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