Guitar Tab--Home by Michael Buble

I was listening to pandora when i was studying and this song popped up. great....i couldn't study anymore after this

as soon as i managed to finish all my work, i went home and found the tab.

great song. it reminds me of my friend sean's post about nostalgia 

well....it wasn't the greatest time to think about home and i just couldn't help. plus there were things happening......

don't ask, i'm not gonna tell :)

and this song gives me a chance to reopen my guitar tab collection on my blog. i guess that's something good.

now i just want to go back to taiwan and not worry about finding a job whatsoever

lol.......a dream can only stay a dream........

G

Another summer day 

D/F#

Has come and gone away 

Em             D

In Paris and Rome 

                 C    D

But I wanna go home 

G

Mmmmmmmm 

 G

Maybe surrounded by 

D/F# 

A million people I 

Em               D

Still feel all alone 

                  C  

I just wanna go home 

   D          G

Oh I miss you, you know 

                 C                            Em

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you 

             A

Each one a line or two 

                 C           D

“I’m fine baby, how are you?”

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               C                                  Em

Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough 

                F

My words were cold and flat 

                 D   Dsus D 

And you deserve more than that 

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G

Another aerorplane 

D/F#

Another sunny place 

Em            D

I’m lucky I know 

                C   

But I wanna go home 

       D           G

Mmmm, I’ve got to go home 

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          G  D  Em  Bm

Let me go home 

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              C

I’m just too far from where you are 

D             G

I wanna come home 

Guitar Solo: (1:48)

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       C                                  Em

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life 

                   A

It’s like I just stepped outside 

                      C        D

When everything was going right 

        C

And I know just why you could not 

      Em

Come along with me 

              F

But this was not your dream 

                   D   Dsus D

But you always believed in me 

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G                  D/F#

Another winter day has come 

And gone away 

Em                   D

And even Paris and Rome 

                C

And I wanna go home 

D           G

Let me go home 

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|-10s12----12-----|

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G

And I’m surrounded by 

D/F#

A million people I 

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G

Still feel alone 

             C

Oh, let go home 

    D            G

Oh, I miss you, you know 

          G  D  Em  Bm

Let me go home 

             C

I’ve had my run 

Baby, I’m done 

D            G

I gotta go home 

          G  D  Em  Bm

Let me go home 

                  C

It'll all be all right 

                D

I’ll be home tonight 

                 G

I’m coming back home

In the middle of studying

This is 1/4 of my cheat sheet that I'm working on right now. Looking at this makes me wanna throw up realize that I'm pretty much counting on this sheet to pass the test tomorrow. In case you guys didn't know, engineers are a bunch of people who do not like to use their brains like to let computers and other people do all the works. Yes, you heard me. All we engineers want to do is the design, and for the rest of the stuff......hello math major!!! we hire cheap labors to do it for us, or even simpler, MATLAB.

Yet we still have to learn all the craps so we can pretend to know what we are doing we understand what's going on when we design. However, the truth is we can totally go back to the books to find all the reference we need, and we simply plug everything into MATLAB and bang! we got our stuff. Yes, matlab is that convenient.

I guess we learn all these just so when all fail (all hail MATLAB!!!), we can still come up a way to design the stuff by composing some steps and hello, comp sci major!!! hire some other people to write the code for us. Then again, your boss will not be so kind and let you hire some people jsut to write your code. Too bad your position is not high enough if you ever need to write codes like that. So it all comes down to the point that your boss is so cheap that he won't hire another guy for you, so you have to know all the stuff and write your own freaking code.

My point of this post is actually to thank several group/ companies. First i wanna thank Microsoft for making computer such a convenient tool to use, and then i wanna thank Mathwork for creating Matlab. I don't care if they got any open source or whatever, they put everything together and come out with this program. It's just brilliant. It saves my butt all the time and saves me so much time. (m-file does not require you to define all the craps, that's why)

For many occasions I simply have to write some easy codes and press F5, and MAGIC!!!! your work is DONE!!!!! oh how awesome you are.

so yea guys, appreciate it when you can have the computer to do all the works for you. (Do you know how many steps and algorithm are there when you download your mp3 files from the internet? Imagine doing that all by yourself......or you can simply go to a store and buy the CD)

Anyway, I think I should get back to study......

