蛋黃

呢到的天氣真係吹到你啤一聲！

一日熱到 27°C 然後隨即第二日凍到 12°C

拉均一下好嗎？

不過第二日見到這樣的日出就無語了。

彩虹 Rainbow

係 Michigan 返嚟之後就係咁落雨

好似話加拿大國慶都係落雨天

可以煙花都要改期

呢個只係暫停咗一日，聽日又落過。。。

識條鐵

梗係講潮流呢樣野啦！

呢個手袋成500美金架⚠

近睇！到底係乜野值500美金

我有個加大嘅，50美金，deal? 

紅霞

 今日一早起身

好鐘意呢個 golden yellow 嘅晨光

你有無睇過日出？

係可以真係有千變萬化嘅顏色架！！！

魚 Fish

如果你以為嚟咗呢到住，就可以日日蒸新鮮魚食，

日日行好似日本東京都中央區築地 (Tsukiji Fish Market) 咁樣嘅魚市場，

咁你就錯晒喇。

一嚟呢邊嘅人唔興食生野(即係無魚生呀刺身呀呢的)

二嚟呢邊唔興食內臟，貝殼類食物最多都只係帶子，

三嚟呢邊的人對於 disguesting 或者係 yuck 嘅野都係有咁遠走咁遠

唔想睇到，唔想聞到，唔想掂到，唔想聽到，淨係想食。。。

所以呢邊嘅魚市場

係咁樣嘅。。。

即係全部都已經去頭去尾去骨去內臟，變成英文叫 fillet 咁樣嘅，

擺係雪櫃入面賣，只係未 frozen 佢咁樣囉。

(應該係入夜賣唔去就會 frozen 佢第二日賣) 

我地亞洲人興買游水魚，呢到係唔興嘅。

我去過近屋企嗰三間超市，都係得一個缸，係放龍蝦嘅。

睇過近我屋企嗰兩間魚市場網址，的人嘅評語都係話鐘意"買野嘅時候嗰樣嘅係死的"

即係唔鐘意"買隻生勾勾嘅龍蝦"返屋企，對佢地嚟講係咁樣係麻煩，多功夫要做。

(又唔諗吓咁先係新鮮？)

我地興買全條魚，呢到又係唔興嘅。好少見到全條嘅魚，可以話係未係超市見過。

有細細條嘅，但都係去頭去尾去內臟，仲要係 salted (用鹽醃咗) 

我屋企附近的兩個魚市場

Fisherman's Market International Inc

607 Bedford Hwy

NS B3M 2L6

Clearwater Lobster

757 Bedfird Hwy

NS B4A 3Z7

呢到有一個超大嘅市場

Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market

1209 Marginal Rd

NS B3H 4P8

呢個市場由1750開始到依家，睇落地方係大，

但佢係包埋其他 Farmers' Market 所有嘅檔口，菜，包，手工品各式各樣，

所以都唔會係好似築地咁樣架。不過佢都有即刻煮食嘅檔口，要係暑假揾日去行吓。

所以，今日我見到有新鮮青口，無急凍，即刻買包返屋企。

仲要特價 CAD$5/2lb 抵到爛，肥鬼唔食嘅，我一人的午餐！

然後又咁啱睇到 Discovery Channel 講超級大船 (Mighty Ships) 

呢隻叫做 Northern Eagle 嘅船，係亞拉斯加對開海域 (bering sea) 捕魚，

每一次出海，可以捕捉 1500 噸嘅魚。

呢隻船唔單止可以捉魚，佢其實有埋嗰工廠係入面，

每分鐘可以處理900條魚，包括分大細魚，切頭切尾，

去皮去內臟去骨，急凍，入箱，入雪櫃。

仲要同時間有機器煉製魚油，同埋將所有魚頭魚尾魚骨打爛晒變做粉，

pack 好一包包，可作魚糧或肥料咁賣。

隻船一埋岸，就可以落貨直接運去賣。

人類食嘢嘅瘋狂程度唔洗我係到再講。

係呢度，我想講嘅係人類真係抵死。由其係我地的亞洲人。

話說呢隻船每一次出海，燃油人工各樣各樣加埋嘅成本係US$75,000 (如果無聽錯的話)

