What does social justice mean to you?
Wed 20 Feb 2013
February 20th is World Social Justice Day
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Mon 18 Feb 2013
Judging the Glute by the Cover!
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Out of blue, Yun is sick again. Her household beats the record this year: everyone is sick all within a week! That has never happened before. Yun was the last one to go down, and she did not like it.
Cece kept telling Yun that she needs to get a flu shot, and that there is a nasty virus going around. But Yun thought to herself: “I am just quite out of shape and not exercising at all through the fall. I need to get back to a routine of exercise.”
As she was feeling crummy while lying there with fever of 101, she got a magazine for her reading pleasure:” MUSCLE & FITNESS hers.” There is a very beautiful woman on the cover next to an article titled: “Get a firmer, sexier butt — Try Amanda’s glute perfecting routine today.”
Amanda (Yun assume that is the woman’s name) looks happy healthy and very firm. Yun glanced at the cover page again, but experiencing little desire to check out Amanda’s routine. All Yun could think of is to close her eyes, and drift to sleep. Most of all, she thought about (wishful thinking) that she woke up not having to feel the dizziness and tiredness.
For three days, the beautiful cover girl stayed faithfully on Yun’s nightstand, but Yun had little desire to contemplate a firmer sexier butt. Her routine was drinking water, taking pills, then drinking more water, bathroom to release the pressure, kitchen to refuel with some soup. Her only goal is not to feel dizzy and tired.
On the fourth day, The cover girl became more and more interesting as Yun felt better and better. Finally, Yun opened the magazine and to her surprise, there is a three page insert with Amanda’s full figure posted, apparently, this woman is “IFBB pro competitor & BSN athlete.” (Yun has no idea whatsoever what it all means, worse than some radiopharmaceutical journal paper titles.) But there are a few simple lines that caught Yun’s attention:
Amanda Latona’s secret to great glutes:
Walking lunge
Wide squat
Ball jump
Yun finds herself saying:”Oh, that’s easy. I can do that!” Now, to Yun, the Amanda on the cover page looks much more interesting and motivational, and Yun starts to think walking lunge, wide squat and ball jump….
As Cece approaches sinus surgery on Thursday, she is hoping that Yun does not bring this magazine over to her!
“Bye for Now: from The Two Whos
Fri 15 Feb 2013
Chinese New Year Began Februry 10, 2013
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Here is a Chinese horoscope for the year of the Snake. It is from the website China Highlights.
Lucky Colors: red, pale yellow, black
Lucky Numbers: 2, 8, 9
Lucky Flowers: orchid, cactus
Year of Birth: 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025
Personality
The snake ranks sixth of all the animals in the Chinese zodiac. People born in the Year of the Snake are the most intuitive, even while remaining the most private and reticent. Snake people represent the symbol of wisdom. They are intelligent and wise. Snake people are usually regarded as great thinkers.
Snakes are materialistic and love keeping up with the Joneses. They love to posses the best of everything, but they have no patience for shopping. Snake people prefer to work alone, therefore they are easily stressed; if they seem unusually stressed, it is best to allow them their own space and time to return to normal.
Health
Snakes prefer living a peaceful life, and they do not like a noisy environment. Snakes become easily stressed when their lives aren’t calm or in order. Therefore, a manageable workload would be good for them rather than a schedule of over workload. They need to spend lots of time to relax themselves. It’s necessary to take vacation at a proper time. People should pay attention to the health of snake people, especially senior members in the family.
Career
Snakes are very creative and extremely diligent. Though snakes work very hard, they have a tendency to be job-hoppers for they will easily become bored. Snakes are great thinkers. Complex problems stimulate them. And of course they’re excellent problem-solvers and thrive under tight deadlines. Good career choices for Snakes include: scientist, analyst, investigator, painter, potter, jeweler, astrologer, magician, dietician, and sociologist.
Relationships
People born in the year of the snake do not have a lot of friends. It is extremely hard to get to know them because they keep their feelings locked up inside. The snake will be careful in choosing friends. They will never forgive a breach in the friendship. Once people are friends, a Snake is willing to share his sorrow and happiness with them. Snake people guard their chosen friends much like valuable possessions, and they easily jealous and even obsessive.
Compatibility
Best with: Ox or Rooster
Worst with: Tiger, Monkey or Pig
Wed 13 Feb 2013
Chinese New Year: A Hit or a Hiss?
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Watch this Chinese New Year video by CNN to learn more about Chinese New Year- the Year of the Snake. Cece is off to Party City to see if she can find New Years favors for The Two Whos upcoming party!
Mon 11 Feb 2013
Lucky Chinese Salad
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Yun is right! Cece is not Chinese! She is Italian…and it just so happens that a wonderful vegetable that the Italians call “finocchio” or fennel is used in this wonderful and fresh salad that Cece was able to discover through the wonders of the Internet! She had a lot of work to do to plan a Chinese New Years party when she is Italian! Thus, the new name of the party “Chitalian New Year!”
Fennel is a celery like vegetable with lots of crunch and licorice undertones. It has a big white bulb that rises into long fronds with feathery green leaves that remind Cece of dill. For all of Cece’s life, she avoided finocchio because she was still having nightmares of her sister chasing her around the house at Easter with black jellybean licorice breath…but amazingly, when she tasted fennel as an adult, she LOVE ,LOVE ,LOVED its taste! So, if you are not a licorice lover, give this recipe a chance and you be pleasantly surprised!
To make this salad, it is important to have a mandolin so you can slice the fennel into tissue paper thin slices. This will be pretty much impossible without this tool. Do not spend a fortune on one of these…because they can get pretty pricey. You can get one that functions well for $30.00 compared to over $100.00
Here is the recipe that Cece found. You will like this sooo much that she will tell you the recipe and then tell you how to take it from Chinese to more and more Italian by adding and subtracting ingredients…just for variety
Fennel and Apple Pickle with Cashew
1/2 large bulb of fennel, sliced paper thin
1 apple up in small pieces
1/4 cup white vinegar
2 TBS. sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
1 tsp salt ( cece omitted the salt)
2 TBS oil
a small pinch of Chinese 5 spice powder
1/2 cup roasted cashews.
Combine apple and fennel in a bowl. In another bowl combine all ingredients except cashews. Mix well with a whisk. Pour liquid mixture over fennel mixture. Toss well. Store in fridge until ready to use. Before serving toss in the cashews to garnish.
More Italian: Omit apples and add the flesh of one orange cut up into bite sized pieces. Add in some orange zest.
More and more Italian: Do the more Italian. Then, omit cashews and add 1/2 cup oil- cured black olives ( the black wrinkly olives). Grind some fresh black pepper over top.
Recipe Review by Yun: “The Lucky Chinese salad should be renamed to Lucky Chitalian salad. It is not fair not giving Italian the credit for this delicious salad. This salad is full of the delicate flare of Chinese spices, and doted with the crisp scent of Italian ingredients… For me, the salad is a meal, or a snack, or a desert.”
Recipe Review by Stephanie: “ This salad was very refreshing. The combination of fennel and vinegar was surprisingly complementary to one another. Absolutely loved this salad and look forward to making it this spring and summer!”
“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos and Stephanie
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