Recipes for Health 1: Thai Eggplant Salad

This dish is adapted from a grilled eggplant salad recipe in Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid’s wonderful book "Seductions of Rice" (Artisan, New York). Jasmine rice is an aromatic, soft, long-grain rice widely used in Thailand. The Thai dishes that employ fragrant rice are also well seasoned, so this rice is traditionally cooked without salt.

1 cup Thai jasmine rice Water
Salt to taste (optional)
1 1/2 pounds long, thin Japanese eggplants, or 1 large globe eggplant, sliced about 1/4 inch thick (slice on the diagonal if using long, thin eggplants)
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 large plum tomato, diced
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh mint
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
For the dressing:
5 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1/4 teaspoon sugar , dash of fish sauce
1/2 to 1 serrano or bird chile, to taste, finely minced

Kiss of the Eternal...

世界對著它的愛人，把它浩翰的面具揭下了。 它變小了，小如一首歌，小如一回永恆的接吻。

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

Ways of Seeing 2: Women as Muses or Spells to the Artists?

Muses in Greek mythology : women are goddesses for music, poetry, drama, literature, dance, astronomy, epics, history, and Art !

The Way of Seeing1 : photography

Photographer caught the moment of expression which best portrayed the image that the photo taker had in mind.

Whether is alluring, mischievous, elegant, or sensuous...

We communicate with the audience with an attitude in mind, sometimes the photo does not manifest the true selves of freedom. We see how people see us in the photos that we usually do not find them in the mirror.

"The Way of Seeing" by John Berger.

Secrete Garden 2 ...

Dressing Aphrodite in a secret garden...

金色筆記之 9： Big Bang

倘若我有無限的心量, 我將跳脫無限的輪迴。。。
仰望著滿天的星星，也許已是幾萬光年的時間，
是否我們曾是大爆炸時，存在的微小物質與反物質?
然而幾萬光年後，這宇宙還是會留下我們的足跡。
只因，
我們徹底的愛過。。。

金色筆記之 8 ： 珍珠項鍊

最近都撐到好晚才睡 :
感覺好像餓了，肚子餓了還是心靈空了 ?
不知...真的不知...

找吃的, 早上起來會更空虛...
找小說，脈搏太弱無法呼吸...
找電視電影裡的劇情 ,
勉勉強強的，不屑的，輕蔑的心情...

結果， 感覺不餓了 ，
卻哭了...

然後，我把我悲傷的眼淚串成一條珍珠項鍊 ，
掛在菩薩的頸項上。
有些贖罪，有些慶幸，原來我還是有感覺的 。
誤以為自己被反鎖在暗室裡， 失去了聽覺視覺味覺的能力
只有觸感...

我的心是活著的...

A Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2 : Imperfection and Love

To conclude this reversed life journey, I shall quote from Tagore's " Flying Fire":

My last salutations are to them who knew me imperfect and loved me.

Love's gift cannot given, it waits to be accepted.

When death comes and whisper to me, "thy days are ended,"

let me say to him, " I have lived in love and not in mere time. "

A Curious Case of Benjamin Button 1 : Life Coincident

"We are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."

People come and go in our lives, meeting and parting causing by all series of coincident events.

No matter we fail or succeed, we can cry and morn , feel self-pity or feel arrogantly self-centered for the rest of our lives; on the other hand, we can forgive and start our lives vigorously and passionately all over again.

Nonetheless, we should not loss our heart and sensitivities, because there is always a love to treasure, yet not to possess, for our whole life time.

With beautifully witnessed eyes, breath taking rythm, the movie took the audience traveling though 80 years of the 20th century in 3 hours.

Director: Eric Roth

Featuring: Brad Pitt and Kate Blanchett ( 9*/10* )

Soul of the Tango...

Soul of the Tango: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_exd6U1ubY

Rock Tango Argentine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A6Wzg_nWdw

Heart Tango: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6j6uOyvBp0&feature=fvw

"Angels and Demons" 2 : Antimatter

Two controversial issues have been discussed in the book:

1. The Illuminati feared that if religion continued to promote pious myth as absolute fact, scientific progress would halt, and mankind will be doomed to an ignorant future senseless holy wars. However, there has no history of their existence for over half a century, and many scholars agree the Illuminati has been defunct for many years. Their central covenant is the obliteration of Christianity, but they wielded their power through political and financial means, not through terrorists acts.

2 Matter is nothing but trapped energy . Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It releases energy with 100 percent efficiency ( nuclear fission is 1.5 percent efficient). Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation , and a droplet could power New York City for a full day.

"Antimatter" is made up of elementary particles, each of which has the same mass as their corresponding matter counterparts –protons, neutrons and electrons — but the opposite charges and magnetic properties. When matter and antimatter particles collide, they annihilate each other and produce energy according to Einstein’s famous equation, E=mc2.

According to the Big Bang model, the Universe was awash in particles of both matter and antimatter shortly after the Big Bang. Most of this material annihilated, but because there was slightly more matter than antimatter – less than one part per billion – only matter was left behind, at least in the local Universe

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nca-jgg5mA&hl=zh-TW
* http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&hl=zh-TW&rlz=1T4GGLL_zh-TWTW314TW314&q=antimatter&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=QtVUSuOlMoKosgP_oPibDw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=8#

"Angels and Demons" 1: Illuminati

In the beginning of the "Angels and Demons", it says: The brotherhood of the Illuminati is also factual.

Illuminati (plural of Latin illuminatus, "enlightened"), is referred to many groups, especially an anti-Christian organization that sought for enlightenment. Historically, it refers specifically to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1, 1776. In modern times it is also used to refer to a purported conspiratorial organization which acts as a shadowy "power behind the throne". (Including French Revolution.)　

Theorists have claimed that many notable people were or are members of the Illuminati, including Galileo , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder, Winston Churchill, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski.