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It is official, the guys are going to make thursday night a badminton night and friday night a gathering night.

I am never good in sports, the only thing I started to enjoy is swimming and maybe jogging.  I played squash a few times, did not like it very much.  I also played tennis before, I find chasing after the balls are more tired than hitting the ball , because I can never hit the ball cross the net.  Ping pong?  Haha, no one wants to play with me.  What else?  Football?   Haha, not a chance.

However, I plan to join the guys for badminton.  I think no one will want to play with me, but at least he cannot say no when I say I want to play.  Will try to see if I like it.  I remember many years ago I use my brother’s racket and I scratched the edge of it and he sworn that he will never lend me his racket every again.  Hopefully I will be better this time.

Time to take Ray to swim.

Speaking of yesterday, as usual, do the morning chores, and managed to get together with a few friends for the 11am swimming (more like chatting than swimming).  I was so excited about the run because my husband said he will pick me up at the destination, then go buying foods for friday night gathering.  When the rain came, I was so disappointed.

I took Ray to his 书法 class at 5:30pm, then I went to supermarket to buy foods, mostly junk foods and a beijing duck.  We’re going to Teck’s house, his “wife” is a good cook.  They picked me up outside of the supermarket.  Ray quickly showed me his “works”, I am so impressed.  Soon he will be a master in 书法.  He was so eager for tonight’s gathering.  We got home at around 7:30pm.  Got to upstairs Teck’s house at 8:30pm.  Everyone was there already, and we’re the last one in even we only live 2 floors down, haha.

As usual, after dinner, guys go to play their cards.  Those not playing cards are talking about works.  The women cleaned the dishes and chatting.  The 3 children were playing games.  Very warm feeling.  I like this very much, that is something I do not have in penang (I mean lots of friends and someone who have common topics to talk about).

He took Ray down to sleep at 11pm something.  We stayed for a while until he fell into sleep.  He went back up again.  I planned to take a shower and go back again, but was tired and slept in the living room while tv on.  I heard noise but I did not get up, must be him coming back to get wines.  After they left, I couldn’t sleep.  That’s why I’m writing this blog this late.  I just called him, and he asked me to join them, they are almost done gambling.  They want to go out to eat.  How can I not gain weight.  It is 3:30am now.  I will pass.

I should say the friday is a half disappointed day because of missing the jogging.  My new pair of shoes cannot be put into use, yet

I love soya milk, specifically my home made soya milk   I bought a soya milk maker machine last weekend, now I make soya milk every morning.  It taste so much better than soya milk you can buy from super market.  I highly recommend people to try it.  The soya milk machine I bought is about RM200. I don’t know if they are popular in malaysia, but very popular here.

You can search the benefits of soya milk on the internet.  I think most importantly it is not cow milk, which is contaminated with antibody, etc.  And it tastes really good.

Here are a few benefits:

• Soy milk contains only vegetables proteins
• Soy milk contains no lactose
• Fewer people are allergic to soy milk
• Soy milk reduces cholesterol
• Soy milk contains no hormones
• Soy milk does not cause insulin dependent diabetes
• Soy milk is rich in isoflavones

I have not updated my blog for a long long time.  It is not intentional, but just did not have much mood updating it.  And yes, I was lazy and maybe a bit depressed too. Life is never easy.

Where am I?  I’m in suzhou.  My two older children are with my parents.  What am I doing here?  My time is filled up with little things.  There is a group of “si nai” (housewives) got together every morning.   Nothing much, chatting, talking about children, husbands, school, shopping, etc.  We sometimes go for breakfast on weekend.  Sadly I find myself fit right into this group, I am getting old.  Most of them are in early 30’s, and are either expats or wive to expats.   We have more common ground.   Another thing I really enjoy is to take my youngest to swim.  I got him into swimming lessons, he is very good at it now.  He had ear infections so I limit his time on the pool.  But he enjoys swimming very much.  Future olympic swimmer, haha.  I’m also getting better at swimming.  I can do 4 laps without resting in the swimming pool downstairs.  Pretty impressive.  I also enrolled him in kindergarden (sort of), only 3 days a week.  What is good about this class is the instructors are british, they speak english to the children.

What do I do when free?  I watch TV, I cook, I shop, I talk to my two other children, I invite friends over for dinner, I go out with him, I even play computer games.  I just want to fill my time with things to do and not to get myself into thinking too much of unnecessary stuffs.

On weekends, we usually go out to eat, side seeing, invite friends over, or go to friend’s house.  The guys seem to like playing cards.  The wives and children got together to chat, cook, play, etc.  I don’t particularly like the gambling, but they only gamble small amount of money.  Eileen (one of the wives) got his son a Wii, we enjoy it very much everytime we go visit.   I even like playing the mario game, haha.

I also like to go shopping in shanghai with the wives.   I went twice with them, they are really professional shopper, they can walk for hours and not tired.

Till next time.  ZZZ time.

I am really becoming a night owl (or night rat), I cannot sleep till 1 or 2am.  I have many things bother me, everytime I try to sleep, I ended up laying on the bed for hours could not sleep.  I think I need exercise to release stress or retail therapy.

Speaking of my dad, he is really boring here, always want to go out shopping.  I know going out with him, the first thing he looks for is coffee shop to sit down, eats.  He suggested we go to Guan Qian Street again this evening.  Haha.  He bought a really fancy tea set, he keeps asking us to try the tea he makes.  I am not good in tasting tea, they all taste the same to me.