My first wine making

My first time trying to make fuzhou hong jiu (chinese red wine) ... had a tough time trying to get the glass jar ... delayed the whole process for about a week. Finally everything gets going and all settling in the jar ... waiting for the whole fermentation process to complete in about a month's time. Liling remember to show mom, let her see if the colour is correct or not haha...

AH HOCK Restaurant

Haha, armed with the chillie my mom prepared, now i can cook quite descent curry, though still need a bit of kanghu to fine tune it my mother's standard, coz it still taste a bit different someway haha....

but nevertheless, the diners still enjoyed the food that day and we finished up in no time... also with all the rice finished... sorry guys, no top up this time.... ;p

Thank You Dear

After the beautiful view of shanghai, i went home tired after a long day at work, but feeling happy because of what i saw in the morning and also later in the day supposed to celebrate our belated anniversary.

In the room as i start to unpack my things, I saw this beautiful card on the table.



Hehe... Juan actually bought me an anniversary card, it is so nice of her. I like it really much. I told her not to buy new ones in future, but every year just add a line into the card and maybe we can see how her wishes evolved over the years....

Later that evening, i brought her to this restaurant in puxi, it is like those theme restaurant. the first floor was the bar/lounge area and dining on the 2nd floor. The setup was interesting, dark, with a spotlight on each table and the food was alright. We both enjoyed the night out.

It was a fantastic evening ... now gotta start getting ideas where to go next year haha... any interesting restaurant remember to mail me ok hehe....

Good Morning Shanghai

Coming in on a lazy wednesday morning, the cloud cover was heavy as we made our final preparation coming into Shanghai Pudong airport. The view outside the cockpit was a sea of white. As we made our descend through the clouds near Hong Qiao airport, the clouds thin and we broke cloud, with full view of the city basking in the morning sun. It was really a beautiful sight. Oh man... I love flying...

Too bad it is not that clear ... hopefully next time can get a better shot...

Happy Anniversary Dear

Time really flies and before you know it, 1 year had just gone past. I would like to thank you for your courage and trust to move from somewhere you were familiar to a totally strange land... Absorb the cultural difference and to face the unfamiliar system. It must had been tough on you, but I am always by your side, giving you the strength that you need as we trek along this path.

During this one year we had experienced a lot challenges and change together, but these challenges had strengthen our bond and reaffirm our commitment to each other. I thank you for your understanding and your willingness to walk this difficult path with me. I am really glad we have each other for you had long made a residence in my heart.

As life had its way with things, situation had changed such that now i am the one in unfamiliar land. Now it is your turn to show me how to get things done in Shanghai. Guiding me along so that i will not live like a tourist but like a local, fitting in to the environment ( just like what i was trying to do before ). Also i can now better understand your homesickness, thinking about home, missing home and family members for i am experiencing it myself.

Also for accepting the huge changes to your body that comes free with pregnancy, thank you. Since we do not know the gender as yet, we shall call baby mini ong instead of mini hock haha....

mini ong will see the real world in a month time.. this last 30 days is gonna be filled with excitement and anxiousnous. As the day comes closer, our new role getting spelled out for us clearer. Guessed we had got almost everything ready...

Sorry this day I cannot be with you as i still need to go and earn money for milk powder...but it gives me the chance to sit in front of the laptop, thinking about us , putting in down in this page, so that maybe 10 years or 50 years later when we revisit this page together, the feeling will be refreshing,enchanting, sweet memories that we shared... "thinking back about the good old days"

Sometimes you would asked me, "Would you still hold my hand when I am old and wrinkled?" I will reply as I always would, "I will hold your hand even when we are both old and greyed, I would loved to walk along the beach with you, enjoying the sun, the sea, hand in hand strolling, enjoying each others' company maybe also with our grandchildren around us...."

I love you Juan... Happy Anniversary and many more..

kiss

Bedroom Entertainment

We just bought a tivoli ipod system for our bedroom. The sound is fantastic. Now there is some music entertainment when we are in the bedroom. The model name is quite cute ... is called iYiYi... anybody tell me how to pronounce ? my friend told is ai ya ai ya ai.... haha.... u managed to get it ??


Also for the ipod we uploaded some photos in the screen saver

Battle is lost .......

The battle against the dust is a long and bitter one. We gathered all our gears and resources, from mops, brooms, finally upgraded to vacuum cleaner, to employing part time maid....

every week the whole unit needs to be cleaned a min 3 times to be bearable. The problem is Shanghai is a very dusty city, to make matter worse, my living room balcony faces a coal collection point which is abt 1 km away but full visual range. So when the wind blows,all the fine coal dust will start settling on the balcony and floor.

Since 3 mths since we moved in, finally we surrendered.... we will still do all the cleaning when we had time, but slippers need to be on once u are home, coz if not feet will become black black.. something that takes some getting used to ....

The other solution will be to keep all the doors and window closed. But we like the natural breeze that comes thru once in awhile, especially now when the weather is getting cooler .. rather than couping up in air-con all the time....

So if u are coming remember to put on slippers once in the house ;-)

Wireless Activated

Yes... wireless in the house....managed to get a wireless router from a friend... now no need to hide in the room to get online and juan and me can both online at the same time now .. yippee...

OK....gotta work on 25th SEP

Well.... looks like unable to swap flight to get off days ... din know trying to swap flights is so tough lay ... but is ok.. i got a week of stdby(if unactivated) to make the best of things...

cheers ;)

My Curry ...!!

Hei... i just cooked my curry chicken here recently.... colour looked not too bad right ?? haha.... anybody wanna try ??

Wow... All on the same day .....

Guess what...1st year anniversary= birthday=中秋节(mid autumn festival)=not at home working... haha... gonna get screwed neh... well trying hard to change flights and see how it goes.

wish me luck baby...

hugs