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1. Which meal is the one you cook best?
=> any Chinese food. I am Filipino it shouldn’t be Chinese food right? Today, I cooked fried rice Chinese style, it was yummy and I ate 5 cups, can you believe it? DD was starring at me and told me I should look for best fat burners so I won’t gain some more. What nice daughter huh?

2. Tell us what you would never eat.
=> Balut … it is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. They are common, everyday food in some countries in Southeast Asia, such as in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

3. Is your hometown famous for anything or anybody?
=> There’s so many to mention; one is eating Balut wink* hahaha
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…Do you know fortune cookies are from Japan? I really thought that fortune cookies are from China…Well, friends read on you will learn something that you didn’t even know; Fortune cookies, soy sauce packets, General Tso’s chicken and more…

Fortune cookies:
Fortune cookies are from Japan. Fortune cookies are essentially unknown in China. In fact, a Brooklyn-based company tried to introduce them to China in the 1990s, but gave up, saying the cookies were “too American.” So where do fortune cookies originally come from? Japan. The precursor to the fortune cookie is still made in a handful of small family-owned bakeries in the Kyoto area, near the Fushimi Inari shrine. The cookies are larger, and flavored with miso and sesame, which gives them more of a nutty flavor and brown color.

The cookies were introduced in pre-World War I California by Japanese immigrants who called them fortune tea cakes at that point. A great shift in production happened around the time of World War II, when the Japanese were interned and the Japanese family-run bakeries were shut down. At the same time there was a spurt in Chinese fortune-cookie manufacturing, which transformed it into a Chinese restaurant standard. By the late 1950s, 250 million fortune cookies were being made each year. The cookies were used in the 1960 presidential campaign and in this year’s Barack Obama campaign. The summary of the cookie could be put thusly: The Japanese introduced it. The Chinese popularized it. Americans consume it.
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Oh, I miss the days when Julie was just a little girl. Look at the picture below isn’t she cute? As she said she’s a wonderful, loving, angelic child. She sure is minus the angelic, well, most of the time she is. I really miss buying baby’s toys. One of her favorite toys is the kids wagons, she loves when I pull her around the neighborhood. That was really fun, but once she got bigger and heavier I stopped and bought her scooter.

The 6th folder is titled “julie’s fotos” and the picture below is the 6th photo in the folder. I think this photo was taken a week after she got her early Christmas present the 1994 mint condition 40th anniversary Fender Stratocaster. She just got home from school and I asked her to play with her electric guitar, at first she gave me a hard time but as we all know mum always wins so she got no choice. wink*

Here are the rules:
1. Go to your Picture Folder on your computer or wherever you store your pictures.
2. Go to the 6th Folder and then pick the 6th Picture.
3. Post it on your blog and tell the story that goes with the picture.
4. Tag 5 other glorious people to do the same thing and leave a comment on their blog telling them about it.

I am tagging: Ghee, Ghie, Jerla, Paula and Ylan

Our heater give out yesterday morning I thought hubby can fix it but unfortunately he can’t. He was trying though to save us for the repair but for some reason he can’t find what’s wrong with our heater. He normally does, this time is not his lucky day. So, we got no choice, we have to call for service and we all know the charge it’s outrageous! Right now I am wearing layers of clothing plus 2 winter coats and I am still freezing. Hubby in front of the portable heater, Julie still in bed I wrapped her up like a mummy last night. Oh yeah, when hubby went out yesterday to buy the portable heater it took him few stores to find one because they are all out. You know, I hate winter and I can’t wait to get out in Michigan. We are thinking to move some place warm and Wildlife trees nearby. That would be awesome!

Anyway, it’s 9:30 am and they are on the way now. Thank God!