Starting to blog again?

It has been a couple of years since my last post.  Nothing much has happen between my last post and now.

The only big thing that happen is my boyfriend and I got a dog during the summer.  We've always plan to get a dog together but it happened unexpectedly.  During the summer the shelters had an event called clear the shelter with all dogs puppies to adult’s adoption fee reduce to $20.  The event was almost over with only 2 hours left to check out the shelters we decided to see what the event was all about.

The first shelter we went too was crazy packed!  We walked around and there were a bunch of cute dogs but we ended up checking out another shelter called wags.  It was a lot smaller, first we looked at a Chihuahua mix adult dog he was adorable and sweet.  But we decided to look some more.

I than notice this little white dog sitting between 2 bigger dogs that look just like her.  I didn't notice her at first she was so little and scared.  I asked to see her and she just melted my heart.  She was scared and was shaking very hard.  She kept hiding under the chair but we got her out every time.  It took about 30 minutes of us comforting her until she stopped shaking.  She started to wonder around the room exploring coming to us on her own.  So adorable!  We later found out she was from a hoarding house. The owner had passed away leaving behind 13 or so dogs.  They all seem well feed just extremely dirty. We did end up adopting her and naming her Mochi.

It took a month for her to settle in and open up her personality.  At first she didn't know what to do with toys, she didn't know how to play and interact.  She didn't eat much and thought us petting her was weird.  But eventually!  She started to do normal puppy things.  She is super attached to my boyfriend.  Where ever he goes she goes.  She is definitely a little drama queen.  Her personality is unlike any other dogs I have own.  She's smart but lazy unless treats are involved she is quick to learn although she gets a little over excited when she sees a treat.

It was an unexpected surprise adopting her, but i'm glad we did. :)

Fear talk 3; Being Bullied

Since as far back as I can remember I’ve always been known to be a passive person.  I didn’t like confrontation, the arguing, dramas, and the negativity so I always agreed with everyone to make people happy.  In elementary school I was known as the shy quiet girl I always wanted to sit in the back never wanted to get called on.  After a certain grade I would always day dream and space out because I didn’t like school very much.  It’s not that it was hard it just felt like a lot of people were picking on me which was mainly the guys.  I had one best friend in elementary I’m pretty sure his name was Tommy.  He never picked on me and we always hanged out together and got along very well.  Until the school decided to have a new lunch system involving computers which resulted in half the school being transferred to a new school and there goes my best friend.  I think the school was called sunny or Sunnyside? Not too sure but I was pretty sad.

Even though I was bullied by some of the guys the teachers didn’t help much.  There was one teacher that was very hard on me I won’t name names but out of everyone else she picked on me the most finding every way possible to get me in trouble.  Why? I have no idea why.  She was the only teacher I remember who tried her hardest to make that school year a nightmare for me.  Which in turn made me not want to go to school I have to admit my grades dropped and I stopped focusing.  I was like well why bother if the teachers didn’t even care.  I was bullied from elementary school to 7th grade once I moved to a new city closer to my mom’s job I wasn’t bullied at all maybe like once in 8th grade but it was whatever.  Once I went into high school the bulling stopped.  My grades went back up and I was doing well in school until another big event happen in my life which I will talk about that later on.

So what I’m trying to say is bullying doesn’t last forever.  Yeah I was bullied for most of my childhood and it was pretty hard, and it did affect my life.  I didn’t have that many people to turn too, I felt alone most of the time.  But look I’m still here today being bullied can hurt you but it's just words and yes words can hurt, but sometimes you just have to ignore and look past it all.  You can’t rely on people to make you stronger you have to be strong yourself, learn to overcome difficult obstacles in your life to be better.  Things happens for a reason maybe it’s caused by your surroundings, the people around you, or you made that reason happen yourself, but whatever it is it happened for a reason.  It’s something you can learn from and become a stronger better person to have a happy life.

Going Back To School!

I haven’t been to school in a while and just been doing my thing, but I think it’s time I go back and get a career for myself.  Even though it’s not what I expected my career choice to be you have to start somewhere; I’ll be attending a vocational school. I've been researching a lots of different schools and read some good and mostly bad reviews.  I’m excited but more nervous because a lot of money is going into this and of course I want something out of it. I just have to put myself through this and try my hardest and after this is all over we will see where I’ll be.  So far everyone that works at the school is very nice and helpful, so as of now everything is off to a good start! :)

Beef Satay aka Sach Ko Jakak

A couple of weeks ago my boyfriend and I went to the night market in Westminster. It is pretty expensive once you add it all up at the end of the night.  Anyways this was the first time my boyfriend tried the meat on a stick beef satay aka in Khmer sach ko jakak and loved it.  I've always wanted to learn how to make it and been meaning to ask my mom and grandma how to but haven't had time. So since I didn't want to bother them I took to the web and found multiple recipes. So I came up with my own and it was pretty good for a first time. :)

This is how I made mine

I have a premixed turmeric powder and Thai galangal powder that I made myself which is 2 tb turmeric and 1tb and 1tsp galangal and I used 1 tb and 1tsp and a half (1/2) of that mixture

