Sunday, February 24, 2008

recipe for coke chicken wings

This dish is quite simple and delicious, I love it and I can cook it well.
Ingredient: Ginger roots, chicken wings, a can of coke, wine for cook and soy sauce.
First, put oil into the pan. Wait til the oil get hotter.
Second, put chicken wings inside and keep frying it until they turn to white.
Then put the wine inside, not too much but you have to smell the wine taste. Keep frying it for 2 or 3 minutes.
After that, put soy sauce inside and make the color of wings darker. Fry them for 3 minutes.
Finally put coke inside, the quantity should cover all of the wings inside, then put 2 pieces of ginger root into the coke.
(Turn the level of heat to level 3 and keep fry for 15- 20 minutes)
Try to use the forks or chopsticks to cut it in order to distinguish if they are ripe or not.
After making sure that they are ripe already, put salt inside, it quantity of it should depends on the taste of yours.
At last, turn the level of heat to the highest level, until the coke inside is only a little.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

My tiny family..

I don't usually talk about my family, because the family only has 3 members, dad, mom and I. (Here, I wanna mention, I really hate the law in China which controlled the birth of babies..hmm..but our population..is..huge enough..)
Actually I wanna have a lot of brothers and sisters.. but it seems like it's never gonna happen..so I just told my mom..I'm gonna have a lot of children in the US~Ah-ha~not bad right?:)
Lonely life here in Iowa city, makes me rely on my family less..but in my heart I was trying to make myself feel the warmth in my family.. even I know it was impossible..
I always believe that "Everything's gonna be fine.."
Just expect the time of going back..and enjoy the time here~

Missing dad, mom..
Just for you..
"I'll always stand by your side, miss you, forever"

Friday, December 14, 2007

Iowa-- ice city

I was looking for a lot of pictures in China about Iowa, most of them show that this is a city with snow as its clothes. It has the terribly low temperatures during the winter with freezing rain and snow.
Those terrible things just happened these days, but I enjoyed those ice even it is easy to fall down. The ice covers everywhere, especially trees. They have the pretty clothes to decorate themselves. They are the most beautiful scenery in this city.
I love them, love the feeling they give me~so I took a lot of pictures with them and keep them in my mind. I hope to see this kind of scenery somedays after because they are melting now~ I want to keep them even the temperature should be pretty low, but I can bear that I'm sure :)
Yeah, hmm... I think ice is the most attractive thing in iowa~ My favourite~ ha~

Appositive

I'm sorry I hand in this late.. I really don't know how to expain that even in Chinese^^But I searched some information about that online, they are useful.
A noun or some other forms modify another noun then restrict or illuminate it, the noun or the form can considered to be an appositive. Sometimes it can stress the tone of the sentence. It is hard to find the difference between appositive clause and attibutive clause in grammar. Such as the word "that", it has no exact meaning in appositive clause, it is used for linking and leading the clause. But in attibutive clause, "that" is an element of the clause and it can be omitted when it is the object of the clause. Now I can use some example to explain the appositive clauses.
1.Yesterday I met Tom, a friend of mine.
Here, "a friend of mine" is modifying "Tom" so that "a friend of mine" is the appositive of "Tom".
2.How can a solution be found to the current disease of contemporary society, namely the international economic crisis?
This is a non-restrictive appositive clause. Sometimes we will add something in the sentence so that it is clearer to show the non-restrictive character in the sentence.
These are all my understanding of appositive clause or appositive. :)
I hope I explained them well. :P

Sunday, December 2, 2007

My hometown



My hometown is a big city in China. The capital of Henan provice. It has a perfect transit system and it becomes better and better during these years.


In the past, my city Zhengzhou was not that famous. We did not have many high buildings and many cars. The only thing we have was our large population.


When I was a little kid, I would love to go to the park with my mom. Because of her work, my mom could only go there with me during the weekend. However, the park was crowded and it was hard for us to play some amusement facilities:(


I did not have a lot of memories for the past of Zhengzhou, I was seeing a process of Zhengzhou's development. It has more lights on the street, it has more buildings all around the city. It becomes more and more attractive these days.


There is a new area building now near in my city. There was a place that nobody paid attention to. But we choose it to be the new centre of our city, and it is building now. The east part of our city is the most well developed place, so we need the centre to move to the more eastern place. In the future, we will have a pretty good city centre which has fashionable buildings with lakes and my city will attract more people come, it will be more and more beautiful and our qualities of life are become higher and higher.


I hope when I graduate from my university in UI and go back to my city, I will see a different city with a well developed.

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Slangs

At first,I wanna say, Niki, this topic is so..so..unbelievable! How could you come up with this topic? Oh, my heart will stop working..
What should I write?
I never pay attention to the American talking~ Especially some slangs part, they are hard to understand, and sometimes they will laugh and I don't even know what are they talking about~
There was only once I remembered something interesting about slang. It was on cambus, I went home with my friend, when the bus stoped, there were two people coming, a black man and a woman. Since they sit down their beside us, they kept talking filling with"fucking"and "shit"and the speed was so fast. The situation at that time was so interesting, they let me know why most of the hiphop singers are blackman. Maybe they are born to be the hiphop stars.
I'm sorry, because I never paid attention to the slangs, I cannot give some other examples. If it is possible, I will add something in this article next week. Is that ok? :)

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Wedding*^^*

As a girl, I love romantic love and expect a wedding with someone I love. Now, I will introduce the Chinese traditional wedding at first.
Chinese traditional wedding is paying much more attention on lucky and happy, the couples should wear red clothes, because red emphasizes lucky. On that day, the girl should get up so early and go somewhere to make up, then go back to her parents' home, then stay at her room until her groom goes her home and picks her up. When the groom goes the bride's home, the bride's relatives can ask him to give "red bag" which means the small red bag with some money inside. He can only being accept to pick the bride up after he gives the money. After that the bride's parents will prepare some food for the couple which has some special meaning, such as the couple of steam bread has the special shapes and tie them using red lines. (Which means the couples can tie each other the day after, they could rely on each other.)
As the western wedding pattern came to China many years ago, many couples choose to wear the dresses instead of red clothes and they will book some tables for lunch for the friends they invited. It seems like more informal, but wedding is a good chance to make some money~ Ha~
In my opinion, my wedding should be romantic, I don't like white dresses, maybe I will choose some colors just like pink or light purple~~And I love western wedding better~ I will be so proud of myself that time~ I think the feeling is just like.. I am a princess, the happiest one in the world~~Ha~~~Also, I may go back to China and having a Chinese wedding, it should be so exciting, I don't want to miss it!
By the way, Niki, you were so beautiful that day~~~~I sent one of your photo to my mom and she said you are beautiful and your husband is handsome~~~Conguratulations, again~~~