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Please believe me that I usually don't do name mentioning when I rant over bad experiences but today, I'm so frustrated. Everyone knows I was so stoked to go to London for the first time. It is my dream place and London didn't disappoint me. I had such a great trip and it didn't deserve a bad ending. We were choosing between MAS, Emirates, Turkish Airline and Etihad for our round trip. MAS offered the lowest price and they were direct flights but I don't know what we were thinking, I was skeptical at first but Jane wanted to try Etihad. Then, we thought that we should try Etihad, lol, as it is a reputable airline and the fare was the most expensive out of our choices. The worst thing is that we convinced another friend to fly with Etihad, with us for his trip back home. He initially chose MAS but man, that poor thing got stranded with us now. Another friend flew with MAS this morning, has already landed safe in KL, lucky, how lucky. So, we boarded the plane in London on time but we were stranded on the plane for an hour. When we reached Abu Dhabi, our flight back to KL left. Ahh, I don't even wanna continue typing, I'm so hungry. We had 55minutes between our connecting flights. Yeh, think about it now, it seems impossible. If it's a hard task, etihad shouldn't be offering flight like this. You save your hassle and I save my hassle. We are arranged for a flight 8 hours later, hotel is arranged too but that's not the point. Luggage isn't with me and I can't get it. I just hope when I reach KL, my luggage will be there. Please. I'm leaving to Japan for work soon and I don't have time for all this hassle. (Omg, just read other passengers' comments about luggages not arriving, I am so scared now, I need my luggage for my Japan trip, oh please, I pray to God.) I was supposed to reach KL at 3pm and the next morning, I'll have to go back to KLIA to send my sister off to Australia, she'll be gone for some time. Now I'll reach at 1030pm. Should I just sleep over at the airport? Lol. I don't know what time I'll reach home and settle down. I also had to cancel my ride home from the airport. My mum is worried and I don't like that unnecessary stress. So, yes, I'm hungry now. Etihad said they provide food. We went to the hotel lounge. There were only scramble eggs and pastries. We landed in Abu Dhabi at 2am, after everything it's 3am+ now, they said more food will only be served at 5am. Then, they said they can give us food vouchers to eat at terminal 3 but they said it's the same thing too because they serve food at 5am. Ya ya, whatever, now we are at mc Donald's, we have to pay for our own meal. Really should've flown with MAS, Emirates or any other airlines. I know sometimes this thing happens but how a reputable airline handles this, it's sad. The staffs have no smile on them. None. *mimicking his tone and voice* "if you have a complaint, please go to our website". ...... And to think about it, our flight from Abu Dhabi to London, we checked in so early and picked our seats but Jane and I were separated. I was being seated at the last row of the plane. I sat with a British man. He told me that Etihad lost his luggage for three days. He was in Vietnam without anything for three days. What Etihad offered him as "compensation" was to upgrade to business class at 50%. Good job, Etihad Airways. First and last. I pray to God I'll be home tomorrow night. Now, I'm going to have some food.

Isaac, Joy and Papa Go Japan: Day 5 and 6, Asahidake and Mombetsu

On Day 5, we woke up at Hotel Bearmonte and when we looked out the window of our “Western Room with Loft” we saw the surroundings covered in a blanket of white.

“It snowed last night!” the kids exclaimed.

Yes, winter comes earlier to Hokkaido than the rest of Japan and we witnessed the arrival of the first post-autumn snow. It was a pretty sight.

After consuming an obscene amount of food at the breakfast buffet, we packed up our things and loaded up the car to head to Asahidake Ropeway.

To be fair, it was only a short walk from Hotel Bearmonte to the ropeway but the ground was covered in snow and only Joy had her mother’s waterproof snow boots on. Isaac was wearing his Nike track shoes and I was wearing my Allbirds sneakers. Not the best choice for traipsing in snow.

So we drove that short distance and parked the car as near to the entrance of the ropeway as possible, then took the scenic ride up Hokkaido’s highest mountain (2,291m).

We had a lovely hike at the Sugatami Station (altitude 1,600m), wearing borrowed rubber boots. We would have finished the full one-hour hike but snow starting falling heavily. Weather in the mountains must be respected and it can turn bad very quickly. So one must always know one’s limits.

Then it was lunch at the ropeway restaurant, and a drive back to Higashikawa.

The next day, I decided that we would drive out to Mombetsu. Actually it was not so organized. We were just looking for breakfast and we just drove further and further away from our home base until we found ourselves back in Kamikawa, but this time we found another ramen place there. Parking our car in the snow-covered car park, we walked over to Asahi Shokudo, and we were their first customers of the day.

