When I could eat again…!

I am doing extremely well.  Not only do I jog 1 hour/4 miles daily non-stop, I study the bible non-stop all day and cook for my kids.  One of the ladies at the healing room prayed over my swelling leg and declared that I should no longer fear what I could or couldn’t eat for I am healed.  So….!!!  These days, I’ve been reaching for anything I feel like.  Dark chocolate, chicken, even pork.  I could eat home made char siu bao (roasted pork buns), Chinese glutinous rice rolls.  When I went to the Bay Area last time, I scoffed off a whole bag of Hong Kong’s signature egg puffs off the sidewalk in Oakland Chinatown, just with minimum sweetness.  I was in heaven.  These days, I noticed that when my leg swells up a little bit due to bread or cream cheese or the irritable egg, I just need to down some homemade kim-chi with rice cakes Korean style and the swelling goes down.  Magic food for inflammation.  If you have arthritis and swelling and the like, eat super spicy food.  Last time I had Pakistani food and Thai food at restaurants  and even though they were not organic, I had no swelling at all because of the spice.  Life is incredibly delicious!!

Organic shapes inspired by Ernst Haeckel

Finally did a few sketches after a couple weeks of busy-ness elsewhere.  I’m into organic shapes and following the Ernst Haeckel’s designs. I used the Strathmore Black Field Drawing 6×6 inch sketchbook and the Stillman & Birn Zeta hardbound sketchbook 5.5 x 8.5 inch, Platinum Carbon ink fountain pen, Pilot 78G fine fountain pen, General’s Kimberly watercolor pencil, pencil.

[Movie Review] Noah by Russell Crowe

I took my two good friends to watch this movie just because we have never seen a Noah’s Ark on the big screen before and wondered what it would look like.  The movie was LOOOOOONNNGGG!  It felt like the director didn’t want to waste all the lovely footage and kept every single thing he shot like the Battle of the Red Cliffs which became two movies in Asia.  Long!  Too long for a simple story.  I have to agree with my friends.  The director sure had a lot of imagination.  Not only are there rock monsters called Watchers, the devolvement of which was totally biblically incorrect (SPOILER ALERT – HIGHLIGHT TO READ :  The fallen angels were expelled because they followed Lucifer who rebelled, not because they wanted to help a human and therefore were condemned into rock monsters), their ending were unbiblical too. (SPOILER ALERT – HIGHLIGHT TO READ : Fallen angels do not get to be redeemed.  They along with Lucifer get thrown into the lake of sulfur at the end of the day.)

And what’s with the family of 6 instead of 8? Groan.  (SPOILER ALERT – HIGHLIGHT TO READ :  Noah’s family of 8 went into the ark.  Period.  3 sons and 3 daughters-in-laws and his wife.  So all that wife seeking business is imagined.)

Don’t believe Methulselah having healing power.  It was never mentioned in the bible.  Nor was Cain, the first son of Adam, mentioned ever again after being sent away. Whether he lived that long or not, it’s doubtful.  See chart of different interpretations of time of the patriachs here.  But definitely, Cain was not in the ark.  If he were, the bible would have said so.  So don’t believe it.

I suggest everyone to read the bible chapters here before or after the movie to see how the director put in so much distortion into the bible story.  Granted, it’s entertainment, but there are some scary concepts introduced too.

Fun Videos

My daughter sent us this “I Am An Expert” video and since she’s entering the field of hardware design, this video probably prepares her.  My kids for some reason all enjoyed this very much.

The old Kowloon City

Here are some photos from one of the most unusual section of Kowloon, Hong Kong.   You could see a lot more at the google images here.