Hope everyone’s been doing good! I’ve been so busy in Singapore, it’s been hectic. Enjoying myself though 🙂
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xx
B
Hello everyone! I’ve dedicated this post to my husband as it’s his birthday today! We are both born in July – mine was on the 19th (FYI) – in case you missed it. I absolutely love birthdays. I am very much excited about birthdays more than the birthday person!
This was his surprise birthday brekky! He loves a good old fashioned British Traditional Breakfast. I’m completely aware of how unhealthy it is, but a birthday is a birthday 😉
My husband and I are currently working on our app for the last few months. Now it seems to be building up into a proper layout where he is implementing the user interface. We are hoping for his programming and IT skills to integrate well with my creativity. Hopefully this will result in a fantastic app! You can check out his blog here. 🙂 I will keep you guys updated about our APP once it is 50% done. At that stage I would welcome any thoughts/suggestions to improving our app as we are novice! After our first app – I will definitely want to do an APP on FOOD and on TRAVEL! As I love both!
The feeling of having our own app in the App Store will be one that I can’t put into words. Although it’s going to be a free app – the reward will be priceless.
Just wanted to share this on my blog!
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE HUSBAND!
xx
B
Everyone has exactly 24 hours in a day. Some days feel longer, and some shorter. I was recently involved in a discussion that made me tie in technology with the relativity of time. The use of technology makes time go faster. This statement was worrying and yet intriguing. I find it worrying as it is provocative and it demands people to question why we want time to fly faster. Don’t we want to live our life fully and enjoy our happy moments? But what if happiness is having wifi or 3G and in holidays we want that. We want to be connected all the time. In addition, procrastination is happening all around us. We delay tasks we have to do and don’t realise where our time has flown by. In university I remember checking Friendster (the ghost of Facebook), replying emails when my lectures just felt so long. Time passed by fast and the lecture seemed to end earlier than it would.
When I’m out and about, I notice people glued to their phones. People are constantly on Facebook and Instagram. There is this persistent need to be connected at all times. Time flies.
On the contrary, when you’re on a holiday without 3G of wifi, the day seems longer. I experienced this in Vienna. My 3 days there without wifi seemed longer. I felt we could cover more in a day. We were more engaged in conversations and less caught up with the internet. I realised how dependant we were to be entertained by our smart phones even in restaurants while waiting for our meal to come. This thought made me almost feel sad for what the world has become. I was observing on other tables how everyone checked their phones at least 3-5 times during a meal. I honestly don’t think it could be of any importance, yet I usually do it too. I check my whatsapp messages, Facebook comments, Instagram likes etc.
Do we still have time to smell the roses? Do we still have time to appreciate the world? Time seems to be passing us by and we all seem to be paralysed by the paradigm shift in technology.
I absolutely LOVE sushi. I guess being brought up in Japan does have something to do with that. Japanese food is definitely an acquired taste. However, in recent years the growing exposure to different cuisines has played a huge role in people experimenting with different flavours. Japanese food is now everywhere. Being vegetarian, the variety of sushi is limited in restaurants. 😦 Anyways, when you have a creative mind and hands that are willing to get dirty (dirty with food is always ok, not with mud. There’s a difference! I’m not an outdoor-hiking-kind fyi) then there’s no limit!
Having a love for aesthetics, the food I eat has to look as good as it tastes. The taste is always takes precedence though, I will never compromise on taste. Saying that, I would compromise on it just if it is very unhealthy and I’ve just come back from cardio. The cliche aphorism works well for me – health is wealth.
Ok, so you got the point. The fact that the sushi looks impeccable and it is healthy makes it a winner. Here’s a picture of the sushi I made:
Please stare at it in awe as I did. My husband thought it was very professional! And I got tons of likes on Facebook and Instagram which boosted my ego. Small things make me happy. Happiness then leads to big things 🙂 So try being happy with small things in life, don’t just wait for the big things as they might not come and you’ll end up being a grumpy-old lady by then! I’ve met many, and boy are they unpleasant.
Back to Sushi – just went slightly off tangent there.
B’s Quorn Teriyaki Steak Sushi Recipe
Makes: 3 rolls of Sushi (about 24 sushis – depending on the size)
Ingredients:
Method:
Note: Hands might get sticky with rice. Keep bowl of water nearby and dip your hands in often to remove stickiness.To remove stickiness of knife when cutting sushi, I like dipping knife in water after each cut. Keeps the sushi clean and pretty!
Enjoy! Itadakimasu (いただきます)! Have I mentioned I speak/read/write Japanese? Ok so I do. Not as well as before though, as I don’t have much practice anymore!
The phrase above translates to Bon Appetite 🙂
English: Data from April 2011 Editor Survey that lists Social Media activities (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Facebook logo Español: Logotipo de Facebook Français : Logo de Facebook Tiếng Việt: Logo Facebook (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This might seem like a puzzling concept at first glance, but I think anti-social behaviour is definitely at a rise since the APP Industry has kicked off. For instance, apps such as Facebook and Instagram are both a platform for users to engage with one another. However, by engaging with each other through cyber space the level of human social interaction is limited.
Whenever I go to parties nowadays, a large number of people are constantly on their mobile phones. Well to be honest, so am I – it’s addictive. People are checking-in on Facebook through location services or taking photos of food through Instagram. This limits their social interaction with each other. It’s simply ironic – social media cause antisocialism!
I’ve always wondered if there’s a solution to this – or is this really the future? If I want to talk to the person next to me, do I send an iMessage to send a virtual nudge? Is this what the future truly holds? These questions are daunting and the implications are alarming.
The Ushuaia Beach Hotel (in Ibiza, Spain) combats this problem! It promotes social interaction through social media. Guests are given wristbands at the start of their stay. These bands enable guest to activate their Facebook accounts at various Facebook stations that are scattered around the hotel. Once the account is activated, checking in is simplified and users are able to share their holiday off-line with their online friends. This hotel is officially on my bucket list!
(Picture taken from cosmopolitan uk page)
I guess people have to consciously try to be sociable and engage in conversations without their phones constantly in their hands. Alternatively move to Ibiza where they can have the best of both worlds!
Bandhna Kaur 