once in a few moon

i am now in ethiopia. so the title of this blog should actually be, sunny in ET.

but in ethiopia, blogspot had been blocked. so for a year and a half now, i couldnt update, or even see my past archives.

once in a few moon, i was able to access. but is it now because its name is blogger instead of blogspot? im pretty sure that a year and a half ago, the name was blogspot!

anyway, maybe this means i can update my life in ET.

:)

bunny

i went to peter's yard today, and ordered a cappuccino like always.

when it was brought to me, i was pleasantly surprised to see a bunny on my coffee. im glad that i sat in today, coz if i had taken it away, i would not have been able to see this :)

see, slow life does bring happiness!

cameron & clegg

election is a big party. now that the festival is over, the hard part is just starting. can the tory-lib dem coalition pull Britain out of its recession??? certainly, a new wind will be blowing in no.10 downing st, but for better or for worse? we have yet to find out.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version - Official

OMG OMG OMG!!! my friend kimkim sent me this link and it is absolutely AMAZING!!!!

i knew about this video, coz it was on the news a while back, but i never saw it in full.

this is f***ing amazing. i dont usually use the f word, lol, but it is totally appropriate to use here.

LOVE IT!!!! go creative artists!!!!

jessie's birthday :)

It was Jessica's 26th birthday yesterday.

so we surprised her with cupcakes!!!!

it was yuuuuuuummmmmmmy :D :D :D

ZUMBA!!!

OMG!!! it was SUPER fun!!!!!

every monday at 6pm @Bongo club on hollyrood rd :)

Edinburgh with Hannah!

Hannah came from london to visit me in edi:)

we've been to edinburgh together last summer for a few days for the festival already, so this time it was more about relaxin&talkin :D

We did a cafe crawl to some of my favorite coffee places.

First, I took her to spoons above black medicine coffee&co.

I had delicious vegitable antipasti & pitta for lunch.

Then, I took her to Peter's Yard and had yummy coffee and rhubarb tart. Peter's Yard is just by the meadows and they have the best swedish pastries and coffee. i love love.

Then we did a walk through the meadows...

We also went to Deli's cafe, an indian cafe with the BEST chai tea ever. Then we went home and i made us thai curry, and we watched Almost famous my favorite movie of all times :)

The next day, we went to cramond island, just 30 min away from the centre by bus 41. It's an island that u can walk to, if u go there during low tide :) we checked the tidal time table, and went there at the peak of low tide!

It was beautiful!!!!

After we came back to edinburgh, we had lunch at elephant&bagels, and then we went up Arthur's seat :) we went up the full 250m! yay! lol to think that addis is 10 times higher than arthur's seat is pretty incredible!

As always, i had the best best time with Hannah!!!!

im gonna visit her for her birthday this month in london :)

cant wait to see her again!!!!!

Beltane

On the 30th of April, we went to Beltane, the festival of fire, coming of summer, and most importantly, NUDITY!!!! lol

it was quite something.

the red ppl were half naked, dancing, and chanting.

i didnt really understand it, but the performance was really exciting. there were tons of ppl there, although it cost £8.50 to get in.

what i found a bit disappointing was the lack of interaction between the performers and the audience.

it would have been a more exciting event, if the dynamic of the event wasn't performers/audience, but if there were more integration between the two.

all in all, it was an event worth going to!!!

it looks like there's one for each season, Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhuinn so it would be interesting to see the other ones too!

pizza time!

　

　

roald is such a great cook!!!!

photos

i made a photo blog!

winking koala bear.

omg!!! i brought 'コアラのマーチ(koala-no-maachi)' (koala's march)

to my friends today. it's a sweet snack from japan and its very nice :)

as i was telling them, that if u find a koala bear that's winking, it's good luck, my friend jessica took one, and said,

'does it look like this?'

It's WINKING!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOW!!!!!

sunny days in edinburgh

there have been really nice days in edinburgh recently :D

although i had to do my essays, i got to enjoy it too.

well, not this week, but the weeks before that. hehehe

and i will enjoy it for another month!!!! yaaaaay spring!!!!

this is when i went to the botanical gardens with ryan two weeks ago. it was like summer that day!!!! very very nice :D

this was when i went to see kick-ass with jessica! good movie. not appropriate for easter sunday, but still very very funny.

this is from today :) small picnic in the meadows!!!!

more of that to come!!!! yay!!!!

I'm done baby!!!!!!

oh baby baaaby oh baby baaaaby!!!! hehehehehe

i am doooooooooone with my three essays :D :D :D

6000 words each. wrote it in one week baby!!! oh yah!

not that that's anything to be proud of. LOL

and i wasn't even that stressed!

in my defence, i was very distracted from finding out about my new posting, AND i did all my research before writing. so there. LOL

all that matters is that i am done!

now i will start preparing myself for Addis!!!

im less overwhelmed by it and im more & more excited :D

thanks to ryan who psyched me up!!!! yay!!!! go Addis!!!!

things i have to do:

book ticket,

buy new phone,

research for my dissertation,

make bank account,

call landlord,

go to london,

buy work clothes,

go to highlands,

hang out with friends,

learn amharic,

try to remember how to work,

make contact lenses,

go to farmers market,

okay, thats too many things.

ill just sleep for now think about it tomoro.

essays again

why oh why must i always procrastinate?

i made three blogs...

one in japanese: アムセッグナッロ

one for photos&music: it's sunny everyday.

& one for ethiopia: sunny in ethiopia

Overwhelmed

I am completely and utterly overwhelmed at the moment.

A few days ago, I found out my next posting.

As much as it is very very exciting to work again, and the new place is a very exotic new colourful place that I would really really love to explore, I am more overwhelmed than excited.

I just need to breathe, do some thinking, do LOTS of research, organize, and make the most out of it!

i know i can enjoy it. but for now, i just would like to be nervous and scared.