"Hello Christmas lights, snowman and gingerbread latte. =) "
I could not fucking believe that it was December already. It was like the year had just started yesterday. To my surprise, these few less pleasant months just flew by in the wink of an eye.
Before Mr. 2015 arrived, there was a small fear within me. I knew in my heart that everything in my life was going to change drastically and my world would surely be turned upside down during these 12-month period. Well, it's almost over now and Missy 2016 was on her way here soon whether I liked it or not.
Over these past few weeks, I got my fat ass back into the kitchen a lot because I was too poor to eat outside every day I wanted to fulfill certain food cravings and made myself feel useful on my off days instead of just sitting on my couch all day long.
Some days the food that I prepared was fab, some days not so good. But I guessed that it was all about making mistakes and learning from them so I hoped to continue to learn along the way by trial and error. It was not easy to maintain the determination to home cook every day due to all the messy clean-up so I hoped that I would be able not to throw in the towel any time soon.
Before Mr. 2015 arrived, there was a small fear within me. I knew in my heart that everything in my life was going to change drastically and my world would surely be turned upside down during these 12-month period. Well, it's almost over now and Missy 2016 was on her way here soon whether I liked it or not.
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| Beautiful things made me happy. |
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| Autumn leaves. |
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| Fall. |
Some days the food that I prepared was fab, some days not so good. But I guessed that it was all about making mistakes and learning from them so I hoped to continue to learn along the way by trial and error. It was not easy to maintain the determination to home cook every day due to all the messy clean-up so I hoped that I would be able not to throw in the towel any time soon.
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| Loved the avocado. |
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| Getting them ready. |
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| Sweet potato fries over normal fries anytime anyday. |
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| Bagels to brighten up my day. |
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| Bak-kut-teh when I missed home. |
Thanks to my group community project, I got to be in Bournemouth for two days. It had been more than a year and I could not be more excited to be back. It felt really good to be able to return to this beautiful shopping heaven and I absolutely loved everything about this big city.
Besides its perfect location and pretty Christmas market, Bournemouth had many of the best cafes and restaurants in the UK. Among them, the hot beef sandwich served by South Coast Roast was the one of the best things that I had ever tasted and I swore that I would surely come back for more in the future.
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| The signature hot air balloon at Lower Gardens. |
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| Started the morning with eggnog latte, the best festive drink ever created! |
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| I knew good sushi when I spotted one. |
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| Ramen dinner after a long day. |
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| In deep love with the gingerbread latte. |
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| Green and white theme for us~ |
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| This girl got the best taste when it came to food! |
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| The tender and juicy 5-star hot beef sandwich! |
Wantying came all the way down to Dorset to visit me but the weather on that weekend was utterly horrible so we stayed indoor most of the time. The howling wind was so strong that we ended up with the unique experience of eating sands while we were strolling along Weymouth beach.
Later in the afternoon, we went to a local cinema to watch The Good Dinosaur and I instantly fell in love with the inspiring and fear-overcoming movie. If you ain't scared, you ain't alive was definitely my favourite quote from the Pixar/Disney film.
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| So cute and festive! |
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| Every pastry from this store was gem. |
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| Sinful meal. |
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| Nando's after The Good Dinosaur. |
Also, I finally got to go back to Nottingham after such a long time. While I was on my way to board the midnight train at St. Pancras, the most beautiful Christmas tree in this whole wide world came into view.
The Christmas tree was made up of many different Disney toys with Mickey at the very top of it and just when I thought that it could not get any better, snow began to fall down from above. It was designed to do so every few minutes and the whole scene was too dreamy for my eyes!
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| #beautiful |
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| Ain't it magical? |
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| Could I have them all? |
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| Coffee was much needed for the six-hour train journey. |
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| Gingerbread latte with cute ginger-man biscuit. |
All five of us finally got together after midnight and Vivian's instant noodles certainly made me feel a lot better after the painfully long journey. It made me miss all the time when I was surrounded by my Smurfies so much.
On the next day, we had a lovely Pizza lunch and a wonderful Skype session with most of the Smurfies. Although it was just a short weekend together, it was really heartwarming and I was really reluctant to go back to Dorset to deal with reality again.
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| Pizza time! |
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| Missed their company so much! |
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| Proper Chinese dinner with round table. |
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| I needed more weekends like this, seriously. |
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| Would miss them a lot. |
With Christmas coming up real soon, I hoped that I would get the chance to meet up with all these beautiful souls once again. But as of right now, I had to go back to work, put on that smiley face and be a good boy so that I would be on Santa's good list this year.
Till next time then, bye! XOXO. =)
Till next time then, bye! XOXO. =)
Sledgehammer - Fifth Harmony