New Stove! :D

Last week, when I was cooking, I smelt a little leaky gas from the stove.  So, we asked someone from the gas company to come check it out for us.

Turns out our stove was quite old and it indeed had a little leakage. It could blow up the neighborhood if we didn't take care of it. :D

So it's time to buy a new stove and here it is.

 

Cooking the first meal on this new stove. :D It's today's lunch and dinner. :D Mixed veggie and hot pot meat in soup. :D

My Moscow Visit :D

I've been having a lot of fun exploring 2nd Life lately. :D Today, I even travel to Moscow too!!

Behind me is the most famous "Saint Basil's Cathedral". I think it's one of the most interesting buildings in the world.

Ridding on a hot air balloon flying over Moscow Kremlin.

And then, I went to see Lenin's Mausoleum. Too bad I didn't have time to go view the body of leader of the once very red country.

And then, here is Dormition Cathedral.

Then I stumbled upon a palace which I think is now the senate. :)

Ivan the Great Bell Tower is behind me. Yay!

This is the Tsar Bell, which is the largest bell in the world.

Being naughty, I climbed up to the roof of the bell tower which let me have a better view of the The Grand Kremlin Palace.

The palace is quite large. Can you still find me on the ground level? :)

Also, I had a good view of the Cathedral of the Archangel from the roof of the bell tower. I changed into my favorite night gown just for this shot. :D

Behind me is The Spasskaya Tower which has large clock faces on each side of the tower.

Let's go see Tsar Cannon now. :) Russia's royalty was once the richest among the many kings and queens in the world. They simply had the largest of many things. :P

After all day of walking around The red square, I relaxed in a park nearby. :) I hope you enjoyed this tour as much as I did. :)

眼尾跳

今日成日都眼尾跳! 十分煩厭!!
Today, my eye lid was twitching so badly; it was so xxxing annoying! :D

呢個正正 証明咗 通勝入面嘅"眼尾跳時辰表" 係胡說八道的! :D
In the Chinese version of the bible (more like a fortune telling & utility book for the house hold) has a few page coverages about eye twitching. If your eyelid(s) twitch(es) at a certain time of the day, it predicts some kind of fate you have in that day. :D

Since my eyelid was twitching all day long, this proves that the book is just full of craps! :D

有云：Here's the time table of eyelid twitches.

時辰	左眼 Left eye
子（11:00pm-1:00am）	有貴人 have a friendly helper
丑（1:00am-3:00am）	主憂患 You are worried
寅（3:00am-5:00am）	有客人來 A guest is coming
卯（5:00am-7:00am）	有貴人找 A guest is coming
辰（7:00am-9:00am）	有遠客找 A foreigner will visit
巳（9:00am-11:00am）	有食神 The god of food will visit
午（11:00am-1:00pm）	有食神 The god of food will visit
未（1:00pm-3:00pm）	主吉昌 Good Luck Generally
申（3:00pm-5:00pm）	破財 You will waste some $$$
酉（5:00pm-7:00pm）	有客人來 A guest is coming
戌（7:00pm-9:00pm）	有客人來 A guest is coming
亥（9:00pm-11:00pm）	有客人來 A guest is coming

註: 右眼沒跳, 我懶, 所以沒有打在上表!
Note: My right eye didn't twitch, I was lazy to include the table of the right eye.

如果依照以上個表, 我今天成日咪有客人來?!
If followed the above table, it would mean I have guests all day long! :D

都係呢個解釋比較有根據D :D
This explanation is more appropriate. (It basically means I was highly stressed or didn't sleep very well is all) :D hehe

LaBean's Time Travel :D

As I was putting up my pictures of Christmas at Time Square, I just realize I forgot to post the Halloween at Time Square! :D

So let's travel in time and see the fun decorations. :D

Christmas Arrived In Time Square, HK

There's only about a month before Christmas. Many malls in Hong Kong are now decorated with seasonal arts and scenes.

Here are some pictures I took this week of the Time Square in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong.

 

  

  

  

 

蝴蝶情意結

近期在執東西的時候, 赫然發覺自己原來有咁 Q 多髪夾嘅! 好多仲係 蝴蝶形狀嘅添!

Recently, when I was cleaning up my space, I discovered that I have all these hair bands and clips! So many of them are in butterfly shape!

現在就等我 showcase 一下佢地啦. :D

Let me showcase them a bit here. :D

Click the pictures to enlarge.

最下係髪箴示範. Hair pin demonstration. :D









謝謝! Thank you! :)

開飯囉!! Hawt pwot! :D

今晚天氣仍然涼涼地, 又撞正 day off, 所以我們又擧家出動, 食食食喇! 今晚嘅主角就係 打邊爐! 暖笠笠, 拾下拾下, 有助家人聯誼. :D

Tonight's weather is still a little chilly. It happens to be my day off, so we decided we should all go have some hot pot. :D Hot pot has the effect of warming people up, promoting arm and fingers exercise and improving family communications. :D

To start off the meal, we helped ourselves with different sauces. I took some roasted garlics, chilly pepper soy sauce, satay sauce, ginger and onions and extra hot chilly sauce! :D Yum Yum.

Then it's the wait! :D



Waiting for the pot to boil up was torturous! :D

And then we gathered our veggies. :D We've got bok choy, tong ho choy (唐蒿).

Tong Ho Choy is my favorite hot pot veggies. It's fragantly and full of flavors.

Bok Choy is always a safe choice. :D

Here's our seafood mix. We were rationed a plate of shrimps, crab, mantis shrimps and scallops.

They were all quite fresh.

MmmMMm... nom nom nom.. :D

Fresh water crabs are fresh! :D

Cooked Mantis Shrimps. Most people in Hong Kong call them peeing shrimps. I don't really like small ones. :D Suddenly, I remember those huge ones at the Harbor View Hotel early these year. mmMMMm..

Big shrimps! :D Are you quite envy of me now? :D

The Hawt Pwot (Mike's version of Hot Pot) in action. :D

Left: Chicken and beef; Right: Fish skin dumplings, squid meat balls and some golden stock mushrooms. :)

Some gruesome stuff! :D

Well, oysters aren't gruesome. But we have here are pig's intestines (粉腸) :D

These balls are made of tofu skin. I don't touch these, but they are my mom's favorites.

Last but not least, we had some clams and long shell clams! :D


They were so sweet!

I wish there were more of these. :D But we were quite full by then. :)

The meal doesn't complete until you have a bowl or two of the hot pot soup! :D It has all the essence of the meat and seafood and veggies. It's the sweetest soup in the world. :D