29 ways to stay creative

Khan Academy

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization created in 2006, by Salman Khan. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of over 2,200 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.

Speaking as an American living with many struggling and failing public schools, I am eager to share this site with you. I just discovered the site a few months ago, and have already set up for my daughter. I am even using the site myself to strengthen my own math skills! I am excited, and thrilled when I see my daughter improved her math skill after a week of practiced.Here's the link Khan Academy

Sushi 85

We were invited to Sushi 85 to celebrate Vivian's Birthday. The sushi is pretty decent and the service is nice.


Boiled soy bean's with salt



Salad



Traffic Light Roll
Crab and unagi with three colors of fish roe on top


Deep fried tofu pieces dipped in a soy based sauce


Lion King Roll
Crab and avocado with baked salmon

Are you prepared

The devastating quake and tsunami in Japan are reminders that we live in earthquake country. The Hayward fault, considered to be the most dangerous fault in the United States, run right through our city.
Now is the time to check and restock your emergency supplies or get started if you do not have supplies already. Keep a stock of supplies at home, in your car, and at work. You can find information about preparedness at www.72hours.org (based in San Francisco),a wonderfully thorough site that provides good basic information.

7 ways to a wear scarf

Michelle Phan and Chriselle Lim fashion tutorial

How to create a free blog

Step-by-step guide for beginners set up a blog for free:
1. Sign up to create a blog at Blogger.com


2. Create a Google account



3. Sign in with your Google Account



4. Name your blog



5. Choose a template



6. Congratulations! Your new blog is Active!



7. Write your First Post

Borders Closing Down

Border closing down! I'm going to miss this store terribly, nice place to spend hours on week end,sipping coffee and browsing magazine .
Online booksellers may be cheaper, but they can't replace the bookstore experience. The joy of walking into Borders and browsing the shelve or reading quietly near the cafe made me so happy. I will miss Borders very ,very much!

Today's Lunch

Wandering around De Young Museum

The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa, held at the DE Young Museum

Daily Photo 2

Daily Photo 1

I've decided to start a daily photo project for 365 days. I'll try to post it everyday but no promises.OK! Here we go!

Lotus Root Shrimp Salad

Lotus Root Salad with Shrimp

2 cup pickled carrots and daikon, juiced squeezed out and drained
1 pound large or jumbo shrimp, peeled
1 jar of pickled Lotus Roots
1 bunch of celery stalks, thinly sliced on a diagonal
1 bunch of coarsely chopped mint
1 bunch of coarsely chopped fresh coriander
1/4 cup chopped unsalted, roasted peanuts
1/3 cup fried shallots

Dressing
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 1/2tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon water
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 generous teaspoon chili garlic sauce

1. Put the salt in a small saucepan and fill with water. Bring to a boil and then add the shrimp. As soon as they've curled up, remove them and set aside to cool.

2. For the dressing, combine fish sauce, lime juice, water, sugar and chili garlic sauce in a small bowl and stir to dissolve the sugar.

3.Rinse out the pickled lotus roots. Cut the lotus roots in half , diagonally in bite size pieces. Coarsely chop the fresh coriander and mints. Now the shrimp cooled. Peel the shrimp and slice the shrimp in half lengthwise deveining at the same time. In a large bowl, mix together the drained pickled carrots and daikon, lotus roots, mint, coriander, and dressing. Top the the salad with shrimp, roasted peanuts, and fried shallots. Enjoy this simple, deliciously crunchy Vietnamese lotus root salad.

Korean Stir Fried Glass Noodles

I just cooked Jap Chae, I got the recipe from MaangChi's Korean Cooking blog, but I tweaked a little bit.The dish turn out very flavorful . I 'll definitely be making it again.

Google Art Project

With Google Art Project you can virtually visit a selection of some of the world's finest museum and explore the most wonderful art pieces.

Take a tour around the Art Project here

You can try it out here.