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Category: Everyday Thots
Bits and Pieces
My ‘getting to know you’ session with my 大姑 and 姑丈 continued today. There are lots of interesting new bits I’ve been learning about them in the past few days… 1. 大姑 loves Earl Grey tea (same as me!) 2. 大姑 knows quite a bit about cameras and photography. (ok, so it’s associated with her […]
Unexpected Blessings
It’s a rather strange, yet warm and interesting experience… getting to know people whom I’ve known my entire life. My 大姑 and 大姑丈 are in town to visit me, and Zibin and I have been playing host. Neither of us expected just how much we’d enjoy the time we are spending with them. We’ve always […]
My Funny Guy
Never a day goes by that I do not feel lucky to have Zibin in my life. Sometimes, I feel the sentiment more strongly than usual. Our past few days have been packed with the tiring activities of spring cleaning and shopping for Zibin’s Cornell apartment. At every step of the way, I couldn’t help […]
A New Spectator Sport
The OPLers, along with our guests Tingfang and Keith, had cheese fondue last night after an extremely tiring day of spring cleaning the kitchen. And after the cheese was gone, a bag of marshmellows was brought out for ‘toasting’ over the 4 tea candles that had been keeping our fondue pot warm. I’m not usually […]
Engineers' Rant
Zibin and I were enjoying a lazy breakfast with Wanting before her driving class today. Over cheese omelette on toast and banana and strawberry soy smoothies, the conversation turned towards pet and peeve subjects in school. It all began when Zibin started examining the mug I gave him to use, which is actually a beaker […]
"Summer" Cleaning
I’d forgotten how tiring it was to spring clean. Admittedly, the chore was made much more pleasant because Zibin was helping me. Actually, at times I felt like I was assisting him. He attacked the job with such systematic and dogged determination that I cleared out more things than I had intended to. By the […]
Back on Canadian Soil
Well, I’m back. And I feel torn between just catching up on sleep and getting some much needed rest, and getting started on all the things I need to do. I want to do a ‘spring’ clean for my room and throw lots and lots of junk out (am in a throw-away mood which means […]
Sizzling
Yep. If I lay down on the pavement in NY, you’d probably get some kind of grilled goat. If I stayed in the underground subway station for long enough, you’d get roasted goat. You get the idea. I don’t recall being in such temperatures before. Today will be worse than yesterday, the weather channel says. […]
Warm Welcome to NYC
Well, I’m here! In a terribly warm New York City. Yeah, it wasn’t just Serena’s bright cheery smile at the airport that was warm. Seems like we arrived in time for a major heat wave which will last till Friday, which is when we leave New York. *wry* How hot you ask? Temperature will go […]
Journey of the Heart 