the kayaking place.

Hope kayaking is easy for beginners! The draft plan is to kayak on Saturday, camp overnite and do a little hiking on Sunday. :) Of course don't forget camp fire and BBQ. I will call them up soon. emm... if you are reading this blog and are interested in camping with us, let me know. :D

No time to post!!!

I do have some food pictures to upload. Just haven't found the time yet. Anyway, I will try to do that this weekend. Many of them are from a party two weeks ago. I invited 5 people to my place for a dinner party. It went pretty well. :)

Last weekend when I drove back home, my husband already cooked soysauce ribs (hong2 shao2 xiao3 pai2), tomato soup and a vegetable. :) He's getting better in cooking and I enjoyed ribs a lot.

Have to mention a novel I read from mitbbs couple days ago. It is a story about a couple (Shanghai girl and her husband from East-Northern China). It is a well-written story but heart-broken. A couple who used to love each other deeply can end up in kill. The problems built up by little things because of the family background. Anyway, I was very upset on Friday. If you have chance, please do read the story and think about how to avoid such things from the beginning.

Every day Germany: tschuiss (good bye), "guten morgen" (good morning), and "wie gehts" (how's it going).

Another Day As Intern Here

Well, if you don't know, this summer I work as an intern in Siemens Corporate Research. It is in Princeton, NJ. About 45 miles from Bethlehem, PA but it requires 1hr and 30 min driving. :(

SCR is overcrowded with interns. Here is about 250 full-time employee and 150 interns. Most interns are from Europe, you guessed it, German. So I am like living in German with all these Deutisch speakers around. :D Guten Tag! Pick up my long-forgotten Germany a little bit.


Work is OK and I am doing my best at it. For work, I try to my best to make myself worth the salary paid by them. It is too boring to discuss job content in a blog so I am going to omit 2500 words here. HEHE.

OK. Gotta back to work!

自力更生的早餐 Tofu Breakfast

别看照片貌不惊人，可是我很喜欢吃的豆腐花和花卷哦。为什么说自力更生呢，嗯，豆腐花是自己用豆浆+熟石膏点的，豆浆是自己磨的，花卷是自己发面作的，连豆腐花里的小葱也是自己种的呢。

一直弄不懂，豆腐花怎么就这么鲜，这么嫩，这么好吃呢。最早我试过用醋点豆腐花，必用熟石膏方便，但是味道远远不如哦。

磨豆浆：
原料：黄豆2小包
工具：blender
时间：30分钟，需要提前一天浸泡黄豆

1。黄豆2小包，淘洗，泡水冷藏过夜。泡了以后，体积就会增加一倍。
2。用blender分批打碎黄豆，加适量水。用纱布过滤去豆渣。
3。豆浆烧开。一定要烧开阿，否则有毒的。可以加少量糖调整口味。

做好的豆浆可以冷藏1个星期左右，我做得比较浓的。做成的豆浆体积和发大的黄豆体积相似。

点豆腐花：
原料：豆浆，熟石膏（中国店里很容易买到的）
辅料：虾皮，紫菜，榨菜，葱花，酱油，辣油，麻油。
时间：10分钟

1。取一大碗豆浆微波加热到很烫的程度。
2。冲入少量水化开的1ts - 2 ts 熟石膏。多做几次就知道了。一次加了没凝固可以重新加热豆浆，然后再加熟石膏溶液。
3。加盖静置5分钟，凝固了就可以。否则重复步骤1。
4。根据自己的口味加入辅料。

花卷也是我很喜欢吃的面食。做起来方便（用面包机揉面），吃起来也很香。：）做法很简单，就是发面擀开，刷油，撒盐，葱花，捏起来，二次发酵，蒸熟。不多罗嗦了。

星期天的两餐 Two meals on Sunday

我们两都喜欢吃河海里的东西，什么鱼虾之类的，每个星期不吃上5，6次都不舒服。周日早上吃了很饱的早饭（自家做的发面葱油饼), 中午就吃得少一些:


清蒸小黄鱼和炒青花菜

小黄鱼是在NJ买的,虽然是冰冻的,质量不比国内卖的差哦.鲜嫩阿.买的时候一定要看好,中国的东海小黄鱼,其他的什么大黄鱼之类的,都是很不好吃得.清蒸很简单,葱姜酒盐,开水蒸8-10分钟,虚蒸4-5分钟就可以了.

