Had CHAI TEA after 2 years!!

Just a few hours ago, after 2 years, for the first time I had my chai tea, in my very own house! It was refreshing!

This is how it happened. My house had a gathering to celebrate my housemate's mother's birthday. They are from Thailand, so all guests were Thais exclusively. The mother cooked all the nice entree's for the night, which I couldn't eat but that was not a problem for me. Jesse, my friend, a close-knit to the Somprasong (my housemate's family name) helped with the preparation. So she asked me to try the tea that they made; IT WAS AWESOME!!

It was really good. Today was the seventh day of Ramadhan, and I was so happy that I finally found something to remind me of my hometown.

Those of you who don't know what chai tea is, basically it is a mix of tea and milk. At my hometown, I use concentrated milk to mix it with tea. The popular version is called "teh tarik" in Malaysia, or in direct translation it becomes "pulled tea." Amazing~

I am back!!

It has been one year and a week since my last post. I guess I'm really not into blogging as much as I'm into being a couch potato :P

It is summer now, well mostly in the northern hemisphere. It's been hot these few days, especially in the U.S. It says on the news the heat wave is attacking a large part of the nation, especially in the central northern region like Minnesota & Illinois. Can u believe in some parts up there the highest temperature rises up to 110F (@ 43 C)? What is worse is that the humidity level records a staggering 90-%, and trust me, that is bad. The ideal humidity level should be around 45% to help balance our body temperature. I learned something the other day that if the humidity (relative humidity to be exact) is too high, meaning the ratio of moist air to dry air is high, the moist from our skin will be not be evaporated as much, and our body tends to stay warm and that is not pleasant! Soon enough, if this pattern persists, we'll get hyperthermia. Many people have died from this recently.

However, things get better though. Yesterday it rained for a while, then it stayed windy and cloudy until this morning when it got really sunny. When I am writing this very sentence, it's cloudy again! I guess it'll probably rain a little.

Oh and I have this awesome website to those who wants to be updated with weather report. You can actually view the entire nation's current weather.

http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/2xHumidity.html

No class on Friday.. starting todayyy!!!

Yup, most summer classes are from Monday to Thursday, but for some reason the class I'm taking happens to fill up the weekdays. But it was only for the 1st two weeks of 2nd summer sem, and after that, I won't bother going to school on Friday anymore! Well, it's not that I'm sick of going to school, in fact I'd love to; it's just the summer heat that penetrates through my skin to the bones (exaggerating here), exhausts me; u know how it is right. I guess it requires strong and sturdy determination. Obviously I don't have that, yet. After all, God creates the world in perfect balance; in a hot day like today, there is always cool breeze blowing through every living corner.

My main goal today was to have a productive day, well at least to do what I planned the night before. I wanted to go to school to revise class material for my 1st exam this Monday, and also return the Microsoft Office 07 installation cd and one of the books I checked out from the library. I did all those. The funny thing is, or I should have said the 'unbelievable' thing is, when I woke up this morning, I was thinking about my Cafe World on Facebook, worrying if my dishes were done but if I were too late to serve them, they might probably get spoiled and I lost my money and wouldn't be able to claim my points. lol. Oh and here's the picture of my cafe, called "Suburban Cuisine":

Pretty neat, isn't it? Lucky me, it turned out that I wasn't too late to serve my dishes and managed to get points that jump me up next two levels. Awesome!! If only I could be this committed to doing revision more effectively :P I just got back from the school, and had lunch there. So, right now, I'm pretty much slacking off but going to study again, probably tonight, before meeting up with my friends on Sunday to study together before the exam the day after :)

A Random Blogging Idea

Blogging is something I've never done before. I'm fond of writing and keeping journal, but for some reason blogging never comes across my mind. Wait, I thought about it several times, a lot of times in fact, but I keep putting it off. And right now, I'm sitting on my bed thinking what I'm supposed to tell in my very first post.

Great! I got something!

I'm in Daytona Beach right now, taking a summer class. It's freaking hot here, so hot that wind comes blowing every minute (which is a good thing), yet that's not enough to keep me cool. Wait, y'all know why wind blows more frequently on hot days right? Okay, continuing on, since I've been here for almost a year, so I'd say I'm quite perceptive in forecasting the weather pattern here, though roughly. Tell you what, if the temperature goes up to 80F in at least 3 consecutive days, the forth day might be cloudy or rainy, whereas the 5th day would normally be a sunny, hot day, again. Today, it happened to be the 3rd day, for which I presumed would be sunny. So, I was confident that I might be right thus I decided not to bring along my umbrella (another reason is that I happened to bring my laptop to class so I didn't want to put so much weight plus I needed to bring my thick binder along). Well I guess u know what happened; turned out today it was raining cats and dogs. Ah well bad forecasting, it's not like everyone's doing it right :P

Somehow I was glad it rained today, at least it was not as hot as other days were. That's a beautiful thing about nature, as far as it goes against prediction, it still does us favor.