Valentine's Day 2014 for Western and Chinese

Last Friday was the Valentine's day. However, my husband and I always believe that this day has been commercialised so we rarely go out and celebrate. Also, we both needed to work on that day. My husband agreed to cook me a valentine dinner on the following night.

Firstly, I would like to mention that my husband is just an OK cook. I didn't have a high expectation. When he was nearly finished cooking, I opened the first wine which we bought from Virgin. I then sat down at the table waiting for the meal to come. I didn't anticipate that he made the starter: smoked salmon with egg on toast. It seemed like a simple dish to make but it looked great!

Then, the main: oyster mushroom with risotto rice. I really could not believe that he chose to make vegetarian meal as he is a meat eater. He drizzled some lemon juice and tarragon on the risotto. It tasted really good. I even asked him for the recipe.

Last but not least, his famous dessert in the house: cherry cake. Hmm... this was the best dinner he had made since I married him. This meal was way better than eating at any of the restaurant!

(PS after all the food and drink, it's time to do some exercise. My work place organises a 'Pedometer Challenge'. The point is to fight against mental illness. The rule is to find 5 people to form a group. Then using this Pedometer to measure how much we walk. The team who walks the most will be the winner. I participate because I am carious to know how much I walk normally. Our group target is to walk ten thousands steps per person per day from today for two weeks. Could we achieve it?)

Updated 08/03: I didn't manage to walk ten thousands step per day, but some days I walked more than usual. So on average, I did it!

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January Sales

Today is the third day of Chinese New Year and it's the year of horse. In my Chinese Blog, I gave my best wishes my readers by using the word 'horse'. Unfortunately, it doesn't really translate well into English. So the best way to do it is to provide the meaning of the wishes: 'Wishing you good health, be successful and earn lots of money immediately!'

January has just passed and it means the Big Sale had just ended for another year. I no longer need to spend too much money for a while. But really, the discount was huge during the Sales. It wasn't right if I didn't get the bargain while it was available...

The best buy this year was the wine from Virgin. It was really cheap and the quality was excellent.

I remember some years ago, I asked my boyfriend (now my husband) to join the Virgin Flying Club. However, he moaned that he never received any good out of it and thought that it was waste of time. However, I think differently about this sort of thing. Recently, I was curious and checked his record. I found out that his mileage was to expire soon. In the end, I exchanged some Virgin Wine voucher and got us some good mixture of red and white wine. I'm sure it would last us for the whole year to enjoy!

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