Sushi & Sashimi Etiquette

Tell, today, I witnessed 3 sushi murders. So terrible, so now I am writing a section on sushi & sashimi etiquette. (sushi in this case meaning all fish) 


 1. Find yourself some chopsticks (minimally a fork)
 (my equals were eating the sashimi with their bare hands, as fast as they could, complaining about how slimy and disgusting it tasted, and continually shoved it into their mouth regardless!)


 2. Mix together your soy sauce and wasabi. Make sure the wasabi and soy sauce are in the right ratio. This ratio applies to your power to handle the wasabi (delicious Japanese horseradish). (they also ate it plain, nothing wrong with plain, unless plain makes you not want to eat it!)


 3. Take your time to enjoy each piece, take time to enjoy each of the slice's of fish's unique flavor and texture. Also, many times restaurants will give you slices of pickled ginger, eat 1 slice (if you like it) after every slice of fish, this acts as a pallid cleanser! 


4. It is always good to have a bowl of rice  (preferably sushi rice, but white rice is good as well) with your sushi, most Japanese don't, they prefer to eat straight sushi, but the rice and sashimi compliment each other well.


5. Make sure you finish your sushi! Do not take a takeout box with sushi! unless you have a fridge in your car... (my friend did that, and I was like..) If you don't finish give it to a friend :)




Well I went to Miyo's today! Well, it was called M Vista! Very Good!


P.S Seaweed salad is also great with sushi. Don't forget to eat the Carrot Medley which consists of carrot and Japanese daikon!

EK14 with DJ Kwokamole 1/30/12

Wow... EK14 is my top 14 songs! So you can know my music genre, its actually mostly alternative... Love me some alternative... My music genre has been quite... diverse... Unfortunately for me... the first kind of music that  I got into was pop :( sad sad sad day... Thankfully I'm done with stage! Now I am a christian/alternative/indie/country/electronic/techno/dubstep/classical/pop/rock/blues/r&b/dance/hiphop/rap/andof course singer/songwriter! So the only music I don't like is Heavy Metal, and Emo... can't stand the screaming and everything....


1. Houdini - Foster the People
(Love this cause the techno, and Mr. Indie Foster :P)


2. Brave - Tawgs Salter
(Love this song, Ariel recommended this to me! Love it... totally hated it at first, but the message is quite clear... BE BRAVE!)


3. 7 x 70 - Christ August
(♥ this song, my friend Caleb spoke about forgiveness at YG, and Lisa was like! 7 x 70 gosh! and I didn't listen to her, and I really regret it... but this song has a great message... You need to forgive... btw... Chris August is hilarious and his channel on utube is to die for... he makes covers and his best is "Not Over You" by Gavin DeGraw... great stuff there...)


4. Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
(recently got addicted to my black keys! Love the sound, and great sadness... I can be lonely at times... but I got my buds... rite buds? I hope they are reading this :P)


5. Little Lion Man - Mumford and Sons
(Love me my mumfs... been listening since 2010 when the album came out :) i really hated that there were cuss words in the song.. so i cleanified it)


6. 1000 Lights - Javier Colon
(Followed the Voice, love this song... :) )


7. The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
(Loved Xenia's cover and this one is just too good... this will probably be its prime... cuz its an okay song :P)


8. Dead & Gone - The Black Keys
(Loving my black keys)


9. Fighting for Nothing - Meg & Dia
(I ♥♥♥ Meg & Dia, favorite all time band... this is by far their best song.... at its prime... it stayed at #1 for 3 months!)


10. Souvenirs - Switchfoot
(I have "nostalgia" and this song reminds me of thiings i love, like switchfoot and memories)


11. The Last Great Star in Hollywood - Meg & Dia!
(MEG & DIA!!!!)


12. Sexy and I Know It - LMABO
(Laughing My Awesome Butt Off! But yea... not the most appropriate of songs... but hilarious :) )


13. Rain is A Good Thing - Luke Bryan
(all time fave country song period.)


14. Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skrillex
(Love me my dubstep!)


