I was a little annoyed yesterday.  No not because my football team couldn’t score if they were literally a yard from goal.

I was watching some Chinese television (Mo Sing Wai Sing Toy) and one of my mom’s programmes came on.  It was a cooking programme and the presenter was showing kids how to make cheese toast (2 slices of bread), using a pan.  Just to let you know she burnt her toast a little bit.  The turn eventually came to the kids, who were not much older than 10.  She went around the counters checking up them.  The problem was she was being harshly critical.  I’m all for not sugar coating things but telling a child they’re useless and assuming they do nothing around their home just because they’re spreading their butter a different way?  Mindbogglingly.  She especially laid into one girl, who ended up teary.  That wasn’t the worst part though, whilst she was crying with the camera on her, she also had to stand the humiliation of the presenter telling her not to cry because it doesn’t help anything, whilst still criticising her toast.  Then, the presenter walked away and had the audacity to shrug her shoulders, as if clueless to why the girl was crying!

What…a…plank.

I had a lovely Christmas and I hope you all had/are having one too.

When the 25th comes my sister and I cook breakfast and make tea, this year was more continental than British.  Then the whole family – bar my brother because the lazy bugger’s not awake yet – open presents.  After that it’s like any other day.  Well, except for the times when we may go and have a hot pot with family-friends.

What traditions do you have?

…La La La La.

Cakes. :9

I baked this earlier this morning for my friend.  Now I offer you early birds the first few e-cakes. 

This is a slightly early greeting but meh:  Have a jolly Christmas and a prosperous New Year!  ^^  Sing Dan Fai Lok!

On Friday I went shopping with my sister.  We headed to her must-go shop HMV.  Don’t ask me why because even I find it strange but I check the priced of CDs, even if I already own them; I keep tabs on their costs.  In this case – bet I’ve not mentioned this name a ton of times before – Elliot Minor.  When I first bought their album it was for about eight pounds.  Literally a week after it had charted the price sunk down to £4.  Then on Friday I see the price has shot up to £13.

If only I had waited that little bit long I would have got the CD at a more than reasonable price.

Do you find this in your country as well?  Or even if you just live in other parts of the UK?

Today was fun and exciting.  Apparently it’s not cool to get excited about the things I do…

After presenting my whole project neatly, my friend and I headed to the German Market.  I can’t say I was left disappointed, there were lots of great things.

Speaking of projects, I’ve got a dodgy mobile capture of mine.  It’s a bowl for poupouri(sp?).

My bowl.

See the window that’s smaller that the others?  That’s where the gemstone is being set but I didn’t have enough time.  It’s sort of the result I was looking for but not quite.  Ah well, at least I’ll be able to finish it after.  You should see my two point perspective…absolutely horrendous.

So, back to the German Market.  Before I go any further I’d like to know why there were Taiwan imports, and why some people weren’t German?  Still though, it was amazing.  Thankfully I didn’t go overboard with spending.  In reply to Kaylee, if I did use your method, believe me, all the presents would be mine.    However, I resisted and ended up buying a huge mug for my brother.  I’ve been told it holds a litre of liquid, well, it certainly looks it.

Biggest mug I've encountered.

After gazing at each shed of shops we decided to go to the Bullring.  The first thing we see is two men cleaning the bull.  I’ll leave it to your imagination what jokes were made of cleaning this:

Bullring Bull: courtesy of kimandpete.

Swiftly moving on…We headed into Selfridges and I saw a “deviation” of the above bull: in jelly beans.  If I have the correct sweet named.

Jelly beans Bullring Bull.

It’s taken with my phone so I’d advise you not to enlarge the image.    It’s on sale for £20,000 – I think.  Personally I wouldn’t as I see some people have stolen bits of the Bull’s thigh.    You should see the abundance of sweets this place has, just incredible and a little insane a la pillows filled with sweets.  :S  Strange, indeed.  Ooo, I also got some freebies – have got to love freebies.  We went into WH Smiths and were approached by a saleswoman promoting Victoria Jackson make-up.  I paid £30 for the shimmery powder-brush-thingy – can’t tell that I don’t wear make up, can you?    Then I got the rest for free:  the Survival Kit; lip glosses; pocket pallet and beauty tips booklet.  The survival kit is like the bat mobile of make-up, for lack of better description.  Pretty cool.  I gave it all to my sister as I don’t wear make-up.

After 6 hours of walking we headed to the cinema.  Yep, we had to walk that long as the film started at 2:20pm.  She invited a few of her friends along, which was really fun.  We watched Quarantine.  I didn’t know it was a horror film so I agreed to go to the cinema.  When told the genre I was thinking what embarrassing things I’ll do during the film: shrieking; jumping off my seat; spilling the popcorn or falling asleep.  Yep, I do have a tendency to drift away but I very rarely watch horror films so this would be the first test.  Surprisingly, I almost did fall sleep!  It was really bad.  Sorry but if a horror films doesn’t get me curled up into a ball, it’s hardly going to get a majority of horror film-lovers quaking in the boots.  If it weren’t for the popcorn and someone in the audience screaming, I think I would have conked out.    For some reason though, I couldn’t stop grinning, and almost ended up laughing.  Don’t know what was going on there.  The review in short: a bit of gore here and there but nothing to even merely soil (sorry) yourself.  1/5

If you have seen this film, what is your take on it?