Breakfast

Oats, milk, kiwi, banana and blueberries. I couldn't think of a better way to start my Sunday morning. Mr. Weather has turned significantly gentle recently :D Today it's cloudy with seconds long sunny intervals because Mr. Sun is playing hide and seek with the thick dark clouds. It does take some determination to drag myself out of bed in this perfect weather to sleep in.

If you ask me what is the most frequent cause that prompted me to be late for school when i was younger, my answer would be: My dad cooked us oats for breakfast! I used to drag my school bag to the front gate and then stamped my foot aggrievedly while waiting for my sister taking ages to finish her bowl of plain oats with raisins or apple (oats cooked with plain water with neither addition of sugar nor milk). Now i often suspect that this is the key factor of why i developed a distaste for raisins. (dad, if you are reading this, i feel sorry :p)
But i certainly miss those tasteless oats!

Valentine

 A friend shared this on Facebook.




Sweet.

Fragility

 I have been so dependent on the internet that the first thing i do in a weekend morning after brushing my teeth is to turn on my laptop, sign in messengers and check my mailbox. And oh guess what i got in my inbox today: 7 things that one shouldn't do on Facebook, another reminder to stay aware of own privacy in this social networking world.

Studying overseas makes me realised how crucial a roll technology has in my daily life keeping me in touch with my family and friends at home. But today it suddenly struck me so so hard that technology makes love fragile and brittle. One can choose not to pick up certain calls, reply certain emails or messages be it on Facebook, Messengers, or even SMS. And what's even better, you don't have to feel sorry for that: simply reply a text message: hi sweetie i'm so sorry but i'm having this terrible sore throat, or pretend that you are the roomie on Messanger and type away: hi i'm xxx's roomie and he/she is currently not at home.

Check out the preview of next version of Window Live Messenger,which makes it even easier: you can apply different status to different contacts(note: 1:40 of the video) , maybe you are scheduled to date this boyfriend online today and you wouldn't want the other boyfriend to find out that since you are supposed to be attending your weekly yoga class.



So who is friend and who is foe?

我不夠認份
所以怕再為誰作出犧牲
愛要有天份
所以我始終學不會放任
我不夠天真
不允許我傻傻的等
對自己殘忍
多 殘忍 我要有分寸

我太過認真
所以才相信所謂的永恆
愛讓人恍神
所以止不住不小心沉淪
我太負責任
不允許有太多悔恨
對自己坦誠
多坦誠 我自有分寸

我只是無辜的人
很需要歎氣聲
有一些文字的吻
只留 給傷過的人
明知道有些問題
沒有答案還是要問
原諒我 因為我就是 這樣的女生

Blossom

It's spring.i love spring. How could one don't?

Been having such lovely time with friends i adore.

 Favourite activity in spring: bbq in Westpark, Aachen.

Cologne is one of the cities in Germany that i love :D.

 Taken by the River Rhein.

Spent a lovely Saturday indulging in yummylicious Ramen and strolling through a park in Düsseldorf.

 

Oh those lovely tulips and flower beds!

p.s: i stole most of the pictures from Jun Xiang, our genius photographer :)

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Attempted to bake japanese cheese cake too during the weekend, but friends thought that it could do with stronger cheese flavour.

Relocation

I moved. It's the 5th time i moved since 2006. This time into an old pre-World War II bungalow.

The brown wallpaper smells of history. And I could almost hear the coloured glass whispering stories of the house and its past inhabitants.

The owner is a lovely generous German old lady in her eighties, who used to work as clinic assistant before she married a handsome gorgeous Pole (i assumed) whose first wife died of breast cancer.

I dislike moving. The amount of dust and dirt we have to clean, the thousands meters that we walked,and the energy spent on every single screws and nuts when dismantling and assembling 3 large wardrobes, 2 beds and several tables and chairs are disaster. The task seemed impossible, but here i am now sitting in my new room typing off my laptop. Of course i couldn't have done it without all my friends.

We did not record much of this unforgettable experience on Labor Day.
Here is a sneak peek of them assembling one of the wardrobes :D

Ich danke euch vom ganzen Herzen für eure liebe Hilfe.

Oh and we have got a garden!