Foggy night

Yesterday lunch was spent with some of the students from TS College. 4 indians and 1 maltese. We went to the new Beijing Restaurant that's just a 100 metres behind their house ... and they never knew it existed. It was pretty rainy and cold though but the short walk ended up with a very nice lunch. The cook is thai, so there was Tom Yam soup which warmed everyone up. And there was thai curry which the indians loved.

However my tummy didn't hold up and I suffered terrible cramps and diarrhea. Had to take a taxi to go home. Was really sick. Nausea for the rest of the afternoon.

After resting for several hours, it was out again for dinner. This time with my former students from Ratisbonne. One was getting ordained, and today they would celebrate their founder's feastday St John Bosco and of course I actually wanted it to be a New Year celebration for Chuyen the vietnamese student who missed the celebration with his family. It was a crazy time as most of the 11 guys wanted to try using chopsticks. They had a good time. They come from Vietnam, Canada, india, italy, Poland and Brasil. Ah Ling the owner of Mandarin Restaurant had gone back to China so the Hong Kong Ah Pak and Por Por took over. They did up a fantastic cantonese meal with wonton soup, steamed fish, sweet sour pork etc...

Enough of food! Today I was on a fast to clean out my system. Had a glass of yoghurt and honey. Felt so much better.

Thick fog over the Palm Piazza

Foggy main road uphill

Well the weather was really cold and damp. Fog everywhere. I never saw the City so covered in fog as last night.  It was so foggy you couldn't see the Light Rail coming ... just hear it's bell ringing. Good thing I didn't get lost!