Sketch study.

Quick study from a picture I took. Paper<3 Mate is my mate.

baga in a bathtub

well... if anyone was paying attention. Which no one was, cheers for that.

I have not been keeping up with the one drawing per day... boohoo..

Never was that good at being consistent but always great at come backs!!

so here's the latest installment

The Tinah Reply to Almost Anything part 1

so one of my fabulous friend, Hot Donna, is having semi drama with girl A, lets call her Triso. (Just because I like making up names)

This is the scenario as I understand it - (all conversations are fictional)

So Donna met Triso a while back, they became friends and Donna said "Yo girl I like you wana bone? I mean date?"

Triso says "aw that's nice, I like you too but I'm in a relationship now that I may or may not want to be in even if it's completely retarded cause I'm just dating because I am a serial dater. But lets be friends!"

And Donna's too nice so they stayed friends. How lesbo of them.

Then Triso texted Donna and says "Hay girl I just broke up with my gf, *wink wink*"

wahh wahh then whole week later (or some time approximate) hot Donna receives a text from Triso "I know you'll think its a bad idea but were back together, its never felt so right.. blah blah"

By now Donna has wised up about all Triso's drama and wants nothin to do with it cause she already told Triso that her relationship was a bad idea in the first place. So she's a smart girl and does not reply. Low and behold we all know how biotches are when you ignore them.... even though they can ignore you for weeks on end...

"Are you ignoring me??" - Triso

Whaddaya think biotch?! Now Donna being the good girl's not gonna reply, but hay when u got a friend like me I'm gonna use that situation to the fullest baby!!

TINAH'S REPLY - "This is an automated msg from Verizon (or whatever phone company you use). All jerky, self righteous, attention seeking msgs has been blocked as a brand new service we offer! You can get your own too for only $5.99/month with this special code - fkoff!"

All I can say is Donna should've sent it....

Stay tuned for more The Tinah Reply to Almost Anything!

Feel free to submit questions/situations for me to reply!!

Fattie wins

Super did not want to get out of bed today... maybe it's the mozzarella stick grilled cheese awesomeness I had last night along with two cups of hot chocolate(with whip always!!)

This is the reason my brothers are so skinny and I'm..... not..... Oh wells.. SOMEONE has to appreciate delicious fattening food around here!

At the moment though, kind of feeling like this..

I'm really REALLY good at sitting around and not doing stuff, but looking cool whilst doing that.

There needs to be a job so I can just... sit around and look cool. Just saying...

Keepin up.. staying up barely

Mm Day off...

That was yesterday, and honestly I had a whole list of stuff to do...
I probably ended up only doing half of it,

Which,

In my world is a BIG achievement.

One thing that I WAS gonna do but.... well went to the wayside of *air weighing* sleeping or post up a new blog.. Since I don't wanna get yelled at for not going to sleep early, AGAIN....(You know who you are) I opted for sleep first. I am seriously working on sleeping early... I need to but man why is it so hard??

But I digress, 20 min before I need to leave for work so without further introduction...

P.s. Did anyone strangle me whilst I was sleeping? Cause my throat area is reaaaally sore for some reason and I don't know why.

P.p.s What are some cures for morning blues??? Anyone??

Back on the (drawing) Horse

Hey peeps!

I am trying reallllly hard to think of something clever to say to RESTART this baby

However, the only voice in my head is my elbow saying #$^%^(*($#$%^^*&(%@@#&(!@#!

cus this is what it looks like atm...

THAT being saidd...

I HAVE SOME NEWS!!!!

YESS exciting I know!!

sOOo some time in the last week I had an AMAZIN IDEAA (so I think... thought...)

I remembered back in the days whilst browsing some random peep's flickr site... or some photographer's web pagey thingy

ANYWAYYY she had a project >>> takin 1 portrait a day for 365 dayss

...damn she had a good idea.

I can't friggin steal it now...

BUT WAIT A SECONDD

i DRAWWWW!!!!

so imma draw almost a person a day!!~~

(cause I know it won't be exactly 1 a day....)

