My eye sight

It's natural that when we age (Oh I hate talking about age) the vision of our eyes changes too, especially when we abuse it and we're lack of Vit.A intake, we're losing our good eye sight.

Like me , it's been more than 10 years now that I'm using eye glasses and contact lenses.

Before I used eye glasses only but I always broke it. In a year sometimes bought 2 to 3 pair of glasses.It's so heavy that it leaves a dark mark on my nose 'til now.



So I decided to use permanently a contact lenses as my ophthalmologist advised. It's so soft and comfortable, though it's time consuming to cleanse it daily.

Now I bought again but the Doctor offered me this new product.


It's a promo that if you buy 3 pairs of clear lenses you've got another 2 pair of clear lenses and 1 pair of colored lenses. In short, buy 1 take 1.

It's cheaper than the other one I used before. But these old one was so comfortable to my eyes as if I wear nothing. Sometimes I used one pair for 3 months long before I change it to another pair.
I hope this new product I bought now won't irritate my eyes. But the Doctor said, it won't, it's just the same as the old one. I trust her, so I'm gonna consume the 6 pairs for more than 1 year.
Hmmm....I save a lot ..^_^..

And perhaps if I wear this colored one, I truly gonna have a "New Look" as the brand name says.

See.... how do I look....still no changes, ha ha ha ha...

And ooops, got red nose like Rodolp ha ha ha, perhaps it’s because I bought and eaten lots of peanut now, that’s why still at my age I’ve got pimples on my nose.

But why in all parts it appeared on the tip of my nose.

My first Mandu (dumplings)

My first Mandu (dumplings)

I like the taste of Korean foods so much but I can only eat when I go to a Korean Resto. One time I tried to cook one kind of Korean recipe, a Mandu or dumplings. Pls. do send me a message if it's not correct.

Ingredients:
• 1 cup of ground pork
• 2 cups of ground beef
• 2 cups of chopped boo chu (asian chives)
• 4-5 soaked Shiitake mushrooms
• half onion
• half package of tofu
• 3 cloves of minced garlic
• salt
• sugar
• sesame oil
• vegetable oil
• fish sauce (patis)
• egg
• green onion
• mandu wrapper

Procedure:
1. Place 1 cup of ground pork and 2 cups of ground beef into big bowl. Add 1 ts of salt, 1 tbs of sesame oil, ½ ts of ground pepper and mix.
2. Wash asian chives (bu chu), dry well with paper towel or cotton cloth and then chop them to make 2 cups. Add 1 tbs of oil and mix. Set aside….
Note: oil will coat vegetables so that liquid would not come out from it.
3. Chop 4-5 soaked shiitake mushrooms and half an onion. Add 1 ts of soy sauce, 1 ts of sugar, and 2 ts of sesame oil and mix.
4. Squeeze half a package of tofu using cotton cloth or paper. Then add a pinch of salt, 1 ts of sesame oil and mix it and put it next to chopped chives.
5. In the big bowl, add 3 cloves of minced garlic and mix all ingredients by hand.
6. Then get a teaspoonful or a bit more of filling and wrap it with Mandu skin.


I bought this container, thought that it’s a good storage for my Mandu and space saver. Though I don’t like so much the colored blue, no choice, there’s no other color available but it’s so cheap ..^_^..



It's my first fried, it's a bit burnt because I forgot to put a small amount of water before I covered the pan..^_^..

Captured Insects

After visiting my garden in my backyard, I noticed the leaves of one plant that was damaged. I tried to looked underneath the leaves and I've seen a caterpillar.I found it so cute that I took a photo of it.It has a big eyes but it winked when the light flashed.


Then I started taking photos of insects around,

Like the dragonflies...

The red ants that always bite me

The tiny beetle on the wall

The black/red small spider

Kinds of butterflies

The grasshopper that camouflaged the plant, perhaps it thought that I can't see him. It was so surprised when I took him a photo.

And the 2 resting mosquitoes

If only I have a nice camera, I could captured them more beautifully in my lens. For now that's all I could.

October happenings

* Mommy's b-day, no plan to celebrate, I just attended a mass to thank the Lord for everything. Thank Him that I'm still healthy and aging gracefully. But my friends surprised me, they came to the house with some foods, an instant pot luck.



* We were finishing my Stephannie's project report. A feasibility study with building plan and lay out and model.Though I can it's good that my 6th brother was here, he help and did the plan and we help in making the model though were not an engr. or architect or else we will pay for the professional to make like Steph classmates. And it's good again that I have a background about acctg. I help her about the financial statement too.



* The next morning we found out that our newly bought (just a month old) motor bike that was parked down stair was gone. It was been car napped.


* After the exam my Mycah came home crying and so depressed when she missed to answer the 5 numbers on her test paper. She said she knows very well the answer but why came the moment she's going to answer the question she was suddenly mentally block. She's so worried that she won't be on top ten anymore.

I just hugged her and told her that it's OK, it usually happen to anybody.

I told her I will buy peanuts frequently now to feed her brain more, he he.



