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Fishing season already? When is fishing season? Spring time Summer time 2012?

spring fishing in philadelphia pa march 2012
spring fishing in philadelphia pa march 2012

So when is the fishing season start? I don’t know, but I guess it depend on where are the fish, the fish could be year round in some places, even in the winter under the ice, so I guess there isn’t a right time for fishing season, but the peak might be summer time where fish reproduce massively in creek lake anywhere fresh water and off course the ocean. This year my sister went fishing just right before spring time, I wonder if she will catch any, last year her family fish a lot of cat fish and some other smaller fish. Fish is healthy, eat lots of fish, it’s good for you and also on the menu for vegetarian :).

spring march 2012 best fishing spot in philadelphia are pennsylvania chester county
spring march 2012 best fishing spot in philadelphia are pennsylvania chester county
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Congratulation to my cousin be Cuong having new born

new born to the world - baby - child - children
new born to the world - baby - child - children

Haven’t check my facebook lately, came and check saw a bunch of new post, didn’t even read, noticed my cousin be Cuong had new born baby boy, born year of the dragon 2012. Congratulation cousin, I know you probably don’t know I have my own blog, and I never post anything on facebook anymore, not even respond to message or accept friends or other functions, some people might see me online facebook all the time, but guess what? I’m not physically there hahahhah. Anyhow, new born is a big gift from god, it’s always a good thing , can bring lots of luck, and lots of responsibilities, or I guess you could just take it easy and let baby grow up be whoever they choose to be 🙂 good luck with that hehehehh. One recommend for men and woman and whoever you are, don’t have baby if you’re not ready, having a new born is bringing new life to the world, and make sure you have the time and know the responsibilities to raise the new born into a good person, not a burden to society to hurt other people, or hurting themselves.

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It feels like summer now and it’s not even officially spring yet March 13th 2012 Coatesville PA 19320

weather 19320 coatesville pa sprint time summer time over 70s degree
weather 19320 coatesville pa sprint time summer time over 70s degree

Wow, right now the temperature is 73 degree but feels like 75 to 80 due to a little bit of humidity. And it’s not even spring yet, could it be? the year 2012 12/21/2012? end of the world? It’s very rare to have this kind of temperature now, when it’s not even spring yet, not snow this year, now it’s getting warm already, wondering what the temperature will be in the summer time this year, I can see the electric bill to run AC sky rocket and elder and people will died from heat stroke, hope not, will see, prepare for the summer people, it will be a hot one from that I gather.

 

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Daughter dentist appointments two cavities

prevent tooth teeth decay cavities treatments march 2012
prevent tooth teeth decay cavities treatments march 2012

Wow she has two cavities. I don’t get it, she have brushing, flossing and even use mouth wash on a daily basis, what could have cause this? she didn’t eat much candy either, interesting, I wonder if the dentist just being careful or want to make more money out of her? Well, it’s better be safe than sorry, her next appointment is on April. She will need two fill. Then another appointment in August to clean. For me believe it or not, I haven’t been to a dentist for 2 decade 🙂 actually the last check up they took pictures about 2 years ago, they said my teeth is ugly all crooked and stuff, my it’s very healthy, but there are sign of bone loss but I’m not going to loose any teeth, well that’s what I want to hear, healthy, I don’t care about crooked ugly teeth, as long as it healthy 🙂 Some might like others because they have perfect teeth, some look deep inside a person’s personality 🙂

 

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How to Train your Dragon 2 Brain vs. Muscle who will win?

brain is better than muscular muscle good looking person
brain is better than muscular muscle good looking person

There’s a movie that my daughters watch all the time, it’s another of their favorite movies or they just have kids movies that they want to watch all the time, the title of the movie is “How to train your dragon” or is it “how to train a dragon”, by the way version 2 is coming out “How to train your dragon 2”. As I watch it over and over again with my kids, it’s not that I want to, but I have no choice to watch it with them, missing some parts here and there, but I kind of pick up one thing from this movie. The little boy for sure as a character very skinny and small, compare to his father and the rest the  Viking villagers. It turns out that the boy uses his clever brain to work with one of the most dangerous dragon and be a team instead of killing it. The village has dragon problems and the people are trying to kill all the dragons as it invaded the village. What I notice is the muscular people there doesn’t use their brain much, they just use their physical strength to defeat the dragon. The little thin skinny boy was able to spent enough time with one of the dangerous dragon and learned quite a few things that he uses during the dragon killing training, he doesn’t kill the dragon, he defeated the dragon by various methods that he had learned. So as a result, if a person want to succeed in life, you don’t have to be muscular strong and good looking, you just need a brain and the will to learn anything, I wouldn’t say learn anything, but just say certain things that can help, that can applied for whatever situation currently happening or will happen.

