escapades of the elusive kat

It was mostly holidays last week so I didn't have a formal look, haha.

So... my different get ups:

End of the day after-shower pajama look: I bought a specific headband that would cover my ears because I hate in the middle of the night mosquito flying sounds near my ear... I have some sort of irrational fear of mosquitos and mini cockroaches creeping into my ears.


Even if we do not intend to go out, we always get changed into day clothes during the day. For one, even if we are not going out, we still need to walk the dogs. So it's always comfy clothes during the day. There are some Chinese people, by my experience, those from Shanghai, go out in their pajamas. I don't think I've seen that when in Guangzhou. But Shanghai, it was an eye-opening experience. People in pyjamas at the mall ("The Friendship Store" in the old days), people in pyjamas going out on their bikes in the highly polluted streets. How do you go back home and sleep in that?


And then my go to work look. Whenever I'm dressed formal-ish I like to put on subtle weird jewelry... such as this dinosaur earrings LOL. Some people notice and they comment on the childish accessory, which then I say that this is a brand. It's the Sport b. Dino (under the Agnes b. umbrella)!

Hello world!
I missed the 19-November GAMD and it could have been exciting, as it's the Grand Prix in Macau. However, I don't really like the Grand Prix, and I didn't go anyway, so I have nothing to show about that. Here I am with my 23-November instead.

The morning starts pretty much as usual.


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And that was my day! Hope you enjoyed!

Hello! This seemed like an interesting challenge so here it goes. A house tour, or in my case, an apartment tour. First, a NOT-drawn-to-scale floor plan, I'm no architect, haha. Green brackets are windows. Pink things are doors. We start from the big arrow which is the entrance to the apartment. Oh, and photos are taken in wide-angle, so I don't know... rooms look smaller than they are? or bigger?


So first we are greeted with the Dining Room. Weird how the main entrance leads to the Dining Room? Well, because, originally, this was the living room. The room further off, now marked as living room, was part of the open-top verandah. Mom decided we didn't have enough space to closed off part of the verandah so we could have an extra room. So, the main entrance leads to the Dining Room. We go further in, and that's the living room. Everything's messy and upside down because we have no visitors LOL. If and when there are visitors, Mom would command us to clean up, put the chairs in place, and all that.


( See the rest of the apartment under the cut )
So this is the apartment I live in! Please excuse the mess in... most of the rooms LOL.

Hello again! Yes. I am writing about 25-July because my 24-July was much the same as the other one I posted previously 12-July. We got to go back to work on 25-July, so here I am!

As usual, it's early morning for me. I wake up, but don't roll around in bed. I quickly go through my morning ablutions.


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There you go! Hopefully the restrictions will continue to loosen over the next few days and life can really get back to normal!

Ah... this book I'm currently reading just isn't gripping my attention... it's been dragging. I'm currently reading The King's Cartographer. I'm not sure if it's because I'm still in the beginning and the book is still setting the tone/backstory... so it was still all a very narrative type of "so this guy went there to say that" and whatnot...

but I'm just not getting hooked.

Since we are talking about books, I just found out another Harry Potter actor is going to publish a book. I've pre-ordered, and I guess I'll just wait for October. So... that I know of, 3 of the Harry Potter (child) actors have published books. Are there any more? I'm amendable to reading those. Evanna's was interesting enough with the topic of anorexia, Bonnie's read like a term paper (sorry)... Tom's pretty humorous on his IG, so hopefully his will bring some humor too.

(X-posted on DW glimpseatmyday)

The challenge: Show a different meal each day during the week 23-27 May 2022. No 2 consecutive same meals (e.g. breakfast and breakfast)

Monday 23-May-2022, Breakfast
Lately, the family has been loving this Nissin breakfast granola cereal thing. Nissin is known for their instant noodles, and breakfast cereals are pretty new, at least to us. We've tried a few of the flavours, and my personal favorite is this one: Matcha. Next on my favorite is the Caramel Nuts. The Strawberry one is okay, but I vehemently dislike the other 2 flavors (which I haven't even cared to remember what the flavor name is), because they've got RAISINS in it. I.hate.raisins.

