drawn out to unnecessary proportions:

Asian Condiments, Ho-Lee-Chow take out menu Gems

2011-08-26T12:46:00.000-07:00

Check out this great website! http://www.foodsubs.com/CondimntAsia.html
It has great visual aids to knowing various ingredients - and not just asian ones - there are pages and pages of ingredients with helpful photos. I think I just like seeing blobs of chili paste come up on my screen.

On a somewhat related note, here are some gems from the Ho-Lee-Chow delivery menu!

"Pick a number. Any number. Everything is freshly prepared and spiced by a genius."

"Stir-fried to a crispy, crunchy state of excitement."

Re: Black Bean menu items..."Once you have bean - you'll be back. Stir-fried with garlic, ginger and garnished with green onions. A billion people can't be wrong."

"Slurping is allowed, but don't slurp aloud."

"These are what the chef makes for his girlfriend...Share the greatest passion."

"What the chef makes for his mother when she misses China. Spicy and rich, like mom."

Re: Fried Rice... "They are fresh and flavourful to warm even the healthiest of hearts!"

Re: Kid's Korner menu items... "For some young kid or maybe you!"

http://www.holeechow.com/customer/Ho-Lee-Chow.pdf

hahah! the best. :)

Write in blog again.

2011-04-20T18:15:00.000-07:00

This is why i don't write much in this blog. I really don't know what to write now. I just try to think of photos I can take.

Well I'll write about my day.

Work was relieving today. I had a presentation to do this afternoon that was stressing me out a lot yesterday. Today I did it and it went fine. I really felt that was peace from God, that I was so grateful for. There's no reason for me to be so worried about those types of things.

I'm excited that that presentation is finished. I do have to do it again for my manager next week, but that's fine. Now I can spend the majority of my time at work doing other tasks that I've wanted to do, but felt like I had to put off, because this was more important.

Then, when I came back home (reading my French bande a dessin on the bus: Tao le petit samourai! It's great, I love it: http://lepetitsamourai.blogspot.com/
, it was rainy and dreary, but I came home to Carla moving her stuff in, with her mom! It was great to see them, but they must have been tired because they've been moving things in all day!

Then we went to Lone Star for dinner. My first time there since going with Aunt Mary and Uncle Raymond and the rest of my family in Mississauga, I think. This is the last time I can remember going there. It was good! I got a Tex Mex Burger, with Chicken Tortilla soup. I loved the soup, and liked the burger, but I think I would have liked something else better. A. and C. got fajitas, and C's mom got a fajita wrap. hehe, I think I would have liked their meals, but I try to keep the meal envy to a minimum. I already hawkishly stare at other diners' meals, drooling.

I'm going to miss all the people I've met here in Ottawa... J, C, C, and A...neighbours, work colleagues, Watpub folks, P, my Gatineau work buddy...I've been hugely blessed this term! And i look forward to the next one. :)

old lovely time way back 2009...

2011-04-17T07:18:00.000-07:00

Date says May 21, 2009. Fairly certain it was October? Was it? Numeration for months confuse me. I always thing October is 05.

Ottawa Spring 2011

2011-04-17T07:14:00.001-07:00

…and I was supposed to use the term for creative output. Well. Next term then!

But it was a beautiful term. I’m so grateful to God for showing me grace and mercy, showering me with love. Going back KW, very excited, but sad to leave Ottawa and the people I’ve met here. Thanks for having me. (here I am talking like I’m leaving so soon – I still have 8 days left of work! J Which is fine, but there’s still work to do, ahhhh… )

Excerpts From the writings of Foundcity.

2010-12-18T22:13:00.000-08:00

Karen!

2010-10-05T20:48:00.001-07:00

yyyaaaayyyyy! haha

Maybe a little too much information, Rachael.

2010-09-21T22:05:00.000-07:00

i wrote this in desperation, guys. DESPERATION.
After this summer, Warden Woods is now one of my favourite places in Toronto. But red ants, oh, you.
With the Community Stewardship group we were trying to tag some invasives - European buckthorn - for removal. Unfortunately, anytime I stood a little still, ants made their way up my pants. Wow that hurt.
So, red papers - I'm trying again. Zippy.

2010-07-08T18:34:00.000-07:00

On earth as it is in heaven

2010-05-29T16:04:00.000-07:00

DREAMS AND PLANS! DREAMS AND PLANS!

Self pity days!