係條片入面，頭嗰兩網嘅魚都係比較細，越大條先越賺錢，

所以船長揸隻船去揾大魚嘅區域，係網咗幾次大魚之後，仲未可以收手。

佢話，依家只係大約賺少少錢，而亞洲人鐘意食魚春 (roe) 嗰的先係賺大錢，

所以要揾一大堆有魚春嘅魚嚟捉。

呢一刻，我真係心諗，點解我地亞洲人咁鐘意呢的絕子絕孫嘅食法�

晨光

今個月肥鬼返7點

5點起身準備

因為係夏天

個天已經光晒

下個月返5點

又可以3點起身等日出

Shower matters!

We watch a lot of home improvement show.
Not that he would really do it, but, 
it's always good to learn something just for in case, right?

Let's say when people buy new house here, on the leaflet they would describe the house basic detail as 3 bed, 2.5 bath with 2 car garage and basement, something like that.

3 bed, of course means 3 bedrooms.
2 car garage means the garage can park 2 cars
2.5 bath means two and a half bathroom.

wait! what is it mean "a half bathroom"? just half the toilet? can you seat on it then?

when people describe bathroom here, they would say 4-piece bathroom or 5-piece bathroom.

what it mean is that they break down each item in the bathroom
a sink
a toilet (john)
a shower stall
a bathtub
these are the basic 4-piece bathroom

But, (there is always a BUT) there is a tricky part.

People here spend a lot of time on grooming (not just for pets), woman has to do make-up and do their hair while man has to shave and this and that, which, all of these procedures take place in front of a sink in the bathroom.  

End up couples always fight for the usage of the sink, so, nowadays we have double sink in the master bathroom, oddly, it would count as TWO piece, because, they have to do two plumbing work for it.

So, a 5-piece bathroom would be 
double sink (two sinks), 
a toilet, 
a shower
a tub

The half bathroom is a bathroom that only consist of a toilet and a sink (do not have shower/tub inside) mainly for guest use.  Thus, it is called a "half bath" because it only serve half of a "bathroom" functions.

While, the other 2 bathrooms, they would be full-function bathrooms. 

Usually, one would be located in the master bedroom to make it a Master suite (means you don't have to go out of your bedroom to go to bathroom), and the other one would be for the share usage for the other 2 bedrooms.

If the 2nd bathroom is located between the 2 bedrooms with doors on both side, then it would be called a "Jack & Jill Bathroom", means they both have direct access to that bathroom, they do not need to go out of their bedroom to go use the bathroom.  
The only down side is that you have to remember to lock the doors all the time, otherwise, people can come in from the other door when you are doing "big business"!?

Back in the days, builders were more generous on footage, this is a 80's bathroom

you can see that they build the shower stall and bathtub side by side 

but it just takes up space.

So, later on, they create something called "shower and bath combo", like this :

it is a factory made acrylic product, builders just have to insert it into the bathroom,

so now, the original separated shower stall and bathtub combines into one 

(a much cheaper option and save a lot of space)

but, they still call it TWO piece when they have to do plumbing one time only

(that just show you how "business mindset" work)

Now, after 30 years, the trend is going back again!!! (go figure)

people want individual shower stall and bathtub,

unlike the 80's, people want to go for high-end furnishes now,

like this

they want to have huge shower stall with tile to the ceiling

this picture here is a two-person shower stall 

all those knobs and shower heads on the wall are jets 

for shooting water to different parts of your body.

they also have another shower head called rain shower, like this

this shower head is installed on the ceiling 

to mimic the effect of you "showering under rain"

surprisingly, it is a big deal to them.

For me, when I use it, I feel like "something's wrong with the water pressure"

water is "dripping" out of the shower head and I don't feel clean afterward!

Because they have to run plumbing up into the ceiling, you would have to pay extra charges for this style of shower head.

and one day, I notice something.

