Thanks for the invitation. Sorry I'm not cool enough to hang out with the cool people. Sorry I'm not worthy of a hand shake or a good night hug or eye contact. Sorry I'm not even worthy to be in a photo. Sorry it's been raining for 2 days straight and I'm aching allover. Sorry I'm not even myself.
To Chinese, the Moon Festival is like Christmas to the western culture. It's the time of year when family reunion happens. However, my family isn't fuzzy about that sort of stuff, so we did the "celebration" tonight instead of last night. And by "celebration", it's just eating out with my brother and his wife and 2 girls. See? My parents are super boring people who raise lame kids. Yes, I'm the lame kid. (T_T) Yeah, yeah, I'm no longer even a kid ages ago. But that's when you build the base for the rest of your life.
There was no cloud tonight so I tried another moon photo. It's definitely better than yesterday, but still not very good. The camera only gave me 6 pictures before the battery died. But 2 good ones out of 6, is way better than yesterday's 2 out of 22.
Wow, before you know it, it's mid fall! Moon Festival is also known as Mid-autumn Festival (and Lantern Festival). There probably are celebrations around town, especially Chinatown and Richmond, but naaaah, I needed to go to the gym.
Tried to take pictures of the full moon, but didn't work out. These 2 are the best out of 22 photos. Most of them are blurred, and can't even see the outline of the moon like the one on the right. (Well, OK there were some clouds too, but if I can see the shape of the moon with my own eyes, the camera should be able to capture it too.) I tried almost all settings. Night landscape doesn't really work. Surprisingly museum mode works best. Weird.
Curiosity kills the cat... and me. Broke the Pinky right before shooting the photo above. (T_T) The waist kind of wiggled so I just pulled. The joint looks like ordinary waist joint too. However! No other peg can fit into the trunk hole, and the raised rim around the hip peg prevents anything from going down. (T_T) Looks like they were held together with paint only. No glue. Blue tag was the emergency fix for the photo shoot. I'll have to insert a wire for the real repair...
A gift from my Japanese friend Sora in... May? Thanks Sora~! (^_^)
The sun flower is made of polymer clay (Femo, Sculpey etc). The rest, paper. But not fragile at all. They must have gone through some kind of process.
Oh my god... Yesterday was still summer, today is late fall. It didn't rain, but my neck still hurts. (T_T)
These are actually from a tree. Sorry I don't know much about plants. And all these flower photos were actually taken in spring. Totally forgotten to upload them.
(Left) Palm melon. Prickly. Still young.
The backyard tomatoes are starting to come in. Last year we had cherry tomatoes. This year, strawberry tomatoes. They're sweeter. And then the same old yellow ones too.
It's not even Halloween yet, but Michael's got Chirstmas merchandise on their shelves already. Oops... this Michael's has nothing to do with Mike in the photo.
Haven't had my fix for 3 weeks because my chiropractor had been on holiday. Oh dear... that was tough. (T_T)
005 (left) and 010 (right).
Calbee Honey BBQ Chicken Wing Potato Chips. 55g, 3 for $3.59
Since it's 3 for $3.59, what did I get for the third bag? Seaweed flavour (also Calbee). It's the one that satisfies my salt craving best. Because I've written a review on my junk food site before, I'm gonna skip it here.
Oh~ dear, the salt craving started. (I... go into salt cravings periodically, sigh...) Perhaps I'm just taking advantage of it and turning it into a chips craving. Eating salt alone helps a little bit, but chips works best.
As soon as I opened the bag, the strong vinegar smell of gyoza dip bursted out. OK, so it's all about the dip. Yes, it tastes like gyoza dip too. Salty and sour. About 1/3 through the bag, the hot-and-spicy side showed up. My mouth was burning slightly, but it was well withing tolerance. They've done a good job recreating the taste.
MC
