買魚 Best fishes in Edinburgh

Eddie's Seafood Market 強記 - An amazing miniature market, hidden in Marchmont, operated by a Hong Kong family from Aberdeen (the one in HK), since 1986, and with long queues outside their shop everyday!

This is my parents' favourite shop in Edinburgh :P

Maoshan - ms. nutritionist says you should at least eat fishes twice a week ;)

They have an overwhelming variety of seafood - mussels, exotic live big lobsters in the tank, crab, cod, salmon, scallops, haddocks, tuna, swordfishes, yellow trevally... all looking very very fresh and cut to size. Some people complain about the staff's influent English, but no worries for us, and in the end they are just really friendly and wonderful and typical HK people lol.

I especially love their adorable website. One page has a picture that says "What a variety.. can you name them? Come and visit... Bring the kids!" Don't you think it's sweet? One more word on their website, it has no opening hours and map... but it's so sweet and adorable, their not-the-best English + cute captions + pictures and even a page on their employees, totally show their genuineness!

A content spirit

Again, green tea over Chinese education and politics, cities, Naoshima Zen, nutrition, yoga, French movies, literature.......

This looks like something that would appear in a British girls school's brochure, one that a lot of Chinese secondary school girls flips with admiration and hope. Typically in those pictures, girls sit casually on the carpet of the common room, but wears relatively elegant clothes, or their very English uniforms.

Anyways, last night was amazing, went there at 6 pm, and chatted till well after midnight.

In the age of cities and cybercities, not only connecting within ourselves, or the nature has became rarer, but also a real connection between people, something I am learning more and more to cherish everyday.

I'm a person with so many imperfections, but countless wonderful tiny things in life blessed me with a very full and content mind and spirit. : )

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Almost everyone who visits London would go to the British Museum, but many might not know how to appreciate the objects inside.... hmm... especially those pieces of rock, (which showed clear evidence of human beings in certain area...) or mummies.... etc.

A History of the World in 100 Objects is a programme that I am so fascinated by recently, like all other BBC programmes, the script was so well-written (by the director of British Museum and many other related contributers), bringing us back to 2,000,000 - 8000 BC, looking at objects that shaped us into the human beings today.

The coming week will be "After the Ice Age: Food and Sex" - objects that gives us clue to why farming began after ice age.

A glimpse of the coming weeks, very exciting:

The First Cities & States (3500–2000 BC)

What happens as people move from villages to cities? Five objects tell the story.

The beginning of science and literature (2000–1200BC)

4000 years ago, societies began to express themselves through myth, maths and monuments. 4000 years ago societies were becoming more sophisticated. Amongst this week’s objects are the earliest examples of literature and science.

Old World, New Powers (1200–600BC)

Across the world new regimes create objects to assert their supremacy.

The World In The Age Of Confucius (500–400 BC)

2500 years ago thinkers such as Confucius and Plato were exploring how people should live, but can objects like the Parthenon sculptures or a golden chariot tell us more?

A museum, is no-doubt a walk-in storybook.

Frankly, I often feel that I receive more of my education from the BBC iPlayer than school. :) Share the joy!

Dancebase and Edinburgh's Sky

Have been in contact with a lot of my friends through e-mail these days, decided to bring this back to my blog too : ) So here, include some older emails:

Dancebase, where I go for yoga and dancing is my favourite building in edinburgh, how ironic, in such a historical city, my favourite building is a modern one, but i also thought of why they have such a budget to purposefully build one of this building for dancing classes for the city, there's a baby class now, i can hera their music, super cute lol.

I just went to the 8 am yoga, look at the sky colour, before and after. it's freeezing lor, and I miss yoga in HK, ging ging ging ging ging!

8am

9am

The baby class has reli cute music!

Every studio in dance base was designed for a different type of dance, the prettiest one has glass ceiling with the edinburgh castle above, very sucessful in such a sloped and tight site .................

cloudy sky again hark !

Magpie

I always wonder why there is this assumption of making cakes for men/boyfriend = sweet. I wonder if men even like cakes that much at all? Or is it cuz modern girls realize that cooking a (good) proper meal is too difficult, and therefore started making cakes to disguise herself as a great potential housewife?

There are always girl-friends who invite me to cafes to have a piece of cake or worse, suggest "Let's bake together!"
It's not that I dislike cakes or baking, but frankly speaking, since Aries closed down, there aren't any cakes in Hong Kong that I like anymore. (Apart from Sweet Secrets and their ability to make very pretty and special cakes) And if you have ever made your own cakes, you know how much sugar, butter and cheese is required to make that tiny piece of cake, in that light, I think we shouldn't have cakes unless they are extremely amazing, since HK no longer have any amazing cakes, therefore my usual excuse these days = I don't eat cakes anymore.

HOWEVER! Last weekend, I have this urge to "create" a cake. On our walk last week, we saw a magpie, quite a common bird in Hong Kong and other places as well. They have a very distinct IRON BLUE coloured feather, and look extremely beautiful. I also love the name magpie.
Mag-pie magpie, sounds very much like a pie.
Then I have this idea of making a tiny cake/pie, palm size, similar to a marble cheesecake, but in the colour of blue and white, just like a magpie. Then I will name the pie - Magpie!

Today is my mom's birthday : ) I remember the days when we were in Canada, she prepares great birthday party for me..
Now I know who would like cakes! I will probably make one for my kids in the future, on their birthday. Perfect!

Let me know next time u spot a magpie ;)

Rainbow

今天早上，窗外有彩虹。

想起La riviere a l'envers . hannah中的情節

At Last

This morning, two Santa Fe trucks parked downstairs, moving many boxes of toys and red wine away, each box was labelled with "Sea Shipment - Hong Kong/Germany" The lift stopped at 22/F for a long time, I was really excited wondering if it's the family above us moving away, we were so eager to know - we asked the moving company ppl whether it's 22A moving, unfortunately, they said it's 22B.

The flat above us has taught me it's important to buy a flat below the "refuge floor" so you won't get bombarded by noise 24/7. With two very young kids in their flat, there's constant knocking, tapping and jumping sound from the ceiling starting from 5 am everyday! I was so devastated during the time when i had to write theory essay at home - once I went up to complain at 6:30 am, their flat was filled with coffee fragrant and sausages/cereals everywhere, plus huge antiques/statues...... they claimed that "IT'S NOT US" - so it's some ghost or something?

When I was a kid, the flat below complained about me as well - cuz I always jump from the sofa to pretend I was diving.

Both me and mom were really disappointed that it's 22B, but it's German, and it's 22/F, so I insisted going back into the lift to see if it's really 22B! Luckily we went back to see!!! It's acutally 22A, the flat above us moving!!!! ohohohohohohoh

Welcome tranquility!