Like the picture above, the faucet (the thing you turn on the water) 

is located on the side wall right around your waist height, right!

do you see what I see here in this picture?

all the home improvement show here in Canada, 

when they build a shower stall, they have a faucet close to the ground!!!

why?

so, we go ask people (google)

here in Canada, because they are high up on latitude (close to north pole)

it means most of the time, it's cold here, by cold I mean -30C

so when people take a shower, they would go inside, turn on the water, 

wait awhile for the hot water kicks in, and they would turn on the bottom faucet,

use their foot to test the water and see if its hot enough, 

then go in, use the toe to turn off the bottom faucet to start taking a shower.

What so funny is, we both notice it for awhile already,

and we both didn't say anything until one day, I could not suppress my curiosity any longer,

and I ask him and then he tell me, he had that question since long ago, too.

The other thing to proof how cold it is here.  In most bathrooms, 

they would put down a heat-mat under the floor tile, so you won't step on cold tile after shower.

Coming from Michigan like us, 

we had cold long winters too but it's not a norm there at all.

I guess after 6 years I will be able to tell you the difference between here and there?

Right-handed (手殘)

買了一個新的厨房玩具。
並不是 xx 牌字的煲，xx 牌字的機，
只係好簡單的一個切片嘅野。

嗰的唔係血，係剛批完蕃薯

全因為想健康的，自己焗薯片，而用刀切，我又無咁好刀功，切得唔夠薄。

呢個唔係流嘢嚟架，係德國製造嘅。
德國製造品質好係人都知，所以呢個嘢好利，我知，因為我的手指試過了。。。

人地話 "paper cut, hurts like a bitch" ，我就話咁樣批咗薄薄地表面的一層皮仲衰。每次濕咗都好鬼"乸" 。

膠布嗰度成忽皮批了。

洗碗都仲可以戴手套，沖涼就真係好難攪。

而每次整到右手受傷，痛都係其次，最難攪係呢幾日你要靠你隻左手做野。

有無發覺突然間要用左手刷牙？超級唔就手。
係個口到撩嚟撩去都覺得刷唔中嗰位。

用左手係自己塊面到搽lotion，感覺就好似你自己兩隻手都比人縛起咗咁樣，另一個人用佢隻手幫你搽。

仲要咁啱今日要洗頭。點攪？

突然間覺得自己隻左手好 handicapped...

Snack

we Asian people eat seaweed a lot

some with wasabi like the Japanese one

some with grapeseed oil and salt like the Korean one

here I found this

I have yet to buy one and try it

but it is a kind of red seaweed, just dried, no add-on favor

they classified as red alga or sea lettuce flakes

as weird as it sound, some say it taste like bacon?!?!

how to eat dulse seaweed?

maybe I can get him to try it too?

if i tell him it's "sea bacon"?

Sun's up

6am and the sun's up already, found out sunrise time today was 5:31am!!!! 

holy cow!!! it's getting early! I couldn't catch up with it....

it's definitely a "good morning" sun's up, sky is blue, water is calm

and boat is out, too!!!

do you know early in the morning is the perfect fishing time?

my stepping stone is under water again

only very calm water can make a perfect refection

  

this is a cloud that looks like an aeroplane, and look closer, it is a refection, too.

i was talking about duck hunting, this picture show when they are just strolling around,

their body will be on top of the water, like in the picture

Spring Flowers

These pictures were from April till now.  

I have been trying to go walking/jogging/running everyday (or on and off???)

and you can definitely feel spring (or summer?) is finally here

at night, temperature would still drops down to 7C

so, when in the day time, it goes up to 13C, we feel like summer already!!!

 

these two pictures were from early April.  

the buds are just coming out and it looks like they have a fur outside

 in case temp drop back down again (wise~)

people keep telling us when May come it would be better, 

but when May come, it is still shitty sometimes, 

looks like we have to wait till June.

 

This one is a tree next to fire station, just started blooming

this one is right outside our apartment and all the flowers are hanging down like this.

 

there is a bug hiding inside

on the jogging route, there are A LOT of apple trees, these are apple blossom

 

 

this one is lilac, there are a lot here but there are not fragrance like the one I had before

 

 

 

 

this is Rhododendrum, before they bloom, they looks like dark pink, 

but it eventually become light pink as it grow

I personally like the white one (because I am OCD on flowers too... hahaha)