The Queen & Castle - Kenilworth

Hi friends,

It was not a good idea to go out in the evening 3 times in a week. I feel warn out now and so does my wallet…

On Tuesday, I went out for meal with my colleagues to welcome a lovely Indian colleague who is visiting the UK for a couple of weeks. We went to the Queen and Castle in Kenilworth.

I forgot to take the photo of foods, but they were great and I had good time with equally great company.

Stay Positive - the Result of the Tarot Reading

Hi friends,

Yet again, my favourite tarot reader Kathy was spot on. She predicted my promotion a couple of weeks ago and guess what? I got it.

“I think you are having difficult time, lots of stress and conflicts in your life at the moment. Everyone knows you are good at what you are doing and I think you will receive some kind of recognition. Something like promotion at work. It is happening soon, matter of few weeks.”

OMG.

When my manager told me about my promotion, I got goose bumps.

She also told me to stay positive and I will put everything behind me, can step forward and go further. What encouraging words! I believe 100%. After all, I have nothing to lose as she said.

Stay positive. 

Anti-aging Breakfast

Hi friends,

Breakfast this morning, as usual.

This is my favourite salad. Ham and carrots with mayonnaise and French mustard.

Slice carrots thinly and boil them for few minutes with pinch of salts and then, add chopped ham and mix them with mayonnaise and mustard (French is better for salad.) I normally add cucumber in this salad but could not find it in the fridge this morning.

Rice with sesame, carrots, Hijiki (a kind of kelp) and A-ge (a kind of bean curd).

Miso soup contains tofu, onion and A-ge.

Followed by Vitamin C water and Vitamin A and B complex.       

My ant-aging breakfast….

Environ Aging Well Collection - Limited Edition

Hi friends,

Old girls talk. 

Ladies, if there is a salon dealing with Environ products near you. Go now and get this.

This is a limited edition for this autumn. Aging Well Collection. £65 for these.

Simply fabulous. 

Breakfast and Welsh Cakes

Hi friends,

Today’s breakfast. As I had been eating sandwiches for days, I missed rice.

My good friend in London sent me few ingredients such as sesame. As I like eating more than anything, a food parcel is the best treat for me.

And, mid-morning snack.

Welsh cakes.

I quite like simple sweets rather than sophisticated decorative cakes with lots of creams. 

Breakfast and Pudding

Hi friends,

What depressing days, so wet, dark and chilly!

To cheer me up a bit, I used a pink table mat this morning. (The photo is bit dark, isn’t it? It shows how dark my cottage is…)

And pudding, off course.

I know what you want to say, yes I am on diet. Trust me my dear ladies and gentlemen, it makes more sense to have a pudding at breakfast rather than at supper. We can burn the calories of it by evening, can’t we? 

What a week!

Hi friends,

Don’t you sometimes feel “one after another”? I just had the very week like that.

My old school has a society for graduates and its committee issues a newsletter on a regular basis. The chairperson of the society contacted me in late August with a request to write a little article for their newsletter.

To cut a long story short, 3 great old girls (M, M and H) came back to my life thanks to the support of the committee member.

As we shared so much, good memories, laughs and tears at the peak of my life, it was overwhelming to hear from them again. As I am far away from home, it really means a lot to me. I thank the lady, Ms YS, who made it happen and having big sisters (that is how we call older students in my school) like them made me so proud of being a graduate of the school. My sincere thanks to Ms KV and Ms YS.

It happened at the beginning of the week, and in the middle of the week, my favourite German guy contacted me after few years silence. We both know where we are but we lost in touch in the past years because of the geographical distance. This man is a great laugh. Who said German people have no sense of humour?

He is two years older than me and a hopeless chauvinist. Normally such men can be annoyingly condescending but in his case, it makes him so funny and charming.

Contain your excitement my darling ladies and gentlemen. I am sure that we have warm friendship between us but no more than that.

On Friday, I saw 2 old friends in the canteen at work. What coincidence! We used to work for the same company in Oxford in 90s. After that, I moved to Derbyshire and lost in touch with them for a while. When I came back to Warwickshire nearly 6 years ago, we went to the best Thai restaurant in Banbury for celebration but since then we had not seen each other.

Although we work for different companies, we are still working in the same industry where we started and we knew we can trace each other through business contacts any time. I think that is why we have not actively communicated to each other.

It was quite funny that I was waiting for an aeroplane in snowy Dusseldorf 9 months ago and was chatting with a chap who went to the same school with one of them.

“He is my mate.” “On my God, he is my mate, too!”

Funnily enough, the very man contacted me through Linkedin 2 days after I came back from Dusseldorf. How weird!

And on Friday, he and another friend of mine were waiting for someone in the canteen in my company. Although both of them looked bit aged, they are still great laugh and the moment we stared talking, our friendship is back. We talked and laughed a lot and I am sure our table was the loudest one in the noisy canteen.

What a week! 6 old friends back to my life!