Hi everyone, how was your Monday? productive? I hope so, it's supposed to be productive, right? But mine was not productive at all in term of work, but yes in term of leisure readings. I spent the morning doing errands, filling out thousands of forms for my summer intern (hate this!), worked 3 hours in the afternoon (fighting with sleepiness) and then read read read, I finished both: Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story, The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed.
The diabetes one wasn't as good as I expected (very general ideas and too much talk, not enough info) and Lang Lang's biography was great! It was my first time reading a biography, never really understand why should I be interested in someone else life story. But I was so wrong, it's sooooo interesting and mind opening. I learned so much and confirmed once again that success does not fall from the sky, you have to work for it. You could be a genius, but if you don't work hard, you will never success.
After finished these books, I ordered 3 more books on amazon and I want them to arrive right now!!! I crave reading!!! Have you ever experienced this kind of craving?
Now food, which was not bad.
breakfast: new grain!!! AMARANTH: high in protein, calcium, and iron. The combo:
The diabetes one wasn't as good as I expected (very general ideas and too much talk, not enough info) and Lang Lang's biography was great! It was my first time reading a biography, never really understand why should I be interested in someone else life story. But I was so wrong, it's sooooo interesting and mind opening. I learned so much and confirmed once again that success does not fall from the sky, you have to work for it. You could be a genius, but if you don't work hard, you will never success.
After finished these books, I ordered 3 more books on amazon and I want them to arrive right now!!! I crave reading!!! Have you ever experienced this kind of craving?
Now food, which was not bad.
breakfast: new grain!!! AMARANTH: high in protein, calcium, and iron. The combo:
- 1/4 c. dry amaranth
- 1/2 c. almond breeze
- 1/2 chopped apple
- 1/4 c. ricotta
- vanilla
- homemade Almond Butter.
Together with the other half of the apple. 
It was a very interesting grain, so tiny, I could taste each of these little balls. It's not as creamy as oats/oatbran, it's more like millet/couscous, so if you want to get some creaminess, you might want to add some oatbran.AM snack packed to school: cereal bar and chocolate from Arg.
Lunch: a super plate of poached egg whites over smoked salmon, leftover barley risotto and steamed broccoli slaw.
I was sooooo stuffed when I finished so I had a tiny piece of the ricotta cheesecake.
Later in the afternoon I had another chocolate from Arg that I store them in a cute box from Paris.
Before I went to gym for some magazine reading, I had 1/2 of each of these bars. The right one is from Arg (see how small are they compared to Americans?)
For dinner I made stir-fry with mushrooms, spinach, eggplant, tofu and tomatoes, seasoned with soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, sesame seeds and sesame oil.
And two squares of the dill cornbread.
Yummy~~Dessert: fungus soup (black and white fungus) with Chinese dates.
Question: Do you like reading biographies? What was the one you liked most?