Their ramen was worth driving from Higashikawa to Kamikawa for. Try their Maboroshi ramen made from natural Okhotsk sea salt. Limited to 20 bowls a day. I had Bowl One of Twenty.

Also great, their miso ramen. Some of the best ramen I’ve ever tasted. The owner, a handsome elderly gentleman whose face was on many of the photos on the wall, posing with celebrities, asked me where we were heading.

“Mombetsu,” I blurted out, even though it was just a random thought in my mind. I didn’t even know what was there. Just that I haven’t been there before, and I’ve covered A LOT of Hokkaido in prior trips.

“Ah,” he said, “about 95km from here. Maybe three hours in this weather. Drive carefully, ok? Big snow.”

I thanked him for the advice and my teens and I drove off towards Monbetsu. Along the way, I asked Isaac to look the town up and read me some facts.

Turns out Mombetsu is famous for crabs and for the port, the sea ice, and icebreaker ships. Well, it wasn’t quite sea ice season but we were already on our way there, so what the heck. Let’s go.

The snow got heavier and heavier as I drove on the highway. I was super-cautious because we Singaporeans don’t drive in snow very often.

As my children fell asleep one by one, my iPhone started playing Angels We Have Heard on High, by Sixpence None the Richer, though the car stereo.

On my windscreen, I saw snow gently falling. In the car, I heard:

“Angels we have heard on high,
Singing sweetly through the night,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their brave delight.”

It was like a scene out of a winter movie. Except I was also a hyper-alert father driving as carefully as I can, mindful of the sleeping young charges in my care.

When we got to Mombetsu, there was no snow. Just windy cold coastal weather. I drove the kids to the Okhotsk Tower where you can normally see the sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk and take icebreaker cruises. We settled for visiting the underwater observatory that is 8m below sea level.

And oh, we also made sure we visited the giant Crab Claw Statue that is the pride of Monbetsu town. Not visiting the Crab Claw in Mombetsu is like not visiting the Merlion in Singapore, ok? Must go one.

Wish I tasted some of that Monbetsu crab though. But it was a long drive back to Monbetsu, and at 4pm, it would soon be nightfall and I still had that snowy part of the highway to drive through. And miles to go before I eat.

Dinner.

