this chocolate-coffee bean treat is a great snack (especially for a coffee fiend like me). picked it up today at the asian mart when my mom sis and i were shopping around for ingredients for dinner (we had oden). and i found myself tsubu-an too! saves me the trouble of having to boil the beans overnight, got it all vacumm-sealed in a pack~

daddy's leaving for sg tmr evening for 2 months, let's hope the three of us don't cause any trouble for mommy.

can't believe my ink keeps on running out so fast! should have looked into the lifespan on ink cartridges when shopping around for a printer, not how fast it prints. -,-

watched Red Cliff Part 2 赤壁下. can't really compare it with the first one since it's been a while since i've watched 赤壁上, but if anything, what struck me was the amount of deaths in the film. i know it may sound stupid (cause obviously there will be deaths in wars and all that), but just learning about the history of china through history books and lessons in school makes it all too sterile, one can sometimes just relate to the deaths in wars as just a number.

and also, the complexity of the language, so unlike the everyday mandarin we speak now. i truly truly love the eloquence and beauty of the speech of that era. i don't do my 爷爷 justice with the horrible chinese i speak today. :P ahh well...

sleep beckons. おやすみ　晚安。
sunset on tuesday evening at caringbah woolies' carpark. the simple things in life. :)