rice dumplings

rice dumplings yesterday

There was an earthquake last night! Before 11pm, Buddy and JJ started fluttering around in the dark. Then messages began to flash in Facebook, people saying they felt tremors. It was 4.2 on the richter Scale in the southern desert  No dmaages in the country but it's a timely reminder to all that we're overdue for a giant earthquake ... way overdue. The last one was in 1927 which destroyed almost all the churches. Every 70-80 years a major earthquake hits the country ... but now it's past 94 years. I'll need to drill our library workers for an earthquake emergency.

I had a bad night's sleep. I had and still have a terrible headache on my right side. And I'm still dizzy and nauseous. I bought the medicine yesterday and started the medication ... but I think my body is still weak and the side effects are strong. For example I have terrible diarrhoea, which the doctors warned me,

Yesterday's Flag March ended without any major clashes. Thank goodness. But late in the night, there must have been some clashes at either Herod's Gate behind us or Damascus Gate further down because stink gas fired by the police to disperse crowds, was drifting into our house. Many of us were choking and coughing. Windows had to be closed but it was little help. 

Our chinese sisters still had some old rice dumpling bamboo leaves and they made rice dumplings with dates (northern chinese style).  They were small as the leaves were tiny. Still it was a nice way to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. 

By the way, there're 157 views today on my blog. Stalkers are active again ... so don't be surprise if in the next few days I get locked out of the blog or other social media, or my phone gets tapped.