All about towels ...

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THE yoga centre will provide us clean small and big towels for shower /
during class ..
IN one of the yoga class i went last week , teacher asked us a question at the last
5 minutes of the class --
" What's the most frustrating thing for a teacher during the class ? "

Most of us said not doing the perfect pose ? / we lose our breath ? /
some of us don't want to try completing a new pose etc ..
Teacher shake her head and said " NO " , She told us the mose frustrated thing to her is
the towels we take before enter the studio . Many of us will take 1 big and 1 small towel into
the class , some even take more than 3 towels for an hour class .
AND every time when she went to the mat try to give some instructions to students ,
she first need to stand on her tippy toes , dodged the " little towels hill " besides the mat .

AS a teacher , she only take ONE small towel to the class and use it again when she
take shower after class . if that day she have a HOT class , she will only take one
more small one . She asked us to think about how many water / labor power etc ...
needed on washing just a log of towels that we used and try to minimize the resources
we used , not only for the yoga center but also for self and the environment ( earth ) .

I remember i took one big and one small towel for my 1st yoga class , BIG one for covering
the mat , small one for my sweat . Half way the class, i found the big towel on the mat just tripped me during the practice .....and from my 2nd class till now i just use a small towel .
I guess people like to cover the mat with a big towel beacuse they think that the mat is
a bit dity and lots of the other used it before , BUT everytime after the class , those cleaning
ladies used disinfection cleaner for the mat and floor ... i wonder how dity it can be ...

Besides , you can take shower after the class ......

Hummm.... i am not a environmentalist or radicalon on this topic ,
Just a little inspiration in my mind after the class ... and started to think we should
can and love the earth more and more ...

The world most beautiful libraries .

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A traveling web-site completed a compendium a month ago and chosen
20 libraries around the world as the most beautiful and must visit
libraries for all travelers .
i guess you will foresee the result of this compendium that most libraries been
choosen are from those big cities like USA / London / France / Italy / Spain etc
YES , this is true ....... YET , i also found some libraries from " PORTUGAL "are on the list ..
hahaha ...
well .... most libraries of the Universities in Hong Kong are open to public but only students of the campus can borrow books from inside . The biggest public library in Hong Kong are
the one in Causeway Bay .

1.) Biblioteca do Palacio e Convento de Mafra I, Lisbon Coast, Portugal



2.)Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal



3.)Joanina LIbrary University of Coimbra, Portugal



EXCEPT those libraries in Portugal , i also like this one from the list which is in USA

4.) George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Voice mail box greeting ..

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Some years ago ( should be decade ago ) , when my parents are still helping my uncle
running his Advertisement Company , we have a facsimile machine for receiving
documents from uncle's office , we'll switch all calls to its voice mail box
while we're out . And the voice mail box greeting was recorded by my mum at that time

THE machine is still here but we seldom use it now cos' we have e-mail / sms etc and
no need for my parents to help uncle now .

After this comic picture , i am thinking do i need to get a similar voice mail greetiing .. haha ..
don't know if you'll pissed off when you heard that but to me i will be totally jealous and
started to " create " lots of stories inside my mind ...
EG :
what the hell .... you got a new gf ?
you got a new gf after we just break up ?!
who's that gal ? Do i know her ... ??

OK .... is just some examples , don't be too serious honey ..haha

My New Year's table

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Here are some of the traditional desserts usually eaten by Portuguese people during New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year. This are only leftovers from yesterday, i actually haven't eat most of the things here because i spent my New Year's Eve in bed, watching Youtube videos... What a sad way to spend New Year's Eve!!!!


Sonhos and Azevias


Filhós and Azevias


The traditional Bolo Rei


This is a pudin made by my mom...its Pudim de ovos, or Egg pudin with some pineapple inside


Some dry figs, raisins, pines, chestnuts, almonds...usually a bunch of dry fruits and nuts to drink with champagne and other drinks...

Bakery class ( more photos )

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Here are some more photos taken on the day i have the
bakery class with my colleagues .
You can see how " adorable " i am with that blue flower print apron .
i know you'll also said that i looks like a filipino maid with i totally DON'T
mind at all ... lol
the mixture is quite heavy , and i am dividing it into 3 portions , oven-ready
for the base of the whole " chocolate forest cake " ...



hah ... as you can see we're playing with our just oven cake ( the base ) ~HOT
( actually feels like a new born baby when you holding it on hand .. lol .. salivating ! )
after playing for a while , we need to slice the cake into 3 layers evenly
for the cream , mango and other ingredients inside . i looks like a professional
chef when came to this step .. lol




Spreading the fresh cream fudge frosting on top and sides of cake ,
when the real chef ( the instructor) doing the demo , and showing his
1,000% skillful technique on spreading + making those grooves for sides decoration ...
i think to myself ---- This is a real mission impossible ... lol

And that's why we all got crazy after the class and making funny( idiot ) faces ,
" celebrating " that everything came to an end ... finally .... lol ...