Dead Poets Society

                Imagine that you are standing upon the desk. Could you guess how the view looks like? Everything will felt in a different way that you never feel even though you are familiar to the objects. For example, a chair looks like very small and low because you stares it from top to bottom. 

In the movie Dead Poets Society, Professor John Keating said, “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things a different way. The world looks very different up here . . .” I think he wanted to teach his students the way how they can think with different perspectives and become critical. It is his metaphor to use the desk in this quote. People usually do not stand on the desk, so it can be a kind of unusual experiences. In that time in the movie, especially in boarding school, students had to be follow the rules and behaved only upon the rules. Their thinking were stereotyped since they were taught to be as same as everyone, not the exception. Although when they learned literature, they still followed the author’s thinking, not their own. Thus, the professor wanted to make them more open-minded.

                In the last scene in this movie, the professor was fired from the school because of the suicide of the student. School thought the professor was responsible for this death because he encouraged the student to do what he really wanted. However, other students did not think that it was his fault; hence, most students who thought the professor is right showed their respecting with standing on the desk. The professor failed to change the whole school or society, but it looks clear that these students who affected by the professor will change the world in some good and unordinary ways.

Recipe 2: Cream cheese Toppoki

Toppoki is Korean traditional food made by a rice cake. It is very delicious but spicy that westerns are hard to eat it, so today I introduce special Toppoki which is not spicy. It is called cream cheese Toppoki in Korea though people do not put real cream cheese in this food. It is similar to cream sauce pasta. I just use the rice cake instead of a noodle. Then, let’s make it.

Get the ingredients!

Rice cake: If the rice cake is hard because it was in freezer, soak it into the water for an hour or more to make it soft.

Milk: 2% reduced fat one is ok, but not non-fat one

Vegetables: 1/2 onion and 5-6 pieces of garlic. You can add paprika and bell pepper.

Some bacon

Basil: It is the best, but thyme, rosemary, or the other herbs are ok.

Salt, pepper and cooking oil

Cheese is preferred.

First, cut the vegetables. Cut the onions into thin strips and slice the garlic. If you have other vegetables, cut it into small pieces, too.

Second, remove the fat from bacon and slice it into strips.

Are you ready to cook?

    This recipe is very simple!

1.    Put the cooking oil in the pot and fry the garlic first. When you can feel the smell of garlic, put the other vegetables in it and grill it until the onion turns clear.

2.    Put the bacon and grill it again.

3.    Put the milk much that all vegetables and bacon can sink in it and boil it. Be careful! Don’t put the lid on the pot since milk will inflate. If it is expanding, just stir it to decrease.

4.    Put the rice cake.

5.    Stir it slowly until it turns like soup, the sticky one.

6.    Add the thyme and cheese.

Eat it!

It is very simple recipe. You just need to prepare the ingredients and mix it all. Just do it!

Holic to Coffee

  Everyday, I drink a cup of coffee or tea. Sometimes I drink more than a cup. I cannot remember clearly when is the first time that I tried coffee, but I know that I has been in love with coffee for 5 or 6 years. Actually, I was not strong at caffeine, so I got light caffeine shock few times that has symptoms such as hand shaking; however, I has taken a lot of a cup of coffee or tea, thus I am not sensitive to caffeine now.

  My favorite coffee is caffe latte, especially with vanilla or peppermint flavor. If I want something sweet, I choose a vanilla, and if I want something fresh, I take a peppermint. I know some people don't like mint flavor, but the vanilla is normal and general, so you can try this. Moreover, do you know that Starbucks is making event called 'Happy Hour' now? Frapuccino, the blended ice drinks are half price from 3pm to 5pm until 15th of May.You have to try it! There are many flavors, but my recommendation is green tea and espresso frapuccino, which are not showed on the menu. Here is a special recipe which is popular in Korea: You can add a shot and some java chips in it! You have to order that blended a shot with frapuccino, because it will melt if they add it after blending the green tea and ice. I know that it might sound little weird to mix the green tea and espresso, but it tastes really great. Just try it!

Venti Green tea Freapuccino, with a shot and java chips:)

I have a lot things to recommend you, so I will continue later! :)

Recipe 1: Ganjang Pasta

  Hello, everyone! Today, I will introduce you a recipe of special kind of pasta. It called “Ganjang pasta” in Korean which means soy sauce pasta. Yet it is not really traditional one, it tastes very good. Also, it tastes like Korean food but we can get all ingredients in America! It is very important thing to me now, because it is hard to make Korean foods just using the ingredients from American market.

Get the Ingredients!

Spaghetti noodle: for one dish, measure it with circle that size like quarter made with your thumb and index finger

1/2 brown onion

1/2 hot pepper (I used Serrano pepper, but you can use milder or hotter one.)

Some pieces of garlic

Some kind of meats like bacon, ham or shrimp (If you want, you can use clam, but it can tastes like fishy.)

For sauce: 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, crushed 1/2 piece of garlic, chopped 1/2 hot pepper, 1/3 tablespoon of sesame oil, 1/2 tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil (olive or canola)

Prepare It!

First, prepare the vegetables.

1. Cut onion into thin strips.

2. Slice garlic and hot pepper

Second, if you have bacon or ham, cut it into small pieces.

Third, prepare the noodle.

1. Put enough water in the pot that you can make half of noodle sank, and boils it.

2. When the water starts boiling, put noodles in the pot with fan shape, and put little amount of salt and cooking oil. It will keep noodles from sticking to each other. Keep it for 8 minutes or more.

*Tip: If you don’t know whether it is cooked or not, cut one noodle into small piece and throw it to the tile wall. It is ready when it sticks to the wall.

Next, mix every ingredient in the list for sauce to make special spicy sauce.

Sesame oil's smell can be strong, but it is normal. Don't care about it.

Cook It!

1. Put the cooking oil on the pan and grill the vegetables in pepper, garlic, and onion order.

2. When the onion turns clear, put the ham, bacon, or shrimp and mix it. You can sprinkle little black pepper powder, too.

3. Put the boiled noodle without water and mix it.

4. Put the special sauce in and mix it very fast.

Eat It!

It tastes like “Japchae”, the Korean traditional noodle dish. It is little spicy and salty, but not oily. This recipe can be looked like complicated since I made it little longer, but it is not. Actually it is really short recipe in Korean. I just tried to explain it more in detail. If you cook usually, you can make it in 15 minutes. It is really simple! If you are tired of some western styles of pasta, you can try this now!