A typical breakfast

April 28, 2010 - Delicous & ENGLISH & Visuelles - (0) COMMENTs

Fruehstuecksvielfalt.
What’s for breakfast? Everything!

Plum.
Oatmeal.
Green Tea.
German Pumpernickel with jam.
Homemade Bananacake.

Die Missy goennt sich was

April 27, 2010 - A-life & DEUTSCH & Visuelles - (0) COMMENTs

Seit einer gefuehlten Ewigkeit wuensche ich mir eine neue kleine Digitalkamera, vor allem seit ich meine “alte” Canon Powershot S45 meinem Vater vermacht habe, kurz bevor ich nach Australien ausgewandert bin. Das ist nun schon zwei Jahre her. Seit dem schaue ich staendig, was es Neues auf dem Markt der qualitativ hochwertigen Hosentaschencams gibt. Mit anderen Worten: das Fraeulein suchte sich dusselig nach der eierlegenden Wollmilchsau.

Eine digitale Spiegelreflex hab ich ja schon, aber die nehm ich halt immer seltener mit, da sie einfach zu klobig ist und ich sowieso bisher noch nicht komplett in die manuelle Fotografie eingestiegen bin (bedauerlicherweise).
Zum einfach mal schnell ein paar Eindruecke festhalten ist eine kleine Kompakte voellig ausreichend.

Natuerlich muss diese kompalte Kamera alle (meine) Wunsch-Kategorien bestens erfuellen, und ich glaube, das lange Suchen hat ein Ende gefunden. Ich habe mich entschieden, mich mit der Canon S90 anzufreunden. Eigentlich dachte ich ja, dass es eine IXUS wird, aber leider scheint es die IXUS 870 IS nicht mehr zu geben (mit der liebaeugelte ich zuletzt) und eine andere IXUS kam nicht in Frage… Als ich bereit war die 870 zu kaufen, war sie bereits schon wieder veraltet…und vor allem nicht mehr als Neuware auffindbar.

Durch Zufall bin ich vor Kurzem auf die Powershot S90 gestossen….eigentlich klar, dass die mich reizt, denn sie richtet sich mehr an den anspruchsvollen Knipser (mich, haha!), und ich kann somit in der S-Klasse der Canon Kompakten bleiben. Wie schoen! Wie ich las, ist die S90 eigentlich fast eine IXUS (weil so klein) jedoch mit gehobener Qualitaet (der Powershot Reihe). Prima!

Da der Urlaub immer naeher rueckt (nur noch drei Wochen, dann gehts los!), habe ich die Kamera gestern holterdipolter online bestellt und hoffe nur sehnlichst, dass sie noch rechtzeitig vor Abreise ankommt (da sie einen weiteren Weg vor sich hat… ).

So wird sie dann aussehen:

[photo by Nimages DR]

Herrjeeminee, ihr koennt euch gar nicht vorstellen, wie aufgeregt ich schon bin.
Nun bitte alle Daumen druecken, dass der Expressversand auch wirklich seinem Namen alle Ehre macht.

Something minor

April 20, 2010 - A-life & ENGLISH - (0) COMMENTs

But – Ouch!

I’ve been bitten by a mozzie (Aussie slang for mosquito) on my left big toe last year in…November I think it was. I still see the bite. It is slowly, very slowly disappearing. How mean to bite on top on my big toe anyway. Well, almost half a ywar later I am quite happy that the bite is not red and infected any longer; it seems to finally heal.

But then.

Today is cleaning day. My day off. Rent inspection is coming up this Thursday. The sun is shining. Good mood and lots of energy to clean the house. I’ve cleaned the windows and the fly screens, and we left the doors out back and out front wide open.
Sitting on the couch for a tea and cake break (yes, I’ve started baking again), I see a huge mozzie flying behind Nathan’s neck. He is not concerned, as usual, so I further sip my tea and continue what I was doing. A short while later, I feel that something stings on my right toe. I look down and see that mozzie sitting on my right TOE! Ouch! Damn it! Why always me????????? I shook it off and it landed straight on Nathans big left toe, where it died a Cola smack attack. Sorry mozzie, but I’m too allergic to your bites and don’t want to suffer another six months from the dangerous toe bite disease.

My toe felt like a needle was still sticking in it. Ten minutes later the area around my new bite swelled up, showing me that mozzie got me before I got him.

There can be one single mozzie in the house and for sure I will end up with a bite. Thinking of that, I really need to make sure that I take the best mozzie repellent to Bali/Indonesia next month. I don’t want to risk getting fat itchy and infected bites all over me OR even Malaria.

I have started to take a Vitamin B supplement as I’ve heard that a high level of Vitamin B1 or was it B6 (?) can be a good mozzie protection as well. I tried this method back in the days when I went camping in Venice and can say it has worked well. I think it was vitamin B1.

Any recommendations for an insect repellent (that I can get in Australia)? I don’t even care if it is full of chemicals, as long as it works for those 2-3 weeks when we will be in the Indonesian bushlands….

Noong haw

April 17, 2010 - ENGLISH & Natey&Cola - (1) COMMENT

Ngoo lây gûh duh.

A bit of Shanghainese, which means ‘Hello, I am here.’ The circumflex needs to be 180 degrees, but I don’t know how to do it with this (Mac) keyboard.

Or simply :P 你好，我回来了。(Hello, I am back.)

Shanghaiboy reached Perth Airport after a long day of travelling from the far lands of China back home to Australia. Exhausted and tired he got picked up from the airport at 11.30pm last night. But before falling into the freshly made bed he gave me a few of the more to come little presents from China! Ohhh…photos will follow. So pretty…!

The mister’s luggage is still in China and will be delivered tomorrow morning (hopefully). Somehow he has no luck with luggage travelling WITH him. Maybe he has just bad luck in picking the good airlines, although this time he could not choose the airline, because the university did. Whatever happened, the luggage with more gifts will be here tomorrow.

However, I am glad that the airplane brought him home safe, after reading that only a few days ago a Cathay Pacific airbus had an engine failure and only landed safely at Hong Kong’s airport (only eight people injured, it said) because the pilots were doing a great job.
Happily reunited:

Regret

April 15, 2010 - A-life & ENGLISH - (0) COMMENTs

Only one more night and my ‘shanghaiboy’ will be back home! I don’t know if it was the hot chicken from Coles (apparently without preservatives and artificial flavourings) or the [3] chocolate packages that made it through my stomach…what? who’s whispering? no one? ok…., but my skin was sooo beautiful yesterday and since this morning I got a kind of reaction with bumps on my neck and a few on my lower cheeks. Personally I think it was NOT the chocolate, but the chicken. Whatever BBQ-glaze they put on the chicken or whatever else was IN the meat, my skin says “thank you”. I have been eating very healthy lately. With the chicken I had broccoli and couscous, which can’t make me break out. No, if it was the chocolate, I would have had the break out last weekend already…or beginning of this week.
I am drinking lots of water to get the toxins out, hoping I look better tomorrow, when I pick up my loveman from the airport. I know he will ask “honey, what have you been eating? looks like you have a bad skin reaction.” Sigh…one day I will be Vegetarian…or I will know what exactly makes my skin break out.