晚餐要丰盛一点:


冷面,炒青椒虾仁,crab cake,凉拌豆腐


夏天吃冷面,很爽口开胃的.上海的吃法是冷面拌花生酱和醋. 远远两个黑黑的是crab cake,买的半成品,不好意思煎黑了点.炒虾仁做面的浇头.还有一个凉拌豆腐也是清爽可口的夏日必备菜,这次用了香椿头拌的.

Scare of BLOG

(Today I got up early because I was supposed to grade some final papers with a Prof. But when I reached school AT 8AM, he told me he had that done last night. - -||| So now I got a little time to write something down.)

Sometimes I am scared of BLOG. I am not scared of showing my emotions/feelings to other people. Since I was a kid, I have believed all the things I did/am doing/will do should be able to tell anyone in the world (if they are interested of coz). So I am very frank when people ask me questions. Obviously I will not mind to write my real thoughts in BLOG.

The thing I am scared of is to see other people's stories. I do not have very close friends. I intentionally stay some distance from other people. That is because I easily get upset for someone else's bad experience and I easily get worried for someone else's bad situation. I know that's my fault. Too much care and the inner pessimistic me.

Now, becoz of the blog, I can check out many friends' lives every day. Now with MSN space, it's very easy to see that they have added new stuff into their blog. Also it's hard to constrain my curiosity and not to check those out. Some distant friends are just like sitting next to me and tell me their stories every day.

That is quite scary to me. But I will survive... believe me... :)

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Next Friday I will invite some friends over for a dinner. There will be 7-8 people (a crowd!). I am thinking hard to feed them. HAHA. As a tradition, the menu will be a secret till that time. :D

Next Saturday I will go to a friend's wedding. My old officemate is getting married! Feel quite excited to see him in formal dress since he usually dresses in quite 'crappy' casual clothes.

急诊室的故事 - ER

这几天看了第一季的ER，看到半夜三更。最喜欢这个片子，里面有的是人生百态。很佩服编剧，可以把4-5个故事串在45分钟的片子里，看的时候，就像在急诊室工作一样，每分钟都不让人省心哦。有不得不面对死亡的病人，恩爱的夫妻，无人照料的老人。。。 第一季里有乔治.科鲁尼，那时候他真的很帅哦。：）有些其他的演员，直到了十一季还在，真想看看他们的整个的故事。

劳工看了以后半夜也不睡，说是看了以后很depressed，我却感觉还好，可能是这个故事和我天生的pessimistics很合拍吧。有一集里有个老太太，虽然病情危重也不愿意住院治疗，说是不愿把生命浪费在医院里。真希望我老的时候也会这样，能够从容自主的面对每一分钟。

看了ER和最近的女植物人案子，对劳工说，如果我要变成植物人了，千万不要救我，器官什么的，谁要就拿去用，多救一个好一个。没有生活的生命，又有什么意思呢。

假冒硝蹄膀 Salted Pork Shoulder

这个蹄膀的做法很简单，味道和国内的硝蹄膀有得一拼哦。虽然可以看到有很多肥肉，吃起来却一点也不油腻。是夏日很棒的过酒小菜。不过要比较有耐心一点，大约要3天的时间。

原料：
a. 花椒若干，盐
b. 蹄膀一个(pork shoulder)
c. 细绳若干(美国超市里有用来绑火鸡的绳子，买上一捆，可以用来包粽子，也可以用来做别的用处）

做法：
1. 蹄膀去骨。骨头和一只cornish hen一起烧了一锅很香的汤，吃的时候加粉丝白菜，很好吃。：）
2. 炒香花椒盐（千万不要用不粘锅阿，要把锅炒坏的）。趁热用花椒盐擦遍蹄膀内外。
3. 蹄膀放冰箱冷藏2天。
4. 取出蹄膀，用冷水冲净表面的盐粒，花椒粒。卷起来，用绳子扎紧。
5. 入大锅，煮30-45分钟。直到熟透。取出冷却（不要解绳子哦）。
6. 冷到室温以后，放冰箱冷藏过夜。
7. 解绳子，切薄片。争取每天都带皮带肥带瘦。觉得味道不够的话，可以用蒜泥，酱油，麻油，糖做成蘸汁。我觉得不蘸也很香了。

盐腌2天的蹄膀，肉紧而香，和直接煮的味道截然不同哦。

还有一张照片，是上周末去费城看杂技表演时拍的。：）这种热热闹闹不用动脑筋的表演，我最喜欢看了。