Reply to Yoli's Post

Facebook does not let me post long response, so I decided to post it here :)

To Yoli:

wow i like your post

but just to share some thoughts

first, don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to bash on you or anything. I'm just sharing my understanding and maybe you can get something out of it or give me some feedback :)

"People got together without even getting to know the other person first, without making sure that the other person was really the one they want to have a relationship with"

relationship would always start with passion, but passion will die down eventually. Then the commitment and dedication come into play. A relationship is like two pointy rocks grinding each other. If the force is applied poorly, then one rock or both will break down. However, if the force is applied well, both rocks will be smooth. Relationship is built on commitment and compromise, and of course, passion. Since passion dies down, it eventually comes to the other two.

We might be able to know each other well, but we can never fully understand each other. Why? You might ask. It's because no two people are identical, so it's impossible to fully comprehend what each other thinks. Therefore, in some sense it's impossible to "make sure that the other person was really the one" (unless you are talking about some sci-fi stuff that can read people's mind, of course......) If you say: "oh, i have a feeling he's the one." Then how can you be sure that this feeling is correct but not some kind of impulse.

If you ask your parents if they still love each other like when they started dating, the answer is definitely no. They are together because they want to keep this family here; they want to make each other and their children happy. It's some sort of responsibility we are talking about. Is it sad? No! Of course not! It's also a form of love. Because of love, they are together, along with you and your other relatives.

Therefore, if "not sure he's the one" is the reason hindering you from having a relationship, don't let it be.

And if you're really seeking for some long-lasting relationship, don't wait, act. Passively waiting won't get you anything. Acting at least gives you more chance. :) I know you might have some fantasy about a guy coming in shiny armor and white horse, but the truth is that is super rare (I mean where can you even find a white horse XDDDDD). I'm pretty sure the guy is out there somewhere though, so all you have to do is to find him. Like someone once said, chance is only granted to people who seek for it. :)

For the drinking part, all i can say is that just keep it up :).

Actually i can say more about it hehe. Some people do find those who refuse to drink during a party annoying. Their thinking process is like "you know we're gonna drink, and you don't wanna drink, so what are you doing here. What a party pooper......"

So I like my friend's method. She does not drink, yet no one would hate her for not drinking. here's how she does it:

When people take shots, you take shots too, but with juice or soda. It's the action that actually makes people happy or think you're part of the crowd. When people are drinking beer, fake it! Again it's the action that counts.

Then again, if you think it's not necessary or you don't see the point faking it, it's totally fine, too. You get to choose what you wanna do :)

And yes! live your life to the fullest! You don't wanna look back in life and be like "ah....i wish i did blah blah blah....." Although I'm pretty sure we all do sometimes in our life. haha

You're still a second year. College life is still long. Enjoy your life and, most importantly, don't fail any class XDDDDDDDDDDDD

Happa Tai--Yatta

Video right here

This video is actually pretty old already, but I found it few days ago in my favorite.

i find this song to be super catchy for some odd reason.....

so yea.....enjoy!

Alright! It's Chinese New Year!!!!

My mom gave me a call this evening and was like "hey!!! We're eating blah blah blah blah (a list of freaking delicious food) and too bad you can't be here."

Thanks mom....really appreciate it......

And then my mom asked what I was going to eat for dinner.

"er.....cup noodle?"

Yea.....that was my response. I'm glad it's not Chinese New Year her yet, or it'd just be sad.

Many people went home this weekend to celebrate this important holiday season. I mean, chinese new year to chinese people is just like Christmas to Caucasians. We don't celebrate for just one day. It's an ongoing event for at least 2 weeks.

And what am i going to do in this 2 weeks? em.....midterms I guess......

Great! What a wonderful way to spend this holiday season.

I guess i'll just go to buy some red envelope just so i can get into this atmosphere a bit.....

Happy Chinese New Year people!!!!!!!

college food series: BEEEEEEEF Noodle

If you want me to rate all the comfort food from top to bottom, beef noodle will definitely be first, and then it's carne asada fries XDDDDD

There are so many fancy beef noodle that people sell in the restaurants. Some of them are fantastic, but some are just lame. I've tried one that only add several chunks of beef into Yang Chun Mian (simple noodle soup) and call it beef noodle.

