Category Archive:   Out & About


We went to friends’ place for the lunch this Sunday. Before I got to their place, my mouth was already watering, thinking that we were going to have “Shao Ji Gong” (a kind of spicy chicken stew using rooster as a main ingredient), which I only tried once in my life back to 1998 or 1999 in Chongqing when I went to visit my boyfriend’s parents ( that boyfriend had been upgraded into my husband soon after ).

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We finally went to the Show, just to walk around to get some fresh air and register ourselves to this annual event in Canberra and then be able to say “we’ve been there and done that!” Apart from the same oldies at the show – the beautiful tulips (plus other types of flowers) and happy, [...]

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I don’t know if this is Weston Park or not. Four of us, myself, my husband, our friends (a couple) spent a little time in Yarralumla Nursery shop after our Yum Cha lunch in Deakin, then just walked passed the coffee shop, headed into English Garden, going towards the bush, then crossed a little bridge. [...]

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoxRICqvtKI] We see a lot of black swans in the lake here, but we seldom see a black swan family of 3 passing by. What amazed me was the family bond in the animal world, which is so similar to what we have in human society. Mom, dad and their child…… They stick to each [...]

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To see and play with snow was the part of the plan. Coming a long way to Fairview, which is situated at the foot of snowy mountain range, it would be just silly if we missed the snow capped mountain. So in that morning, we drove through the country grassland, went into the bushes, passed [...]

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It is the second time I visited here, but to be honest with you, I still can’t quite get where exactly Fairview is located on the earth. All I know is, this place is half an hour drive from Tumbarumba township on one end and on the other end, it about another 40 minutes from [...]

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