6.30.2010
Sweet Rounds
Tang Yuan (Sweet Rounds) are my new favorite treat! It's rice cake on the outside and sweet filling on the inside. Sweet filing such as black sesame seed or strawberry. They are so good! Click here for a picture.
6.29.2010
The Courtyard
It turned hot outside. Not the humid sticky hot, rather the dry intense heat. The hot that makes you feel like you're running a fever after being outside for a few minutes. The sun is intense, especially in the middle of the day. But when the sun starts setting it gets cool again, and that's when I like to go outside.
This evening I went outside to sit in the courtyard. It was right about the time when the neighbors come out to relax for a while. I watched kids playing basketball. Grandparents sat around chatting. A monk was working on starting a fire in the center incense burner. Kids were running to find small sticks to add to the fire. Ladies sat and talked on their cell phones. Other kids were playing jump rope. Another monk was sitting at a sewing machine sewing a big piece of fabric (guess the weather and lighting were better outside???) Then a thunder storm started to blow in and everybody cleared out and went back inside.
This evening I went outside to sit in the courtyard. It was right about the time when the neighbors come out to relax for a while. I watched kids playing basketball. Grandparents sat around chatting. A monk was working on starting a fire in the center incense burner. Kids were running to find small sticks to add to the fire. Ladies sat and talked on their cell phones. Other kids were playing jump rope. Another monk was sitting at a sewing machine sewing a big piece of fabric (guess the weather and lighting were better outside???) Then a thunder storm started to blow in and everybody cleared out and went back inside.
6.27.2010
True Confession
I don't take medicine in capsules. Many doctors try to prescribe them to me, but I've been known to not take them. Sometimes I tell the doctor that I don't take capsules, but that usually ends in an embarrassing lecture. I often think I should get over it and just take the capsule.
Yesterday a doctor prescribed me antibiotics. Not knowing the culture or language I accepted the medicine, which was a HUGE capsule. I attempted to hide the fact that I had no intention of taking this horse pill. BUT I've been sick for so long now, that my husband pointed out that I had no choice this time as I really needed this medicine to get better. I stared at this horse pill for about 24 hrs, trying to figure out what to do....
Then my friend came over, who called her friend to stop by the local pharmacy and get me some medicine that was easier to take. It was love at first sight -- Amoxicilin granules! I pour this little tea looking packet into water and drink it down. It's grapefruit flavored and tastes so good. And this story can get better because my seven day course of antibiotics only set me back $8. Why should I start taking capsules now???
Yesterday a doctor prescribed me antibiotics. Not knowing the culture or language I accepted the medicine, which was a HUGE capsule. I attempted to hide the fact that I had no intention of taking this horse pill. BUT I've been sick for so long now, that my husband pointed out that I had no choice this time as I really needed this medicine to get better. I stared at this horse pill for about 24 hrs, trying to figure out what to do....
Then my friend came over, who called her friend to stop by the local pharmacy and get me some medicine that was easier to take. It was love at first sight -- Amoxicilin granules! I pour this little tea looking packet into water and drink it down. It's grapefruit flavored and tastes so good. And this story can get better because my seven day course of antibiotics only set me back $8. Why should I start taking capsules now???
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