There are so many variations of fried rice which I've tried in my lifetime. Different restaurants serve different kinds of fried rice. Some affordable and some overpriced.
I know it takes just a little effort to check out prices from other shops, too. But the best fried rice we could ever please ourselves with, is the one which we cook ourselves, at home.
Just recently, I tried out something new. Fried rice with canned sliced mushrooms. I also added some beef (cut into bite-sized pieces), a few shrimp, 10 pieces chopped garlic, 1 egg,
2 tablespoons garlic butter, 5 dashes of white pepper, a handful of frozen mixed vegetables;
2 tablespoons vegetable oil and for seasoning, I added 1 packet of Seri Aji Nasi Goreng Cina.
The end result was real tasty.
The amount of canned sliced mushrooms added to the fried rice, depends on how much you like the taste of mushrooms. In the above recipe (which was for two), I used 5 tablespsoons. The leftover was refrigerated and reheated in the microwave oven the following day.
There was a video on Yahoo news just now, about a two and a half year old boy who was thrown onto a busy Hawaii freeway from a pedestrian overpass earlier, by a man dressed in green hospital scrubs.
Police arrested twenty three year old Matthew Higa whom they say, occasionally baby-sat the child after witnesses saw him throwing something, followed him and called the authorities. This happened at about 11:40hrs, local time in Honolulu. The suspect was lingering around smoking a cigarette, after throwing the child off the pedestrian overpass. One or two vehicles may have struck the child, but it was unclear if he died from being hit or from the fall. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The child who fell thirty feet onto the freeway has not yet been identified and word of the incident triggered panic amongst Honolulu parents, who flooded day care centers with calls wondering about their own children. A white sheet covered the child's body. Another video showed Matthew Higa being taken away and calling out to the news cameras: "Thank you for everything!"
What a mental case.
Let's face it. Whenever we get an error message on a website which seems like we've reached a blank URL or a dead link, we simply tend to give up too soon.
Earlier today, I encountered an HTTP 403 error message which said that the website I was trying to view, declined to show the page.
I was just going to click the back button on the browser, when something told me that I should click the 'Refresh' button instead. Well, I did click the 'Refresh' button...and guess what? To my surprise, it displayed the entire page perfectly.
Then, I realized that the HTTP 403 message wasn't really showing an expired page / dead link, after all.
Perhaps the server of that website was down - or perhaps the creators of that website themselves, had implemented a kind of double-click feature, which meant that users had to refresh (or reload) that page.
As internet technology becomes more and more sophisticated, just about anything can happen .
The song "Roll Out The Barrel" comes to mind right about now.
Why?
Well, for the first time ever, the price of crude oil has officially reached 100 dollars a barrel.
According to one report, it reached an all-time record of 100.09 dollars per barrel in early USA floor trading on Thursday, but then settled back to close at 99.18 dollars.
There was a time not too long ago, when the price of crude oil was a quarter of the amount it is today. Supply and demand can cause prices to fluctuate - and when there is more demand for a commodity than the supply can handle, prices will skyrocket.
So now that crude oil has reached 100 dollars a barrel, what should you do?
Sell the car and rely solely on public transportation?
The answer is no.
But you CAN conserve gasoline if you drive slower on the highways (if you have to drive somewhere far, that is) or...for closer destinations, simply ride a bicycle.
