Captivating & Spectacular Ceremony

 So many multiple happenings going on TV & the internet. lol. OMG! Do I have happenings here at home other than housework? There are no gossiping or rumor-mongering here in my community. To each of his or her own. It's more like people here are busy with their work outside their own comfort zone. The retirees mind their own business. High cost of living still a problematic issue.

It's only through the TV that we heard of what's happening in other cities and provinces of Canada. As usual, wildfires are becoming very common now in Canada as if no more surprises and the latest victims of wildfires are from Jasper, Alberta. Loss of livelihood causing so many Canadians to seek help and support from the government. 

To tell you the truth, I don't know how those wildfires can be controlled when in the news recently... wildfires can last up to 3 days! Unbelievable right? What is unbelievable was the wildfires in Ft. McMurray that lasted more than a month. Horrible as in que horror as in inferno on Earth!

While those Canadians battling wildfires, floods had its fury in the Philippines. Manila the site of the flash flood turning highways and city streets with filthy flood waters from sewer, drainage and Pasig River and where water flows had those people swimming? Hey, look at those French swimming on River Seine. 

Despite of the many hindrances such as the soccer scandal and the railway train attack ? There's no stopping this Olympic Games that was planned for about 4 years where Olympic athletes had been morally upright, disciplined to practice with much effort to bring perfection to the game of their choice.

Denying them to play their sports... is just plain cruel and wicked.

Yesterday was the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 OLYMPIC GAMES in PARIS, FRANCE. It's been hundred years since then that they had the Olympic Games and the expectation was grandiose, magical, splendid, spectacular. CITY OF LIGHTS!

Photo courtesy: Canadian Olympics Committee
 

What billions of dollars can do eh? It was an incorporation of greatest athletes, artists, performers, highly skilled stuntmen and the highlights are undeniably big surprise, mesmerizing drama, suspense and mystery. Big stars such as Lady Gaga & Celine Dion has added sophistication and elegance to the magically inspired knight in shining armour riding a horse to represent the official flag of the IOC or International Olympic Committee.

 

 

 Ostentatious opulent ceremony that opens a great array of the lavish lifestyle of the French with their flair for drama and passion and fashion. The passing of torch from different Olympic athletes from different countries... hmm... supposedly for the French only because the host country is France but they include International athletes to pass the torch... so this is based on inclusion as a theme, including solidarity, peace, unity and gender equality. 

2024 Olympic torch on Hot Air Balloon!

HOT AIR BALLOON? What else could I say that there must be a great plan for such in the next ceremony. For now, let us watch and see the GAMES unfold.

Note: Click image to enlarge.

ISRAEL & PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

 Let's have politics. Although don't like politics as the subject of my blog have to support what Israel stands for against terrorism. 

Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu was a special guest speaker in Washington's. Did you listen to PM Netanyahu's speech? He is as fluent in English just like most Americans. Why not eh? He is a highly intellectual man, graduate of MIT & Harvard University. He is smart, knowledgeable in every aspect, in every subject: politics, economics, philosophy and theology. He is almost American in the way he speaks, moves and his intelligence is something you cannot deny him that he knows what he is talking about. He knows more than what you know. He should be the President of the United States of America. 

 

Being an Israeli leader for so many years... he is still sharp in his prime age. He seems not aging while his colleagues had aged such as former Pres. Bush of USA, former PM Harper of Canada, Pres. Putin, and the rest of them had been out in circulation,  PM Netanyahu still strong and looked healthy.

That's right, ISRAEL is the LAND THAT BELONGS TO ABRAHAM, JACOB & ISAAC.. their ancestors. Would you like to include MOSES & JESUS?  They have proof and evidence, THE HOLY BIBLE. Israel belongs to the Jewish people. Blood will flow if the Holy land will be taken away by the terrorists. Armageddon the last and final battle of Good & Evil.

Anybody who opposed to them are anti-semitic and terrorists. 

For those who are still in denial should study HISTORY, THEOLOGY & maybe they should read THE HOLY BIBLE.