So here was my first onee

inspiration(?) photo take from the interweb...

UR job now, if you choose to accept it.

Is to make sure I do AT LEAST 1 drawing every other day!!

permission granted to use most methods of motivation

Fork Over Your Belly!!!

As usual I was missing dishes I had at home (or anywhere where authentic Chinese/Taiwanese restaurant are found). Especially this nice pork dish with all the lovely fat, skin and tender meat all in one bite. In Chinese sometimes it is called Tong-po ro. Tong-po is the name of a famous poet/calligrapher who loved the dish and might have even came up with it. (ro just means meat for those who are curious.)

When you cook it just right the whole chunk of pork melts in your mouth. I personally love the thick skin bit and the perfect combination of skin, fat and meat. Us Chinese/Taiwanese love it so much there's even a rock that has the shape and colour of this perfect meat on show at the National Palace museum in Taiwan. It's one of the most famous article along with the jade cabbage. You can even get postcards, chopsticks, key chains, ear rings with the little piece of meat on the end at the museum gift shop. Needless to say that is my favorite piece of art in the entire museum. Go figure.

The following is how you make an edible version :D

Braised Pork Belly

Ingredients:

Pork belly 500g

3-4 cloves Garlic use whole

*Optional:

• 1 Onion cut into large chunks

• 1 Carrots cut into cubes

• 2 Spring onions cut into 1 inch

• 1 small piece Ginger sliced

Soy sauce (other recipe I saw said half cup, I just free poured. Though be careful don't pour too much or else it will be too salty.)

Sugar (white or brown or whichever) 2 table spoon

Chinese Five spice 1 table spoon, more if you like the flavor to be stronger

Water

**I would highly suggest you cook some rice so you have something to eat the pork belly with. Follow the instruction for rice cooking on the package. If you're lucky or Asian you'll have a rice cooker then you don't have to worry about watching the rice while cooking the pork belly. I'm personally really sh*t at cooking rice on the stove.

How to make yummy pork for your tummy:

1. Cut pork belly into 1/2 inch slices that has both fat and meat.

Don't cut it too small because it will shrink in the cooking process. Make sure there’s no hair on the skin, and then wash it in cold water.

2. Boiled a pot of water, then put the meat in to boil. Skim the yucky blood off that comes to the surface. Drain the meat out soon as it turns whitish (see picture) and keep it on the side ready to use.

(This step along with adding cooking/rice wine helps get rid off the "meat stench". Though I made it without adding cooking/rice wine and personally I can't taste the difference.)

3. Heat oil in a pot. Once oil is hot, add sugar (*ginger slices if you like or if you have some handy) and stir around until the sugar caramelizes aka turns brown. Do not be afraid if it starts smoking at this point. (It should have a nice sweet smell like roast chestnut :D ) Now put the boiled meat in and fry in high heat for about 3 min or until all cubes are covered with the caramelized sugar. This is how you get the nice brown colour on the meat. (If you had rice wine now is the time to add it. Add about a table spoon and keep stirring.)

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4. Now throw in cloves of garlic then pour soy sauce and add water until it covers the meat. Keep the heat on high until water boils. Keep boiling for about 10 minutes.

5. Cover and turn the heat down to low for about an hour to reduce the sauce. Depends on how much time you have, sometimes I leave it for an hour and a half even two hours. Remember to stir every 15 min or so just to make sure the meat doesn't stick to the bottom.

*3o min before it is done you can add the optional onion, carrots, and spring onions. You can even add boiled eggs. If you do make sure you peel off the egg shell and keep turning the eggs so they have a consistent colour throughout. If you want the veggies well cooked/softer then just put them in earlier. Easy peasy.

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Time to Serve

First dish up a bowl of rice, or on a plate if you're a NAsian = NonAsian. Then take a big ladle and scoop out some meat + whatever else you put in it and some sauce and pour it on top of the rice.

Now dig in, chopsticks, forks or spoons!!

p.s. I know it took a long time but I'm definitely sure it is worth it. If not then please send it to me I will eat it all.