ARE YOU SERIOUS!? this is not tolerable. Therefore, I'm going to share my recipe so that you guys can make it yourself at home for a really cheap price.

Here we go. First requirement of this cuisine: free time. If you do not have a thermos pot, it's going to take several hours to cook because it takes a long time for the flavor to get into the soup. Just choose a free afternoon or an afternoon that you'll stay home. The processing time only takes about 30 mins, and then you can just let it cook on the stove.

Ingredients:

Beef: Okay, there are many choices, but I like to use those big chunk of roast beef. Choose a chunk that's as fat as possible, or else the meat is going to be dry and the soup won't be as flavorful (when you eat the beef just take out the fatty part, so you don't have to complain about how fat it is.) ~3lb is a good amount.

Green Onion: about 2 stems

Garlics: about 6 cloves

Ginger: about 4 slices

Chili: optional, the bean paste will dominate the flavor, but you can always add more spice to it.

Spicy Bean Paste: can be found in grocery stores, even the American ones. The difference is that Americans for some reason cannot take spicy bean paste so they only sell the non-spicy one. However, if you do not like your soup to be hot, just buy those. They'll work almost the same. 1 bottle (small one, if you get the ones that have similar size as a coke can, just use half)

peppercorn(花椒): this is harder to get. You can usually find it in a Asian super market. I'd like to use the powder so I don't have to pick those peppercorns out after cooking (super annoying).

Star Anise: about 6 to 7 pieces should do the trick.

soy sauce: enough is good. try to get the one that has dark color but not too salty. We want the color, not the taste.

Procedures:

1. heat up a pot of water. After boiling, throw the entire chunk of beef into the water. This step is for cleaning the meat. Cook it for about 5 mins.

2. Meanwhile, heat up another pot (big pot), pour some oil and cook all the ingredients listed above except the beef and soy sauce. This step is to bring the flavor out. Make sure nothing is burnt.

3. Put the beef in, add water until it's about 80% full. Add soy sauce until it turns desirable color (darkish......i can't really describe it)

4. Boil it. When it boils, turns the heat down to low (or 2-3). Let it cook for an hour or so.

5. Remember we still have a big chunk of meat? Yes! Time to cut it. Take out the beef after an hour, cut it into bite size, and then put everything back into the pot.

6. low heat to cook for about 2-3 hrs. Taste the flavor, add more soy if needed.

7. The soup is done. All you need to do now is to get some noodle and bok choy. Cook them and then add the soup in.

8. EAT!!!!!!!!

college food series: Xue Li Hong (雪裡紅)

Okay, I can't really find another name for this because it already has an official name. This is an alteration of the traditional chinese dish. Barely with my writing plz im taking a break from studying right now so i'm not gonna care about my grammar and crap.

This dish is much more complicated compared to all my other dishes, but it's still simple in general. This dish does require some preparation though.

Ingredient:

1. mustard leaf (小芥菜), you might only find it in a chinese grocery store, 1 bag

2. red chili, 2 pieces

3. mushrooms (the black ones that have strong flavors, not those you put in pasta), 2 pieces

4. ground pork, 1/2 pound

procedures:

1. the day before you cook it, wash all the leaves and layer them. put salt on each layer as shown in picture

2. put it in fridge and let it sit for one day. make sure you either put it in a bag or whatever, the water is gonna leak

3. after letting it sit for one day, take it out and wash the salt out from every single leaf. this is important, so you dont make it too salty.

4. marinate pork with soy sauce, sesame oil, a little wine, and a little sugar

5. chop all the mustard leaves into very small pieces, squeeze water out if possible

6. dice the mushrooms, slice the chilis

7. heat up the pan, fry the chilis a bit

8. put in the mushroom and pork, cook until the pork is done

9. put the pork aside and dump in the veggies

10. cook a little, then mix them all together.

11. throw in some sugar and taste if it's salty enough, if not, use some salt, don't use soy sauce

12. if it's too watery, through in some corn starch (it's better if you let it dissolve in water before pouring it in, but it's okay if you're too lazy)

13. once it gets dry enough, turn off the flame, let it sit a bit

14. DONE!!!!!!!

This dish is great with rice and noodle. You can cook some noodle soup and throw some of this in, it'll be awesome :)