25 Random things

Well, 3 of my friends who don't even know each other have posted the same meme on their blogs, so I felt it was time for a bit of conformity. The basic idea is that you write the numbers 1 to 25 in a column and write something random about yourself next to each number.
So here goes...

1. I've been bitten by 2 spiders in my life
2. Whenever I try to follow a recipie I look back and see something I've done "wrong", but the food still tastes good.
3. Point 2 has held true even on occasions when someone present has said something like "Oh no! You've ruined it!"
4. I can play several instruments by ear, but I forgot how to read music.
5. I'm fluent in 2 languages already and aiming for a third by the end of the year..
6. I learned to ride a donkey, then progressed to horses.
7. I have a picture of myself obtained by pressing print-screen while playing a Lord of the Rings DVD.
8. I have no objection to eating wasabi by itself.
9. I also eat chilis fresh from the vine without anything to accompany them.
10. When I hear the words "deep belief network" I don't think about religion.
11. I have a strange fascination with aliens but I have trouble sleeping for a few nights if I ever look them up on the internet.
12. I'm skeptical about nearly all the laws of physics. This didn't stop me getting good marks in it.
13. I've put my hand in a swarm of bees and let them crawl all over it.
14. Last year I kissed a giraffe on the nose.
15. I have "Build a robot butler and give it the same voice as Morgan Freeman" on my list of things to do before I die.
16. I can think to myself "this is actually really bad, like it could mess my life up forever" and then spend the next few minutes wondering why I'm not worried.
17. The first time I saw Alien, I thought to myself "Wow! this has the same plotline as a dream I had when I was at high school". Except in my dream the aliens were dayglo orange and yellow with big cheesy grins and puppy-dog eyes.
    
18. I learned that metals conduct electricity by experiment before anyone told me. (That was quite a painful experiment)
19. When I was 5, I suddenly went from refusing to eat sago to cramming it into my face because my father told me it was frog spawn.
20. Not that much has changed.
21. I was relieved to finally have a school uniform: what I wore before then was no less uncool but at least I was with a bunch of other people wearing the same uncool clothes.
22. When I'm on a vegetarian diet (it's happened for various reasons, twice even by choice) I crave different meats depending what vegetables I've been eating.
23. I used to breed sundew plants.
24. When I was a kid, if I got tired while my parents were having a party, I would sleep in the hayshed, or the goat's house, or the pig's house (no, not a pigsty!)
25. Windows has never been installed on this computer. Neither has any Apple system.
    

Chicken soup tailor made for my soul

Well, I just made an incredibly delicious chicken and mussel tom-yum. So I thought I'd share the recipie - or at least what I remember doing.



Ingredients:

• 100g diced chicken
• 2 tomatoes, finely chopped
• 8 marinated mussels, finely chopped
• 140g dried egg-noodles
  
• The juice from half a lemon
  
• 2 teaspoons of salt
• 1 heaped teaspoon of chili powder
• ½ teaspoon of that that stuff Gregg's markets as "Chinese 5 spice"

Directions:
Put the salt and the chicken into a pot of boiling water. Stir briefly until the cubes separate. Then add the tomato and mussels. Boil for about a minute, then add the mussels, and noodles. Boil until the noodles look al-dente. Then add the lemon and spices. Stir well while boiling another minute or so. Then comes the most difficult part: serving.

Serves 1, but he eats two bowls of the stuff.