Thursday, December 24, 2009

Surprise!

0 comments Posted by Foxy Frangipani at 8:54 AM

Oooh look what the postman had for me today....
Went shopping and coming back home.. tadaaaa.... a surprise from The Boyfriend! :D


To keep my heels warm and soft, I got these. They are priced at RM2 each.
Slather on some thick layer of lotion and wrap these on! Ahhh hello nice heels! :)


 

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Merry Jingle Bells!

0 comments Posted by Foxy Frangipani at 9:33 AM

Hello Sweethearts

Just a short note to wish you all a Happy Christmas!
May you always be surrounded by love and happiness :)






Have fun with family, friends and loved ones..


Take care!
XOXO

 

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Happy Winter Solstice!

0 comments Posted by Foxy Frangipani at 12:02 AM


Yay!! After many years of missing this day due to work, I finally get to be home for Winter Solstice Festival / Kor Tung in Cantonese :)) No one seems to be able to tell me why, but it seems today is more important than Chinese New Year *puzzled*


Anyway, what I like most about Winter Solstice is we get to eat delicious, coloured glutinuous balls - Thong Yuen.

For the sweet version, they usually come in green, red and white; cooked in ginger sugar syrup.

For the salty version, we have lots of mushroom, chicken, prawn, cabbage and dried prawn cooked in big pot of soup.. yummm!!


The first thing in the morning, I had one sweet Thong Yuen to signify all rounder good luck (hence the round shape of the Thong Yuen), sweet syrup to signify all things sweet and nice. Oh, and it means I am a year older too (eeeks).


So heres to wishing all of you a better year ahead! :D






Pic from FaeGarden.

A little info about Winter Solstice (fr About.com)
The winter solstice – is called Dōng Zhì (冬至) in Mandarin Chinese and has special meaning in the traditional Chinese calendar.
 
Dōng Zhì is the day when families get together and eat tāng yuán (湯圓), a sweet soup made of glutinous rice balls. It is also the day when everyone becomes one year older. 

The Chinese characters for Dōng Zhì are 冬至. The first character means “winter” and the second character means “arrival.”


In traditional Chinese society, the arrival of winter meant that the farmers would lay down their tools and celebrate the harvest by coming home to their families. A feast would be prepared to mark the occasion.

These days, Dōng Zhì is still an important cultural holiday. Even though most people do not get a day off work, everyone tries to get together with their families to eat tāng yuán.


 

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

When I'm Feeling Crappy....

0 comments Posted by Foxy Frangipani at 6:45 AM

Ahh don't we just hate those crappy feelings?
Things were fine-fabulous at work.. and I was happily browsing at the mall after that when gastric came visiting.
Like out of a sudden, hmm is it gastric or indigestion? I ate regular today so hungry is out.

Back home I popped in a Gaviscon and ewwwww I din know it tasted like chalk!
Worse, I'm supposed to chew it... and I was doing my laundry while chewing and it bubbled, at the same time tasted like watery chalk with Sprite. OMG... that feeling..

Been an hour already and not really getting better :( I probably should sleep.
Needless to say I feel rubbish now.. but whenever I feel this way these are the things that I'd do to pick myself up:

- Change the bedsheets. I love the smell of fresh clean linen. Even the feel against my skin is hmmmmm nice. (don't laugh... try it :) )


Hehe not my bed, its from bedzine.com

- Drink hot chocolate. The weather may be hot hot hot nowadays but a cuppa hot choc always calms me down.. (if you're with winter now, the more reason for one, eh?)

- Listen to The Boyfriend snoring. Hahahhahah I recorded a clip of him snoring when he was asleep. *wicked*

- Have a foot massage. I either rotate between my Ogawa or Osim. My ultimate dream is to have a private masseuse with me. Hehehheh.

- Mask my face. A little pampering makes me feel loved. My obsession with shopping and beauty products are all here.

- Sleep. Ahh this is classic. I used to be stingy with sleep, thinking it wastes time. The benefits are endless I tell ya.. it almost always banish crappiness.

There you see these are my little cheer-me-ups. What are yours? :)

 

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