Day 16 in Beijing

My 16th day in Beijing, yes I'm back in Beijing. Today's the 30th of November 2009, Monday =) Lovely Monday. In our flat we call Monday, 'Family Day'. This is the only day that Gerard have off work, and therefore it's most likely to be the day where we can spend an early night together. So, being this is the first chance that we can have a proper 'home' and 'family' time, we decided to cook and eat at home. Haha, this was a big mission for us. But, it means a lot for all four of us.

Jordan and Gerard were home today, Josi and I had work. So the girls (i.e. Josi and I) collectively agreed and decided that the boys should be preparing for dinner. Lol. This was ok for Jordan I guess, he has been looking forward to making some food for us.

As soon as I get home after work, Jordan already had most of the ingredients set up. There's rice cooking, noodles waiting, chicken, pork, eggs, vegies. Mmmmmm, yeah, vegies, it's soooo rare for us now in Beijing, like fresh vegies with minimum oil and salt and MSG!! Eventually our table was covered with food: rice, noodles with eggs, curry chicken with potatoes, saucy pork and of course, big plate of greeeeeeeen vegies!


This meal was probably one of the healthiest and best for all four of us for a very long time. Just the four of us, with home made food, making fun and laughing around, enjoying the accompany of one another, and mostly importantly, at our OWN home. This was just a perfect night for all of us.

After dinner we decided to fully enjoy the chance we have at home and delegated some tasks around. Josi was doing the dishes (it's her week on dishes according to our roster), Jordan and Gerard are cleaning and tidying the living area, and I was doing the ironing. After all the chores we took a walk to the little diary around the corner to get some drinks and desserts (i.e. ice cream). Then we got home and ready for a typical family night activity: MOVIES!!!! hoho. This was the movie that I always wanted to watch but never had the chance to: Brides War (the Anne Hathaway movie).

I must say that this movie really made me laugh and excited. The wedding dress by Vera Wang was just too beautiful. The girls (josi and I) were so excited that we just couldn't stop talking about the dress; whereas the guys are just like, 'this is stupid'. LOL. I love this movie. Although despite the fact that it shows how best friends can become worst enemies over little things, but the make-up between the two girls at the end made my eyes teary. It was touching. It was a nice movie for a comfy night in this cold winter Beijing city.