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Showing posts with label dailystuff. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Real Snow

10 Feb 2011, 7.12am

I was woken up by some noise akin to workers shoveling sand in a construction site. Today's the eighth day of the lunar new year, and the sky was still dark, what could it be?

I drew the curtains and peeked out of the window...

Weee!!!! It's white, the whole city has turned white. It had finally snowed last night! We have waited all winter for snow, but none fell till today. I couldn't contain my excitement and SMS-ed Vincent who's in Singapore right away...


Snow on the windowsill..

Look and feel... hmm.... it's like ice kachang!! ^^

Looking out from the window, five men were working hard to clear the snow from the walking path before the residents start their day. I was impressed with the condo management's efforts to clear the snow from the pathway....

Someone has gotten up earlier than me to express her love for her idols, Wu Zun (吴尊 - cute guy from Farenheit) and Zhang Yi Shan (张一山- i've never heard of this guy). ;)

Following Yi's advice, "今天很美,赶快穿美美照相留念哟!" I charged my camera and dashed downstairs for some photos.

In the garden, kids would first collect snow in their arms, announce in
a loud voice "下雪了!" (translate: It's snowing!), and scatter them onto the floor.

The older girls were competing to see who could
throw snow higher in the "下雪了!" game...
The youngest child followed suit and squealed with delight 
when the older ones scattered snow onto her.

 The girl in pink theorized that the tree must be covered with snow,
so everyone helped to put snow onto the lower part of the tree.

A quiet moment - the girls found sticks and tried to draw in the snow.

Perfect snowflakes! (^___^) b
 
"今天很美,赶快穿美美照相留念哟!" ~ Yi

Yahoo Weather and BBC Weather were both right about today's snow. So, we shall be expecting snow in Beijing again on Sunday morning. ^^

Monday, May 17, 2010

Commoner's market

I was admiring the lovely white and lilac-coloured wild flowers outside the market entrance when I noticed the slogan "此大便者戒" (direct translation: people who poop here, stop doing that) painted in red on the fence. *faint*rolls eyes* hahahaha...

Vincent was unwilling to take the photo for me at first, but I sat there and refused to move till he did. After he took the shot, he gave me a sneaky smile (hokkien: arm-cheo) and said the shot was perfect because my fingers were pointing exactly to the slogans. LOL... XDDDDD.....

















Saturday (15/5) was the first time I went to check out a commoner's market. The market was extremely clean, cleaner than Singapore's dry market. Vegetables there were fresher and cheaper than the supermarket too. Haiz... silly me, I had been buying unfresh and uncheap vegetables from the supermarket for the past month... ><