Archive for July, 2009
Long but great day
July 27th, 2009 by Doris
Yesterda after Sunday service, we invited Rev. Lo and his wife to have lunch at our place. I have prepared the pasta sauce the night before and all we needed to do was to cook the pasta. We had a relaxing lunch and good chat about a lot of things. After they left around 4:30pm, we decided to take a short nap. Then, I woke up again to prepare dinner as Faith was coming over for dinner. We had a very good time chatting as well. It is great to have known some friends here in Lausanne. And thank you Faith for the lovely earrings!
Happy Birthday my dear
July 24th, 2009 by Leo
It was Doris’ birthday yesterday. I haven’t really done much celebration as we both have to go to work. Willeke, Doris’ ex-colleague, came visiting us all the way from Holland. They were having a trip to France and hence drop by.
Doris spent the afternoon with them, showing them how lovely the town we are living in. Then they stayed at our home and had more chat.
We brought them to Restaurant au Canard Pekinois, one of our favourite Chinese restaurant, opened by our church friends. Thank you Bei for buying us the birthday cake! Doris didn’t know I asked Gordon & Bei to prepare a cake for her, it was a surprise to her!
Microarray
July 21st, 2009 by Doris
I got my microarray data! – to investigate the gene changes in normal and Huntington’s disease cases of human brain. However, I still don’t understand any of it. Feeling LOST!
Flowers
July 19th, 2009 by Doris
Just like everyday after I got home from work, I started to prepare dinner and Leo normally gets back around 7:15pm. “Ding dong”… must be Leo! What a pleasant surprise, he bought flowers! 
Festival de Lausanne and Montreux Jazz festival
July 7th, 2009 by Doris
Last week, the festival de la cite (lausanne) and Montreux Jazz festival has begun. Last Friday after dinner at home, we went to the town for a walk and “feel” the atmostphere. It was packed with people, food and drinks stalls. Most interestingly, there is plenty of free concerts/performances for us to enjoy!
On Saturday afternoon, we took a train to Montreux for the Jazz festival. This festival run from 3rd till 18th of July. There are groups/bands from Switzerland as well as from other countries. Some concerts are free and some are not. For us, we are happy to go to the free one only. Besides the allocated concerts, there were also some street performances (even though they are not Jazz) and they were not bad too!
We found a Japanese food stalls – alth0ugh I don’t think they were authentic Japanese food and none of the chef is a Japanese.
Here is a group from USA! The tenor saxophone and trumpet were amazing!
After a few hours walk, it was time to sit down. So, we sat down in a temporary Nestle Cafe next to the lake, relaxingly enjoy a glass of cool drink and movenpick ice-cream.