LUMPIANG SHANGHAI

 Getting cooler? From 33 Celsius yesterday, to 29 C today and this afternoon is only 21 Celsius. Wow! Truly, truly springtime? Ha ha ha! It is back to Spring-er!!!!!!!!!!

Let's have SPRINGROLLS then. What is so great about springrolls? It is not only the best snacks but it is the best appetizer! Springrolls are actually originally named LUMPIANG SHANGHAI.

The spring rolls originated in Shanghai, China and then brought to Philippines through their ancient Chinese-Filipino families to share with and served in their Filipino-Chinese cuisines. As you probably know that the Filipinos kind of foods are mostly Chinese foods enhanced and mixed with Spanish foods because of the mixed racial marriages. It is customary to mix foods as in customary to bind two  races in this mixed culture and heritage. 

INGREDIENTS:  chopped garlic and onions, ground pork, chopped shrimps, salt & ground black pepper, shredded carrots, chopped celery, chopped cilantro, 2  eggs.

 

 Double Happiness wrappers.

Mix all ingredients in a big bowl. Add the beaten eggs and mix it into the ingredients.  

Place 2 tbsp of mixed ingredients as stuffing into one wrapper and roll it. Fasten the edge with flour paste.

READY your big wok on hot stove with Canola oil ( about 2 cups of oil) for deep frying. 

When springrolls turned golden brown it's ready and it's cooked.

SERVE HOT with chili garlic sauce.

Catsup is great too as dipping sauce.

EGGROLLS Hot & Delicious!

 

Craving for eggrolls? Eggrolls the most delicious snacks in the Philippines especially if you have the most important stuffing in them.

INGREDIENTS: Garlic, onions, ground pork, ground shrimps, ground black pepper, salt, soy, fresh beansprout, sliced thin carrots, shredded cabbage, sliced thin spring onions and cilantro. 

Saute' and stir all the above ingredients on cooking oil until its cooked in your big wok.  Drain it once its cooked. Cool down the cooked ingredients or stuffing in a bowl. 

Paste - mixture of one cup flour and water to be used as flour paste to keep the eggroll in good shape.

Ready your eggroll wrappers (Double Happiness package- 50 pcs/pkg). Make sure the stuffing is already cold enough to wrap. Fasten the end wrap with paste.

Deep fried eggrolls in your clean big wok on hot boiling cooking oil on your hot stove of course.

 Canola oil is the best cooking oil to use for deep frying.

Best serve hot or warm with chili garlic sauce.

Enjoy!

WOW for Why Oh Why?

 The answer was so fast and so quick and honest! The Ministry of Defense Min. Bill Blair was heard last night's news about the present situation of Canada's Defence Force. They will have to "resign" the Snowbird jets because they are too old and its impossible for them to find spare parts if they all need repairs. Military aviation and military boats are also getting old, actually so old and need to be replaced. Canada needs new submarines.

Hmm... where I read all those information? LEGION Magazine. Canada's Military History being unfold and revealed.

Right! It was also been tackled under former Defence Minister Anita Anand. It will take some time. The budget too large to comprehend. They were busy with something else about internal affairs and issues.

Anyway, all these burgeoning conflict can be resolved by focusing on the Military at HOME in Canada not the military and structural defense of other countries. That's the FOCUS. Why strengthen the military of other countries when your own country don't have the strength?  

Anyway, sometimes the MANPOWER or Human Resources and its intelligence is the greatest strength a Defense should have.

How To Cool Down Mother Earth

 MERCURY RISING once again and again. How you wished it's already Autumn. Hmm.. how to change the weather? Hello ISS...

Look at what happened in Toronto. How a storm had flooded the city of Toronto is almost abysmal created chaos worth of billions of dollars in damages. Do we need a chaotic storms just to lower heatwave? OMG! 

How we can lower the heat from the sun? Provide clouds in the sky. Or a scientific solar umbrella those satellites have to open up in the sky to protect one province from sunlight and heat. 

Is that how simple solution but how much? Is that possible?

