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Friday, April 6, 2007

大西北小住之旅(3) (2007.04.06)








呢張咁詩情畫意嘅相,我係一見到的時候,都冇惗有冇禮貌的問題了,就二話不說,問Carol可否送給我

(Carol係阿肥鬼佬的媽媽...仲要只係第二次見佢...嘻嘻)

我打算,攞呢張相係今年Christmas做greeting card送俾朋友...唔講你地都唔知,呢度係Carol嘅後花園,係幾年前,Detroit嘅冬天有一個大風雪,係一晚之間落咗幾呎雪,所以Carol即刻拎相機影底呢個景

有人會覺得呢幅相俾人感覺好蒼涼,但我一啲都唔覺,我覺得真係好靚,就正如,有皇帝企鵝係我身邊俾我取暖,大家一路飲咖啡睇雪景,咁咪最溫暖囉

Carol間屋,唔單止後花園個景好靚,係個廳個度,個sofa都係對住一塊落地大玻璃窗,係個度望出去個景,都係好鬼靚,就好似一幅活生生的、會變的畫咁樣,我去Carol屋企嗰日,下午2點食完lunch去到坐,咁啱開始變得大風,睇住出面個景象,一路由大風開始,漸漸有一點點白色的好似塵咁樣嘅雪,到越來越大雪,睇住個地下(青草地)變吓變吓淺綠色,再變吓變吓白白地,再變吓變吓白晒,然後越嚟越厚,只係兩個鐘,就好似由一幅“春天”換上了一幅“冬天”咁樣。

 號 外 

話說,有一天,我同阿鬼佬講話,如果第日我地搬屋,我要住Carol嗰邊,或者要間好似Carol間屋咁嘅屋,因為我真係好鬼鍾意Carol個間色調(米色)同燈光都好warm、無樓上、無地壚嘅屋(啱晒我,因為我怕行上行落,而且鬼佬間屋因為一個人住而且懶打掃,所以好多野都係黑色,污漕都唔覺喎,仲要係兩層,我覺得實在係太大...)

跟住,你都唔知佢點答我...

佢話“OK,間屋第日都係我地架啦?!?!”

我:“吓,點解吖??”

佢就話:“佢第日死咗咪我地嘅囉!!!!”

佢講嘅時候,其實係冇任何negative meaning的,好自然,但我惗,呢啲就係中人同西人嘅分別....

Thursday, April 5, 2007

大西北小住之旅(2) (2007.04.05)

After buying a lot of stuff from Nina Salvaggio yesterday, what I am doing today is ----- "Yan can Cook"




... after fixing my master piece -> I am so concentrated on doing "Won Ton"...



why this??? b/c

(i)this is the only thing that I can think of that I CAN DO IT??!? and

(ii)the only thing looks so common here and

(iii) that I can find 'most' of the ingredients in Nina Salvaggio...

while I am busy, the two little fat cats at home, they are busy also.... at their "master bed"-->







can't see clear enough???? they just dont border to move around when I am taking photo at them... lazy cats...





the one on the red blanket is "little girl" ... she's always the one who love to eat all the time...

the one on the yellow/blue blanket is "little boy" - Smoky... he's always the naughty one







But, most of the time, they are lovely.... everytime when i was tired of cooking and laying on the sofa, they would just walk next to me and lay down with me...



b/c of to get warm...












Wednesday, April 4, 2007

大西北小住之旅 (1) (2007.04.04)

明明尋日(070403)當阿肥鬼嚟接我個陣,佢仲係著緊短袖衫短褲,但係今朝一早起身,出面就變成咁鬼樣...哈哈,今次可以話係我一世人第一次真真正正看見雪呀!!!!!

其實呢度係肥鬼個friend - John & Melissa嘅屋企,出面唔係好似大家諗得咁凍,其實係車上車落個陣覺得大風的咁囉...同埋,當你企定係度,係未必睇到嘅因為應該係風大過雪...所以要累積一定程度之後先係個地下度見到...








John & Melissa屋企附近一棵怪樹...






