It must be the wettest day in recent memory.  The rain just never stops.  Gardening is out of question.  Instead I have radio 4 on and compiled some files on computer.  I would really like to have my hair done in Swaffin instead of thursday if Richard didn't ask me to mind his phone and internet bookings.  I also fed puppies with more milk and venison; the smallest one couldn't manage the venison.  She couldn't swallow it like others, but she drank the milk on her own, she was so eager for the milk that she even dipped her front paws in it.  Elsa waited underneath hoping for some scraps of venison although she already had chuncks.  I would hand her puppies with milky chin and paws and she would lick them clean.  I then gave the puppies another round of kisses before placing them back to sleep.  I think kisses have positive calming effect on puppies.  When they get kisses, their eyes are half close and soon after go into sleep happily!

 

These little cuddly ones are my daily amusement.  Very decadent not to spend my time on more meaningful project like saving the planet or other noble courses.  I told myself after all if wasting one's life makes one feel so good; it must be the justifiable reason!  :-)

 

Last night we watched Thomas Crown Affair on DVD.  Richard fell asleep almost instantly when the film started.  He made a log fire and felt so cosy that he slept on until the huge splash on film woke him up.  It was the part when Thomas Crown sunk his  $100K race boat for the splash. 

 

Thank God for that.  I would not want to watch the film on my own! Richard also loved adventure and thrills and was drawn back to the story line.  I loved the film that is why I bought the DVD as well.  It is beautifully made with clever dialogues and breathtakingly sexy seduction love scenes.  Rene was in her 50 when she played the glamourous insurance investigator, however she appeared so lucious, sexy and beautiful.  It is one of the rarest film which upholds class, character and sophistication above youth and beauty alone.

 

The feel good factor; the can do attitude, good looks and great life style, who can possibly resist all these?  the formula of  the American film is fool proof way to secure audience and ticket sale.  Weeping Korean films i simply don't want to watch, however artistic it might be,  

 

I mustn't forget another simple and unselfish thing i did for Richard.  I got up at 2.30am to switch on the bread machine in order he would wake up to the aroma of freshly bake bread!  Well I don't have to get up at half two in the morning if I remembered to take the bread machine manual with me when I removed the machine from home.  For there is timer with the machine, i could simply follow the instruction and the machine would switch on by itself at the set time.  Last night before going to bed, i measured the ingredients and set the timer according to my shaky memory and stupidly pressed 'On' button, which started the machine prematurely.   I didn't want to switch off the machine and waited the period required for the machine to forget the command wrongly given by me.  So I switched it off and decided to get up whenever i woke up during the night.  Well Richard went to loo at 2.30, so i got up as well to switch on the bread machine. 

 

I woke up again at 6.15 to let Jeff and Elsa in the garden.   The kitchen was filled with lovely aroma of the home baking.  The bread was 9 minutes nearly baked!  I gave Elsa some food with venison gravy for she needed extra for her puppies. Jeff went to our bedroom and refused to leave and later jumped on the bed to sleep in between.  Elsa came after she finished her food but she behaved herself by sleeping on the floor instead of on the bed like she sometimes did.    

 

Richard got up at 7ish and I had my 'lie in' until nearly 9am.  I could never get up as late as this in the city.  The noises of traffic and people would have driven me up.  I was surprised to see he managed to take the bread out of bread machine without breaking it and he had sliced the bread neatly.  Richard after all was not as clumsy as I feared, he could do lot of things unexpectedly well.  He told me he enjoyed the bread very much!  Perhaps he would like the bread even more if I buy a proper scale to measure out the ingredients precisely.  Then the bread will rise higher and have a even better texture.

 

If tomorrow is sunny, I would like to go to Cambridge or London for a change of this domestic life! 

 My younger brother finally found the girl he is prepared to marry.  All our family is overjoyed.

Before when i urged him to take action, he would always say well, i don't want to jump the queque.  Of course i knew it was one of his excuses and toss the issue back to me, implying the fact that i shouldnt throw stone at him while i was in the same glass house of in-action !

I am more impatient than  them to get them married and dream about being an aunt at long last!  The advice i gave my mum is to treat  the future daughter in law better than her own daughter and love her as if she were her own!  Of course she must not forget about me all together!

Best Easter news so far.  I love 2008!

  Just to remind lovely ladies here that today is a very special day.  You are allowed to propose to the man of your dream!  Have u got a boyfriend who is too shy to ask you?  Instead of waiting forever you are allowed to take the initiatives and propose to him instead. Tonite girls in high street will dress to kill and behave a bit outrageously.  If you are new to Western culture and customs, you may puzzle and miss all the merry-go-around.

Read the following articles and enjoy the day!

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3453077.ece

 The table just sold at bonhams hk auction  for 70,000 hk dollars today.  i got a pair of them at the bottom of the built in wardrobe in my bedroom!  One of them occassionally brought out when i used laptop in bed.  When i first got them in 2001, used it more often but fearing the heat generated by the computer might damage them, i rarely use them nowadays. 

Wise British, Cocky American and indifferent Chinese

At the aftermath of tragic shootings in Virginia, the wise British contributed the cause of tragedy to the gun culture of the American society.  They listed all the relevant statistics to make comparison of the victims of gun crimes across countries.  Surely, they argued, tougher restrictions, such as those in force in European countries, could at least reduce the number of gun victims?

The Americans proudly defended their right of owing guns as the right of free speech.  At the news conference, one official even said if only some of the victims also possessed a gun, then they might well be able to defend themselves.  Presumably students should take fire power to classroom just in case there is a shooting match?  They do have a point for who in their right would trust one of those well-fed, pot-belly, tip-toed walking policemen who are armed to teeth but only arrived when everyone had died!

And the Chinese congratulated themselves that the gunman, after all was not Chinese, as was previously feared.  The whole thing now has nothing to do with them.  But just lie low, in case be mistaken as Koreans and got blamed!