Cooking

Ever since the morning sickness kicks in almost a month ago, I stopped cooking. Because I cannot stand the smell in the kitchen, esp the fridge, to the extend that I have to held my breath every time I open the fridge. I can assure you that it is not because of any spoiled food in the fridge, and I have also just recently changed the fridge dedoriser. Unfortunately for Mr M, he has to eat out almost every single meal because of this. Oh, and morning sickness has no morning-ness about it. It strikes THROUGHOUT the day.... arghhhhhhh

oh dear, just the thought of it is enough to make me nausesous......

Pride and Prejudice

Yesterday they were showing the latest cinema adaptation of the novel, starring Keira Knightley, on TV. I watched for about 15 mins and decided to change channel. This is one of my favourite novels of all time, and I have watched the BBC adaptation for over 10 times I think, and the scenes are so deeply etched in my head that I could not accept anyone other than Colin Firth to be Mr Darcy, and anyone other than Jennifer Ehle to be Lizzy. I watched it so many times that I can tell the next line before it is said.... I like it so much that I wanted to have same hair-do and dress as Lizzy when she's in the ball at Netherfield. (which, by the way, didn't come true in the end as I would need to spend a lot more time to get the hair done, and I couldn't find any dress that has an 19th century feel to it)

This reminds me of the TV drama North and South, starring Patrick Swayze and James Read. The drama was aired on Pearl when I was, perhaps, 7? We taped it and I was watching it over and over again, to the extend that I could memorise the lines (again...) I wonder it this is the reason why Clare likes the name Ashley so much?? Anyway I'll check out if I can find the DVD from HMV for some nostalgic moments.

it's blog-time!

everyone's writing blogs... so i guess it's time for me for another new post!



tropical depresssion Pabuk (who was once a tropical cyclone Pabuk, pictured left, when it was approaching Hong Kong) has now gone passed us. not that i matters much to me, since i don't work anymore, but there is still some disappointments to see its decline to a mere depression. at least we have slight relief from the recent heat wave so it's not totally 'useless'.





speaking of typhoons, i remembered one of the topics in the my HKCEE chinese language writing paper was something like 'when typhoon hits home'. of course i didn't choose this topic, but i can't remember which one i've chosen. i only remember the first sentence of my composition, which was 'Last sunday I went shopping with my mom.' This was a classic way to start a composition for 8-year-olds... but still I scored better than my sister Kay, who just got her results yesterday, with 7As but an F for chinese writing! HA!

Revival

As I think the 粉掌 cannot hold on until my mom's return from Beijing, Dave and I went to buy 2 packs of soil and 'replanted' the 粉掌. We cut out a lot of the dried and dying leaves, and the plant does look at lot healthier now. I suspect that I am not watering it enough, as I have been very cautious on the amount of water I give to the plant. I have been warned that more plants died from being water too much than from being deprived of water, so I always thought they don't need so much afterall... perhaps I was wrong. But the good thing is we managed to save and since then I have been a lot more generous with the water.

Thank you Mr M!

yesterday mr m did make an effort to leave work early and we had dinner at tai ping koon in causeway bay. the dinner included ox tongue spagetti in tomato sauce, fried beef with ho fun in 'swiss' sauce and roast pigeon! we finished dinner in about 30 mins, and our stomach began to bloat about an hour later... pity that we couldn't eat the famous souffle, as i cannot eat raw/semi-raw eggs at the moment.

happy birthday to me... happy birthday to me...

today marks my 29th year here on planet Earth. i decided to celebrate the day by going to the bakery to buy bread and newspaper at 7-11 at 8:30am in the morning. most certainly do not feel like cooking at all, but if mr m could not leave work early today (by early i mean 7pm) then dinner would be wun ton noodles at the nearby 茶餐廳.

in an attempt to do my part to make the air cleaner and fresher, i bought 2 potted plants (鐵樹 and 粉掌)about a month ago. both are perfectly healthy-looking and radiant plants. here are what they are like after a month under my care:














well evidently the 粉掌 is dying but i don't know how to save it until my mom comes back from beijing at the end of the month. hopefully it can hang on till then.... again this proves that beautiful things does not and cannot last. i'll stick with plants with just leaves or needles next time.

New Layout!!

Finally some changes to the blog...!!