While the Britons celebrate the present time with firework displays, a good bonfire or a feast of sausages, the Americans are bursting with excitement at their first elected black US president - Mr Obama! So much so that my internet server was hung during election time - I guess it must be sightly before the result was announced!
With the countless firework displays (I lost count of how many I caught tonight from my apartment window), it almost feels like it is saying 'Hurray to Obama's victory!'. In any case, the sights and sounds of these firework displays had helped to lighten up the depressing mood a little..It won't make the rough ride ahead any smoother but it it did bring some cheers to the contrasting economic crises.
I very much wish to share with you these wonderful pyrotechnic displays but my photographic skills are rather limited (or perhaps I am absolutely clueless to the different functionalities of my digital camera). Below's my best attempt to capturing one of the firework (yes..just some white dots against a black backdrop). You could perhaps make out the very blur skyscrapers and a lonesome baby firework on the left and right of the pic respectively! Well.. guess u can't expect too much when I haven't figured out how to switch the mode of my camera to night scene or something!
So kindly use all your imaginations please! ok ok... I will try harder the next time!
While the rest of the British population (excluding mostly the accountants, the workaholics (if there are any left still) and the night shift workers) are setting off and enjoying the fireworks, my hubby and his colleagues were still coped up in the office slogging over their PCs. Having survived on delivery dinner and burning midnight oils in the office for the past few days, my dear is adamant to return home to join me for dinner tonight. I caught a little of the festive bug and decided to cook something different tonight. Nope! It isn't going to be a feast of sausages.
We ended up eating supper rather than dinner but nevertheless an enjoyable meal of baked breaded chicken goujons, mash potato topped with creamy fresh mushroom sauce, spinach and rice together with orange juice and fresh grapes for a balance diet. My first unplanned attempt to making my very own creamy mushroom sauce. I happened to have all the right ingredients and it's only a matter of downloading the right recipe! And did I enjoy my fruit of labour? Definitely a Yes! :DAnd if you think we are turning into gluttons and growing by the minutes..we are happy to say that the fats are burnt off relatively faster (or at least that's what we think!!) as we do more walking in this cold weather. In fact, we are glad to experience a couple of cms off our waists..unless we are bluffed by the illusion of the contraction of our pants during the winter seasons! Haha!
