food

so the dinner was fine. easy cooking. i met another friend of max's. a nice guy seemingly.

we are going to max's parents' house for dinner tomorrow. i love his mom's food. last time max's dad asked me if i know any english word for food that "smells good." i couldn't think of any.

i asked one of my co worker later, she said, aromatic. it sounds so strange and distant to me....

rice wine

00003, originally uploaded by thepooler.

we went to a tiny chinese takeout food/grocery shop called Happy Food in the neighbourhood today, 7.99 euro (11.30 dollars) for a bottle of rice wine. it's a robbery!

but max thought it was okay as long as the money goes into the pocket of the lady who is the only person there doing the cooking and the selling. He thinks she is not making a lot of money but always seems happy whenever he is there ordering food. so he likes her. so it's okay with him that this lady makes that bloody 8 euro.

But it will not be okay he said, if this bottle of wine is selling the same price in those big supermarkets where they generally stock their inventory with much lower cost.....

when we were there in the afternoon. she was inside cooking, outside selling all the time. but she still spent sometimes with me to make sure that i had chosen the right ingredients for the food that i plan to make. she is a sweet lady. and her shop is really the kind of Chinese shop that is depicted in Hollywood movies, dark, shady, old and really 1900s....

sos

00024, originally uploaded by thepooler.

the past few days have been pretty exhausting, it's not saying that i had too much fun; instead it's about my crazy swinging mood. i somehow was just not satisfied with whatever that had presented to me. i was clumsy, lousy, easily irritated, and annoying! max suffered and got fed up at one point....

after a blow this afternoon, everything went back to normal again.

i understand every woman (i don't know about guys') has some kind of mood cycle. i just wish i can get by the fluctuation more smoothly... any ideas? :(

夏威夷三明治

pinapple sandwich, originally uploaded by thepooler.

Hawaii sandwich....
didn't do much today. max got up at 6am to finish his work; i woke up at the same time, had a big breakfast and went back to sleep right afterwards. got up at 11:30am and stayed in front of computer until 12:30pm and ran out to catch the train at 1pm to get to school.

came back and had a sandwich for lunch and continue surfing until NOW!!!

keyword: often and change

it seems like i have visited max so often that whenever i said that i was going to visit him, the reaction i generally received normally was, "again? didn't you just visit him?"

i thought so too. I thought i have visited him so often that i should cut back the number of visits i will pay to him in future. but i was wrong. it is not SO OFTEN. last time i visited him was exactly a year ago. Since last year, he is the one coming to visit me often. anyways, we see each other pretty often consider the long distant relationship we are having.

the point is, things have changed. a year ago, i almost turned myself into a housewife here; but now, at least by now, max's being doing the major cook and i only help with preparing vegetables; and he cooks well!



so when i saw the dinner he fixed last night, i was once again feeling the change! heihei~~

we went for a walk after dinner.

fixing bikes and rolling

, originally uploaded by thepooler.

max has two old bikes that need to be fixed. When he mentioned about fixing bikes, i immediately suggested that since I can't help much with fixing bikes, i would like to show him my rolling skills.

i assumed we would be just downstairs. but he said he would take me somewhere else; he always fixes his bikes there.

..... i think i am not creative enough to anticipate why there must be a specific place to fix bikes. it would be a lot of work: carrying my rollerblades, my gear, his tool box, and other equipments, food, water and then two old bikes; we can't even ride them; we had to push them to the destination.

It took us 15 minutes to walk under the sun to arrived at his secret bike fixing place. it was just the same park we went yesterday!!! Just a different location of the park where some benches sit along the path, and he can work while sitting on the bench, enjoying the breeze and getting his hand dirty.....


i was a bit of speechless, but the long path there made me really happy. there weren't too many people around, so when i practiced i don't need to be afraid that i will crash into someone.

so i was practising, an old man sat on another bench with his dog laying next to his feet watched me rolling. i rolled pass him, he didn't say a word, passed him the second time, third time, forth time... he got up and left.

later, i went back to max to check out how he was doing. He said that that gentleman came to talk to him about my skill....he said i should soften my knees, low my upper body and lean forward more when i roll...

.$$^&*)_(^&^$$#!.
i took his advice and i was much better. but i fell once.. on my pigu..

at the end, max couldn't fix bikes completely; inner tire and chain of one bike need to be changed. so we packed everything, shoes, gears, bikes, tool box, other equipments, food, water and went home.