a pot of warmth

Im sorry that tis would be a long post again, but a couple of things cheered me up these few days. First of all, my hat goes to crystal and wendy who made the effort to wake up early in the morning to chat with me. Was motivated a lot. N cryin reduced drastically. Thx gals, they meant a lot to me. But im sorry if i ve made ur day started with unhappiness to see a hampau cryin in the screen while having ur breakfasts..

Drama was good. Initially my heart was teared to pieces when i was informed that the website i used to stream dramas was shut down. Couldnt get any alternatives thou. Finally resorted to another blogspot n everything went off well. Managed to catch up with 'Moonlight Resonance' which was stuck half way. Im at epi 22 now.. I must say, drama really enlightened my life over here a lot. I rarely cry when i watch drama, but eversince buckets n buckets of tears ensued while watching 'Moonlight Resonance', seeing the family of 'joe bao' so happy n so close.. but me being away from daddy, mummy, and my two sisters whom i miss a lot a lot..

One of my fav is epi 14, where 'jo bao' disguised himself to cheer her daughter 'ah hing' up, singing the warm n fuzzy 'fen fen zhong sui you nei', one of my fav songs.. It made me tot of daddy who always tell us super funny bed time stories.. I watched the scene for at least 10 times ade.. But of course, dramas really helped to drive my sorrows away. Sometimes i was hesitatin whether to sacrifice one hour for drama, but it proves to be really worthwhile. At least after tat i can study better, have a better mood, n head to bed sweetly, grinning in glee.. ^-^

Also, caught a glimpse of klang wonderland from the pics on the online paper. This is the place that i love n miss very very much.. My homeland =)Please dun misunderstood that klang is so dirty o doesnt look like a city. It is indeed a very lively n happy city, jz that due to construction that had gone on for more than a year, traffic is gettin worse n worst.. But rainbow after rain, im sure klang wil turn to an even beautiful place after all these upgrades.. Nevertheless, im Definitely proud to be klangites =P


So much of feelins came up when i saw tis pic. This is the road i used to drive on almost everyday. How much i wish tat im jamming there with the other motorists now..


Got the fantastic idea of motivation from wendy, i wrote about ten messages n hung them around my room.. In mandarin though.. SO that not everyone, esp the cleaners can read them?? Keke.. But the genuine reason underlyin shud be i love expressin myself in mandarin more, it's very romantic n expressive to me. Half way thru writin i did cry, but now i keep on reminding myself to be strong n tough.. TO be aware that im very blessed indeed as i can cum to uk, n oso go home so often..

Another cheerup: My first taste of hotpot in uk. Blindly joined the china in focus for a hotpot dinner in coventry yesterday. Tell u wat, i expected lots of chinese to join the event, yet it ended with all the caucasians.. N the best part is, they could speak mandarin.. Omg.. I was utterly stunned n impressed.. Their mandarin were fluent n they could share stories bout themselves in mandarin! N they loved the Chinese culture. Im so glad. So for the whole night, we converse in mandarin n it was really cool..

However, the hotpot wasnt really nice though.. These pictures shall tel u the stories..

That's the 'pot', made up of two soups, one is herbal soup, n another is a spicy soup, but it seems its just some chilly oil.. Very different from the one we usually have in msia..


N when they add the soup, they add purely hot water instead of the real soup like in msia.. So the soup actually ended up getting tasteless-er and tasteless-er..


Secondly, the 'ingredients' to be put into the hotpot. There were mussles, fishballs, sausages, seaweeds, 'dong fen', 'dou gan' etc.. But stil different from ours..



Sum prawns, n beef.. Din eat much prawns thou, cuz i was thinkin that it's quite troublesome n i dun hv the magic skills of peeling of the prawn skins with the chopsticks..


The sauces available.. Tis was the onli one i really enjoyed, without them, the soup was almost tasteless..


The hotpot din end up tasty nor delicious anyway. It was quite bad actually, to me. Wat we have in msia is definitely a lot better i would say. It's a buffet hotpot, so there was actually a free flow of food n drinks. So i ate a lot of 'dong fun' and sausages through out as onli them seemed to be of my taste.. Each country has their own taste preference i guess..


Despite the somehow rather tasteless hotpot (actually im pretty regret tat i shud jz order a simple chinese dish instead), but it was good experience though.. N got to know a lot of new frens, who can speak mandarin.. This is julie, n spain, n her mandarin was the best amongst all.. A very friendly n jovial lady..She has a twin sister who went along tat nite too..


Me n shin li..


That's ding, from china, doing acc n finance too..Blurred by the steam.. hehe..


The atmosphere of the restaurant is pretty well.. With all the chinese paintings n decorative styles.. N the tv was showing a show of 'A date with Lu Yu' from the phoenix channel..


As u can see, everythin was quite 'chinese-styled'..


It was very kind of the driver of the restaurant to send us back (fee shall be included in our meal already), n he stopped me right in front of my flat. So i ve successfully prevented from walking back alone. N on the way, we heard the song 'tong hua' by Micheal Guang Liang. Few of us (me at least) were singing out along, n yeah.. Feelin very warm n sweet tat nite. Reached comfie heronbank at around 11. But im was an impulsive and wonderful nite =P