Get KUMA-phyed!

We are trying a new annual event at our home. It is a Japanese tradition to pound sticky rice cake called Mochi. We first attempted it a couple of days ago. It was very good. It tasted very traditional.

First get some rice called ‘sweet rice’, aka ‘glutinous rice’. We bought [...]

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“Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned — the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast, but they can’t find any dead animals.”
“‘The strange thing is we haven’t recorded any dead animals,’ H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters Wednesday. ‘No elephants [...]

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I found this on Yahoo News.
“The deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth’s rotation — shortening days by a fraction of a second — and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.” read more here.

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Thank you for all of your concern. My parents are OK. They were in their apartment in Chiangmai. They said they felt the quake, though. They were planning to be in Phuket first week of January, so they were lucky.
Thank you for all of your concern.
j-)

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NEW SITE – Route 137
I began working on this site, Route 137. As it stated there, I made many trips through this road. Now I really want to do it on my bicycle.
This is my attempt to get XOOPS run on my server and promote Route137. I used to make round trips between [...]

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I just got back from riding 40 miles. It was a beautiful day, 72 degrees. The only coplain I had was the wind, blowing at 20 mph. At least it was my favorite direction, from SSW.
Boy, I will enjoy dinner tonight!
As you can tell I am off today. Well, [...]

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We got to ride as a family this afternoon. It was only 4.5 miles, but hey it was a nice day to have some quality family time together. JJ rode on his MBX. KIKI has a hybrid bike with baby seat on the back. So KIKI adn Little Sis got to [...]

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We went to Café Japon for lunch on Friday. (3915 Kirby Drive – 713-529-1668) I ordered a Box Lunch, or know to Japanese as Makunouchi, 幕の内弁当. It was kind of neat the they let customers choose the content. There were three categories of food groups. One was sushi and sashimi, [...]

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Mac OS X 10.3.7 is out. I usually wait installing update for about a week and read as much as I can to see if anyone is having a major problem with the update. Macintouch.com is one of my favorite place to read up on these matters.
Of course, don’t forget to repair the [...]

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this is awesome! “Holy grounds of food culture – delicious entertainment”
they have ramen park, ice cream park, pot stickers park, etc. all over japan.
j-)

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