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Baking Until I Drop

Cameras bought.
And I exercised great restraint and bought the cheaper DSLR, the Nikon D50.
It should be MORE THAN ENOUGH camera for me.

Now, I just have to wait patiently for credit cards and orders to be processed and okayed and then for me to actually get it.
I’m not very patient.

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T&T Express: PNM support for smelters

I’m not really sure how any of us trinis could be supporting these smelters.

We’re a blind nation, clearly, a blind nation of yes men. We blindly follow whatever our preferred political party tells us and bash every one else.

Manning said “all over Trinidad and Tobago we are getting support for the government’s industrialisation policy… Let the mice play, but when the people speak we speak for the people of Trinidad and Tobago.”

No Mr Manning, you speak for yourself and ways to make money and spend money on yourself. You don’t speak for me.

If I were to summarize what we’ve learned from For Better or For Worse so far, it would have to be “Trust No One”.

Oh well, Maybe I will stop reading now….
Who knows.
Train wreck.

Help me.
You know what would help…if I had my camera to keep my busy.
But that’s another post entitled…Chennette, I have the setup for you!

Chocolate Malt Milkshake

Originally uploaded by Lilandra.

Mom had a hole in her stomach and a little plastic cup of fruit cocktail didn’t satisfy her.

So, I asked her if she wanted a milkshake?

Hers was Haagen-Dazs Dulce de Leche Ice cream with Malt Soy Milk.
Mine had Chocolate ice cream.

We didn’t do extras like whipped cream and sauce and toppings. It was pretty late at night and well…didn’t feel like oh so much work.

Also, it was the first time I ever used a blender.

Mmm :-)

This is gonna be hard because how can things about me be weird. Normal is really subjective and how can something you do be weird?

Well, here goes:

1. I don’t like some of my food mixing. I mean, you make curry chicken (or something) and rice and dhaal, I don’t really want the curry sauce on my rice and dhaal. You make macaroni pie and stew chicken, no! I do not want chicken gravy on my macaroni pie. I may mix it while eating but I don’t want it settling, congealing… I’ve noticed that I’ve eased up on this a bit but it bugs me. It bugs me that you’ll go to functions or Iftars (fast breakings) or stuff like that and when they hand out the basic plate they might dump the meat on other things. I can deal with stewed beans on my macaroni pie and such. Maybe it’s some meat and non-meat mixing thing. I don’t like meat in my soup…not really.
2. I don’t eat fish cooked at home. Unless it’s frying fish. The smell of baking fish (like we used to do once upon a time…waaaaay long ago, this huge fish baking in the over for soooo long). I used to eat fry-dry but we don’t really get real fry-dry anymore. I ate a “bbq”-ed salmon mom and I made from a Cooking Light recipe. It was soo good but I had to work hard to overcome some inner inhibitions and eat it…and even eat it a second time. Mom keeps trying to feed me fish because “I eat it outside” but I can’t eat it.
3. I hate beef. It grosses me out. I can eat it minced tho…sometimes (burgers, beef pies). (And it’s cruel to call a little girl Hindu, meaning it as a derogative (idiots! on cruelty and choice of “insult”) for not eating beef, even if it’s kurbani! Some of these freaks even decided to call me this because their stew or curry chicken wasn’t very good (I was young and when I went functions most people’s curry and stew chicken didn’t taste as good as mom’s and was very oily so I solved the problem by going vegetarian and just eating channa and aloo and roti or rice and dhaal … you get it…vegetarian)). Okay, you’re probably wondering what meats I do eat…chicken, lamb, shrimp and some fish.
4. I am very picky. I may like something but may just not be in the mood to eat it. I don’t want to hear that I must try something before I decide, or that I always ate it as a child. (I don’t eat bhaji! But I do eat spinach, especially with feta).
5. I’m scared of macaroni pie. Ever since I got sick in September 2004, I get scared that if I eat it, I’ll get sick again. But, I love it. Cheesy and mustardy with no meat!
6. I do not drink fruit punch. I hate fruit punch. It is despicable. Why mix all those flavours? What are you accomplishing? Slush? No taste garbage? Drink Kool-Aid if you want that. Oh yeah, you flavour it with Kool-Aid. What’s the point. If you’re going to mask the taste of all those juices with Kool-Aid then just make Kool-Aid. I drink orange juice, lime juice, lemonade and pineapple juice. But, please don’t mix them. Just because I like them individually doesn’t mean I will be like oh! orange pineapple juice? How wonderful! My favourite juices mixed together. *gag*

   I might let orange-tangerine pass. I can stomach that.

I’m sure Chennette will tell you if I’ve forgotten something…or mom.
I was tagged by TriniGourmet. But I’m not sure who to tag back so I won’t bother. Aha! I will tag mom! :-D