I received pretty shocking news a few days ago. My uncle is diagnosed with terminal cancer. I was shocked. I rescheduled my flight ticket and left yesterday. I am currently in San Francisco at the airport waiting for my connecting flight. I can’t believe this is happening. I have seen many people in my family dying of cancer - especially the elderly and I am sure that it has to do with the war and the agent orange that the Americans have spread over Vietnam. I have cried and cried and cried the last couple of days and I hope that I will be strong enough in a few hours when I will be seeing my uncle again. He is only 59. Life is just too short - live it to it’s fullest!

As mentioned earlier - I am about to sell my Yamaha GC1 Grand Piano.
It’s black, polished and has 3 pedals.

I bought it brandnew in 2003 from the dealer.

Location: South of Germany

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~ The guestroom which serves as a
music room for me. I also play the cello ~

I found this bag at an asian food store while travelling and could not resist and had to actually buy it for my coworkers to try. Ha ha. It is true. There are about 30 small entire little crabs with legs and shells in this bag. They were marinated in soy sauce and then slightly roasted. It seems to be a party snack. Hmm. I wonder what they taste like. Does that sound yummy or what? lol

Talking about crab. I have also tried raw marinated blue crab, also known as Gae Jang in Korea and must say it’s one of my favorite Korean dishes. Yep. It’s just a bit hard to eat. Imagine you are biting into a crab leg and are slurping out the tender meat while others are watching you. Huhh. Very adventurerous. You have to try it before you say that it is disgusting, right?

Work has caught up on me this week. OMG I feel so burned out. I need a break soon….My back was aching as hell after carrying this backpack. I had to see a physiotherapist to straighten it and crack my bones.

So I am getting ready to travel on business in a couple of weeks again going back to California. Hopefully the weather will not be as hot as over here….Stay tuned!

~ The hat is a gift of my friends from Nantes, France ~

Volker’s parents were really nice and welcoming. I was relieved. We had a fun time together. I went downstairs to the basement to work my way through all those boxes. I managed to throw away piles of paper that represented at least a decade of my so far entire life, donated clothes to charity organizations but also managed to fill a big suitcase and a big backpack and inherited the rest to them. After giving his mom an introduction on how to use the Internet I felt asleep in the room that they had provided for me and slept like a bear. The morning was relaxed and after a nice breakfast with them we were heading all together to the train station. I am relieved that we all still get along so nicely. In fact I am still in contact with some of my former boyfriends. They still like me. Over the years we have developped a very good friendship. I consider myself lucky. I often hear that guys don’t like to stay in touch with their ex-girlfriends…but in my case it seems to be different. Fortunately.

After my arrival in Hannover I had to switch the plattform and for some reason managed to hop on the wrong train. I guess after reading the board I was pretty sure that this was my train. After living all these years in Germany I should have known better. The train was heading down south, was leaving at the same time and the same plattform. After being on dat train for awhile, I realized that it was the wrong one. Oops! Luckily I was able to get off during the next stop and still was able to catch the correct one which arrived a couple of minutes later. What a relief! Now I just hope that I will be able to catch my connection in Mannheim. Otherwise I will have to wait another hour. Everybody wish me luck!

I almost felt off my bed this morning when my cell phone starting to ring. It was James who gave me a wake-up call so that I wouldn’t be late for my train. Huhh. That was early. The phone rang at exactly 4:15 am. My train was leaving somewhat after 5 am. I took my 5 minute shower, blow-dried my hair and threw my stuff in my suitcase while calling the cab. I almost missed the train by only a few seconds. After jumping in, I peaked outside the door to ensure that I was about to take the right train. The announcing board showed the correct direction which calmed me down. You know, at that time of the day you may end up just taking the wrong direction, hic hic. But everything was fine. So now, I am on my way to Hannover to meet a few of my old collagues and friends that I haven’t seen for quite awhile. Three more hours to go. Yay! I am content, after all.

Having worked like a crazy horse all week long I feel exhausted to the point that I could just faint any minute. I finished today at around 8pm and came home. My appartment looks like a mess. It needs cleaning but I am too tired. I am too tired to cook too. I am craving for Naeng myeon, a Korean cold noodle soup with ice cubes.

Wishful thinking, silly me.

Plus: I was fed up. Fed up with the bad and sad news that I had to partially cope with. Apart from the stress at work I heard of two people that died within this week and one who had tried to commit suicide. What a world! Life is too short. What a miserable life I am leading at the moment. I gotta do something about it. Damn it!

I am preparing myself to go up north tomorrow morning. I will be heading to Hannover to meet some close friends and then will continue to meet the parents of my former boyfriend that live close to Bremen. It will be a tyring trip. I will be travelling for at least 8 hours one way. I need to go through some of my boxes that I had left at their place while I was moving down to the southern part of Germany. I am excited to seeing them again. They are like a second set of parents for me. I hope that they can forgive me for breaking up with their son. I know that I have hurt them alot but I sincerely hope that we can keep in touch because they still mean alot to me….I may be old-fashioned but to me I would only consider a guy if his parents would approve of me and that my mom approves of as well.

~ Dinner ~  

How much I cherish these moments that we can share. It’s so
valuable to me. Jagee-ya, sarang haeyooooooo

Watched the movie when I visited the US. I love most of the Korean drama songs. The movie is okay since the story is somewhat unrealistic and is going back and forth for quite abit but the music is awesome! Enjoy!

~ My first shabu shabu experience ~

Just flew over to LA to be with James on his birthday. I got lucky since my seat was upgraded to Business class for free. That was really awesome. Thank you Lufthansa!!
James invited me over to Little Tokyo where I had my first experience of eating Shabu Shabu at the Shabu Shabu house. It’s like a hot pot where you cook all kinds of vegetables and very thinly sliced pieces of beef in a hot broth. There are two kinds of dips and it is served with a bowl of rice. Hmmm. This place was really good. I recommend to come early since the seats are taken quickly (around 30-45 minutes before they open!) and they have a waiting list. While driving through downtown LA we also happen to see the shooting of a new music video with Avril Lavigne.