It's so hard to imagine one whole month has gone by.

School's been pretty hectic, lots of homework. Our teacher says most of us still have a hard time with handwriting. So we've had to take home a lot of writing assignments.

I've been coughing a lot for about a week now. The weather for the last two weeks has been cold for our standards, dipping down to about 12 degrees celsius in the early hours. Then Wednesday last week, all of a sudden it's humid and hot. No wonder a lot are sick these days.

And with the Chinese new year next week, I thought I'd share with you what I take for my cough. Here's picture of the product:


It's called Pei Pa Koa (in Cantonese) and it's a honey loquat drink. It's great for coughs and sore throat. My father knows a Chinese herbalist who adds some kind of herby substance which makes it work doubly fast. We just don't know what that herby substance is called in English. Oh well, maybe some day ...

We were going through some of the old Christmas pictures when we dug this one up (click the thumbnail on your right to enlarge).

We were visiting at my godmother's two Christmas' ago. She and her husband have a very big house (click the pic on the left) and was very nicely decorated for Christmas. I think it was so nice, Nigel decided to take liberties with some of the decorations.

As we were all in the living room, my father suddenly saw Nigel lift that ceramic plate over his head and in one fell swoop, bashed it to the ground! As you can imagine, there was a long period of silence that immediately followed.

So my mother went and gave Nigel a piece of her mind, and my father decided to pull out his camera and take a picture of the broken ornament. He said he'll show it to Nigel when he's a teen-ager so he'll know what a destroyer he was when he was small.

I think that's really funny.

Here's the video of the dance presentation our class did for our Christmas party which I've promised to post. It's about 2-1/2 minutes long. I had so much fun performing in this presentation so I hope you'll enjoy watching it too.