Poached Egg of Red-Bean Paste with Sweet Plum

Last night I had a dream of having a poached egg. 

Not just any ordinary egg, but one, instead of a regular yolk, had red-bean paste and small chunks of sweet plums.  The red-bean paste was just moist – not too dry and not too greasy.  And there were some pieces of red beans among the paste to bite on.  Then came the “spirit” – the sweet plums with a slight wine scent.  Ah!!!  These two ingredients blended perfectly with each other and gave such an unique taste that sticked in your memory!

Just when I thought too many eggs would get me too much cholesterol, this “egg” meal was a truly yummy and healthy one.  It’s a memorable bite – the flavour of sweet plums and red-bean paste – I could still feel it in my mouth – ah I am going crazy now!!!!!!

Add a comment November 24, 2008

좋다 in My Dream

My subconscious had made its milestone last night.  Wow!!!

In my dream, it was about the end of a work day.   The office had very few people as some had been in meetings and others had taken off.  Then someone came and told me and others that we could take off – low profile tho.  Then a young guy, whom I always thought a CBC, uttered in low voice but excitingly – 좋다 (pronounce as chuh-ta) – that’s “wonderful/good” in Korean!  I was surprised he spoke Korean and was happy that I understood what he said.  Then he dashed out of the office.  Then I thought I should have asked if he’s a Korean.

I’m glad that my brain keeps practicing Korean while my body sleeps.  Hee Hee.  Chuh-ta!!  😉

1 comment November 14, 2008

Korean 101 – Telegraphic Speech

I want to learn Korean (the language) enough so I can watch Korean dramas without relying only on subtitles –  a new dream of mine.

I bought a self-taught book and have been working on it when I have time.

Hubby and I went to pick up a friend at the airport the past weekend.  While waiting, I noticed a young guy holding up a sign with 3 big Korean characters.  That’s the name of someone he’s about to pick up.  Probably someone whom he had never met before?…  Then I got all excited!  I tried to read these 3 characters.  And I was quite pleased that I actually could read 2 out of 3 characters.  Wow!

It’s nice to know that I haven’t spent my time (and money) for nothing.  And this sudden quiz…  I got at least 66.6%.  Well, the one character I wasn’t completely sure – I wasn’t sure about the promounciation of the vowel and the end sound.  So if there would be partial marks for this character, I would have another 11.1% and that would make it 77.7% – it’s like a B grade @ university.

Glad to know I am making progress!

When I studied child psychology, I came across a phase when little kids would be able to utter 2 or 3 words (mostly verbs, nouns, and negation (the big NO word)) but there’s no proper grammer (no articles, conjunctions etc) applied to the speech.  E.g.  a girl may utter “want juice” when she meant “I want some juice now”.  Only the most important words are expressed, and the reader / listener will have to figure out the rest.  This resembles how people do telegrams when each word costs and thus the sender would compose an unambigous message using the least number of words.  I think my Korean is now about to enter the telegraphic speech phase.  I just need to go through more K-dramas!!

Welcome, Jean, back to the learning table!  Argh – my head aches a little!  🙂

3 comments November 4, 2008