Dawn Rising Sun

There are four days off during Thanksgiving, from Thursday to Sunday, this is the happiest and longest holidays for American, the same for every year, I feel that I spent these four days fullness with SL, we did a lot of things and relaxed for our holidays. Shopping, resting, cinemaing, playing and my baking, I did four baking during these four days, average once a day, mushroom tart, lemon pudding, danish butter cookies, and bread, I like baking more and more, especially when I see SL keeps eating :p it is fun and happy time for me. After we purchase my Artisan stand mixer, we didn't buy a bread from supermarket until now because I baked them myself, though they weren't as good as what we got outside, I still think that I can be improved. Last night, SL and I had dinner at a French restaurant and that was the first time we ate bread at outside, French bread was so wonderful, I just felt that my bread still needs a lot of improvement to catch up with what we got from outside. T...

After we did all our shopping, SL and I just dropped by to Washington Square as we got information from online that Apple Store would offer some special deal on Black Friday morning. Since I am thinking to have an e-reader and ipad is in my choice, then why not we just take a peak ^_* Then we found that would be $41 discount on ipad product, it was attractive enough and finally I decided to get the ipad upon Kindle DX. To double confirm, we enquired the salegirl if iBookstore got application support in Malaysia, I think there is not much Apple staffs dealed with international customers, or international customers never care how Apple provides their service, the salegirl didn't really clear with their application. However, she is pretty helpful and asked around with colleagues and searched for information from "Apple dictionary", then she told us that we can get iBook application in Malaysia but maybe with different content as US version, but we definitely can get support....

November 25th of this year is Thanksgiving of US, usually many shops in US will launch for great sale on the day after Thanksgiving. However, it is a little bit different this year because many shops started their event earlier, Walmart broke their record and opened on 12:00am of Black Friday, their slogan for this year is shop when you are waiting, and some stores in Woodburn started open at 8pm of Thanksgiving night, then create midnight shopping madness in US. Yes! I think this is my craziest shopping experience in my life so far, we started our shopping spree at 9pm until 8am of the next day, a fully sleepless night and stopped at a lot of shopping points, I can't imagine that SL and I can really make it. After having dinner, SL and I prepared to go out for our shopping at around 8pm of Thanksgiving day, I wore a lot this day because I know that I need to spend the whole night at outside and it would be quite cold to me. Our first stop is Woodburn department store, there is a c...

I like reading, therefore I am thinking to own an e-reader, SL loves me so much and he allows me to have one by his expenses :) However, problem comes now because of too much choices of e-reader in market, which make me headache on which one I like most and want to own, Nook from Barnes and Noble, Sony Reader, amazon kindle and even Border has their own kobo as well, whatever until pandigital and so on so forth, they made my eyes keep blinking and my mind keeps changing from one to another one. After that, I also found out that ipad from Apple can also be used as a reader as well, what an attractive deal. For me, I prefer to have a book size reader, I don't like it too small which will hurt my eyes, then finally my mind narrow down to Kindle DX and ipad, then I couldn't make any decision to either of them. Then I did a lot of survey between this two e-reader. To be frank, Kindle DX is more user freindly for international wise, because its bookstore support a lot of purchasing f...

Today is Thanksgiving Day, this is a day to celebrate the fruitful year and give thanks on all blessing to us, people used to celebrate their fruitful harvesting on this day in old time. Well, there are more occopations nowaday, not only who involves in plantation will celebrate today. Since we are in US currently, therefore SL and I decided to have small feast for ourselves to mark this special day. We woke up in the early morning today about 4am, just for get a chance to buy Oregonian newspaper which we missed it last night, luckily we got it just at the vendor machine outside of our apartment, which is really thick and have the full version of big sale information on Black Friday, Black Friday is the craziest shopping day of the year, which mark the starting of holiday season and traffic will jam at many major route of the city. Of course I want to join the madness party, which is once in a lifetime for me, so that I can get my eyes opened :P After we got our newspaper, SL drove me ...

The day after snowed two days ago, temperature dropped immediatedly to below 0 degree celcius for whole days, it was freezing and nearly announced to arrival of winter, weather forecast said the Thanksgiving eve is most likely a Christmas eve, yes it too cold for the end of autumn. When I walked to our car from office last night, my face was left uncovered and cold breeze to my weak nose, now I just know that my nose is the weakest point of my body which creates a lot of problem. Immediately I caught a cold until today. Well, this is not my first winter, I did experienced twice in the UK and once last year in US, but I never fell to sick during winter. Am I become weaker? or older now? Winter still hasn't started, but I got the flu already, even on the day before Thanksgiving, this is not fun at all :( When people getting older, we need to take more care on ourselves, now I start to wear thinker to protect myself from cold weather, this is a must, you know? Actually, it is really i...

