This and that

Things had been pretty mundane around here… Days are getting warmer at around -23C, but nights are still as cold at -39C… It snowed alot last weekend. Before that on friday night, it was really windy. Like, REALLY windy. We saw a blue metal pedestrian signboard on the ground while walking as fast as we can against the wind and snow. It had been blown off by the wind! Luckily, the wind only lasted 1 day. It was kinda beautiful looking at the snow swirling and twirling around in the wind, though.

On sunday, we visited K’s parents and spent a few hours shoveling snow as their house is about 20-30m away from the road. It seemed like a good idea for an exercise – fresh air, efficient use of energy (not like hiking- walking back to where we started or running on the spot or cycling on the spot..) and the exertion keeps us warm in the cold weather… But the next day my wrists and back were SO sore. No regrets, though. I still think its an efficient way to exercise. And it will be much more easy for them to drive out now… Until it snows again.

I’ve finished the tunic and am in the process of writing up the pattern. Its also being test-knitted by 2 cool knitters. This is the first time I’m having anything test-knitted so I’m sure I’ll learn quite alot from this project.

On top of the pattern writing, I’m in search for a new project! I found out that I’m not that sure about using the KP Essential Kettle-dyed for a Leaf Lace Shawl… Nor the KP Simply Cotton for Delphine, or the KP Cotlin for the Sleeveless Tux… Do I really need another scarf? And Delphine is pretty but how practical is it in cotton? I think Delphine will be more suitable knitted in a lace or fingering weight wool yarn so that its soft, warm and slightly fluffy. Simply Cotton might fare better as a lacy shrug waiting for summer. And the Cotlin might be better off as a short jacket like Dawn by Kim Hargreaves. Can you tell? I’m already waiting for spring, even though it will be really cold until the end of March here. Perhaps I should put off the warm weather knits a while, and work on something more practical in wool…

I don’t have any new pictures to show, but I found these pictures that I forgot to publish in the trip to the countryside in autumn. I can barely imagine that its already my 2nd season into my stay in Mongolia!

Walkway with very modern lamps.
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A lookout/pavillion with mountains in the background.
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Cute little piglets belonging to K’s relatives’ neighbours.
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I forgot to mention, but we were supposed to help make Buuz (pronounced like Boats.. Its a Mongolian dumpling.) when we visited K’s parents. The Buuz are for Tsagaan Sar, which is the Mongolian New Year. This year, it happens to be on the same day as Chinese New Year (and V-day!) - Feb 14th. Its quite a big festival and I anticipate that I will be taking many pictures… Unless it makes them uncomfortable, that is. I was told that they eat lots of Buuz during Tsagaan Sar (it means White Month, literally translated with my really basic knowledge of Mongolian..)

I hope that I get to try my hand at making some Buuz this Tsagaan Sar.

Winter

Last weekend we visited K’s parents again. We went out and took a nice short walk in the forest after lunch and little T came along. K is little T’s uncle.

So, anyway, I finally took an FO of the Modern Nomads set I knitted for K. Not a fantastic picture, but oh well. However, before I go on to the pictures I took on that trip, some knitting content.

After the previous post, I knitted more in the following 3 days. More as in around 4-5 hours knitting time daily. I was working on that sweater that I am designing from scratch. I haven’t been knitting after that 3 days but look at this:

The sweater is a fitted tunic. Its not complete – its still lacking the collar. But I love the front panel design. (Pss no cables involved! Really!) Maybe by the next time I post, I’d have finished the collar and blocked the tunic.

Ok, on to the trip to K’s parents’ place… As I mentioned, we went for a walk in the forest. I thought winter is all snow and barren branches.. I thought I’ve seen all of winter. But then everytime I go outside the city, I get a nice surprise. This time is no different. Enjoy the photos.

FO!!!!!!
Finally.
Modern Nomads Set
Yarn: Reynolds Lite Lopi
Pattern: None
Afterthoughts: Bought the yarn during summer in USA in 2009 because K followed me to a yarn shop there and fell in love with a fair-isle chullo hat there, and asked me to knit him one. After 3 attempts, I finally got the right size (initial intention was to knit and then felt). I finished the hat in summer and made the mittens to match the hat at the beginning of winter. The scarf was made to complete the set. Overall pretty satisfied with this. Very unique and pretty pattern (I love the bactrian camels intarsia ). Most importantly, K seems to like it.

Little T. He was collecting sticks the whole time and trying to help me with taking photographs.. Sometimes making it worse when he shakes the tree. Adorable little kiddo.

More barren branches…

This is the surprise – Lichen! And maybe moss? I love the layered texture they create. Its so visually tantalizing.

More lichens…

Buds on an aspen tree. Just waiting for spring.

More lichens.

Aspen bark.

Aspen bark is fascinating. I’ve never seen a plant with a bark like wispy thin paper!

Wispy thin papery bark.

I made a snow angel.

Thats all for today.

Thoughts (on being an alien in a strangely familiar yet foreign place), and a new FO!

I get curious questions from my friends, both Mongolian and Singaporean. They ask about:

- What do you think of Mongolia?
- Is there tv? (This one is from my Singaporean friends)
- What do you do?
- What is the difference between Singapore and Mongolia?
- What do you miss the most?
- Do you talk to your parents?

Before I write about those things I listed above, I want to state that it is totally my own opinion, based on my personal experience and what I see in my part of life.

