God bless America

Well folks, its time that we embrace our new commander and thief. Get ready for 4 more years, another term of conflict, and hidden agendas. In a country where everything is safe, except for terrorists, individual liberties, and the economy.

America the beautiful
America the proud
God bless America


(please don't get offended by my picture of GW and the devil, I figure that as much as he plays the "god" card, that this was just as suitable. I don't believe he actually has anything to do with Satan, just a man, a self righteous man.)

Bring on the corn!

Now keep in mind that I have been told before that I'm not adventurous with food. And this may in fact be true, but I would like to think that there is good reasoning behind the food choices that I make. But it’s usually because I can’t handle the food, or in fear for my stomach. But perhaps someday I shall redeem myself by eating something that nobody else would ever think about. And with that being said, Dee once said something along the lines of, "if it walks, we eat it".

So sometimes I think some of the food is particularly strange in Malaysia. But there is one is particular that has me puzzled: corn flavored ice cream. Now there are some other flavors of ice cream that they have here that we don’t get in the US. But most of those I can make sense of. For instance; green tea, mango, durian, those I can understand because that is a particular taste around here.

In the good ‘ol US of A, corn is among one of our staple foods, along with things such as rice, bread, potato’s, beef (sadly). So that’s why I at first found it strange. I don’t think that anyone would lay a hand on beef flavored ice cream ,though I've seen someone (you know who you are) make a meat popsicle, nor would you ever see bread flavored ice cream. Anyhow, Malaysians treat corn more as an expensive desert, and so that explains why as I went through the supermarket, I saw so many corn flavored items.

Anyhow, at 5pm this evening I tried my first corn flavored ice cream cone, and the taste…. Not bad… Am I going to buy it again? I don’t think so.

P.S. albums with the NEW next to them have new pictures inside...

a night in cat city

Well, I had actually planned to write something about Malaysian food, but it seems that all my photos that I took in Kuching were erased. It’s been a string of extreme good and bad luck yesterday, and it seems to be carrying over to today. what had happened is that I was uploading all of my photos onto the computer, and had started uploading them, so I took the time it took to upload, to clear my camera, and read Slashdot when suddenly there was an exception at kernel32.dll caused be IE. This of course meant that I had to restart the computer, and when I came back, all the photos on the hard drive were gone. Seems that the sys-admin had a program that wiped the c: drive whenever the computer restarts (which happens a lot with windows). And didn’t care so save the my documents folder.

Anyhow, yesterday was interesting, being that it was near the US elections, I went to see the Manchurian candidate. Which wasn’t all that good of a movie, but it gave me something to do. Afterwards, I headed to gym, which was regular enough. And went back to my hostel. Afterwards I took a stroll around Kuching, snapping pictures, and I got stopped from a member of the Borneo post. Who was kind enough to give me a 10 minute interview about my time in Kuching. After I had said my peace, I continued down the waterfront, and I had found a wallet belonging to a young Malay girl. Looking around, I had found out that she had since left, so I wrote down the address, and investigated for any information that I could use to call her. But finding none, I simply handed it over to the police, who didn’t seem too interested, and assured me that it would be properly taken care of.

Anyhow, ill wait until I can take some more pictures of food in Malaysia for another time, where ill try to explain the Malaysian fascination with corn.