Winter is coming so soon this year, the first snow dropped at Hillsboro is 22nd of November, perhaps it is not so special to American, but it is special to me who is coming from tropical country. It was only 1 snow day in last year, but it was big enough to let SL and I enjoy to walk among the white world, which covered the whole Orenco neighborhood. Unlikely last year, the first snow is too light and stop in short moment, I just couldn't have longer time to catch it, then it stopped now, therefore I wish for second batch of snow. SL told me that our area is close to beach, therefore hard to have frequent snow, it is a little dissapointed me, snowing is just like a fairy tale to us, that I wish to experience as much as possible. When I was in the UK, I also saw some snow, once with my friends, another one alone and the last one with my mother and sister. When it was snowed in Birmingham that year, I could tell happiness from my mother's and sister's faces, it was their firs...

我有两个妹妹，一个很会画，一个很会唱，她们的程度都是到了professional的阶段了，现在只剩下我一个，什么专长都没有，现在回头想想，当初自己那么努力读书是为了什么意义呢？ 从小开始，我那两个妹妹各怀着自己的梦想，一个想当画家而另一个相当歌手，她们俩都非常的努力朝着那个梦奔跑，虽然成绩不算太好，但是他们在自己的领域上算是卓越超群的。至少，想当歌手的还真的是有人找她去唱歌，想当画家的也是有人找她开画展。 而我呢？成天都在电脑前，看图、看waveform，连眼睛看盲了也不晓得，想想如果真的是盲了，还会有人珍惜你存在的价值吗？在想当年，我的梦想是什么？我真正想做的又是什么？现在的我与当初的梦好像离得越来越远，每天的工作模式，让我根本就没能去想那个遥远的梦。 好小好小的时候，总觉得我那两个妹妹的梦想太过天真了，会唱歌、绘画画的人那么多？像那么平凡得我们怎么可能成为群星笼罩的明月呢？再多也只不过是群星中的一颗星罢了，为什么要去想那么遥不可及的成就呢？ 可是他们真的努力过，非常的努力往一个方向狂奔而去，她们现在在我的眼里算成功了，如果我也能像他们这样，我已经很开心了，毕竟他们现在的专长是得到了很多人的认同，连我也不能否认他们的技巧真的是能够与professional相比较的。 当初的我是否不应该放弃？现在的我也不能后悔吧？毕竟路是自己选的，只有继续走了，走走看看吧。 只是，我的妹妹让我觉得，有梦想就应该去追求，勇于追求的人必定会得到回报的，因为你的毅力已经带你跑了一半的路程了，接下来的另一半就让你的努力、天分与运气来完成了。 有时候，前途也是一场赌局，愿意放手一搏的未必会输得一无所有，也许需要一段被讥笑的时间，但是不代表你最后无法成为大赢家。而不敢下赌注的往往就只能将他想的带到梦里。

I recieved a post card this evening, it is from my youngest sister in Costa Rica, I felt kind of touched to see her post card, she is good there and happy with her husband, I am happy to see that. It is about half year that I didn't see Phoebe, her postcard brought me a lot of emotion, I really wish that she will be happy in Costa Rica. She is a brave girl, who willing to give up everything that she had, for pursueing her true love, true love always like a fairy tale to me, you will live happy ever ending when you finally find it. However, nobody can tell if that is really true love until the end of life, only time can tell. Always, I tell SL that marriage is a gambling, you put all your youth to it but you can never know if it really can last forever until the end of your day. Phoebe's gamble even more, she not only put her youth, but her hometown, her friends, her fame, her career, her language, she really needs to start everything from zero in Costa Rica. If I was she, I don...

Sooner and sooner, it's about a month to Thanksgiving and of course everyone long waiting for Black Friday sale. Honestly, I am in Thanksgiving sick now, I wish to buy a Kitchenaid stand mixer for very long time and this wish becomes stronger recently, I can't wait and hope tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so that I can own it soon. Lately, there is an offer from Kithchenaid, that we could get a rebate on attachement when a more than 5 quart stand mixer purchase and most dealers provide $30 off on purchase as well, but this offer ends on November 6th, three weeks before Thanksgiving, that I am even sick on making decision wheter to purchase my top wish item immediately or waiting still to Black Friday sale. Sigh... this is human, when we have something good in front of us, we would wish for something even better, greedy human. I keep thinking if I can get a even better offer on Black Friday? If not, then I missed a chance to get a good deal now. Should I buy the stand mixer now? Or sh...