1 TB and 1 and a 1/2 tsp turmeric/gangala powder mixture
Pinch salt
Pinch pepper
2 tsp sugar
1 tb honey
2/3 cup oyster sauce
4-5 gloves garlic - minced
2 small red onion or shallots - minced
4 stalks of lemon grass – crushed and minced
1 tb oil
Slice beef
(Depending on how much sliced beef you use you might need a little more or less oyster sauce)

Lemon Grass: Hit the stalk with the back of the knife and minced (picture shown at the bottom)

Mix all ingredients together mix the beef into the sauce for about 1-2 minutes just to make sure the meat is completely coated since they will get stuck together.
Let marinate for 1 and a half hours to 4 hours or up to 24 hours
Once done marinating set oven to 375-400 degrees
Skewer the beef onto a skewer stick back and forth kind of making an S shape
Put it in the oven for about 5 minutes or less flip once and leave it in for another 5 minutes or less until it’s done

Also how long it takes to cook depends on how thin or thick your slice of beef is. So make sure to keep an eye on it, how long I keep mine in might burn yours if your meat is too thin.

You can also grill it which is usually how it is prepared but I suck at grilling so I baked it. Same deal with grilling though only need to flip once unless you want the char color to be all over the place then flip away

minced lemon grass and garlic

beef marinated for about 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours

the end result! serve with rice

Fear Talk 2: I ain’t Afraid of no Ghost! ... Um Wait!

So this is something that’s hard for me to write about because it is kind of creepy.  But you gotta do what you gotta do. Anyways I wonder how many people actually believe in the paranormal stuff.  I was always scared but I never really believed it until it started happening to me.  I could go into full detail about everything I have experience, but it will probably be SUPER long and some people will probably get bored reading such a long post.  I could always write a couple different short posts in detail about this topic later.

But for now I’ll just write about how it all started.  I have no idea how old I was I just remember that it was the summer after 7th grade.  My parents just bought this big house with a really big backyard and I loved it! Until I was left home alone because my parents went back to the old house to pick up more stuff and needed more room in the car.  I guess its true kids have wild imagination because I got spooked I kept seeing shadows coming down the stairs at the corner of my eye and I literally sat outside in the backyard till my parents came back.

After that I never thought much about it, everything was normal until I was left home alone again.  I can’t tell you much of why I was home alone I have no idea where everyone was. All I remember is sitting at the computer area which is a little space by the top of the stairs, I hear my grandma door slam shut and a big gust of wind comes around the corner under my legs and into my face as if I was sitting in front of a fan on high, that’s how strong the wind was.  At first I didn’t freak out I figured it’s just the wind so I go and check my grandma’s room and guess what... THE WINDOW WAS CLOSED! So I start to freak out a little bit but tried to remain calm turned off everything and just went to my room.

This was just the beginning it got worse until it got better my grandma always told me to show no fear and be strong, but sometimes when its things unseen it gets pretty scary.  I have so many more stories I could go on for hours writing from beds plus other things being shake in my room, to sleep paralyze, scratches and seeing figures.  It’s a whole lot of craziness.

Sweets and More Sweets.

My boyfriend is so sweet he brought me some of my favorite candies! I love the mango revolcando lollipops. I've never tried the ones that look like mini tamales and I still haven't tried it yet I've only been eating the yummie mango lollipops and tamarindo push up thing.  He also bought me one of my favorite chocolates! Lindor it’s a thick chocolaty goodness shell with a melt in your mouth chocolate on the inside.  It was hot today and I forgot that the inside would melt so I pretty much took a shot of liquid chocolate. Still good but I like it better when it’s not already melted. :)

Animal Crossing New Leaf update.. sorta

I haven’t written on here in awhile and really I’ve just been spending time with my boyfriend and playing animal crossing lol. It’s so hard to make bells! Well not really but I’m so lazy and tired of running around the island catching bugs!  I finally got my town to a perfect town! Yay! It took a while because I have a habit of leaving stuff on the ground when my pockets are full. Especially the first Sunday in august for the fireworks show! I didn’t want to catch bugs so I kept buying fortune cookies from Redds until I got every firework item. I spent probably around 33k so not bad.  I haven’t been asked to build a police station yet but I have the café! :) I’ve also almost completed my house just 1 more upgrade on the left room and 1 for the basement! Anyways enough about animal crossing here’s some pictures!

top left; boat ride to the island

top right; making a wish on a star get's you an

item in the mail the next day

bottom left; finally got shampoodle! new hair!

bottom right; getting my fortune read

Fireworks! Hello Kitty fireworks!

Sparklers and Fountains!

So many sparklers from Redds!

This is what you get:

If you talk to Isabelle during the firework show

you get a head band bobber thing.

From Redd's: Boxed Figurine, Miniature Car,

Lovely Phone (that gives out daily fortunes),

Love tester and Ten Billion Barrel (does nothing), 

Ultra Hand (goes up and down),

Ultra machine (shoots the ball as pictured),

Ultra Scope ( the flag goes down. Is it a flag?)