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256# 闲云

That's great!

jiayi

257# linda927

You are welcome . More persons more fun

jiayi

252# jiayi  

kids at this age are very cute. they begin to speak, but sometimes make mistakes. congratulations on your girl's birthday in advance!
月明 发表于 2009-6-18 10:56

                               
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Don't worry about your kid's confusion. My daughter used to be that when she was her age.It is very normal to kids like your daughter's age.
It must be a sweet and precious memories for your daught ...
linda927 发表于 2009-6-18 11:23

                               
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Yes, it's very cuty.
This morning when my daughter go downstairs by herself, she said 'don't be afraide'(in Chinese), in fact, she is afraid. Every time she feel afraid she will say that
When her father drove and made the turn suddenly, she  always said 'daddy, be careful!!' immediately

闲云

Good job! Keep writing

月明

260# jiayi
you r all hardworking mothers with great patience facing the new environment.

modern women endure more pressure in the society. they work as men do, but at the same time, they have to do the housework. although it says men and women r equal, most chinese men still hold the viewpoint that it is women's job to do the housework. maybe the young generation is changing, since i find younger guys do more housework at home.

jiayi

June 19 ,2009

I continue to talk about yesterday’s topic---- other three busy persons.

She had good salary in China and hired two nursemaids. One did the housework, another took care of her son. Now all the things are done by herself. She spent 1.5 years to finish her college course. Usually it needs to spend 3 years to do. At the same time, she did the part time in the college. So huge difference between the two life styles but I feel she enjoy both life styles. A positive person always finds the advantage in the life.

One of my Linc classmates is Chinese too. He has a same age kid as mine. He has a new job now--- Driving the truck to American. Every time it spends two weeks. Then he has 2-3 days to have a rest in home. It’s a good salary job but is a hard work too.  He was a manager in China.

Another Chinese linc classmate is a young girl, about 20. She works in a factory from Monday to Friday and works in a restaurant on Saturday and Sunday and studies with me in linc class in the evening.

Immigration is not easy. Fortunately, nobody around me regrets to do that.

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I have felt not good since I read a thread in neighbor forum yesterday. She is a single parent. She studies in a college now. She complained in the thread that her daughter’s graduation ceremony cost too much, about $150. It needs more If she buy the dress for the ceremony.  She doesn’t want to pay for it because she only has $700 per month for two persons. While sharing the apartment costs $400. One person’s suggestion is ‘ if you pay for it , maybe it’s nothing, but if you don’t pay for it, your daughter will remember it for ever’. So tough it is, I don’t know how to live with $700 for two persons. To her, maybe staying in China is a better choice. However, it will be easier after she finish the college. Because her studies (ECE college course)  is easy to find a job.

jiayi

265# 月明

My husband is busy too because when I go to the linc class he should take care of the kid by himself. Some times when I don't prepare the next evening's food for him, he should make it by himself. It's a busy job to be parents.

闲云

I believe that most immigrants can find their happiness here in Canada sooner or later if they come to Canada for enjoying a leisurable life, not for making a big wealth.

It takes some time to get local education background or get local working experience. After that, the new life will become better and better.  

那时枫叶

A positive person always finds the advantage in the life.

totally agree...for the person who loves life, life will repay him surely...

jiayi

Last Friday my linc class teacher asked me for how to cook the dried beef because I brought some to the classroom before.

I tried to translate it inito English version. It's more difficult than writing a diary. I send a web page to him with the pictures.  I just write down the English here because you can read the Chinese thread
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Notice: The thread is from internet: http://www.3721.ca/forum/index.php?id=50945 , I just try to translate it to English Version :)

1. material： lean beef without any fat.  In the picture the beef  is about 3 lb
   put the beef in the cold water for a while to clean the blood.

2.After cleaning,  seperate it to several parts, for example: the beef in the picture (3 lb) was seperated to 3 parts. Put the beef into the water and boil without anything else. At the same time, take out the blood foam from the pot . Bring the mixture to the boil, then let it simmer until there are no blood flow out from the beef when you use a chopstick or anything else insert into it.
Take the cooked beef out and remove water from it.

