Jake made his first pancit tonight. He ended up deviating from the recipe because the noodles weren't soaked in water long enough (we only figured that out after mixing everything together) so he/we had to keep adding broth, soy sauce and water until it got tender. Luckily, it was still delicious!! Yum! Don't forget to add calamansi!!


He's so happy how it turned out that he's going to share it with his co-workers for lunch tomorrow. Haha!! (He works with a lot of Filipinos.)

Oh holla!!! I received my Cuisinart hand mixer!!


It also came with a wire whip attachment and spatula. Hopefully, I will be making some deliciousness out of this recipe booklet... which I haven't looked through yet. If it doesn't impress, I can always look for recipes to try online. YUM..


I love how retro the color looks!

I also ordered this food chopper:


I already have a slap-style one from Kitchenaid but I don't really like it because food sometimes gets stuck between the blades and it's complicated to wash. This pull-cord Kuhn chopper looks promising. I hope it performs better.

Watching Battlestar Gallactica. I'm not so into it anymore but this episode, they revealed to Athena that her baby is alive and I'm curious if she'll see her. I like that cylon. Hehe!

Jake made dinner last night. He likes cooking. I'd probably end up doing the baking and desserts. Need to get more recipes!!

Anyway, the adapter ring I ordered from Hong Kong arrived yesterday so I started using my Cimko lens. At first I thought I got a defective piece because I could not zoom in or out, then I figured it's a fixed zoom lens and the dial I was turning is for the focus area. Basically, it has a 2 ft to infinity focus so it's not for macro shooting. Bummer. One other thing is that I had given up on setting f stops because it was not responding, it was always wide open. Only later that evening did I find out that there was this aperture pin that needed to be locked in place to get the stops. I researched online on how to fix it and they say to open up the back piece of the lens, but I'm not going to do that. No way because I don't trust myself that I can put it back together, so I just super glued it to its depressed state. Woohoo it worked!! I still have to play with it more because I am not used to manual focusing and locked zoom and f stops. But Yay! I kind of want to get more M42 lens now. I noticed that this particular lens gives me a more subdued image... more soft, compared to the kit lens which has high contrast and vivid colors. (see below)

We made french bread pizza today. Yum!







I love my new camera!!

Sooo... I will be trying this OTC sleep-aid pill tonight. I hope it works. Haven't been getting a good night's sleep and rest this week. I'm having killer back aches on top of that. UGH!

I felt it working a few minutes after I took the pill (a little like what the dentist gives you when you get your wisdom teeth out). Anyway, I had trouble breathing at first and it made me really anxious so I went online to check what was going on. It's supposed to be one of the "severe" side effects and thankfully it didn't last long. When I went back to bed to actually sleep, I was breathing normally again. (THANK GOD!!!) The product did say that you'd be sleeping throughout the night but I woke around 3am. I immediately fell back asleep though. Also, I'm a little sore still and don't really feel fully rested. So my conclusion: it helped me fall asleep but not stay asleep. I was hoping to have at least full 6 hours. I'd probably take it again on nights I can't sleep only to "aid" me to go to bed, like maybe when our upstairs neighbors are being noisy.

I know they have another product with some ache reliever mixed in. Maybe I should try it next time.

Made Nutella Banana Crepes last weekend. Man, I'm so behind posting pictures.

Jake followed this recipe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_BYOHu98fQ
It's from Jenny Jones. I had no clue who she is until Jake told me that she used to host this tv show. Anyway, here's the recipe:

Jenny's Crepes

1-1/4 cups 1% milk
2 eggs
1 cup flour (can be whole wheat pastry flour, all purpose, or a combination of both)
1 Tablespoon canola or vegetable oil

1. Whisk ingredients in a bowl until smooth.
2. Heat a non-stick pan over medium-high heat.
3. For each crepe, lightly rub the pan with a stick of butter.
4. Add about 1/3 cup of batter and tilt the pan to spread.
5. Cook for about a minute until it loosens and turn over.
6. Cook for another 10 - 15 seconds.

This recipe says it makes about a dozen crepes but not true in our case.

So I made Apple Crisp a few days ago and used Granny Smiths. Uck.. let me say too sour! I loved it when I used Fuji apples so I'm always going to use that whenever I'm making this.

I don't understand why I'm slacking off. I have three images I need to finish but I'm here, online, doing NOTHING. As in wala. Wala naman point yung pag browse ko. Kanina, medyo nag online shopping ako, pero hindi ko naman tinuloy yung check out. Sayang lang ng panahon. Baka mamaya, balikan ko. HAY NAKO. Wala akong na-a-accomplish. Feeling ko kasi Friday ko Wednesday, tapos since I'm working from home, natutuloy lang ako sa kama at internet. LOL!

I want a new pink lipstick. This one I bought from the drugstore has a bit of shimmer to it and I don't like it. My lips are already full okay, don't need to emphasize by drawing sparkly attention to it.