Solyanka

February 3rd, 2012

Made an attempt to cook Solyanka for a dinner today, but got something completely different due to peculiarities of available components. Pickled cucumbers and Chinese sausages were sweet. Bouillon wasn’t thick enough. On a positive side, I had two types of chillies. As a result I created very nice sweet, sour and spicy soup. Eating the dinner was equivalent to a visit to sauna.

Passport

December 26th, 2011

Today I finally got a new passport. I applied first in the end of April while was working in Malaysia. By the end of August, when I was moving to Singapore, it still wasn’t ready, so I had to apply again here. It seems Russian state institutes when hiring giving preferences to retards, it took them almost 8 months to print a new passport.

Christmas hot pot

December 26th, 2011

We bought a steamboat couple of weeks ago and it immediately became an irreplaceable attribute of weekend lunches.

Nutritious lunch

November 6th, 2011

Today for lunch we had delicious and spicy Sichuan food:

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Ubuntu 11.10

October 30th, 2011

Just upgraded Ubuntu to 11.10. First impression very disappointing. Unity looks like completely unusable, and installation of gnome-panel doesn’t really saves situation – it’s ugly. Currently looking for solution with gnome, or maybe will upgrade to Xubuntu. This version IMO is a big step back in usability.

Wat Pho

September 5th, 2011

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Shanghai Mansion

September 3rd, 2011

Very nice hotel in Bangkok. And not expensive.

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