3. after the beef become cold, slice up it. Notice: the beef must be sliced according to the beef's grain. If  the slice is too thin then it is easy to be broken, however, if it is too thick then it's difficult to let the flavouring into it. According to the experience ，the slice is about 2mm.
pic1：the beef must be sliced according to the beef's grain. (Please notice the beef's grain in the picture)
pic 2、pic3：the slice is not too thin, it is about 2mm

3. make the flavouring: put some water into the big pot. if the beef is 3 bl，9-10 spoons of soy sauce.  6 spoons of sugar、1-2 spoons of  wine sauce、1-2 spoons of Chinese red piper powder, 2 spoons of paprika powder, 2 slices of ginger, 1 star anise. You can add or reduce it according to your favorite.
After boiling the flavouring,  put the beef slices in and simmer, later, every slice should be with the flavouring.
pic: put the beef slices into the sauce

4.fry the beef slices in the flavouring from time to time until the flavouring is boiled away. Please be careful not to break the slices.   Now the dried beef is already delicious.  But after toasting it will be better.

5.put the beef slices in the baking tray in the sequence The oven's temperature is 350 degrees fahrenheit. Both sides are toasted 8 minutes.

6. put the dried beef into the sealed container to keep the dried beef's inside water. It's best to eat up in one week, you can store it in a cool and dry place in winter or store it in the refrigerator in summer.  

You can also put your favourite flavouring such as sumin in it, it will be delicious.

Notice: Be careful not to  eat too much in one time to avoid the sore throat .

闲云

very complicated, a tough job for me

I would like to leave that difficult job to my wife

jiayi

It's difficult for me to translate it to English version, but not for you. Later, I know your mean of 'tough' is prefer to the cooking not the translating.
It looks tough but in fact it is very easy, you will know the fact after you have a test

闲云

I prefer to eat it not make it

To be a good chef is not so easy

月明

270# jiayi

so many procedures. good job!

枫铃

270# jiayi

You are an excellent chef. How marvelous you are! I always think the drier beef is very difficult to cook,so I had to buy them in the supermarket,never think about cooking by myself. Now I could  try to do it from your experiences.Maybe it will be more difficult at first,but I think cooking must be easier than learning English

But the process of cooking drier beef does be very complicated.

By the way ,the civic stroke in Toronto affected you badly? How did you deal with the garbage?
It is a bad news to me. I hope it will be over soon.Of course ,it'd better finished before my landing. It is terrible for me to face both A H1NI swine flu and the olid air in Toronto.

jiayi

270# jiayi  

so many procedures. good job!
月明 发表于 2009-6-23 10:27

                               
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It looks complex, in fact ,it is only 3 steps, simmering, slicing, flavouring, I thought it was complex before. However, you will find it is an easy job after you cook once.

jiayi

I always think the drier beef is very difficult to cook,so I had to buy them in the supermarket,never think about cooking by mys ...
linda927 发表于 2009-6-23 11:06

                               
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Me too. But when you do it once time, you will find it is easy. Many things we think it is complex. However, when we do it ,it is not so difficult as we imagined before. Such as cooking dried beef, writing diary, immigrating......

I still have no idea about the stoke because it is only two days since stoke beginning. Usually the garbage is picked up on every Thursday. Maybe after this Thursday, I can feel it . Don't worry, Maybe it will finish before you landing. I hope so.

jiayi

June 23 ,2009

What is fashion in Canada? We talked this topic in the linc class yesterday.

I am not a fashionable person. But I could judge if it was a fashion when I were in China. However, I can’t judge what the fashion is in Canada at all. People come from different countries. The customs are so different. Some expose too much, on the contrary, some are covered from the head to the feet, just expose their eyes. Even you are in a strange fashion, who cares? They may think it’s just your customs. Maybe they will think it’s strange but don’t express it on the face, just in their mind.

For us, the clothes are similar with the western.  Some countries keep their custom very well. You can judge where they are from from their clothes at first glance. In one hand, keeping the custom is good. But in another hand, it is inconvenient in some national costume.

闲云

Ladies always pay attention to fashions

Anway, it's good to boost the economy

So go shopping as much as you can, Jiayi

月明

278# jiayi

I like a multi-culture society. i am not a fashionable person, so i often get 'criticized' by my friends. they think i am not good to myself. but i really don't care much about clothes or things like that.