Tuesday 24-May-2022, Snacks
Alright, if you check the photo exif data it shows the photo was taken on 23-May, but that's because I took the photo on this day. We've been happily munching on this all week.
As a kid, my Mom would buy this weird red-colored something-strips for snacks. It's pretty delicious, a tiny bit sweet, and tiny bit of spicy for a kick. I never knew what that was, but that Mom would buy that from an... either a Chinese apothecary or a Chinese dry goods store. But that store closed down, and I haven't had that since. It just so happened that a specialty store imported this from Hong Kong and I saw their post on facebook, so I had them reserve it for me. NOW, I know it's actually some kind of dried and seasoned fish strips.

Wednesday 25-May-2022, Lunch
I had a meeting in the afternoon at an off-office location, and I wanted to check out their F&B, I anticipated I would be snacking around there, so for lunch, I decided to have a light lunch of a Spicy Lentils Soup and some toast.

Thursday 26-May-2022, Dinner
This is a bit of a cheat, because... it's a very many photos LOL. Well, I went for a private dining kitchen thing, おまかせ Omakase. I know the chef guy from before already, but one of my friends really wanted to try it out, and he moved to a new location, so we went to try. He outdid himself again. Since it's a special menu, I'm posting the menu as well (it's a mix of Japanese and Chinese, translation for reference):

日替前菜 蛸🐙mariné 縁側魚炙🐟 三文魚牛油果🥑沙津盛      鮪漬け 熊本和牛叩き 東京巨蛋豬煲 咖哩豬扒🐷 流水素麺🌊 KIKA雪糕🍦

Appetiser Marinated Octopus Seared... Flounder maybe Salmon Avocado Salad Pickled Tuna Kumamoto Beef Egg with veggies and mushroom hot pot Curry Pork Cutlet Nagashi Somen (Soba noodles served in flowing stream) Kika (brand) ice cream (no photo; Okinawa Sea Salt flavor)

Oh, and I forgot the MOST IMPORTANT thing... he has a dog. I forgot to ask for the dog's name. But as you can see, I made a new friend LOL!
Friday 27-May-2022, Supper Dessert
Actually, I had another amazing Japanese dinner on this day, but I couldn't show two same meals consecutively... LOL so here my post-dinner dessert. The dessert at that Japanese place wasn't particularly enticing (just the usual ice cream in frozen fruit, which you can buy in the local supermarkets anyway), so we decided to go to a specialty sweet-soup shop. What I have here is a Black Sesame and Walnut Paste/Soup. 芝麻合桃糊. Not the best I've had. The best I've had was in China, just at the border before coming to Macau. I wonder if that shop is still open. I've heard it's since shut down due to lack of business... but I don't know. I don't think I'd go through all the hassle of getting a Visa for China, and then having to go through all those travel requirements (PCR/NAT test, certificate of vaccination, and all that) just for a sojourn of 2 hours in China for dessert.

X-posted from glimpseatmyday 

As it's a Sunday, I'm not in the office, so I haven't got a photo of the view from the office (which is more interesting than this, I guess).

You can see I stuck some glass stickers on the left side of my window, that's because the left window looks directly into the neighbour's window, and I hate closed curtains, so I stuck something there instead. Still lets light in, but neighbour can't see me. (Once as a kid I didn't realize the neighbour was there and I was changing and he saw me stark naked)


Looking out of the window, you can see the neighbour's balcony on the left, and the plants you see on the right are from our own balcony. The buildings opposite us are not too tall, so we still get a good bit of sunshine and sky view.

(X-posted on LJ glimpseatmyday and DW glimpseatmyday )

Another big hello from... dreary Macau! It's overcast, it's humid, it's foggyish, it's grey. It's also Monday, so there isn't really much to show about today. I also didn't want to show the same few morning ablutions images, so there are some different things being shown today.

I kind of binge-watched Netflix for a while last night (I did force myself to lights off and sleep at around quarter past midnight, so it wasn't that bad), but I was still tired this morning at woke up at 7ish. One bulb left on my orchid to open! Look at that beauty!


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Hope you enjoyed my boring work day!