跟住我地就去咗行Nina Salvaggio一間亞洲supermarket...大家見唔見到的雪呀???飛吓飛吓咁樣...







我覺得亞美利堅嘅超市,真係幾好行,又多野睇,又大...















Before I went there this time, my friend had already keep reminding me that on Easter Sunday (7Apr07) I have to cook him something so that he could take it back to work for the easter party... he keep reminding me...

that's why, the 1st day I wake up, even it's scared me (snow!!!!) we still head out to this Nina Salvaggio asian market... a bit far away (everywhere is far away to me!!!). Surprisingly, I really see a lot of asian stuff inside, but not really very Hong Kong...







however, I do like the markets there, it would not be crowded like the ParknShop Super Store!!!!




and I found this thing, it's some kind of fruit, sweet in taste and the shell is medium hard to break and eat the content inside, my mom brought some of this just a few days before I went there.






(if you can see, the snow is blowing outside hehe)

Right after shopping for "easter cooking", we went to meet his friend, John & Melissa and their little girl Kristen, she is really such a lovely girl and we did "talk" a lot of the way driving to eat... she's funny... and we just keep laughing... while we eat Mixico food that nite, she just keep eating the "hot" nachos"... wow brave...






This is some beans paste with fried rice and egg roll (gross... I dont like this kind of egg roll cos the skin is so thick, not like chinese spring roll but they love them so much!?!?!)

I had some chicken salad with the sauce is really good good good.... I think it should be some yogurt with herbs...







大西北小住之旅 (2007.04.04)

Arriving on the Apr3, it's still having sunshine and "looks" warm, that Jim was in short sleeves and short pants, however, it was just 1 night later, when we woke up, it's snowing outside!!!!

When we drove to the int'l market, it was crazily windy, and I can see raindrops / snow format stuff is flying in the air!!!!! and the road side sign just show that it was 31F (i.e. 0 C)!!!!

We buy a lot of stuff in the int'l market, especially asian stuff and yesterday, i was doing "Won Ton" and surprisingly, it taste good....

will take pic later on... haha

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

大西北小住之旅 (2007.04.03)

繼兩年前(05年9月)的大西北之旅後...

阿肥鬼係06年9月,都嚟咗香港睇我(係另外幾篇blog度寫咗),佢因為無假,得短短一個禮拜,然後...我地等呀等...等呀等

登!登!登!登!

就係我的悠長假期...幾耐???

咁就要講番歷史先-

我的大假,由2004年開始,因為條team不停換人同expand business嘅關係,一路都放唔到假,只係一年幾日幾日咁放,入咗紙,都要我cancel 大假...所以,今次我都可以好似我公司啲高級行政員工咁樣-放咗成一個月嘅大大大假...

所有同事朋友一聽到,都話好羨慕我...但佢地唔會知嘅係,四年都無乜點放假嘅感覺...哈哈

而今次,都可以話係我第日過去生活嘅演習,所以,雖然係朝早8.30機,阿肥爹都陪我嚟機場 ( my very caring father, he offer me to take me to the airport and wake me up... hahaha)

see, we still have plenty of time to "kill" 2 newspaper that morning!!

it's been almost 2 years from the last time I went to US (2 weeks)... and still -> exciting b/c this time, I will be staying there for 1 month (long vacation ), kind of rehersal... As usual, I still work until the very last day (2Apr2007) and I did not sleep all night for packing the luggage (lazy ), but flying at 3Apr2007, 0830hrs!!!!!!!!!!! b/c of the new security measures (and my very 緊張 parents!!!), I have to arrive the airport at 0630hrs?!?!?! it's a real tough thing to me actually.









Besides, what I like most is -> the overview of Siberia, the feeling and visual effect that you are flying from the day time zone of the earth to a night time zone of the earth that you will clearly see "the dawn" and "the sun set" in that 14hr flight... (if the flight attendant let you open the window)










I always feel so funny to look at the place like this, it's just like a small model that we are "playing", and I did ask my friend where is this in detroit, and He CONFESS... hahaha he dont know...

Does anyone know that Michigan is also called "thousand lakes island"???