SO now you have seen my side... I love all kinds of music! Love all of my readers... If i have any...


well bye :D until lates

Randomly Posting with Kwok Choy (#1)

Wow... Right now I'm in study hall, hanging with friends, and bored out of my mind,listening to my EK14, so I'll blog. It's been quite a while since I blogged. Such a shame, cause I like it. So here goes. Recently it has come to my attention, that I am not very productive, but I am trying to improve! I have not really done homework at home for a long time... On my A days, all the hwork I can finish in class, and on B days, I have the time in a study hall to do hwork. (which is where I am now) What I do at home is not very impressive. I don't really do much, I am mostly online, but I do do, (yea I said doodoo) homework, I practice my clarinet, and I go to swim practice. Its not a lot... But it's my life. Yeppers. I was on a health strike for a week, but someone told me it was unhealthy, so I stopped. Yea.. That took a chunk of me away. IM SO BORED! Wow... I need to to do better things. Then just do nothing... Well that's not nothing. But it's real boring sometimes. Luckily for me, I have prayer meeting, youth group, and Sunday worship! 3 days of the week of church is awesome! Not to just be with friends, but also to worship. Worship is so awesome. So many ways to worship our creator (btw... didn't save this blog, so I am now writing on 1/26/12) praying, singing songs of praise, dancing :), taking care of others! All worship! now back to randomness.... My fave memories are HK 2011, Summer Beach 2011, Christmas Camping 2011, well first of all... HK! Wow Hong Kong is like my second home. It can be quite depressing at times, because you can't talk to ur american friends, cuz ur in a 12 hour time difference. But I actually found a church i really really liked! (now i am officially taking 2 weeks to finish this post...) but yea... I just found the church on FB! I ♥ Facebook for this reason :) Summer Beach applies to 2 things, well we went to the beach with our "Chinese School" group! It was so awesome! I wore a swimmers shirt so I came back with a freaking farmers tan. I maybe from the South, but I am no redneck! :P and the 2nd beach trip was in the winter, so not exactly in the Summer, but this "beach of a lake" was so awesome... I was alone :( but bonded with my boarding student budds! But this was such a cleanse... did things I hadn't really done before, not really, but talking with buds, and a hilarious skype party :P, then was our Christmas Beach trip, this was actually before the other winter trip, but I just decided for that one to be first. I think that actually, the christmas beach was a bit more fun/memorable, so what happened is best left unspoken, but it was quite memorable... 2 of the funniest things were the raccoons and the "When did y'all get in here?" But yea... to my no readers... but hey peeps in Russia are reading! So hey Russians, do you like my blog?! So thanks for reading :)


I will leave with a Bible Verse :) so I present one of my all time faves!


Colossians 3:23 - 24
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.


Work with everything with all your heart! I believe in y'all (y'all being people I don't know, or even possibly no one at all :( but I encourage you!)

Blog Update

Sorry, but due to my interest falling, there are to be slight changes...


1) Devotions go to weekly


2) Verses go bi-weekly


3) Recipes stay monthly :)


4) Random posts ASAP! :D

Daily Devotions with Kwok Choy (#9)

Today's devotion is from Exodus 5-14

Wow... God is a god of wonders, we see this mostly in the 10 Plagues. So many cool things that happened. Frogs, blood, etc. We also see that God answers prayer.

P.S. mite stop these daily... will be weekly from now on

Daily Devotions with Kwok Choy (#7)

WOW!!! 1 WEEK ANNIVERSARY OF DAILY DEVOS!

Well today's devotional is based off Genesis 37-50 (Pretty much The Story of Joseph)

Wow... yesterday we saw how bad of a relationship Jacob had with Esau, Jacob eventually had to run away!
But today, it gets worse.

Joseph (from what I interpreted was a bragger, "Hey guys, guess what? When I grow up y'all are going to bow down to me") was a nuisance to his brothers, not only was he a nuisance, he was his father's favorite.

There is nothing wrong with being someone's favorite. It's what you do with that "privilege" that make people dislike you. If you go around with your head held high, that's not good...

Joseph's brothers hated him so much, so they went as far as try to kill him, but they decided to sell him into slavery instead (oh that's so much better)

After that Joseph was a good boy. He served his master so well, he was head of the slaves, and he continued to be good and trusted in God, but then he got into some trouble when the wife lied.

Well then Joseph went to jail, Pharoah promoted him, and he helped save Egypt!

Well the moral and my thoughts?

Trust in God! That's what Joseph did!

Daily Devotions with Kwok Choy (#9)

Today's devotion comes from Genesis 2-4


Kwok Choy has to say sorry about today's devotion.  So its an open devotion, read and share thoughts!


THINK ABOUT NOTHING!

Daily Devotions with Kwok Choy (#8)

Hey another devo today with me!


Today's Devotion is in Exodus 1-2! WOW! New book in the book! This book was also written by Moses.


