Tag: Aspiration

Is every piece of truth worth telling?   (credit to the magnificent Cyranny for this one)

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Have you ever ‘butt dialed” someone?  (‘butt dialed’ means have you ever made a phone call that you weren’t aware of making, because the buttons on the phone got pushed by your sitting on them (in your pocket) OR having something in your handbag press against them?)

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Do you feel you ask enough questions or do you settle for what you know?

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In your opinion, do May/December (older partner with much younger partner) romances ever work?

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If the government offered to suspend all laws, and law enforcement for 24 hours, letting you (and everybody else) do whatever you wish… Would you be in favor of it, or not?  (Credit for this question goes to Cyranny and her Daily Quickie Question)

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Is it necessary to trust someone you like?  (friends, acquaintances or co-workers with whom you have no familial ties)

No. As my former co-worker used to say, “Trust must be earned.”

Do you hold grudges?   What do you do when someone really irritates you?

I do hold grudges sometimes. Not that I want to. There are some things that’s easy to forgive but hard to forget.

When someone really irritates me, I try to vent, get my anger out in the open before the anger turns to full-blown meltdown. If you follow my blog long enough, you’d know I vent my anger right here since I can’t do it in real life.

What’s the most sensible thing you’ve heard someone say?

It’s better to live in cooler climates than warmer climates because you can layer up to keep warm. In warmer climates, you cannot shed layers, otherwise, you would end up barenaked.

Is crying a sign of weakness or strength in adults? 

No, crying is a bodily function and it certainly does not show weakness in anyone.

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Why do we dream?

I believe we dream because our minds are trying to tell us something, something we may not be aware when we’re conscious, or when we are having trouble pinpointing our desires even if it’s temporary.

Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of January 18, 2021” →

What should you get rid off, that would make your new year better, and why? (Don’t say Covid-19, we all want to get rid of the dang virus)

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What’s a relationship deal breaker for you?

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Pick three words to describe this past year.   (please keep them PG. Thanks).

Crappy, sucky, boring

Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of December 28, 2020” →

What is your favorite type of cookie (they’re called biscuits in Europe I believe)?

There are two kinds of cookies I love – the soft, melt-in-your-mouth cookies and the cakey cookies. My favorites are snickerdoodle and my homemade chocolate chip cookies especially if they’re still warm.

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What news event do you vividly remember hearing about as a child, and where were you?

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Do you enjoy skiing or ice skating or if it’s warm where you are, hiking or enjoying outdoor sports?

In the recent years, I have become somewhat of an avid hiker though I’m still mostly sticking to easy and moderate level hiking trails – the difficulty is based on alltrails.com.

I would love to try snowshoeing in the back-country. I can imagine it’d be fun and different.

I tried skiing a few years ago. It was a painful experience because I haven’t had the calcium accumulation taken out of my leg which had caused a lot of pain walking in the ski boots. I would love to try again though as I’d think it won’t be as painful now as before.

Do you give to charities or homeless that you might encounter, during this time of year, more than you do otherwise?

I donate when I can – usually to either nature conservation agencies or World Wildlife Fund – it doesn’t matter the time of the year. When I have some spare change, I would donate.

What is the most enjoyable activity you engage in during December?  Is it a tradition for you and your family?

Office parties and the 12-days of Christmas hosted yearly by my department.

Is it sad to say those are the only things I enjoy about December? Being from China, my family doesn’t celebrate Christmas or any of the year-end holidays and my mom’s always bitter during this time of the year because there’s always problems with one of her two tenants during November or December.

What changes will C-19 bring to your festive celebrations this year?  

All the fun holiday activities at work got canceled – year-end company party has moved to virtual, 12 days of Christmas is canceled, and departmental Christmas dinner has become ordering from DoorDash and virtually sharing meals over some unpredictable and limited internet bandwidths.

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Where do you get your news?

Google, either that or from a friend on Facebook. Google news is taiilored to the type of news I want to read so I’m only getting news in the areas I want to read, i.e. finance, entertainment, no politics mumbo jumbo.

When was the coldest you’ve ever been?   The warmest?

By coldest, do you mean temperature as in what is the coldest place I’ve ever been? Because the coldest place I’ve ever been would be where I live now which is the frozen tundra of northern Utah. It’s been pretty chilly since September and these days, the temperature hardly moves above 32-degrees-Fahrenheit or 0-degrees-Celsius and when it does, I’d be sweating like crazy.

On the other hand, the warmest place I’ve ever been is Las Vegas and vicinity. That heat was so unbearable when I visited last summer. I felt like I somehow got put into a giant oven with a temperature setting of “bake until charred.”

What ‘old person’ thing do you do?

I like to talk on the phone instead of text or tweet or snapchat because by the time I type all I need to say on my phone, I would’ve already spoken it and received a reply. I am very impatient when it comes to waiting for a reply.

Do you eat food that’s past its expiration date if it still smells and looks fine?

I have admit, yes, I do do that. In fact, I did that last week when I used a bottle of rice vinegar that was expired in 2017 to make some salad dressing. I don’t think vinegar goes bad and that rice vinegar didn’t taste funky to me.

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What’s the first thing you notice about a person? Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of March 4, 2019” →

If you didn’t have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time? Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of February 18, 2019” →

What’s your favorite way to spend a weekend? Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of February 11, 2019” →

What traditional Christmas decoration is actually a parasitic plant? Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of December 17, 2018” →

Are you an Early to bed, early to rise person, a night owl and day sleeper/dozer, or an ‘I’ll sleep when I’m dead’ person?    Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of November 19, 2018” →

What’s the most ironic thing you’ve ever witnessed? Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of November 12, 2018” →

Name something you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark forest or in an abandoned building. Continue reading “Share Your World – Week of October 29, 2018” →

What’s the biggest screw up in the kitchen that you were responsible for?

It’s hard to say. I’ve had a lot of screw ups in the kitchen over the years. My most recent screw up, I would say, is when I tried to make brioche two weeks ago. I had no idea it would take so much work – a dough starter, dough, time, not to mention I was missing a dough hook, which meant I must knead the dough by hand.

The bread did not come out right at all due to under-kneading. A dough hook, in my opinion, is the essential necessity to bread-making.

Another one of my memorable screw ups was when I tried to make Italian meringue for a cupcake frosting a few months back. It took me too long to pour the hot sugar syrup into the egg whites and it caused the sugar to turn rock hard. When I turned on the hand-mixer, whipped egg-white flew everywhere. What a mess it had been!

What, in your opinion, makes people believe absurd conspiracy theories?

Faith? Hope? Curiosity? I, for one, am one of those people who believe in absurd conspiracy theories. I don’t know why. I’m fascinated by them.

In 40 years what will people be nostalgic for?

Low price foods and goods. Things are going to get expensive, in my opinion, so expensive that a lot of people will probably not be able to afford some of the everyday items.

Is a hot dog a sandwich?

No! A hot dog is a hot dog.

What wonderful thing happened to you this week that you’d like to share? It can be a gratitude moment or something that just made you feel very happy at the time or made you laugh.

I got to see more fall colors when I spent Sunday afternoon driving up the mountain. I got some wonderful pictures despite not getting the chance to do one last hike before winter. My new car handles the curvy mountain roads beautifully and I am happy about that.

Finally finding a Halloween costume for my work party was also wonderful because I had spent the past two months figuring out who I going to be for Halloween ever since I found out the department is doing a group costume representing each of the twelve months in the year.

After an hour at the Halloween store, I settled on a Bumble Bee costume to represent the month of August – National Honey Bee Day.

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