2010-03-08T17:19:00.000-08:00

Renison Grub - click for big

2010-02-03T22:34:00.000-08:00

when I lost and then found my watcard

2010-02-03T20:58:00.001-08:00

Rachael Chong likes:

2010-01-08T08:48:00.001-08:00

likes this bit from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller:
"I like those scenes in the Bible where God stops people and asks them to build an altar. You'd think He was making them do that for Himself, but I don't think God really gets much from looking at a pile of rocks. Instead, I think God wanted his people to build altars for their sake, something that would help them remember something they could look back on and remember the time when they were rescued, or given peace...We have to force ourselves to create these scenes. We have to get up off the couch and turn the television off, we have to blow up the inner-tubes and head to the river. We have to write the poen and deliver it in person. We have to pull the car off the road and hike to the top of the hill. We have to put on our suits, we have to dance at weddings.W have to make altars."

Transformation Comic Journal!

2009-12-05T23:15:00.001-08:00

Well hello friends. I've decided I need to change this blog into more of a themed blog. Rachael Chong themed! I will take a more autobiographical approach, as it I am a great awesome famous person looking back on her life. Except I've jumped the gun on that part.
Also, as warning, OBJECTS IN BLOG MAY APPEAR BIGGER THAN THEY ARE IN REAL LIFE. aka I will exaggerate as is easier to do.

Will I actually do this? Let us see!

Mes films favoris

2009-12-01T22:15:00.000-08:00

Can you say brilliant? yes.

2009-11-29T21:08:00.000-08:00

A little memoir to my piercing infection.

2009-11-23T08:32:00.000-08:00

It was nice knowing you.

commencement is over phew.

2009-11-22T20:59:00.000-08:00

I relaxed this weekend, okay? :)

Duckworth's Fish and Chips. Picture Credit: google maps. I wouldn't have had that pole right in the middle, unless I was trying to be artsy.
With Samiha!! AND bulk barn-ed those candy watermelons, which I always think i will like, but really I don't really really love love them. Also, caramel apple lollipops. This one...
I have memories of going into my neighbour's dark house and Mrs. Cameron was smoking in her wheelchair, creakily turned around to face us as nervously we approached, being prodded by the backs. And then she gave us these lollipops.
i hadn't heard this song before until today...really like it. maybe faster though. Youth service next week at Walmer, they are doing this song.

Milosh-Then It Happened

2009-11-11T20:26:00.000-08:00

My head hurtssss. Sleep deprived. BUT!
Beautiful thing of the day - I'm in the GIS lab right now...Old custodian guy comes in, gets some of the students working here to look up the LOTTO numbers...the students laugh a bit - apparently he does this all the time. Then he comes in after and sweeps the floor.
I hope he wins next time.

That wasn't a good idea.

2009-11-11T15:58:00.001-08:00

I didn't get the paper finished on time. That last idea was not a good one. Never doing that again.

(i sound sort of bitter?)
Haha.
At least it's a lesson in how little things can really waste a lot of time. Ahhhh! Like right now!

Rachael's blog of her papers.

2009-11-04T16:53:00.001-08:00

Dear friends. Rachael is avoiding doing a paper right now. That's all. I will add to this post throughout the night to keep me accountable. It won't be very interesting, but oh well.

November 4th, THE PM
7:53 Prepared hot chocolate and ready (though dreading) to work! Another report at 8:23 is due.

8:23 Wow, that went by fast. Okay, I've finished my hot chocolate (once it cools, I can't stop!), found some Beethoven to block out the whispering library voices that are distracting me (grrr...) and I've written some more of my Introduction, outlining the structure of the paper. A couple more sentences and I will move onto Methodology...for now! first I must go to the washroom though. Back at 8:53.

8:53 Yes I went to the washroom, which I guess took a while? Haha, not an unaturally long while, just a chunk of half hour, that's all. Anyways, I have pretty much finished my Introduction, and written the title for Methodology. There was more than a few sentences in the Intro to write, it turns out. I have also settled on a more concrete continuing thought for my paper, which I am relieved about... The library closes at 9:30, so this may be my last half hour for today...There isn't too much to write in the Methodology yet, since I haven't done all my research, so maybe I will write the title for Section 2. See you at 9:23.

9:23 Okay, I have to do this quick because I need to get out of here before they start flickering the lights... I actually wrote quite a bit of Methodology, so now all I will have to do is go back after i've actually done research and be more clear/specific. And I wrote titles for Climate Change - and a little bit more! Like, a good start, the definitions! And i saved it, so now I have to make sure i send it to myselfff..... Okay, well I'll be back tomorrow.

November 6th, 2009 PM

6:42 So yesterday, working on ENVS didn't really work out. So I better get on it today before the same thing happens! Uh oh. Back at 7:12.

