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On 13 May 2011, we woke up at 5:35 am to watch them. Wow, first time in our whole life.....  It is magnificant!!  If we missed it, the next chance will be in 2056!

Attached picture were really blurr, but, I am very reluctant to delete them.

The brightest is Venus(at the bottom), Mercury is on the right. The one on top is Jupiter.  Mars is very near to horizon.  So, it is blocked by trees and buildings.

Below Pictures were taken on 18 May 2011 5:50 - 6:05am.
Can see that Jupiter is further away now.

Wow, it is raining now, finally......

Thinking of my sunny sky pula :-p

My kids' favourite drink at home town is 珍珠奶茶 (pearl tea). 

Once, I went to oriental shop to look for pearls, I found them, but I didn't ended up buying.  They looked like little rocks to me, very very hard!!

I found  this 珍珠 recipe last month on the net.  It is by 周老师.  I decided to give it a try.  Wah, dreams come true!! 


Ingredients:

• 70g brown sugar
• 130g water
• 200g potato starch
• blue colouring (I used dried blue flowers from my 三姨, she calls it 'little blue flower') - this is optional

Procedure:

1. Boil brown sugar and water until sugar dissolved.
2. Pour boiling water onto potato starch. Stir well and start kneading it slightly to make it into a dough.
3. Roll it into about 0.6mm thickness.
4. Cut them into about 0.6mm strips, then to about 0.6mm cubes.

5. You may want to roll it into beads in your palms.  Personally, I don't mind square pearls : )
6. Cook for 3 minutes in boiling water.  Then, rinse 3 times in cold water.

7. They are now ready to add into your favourite dessert or drinks.

Give it a go, pearl lovers!

My Goji berries plants are flowering now.  The purple flowers are very tiny and sweet. 

Frankly, this is my first time to witness goji berries flowers. I simply just have not had imagined, red goji actually started from a purple flower!!

I find it very interesting and would like to share it with you.