It finally felt like the cold winter that I remembered from last year.
Friday night, Matt came over and helped us put up the X'mas tree. We had the X'mas music playing. We listened to Michael Bolton's X'mas album, "A Swinging Christmas" online. I like the jazzy version of the classics.
But one of my favourite Christmas song is by Wham, "Last Christmas".
Whenever it's the season, I would just keep hearing it over the radio station.
For dinner, I made "mayouji mianxian" - Sesame oil chicken noodle. I didn't have rice wine and it turned out pretty good to my surprise. Whenever my mom makes it, she would put in so much rice wine that I would always turn so red and felt light-headed. So I was a bit worried when I didn't have rice wine to put in because it wouldn't be the dish that it should be. Mianxian is one of my favourite kind of Taiwanese noodle. I brought it back here from Vancouver. I don't know if I can find it in YC.
The evening was nice. After dinner, we sat by the lit up tree. That I think brought Matt's Christmas memory back and got him sad. His favourite time of the year is Christmas spending time with the family and he hasn't done it since 2007. So I can understand a bit. I guess I have just been lucky that I always spend my Chinese New Year with my family that I haven't missed any yet. My mom would always make so much food and we always have a big feast. It might be any regular family dinner that we have had the 364 other days. But when we are all over the world and that gathering would be so precious.
We then went out for a walk and we ended the night with Dicos ice cream, just for the heck of it.
Sat & Sun, I had breakfast at Matt's. He makes really good coffee. He's a coffee addict who needs 2 cups a day. I enjoy coffee and I prefer to be like that. After breakfast, I ran/walked the stairs of my apartment. That was more tiring that I thought it would be. Then I went out with him to bike shopping on Saturday. He tested a bike that's closest to his size. He had so much fun with it and I think he's very excited about having his bike. I tried to hop on the bike that he tested but I couldn't even ride it forward (it was way too high for me). The bike is 2298 RMB which is quite pricy (but it's a very good bike by Giant).
For dinner, we had shiny hot pot as he calls it. It was a perfect weather for it. Sitting outside and hot spicy food - I just don't like how thirsty I get after.
Sunday, he watched some hockey games online. We both had things to do of our own. I did laundry, had lunch, and went to school around 3 pm. I was trying to make a test and I didn't finish making it. My friend at Dalian taught me how to use the test bank properly. So hopefully I would get it done on Monday. I went home and did grocery shopping. We also had a staff v.s. students basketball game at our new gym. I had to say I was impressed by our girls' team as I had never play with them before. They were quite good!
It was a lot of fun even though I tripped a bit and teared the knee part of my gym pants.
(The concrete floor design in our gym is just terrible).
I am feeling the soreness from playing last night.
It's getting late...I need to get ready for work now!
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