7:15 3 minutes late. Well, I didn't get very much done - I WAS SETTLING IN?! It took a while to download all my documents. So I guess I got organized and ready. Yes. See you at 7:45

7:52 Late again, that's okay. It's because this part is a little more involved than the last parts. Yikes meaning I didn't get too much done. I'm still on Definitons and Distinctions. Slightly tedious. Next: 8:22

8:27 Maybe there isn't so much point to doing this this often?

November 7th, 2009 the PM

3:46 So I have been working on my paper, but right now I'm getting lethargic and I need my blog to keep me on a timeline. So I have finished Definitions and Distinctions, and I found about 5 sources... I'll need 20 all together.
I have just started Climate Change Factors. So that's where I am.

November 10th, 2009 the PM

1:53 Kinda sort of almost done. It is due in 3 hours. So I need to shimmy and I need some blogtastic gratification.

Prosey-spats! AKA Rachael likes poetry that moves.

2009-09-17T22:36:00.000-07:00

To be able to love what you love, that is freedom. Without it, there's a tightness in your shoulders, your back, your arms - the backs of your hands. They ache with the itch to do, to hug, to love.

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world and that is an idea whose time has come."

Victor Hugo

If you ain't got love

2009-08-07T20:12:00.000-07:00

1 john 4:7-9
⁷Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son^a]">[a] into the world that we might live through him.

I took this photo a while ago, in the fall of 2007 I think. I am really not a good photographer, but this happened to turn out nice. I just got a new camera, quite pricey unfortunately. I'll have to really make good use of it. :) The old one I was using was awesome, but it did have its problems. For example!, not taking photos in a timely manner, causing all sorts of weeping on my part.

Nearing the end of summer, I've thought back to all the goals I had, and how I haven't really made much progress in accomplishing them. Now, maybe I'm just way too easy-going when it comes to goals, but I don't really guilty or disappointed in myself, really. I'm a lot better at the dreaming part anyway, and I'm fine with that. This isn't true of me all the time, but it seems I always take things as they come to, I don't plan things to fine detail. I may have a basic idea or vision for what I want, but I easily settle.

This aspect of me (I'm not always like this), will cause me a lot of problems I'm sure people will be quick to point out to me. But it has let me really enjoy some things that came unexpectedly. So, yay! Here's a video that I love love love. The lyrics make me cry.

Post-enrollment post

2009-07-13T08:13:00.000-07:00

Oh dear. This was not a high moment in my character today. FLIP OUT! This is what I do when I am paired with things beyond my control and anxiety that any click of the mouse could drastically change my future.
It was too slow on the computer at home, nothing was working, so my mom did it at work with me panting directions over the phone. Oh dear, thanks so much...
But now I'm in some classes...

English: Short Stories and Drama
Geography: GIS
French
Intro to Environment St.
Issue Analysis and Prob Solving

Didn't/couldn't get into the ones I really wanted..:
Fine Arts
Evolution of Planning
Geography: Human Habitats.

sigh. oh well, I like the ones I'm in anyway. Just..

Pre-enrollment Post

2009-07-13T05:44:00.000-07:00

8 minutes! We will see which courses I get into...I badly wanted to enroll in visual arts, but there is essentially no space left, and it is all reserved for Fine Arts students. Which makes sense of course, but it just makes me sad because I was CONSIDERING becoming a Fine Arts student - I just need time to decide! And now I have no chance of that.

5 minutes now! I have to get ready...I'll make a post-enrollment post as well.

Summer!

2009-06-18T06:59:00.000-07:00

It's summer. ^Click for a nicer view :)

Here's the required writing about the piece . required for my final mark.

“Proxy-war Puppet Pals”, 2009, social issue painting, acrylic on canvas, 8”x30”.

