I Just Want To Be Present by Montell Fish 

Just been going through a rough week and this video helps a little bit. Good luck with your lives everyone. 

Night Life 

So green

Change Takes Time

My paramedic class is scheduled to graduate around October. There's so much work to be done before I can celebrate. Before I know it, I'll be a flight medic and making a decent living for myself.

I can't wait to see the day where me and my brother are in Japan after I save up enough money. We'll have the time of our lives for sure. 

Just got to keep patient.

Just got to keep moving forward.

Photo Dump - Food! Food! Food!:Gyoza, Poke and More 

I want to branch out to Chinese and Russian cuisine next. I feel like I I'm too partial to Japanese food and want to get out of my comfort zone of cooking. 

I adore my cast iron. Might pass it to my kids if I do have any one day.

I could eat a dump truck worth of these ngl

Marinated in soy sauce, mirin, garlic and ginger. Battered and fried in 
egg and potato starch. Fry once on low heat and second on high.

My boss and coworkers as so fucking awesome

 Late Night Korean Black Bean Sauce Noodles (Jjajangmyeon - 짜장면)

There is an unofficial holiday in South Korea called "Black Day", which is observed on April 14th by single people. I guess it's the anti-Valentines day, where single peeps wear black and eat black foods such as jjajangmyeon. Jjajangmyeon is considered a SK comfort food and I can see why.

Full of onions, juicy pork belly, sweet, savory and spicy black bean sauce on top of noodles - what's not to like about this dish? Topped with yellow radish, cucumber and green onions.

Doesn't look appetizing, does it?

New Years & 7 Hour Shoyu Ramen

It is 10:30 PM as I'm typing this. I had a few beers, some good food and am currently waiting for midnight to come. I could give a retrospective on how my year went, but thinking about it makes me want to have a stroke, so I'll just share about the shoyu ramen and cheese gyoza I made to celebrate today. 

Last year, I tackled tonkotsu ramen, which is a pork bone based ramen. This year I'm trying a soy sauce (shoyu) based ramen. Like the previous recipe, I followed Mike Satinover a.k.a ramen_lord's collection of ramen recipe's. This ramen is based off of Tokyo's style of shoyu ramen.

I made some mistakes in the process, but in the end I learned and enjoyed prepping and eating the end product. I served it alongside cheese gyoza, which is just regular pork gyoza with cheese seared on the top and bottom. 

Besides eating and drinking all day, yeah nothing to write home about, really.

I honestly don't want to wish anyone a happy new year, because I know that's never the case. So I hope whatever endeavors and hardships you guys encounter in life this coming year are met with resolve and closure? Idk, I'm total shit with words. 

Cheers, see you guys next year (that line is so dumb lmao)

It doesn't look like much, but this bitch was deep 

I used sharp cheddar, but probably should've opted for a milder cheese

Not shown is the tare and garlic chicken aroma oil I made to flavor the broth

Niboshi, kombu and bonito flakes for the tare and broth

Photo Dump

Hope you guys enjoy the remaining days of this year. Things will suck less I guess.

I wish they sold green tea KitKats in full bars

Bodem Half Acre IPA from Chicago, IL

For Christmas I made Cơm Hến with my mom. So good.

Lmao

 Weekly Photo Dump

From Okinawa. Pretty crisp and light.

Got this Iwatani butane stove. Will be my cooking workhorse when I get out   
 of the Navy and start living in my truck.

Made Korean BBQ with the new butane grill. Iwatani grills are arguably the
Toyotas of the portable grill market 

 Photo Dump - October 1-4, 2020

Been trying to wean myself off of caffeine. Tea and water comes in clutch.

Thinking about selling my Romy AKM for a hand gun or a carbine

Scope view

This sick ass 80 series Landcruiser at my Godfather's auto shop. My dream car.

 Photo Dump 

Goes down smooth. Too smooth tbh. 

Pocket Tiger V. Danger Noodle

I lost it the day I dropped off my bro at the airport :(

Lake Pleasant

 

Prescott, Arizona 

EMCrit 272 - Right Heart Failure w/ Dr. Sara Crager, MD
Original Link: https://emcrit.org/emcrit/right-heart-sara-crager/

I can can listen to Dr. Crager talk all day without getting bored. She's so enthusiastic about it, which makes it so easy to follow and learn from.

Such a hustler too. She works at the CSICU (Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit) at UCLA and also the ICU at Antelope Valley Hospital in lancaster, California.

I wish I had the dedication and intelligence she has for medicine. 

  
Dr. Crager's Powerpoint

Gonna try to make Chai Masala today!

In Urdu, it's written as مصالحہ چائے - In Hind, it's written as मसाला चाय.

Tea time

May the 4th be With You!

via Gfycat

Credit for making the clip goes to redditor: u/Yusi-D-Jordan

Self-Inflicted Shotgun Wound Victim

In this video the patient is air evac'ed to the hospital following a suicide attempt involving a shotgun. They never disclosed what load of shotgun shell was used, but it looks like it caused significant tissue damage to the facial area. Very cool stuff. Everyone in the video is so calm and collected. I want to be like that someday, just got to get as much experience as possible. 

They showed this us at some point of the trauma lecture in EMT basic school and wanted to share it here. 

I hope the guy is in better times.

Tonkatsu w/ Curry on Rice

Japanese curry mixed with premade roux 

Y E E T

Yeah boi. 

:))

I hate that I used to smoke 

:(

Not my fries, but I saw this sad scene when I was at the water dispensary.

Study Break: Black Edition

After 5 months of wearing Solovairs, they're holding up pretty well!