The way I see it

Yesterday, I got to thinking that I really don't cook enough these days.  Here in Malaysia eating out is a way of life, it is cheap, easy and the options are limitless. The unfortunate side is that my cupboards are pretty bare so I think I'll need to go shopping before I embark on any great culinary masterpieces.  Below find some pictures of things that worked and didn't work in the kitchen here in Malaysia... Rotten chicken was NOT used ;) A success! - Roasted Chicken with Stuffiing This chicken was roasted in my electric oven over a bed of carrots and celery. The stuffing was a combination of apples, onion, celery, bread and herbs /spices. The chicken her/itself was rubbed with canola oil, salt and pepper before being generously seasoned with spices and hot sauce. A miss on the blueberry pancake  Basically the problem of this little darling was that I so smartly overloaded the batter with blueberries.  As anyone who buys them here kno...

There are many ways to learn English vocabulary words and every teacher has a favourite tip or tips. The methods vary greatly from dictionary osmosis to memorised lists to simply reading and they all work for somebody! I am going to discuss this my way. I love lists and I teach so here are five ways for ESL learners to learn vocabulary. 5. Create a word journal. This may seem like an obvious thing but grab a notebook and jot down words as you learn them. Add a definition and an example sentence and you have got a personal dictionary. The good thing about this method is that you can check exactly what you have recorded and learned. 4.  READ!!!! I know this sems obvious but for a lot of learners it is not! The first rule of reading is to find a book you will actually enjoy. Reading takes time and you won't get anything out of a book you don't enjoy. Second rule is to pick a book that is at your skill level. A great deal of students that I have interacted with try to ...

Hi Guys, Please enjoy my first attempt at a video review of Tomb Raider.  I tried to make it brief and I reduced the rambling as best I could.

So I've been going to the gym for about a month now and I've lost a couple of pounds but not as many as my trainer would have liked me to lose. He asked me the other day if I had been watching my diet so I quickly thought of lying... he'd never know the difference right?  Wrong!  He saw right through my none-to-clever yammering and excuses. See he forgot about one thing I'm in an area where eating healthy is kind of an impossibility.  The shopping mall here has just about every type of fast food imaginable and the slow food isn't much better...   You know you aren't in a good position when Carl's Jr might be one of the better options. These are just excuses though, let's be honest, I just like to eat. The trainer suggests that I cut down on carbs anything fried and anything processed. Bye bye McD's, KFC, Carl's, Subway. See you later bun/bread shops, doughnut shop, the pretzel store and  the two pizza places. I'm also supposed to increase...

So I've been looking around on the play store to find some good ways to waste my time and I have found a ton of virtual collectible card games.  I've played a lot of them and they are fun... you can check my previous blog about the baseball game it is a pretty cool concept. Now I have found an app called 'History Attacks'  it is yet another card battle game but this one uses a slot type action to give you a bonus when attacking. The tactic is to use power ups and special attacks from your cards in relation to 'poker hands.'  A certain card may have the ability to add cards to a straight you are building, while some other history cards in your deck may use a special attack only when you get a poker hand like a 'straight.' The cards also have an elemental alignment which will make them stronger or weaker against other elements. This makes the tactics quite sophisticated as you have to figure out whether to try for certain poker hands or not as well as bu...

Slashy - Slashy The latest installation in the Metal Gear  franchise is a game about Raiden, a cyborg ninja, who runs around cutting stuff up. Raiden, if you are not familiar, was first introduced in Metal Gear Solid 2 as the game's main protagonist and later shows up in Metal Gear Solid 4 as his cyborg self.  Revengeance takes place about 4 years (in the game world) after Metal Gear Solid 4 and it appears that Raiden is a lot more robotic than I remember him.  He is off to save the world after the security job he is on goes a bit screwy... pretty standard stuff.  Throughout the game we get some insights into Raiden and he, despite being mostly robot, becomes a bit more human in our eyes.  Yup that's right folks the Tin Man does have a heart after all... Cut to pieces... yummy! On to the game...  The game for all intents and purposes is a hack and slash game. There are some stealth elements reminiscent of the  Metal Gear  fra...

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about the state of books and printed matter in the world today and we both came to the conclusion that paper print is an endangered species.  Bookstores which used to be quite abundant in shopping malls and stand-alone shops are quickly falling to the wayside, libraries are falling out of use and billboards for kobos, ipads, and tablets are filling our eyes. Print is becoming digital and we can carry it with us anywhere and everywhere.  Is this an evolution of form or are we all sliding down the slope to the inevitable end? I was speaking to a different friend of mine who apparently hates reading... my suggestion to the world?  Read comics!