HAPPY Chinese New Year 2026 / 新年快樂

Happy Year of the Fire Horse!  How awesome is that!  Wishing everyone the best this year!

柿柿如意大吉大利

🔥🐎年快樂

除夕年夜飯

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2025!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Walnut Creek, CA

Brentwood, CA

Carmel Valley, CA

Hilton Garden Inn, HI

Royal Hawaiian Center, HI

The Royal Hawaiian, HI

Waikiki Aquarium, HI

2025 中秋節快樂 / Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 2025

今年終於跟上現代，買了冰淇淋月餅🥮

不過也因為這個好小顆，現在人老了甜品不能吃太多

和數學老師分著吃才不會有愧疚感

Mid-Autumn Festival 15 August per lunar calendar fell on 06 October in 2025.  I finally caught up with the modern time and bought ice cream moon cakes.  It was also because these were small.  Can't have too much sugar now that I'm getting old.  Sharing these with Math Teacher reduced guilty conscious.

2025爸爸節快樂 + Pancakes Recipe!

慶祝2025年八月八日父親節

自家製煎鬆餅

只有一匙糖

雖然另外添上草莓果醬和蜂蜜

不添也成

人老了不能吃太甜

這樣最健康

Dry Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1 tspn baking powder
• 1/2 tspn salt

Wet Ingredients:

• 2/3 cups + 2 tbspns milk
• 1 tbsp honey or brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tbspn unsalted butter (melted)

Steps:

1. Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl. 
2. Combine all wet ingredients in another large bowl. 
3. Add the wet ingredients into the dry-ingredient bowl. Combine well. 
4. Pan fry the pancakes.  When bubbles appear on the batter, flip the pancake over.
5. While waiting for pancakes to fry, make a cup of coffee.
6. Optional:  serve with strawberry jam and/or honey.

Pancake recipe

Work Life, #4

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 05 APRIL 2025:  A squirrel stopped by the office window to ask for peanuts.  Look at that face.  How could I say no?  A coworker determined that it's a girl.  Boss asked me what to name her.  Hmm...

Hello, my name is Peanut.

UPDATE 13 APRIL 2025:  I've decided to name her Peanut.  We could see her mammary glands turning darker, three on each side of the body.  So we think she is a nursing mommy.  We have to feed her now.

UPDATE 16 APRIL 2025:  I've been warned by the company peeps that no feeding wild animals.  Peanut came back three times today outside the window.  She circled back and worth on the windowsills; she stood up to press herself onto the glass, as if to see inside.  She climbed onto a broken tree trunk, as if to get a better view inside.  I kept saying "I'm sorry.  I'm sorry."  😢😭

UPDATE 26 APRIL 2025:  It's been two weeks since we stopped feeding Peanut, but she still came to the office.  Wonder why she didn't give up.  I feel so bad.  Her tail didn't seem as fluffy as before.  😢😭

She stood up to see us!

Please feed me!

UPDATE 13 MAY 2025:  After a month of not feeding, Peanut still came back to visit.  I was happy to see her doing well, even if I was not feeding her, but I was sad that I left her disappointed.

Hm, is anybody home?

Why aren't you feeding me?

Look at my fluffy tail!

UPDATE 11 JULY 2025:  Look at me sitting pretty on my throne!

Married Life / 婚姻生活, #8

Guess what Math Teacher burnt onto my nonstick pan?

A slice of sourdough bread!  A perfect shape!

He's buying me a new pan and a new toaster oven!  Yay!  😁😇

Happy Pi Day 2025!

Happy Pi πℼ𝜋𝛑𝝅𝝿𝞹 Day 2025!

A friend's homemade lemon meringue pie.  The crust was so flaky; the meringue was so bouncy; and the lemon curd was so lemony!  Heaven!

🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧

Married Life / 婚姻生活, #7

Home alone to clean up two-days-old roasted broccoli and carrots. I put them in a pretty bowl to make myself happy.

即使一人在家
即使是剩菜
也要用漂亮的碗
讓自己心情快樂

蛇🐍年快樂！Happy Snake Year 2025!

新年快樂！大吉大利！！Happy Chinese New Year!!!明けましておめでとうございます、令和７年！！！！

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2024!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

ANA Crowne Plaza Narita 1

ANA Crowne Plaza Narita 2

Mark Is Minato Mirai

Queens Square Yokohama

Work Life, #3

Someone stole my multi-vitamins at work! I keep the bottle in the desk drawer in the vacant cubicle next to me. I was teleworking for two weeks. I came back today to find the bottle missing! WTF! I've heard of office lunch thief. I've never heard of vitamin thief!

誰偷我的維他命？！

誰偷別人的維他命？！

隔壁辦公桌沒人用，所以我的維他命放那抽屜裡

有人特地開了抽屜，拿走我的維他命！

真噁心！🤮

HAPPY MID-AUTUMN'S DAY 2024 / 中秋2024快樂！

今年農曆八月十五西曆九月十七
第一次買稻香村的月餅，還不錯

小小一顆，八個口味，適合我和數學老師分著吃

Cream Coconut: a little too dry and too sweet

Sugar Pumpkin:  not bad

Sugar Red Bean Paste

Hundred Nuts:  delicious filling

Five Nuts:  delicious filling

忘了照玫瑰、蓮蓉蛋黃、棗泥，忙著吃😋🤣

總結：還不錯。不知道是否太早買。怕忘了過節，所以一個多月前就買了。放太久，每個皮都有點乾。

World Market

Me thinks World Market had a brain fart.

Do I go back to 1800 to spend my -$5 reward?

San Diego Air & Space Museum

Math Teacher really wanted to visit the San Diego Air & Space Museum (inside Balboa Park) because he was a huge NASA fan.  Then I saw the unexpected.

Know My History:  we forgot we used to be best buds!  Thank you, the Flying Tigers, for saving China!

認知歷史：忘了我們曾是拜把的好朋友！謝謝飛虎隊！