* Barangay election was done for more or less 42,025 Barangays all over the Phil island. Election for Barrio captain and 8 councilors.

-for 4 days I can't get rid of the indelible ink in my nail though I washed it thoroughly. I don't know if it's the same to other country that if we vote they put an indelible ink in our nail after to prove that we were voted already.They put this to avoid flying voters.


* Been to my friends b-day celebration. Again I ate a lot :( I can't resist the delicious foods offered. With in this month, I attended to 3 of my friends b-day celebration. Oh my God I'm so heavy now, I feel I have baggage's of cholesterol now. I must go back to the gym to reduced weight.

* Last day of October , every body was so busy preparing for the "All saints and all souls day".Of course me too. I bought foods, candles and fresh flowers . We will bring those to the grave of my mother. Again its party time in the cemetery.

Sept. of my babies

7 - As usual with spaghetti, ice cream and small mango cake, we just simply celebrate the 15th b-day of my youngest.


8 – Again my youngest was recognized as one of the top 10 in Third yr. high school level for the first quarter.


16 – Stephannie’s Educational Field Trip in
- UP Los Banos – to IRRI (International Rice and Research Institute) and in Dairy Training And Research Institute – to view in actual how to pasteurized milk and the production of cheese.


-Letty’s Buko Pie – observed how to make a buko (young coconut) pie.
- Coca Cola Bottlers – where they learned how the coca cola started and where it came from and seen the production of different kinds of cola.
- Enchanted Kingdom– an amusement park where they enjoyed a lot experiencing the adventure inside.



17 - Every year, since my son started going to school, I always joined with their field trips, but it’s been 2 years now that I was always left behind coz their big now and I want them to be confident

Mycah’s field trip:

In - Bantayog ng mga Bayani
- Gardenia - Gardenia – the company that produces the tasty bread that you can see in every breakfast table of Filipinos.
- and she took these photos from Bio Research

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- Enchanted Kingdom- And lastly in Enchanted Kingdom – same as her Ate Steph she really enjoyed all the adventures inside with no fear she experienced all the rides.


Hmmmnnn My Mycah said , her admirers exchange seats with the others just to be seated besides her.




21 – my Stephannie’s volleyball team competed for the Bulprisa but sad to say they
got only the 4th place.



My Stephannie is always busy, from Monday to Friday school days, Saturday –practicing volley and then even Sundays she‘s practicing drumming (they form a band group now). Her complexion now is so dark but she never reduce weight though she‘s always tired. It’s good that she didn’t join this year in presidential election for the whole college level. She was the president when she was in 1st year and in 2nd year, now she’s in her 3rd yr, she quit the presidential (no more headaches). She said her study now is harder and harder so she wants to concentrate.

23 – Stephannie won the 1st place in poster making. On Oct. 14th she gonna compete again for the Provincial competition.

The three things in life...

Photos from: Rose Experten (thanks a lot)

Don't know who's the original author of the words, anybody knows please tell me.

Eggs in my fridge

Eggs – Stuff my fridge should have. Eggs are one of the few nutritious foods that provide you with a delicious breakfast (even lunch or dinner). And mostly it’s one ingredient we use in some recipes, like as thickener for sauces, base for dressings, coating for breaded fried foods, leavener in baked products and more.

Egg - the easiest digestible, energy boosting protein and help level out blood sugar. Eating two whole eggs per day keeps you within your daily cholesterol range.

I store different kinds of eggs for my daily use.

White eggs and brown eggs(native), there’s no difference in nutritional value and flavor between the two. I often cooked it for breakfast as sunny side up (but the yolk should be broken – that’s the way my children likes their SSU) or scrambled or omelet or poaching or just steamed.

Poached egg....I'm not good in poaching even if I swirl the boiling water still it's in bad form.

Duck Eggs – a bit larger than chicken eggs, good for Leche Plan (popular Filipino Caramel custard - a dessert my children love to eat).



Quail Eggs – So cute and fun to eat. Sometimes I just hard boiled it for the bento of my kids, sometimes I mixed it in veggies, in my chicken pasta soup, or just coat it a flour mixture then deep fry.




Red Salted Eggs - immersed in super-saturated solution of salt for at least 2 weeks and then boiled and colored red. See the link for my old posting about this.

http://lenyschika.blogspot.com/2009/12/salted-duck-eggs.html

And oooops, I almost forgot this one…..

Century Eggs - Duck eggs preserved in lime, ash salt and clay for weeks. – I use this as toppings for my congee or porridge or lugaw)



2 kinds of Filipino lugaw – Arroz Caldo, a chicken porridge and Goto, an ox stripe porridge.



And one kind of an egg that I haven’t bought yet is an Ostrich egg. It weighs between 1 1/2 to 2 kls. Its price is equivalent to 3 kls. of meat or more … hmmmn ,so expensive. It’s available in Manila and other province. But if I have a chance to find it, I may buy just once for curiosity reason. To know how it taste and how hard its shell is. They said it takes an hour to cook it hard boiled.

Hmmmmnn ...wondering if I can use the egg whites of an ostrich egg for my facial care too, he he he ..^_^..