its nice when the day is getting longer and longer and the temperature is at the best. Just nice and we ...

some meat to grill

portobello mushrooms

grilling pit

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25.4.2009
Grillata

The weather has been great for this week and now Im feeling a bit feverish, lol!

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25.4.2009
capture from the car

I have been out of alcohol for many months until...

last saturday I had sparkling wine and wine and whiskey and wine and then zzzz. It could be a nice gathering for me as there were 3 couples, sitting in the dining table, drinking, eating and talking. it looked like the perfect small group of mature friends gathering atmosphere but but I felt like left out in a way that I couldnt follow their conversation in finnish. And when they translated it to me in english, the joke wasnt that funny anymore and I just didnt the inquisitive anymore to ask any further question. So to say I was quite bored to death, thats why I got drunk and felt asleep at the end, lol! Well it would be ok if I would have any interaction. It would certainly keep me awake. plus without a proper meal or full belly before and during consuming alcohol, certainly I would be feeling nausea, dizzy, hangover and overall feeling bad.

man : is it ok if i dont wear my wedding ring all the time, when i´d go out....you know its much more easier for me when i need to fix some car.

woman : ok, I understood. I will always be the woman who is having an affair with a young boy....lol

Stir Fry chicken in oyster sauce

sauce ingredients:
- white pepper
- garlic
- dark soy sauce
- soy sauce
- oyster sauce
- salt

stir fry them in a sauce pan and then when they are ready, serve them with rice and spring onions as garnishing.

something that I miss ...

ayam berkokok di waktu pagi, lol!

something that he misses...

sembahyang dari masjid, lol!

its sunshine finally...



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10.4.2009

I managed to make a successful nasi goreng pattaya 2 weeks ago.

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Nasi Goreng Pattaya

ok, so im kinda happy when i can see the snow has melted all away from the roads and the pedestrian paths. I have begun to like the idea of having dry and clean path. Its much more easy for the walking again. I can be myself again, i can walk briskly and happily without the need of worrying if i would slip and fall.

its easter this weekend. the weather has been cloudy these few days and we are happy to find out that this weekend we will get some sunshine and +10C. But today its snowing crazily outside at dawn. It amazes me again. It feels like the first great snow of the cold season that I have experienced 5 months ago.







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K550i
10.4.2009

things that I still cant get it right yet...

I always wonder if he is interested to know how have I been doing in this country as he has never ask me at all.

I still dont have the culture of inviting friends to my house for a visit or coffee.
we rather meet outside for a drink or some food. if they happen to come into the house, we would serve a glass of water :D or soft drink.

I am rather uncomfortable and shy to ask my visitor if they want some tea or coffee, lol!
we dont ask, we just served, lol.

they have 1 warm meal per day, and the rest of the day are buns and coffees/teas.
we have 3/4 warm big meal per day, lol.

I do separate the trash accordingly but i dont understand the important in getting a new bio-decomposer bucket.
maybe because I dont do the deposition of bio-waste, so I dont have the idea of it how full is the bio-decomposer bucket.

they start eating without need to wait for all the foods to arrive to the table.
we usually wait for all the foods to arrive to the table and then start to eat together or at the same time. Unless, one feels terribly hungry then one excuses oneself to go on with one's food.

when their food arrives to the table, they dont ask if anyone wants to taste it before they start to eat.
we do and we would be happy if people would taste it. we really dont mind.

they dont share a small piece of their food for other people to taste.
generously, we would share or give a small portion for others to taste.

they dont have interest rates for personal banking?
oohh, ok now I know!

their taxation is quite complicated?
one needs to pay tax if you happen to own some big amount of money and etc etc.

spring with snows
aha...

despite i felt terrible yesterday, i had a good day as well. after sending A off, I caught up with the polish women and we walked to the center. we always have to stop in the middle of the pedestrian path as we were in a mission trying to explain and figure it out in Finnish. So i figured out that ´aasi´ is donkey. Then we continued to walk until the junction where B departed to train station where as me and C went to job center. After I settled my business, I waited with her for her turn and ended up that I followed her to meet the job officer, thinking that I could help her to translate her problem to the officer in english but I would have problem in translating back to her, lol!

Since I knew that Im going to miss my bus and she wanted to know where is the farmacist, without second thought I told her that I will show her where is the farmacist. You know sound effect helps alot too when in a situation where any language is not usable, lol! I really felt that I like to do this kind of helping.

At the farmacist, she told me that she needed some vitamin for hair growth. I was a bit unsure because I didnt know if such thing exists as I have never heard before. I went to the salesgirl and asked...

me: do you speak english?
sg: yes. little bit.
me: ok. do you have vitamin for hair growth?

she ushered us to the right shelf. Aha, she did understood me and they did have such product. After she got that, we walked to the bus station. But before that she remembered that she needs to get some bread. I brought her to the nearest grocery store as her bus was coming in 15 minutes time.

then we waited at the bus stop, at the same platform and sent her off.

I had a dream at night which i couldnt remember but I got alert, feeling very afraid for a moment before i fall back to sleep. I woke up at 7 in the morning, checking the weather condition outside from the window. It was snowing lightly. I dont know what is it call but it was dry-snowing which I liked.

Settled down myself in the bus to the town, I felt terrible. The tiredness irritated me and soon the usual pondering questions enveloped me, ´why am I doing this?´, ´why do I feel this way?´ In the class, I felt more terrible as I couldnt do this anymore and I wanted to request for leave. But I felt much better after the first 15 minutes.

I have felt like this since 3 weeks ago. Im feeling lack of motivation, tired, exhaustion with many things especially languages, perhaps some emotional stress too and some relief after some tough months that I had earlier.

I won something accidentally...

There was a fishing competition at the nearby lake. We went for a look and it was the time where the participants weighed their fishes that they got. Not many participants and so there were 2 gifts left even the non-winning participants got something back home. Since everyone had gotten something, the organizer had a draw. We were asked to put our name in the draw as well. Then, the organizer honoured me to draw a number. I took one number from the container and it turned out to be me. haha, I was the winner! I got a mocca coffee pack and a free hair cut card. And he got a bar of chocolate. Too big prize for us, we were just outsider.

2 months ago, they kept saying that spring is coming.

they said spring is the time where the flowers are blooming, sunshine and greenish.

its the month of April and i thought spring is still coming soon. i got a shop brochure and noticed the word ´summer´. in the brochure, they are advertisement on selling summer umbrella, chairs and tables. I was confused. then i started to count the months with my fingers. We are in april now, 2 more months summer is here. for heaven sake, we are in spring now, lol! but is it spring? there are still some snow and the temperature is around -5C to +5C. And its possible that it might be snowing even in summer, thats what I have heard!

its my first spring, no doubt!