11/12/2010

A wedding is around corner!

   This weekend is the wedding of my cousin(so happy).


This photo was taken by my older cousin! In the middle was my cousin
and her husband.




   My cousin is 4 years older than me. Since she graduated from senior high school, she has started to work. For me, she is a mature girl.


   The man she gonna marry is the one introduced by one of my father's friends, who is much older than her(around 6-7 years). He comes from Minsyong, a town in Chiayi county, and works in Chimei, which is located in my hometown, Tainan. At my first time to see him from a photo of my sister, i was tollay surprised and hard to believe that my cousin is his girlfriend and is going to marry him! Maybe, there is something I can not find out from the outside( I did not interact with him). And that is the reason my cousin decides to marry him.


   In Taiwan custom, a normal wedding process is that there are two wedding banquets for both of family. One is for the husband side family and relatives, and another is for wife side. Most of wedding are usually arranged on the weekend, enabling guests are availble to attend wedding banquet. For the husband side, one more special thing is that the previous day before wedding banquet the family of the husband needs to thank the master of God for a nice marriage with some fruit and cookies, which is quite important to the marriage in Taiwan custom. 
   
   Wedding banquet is a small part of Taiwan traditional wedding, and there are many aspects before and after wedding banquet. You may google them on the internet. Basically, in Taiwan tradition custom you will find it is not easy to marry a guy/ woman in Taiwan(if you wanna... hehe). 

11/06/2010

Local Breakfast of Tainan

   Today I woke up at 6:30am, and went to have breakfast with my family. What we ate was the local breakfast of Tainan.You may see it in all cities of Taiwan, but actually it is common at southern Taiwan. Instead of fried bread stick and boiled dumpling(famous traditional Chinese food), people in Tainan get used to have braised pork rice, rice noodles and fish ball soup as their first meal in a day.

   Without the firnished dining space as you see the picture below, both of the restaurants are quite famous in Tainan city. One is called Baocheng, another is Atang. They are closed to each other, but what they provide are totally different.

It is the restaurant providing sheep dishes.
Traditional Pure Sheep soup with soy sause

Adopted from this blog: http://chim1237.pixnet.net/blog/post/3288188

This one providing the seafood dishes and rice with soup. 

   As the number of western breakfast store increases in Taiwan and the western lifestyle invades this small island, more and more teenagers don't have Taiwan traditional breakfast(like sth introduced above) and they prefer hamburger and fried chicken. Maybe, next time while visiting Tainan, the historical city of Taiwan, you may spend some time on this Tainan Breakfast!

11/04/2010

【Fam.】It's a Raining Day


Now is raining.... 

Since I woke up in the morning, the weather has seemed not good.  I did not go out, instead I stayed at home for a whole day.

Because I don't get a job, I suppose to stay at home and spend less money on everything. Any expenses will be the reason my mom gets angry. Take recent situtation happened few days ago as an example, I bought my favorite green tea in family market in order to get some bonus from the AD campign. While returning to home, my mom got angry at my drink. She thought I stayed at home and drank tea all the day, which cost me much. therefore I should drink less, in her opinion....  

I didn't think it is reasonable, kinda ridiculous. After that moment, I decided the job maybe should not be located in Tainan...