I remember way back in Philippines, the cloud seeding was used time and again whenever possible. Silver iodides used for such to be dropped on clouds. The positive and negative effects could create rainfall and beneficial to cool down Earth. Is that still applicable in our generation?

But you know what? The ISS could just open its huge umbrella to cover sunlight and or sunrays. It is easier, simple and convenient.

The Law Of Attraction

 Well, what's new here . Me asking WHAT'S NEW. It's a matter of ZERO TO ONE. What do you like as a reader? ONE (1) or ZERO (0)? Or let's have the MATRIX.

Remember the MATRIX? You have the choice of choosing colors instead. It has something to do with the colors of the pill given to Neo. RED PILL VS BLUE PILL.

BLUE PILL. What's with Blue Pill? You take the blue pill and when you wake up you are still on your bedroom. Nothing happens. You are living an ordinary boring life. You have a control of your life.

RED PILL. When you take the Red Pill you are to discover what life is all about and find out for yourself how deep is the rabbit hole. You can have an entrance and exit through the filth of that old rotten toilet. You are to live like a rat. You become a sacrificial lamb. You are the "one" who will suffer and be played upon by those who are superior than you are.

How to change the life of a Matrix?

WAKE UP. It is not about colors and it's not about numbers.

IT IS ABOUT MAGNET and the power of magnetism.  

And you think that's BS.

Best Soup Ever!

 Craving for SINIGANG? The best Filipino soup with the most incredible tamarind sour broth to life and the most favourite soup in the Philippines. Hmm.. so yummy!

INGREDIENTS: 1 Kilo of lean ground pork, sliced onions, sliced tomatoes, potatoes, string beans, bokchoy, eggplant, bittermelon, ground black pepper, salt, Knorr tamarind soup base.

Potatoes, eggplant and bittermelon optional. Prawns can also be added but that too is optional.

Ready your big stainless pot on high heat hot stove with at least 8 cups of water in the pot and boil the cut lean pork until its cooked and soft. Add the cut onions and sliced tomatoes. Sprinkle salt and ground black peppers.  Add 6 pcs of cut in half potatoes first let the potatoes cooked first then add cut vegetables next. Once all the veggies are cooked, then pour in the 1 pkg Knorr tamarind soup base,  stir well for a minute until the broth has mixed entirely with the soup. SERVE HOT!

KNORR TAMARIND SOUP BASE is available in every Supermarket in Canada: Superstore, Walmart, and Filipino-Asian Stores.

My Favourite Viand - Pancit

 PANCIT - The Philippine's most sought after viand in every special occasion such as birthdays, fiesta, nuptial, baptism, anniversaries, on engagement, parties, but for me I just love pancit that's why I love to cook pancit most of the time. Walang kasawa- sawa! lol

Then somehow there are friends from other countries who love pancit the first time they tasted it and they asked me for a recipe. I told them it's easy to cook it without recipe. I mean just saute' the ingredients and stir fry the noodles with all the meat and veggies ingredients. I think somehow they want a complete, comprehensive direction of such because they tried to cook chow mein but it is not equal to what they tasted. 

Do I really have to tell them the secret of what Pancit or Filipino chow mein should be? 

Preparation: All meat and shrimps should be washed and cleaned including cabbage and carrots

INGREDIENTS:

Canola cooking oil - 1/4 cup 

Crushed or minced garlic - 2 tbsp

Sliced thin whole onion

Sliced thin pork - 3 cups 

Sliced thin chicken strips - 3 cups

Small shrimps - 16 -20 pcs

Salt, soy sauce, ground black pepper

Chicken broth 4 tbsp mixed in 3-4 cups of lukewarm water

Cabbage - cut in 1"x 1" size

Carrots cut thinly in strips

Chopped cilantro or spring onions 

Farkay noodles Or Rice Vermicelli (soak them first on hot boiling water and then drain)

DIRECTION:

1. Get ready with your big stainless wok on hot, hot stove. Pour the cooking oil.

2. Once the oil  is sizzling hot, drop the garlic, onions and stir, add the meat and saute' cooked them until golden brown, add shrimps, salt, ground pepper, then soy sauce to taste.

