Just in case you are wondering why I’ve been missing for so long, I’d been getting a little lazy lately . The weather was extremely beautiful for the past few days, so I’d been taking advantage of the beautiful sunshine and engaging myself with outdoors activities. We went cycling to some neighboring towns and hiking in Pfälzer Wald (Forest of the Rheinland Palatinate).

On a quiet Sunday evening, I even dragged a chair to sit beside the ceiling-to-floor-glass-door of my room to read a book, absorbing the warmth of the sunshine on a winter day. Something which I’d never do in Malaysia. What irony. My face had this soft pinkish hue throughout the rest of the evening due to the sun. I’ve become addicted to sunshine during winter days, just like those Europeans, because sunshine is something the people here are quite deprived off.

Don’t even think off strutting around town with an umbrella on a bright sunny day because you’ll catch strange stares from people wondering from which planet you come from. That’s Germany for you.

We have run out of DVDs lately, so channel skipping on TV is sometimes our favorite together-time on Sunday nights. You know what I’ve discovered? Our satellite can receive 2 Chinese TV channels, CCTV4 and CCTV9!! What a relieve for my German-strained ears!

We stumbled across a TV program on CCTV9 which teaches Chinese (like the correct pronunciation and Chinese grammatic) and to my surprise, the host and the people conversing so fluently in Chinese are all angmohs! Not an iota of angmoh dialect in their pronunciation! You won’t be able to differentiate them between a real Chinese by just listening to them speaking. I’ve been encouraging Thorsten to watch the program with me, although it is a little advance for him because they speak too fast!

Anyway teaching him too much Chinese may backfire . Like the other day, I was asking a friend (a German guy) who’s together with a Malaysian Chinese, which are the few most important Chinese words one must know, being in a relationship with a Chinese girl.

Thorsten quickly chipped in 我不知道 (I don’t know).