Unsurprisingly, maybe a 100 years happened in 2 chapters. 


Somehow a Pharoah forgot about Joseph. IKR! Joseph was so important


We see that he wants to kill all the baby boys. SO WRONG and MEAN! This was to stop the population growth.


Moses was a prince growing up, because his mom sent him in a basket down the river and the princess picked him up in her bath!


The princess usually bathed 1 every 6 months, so this was a God thing.


All of Moses' life was God thing. 


Let's see what happen's later in his life !


THINK ABOUT THAT!

Daily Devotions with Kwok Choy (#6)

Today's Devotional is from Genesis 22-24

Without realizing it, I already blogged about Isaac and Abraham.. but it didn't come up until 22-24

So I'll blog about Genesis 25-35

Wow... talk about sibling rivalry. "Do you want some soup?" "Heck Yea!" "Sell me ur birth right first"

Wow... I don't have any siblings, but I know sometimes they can be quite ferocious (for example not pointing fingers.. Cough Ariel & Ray cough cough Nick and Jessie cough cough) Just kidding...

So let's have this devotion be about Siblings

Siblings are your best friends, or can be bad relatives, its your choice. All people need to learn, to respect others even if you don't like them. I was watching The Biggest Loser and it was sad to see all the quarrels they got into. They didn't need to be friends, all they needed to do was respect each other.

THINK ABOUT THAT!

P.S (sry for short post... will try to do better)

Daily Devotions with Kwok Choy (#5)

Today's devotion is off Genesis 13-19

(BTW I am only using devotional for reference, everything else is original)

Lot... Lot picked what he thought what was the good life.

(Big switch... need to pour feelings out)

My friend and I were reminiscing of our "group's" time previously.... Lot chose what he thought would be nice... But what I think would be the best, would (in my opinion) be to give money to the shepherds and collaborate. Friends are more important than fighting over for sheep. ( I didnt recall Lot ever back with Abraham after leaving) 


God is our friend, I wish I could feel the full extent of that friendship now, but I know I will feel it fully in heaven. Friends are kinda why people can go through school, why people are on the internet. Friends are lets face it, why we face the open world. (back to devos)


well tat wasn't all to irrelevant.
but here's a challenge: 
Challenge: Tell a friend that they meant a heck of a lot to you. (That will make a day, any day :) ) 


I will leave this devotion hanging so y'all (hopefully, its y'all don't know how much people view this) can fill in the blanks and "meditate" on it :)


THINK ABOUT THAT!


BTW: sry it was kinda short... had better things to do, like idk, talking with friends?


:P

Daily Devos with Kwok Choy (#4)

It's Sunday Sunday gotta get to church on Sunday, everyone's looking forward to the service,... jk....

Well today's devo is from Genesis 12-17

Well, Abraham had to trust God. That's plain and simple, so many times; leaving his country, sacrificing his son, passing through Egypt, his son & covenant!

Abraham is a great father figure, because of this trust, it wasn't perfect trust, but it was trust. Abraham was leaving his inheritance, his family, his land, and most likely his comfort zone. People don't really like to leave comfort zones. I've never experienced going to college and coming back for break (I've never even left for college for te first time), but when people go back to college, (for some, it's, "Great no parents, P-A-R-T-Y! :D :D :D :D", and others are "Meh", and others "Aww... I miss parents, and friends"... ) they leave their comfort zones. What Abraham experienced (Sorry for that little college thing, College peeps are leaving and Kwok Choy is sad :( :( yea...) was so much worse. He went through the desert to a random place He never knew about, with no one he knew but his wife and slave, (maybe a little more)

His biggest instance of trust was when he almost sacrificed Isaac. Imagine waiting years for a child, then God told you you were having a child, then waiting another 6 years for one, then finally having one, and then God asked you to sacrifice him! WOW! Abraham didn't waver, he didn't say no, he went through it... almost went through it. God stopped him :) so Isaac still was alive. I can't imagine doing that. So hard. So much trust involved. 

Prompt of the week: Trust God in what he tells you!

THINK ABOUT THAT

Daily Devotions with Kwok Choy (#3)

WOW! I have to apologize for yesterday, cause I barely made it! I published the post at 11:59, but that is still called Friday! :P


Daily Devos! Yay! I enjoy doing these, and according to my blog, no one has read them yet... But I will continue to do this amazing thing!