3. Pour the chicken broth and let it boil then have the carrots and cabbage. Do not over cook the veggies. Just for five minutes and set aside all the ingredients to a big bowl.

4. The broth still boiling in the wok... drop the Farkay noodles or rice vermicelli on the wok on that chicken broth. Mix and stir until cooked then mix all the ingredients. Garnish with cilantro and spring onions. SERVE HOT.

 

NOTE: There are many ways, method and technique in cooking pancit. You can have alternatives in using different kinds of noodles: Farkay, Bihon, Thai Rice Vermicelli, Pancit Canton, Ramen Noodles. You can use different types of Meat: Pork, Chicken, Beef or Seafood: Shrimps, Crabs, Scallops, Squids, and choice of Veggies: Cabbage, Carrots, Green Peas, Brocolli, Green Beans, Bokchoy.

NOTE: Can be costly of a viand because of numerous amounts of ingredients from meat, seafoods and vegetables. RESULT: Absolutely delicious!

BON APPETIT.

Munggo With Much Gusto

 

MUNGGO is one of the most sought-after viand here at home. My family loves munggo it makes them eat more with steamed rice. 

As usual, the best original guinisang munggo viand is with slices of bittermelon. 

and ginger.
 

It would be nice if there are ampalaya leaves and its tendrils but the supermarket don't sell bittermelon leaves.

Medicinal effects of Bittermelon & Ginger: Lowers blood pressure and anti-inflammation.

Ingredients for munggo: Canola cooking oil, garlic, onions, slices of pork, shrimps,slices of ginger, salt & ground black pepper, soy sauce, munggo beans (2 cups )(boiled on hot, hot water first until cooked), 2 cups of lukewarm water with chicken broth, sliced bittermelons, or you can use spinach and cilantro if there's no bittermelon available. 

Direction for cooking: Saute' all ingredients in your wok until cooked and then add broth to a boil and add the munggo and bittermelon. Watch what you are cooking not to dry up the munggo soup.

Serve hot with steamed rice. Yum!

Calendar Of Events JULY 2024

 WHAT'S UP JULY?

Oh M-G!! JULY is the best month of too many celebrations out of ying yang. 

July is when your floral garden and vegetable garden in abundance of its buds, flowers, and veggies. 

July is the beginning of Summer! No doubt it's gonna be hot, hot, hot!

JULY CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

JULY 1      - CANADA DAY

HAPPY 157th BIRTHDAY CANADA!!💓🙌🙏
 

JULY 1     -  Wimbledon Tennis Tournament in UK

JULY 3      -  St. Thomas Day

JULY 4      - INDEPENDENCE DAY USA

JULY 4      - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAXINE!💓

JULY 5      - Calgary Stampede

JULY 6      - National Fried Chicken Day

JULY 6      - HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CLARIZZE & DAVID

JULY 9      - Nunavut Day

JULY 14    - Bastille Day - National Day of Unity for France. On this day, Olympic torch will arrive in Paris, France and be held aloft down Champs Elysees past Grand Palais and Petit Palais before traversing through Jarden e Luxembuorg on 25 hectare green oasis in the heart of the city of Paris.

JULY 15    - World Skills Day For The Youth

JULY 15    - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TWINS CADE👦💓💋 & TAMARA👧💓💋

 

JULY 17    - World Emoji Day😎😍😇😛😅😁😲😋😊😃😄

JULY 20    - World Parks Day

JULY 21    - Ice Cream Day

JULY 24    - International Self-Care Day

JULY 25    - Miracle Treat Day

JULY 26    - SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES - Paris, France 2024

 

JULY 28    - World Day for Grandparents

JULY 30    - Friendship Day 

JULY 31    - Avocado Day

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

Let it shine, let it shine...

Let your flames shine and burn brighter than stars!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY & HAPPY ANNIVERSARIES to all JULY CELEBRANTS!!