Time & Again by Nora Roberts

Hahaha, another romance novel. This time the theme was about time travel, interesting! Well, the story runs like this, a pilot (spaceship driver) named Caleb from 23rd century was stranded in the 20th century after his spaceship had an accident. Caleb was saved by Libby and they fall madly in love with each other. Then, although Caleb have a chance to go back to future, he gave up the chance to be with Libby and sent the spaceship back to 23rd century (autopilot) to tell his parents that he's OK. 

Then, Caleb's brother, Jacob (a very brilliant scientist apparently) managed to recreate a time travel spaceship and went to 20th century to bring back his brother. Before he have a chance to meet his brohter, Jacob met Libby's sister, Sunny first and they fall in love. However, Jacob didn't want his parents to be sad for losing another son. So, he decided to go back to his time. Well, Sunny sneaked into the spaceship to follow him to the future. So, two happy endings. 

Etude House: Vanilla Moist Eye's Cream

27th October 2013

Etude House: Eye's Cream (photo from http://etudehouse.com/eng/main.jsp#wrap)

I got myself a tube of eye's cream when I went to Busan last March. However, it stayed inside a drawer for months because I bought it on a whim. However, I am not 18 years old anymore, eye wrinkles started to appear, so I took it out from the long forgotten drawer and started to use the cream.

Interesting Cups from Daiso

In Japan, I would get my kitchen items from Daiso or Seria (100 yen shop). Well, not only it's cheap (Japan standard), the design is good and very often, very cute! So, I would end up with something most of the time after I visited 100 yen shop.

Well, I bought 2 cups from Daiso, not for drinking though. I stayed alone and didn't have guests coming to my house. I bought it for the phrases and words on the cup.

Interesting cups from Daiso

Fishing

16th October 2011

Well, this's the one and only fishing experience I have. My colleague, Kondo san and her family love fishing. They even own a fishing boat and many fishing gears. She spent her holiday on fishing. Sometimes, she even went out on the early morning (or rather, after midnight) to fish.

Anyway, one day, she invited me and two other colleagues to go fishing. I grabbed the chance and said yes! A day before, Kondo san even sent us the information about the fish, the weather and the proper attire (the weather was very cold in the morning!). Our targeted fish was Kisu (鱚/キス), during that season, Kisu was abundant in Yatsushiro Sea in Amakusa.

So, on that fine morning (no strong wind, good for fishing), I wore layers of clothes, with hat and applied sun screen. Kondo san fetched me, SK and Naz from our apartments early in the morning.  Then, we went to Kondo san's parents house. Finally, we left for Amakusa. It's quite far from Kumamoto City. We had a good view along the way, the sea was so calm and we could see boats (many of them). Kondo san explained that almost all the boats were owned by fishing enthusiastic.

Finally, we reached the harbour. Before I stepped into the boat, I went to the toilet first. Haha, Kondo san too. Well, it's very inconvenient for female to fish. Male will just settled it on the boat. The weather was good with clear blue sky.

blue sky and blue sea (so beautiful!)

Hibiscus Tea ハイビスカスティー

I bought 2 packets of Hibiscus Tea when I traveled to Okinawa. The promoter claimed that hibiscus tea can help improve the condition of the skin and blah blah blah. Well, later I checked from a website, it claims that hibiscus tea can help balance out female hormones, relieve tiredness, skin whitening (???), relieve the symptom of cold, etc. Ah, so hibiscus tea can be count as one of the healthy drinks! When something is healthy, the taste will not be so delicious! I can only say that it's an acquired taste. 

Mmmm, luckily I just bought 2 packets of this. Well, hibiscus tea is not tea, although it smells good (like asam boi), it's too sourish for me. Initially, I planned to add sugar, but then it will beat the purpose of this 'healthy' drinks. I didn't want to waste food, so I would make one cup of hibiscus tea when I feel tired. I still have many packets to go! 頑張って!

Hibiscus Tea

*Although hibiscus is Malaysia's national flower, we never really utilize the flower as a business opportunity. In Okinawa, hibiscus can be seen at many places, as hibiscus tea, motif on fabric and paintings.