食油

因為早排研究 keto 嘅關係，近幾個月煮嘢用油用得刁鑽咗。

以前用啲「精鍊植物油」居多，i.e. 花生、芥花籽油等等，不過由於啲Keto大師s話啲精鍊油唔健康，我就轉咗主力用橄欖油。

橄欖油有幾千年歐洲人認證，除非東亞人體質唔同，否則就真係相對穩妥嘅。

另外我仲會用牛油(i.e. butter)、同埋偶爾用啲動物脂肪油。

用啲非精鍊嘅油嘅有個後果，就係啲油較多有機雜質，smoking point 較低，煮食溫度唔可以太高。另外，聽某醫生話，啲油高溫煮得多會製造多啲 aldehyde (有毒)出嚟。

所以，而家煮嘢食都盡量將溫度控制喺 150C 以下。要做到呢一點，唔容易架。要理解個爐、隻鑊、啲食物有幾多水份同油份，心裡面要對嗰啲傳熱速度同潛熱有個概念，諗清楚點樣喺有限溫度之下整好道菜。(至於抛鑊就基本嘢啦 :0)

而家睇返啲精鍊植物油，感覺就好似毒藥嚟咁。所以專家叫你少油少糖少鹽其實冇錯架，用高 PUFA 嘅油煮食同製毒冇咩分別⋯

再睇多次《濠梁之辯》

《濠梁之辯》細細個就聽過，就係「子非魚，安知魚之樂」嗰個故仔。

原文好短，不妨抄埋出嚟：

莊子與惠子遊於濠梁之上。莊子曰：「鯈魚出遊從容，是魚之樂也。」惠子曰：「子非魚，安知魚之樂？」莊子曰：「子非我，安知我不知魚之樂？」惠子曰：「我非子，固不知子矣，子固非魚也，子之不知魚之樂，全矣。」莊子曰：「請循其本。子曰汝安知魚樂云者，既已知吾知之而問我，我知之濠上也。」

聽咗咁多年，我都冇為意，原來除咗「你又點知我唔知」呢個包拗頸爭論，原來呢段對白好dense，牽涉好多我平時留意開嘅問題。

呢短短幾句嘅對答，辯術係十分之高明，可謂不分上下。最有趣嘅係，佢哋兩人都避重就輕繞過最麻煩嘅哲學問題 (i.e. 你點樣知另一個有靈性嘅動物諗緊乜)。究竟應該用主觀「我覺得佢好快樂就係快樂」吖，定係理性嘅「我推斷你根本冇可能知 Q.E.D.」，定係溝通性嘅「我咪話咗俾你知囉！」？ 《濠梁之辯》開咗個頭，但冇認真探討落去。

唔知《莊子》呢部著作，當時啲人係點傳授嘅呢？究竟係循道家「行不言之教」，用從旁側擊嘅方式引導學生自己發崛背後隱藏嘅大道理 (我諗起禪宗啲公案)，定係真係純粹借「點知」呢個議題去教人辯論技巧？

政治

總覺得，如果我唔係晨早踩咗隻腳入去做電腦嘢，而係認真走策士路線，我可能會窮好多，但可能香港會仆少幾次街。

不過我亦都可能會係死咗。始終呢啲時勢走進取路線行錯一步真係會死。

Got nothing on me

Back in the day, we used to look up to the big whigs in banks and law firms. People doing important business. High salary. Busy life. "Study hard and one day you just might become one of them," they said.

I don't know how true it is, but I always thought people from my background are somewhat more competitive. When all your peers come from upper-middle class families and your seniors are all well-off professionals, anything less seems like scraping by.

Yet one day, I suddenly realized -- although it doesn't feel like it -- they actually got nothing on me.

Since then, they watched our industry take over the world. My job, by most reasonable measures, is apparently more appealing than those jobs they told us to study hard for. Now, they have books for studying our interviews questions. Hah.

I realized that, like it or not, the next generation of aspiring young people would look at us the same way we used to see New York city firm lawyers, VPs at Goldman Sachs, traders in hedge funds, etc. -- impressive, but possibly quite evil.

Oh yes, we, collectively, are definitely the antagonist in the new chapter. Big Brother has never been so big and powerful.