We needed to paint on a social issue, so I chose proxy-wars. They are wars generally of powerful nations that are fought through third parties. My intent was to communicate my impression of this concept in a visual manner: how horrible it is that one can wage war and leave someone else to bear the consequences. That the figures and their puppets be in contrast was important to me. I wanted the figures to look to be in a casual conversation, while their hands battled with urgency. When we learned about proxy-wars in World Issues class, the word “puppet” was used in reference to the third-parties and I immediately visualized what became the original sketch for the painting. The idea was in part motivated by this English language expression, as well as the work of various political cartoonists and magazine illustrators. In hindsight, it probably would have worked better as a political cartoon rather than a painting.
My first step was to brainstorm ideas in my sketchbook. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough painting skill or experience yet to produce on canvas the ideas I’ve sketched, which disappointed me. Besides not possessing technical painting skills, it was also a challenge to paint on such a big canvas. It was difficult to keep consistency of colours and painting techniques from one end to the other. The painting I have now is quite different from my sketch; it is much busier, less punchy and therefore less effective in my opinion. I also had difficulty painting the people and puppets’ forms. Most viewers didn’t see any aggressive behavior between the sock puppets, something important I was working hard to convey. I also had trouble deciding on the style of painting: whether to continue with washed-out colours or to add greater detail. Looking back, I am not completely satisfied with my decisions; there is a lot of content in the piece that is unnecessary and distracting, such as my attempt to incorporate brains, crowns and the American and Soviet flags.
Despite my dissatisfaction, working on this painting was a good learning experience. Putting together the canvas was definitely new, and simply having had the chance to practice painting will hopefully improve my skills. If I were to do this project again, I would make different colour and painting style choices. I had been worried that the piece was too simple, so I kept adding more elements and colours, which I think only took away from the end result. I would like to retry this painting, simplified with fewer colours and a focus on the human forms

Journal Entries

2009-06-13T13:02:00.000-07:00

I'm going to post bits and pieces from my journal sometimes. Blogging is nice, but paper journals are so much more interesting...They're tangible, they have handwriting, sketches...everything is more personal. No matter how many "personalizing" features there are on blog-hosting sites, they can't beat journals in touch, feel...rip-ibility?

2009-05-24T14:08:00.001-07:00

edgarwrighthere.com

wordle.net

2009-05-05T19:53:00.000-07:00

look at this! From Wordle.net
Super cool.

feeling sort of small...that's okay.

2009-04-28T18:28:00.000-07:00

so many things happening in the world, and its out of our control...sort of difficult to stay motivated, difficult to make an effort to get involved, difficult to even bother trying to "make a change", difficult to keep out skepticism, difficult to keep hoping, especially difficult to make coherant sentences!

Painting for school, on the theme of proxy-wars, its finished, but not finished in this photo...>

Happy Belated Ada Lovelace Day!

2009-03-25T19:43:00.000-07:00

Okay, I feel bad. I pledged to blog about a woman in technology for Ada Lovelace Day. And that was yesterday. Sorry Ada. Sorry organizers. Not that I expect you will read this, but anyway.

I learned about Ada Lovelace from my usual source of learning: webcomics. This time, it was the famed Kate Beaton that did me the learn' in in this comic(it's the 3rd on the page). I laugh at these comics so much.

I googled Ada Lovelace and was amazed at her legacy, and that fact that she was making predictions about the use of computers way back in the 17th century, blows me away. And she has the coolest last name.

So, today, I am on it.
Ursula Franklin

This amazing woman, born in 1921 in Munich, Germany, is known for her achievements and contributions to fields of metallurgy and archaeometry. What really inspires me though, is her commitment to humanitarian projects and her attitude toward women in science. (I know this is supposed to be about technology, but I just think that her outlook on life is so important to making her great in my mind)

She is a survivor of the Holocaust (her mother was Jewish), and as a young science student, was placed in a work camp. She repaired bomb buildings during the war. These things didn't stop her. In 1948! she earned her PhD in EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS at Technical University in Berlin.

1949, she immigrates to Canada. She was a peace activist, a physicist, and Canada's VERY FIRST FEMALE PROFFESOR (later in 1984). How amazing is that.

In the 1960s she did research into the effects of nuclear weapons testing, and the presence of one of their elements, strontium 90, found in childrens' teeth.

I love this interview in Inkling Magazine with her, especially this part:

Q: You’ve said scientists have the responsibility to ask questions about the impact of progress on communities. Should scientists be activists? What would you say to those who fear this might compromise their objectivity?

I would say something unprintable! Because objectivity is an illusion. I think scientists have an obligation to be within the best of their ability to be correct, they have an obligation to know the limits of their knowledge.

This is what is going on right now. This and, it's like nothing else (but there's so much to be done!)

2009-03-22T10:43:00.001-07:00

Dear oh dear.

Update! Sprinkle a little of this and that.

2009-03-16T11:50:00.000-07:00

Blawwwwggg. It is interesting how easy it is to trick yourself into thinking that you are the only one who thinks the way you do, when really, it is also easy to find like-minded people often. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, is debatable.

Not so debatable as delectable though. Together, we can almost taste the success we have not yet attempted.

We are all sleepy these days, don't you know? Constantly, there's a headache throbbing in all our heads, saying, "I could go for a cat nap now." It's sort of a nice feeling actually.

