Peruvian food

Never had it until about a month ago.
Three main obervations:
1) Potatoes - many different kinds of preparations - NO tortillas
2) Purple corn punch is really good!
3) Cilantro and shrimp paste sauce is...an acquired taste (luckily it was on the site of an appetizer)
One of the waitresses at El Rococo was really nice about explaining the dishes and which dishes were good to try. She even let me try a sip of the purple corn punch - very refreshing and tasty.
The appetizer was fried yucca which was accompanied by the cilantro/shrimp paste sauce...the yucca was more appealing to me alone. It had a very mild flavor and held in the 'smoke' from the frying. The sauce was very heavy and sharp/pungent. Not for me.
My dish, which consisted of chunks of lamb in a cilantro sauce was reminiscent of Indian food. Rice and beans sat on the side of the lamb. Very good. The dish was accompanied by two sauces presented in two small saucedishes. The first was a fiery green pepper-infused guacamole-like concoction. Very good. The second I preferred less but still tasty. It was a reddish-yellow and I remember little about it.
A very filling meal.
The place is in Gardena next door to the Marukai 99cent sore and just a few miles down from the Home Depot Center. The waitress said that some of the soccer players sometimes stop by.
Next time, if there are more people, I'm going to order a pitcher of the purple corn punch!

Blazers in the draft

KP is awesome. That man has claimed a large chunk of confidence from myself and others. Each draft day is now expected to bring something unexpected by us fans and amazingly expected by KP. Apparently, he predicted the first 14-15 picks of the first round.
I hesitate to think of the amount of work and sleepless nights that he put into the draft. I can imagine him crashing for the next 72 hours just to recover!

I was hoping for more experience on the roster, but we managed to off-load a talented but goof-ball (on-the-court) player and a unused player who deserves a chance somewhere else, for an undervalued PF and a PG at a relative bargain at pick 11 (predicted to go 4) .
Plus Oden and Fernandez are now here!

I'm still hoping for a trade for some veteran bench leadership sometime near the trade deadline. But for now, looking forward to those Oden-Bynum/Duncan/Yao/Howard match-ups will be more than good enough! I can't believe I can't think of any other centers. Oden, if he lives up to the hype, will be controlling the paint for a while!

Where is it?

Lonely. Having been taught under certain teaching and, thus, holding certain opinions, loneliness. That's what it feels like. It's not true, of course. But feelings have a wormy way of creating illusion.
Listening to a Gospel song on the radio, I'm reminded of how little we see ourselves as Christians. The lead vocalist exclaimed repeatedly how, "It's all about Jesus, not about us." While I agree that it is all about Jesus...and the Father, and the Holy Spirit (something unrightly taken for granted but never explicitly stated), it is also about us. By being grafted into the tree of Christ, are we not also part of Him and, therefore, everything is about us as well? The trick is to understand what it is about us. We're not talking Osteen-like your-best-life-now-you-will-be-rich-and-perfect-in-all-things-here-on-earth, but rather about the position we have inherited in the Kingdom of God by virtue of being the Church, the royal nation and chosen people of God.
Let us not deceive ourselves into thinking too little of ourselves and be clear about what it is to be the people of God.
Written by someone who struggles (and sometimes fails to struggle) with the idea and the practical application. The problem of unappropriate self-depracation, however, is no less true.

food

In Orlando, wonder what's good around here?
As my mother is Chinese, we predictably had dimsum for lunch. Not bad. Surprised that they had it here.
My cousin suggests Bahamian. Never had that before. Looking forward to trying that though I'm more in the mood for a steak.
Gotta start exercising again tomorrow!
Any suggestions from anyone for good food in Orlando?

Rant on the Blue Jays

OK, so you fired Gibbons. You still don't have an offence! You have arguably the best pitching staff in baseball and you can't provide any run support!

Trade Ryan and either Litsch or Marcum or McGowan (boy that hurts just saying those three names in association with the word, "trade"!) for some hitting!

ARRGGGHHH!!! Nothing worse than seeing the Red Sox and Yankees finish ahead of you again. And now the Devil Rays! Are U kidding me?