October 9, 2005 Archives
It's still a pretty sight (If you don't know what you're looking at, then the answer is: Montreal Canadiens are in first place of the whole freakin' league! OMG, the Habs' fandom is blowing blood vessels everywhere...)
The congee is almost right. I'll let it simmer for a bit and shut down the rice cooker for the night.
So that was a chicken broth-based rice congee. It's the first time I make one with care (I went to buy chicken bones on Thursday after work, looking for some in three different grocery shops...). A sweet smell is floating in the upper floors of our house (Chicken stock, but also of the garlic from my brother's instant noodles post-midnight snack). It's really dark outside, but then I'd rather not have to stay home another weekend evening ('cuz it's apparently Labour Day Thanksgiving weekend - the non-work routine's put me off with all sort of public holidays).
[music: Faye Wong - 天空]
I haven't seen dinosaur fossils since I was a kid, and probably in Ottawa or Toronto, b/c I don't think we have a permanent dino expo going on here in this city. But then, there was this exhibit in the Old Port, in the Parc des Écluses running since June for until October 31st. They're fossils excavated from China, and the exhibit is organized by the Dalian Museum of Natural History, if I can recall what was written on the board, and certainly the same one that organized that dino bones exhibit in Taikoo Shing in Hong Kong, which people raved about in the press while I was there (I might be getting my numbers mixed up, but I thought I read a report saying there were going to be 4 million people visiting the exhibit in HK by the end of it - which is like half of HK population ^^;). But when we went, it was totally empty (a Tuesday evening, albeit warm for October)...
It's like the Pyramids, but all lot different category of old. Wut, these shapes existed 65 million years old? ... So much infinity, cannot grasp...
The neat thing were the pinyin names of the dinosaurs excavated in China (the mixture of English, and "Chinese" is bloody amusing).