25 May 2011 - Solitude Promenade

I just realized that I don't need to "sync" this blog with my Korean one - why should I? Okay, my idea at the beginning was doing so, but it's just pointless to translate from Korean to English and vice versa whenever I write one. So, from today, I'll keep my English blog alive in its own way. (yes, here goes the first post of the year 2011)

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Basel, May 2011

There's a little (but nice) street called "Solitude Promenade" in Basel (Switzerland), which leads you to "Solitudepark" in the end. Solitude Promenade! What a nice name it is! It's on the northern bank of Rhein river (I actually don't know whether you should call it as 'northern bank' or 'right (or left?) bank', haha, so googlemap it if you're really curious) and it actually allows you to do a "promenade with solitude". The day I went there, I was not 'solitude' - I was with my husband. We were talking about everything and nothing without holding our hands - the weather was too warm to hold hands (plus, holding hands could annoy other bicyclers or joggers - now I see all people there were 'solitude' by ether riding bicycle or jogging, ha!).

Basel, May 2011

When you pass by "Solitudepark", there's Tinguely Museum (a beautiful building designed by Mario Botta, by the way). Did you know Niki de Saint Phalle was Tinguely's wife? (Me, I didn't know until that day, so when I saw her work in front of his fountain, I couldn't make any connection. No wonder that they did the amazing fountain near to Centre Pompidou together!)

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My husband is away for business trip till Friday and, of course, the stupid volcano decided to cough up some ash into the sky right on time. I just wish the flight won't be canceled on Friday (Last year, when this thing happened, his manager was stranded in Norway almost for a week).

I watched 'Reality Bites (1994)' last night (it's called 'Génération 90' in French, haha) on tv (thanks to some English tv channels we ordered recently), an old movie (I cannot believe I should say "old" to such a movie made in 90s) which you can see Ben Stiller and Ethan Hawke look so young that you can understand why girls in my age used to worship Ethan Hawke so much back then. Anyway, watching that movie made me be 'nostalgic' - a life without internet, iPhone, or facebook, but still with a lot of things to do and much fun as well. Yes, I'm talking about 'me being nostalgic' by typing on my blog rather than listening to old songs or going through my old pictures... ha!

1 January 2011 - A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It has been long since I updated this blog (I mean, English version. My other blog in Korean is happily thriving day by day, haha), I even forgot the password to log-in my blogspot account!!! *ㅁ*);

Aaaaanywayssss, it's a new year, a new start, and a new post.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR, all of you, whoever you are, wherever you are, and whatever you do!


There were maybe 30-minute-long fireworks on New Year's Eve where I live, it was a quite great spectacle (especially when you can see them from your kitchen - no need to wear a coat or gloves to go out!).

30 July 2010 - ¡Feliz Cumpleaños!

O doesn't like his own birthday parties.

So I decided to organize a simple, private birthday party for him :)

O with raspberry cheesecake.

¡¡¡¡¡Feliz Cumpleaños, O!!!!!

24 July 2010 - a package from Korea

We were not expecting anybody on last Saturday, so when someone rang the doorbell, we were wondering whom it can be. When we saw a postman holding a big package from Korea, we were really excited to receive a nice surprise. My friend YK has sent us a wonderful collection of Korean goodies!!

For a few seconds, this package made me believe it has popsicles inside... haha

There were Pad Thai sauce and Japanese Soba sauce inside!

and some cosmetics!

plus, a Korean magazine and a book about Kimchi for O! :D

Thank you so much YK!!!!! :D You're so sweet!!!

14 July 2010 - le quatorze juillet

Le quatorze juillet (July 14, Le Fête Nationale), which is Bastille Day in English, is one of the most important national holidays in France. I know not much about French history, but as far as I know, the day when angry crowd stormed into Bastille prison was the 14th of July in 1789... am I right?

So, every year on this day in France, they do many interesting things, like parades on Champs-Elysées (and you can watch it on TV, if you wake up early enough - well, not really early early, but considering it's a bank holiday, you tend to sleep until late morning, right?) or French president and First Lady (this year, you could see beautiful Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, O couldn't take his eyes off TV screen) waving their hands... Well, but the crème de la crème of Bastille Day is the fireworks (feu d'artifice in French). They say the fireworks in Paris is superb (I've never seen it yet), but most of French cities also do fireworks on July 13 or July 14. The town where we live did beautiful fireworks on July 13 from 10:30PM.

The town was already crowded (at 8:00 PM)
We had dinner at the Italian restaurant in vieille ville,
and the fireworks was beginning when we finished dinner.

We began to run to have a better view.

run!!!

We met G and H in this big crowd!! :D