Back dating #1

super long never update my blog! 3 weeks already! this shall be a super long entry... dates back to 6 Oct...

Fri 6 Oct 06
Mooncake Festival in foreign land... went to buy mooncakes for colleagues and told them wat the festival was about... they liked the mooncake paste.. but not so much the egg yolk... haha... i guess it's the same idea as when they cannot get used to the smell of durian... tat night YM was working night shift... so we brought mooncake and chicken wings to workplace to spend mooncake festival with him... but it was too cold outside... so din go outside to admire the moon... haha..

late in the night... we decided to drive out to some place nice.. like the beach or some lake.. where we could capture some nice shots of the moon and its reflection off the water... but gave up after driving for a while.. cos can't seem to find anywhere and i think the moon is too far off... so we will just be taking nothing more than just 1 bright circle...

10pm at Lonza...

View from my window... full moon! not too bad shot eh? haha...

Sat 7 Oct 06
we went apply picking at Applecrest in Exeter... it has a big apple orchard... a corn field... a pumpkin field.... a market place tat sells the produce.. and a mini enclosure with farm animals...

Pumpkins of all shapes and sizes...

Cute shot taken in the pumpkin field... 10 sec countdown started when everyone was in position... then JUMP!!

Then we took the cart or watever u call it... to the apple orchard and that's where the action begins...

After the briefing on how to pick apples and to keep away from poison ivy... we set of on our hunt of the tastiest apples... diff trees were marked with ribbons of diff colours.... we tried apples from each kinda tree to gather info on which is the sweetest... crunchiest... then we went back to the same tree and pluck it bald... haha...

Apples!! on trees!!

Apples sampling in progress...

Under the apple tree...

Family of pumpkins... hahaha...

We managed to squeeze quite a lot of apples into the given bag... plus filling our own bags too... hahah.... $20 very worth it.. hahaha... and we managed to 'kop' a small pumpkin from the field beside the apple orchard... at the end of the day... after giving lots to other pple... we still have... after a final count.... a battalion of 77 apples and 1 pumpkin... haha.. so effectively we picked more than 100 apples altogether...

the following week... pple started bringing apple pies and stuff to work... i made 2 apple cakes... 1 was burnt! wasn't at home in time to save it... haha... my bad... the other was ok... though still slanted... haha.. my conclusion was... either too much baking soda such tat there's too much gas evolved tat caused it to over-bubble... or fill the mould too full such tat it overflow... as of now... still quite a bit of apples left in our house... at least 20 i would say...

here's our little pumpkin all drawn up for Halloween by YM... hahaha... silly looking...

-jiahua

About last week...

Last week was quite a busy week for me.. many of the TAP pple are falling sick.. WL fell sick too and was out of office for 2 days... so i was pretty much on my own.. which i would say.. was pretty nice.. haha... not tat i hope tat she is sick.. but when she isn't around... i have to do all the work.. and tat pretty much took up most of my time.. which is good.. compared to when work was shared btw the 2 of us.. we often have nothing much to do... while she's away.. i managed to finish my study... so now there's only the results analysis part...

on fri.. our house went to downtown Portsmouth for dinner.. cos YM and Lau not working.. so the whole family could have dinner together... we went to Muddy River Smokehouse... and we ordered 2 Squealers.... and by tat we mean 2 big (and i really mean BIG... it's like 2 trays filled with food) plates topped with mashed potatoes... loads of baked beans... big slab of ribs... big pile shredded pork.... and half a chicken... and as u know ribs are pretty hard to eat glamly... i agree with wat was written on the waitress's t-shirts.. 'eat like a pig'... supposedly if u can finish this whole plate of food urself within 1 hour... u get some prize... but i don know wat la... seems like no one has come close to that yet... a walk in the cold after tat to get our car was pretty refreshing but nonetheless bbrrrr...

on sat... we went to Boston again... they have frens there in MIT so we went to MIT and they showed us around... campus was pretty nice.. with those oldish looking building... looks exactly like those college scenes we see on tv... with a mixture of modern too..

after that we went to have lunch at some dim sum place... food's not too bad.. don know is it cos very long never had such food... or is it cos we were super hungry for eating at 2+... haha.. after lunch went to do the usual grocery shopping... and loaded our car with lots of stuff...

On our way to Boston... poor me... squashed by giants...

Home of the Boston Red Sox...

Artistic shot of WY... hahaha...

Super 'action' shot...

pretty boring week... spent half of sunday nuahing at home and waiting for things to happen... din go to the supposed Deerfield fair... weather was bad... ended up left house for Best Buy and Barnes and Nobles to walk walk... but was good to go out for a while.. too bored at home... can't stand it... to think some ah cek actually wanna stay home for Thanksgiving's 4 days of holiday lor... cannot stand it...

-jiahua