Sunday, February 14, 2010

Valentines A Year Ago

A year ago I was in Rome with this four dudes:


Thinking of beholding sights to catch some love in the air in the amorous city of Rome, we headed out to the allegedly hottest hangout place of Rome, Campo di Fiori on one of the coldest night in 2008-09's winter.

Half an hour meandering about Campo di Fiori onwards to Trastevere, there wasn't even any love making sight 'on display'. While it was cold enough and we wouldn't settle for an unfruitful outing so we feasted on none other than:

GELATO!

Our hands could barely withstand the chill so we finished it in haste. When we were done, it was our internals showing signs of rejection sending chills down our spines. After deciding to call it a day we headed home, only to find ourselves barely making it for the last bus home (we ran as fast as our feet could carry us hailing the last departing bus from the terminal).

Valentines 2009 was a memorable one, indeed.

Valentines 2010 is the first day of Chinese New Year. This time around, Rome was showered with snow few days prior to Valentines. Oh and did I mention that it was about 40 years ago it last snowed in Rome?

View from office balcony.
Shucks, can't the snow come a year earlier?

Valentines 2010 is spent playing mahjong with family members in this sweltering heat of CNY (talk about polar opposite weathers).

Come ah, hong zhong, pak pan, fatt choi, dong, nam, sai,pak!



2 comments:

yiewdean said...

the view out the office balcony resembles some place experiencing nuclear winter..

TzeYang said...

haha. i guess it's the terrain which really is sorta desolated.

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