Me

 It seems I have not written anything for such a long time.  My plan was actually to put in a memoir on Covid-19 pandemic 2020 but well, here I am starting to put it off and instead writing about myself!

It is not quite easy indeed to try to understand my own self and put them together in words and now I am not sure where to start.  😊

How about this?  Five years ago, I used to weigh 20 more pounds than I am today. At that time, I was up to the point that I could not stand myself anymore.  I felt so overweight.  I was determined to lose weight and I started to walk. From half a mile until it became 2 miles and eventually, I could jog 2 miles nonstop.  It took 2 years to gradually lose 20 pounds.  And now, I am still doing exercise about 5 times a week and still maintaining my weight.  

My body also needs less food as well.  I eat light and less in the evening these days. Even though, I still enjoy cooking. I am not a good cook but I do enjoy cooking. People always think I might cook Thai food a lot but actually I cook what I call my own food, and it is not that kind of Thai food you find in Thai restaurants.  My own food can be Rosemary Roasted Pork, Thai taste  Roasted Pork, Larb (Thai style ground pork with mint), Hainanese Chicken, Shumai, Pork Bun, Fried Rice, Tandoori Chicken, Almond baked Fish, Carbonara, Chicken Parmesan, Chicken Mozzarella, etc.  I also like to bake. I have my Signature baked good called “Ann’s Coffee Cake”.  Yummy indeed.

What else about myself?  I kind of talkative but I do love my quiet and alone moments. When alone, I check on news, reading, watching Kdrama, Chinese drama, practicing meditation, chanting and such. I am a Buddhist by the way. One item in my bucket list is to detox my soul (I mean practice meditation) at Vipassana Meditation center taught by S.N. Goenka.

 I would like to also visit so many places that I have not been there yet in US.  I love Yellowstone, Yosemite, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park, and Muir Woods (Redwoods).  Anyway, after Covid-19 is over, I am planning to go to Japan to visit my Japanese mom and dad whom I used to stay with for several weeks when I was in Japan for a year during my college time.

During Covid-19 pandemic and working from home this year, I spent quite a bit time playing piano.  I am working on music project with a friend right now.  I play piano and she sings.  She also composes her own lyrics and melody and I use a magic wand to turn it into music sheet.  It is kind of fun trying many music maker software. We are using Bandlab to record our tracks and I am using Cloudscore as my music sheet helper. Wow, that Cloudscore does voice recognition either from human voice or from instruments and translate it into notes on music sheet.  It is not perfect but It does help and I feel amazed with this kind of technology.  With Cloudscore, I can compose piano notes for both left and right hands and let it record and analyze the sound of my notes and put them in music sheet. Amazing right?  I learn not to play many notes all at once as the software is still not good to differentiate the mixed sound of many notes altogether.  Then, later, I can use manual mode to add and adjust the notes and anything on the sheet. 

What else about me?  I do not like clutter and dust.  This does not mean I am a neat freak but definitely I cannot stand living with clutter and dust all year long.  I do not put on makeup.  I do not dress up.  What I mean is I am not beautiful physically but the beauty is in my heart and soul.  LoL 

There are still so many things about me.  But I am too Zzzzzzzzzz to think now.  Until next update.