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Various different ways How to make BBQ Char Siu Vietnamese homemade style by Thong Tran recipe

bbq char siu xa siu xiu won ton quang thanh noodle soup
bbq char siu xa siu xiu won ton quang thanh noodle soup

It’s quite simple actually. I bought a package of Char Siu (xa xiu, sa xiu, xa siu) from a Vietnamese or Chinese Asian store they all have it, then add 1/2 cup of warm water, let it sit aside, then cut the pork meat in 1-2 inches slice, and marinade for an hour, then preheat your oven or char coal or gas grill to 150 degree then grill it for an hour, use a pan of water put it inside the grill to get the moisture into the meat or keep it moist other wise it will be dried :), well that’s my way of cooking. The direction is also on the the Char Xiu ingredient package. It’s kind of sweet, if you don’t like too sweet, add a little bit of fish sauce during marinading. There are many ways to eat Char Siu with, see below pictures various ways preparation. For me I love Sa Siu with Quang Thanh or so call Won-Ton noodle soup, um yummy. I’m making this today 🙂

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My kids loves musical movies such as Happy Feet 1 and 2 and other Disney movies

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all disney characters collage musical movies happy feet 2 download watch

I think it’s typical that most kids loves to watch musical movies, and I’m talking about the cartoon version musical movies where the cartoon characters sings, especially the one from Disney and Pixar, such as Happy Feet 1 and 2, Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella 1, 2, and 3. I personal think it’s great as well, but at my age I’m into action thriller adventures. My daughters has a few movies that they want to watch over and over again for like a hundreds of time and sometime they remember the wording word by word, it’s funny, they either they repeat it or even say it before the characters even began to speak, in addition if I sit next to them they will tell me what will happen next lol. Now a day, I use a HDMI laptop which I win from ebay auction for about $100 used, and plug it into the TV via HDMI and let them watch many movies stored in the hard drive.

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Vietnamese Pho noodle soup is everywhere and it’s good all year round

vietnamese pho beef noodle soup the best
vietnamese pho beef noodle soup the best

Now a day when we go to any Vietnamese restaurant, chances are, they have Pho noodle soup. Pho is one of the best soup there are for the Vietnamese community. Some restaurant does cook it much better than others, some cook with natural ingredient, some with pre-made ingredient, kind of difficult to tell the different, some even say adding a little bit of MSG will make it taste better, hmm maybe that’s the secret ingredient , but too much MSG not good for one’s health, so stay away from too much MSG, a little bit MSG is fine. For me cooking home Pho especially at home, never taste the same as the restaurant, 1st I live in the East Coast and don’t have all the herb vegetable including the bean sprout readily available, so even if I cook the soup good and has the meat ball and beef but missing those herb vegie doesn’t make it taste as good. The best I at are Pho Ha and Pho Hoa in Philadelphia PA, those are good and closest to me, 45-60mins drive, worth the drive but hec the parking is crazy, like new york, you could be going around in a circle for 30mins without finding a parking space on a weekend.

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Vegetarian Fish Burger today for most Catholic next week will be last week on a every Friday

vegetarian fish burger friday for most catholic people
vegetarian fish burger friday for most catholic people

Umm Yummm! Fish Burger is good, Salmon fish burger that is. Today is the 2nd to the last day of every Friday Vegetarian day for most catholic like me. This salmon fish burger isn’t bad at all, and probably better than the meat burger. My wife got the bun and salmon fish paddy from BJ max, pretty good price. Simple preparation, no – not microwave or oven. I use the burger paddy cooker, cheap one $10 $20 from walmart and it cook great, within minutes it’s ready, and then put some salad on it with some salad dressing, might not want to use ketchup or A1 sauce it doesn’t taste too good with seafood, so better to use salad dressing sauce. Awesome lunch for vegetarian 🙂 today. Too bad I don’t think none of my facebook friends families know I have a separate personal blog and I don’t even go to facebook anymore and none of them question why? oh well, hahahah 🙂 So this blog is for you whoever reading this, you’re my friend, welcome back anytime, feel free to drop me a line. Continue reading “Vegetarian Fish Burger today for most Catholic next week will be last week on a every Friday”

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Vietnamese vegetable Rau Vap Ca strange name but it’s part of the herbal Vietnamese vegetable

rau vap ca - vietnamese vegie
rau vap ca - vietnamese vegie

The correct name in Vietnamese is “Rau vấp cá!” does it have an english name? I don’t think so, and is Vietnam the only place that have this vegetable? I’m not sure, maybe it’s all over the tropical equators countries but I doubt that many countries would eat this vegie. One – many people doesn’t like the taste if it eat raw, but if you dip with fish cause or little bit of rice vinegar and sugar, it taste like salad, so it depend the way you prepare it. To me, I prepare this Rau vấp cá  by slice it up small and use it raw in the Vietnamese Goi Vit, Goi Ga, ect … or use the big leaf raw in a spring roll and dip with fish sauce, other than that I’m not what else can it be use beside dipping it with fish sauce with banh xeo and so on. Continue reading “Vietnamese vegetable Rau Vap Ca strange name but it’s part of the herbal Vietnamese vegetable”