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Don’t Be Naive! Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is Standing on the Side Against Human Civilization
　
Peaceful world order after WWII had been established upon the philosophy worshiping multilateralism. The cultural basis supporting such multilateralism contained an imagination believing in the ultimate good of the respect for diversity.
　
The Rise of China and the Naivete of EU
　
However, as time progressed into the Post-Cold War era of the 90's, globalization in trade became the dominant trend. Following the global embrace of multilateralism and respect for diversity, it was believed that China would have been influenced by open and positive values once she had participated in this big family of global trade. Indeed, China took advantage of its role as the "world factory" and gained a huge economic leap forward. After China joined the WTO in 2000, within seventeen to eighteen years, China had grown nine-fold compared in terms of its aggregate economic volume. Furthermore, it surpassed Germany in 2005 and Japan between 2009 and 2010, becoming the second-largest economy in the world.
　
In particular, due to the global financial crisis derived from the subprime mortgage in 2007 and Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy in 2008 in the United States, the PIGGS countries turned into victims in Europe. China thus took advantage of this crisis to expand its power, bridging China’s role as depicted in Hu JinTao's "China's peaceful rise" to that in Xi JinPing's "China dream." Finally, China has revealed its ambition to compete for the position as a world leader and a planner of a new world order. The United States has finally, recently woken up to this nightmare of Xi, who has long intended to use China's almighty economic power to achieve his political agenda and hegemony. Unfortunately, many EU countries who consider themselves as advanced, civilized, pro-human rights and respectful to diversification, such as Germany and France, still fail, or refuse, to see the CCP regime’s true color and remain extremely naive towards it.
　
Repulsion towards Vulgarity, Tolerance towards Violence
　
Ironically, the two leading EU countries, Germany and France, prefer a dictatorial emperor, Xi, over Trump elected by the Americans with their ballots. The two countries do not shy away from showing them disgusted by Trump’s vulgar behaviors, but reluctantly show intolerance towards Xi’s cruelty and dictatorship. As a result, the EU countries develop inconceivable and mysterious stubbornness: they loudly criticize countries practicing death penalty based on their own judicial system; however, they are generous and subdued when it comes to the violence happening in HongKong where the HongKong police and Chinese GongAn basically bypass all applicable, or reasonable, laws. We should find this contrast deeply disturbing.
　
Seeing CCP through the eyes of Mao
　
In fact, these european countries and the western world are deluded by the so-called “respect for diversity.” Let’s use the wisdom of the CCP’s spiritual leader, Mao Ze Dong, as a framework to rethink this diversity concept in civilization. In his work “Correct Handling of Contradictions Between People,” published in 1957, Mao clearly classified social contradictions into “contradictions of two different natures”: “contradictions between ourselves and the enemy” and “internal contradictions among the people”. Contradictions between ourselves and the enemy are antagonistic, for example the contradictions between the exploiting and the exploited classes; but contradictions among people is non-antagonistic. Therefore, the former can not be mediated and resolved, but the latter one can be. Mao further advocated that contradictions between ourselves and the enemy should be resolved by dictatorship, but contradictions between the people should be resolved by a method of “cooperation-criticism-cooperation.” In other words, incompatible contradictions between ourselves and the enemy can only be solved by suppression, but internal contradictions can be softened by cooperation.
　
Civilization and CCP - Two Incompatible Conflicting Systems
　
It is time for us to recognize that CCP, a sovereign of authoritarianism and digital dictatorship, should not have been regarded as a representation of the diversity of human civilization. Diversity should be defined based on a founded premise, i.e., a premise confined with certain agreements and consensus, necessary and beneficial for composing diversity. In fact, the value CCP stands for is against the universally accepted values of the world, just like the “incompatible contradictions between ourselves and the enemy”, as Mao said. As long as the existence of the CCP regime continues, human civilization will continue to be persecuted. It can be seen in the current situation of Hong Kong, where China approved the new bill of national security, thereby destroying the remaining freedom guaranteed to Hong Kongers, and assigned the “secret” police gangs to enforce the so-called “justice”.
　
To see the contracting natures of civilization and the CCP regime, we make an analogy with food. Normally, we respect other people’s choice for food. For instance, Ann prefers rice, Bob prefers noodles, John is a meat lover, Mary only eats seafood, etc. Although those four people have different choices of what they like to eat, they respect each other’s choices of food. However, when Daniel comes over and tells the group that he prefers to eat faeces and needs to be respected for his preference, we can start to see the ridiculousness in it. At first, the four people think eating faeces is a personal choice for Daniel, and Daniel can do whatever he/she wants as long as he/she does it at his/her home. The problem rises when Daniel starts to force other people to eat faeces, while the other four people think faeces is inedible, and should never be served on a plate.
　
The food analogy tells us that the CCP regime is inherently against human civilization. As a reasonable human being could not categorize feces as food, we should not be tricked to believe that the authoritarian regime of China can blend in and contribute to human civilization. The CCP regime is incompatible to human civilization just like we should not consider to eat a meal with feces in it. As the master of CCP, Mao, admitted, one can never resolve the contradiction between the authoritarian regime of China and human civilization. The existence of Chinese authoritarian regime is a symbol for deprivation of human civilization. For us to maintain and preserve human civilization, Chinese authoritarian regime must be eradicated. There is no room for the coexistence of the CCP regime and human civilization.
　　
Draw a Bottom Line to the Respect for Diversity
　
Therefore, among western countries, the United States have started or should start to realize that although diversity needs to be respected and tolerated, a reasonable bottom line should be drawn to such respect. Like what I have mentioned above, rice, noodles, meat, seafood and so on should be viewed as food; however, as we can all reasonably agree, feces should not be a part of the league. The United States is now acting to exclude “feces” from the democratic league and draw a bottom line for respect-worthy diversity. However, leading EU countries are still trapped in their fancy, unconditional acceptance to “respect for diversity.” Such respect is hypocritical, empty and baseless. Now, you should be able to understand why leftards in the EU would vigorously criticize death sentences executed under a legitimate judicial system but remain indifferent to the CCP regime’s merciless, relentless and oppressive killings. Namely, they simply set a wrong premise, including feces as an eligible option for “diversity.” As for those who embrace the CCP regime because of economic benefits, they do not even deserve to be viewed as EU leftards, but merely gold diggers in the EU.
　
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Cotton candy is an essential for summer festivals! As such, we made baked meringue that looks like cotton candy. In Japan, cotton candy is frequently wrapped around a disposable chop stick, but in Santa Monica, it was wrapped around a cone-shaped paper stick. Where you live, what is cotton candy wrapped around?
*Recipe* (About 30 sticks)
1. Place 2 egg whites (64g) in a bowl and double-boil with hot water (about 50 degrees Celsius) while whisking. If you have cream of tartar (for each egg white of about 35g, 3 large helpings of the attached spoon), mix it in. (As a substitute for cream of tartar, you can use 1 teaspoon of lemon juice for each egg white)
2. Add sugar (128g) of twice the amount of the egg whites in 2 separate helpings and whisk further. Create a solid meringue.
3. Mix in food dye of your desired color to create colored meringues. This time, I divided the meringue into 3 parts and dyed each using 1 drop of red and 2 drops of yellow and blue liquid food dye.
4. Place 3 in a piping bag. Create a hole of about 1cm.
5. On a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, place pieces of stick-shaped snacks broken into lengths of about 3.5cm.
6. Pipe 4 onto 5.
7. Bake for 90 minutes in an oven pre-heated to 100 degrees Celsius.
8. After 90 minutes of baking, let it sit until the oven cools down.
9. Worrying about whether it looks like cotton candy, ask your family members, "Hey, what does it look like? Does it look like cotton candy?" While annoying your family members, eat it before it gets damp.

