Age sensitive

Girls have age sensitive symptom

I thought the age sensitive thing was only common for girls around 30. Not really. The age sensitive symptom does not have link to the real age. As long as you are a girl, no matter how young you are, no matter how old you are, you inherit this symptom. This symptom may not show when you are under 18.

How I discovered this fact? Today I went to a flu shot event. Not alone. With a female coworker. We were asked to fill out a form. If the form was normal, then I would not discover anything. This form was abnormal because it asked for age. I exclaimed "shisky" as soon as I saw that unwelcome question. I did not want to let my coworker know my true age. I was thinking hard about how to avoid any unnecessary moment... Apparently my coworker was thinking the same question. She told me from behind "I forgot something. I need to go. You can go ahead to have your flu shot. I may not be able to return in a minute." The crisis was gone. I discovered the age symptom was so true at every age.

Onion soup

So simple so healthy

Around a year ago, for some reasons, pressure cooker was mentioned. After a while, Totof told me he purchased a pressure cooker online.

We were excited when we received it. We wanted to try something with it. Luckily, this pressure cooker came with a recipe book. We read through it. Da la la. I wanted to try onion soup. The ingredient list looked simple. The preparation and cooking time looked reasonable. Ok. That was it. We went to Safeway to get all the necessary.

So excited. We were like two excited kids. We wanted to try our new toy.

Chef Totof chopped 5 medium onions. Put a tablespoon butter in a fried pan. The fun began. The recipe book said all onions needed to be cooked to golden brown (another golden brown. why golden brown is so popular in recipe books?) We followed the instruction and cooked onions around 20 min. Then, we moved all onions to our new toy - pressure cooker. On top of onions, we poured 6 cup chicken broth. We used high end chicken broth... Not because we were rich... Just because we purchased six packages organic chicken broth a week ago. We put pinch grind pepper inside. These were all we needed. Then we covered the cooker and locked it.

We used the second choice. This pressure cooker had 2 choices: 1 and 2. 1 took more time and 2 took less time. Of course we were eager to see the results. So, we agreed to use 2. The recipe book said it took 15 min to cook onion soup.

15 min waiting time. Not bad. So we turned on projector. Maybe we were playing Guitar Hero. Maybe we were watching an episode of something. Bang. The cook time alarmed went off. We went to kitchen. We heard the pressure cooker's si si sound. Please imagine the si si sound. Chef Totof turned to Physicist Totof. Physicist Totof said the si si sound was an indicator of the pressure cooker's condition. When a pressure cooker had a si si sound, it meant the pressure was about the threshold. You needed to release the pressure before you opened the lid. Otherwise you would be hurt by the high pressure.

I half believed half doubted Physicist Totof. But it did not matter. As long as the soup was tasty, I would not mind his bullshitting if he made up this explanation.

Physicist Totof released the pressure. The si si sound turned up to super si si sound. So loud. We needed to cover our ears when we were there. If you let yourself expose to this super si si sound for 30 min, you would turn to a deaf.

After the pressure were gone, Chef Totof unlocked the cooker. The smell was fantastic. The smell proved that our soup was successful. Was it? We setup the table and scooped some soup. The recipe said we needed Parmesan cheese. We did not have it. So we put some Mozzarella. We needed some couton. Safeway did not have it but it had some crispy Italian bread. Good enough. We got some. We took the bread package and opened it. We put one in each bowl. The soup was ready. Mission completed.

We could not wait any longer. We tasted. Oh la la. The soup was absolutely a hit.

So simple so healthy so delicious.

XYZ bar

This bar is as fancy as W Hotels


Feel bored on Friday night? XYZ bar will relieve you.

XYZ bar is inside W San Francisco. Let me know if you don't have a good time at XYZ.

Location:

181 3rd Street · San Francisco, California 94103 · United States

Gumbas Pizzeria

Family style pizzeria

You can taste Gumbas' passion from their pizza. Gumbas is a small family-run pizzeria. I used to like pizza from some fancy places. But now, I focus more on pizza itself than interior. After all, pizza is the main reason of why I go to a pizzeria.

Their pizza is thin crust type. I prefer this type than Chicago one. A small pizze will fit you well. Two medium pizza will make 2 - 3 people happy. A large pizza will relieve 3 - 4 people's hunger. One good thing is that you can ask Gumbas to have a half-half pizza which means you can have two flavors on one pizza: one half for a flavor and the other half for another flavor. If you would like to try something more than pizza, I recommend you to take their rib eye steak. Totof thinks Gumbas uses pizza stove and high heat to cook steak. That's why their steak is super tender. Don't expect they use fancy plates to serve you rib eye steak though. Remember, Gumbas is a family style pizzeria.

Location:

176 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index

A good ETF with emerging market target

Beginner Friendly ETF? Yes, EEM is. What do I mean by this? I meant this ETF is approachable even for beginners. All info regarding EEM is easy to obtain and beginners can use the info to make proper investment decisions.

Ticker: EEM
Full name: iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Recommended investment approach: long term (which means you need to hold EEM for more than a year)