Travel Plans on Hold
Some friends from Europe are coming to visit us sometime in late January or Early February. I am cool with that but the problem is, they have not decided yet on the exact dates. This keeps our plans to go to the Philippines on hold. If only they’d tell us when they’re coming, I can […]
Inferiority Complex Attack
Emily, one of my Irish friends I mentioned in my earlier post, decided to stay in Shanghai to live with her boyfriend. I consider them friends because we spent a lot of time together in the last few weeks and Emily’s boyfriend is a colleague and friend of my husband. Emily’s sister Tina already went […]
A Hot Pot Day
I was badly craving for steamed rice that day. Marcus knows that if I don’t get steamed rice in more than two days, I get grumpy. So that one particular day we agreed to walk around the neighborhood to look for a restaurant that serves steamed rice because there’s no way I am going to […]
Moon Cakes!
I found this on our table when I got home yesterday. It’s a moon cake and a short story about the Chinese Moon Festival. If I find the time, I might summarize the story for you because it is interesting. I remember when I was teaching, I got moon cakes enough to feed me until […]
The Olympics and All
For the first time since we got here, we had a difficulty hailing a taxi!
Last night we decided to eat out with some of Marcus’ colleagues. The initial time agreed upon was 7:00 pm but because it wasn’t easy to get a taxi, we called the other parties to let them know we’ll be late […]
Checked Out
After 22 days of staying in a hotel, we were finally able to move in to our new flat!
I was so itching to move out of the hotel since there’s nothing I can do there. Sure, a lot of major pedestrian zones are easy to get to from the hotel but who wants to go […]
Welcome Me Back!
I am back but I am still not in the “blogging all day” mode. This is just a quick post to let MyPinkNotes.com readers that I am alive and I have so much to tell.
My “coming back” doesn’t mean Ruthi is going away so there’s no need for Ruthi’s fans to worry because you’ll […]
I Miss…
I miss eating fish. Here, you can buy fish from Walmart or from the wet market but they’re nothing like what we have in the Philippines.
I don’t like veggies that much and I am getting tired of pizza, pasta, and meat. I want fish! And not just any fish! I want fish from Philippines. Pritong […]
Traveling and Blogging Plans
We agreed that we had enough of Beijing so for the first weekend of April, we will go somewhere else. We only have a few months left to stay in China and there are other interesting nearby cities we have not seen yet. Like Dalian. I’ve heard it’s beautiful there so if there are […]
Just When You Thought…
Spring Festival, according to what I believe, marks the start of the spring season. This year’s Spring Festival is over two months ago. Since then the weather temperature is climbing up. We had over 10 degrees in the last few days!
But just when you thought spring is here and summer is not far away, this […]