夏祭りにかかせない綿菓子！で、綿菓子みたいな焼きメレンゲ、作りました。日本の綿菓子は割り箸に巻きつけられたものが多いけど、サンタモニカでは、円すい形の紙製の棒に巻きつけられていました。みなさんのお住まいの場所では綿菓子は何に巻きつけられていますか？興味あり！

*レシピ*（およそ30本）
１．ボウルに入れた２個分の卵白（64g）を 熱めのお湯（50度くらい）で湯煎しながら泡立てる。あれば、クリームターター（卵白1個およそ35gに対し付属スプーン山盛り3杯）を入れる。（クリームターターの代用として、卵白1個に対して、レモン汁 小さじ1強を加えてもよい）
2．卵白の倍量の粉砂糖（128g）を2回に分けて加え、さらに泡立てる。しっかりとしたメレンゲを作る。
3．お好みの色の食用色素を混ぜ、色メレンゲを作る。今回は、メレンゲを3等分し、液体食用色素 赤 1滴、黄と青 2滴でそれぞれ着色しました。
４．3を絞り袋に入れる。1センチ弱の口を開ける。
５．オーブンシートを敷いた天板に3.5センチくらいに折った スティック状のお菓子を並べる。
６．４を５に絞り出す。
７．100度に予熱したオーブンで90分焼く。
８．焼きあがったら、オーブンの庫内が冷めるまで、そのままにしておく。
９．綿菓子に見えるかなぁーと不安になりながら「ねー何に見える？綿菓子に見える？」と家族みんなに聞きまくり、迷惑がられながら、湿気らないうちにいただく。

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Roll Cake is a type of sponge cake roll. In Japan, we call it "Roll Cake" but in some other countries people call it Swiss roll or jelly roll.

I used to make it every week when I first knew that I can make it at home. But now I haven't made it for a long while... maybe for more than 5 years! LoL

Anyways, thanks to my recipe, I could make it again! hehe

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Japanese Roll Cake

Difficulty: medium
Time: 60min
Number of servings: 8 pieces

Necessary Equipment:
9-inch square brownie pan
electric mixer

Ingredients:
((Sponge Cake))
2 egg
50g (1.8oz.) superfine sugar
35g (1.2oz.) cake flour
20g (0.7oz.) milk (room temperature)
((Filling))
200ml fresh cream (heavy whipping cream)
1 tbsp. granulated sugar
some fruits of your choice: strawberry, kiwi, canned fruits are okay!

Directions:
((Sponge Cake))
1. Line the brownie pan with waxed paper or parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 180C (350F).
2. Beat eggs and sugar with wire whisk in a metal bowl. Placed it over the pan of hot water and melt the sugar and warm them up to 40C (104F).
3. Then with an electric mixer, beat the batter on high speed for about 5 minutes until white and fluffy. Then on low speed, beat for about 2 minutes to set the texture.
4. Sift in flour and fold together with spatula for about 10 times.
5. Add milk and fold together with spatula for about 50 times until combined.
6. Spread the batter in the brownie pan and drop the pan lightly on the counter to raise the air bubbles out of the batter.
7. Bake at 180C (350F) for 11-12 minutes till lightly brown. (Depending on the heat of the oven, cooking time may differ, so please watch out.)
8. When it's done, drop the pan lightly to prevent shrinking. Remove the sponge cake from the pan by lifting the wax paper and place it on a wire rack to cool.
9. When it's cool enough, remove the parchment paper and place the sponge cake on the parchment paper with the brown side up.
((Filling))
1. Combine fresh cream and granulated sugar in a dry, clean bowl. Float the bottom of the bowl in ice water, whisk the cream until it forms a soft peak.
2. Dice the fruits of your choice.
3. Coat the surface of the sponge cake evenly with the cream. Place the fruits over the creamed surface (leave an inch at both ends).
4. Wrap the cake in the parchment paper and put in a fridge for 30 minutes to set.
5. Cut into round pieces! The best way to cut the cake is to use a knife that has been warmed in hot water. Dip the knife in hot water, wipe, and cut. Repeat this each time you cut!

レシピ（日本語）
http://cooklabo.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-post_18.html
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