Lindt Orange

Christmas gift 2010 from L. Thanks! It's the gold paper wrap variety (as to the black-and-white cardboard one), and one of the most delicious chocolate I've ever had.

The chocolate itself is Lindt quality. Cocoa and milk are well balanced and of course without the north American aftertaste. Inside the chocolate shell is a soft orangie filling, slightly tart, with bits of orange peel. It's a killer combination and extremely addictive. I ate half the bar in the first sitting. OK, I was hungry too.

Kitchen drawer

Finally got fed up with the cutlery drawer and did a total cleanup. It's unbelievable what's been sitting there, and how dirty it is! Straws from fast food joints, take-out plastic cutlery and disposable wooden chopsticks (may have been used), and a large amount of mystery tiny plastic spoons! (I suspect those were from fertilizer or something like that.) Also lots of plastic chopsticks. On top of all that, a bunch of metal sticks wrapped up in paper napkins... dad's homemade crab-eating tools! I'm 200% sure those metal sticks were once part of something else. There were a few bottle caps and a couple of metal wires... sigh... (T_T) That drawer, I'm sure hasn't been touched since the day we moved in 21 years ago.

Finally cleaned up some e-mail too.

Glasses

Cousin K and H brought dad a bunch of glasses. Cousin-in-law K might have bought them since she was trying to force her own pair on him last time. (Sorry it sounds nasty, but he will for sure loose or destroy those nice ones.) So, these are from dollar stores in the States. Pretty amazing what a buck can get. (A buck each, not all.)

Picture taken on July 25th. Someone forgot to turn off the "open" sign.

Airport

Cousin K and H pulled it off. They had slightly below 4 hours between flights, and met up with me (and mom) for a quick lunch. But the main objective was for cousin K to hand me the clothes. Their arrival flight was 15 minutes early at 10, but cousin H had some trouble with her luggage. The staff reported it missing but was soon found on the carrousel. No harm done, just a lot of running around for about 20 minutes.

By the time I picked them up, it was 11:30. Their next flight was 1:50 with 1:10 boarding. Cousin H recommended a dim sum place she went to last time. We quickly ordered and ate up fast. An hour passed by so fast, we didn't do anything else besides eating lunch. They were dropped off at 12:50, should be OK, but you never know how long the security lineup is. It was China airline to Beijing. Large plane with lots of passengers. Hope they made it.

Did some grocery shopping and then went home. Of course I kept dosing off at the desk. Didn't accomplish much besides cleaning up blog entries...

Sleep...

... or the lack there of. Finally got to make use of the morning sun. The price is big, very big...

Eat-out day with brother's gang. Went to see dad first. This was the first time I saw him in his new room. Once we opened the door, we saw the floor full of his spit. Dad himself was sitting on the toilet with no shirt. Pants only. Mom keeps cleaning up after him even though it's the job of the staff.

J and her daughter joined us for dinner as niece N went to her daughter's birthday party. We went to a new Taiwanese restaurant for dinner. The food was good. A bit strong in flavour, though.

Thought I'd be super sleepy, but nooo. I'm not. Not good, not good...

Kitkat Little Mango

Dated February 2009... newer than the last 9 but still "yikes"! I also remember this one well... in a bad way. Fist, the "Little" series is chopped up Kitkat core in fingertip size, and then coated in some sort of flavoured coloured chocolate. This mango flavour tasted fake and very waxy. Chopping up Kitkat destroys the crunchy texture and leaves you unsatisfied. Don't think Kitkat fans would like this.

This should wrap up the "dug-up" series... as long as I don't find any more buried pictures.

Cake

Cousin K called to remind me about Monday. She's got some hand-me-down clothes to give me. Together with cousin H, they will be stopping by between flights. 4 hours sounds plenty, but I think it will be a stunt to pull off. With baggage claim, re-check-in and security, I think we'll only have an-hour-and-a-half the most. We'll see.

Mom's been jailed to the sewing machine as usual, thanks to dad. It's gonna take her a few days to mend yesterday's destruction.

Thanks T for bringing the stuff form cousin D, and the cakes.

Shot some more photos but still missed some. OTL

Finally wrote to Y. Yay~!

Sorry, A, for being grumpy yesterday...