Or is it? I never really thought to question it, but these days, I'm being told to. And perhaps it will make me all the more wiser, but the rest of me - my shoulders, toes and belly button - aren't seeing the results directly, so we're a little more hesitant.

There's also the difficulty of split interests. There are 3 people in this pot, and the plan for stew keeps getting mixed up. Truly, there is one way, but how does one select perfect spices?

wishlists

2009-02-03T20:42:00.000-08:00

Ha. Not long ago, I watched a video from Adbusters decrying consumerism. And now I will make a list of stuff I want. Ha.

1. Shoes
2.Georgie Fame CD
3. Jon-rae CD

Okay now, another wishlist of non-material things.

1.People to love/like me!
2. discipline
3.Success in school, work and such
4. Charm/be able to be friendly
5. My number 1 match on my Matchmaker list! (just joking...?)

Lordy Lordy - Today was a nice day.

2009-01-22T15:33:00.000-08:00

Despite my slightly disappointing performance on my math exam, today was a very nice day. And it's not over!
I have been blessed with tons and lovely people I love. Haha. Thanks God.

What am I doing now? Wasting time is what.

2009-01-15T21:51:00.001-08:00

Jon-rae and the River! Actually, here it is just Jon-Rae Fletcher. I could listen to this at all hours of the day. I need to get a CD.

Actually don't, I just want one...and also Basia Bulat, and Georgie Fame...and Al Green. ha.
And I need to learn some dance moves.

And I would like some shoes, perhaps. I have shoes that are on the brink of a little gross, and my sister and I have basically switched shoes...so now I feel like a bit of a sk8r poser haha. not really.
I'm thinking of NO Sweat shoes, or Blackspot sneakers. A bit pricey though...Where can I get relatively ethical shoes without the craziness of online shopping? Am I even willing to spend the money.

So I kind of want to be a blogger master. Except that's how I feel about a lot of things, like...school, and comics, and ..harmonica-ing.

2009-01-02T10:56:00.001-08:00

Ideas catch us.

All of my imaginings of a world I'd like to live in are so idealistic . The kind of world I want to live in sings, dance and screams with joy. It has life, and it loves; it has people holding each other, it has people talking with their faces very close.

It seems, though, humans have been striving for this for a long time. Throughout our history we've been dreamers of big dreams and storytellers of the New World, The Land of the Golden Mountain, guardians and protectors of a way of life we fear will be stolen or violated

Unconcious mind wanderings

2008-12-13T07:18:00.000-08:00

I love having dreams - usually mine are nice, some people are plagued with nightmare, but most of the dreams I remember, I've really enjoyed. I feel like they're a chance for me to do things I'd never do in my waking hours, I feel like I have nothing holding me back. Of course, I'm not sure I actually have control over my actions in dreams, whether I can make conscious decisions, change my course ... That makes me wonder, what do dreams mean in relation to how my mind works?

The hills are alive!

2008-11-27T21:07:00.000-08:00

This is how the children of America learn about their neighbours to the north...NOTE, neighbours, not neighbors. Hehe. Well, now I know how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

I meant to study more math tonight than I did. Instead I watched the Sound of Music.

Love Letter - Ms Carter Style!

2008-11-25T14:50:00.001-08:00

Gross. There is a hair. It's just for you.

Idea exchange

2008-11-23T20:34:00.000-08:00

Check this post - I think this person got some really interesting things to say on..life, essentially

http://muchachoenfermo.blogspot.com/2008/11/introspection-or-doing-it-for-cause.html

Original Aim

2008-11-22T12:20:00.000-08:00

That day is coming!

2008-11-20T16:06:00.000-08:00

I have a deviant art account, perhaps it is fun to click and see? I highly doubt it is worth posting here quite yet, but maybe one day, when millions and billions and zillions of people read this blog, (this will happen, of course) it will be a useful plug. One day. haha.

Responsibility

2008-11-17T20:24:00.000-08:00

I really want to be responsible, but my, my, I am not good at it, no.
Sigh. I had a whole plan of how I was going to be responsible today, but no. Whimper.

If the blog postings continue like this, it will be a very whiny, sad little blog. Very boring.

There are so many things I want to do, but I can't if I'm not responsible!

AND sometimes I realize that...I don't really talk to God enough, I don't go through my life with Him, even though He knows, I need it.

Also, I sort of don't like telling my goals to people, because I know I'll fail them.

foundcity's brand spankn' new blog!

2008-10-13T21:45:00.000-07:00