Rambutan

I so like to open these skins that reveals a hidden yummy fruit. This week we got rambutan at the market (and we did not have to buy a whole box, one kilo could do it). Like many of the other local fruits it is both sweet and sour and I like it (but which local in season fruit/berry not to like).
The spikes are soft and the skin way thinner than on mangosteen, but harder to open. On the mangosteen it is just a push with thumb and forefinger, the rambutan need a two hand hard twist.

How to write

Food is so simple to write about (and I´m already at the computer reading about the ingredient or simply trying to figure out its name). Harder to put down that I love the colorfulness of the people around. All the black hair from China, Indonesia, India, Taiwan, Malaysia, ... and the colorfulness is not just about hair ;-) My address book slowly gives an impression of the surroundings and it makes me smile when I see all these names that I have a hard time pronouncing.

Feels weird, but I have talked way more with English moms here than I did in Oxford. Expats talks to expats, here and there and almost everywhere. US is really special in that sense, it was so easy for us to meet local people in Boulder.

Amanita Design

In Oxford we played Samorost 1 and 2 quite a lot. I loved the small stories we made from the scenes and Lauge´s questions and excitement over the game.
Amanita Design has done it again, we have now played Machinarium since our computer arrived, we were so lucky that Amanita Design released right around when we landed, it is perfect with a new game when settling in a new country. We talk about this little guy in Machinarium almost every day and Lauge tells some fantastic stories about the setup, refers to the story and (of course) ask questions about it.

Another game that has been a lot on table lately is memory game, I´m pretty sure that Lauge will soon win a game. Lauge then thinks I will throw the cards like the guy in Machinarium. He might be right if Janus wins, but I guess I will just be very proud when Lauge tips both of us over.

Box of Mangosteen

It is a fairy tale fruit, a bit boring on the outside, though I like the little flower shaped end at the bottom. A squeeze the right place and the treasure is there, white and shiny surrounded by all the red.
Went to the wholesale centre yesterday and could not buy less than a box so have quite a lot of mangosteen on the balcony. Come by and eat as many as you can.

Machine Park

New in town, no maid and no plans to get one, cleaning, never had a clean home in UK (those wall-to-wall carpets in combination with no suction in the vacuum cleaners), ready to try WipesIt or Domestic1. Four weeks later, yet another Monday waiting for the cleaners for hours, I was so done wasting money and time. We are back to swinging the mop ourself, brooming though takes quite a while and have not had success finding a vacuum on craigslist - and why buy an old fashion machine that need a hand? Zojirushi and Kenwood need company so we will soon welcome Roomba to our house.

Wiggle

In West Coast Park we have found quite a good spot for our hammock, I bet some of the small branches and leaves can wiggle in another way than on danish trees - more like rocking or tic tac clocking.

Choo choo train

Tried to figure out whether we could surprise friends by splashing their hotel pool in Kuala Lumpur this weekend, train would be the option. Unfortunately they are in KL soo short and not even in the weekend, but for next time we look for train options I will go straight to The Man in Seat Sixty-One...

Tap your feet to the beat

Free outdoor concerts, that is the way to go with kids. We will be there for several of the ones in December. In Botanic Gardens we might build a shark from palm leaves (you should see the thorns of some of them, the could make a shark envy) while we listen, dance and clap. On the Esplanade who knows.

Taiwan

Will Taiwan be our next holiday stop?

Hopenhagen

Since Monday morning we have seen quite some ads for Hopenhagen.
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