Today's devotion comes from Genesis 6-9


Putting 3 chapters is quite a lot... so I am going to just give you the headings.
Wickedness in the World
Noah and the Flood
God's Covenant with Noah
The Sons of Noah


Wow... Genesis is such a monumental book. The creation of the entire world, the fall of man, and the flood!
If you are pretty familiar with the story of Noah, I might bring up a part of the story that some may never have recalled. (Prior to this, God reduced all of our years to about 120 years) Well, why the flood? People say it is the wickedness of the Earth, that is but half the answer, look at verse 4 of Genesis 6


⁴ The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

If I interpret the verse correctly, I will be surprised, cause this is a heck of a verse, so little details, and so much confusion.

First, who are the Nephilim? According to the verse, it says they were sons of God. Later in verse 5, God says how much wickedness was on the Earth, so these Nephilim could not have been good. These must have been fallen angels! Fallen angels who made babies with humans. 

(Can't take all credit here to my own self, I learned this in Bible class)

So that is what I believe to be 1 reason God flooded the Earth.

BTW, people believe that the Grand Canyon happened by erosion over millions of years, I believe that only the flood could have done something like that!

So Noah is instructed to build this ark, (because he was a righteous man), this was no 3 month thing, it took a long time, years even, and was commanded to take a pair of each animal. (How would you get tigers and lions on the ship? I believe that Noah chose baby animals, so that they wouldn't be as harmful)

People look to the ark as something that was really nice, Goodness! People made little toy arks for kids, with pairs of animals. They even have a museum in Hong Kong devoted to Noah's Ark. People don't realize the flood is one of the worst things to have occurred to the Earth. People might have imagined this as a lovely cruise to safety, but no it was terrible, looking outside of the ark, to see screaming people, dying, and animals screeching, and once everything had died, looking at rotting carcasses floating on top of the water, young and old, male and female. This was no vacation ya'll. This was a thing that was so terrible, that God promised to never do it again in his covenant to Noah.

Look around us now, sin is all around. Lots and lots of sin, look at our figure heads, wayward politicians, child molesters, murders, If God did not promise to Noah he wouldn't flood the entire Earth ever again, I wonder if there wouldn't be another flood. 

THINK ABOUT THAT

Daily Devotions with Kwok Choy (#2)

Gosh! Well, I almost broke daily in 2 days. (Sry y'all) Well after contemplating on the material I'm using, I decided to use the Bible more then the devotional, after all the Bible is God's spoken word! HECK YEAH! We have it and we get to use it! :)


Genesis 2-3 is our focus for today. (This will be a bit short, due to the fact I started @ 11:50; Did I mention I procrastinate?)


To summarize the chapters, God created for Adam a wife, Eve. Eve and Adam both eat of the forbidden fruit, and are banished from the Garden of Eden.


Wow... one of the biggest parts in the Bible occur in Genesis 3, the first sin. (Yes we blame Adam and Eve for committing the first sin, but I'm pretty sure someone else would have committed one by now if not) People wonder, why did God even place the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the garden? Why not leave it out, if he did we would still be in the Garden of Eden!!! Sry, no, the tree was a need the tree represented God's love for us through freedom; we would not want to be robots who listened and obeyed everything we heard. God wanted us to use the freedom to follow his plans.


People say Christians don't have freedom, that they live super conservative lives, but that's not true! Christians have more freedom than anybody, because Christians have the freedom to do WHAT IS RIGHT! God cares about us enough, to give us that amazing freedom!


THINK ABOUT THAT




(sry, too short, but 11:59) :D

COMPLETELY NEW LAYOUT

Ariel yet again helped me, seems impossible rite? 

Well she designed my banner, and I used that to make everything else, background and favicon!

THANKS ARIEL! 2 SHOUTOUTS IN 3 DAYS! :D

Daily Devotions with Kwok Choy (#1)

Hmm... I want to bring a spiritual aspect to my blog so here goes...


Let's start with Genesis, I LOVE Genesis, because this is probably the most general book in the Bible (meaning that we don't know where the Ark is, or what happened to the Garden of Eden)


I am using the FAITH FACTOR OT to help me in my devotions.


