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| first dinner guestsAnthony and Elana came over tonight and cooked dinner for us! It's our first time having guests over for dinner so Melody and I were especially excited.
They got us a hand hammered Cantonese style wok. Anthony seasoned the wok with oil and chives after baking it for three hours. Look how beautiful it is! Anthony's long hair is also quite beautiful.
They cooked some really tasty food. This pork dish was my favorite. You can see the steam still rising. Had to take the picture quickly because Chinese food is always best served hot. Mmmm...
Thanks Anthony and Elana! We had a wonderful time.
Hopefully we'll get to have more guests over to our humble home. Melody and I will cook dinner next time. I can actually cook now that I have a wok! I've been lost without one.
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| one month of marriageIt's been exactly one month of married life and if I had to describe it in one word, I'd say it's been...
Natural.
Everything since we stepped down from the alter one month ago has felt very natural.
Many of the warnings I've heard prior to marriage was the adjustment to living together.
But so far living together has been wonderful. Melody is the most organized roommate I've ever had. Neither of us snore (I think). We keep about the same level of cleanliness around our home. We both love to cook (though Melody has been cooking most nights since I don't have a wok yet). And I always put the toilet seat down.
Actually, I always put the toilet seat cover down too. Do other people do this?
Our lifestyles fit well together and we've been fortunate. So we're just enjoying this while it lasts because I'm sure challenges will come our way. | | |
| making a homeMelody and I have a little apartment in Alhambra that we call home. One feature of our home is that we do not have a television.
In finding an apartment and planning the layout, we tried to envision what we want our home to do for us instead of simply letting Ikea tell us what each room should look like. So instead of having a living room built around a media center, we planned our living room to be conducive to evening conversations over tea. And we wanted a second bedroom to convert to a study room so our master bedroom would be free from our MacBooks. Instead of having separate desks in the study room we share a table so that we can be closer even when we're working on different things.
The space may feel small at times and I surely miss catching Lakers games, but our home feels very intimate and we love it. And maybe not having a television will force us to go out and visit friends more. Hopefully Daisy will let us walk on over to her place to watch The Office on her new TV. :)
Also bumped into an interesting research article with data showing that unhappy people watch more television. Not sure which is the cause and which is the effect.
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/sociss/release.cfm?ArticleID=1789
From the General Social Survey, the researchers found that self-described very happy people were more socially active, attended more religious services, voted more and read more newspapers. By contrast, unhappy people watched significantly more television in their spare time.
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| letter to my momSo I really didn't think I would cry at my own wedding. But when my sister started crying about a third of the way through reading my letter to my mom, I just lost it.
If you didn't understand the Cantonese, you weren't the only one. I actually didn't understand half of the words. I just gave the letter to my sister in English to translate for me. I figured the only person who really needed to understand it was my mom. And she did.
P.S. I asked my mom what she thought about us taking her last name, Lam (which was explained to her at the end of the letter). And she said she immediately thought, "what's my grandchildren's names going to be with Lam?" | | |
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