First Vietnamese Food Cooked by BUBU!

Cafe Fly Garden

Restraunt Hum

Hum is a very beautiful and peaceful vegetarian restraunt. Thanks Lucy! She found this nice place.

Beautiful Tea Cups

Momo bought us these tea cups. Really beautiful!

Best Cafe in Guangzhou

Voyage12 cafe is the most comfortable place in Guangzhou!

One Family!!!

Now Momo and Bubu are one family!!!



First DIY Bag

My first DIY bag! It is a gift for my 3.5 years old niece. And the other two small packages are for Huanghuang.

Saigon

Our daily views in Saigon.

Gifts I Got

They are the gifts I got these days! The beautiful orchid from dear Momo. The cupcake from our favorite cafe. A fish made by shell from a cute girl in my work place. Gifts always make days more happy and sweet! 





Bright Colors

We found these bright colors in a park close to home! Quite a nice place to have a walk or sit...



Small Plants

Thanks for the small plants to make home more comfortable and alive!

White Orchid

Momo bought us some white orchid for weekend! I so like the color, white and a little bit green. And in the night, the shadow on the wall is so beautiful!





Oyster Shell

I took some oyster shells home from a dinner long time ago. I cleaned them and dried them in the balcony. But still have no idea what can I do with them...

Momo is going to be Interviewed!

Momo is going to be interviewed by Vietnam News the newspaper! So proud!

Little Handsome Lizards

We saw some little lizards in our holiday resort. They are so handsome! And so is Momo, the lizard paparazzi!

Kalanchoe Back to Alive

Fianlly my kalanchoe is back to alive! Many new leaves and even one small flower!

PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe

Vacation in Nha Trang

Momo and bubu just had a small vacation in Nha Trang!

Gifts for Momo

Finally I can post them here! I am so happy that Momo likes them so much!

Momo and Bubu are Together!!!

Finally after almost 2 months, Momo and Bubu are together again!!!

Stone Fish

I painted a stone into a smiling fish.

The Movies I Like Most

Stealing Beauty / 1996 / Bernardo Bertolucci
Beyond the Clouds / 1995 / Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders
To Rome with Love / 2012 / Woody Allen
Vicky Christina Barcelona / 2008 / Woody Allen
Farewell My Concubine / 1993 / Kaige Chen
Eros / 2004 / Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Kai Wai Wong
Fidelity / 2000 / Andrzej Zulawski
The Man of My Life / 2006 / Zabou Breitman

Gift for Friend

I bought a small birthday gift for a friend and wrapped it. It is simple and nice. I like it!

Finally New DIY Book

Finally I made a new DIY book! Acturally this is the book of my drawings!



Little Drawings

I drew these little ones during today's seminar, hehee, sorry, the seminar was kind of boring.

Seraphine's Painting

My favorite paintings! From Seraphine de Senlis.

Seraphine de Senlis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9raphine_Louis

Gift from Company

Bubu got a gift from the company! It is a GTX jacket. Nice color nice design, waterproof and windstop. It is the best jacket I got from my company ever. So happy because I am so going to need this when going to the nature places with Momo! And this one matches so well the one Momo has!

Gone Fishing: Part Three

Summer

The Summer is finally here. 

New leaves coming into the trees. 

Warm enough to lie down on the beach. 

I feel lucky on this island I live. 

Chinese Lesson Three

Words:
xing qi yi --- monday
xing qi er --- tuesday
xing qi san --- wednesday
xing qi si --- thursday
xing qi wu --- friday
xing qi liu --- saturday
xing qi tian --- sunday
xing qi --- week
nian --- year
yue --- month
hao --- day
zao shang --- early morning (before 9)
shang wu --- morning
zhong wu --- noon
xia wu --- afternoon
ban wan --- evening
wan shang --- night

Initials:
x, q, y, s, w, l, t, n, h, z, sh, b

Finals:
ing, i, er, an, w, iu, ian, ue, ou, ao, ang, ia

Explanation:
1/ From monday to saturday, we put numbers after xing qi from one to six. But sunday it is xing qi tian instead of xing qi qi.  
2/ When we say date, we start from year, and then month, then day. And number in front. Opposite to English. 2013 nian 5 yue 18 hao.
3/ For the month, we don't have special words like May, March. We just put the numbers in front of Yue. 3 yue=march. 5yue=may.

Chinese Lesson Two

Words:
ling --- zero
yi --- one
er --- two
san --- three
si --- four
wu --- five
liu --- six
qi --- seven
ba --- eight
jiu --- nine
shi --- ten
bai --- hundred
qian --- thousand
wan --- ten thousand
yi --- hundred million
kuai --- unit of RMB
mao --- 10 cents
fen --- cent
duo shao qian --- how much (to ask price)
duo shao --- how many, how much
qian --- money
liang --- two (to describe how many/how much)
gui --- expensive
pian yi --- cheap
hen --- very
dian --- o'clock
fen --- minute
miao --- second
ban --- half
zao --- early
wan --- late

Initials:
l, y, s, w, q, b, j, sh, k, m, f, d, g, p

Finals:
ing, i, er, an, u, iu, a, ai, ian, iang, uai, ao, en, uo, ui, iao

Explanation:
1/ After the one digital numbers from zero to nine, we have Shi 10, Bai 100, Qian 1000, Wan 10000, Yi 100000000. Nothing like eleven, twenty. The other numbers are combined by them.
2/ We have Mao as an unit for 10 cents.
3/ When to discribe how many/how much, we use Liang instead of Er.

Bear and Butterfly are Together

Bear and butterfly are together now!