The world, have you ever wondered about what happened before life, or what will happen after? I have, and believe me in saying, it's a headache. We can't fathom time, only God can, that's why he is omnipresent! When reading in Genesis that God breathed into man the breath of life! WOW!!! OUR CREATOR, greater than anything and everything, breathed into a mere man the breath of life! What happened to all the rest of creation, God spoke them into existence, but what did he do with us? He really breathed into our nostrils the breath of life!
       Breath now, and feel that, that is air, might not be pure oxygen, and at 1 point, our forefather breathed God's breath! (I'm pretty sure it smelled awesome! like a really delicious herb, or an herbacious flower, or even food :P) I'm so ecstatic right now about how it's so awesome that God did this for us, and unfortunately later, I will forget, I will go on and continue my life, keeping God in my mind for only a fraction of the day, that is one of the worst things to realize, we can't give God our best.
        Supernatural High is part of my title for this blog. I want to reach a Supernatural High, (this is the feeling you feel @ revival, the feeling you feel in intense small group discussions, the amazing feeling you feel when God's amazing presence is staring at you in the face, beside you on both sides, hugging you, and in your heart at the same time) the feeling is amazing! These highs don't last forever, I wish they did, but then we would never have a need in our heart, meaning we would be perfect, which were not, so back on topic...
       (Next time I post I need to turn Gmail off so I don't get distracted) <--- sorry not very on topic there either. So God creates us, doesn't make us robots (yay) and makes us special... and we just pretend like it never happen? Claiming that he's out there, but we can't reach him? By saying he doesn't exist!
      I was in Bio today, and we were learning about Protein Synthesis, Its crazy how awesome it is! BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF CELLS and they all know how to do this. Their is a language for the rna to understand, it's so complicated, yet every single cell in you body and my body know how to do it. They know how to get it right, except when mutations occur,( but God didn't create that, when man sinned, he did.) (I can't believe I'm spilling my story to an online thing, wow... I need a journal) AND yet we believed that there is no creator.. gosh...


THINK ABOUT THAT

Thoughts on my own...

Yes, I can think for myself... realized this today @ school... not really...

Reading some of my friend's blogs, (Nick, Ariel, Lisa) I saw different side of blogs.


Ariel's blog was about randomness and how awesome it can be... It included a few recipes, unfortunately my New Year's resolution was to eat healthy, (SO can't try it Ariel, sry) It had a very unique layout (jealous). overall great blog.


Nick was all about his personal journey of seeking the light of God and to me I for once saw a side of him I didn't quite know, but it wasn't a sad new side, I kinda like this part of Nick more. (he kinda needs a new layout)


Lisa's was pretty much all about food! (HEAVEN!!) I liked her blog a lot, but it was all deserts, and NO DESERTS FOR ETHAN!!! >.<!

Me being a non-original, jk, person I wanted a mixture of all these kinds of blogs... to show a side of me, to uplift awesome and random ness and to include food (THAT I CANT EVEN EAT!!!) SO YEAH


Here are there links:
twistedsimplicities.blogspot.com
angrylemons.blogspot.com
nickdayoflife.blogspot.com

P.S. I didn't quite get permission from 2 of the people (YAY ARIEL) 2 post their sites, but enjoy them


P.P.S When Nick says strange readers, I realized probably only me, lydia, and ariel had actually read the blog... so haha we're strange now...


KWOK CHOY

1st Follower!

I HAVE MY FIRST FOLLOWER!


Well, she's my friend, ARIEL!
well i guess that mite not count...


Kwok Choy

Original Recipes with Kid Fudi (#1) :Ebi Fry

This month's recipe is ebi fry. Which is deep fried shrimp, unfortunately, this is not an original recipe, I am kinda copying Cooking With Dog's recipe.

You will need 

shrimp, however many you want.

2 eggs

2 cups of Panko breadcrumbs (moist)

Cornstarch

1) De-vein shrimp well, removing both veins. Then throw into a bowl, add a tablespoon of cornstarch. Mix well. Then rinse it off in cold water.


2) Break the backbones of the shrimp so it is straight, this will prevent shrimp from curling.


3) Now whisks the eggs, and sprinkle a tiny bit of flour on shrimps, then dip in whisked eggs, then dip in the moist panko bread crumbs, then dip and egg and dip in panko crumbs again.


4) DEEP FRY!


5) Excess oil needs to be battered off.


6) Serve delicious shrimp!

Bible Verse of the Week (#1)

This week's passage comes from THE MESSAGE.


2 Corinthians 5:17


Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united wit the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it!


Hope y'all enjoy it :)

Hello World

Hi World, 

This is my first blog... I did a blog once before, which was for school,

now thanks to my friend, Ariel, I made one for myself. I hope to share my personal interests in this blog,

and show you how enthusiastic I am according to a person I met in a Nanotechnology class @ USC

Kwok Choy