Sucky Sweet Life

This is my first my recipe post. I'm a lazy cook so I try to make my recipe as simple as possible. I hope you will enjoy my simplified recipe! Have you tried out Japanese style roll cake before? It's basically a rolled sponge cake with whip-cream inside. In fact, you can add anything you want inside with whip-cream: fresh fruits, red bean paste, cinnamon powder, mini-mochi and red bean etc. Be creative! Kitchenware you will need: 9in by 13in cake bakeware Parchment Paper Hand mixer Spatula Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls Flour Sifter Ingredients you will need: Sponge cake Eggs (4 @ Room Temperature) Cane sugar - white (90g) Cake flour (70g) - Don't substitute with "All-Purpose Flour". I usually use  King Arthur Unbleached Cake Flour Blend - 32 oz . Filling Heavy whipping cream (150ml) Cane sugar (10g) Recipe: 1. Measure the ingredients and get the tools ready In a stainless mixing bowl, crack eggs and add sugar In a bowl, put cake flour...

It was my last day with my current team. I was with this team for one year.  ♪ ♪  Don't cry for me my old team. I will forget you quickly and you will forget me quickly. We are not meant to be each other. After coming back from maternity leave, I didn't have much luck finding a good team to join in my current company. I stayed with my previous team for 3 quarters and then I escaped to this team. Now, I'm escaping again. Let me quickly summarize what went wrong with each team. Team A (Duration: 3 Quarters) Too much planning, slow execution : Meeting after meeting after meeting for no execution. Meet for sake of meeting! Micro-manager (micro-manage design of slide / spreadsheet): This is not my first time to encounter a micro-manager. This one is yet another unique one. F* you, do it yourself. Gender discrimination : There is a silent agreement that female workers should take care of tasks like taking meeting minutes, organize team event.  Everyone has its own o...

This candy is similar to Smarties but melts faster with flavor of ラムネ " Ramune " (taste like Sprite) with strange bubbles "Awa" in your mouth (a lot of bubbles!).  Bubbly bubble! If you are either Ramune fan or bubbles fan (imagine bath bubbles melts in your mouth) or both, this is for you! This candy is very unique in its flavor and texture for people outside Japan (I hope it was obvious from my description above). However, I totally forgot about its uniqueness for a moment. Then, I came to realization when my daughter put the candy into her mouth for 2 seconds and then spit out immediately with yikes face.  Yikes! Anyway, since my hubby doesn't eat any candies and my daughter rejected the candy, I decided to keep it all to myself at work. I like "Ramune", candy and bubbles so this is a candy of my dream. Very bubbly! Awa Awa Awawa! If you are up for this sensational bubbly experience in your mouth, check out these items now. Today...

I work in one of those typical high tech companies in Silicon Valley. I'm not an engineer nor a senior manager nor an executive. I describe myself as a sheet of Kleenex Ultra Soft Facial Tissues 130 Count (Pack of 8), Disposable Facial Tissues, Gentle and Durable, 3-Ply Thickness, Designs May Vary  at a tech company.  Manager blows his/her nose (dump sh*tty work)  until tissue paper (me) is no longer useful (burn out, irrecoverably unhappy). Yikes - disgusting.   What  I  want to complain about today is this nightmare " p erformance review " process. A lot of companies in this area conduct employee performance review around Spring season (now-ish).  What is performance review, for those of you have never heard of it? It basically tries to rate employee against some random motivational attributes such as leadership, growth mind set, presence, company value and so on and on (that gives me goose bumps).  By the way, these random motivationa...

Let me debut my first "sweet" post with salty snack! Although I grew up in Asia, I discovered snack "Umai Bou" (うまい棒) in the states. They are basically puffy corn snack. Literal translation of this snack is "Yum Stick".  Yay! This is my weekend snack! Today's featured shopping list: 1. Umaibou It comes with several kind of flavor (pizza flavor, corn pottage flavor and so on). My absolute favorite is corn pottage flavor - yellow packaging with sweet corn image. It's one of my daughter's favorite snack as well.  Check out this corn snack now Assorted Japanese Junk Food Snack "Umaibo" 50 Packs of 11 Types Umaibo  and discover your favorite flavor!

I have decided it's time for me to have fun this year rather than spending 40+ hours wasting my time emailing / spreadsheeting at work. Yeah - fun.  Basically, I hate my job (actually, I hate corporate job period) and the only motivation I have at work is to get together with colleagues to complain about the company and upper management team and immediate co-workers (hmm, isn't that everything).  I decided to bring my rant to Internet space. That's  boring as is so I decided to make this a little bit sweeter.  I love sweets (French pastries, Asian snacks and on and on). I make simple desserts (I'm not a good cook so it can fail miserably and my family has no choice but to eat). I buy random Asian snacks and feed to myself and my kids. I eat dessert after every meal (even though I'm not French).  So.... My goal is to alternate my rant and sweet here to entertain my readers (if there's any - ha). Come and join my sucky sweet life!