Mongolia is familiar yet foreign because I can blend in SO easily. People talk to me in Mongolian and I just give a weak smile and shake my head. Ulaanbaatar, like any other city, has concrete structures.. Apartments, office buildings, windows, doors… similar to Singapore but yet different. There are usually double doors here. That means, you walk through 2 set of doors before you enter a building. And the doors that can be used are not straight… Let me show you. (@ – door; X – wall)

XXXXX@XXX@XXXXX  2
XXXXX@XXX@XXXXX   1

You enter through 1. If the left door is open, you have to enter in through the right door at 2, and vice versa. Why do they do that? To make sure the cold wind doesn’t enter easily.

I think Mongolia is quite a special place. Ulaanbaatar is not a model city. Unlike Singapore, they don’t seem too preoccupied with cutting the pavestones to fit the curb to the T. I like to think its a casual city. Its like alot of things mashed up into one spot in Mongolia, but yet its not cramped. The city blurs into the countryside very quickly, and with such ease that you hardly realise the change. The people are generally amiable, though not outwardly friendly which I believe is due to shyness rather than haughtiness. But I do have a pet peeve – jostling. Seems like jostling is part of life here. If you’re in a  place that is slightly crowded, someone behind you will jostle you, even if you walk faster or that there is a spot right beside you for them to pass. At the beginning, I will turn around slightly irritated by being constantly poked in the back. But their expressions are often preoccupied or just blank – they’re just going about their life normally. No insult meant through the jostling. I guess thats one thing I have to get used to.

Believe it or not, there are more tv channels here. Movies have mongolian voiceovers. They have MTV (not the mtv, but a music video channel), talk shows, news, Australian channel, dramas… In Singapore, there is 4 channels – 5, 8, U and the mixed one (Kids Central,  documentaries, the indian channel and the malay channel, sharing the same channel and broadcasted at different time of the day)… Unless they have cable tv, which has hundreds of channels (but my family doesn’t care about tv much so we don’t have cable tv) I hardly watch tv in Singapore, or Mongolia, anyway.

One other thing is the amount of time and effort needed to ‘gear up’ when going out. Probably not limited to Mongolia, but definitely different from Singapore. I used to take a long time to gear up, especially if I’m in my home clothes. I have to take them off, put on the thick tights, pull up/squeeze into my jeans (difficult when you have thick tights!) wear a jacket over my top, put on scarf and tie it properly, put on hat, put on overcoat, put on socks, wear the boots, run back for my phone, struggle of put on the boots again… K used to start getting ready to leave when I’m putting on my boots – because I’m just so slow at it. But now I’m much faster. I can get ready in a couple of minutes, usually no more than 5 minutes.

My life is very mundane here. I read, knit, practice piano, go online (they have broadband here)… things around the house. When my parents come online, I will talk to them. Thats usually once a week, which is almost the same as when I was physically in Singapore. I miss jogging and some of the freedom I had back in Singapore. Jogging is impossible here in the winter. Although I kinda miss eating fish, I find myself strangely disinterested in eating fish when I’m here. I used to miss the soymilk back in Singapore, but then we found this:

The soymilk in Singapore/Malaysia is very different from other soymilk I’ve tasted. It has a distinct malay+ chinese taste. Imagine my excitement when I saw “susu kacang soya”! (not pictured) I quickly searched the carton and saw the words “Made in Malaysia” and that was all I need to know. The feeling of tasting my favourite beverage back home, here in wintry Ulaanbaatar, is priceless. K, probably influenced by my enthusiasm, was equally enamoured with this beverage. Less than a week later, we have gone through 4-5 1L cartons.

One bonus for living here is that they have one of my favourite chocolate snack:

Chocolate coated jelly! Its quite impossible to find this in Singapore.

This particular candy has blackcurrant-flavoured jelly. My favourite is orange, but the raspberry one I tried is a close second!

On to the FO.

K’s scarf was completed yesterday! I would’ve completed it the day before yesterday, but after attaching the fringe, I found a spare ball of that cashmere yarn. So I removed the fringe (that was really fiddly), ripped back and added 2-3 more inchs. I kinda ran out of yarn the first time before ripping) and had to sub with another yarn of similar colour, but totally different texture. I’m really glad that I have enough yarn in the end. I still have a little less than half a ball of the cashmere yarn left, but I’m keeping it in case of repairs (for the entrelac vest, which is still unreported because of the lack of photos..)

Leftover Nomadic
Yarn: Leftover cashmere from Entrelac Vest, and Leftover Lopi yarn from Modern Nomads set.
Pattern: Based on Clapotis
Afterthoughts: I made this to match the Modern Nomads set (mittens and hat I made for K). K was quite a yarnsnob so I chose to use the leftover mongolian cashmere yarn – a strategy in case he doesn’t like any other yarn that  have. I made clapotises before, so I have a general idea (no need to read through pattern for a satisfying project. Score!!)… I rushed to finish this scarf so that it will get some use in deep winter. Temperatures are dipping and its no warmer than -20C, and usually around -30C to slightly below -40C at night. The yarn with this pattern blocked out really nicely. The finished project has a soft but really really warm fabric.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I chose the name Modern Nomads because its one of my first favourite restaurant in Mongolia. I ate my first Khuushuur there so “Modern Nomads” is a name that is close to my heart.

Initially, K was lamenting about the width while I was knitting. I kept telling him that it will be fine after blocking, but him being a non-knitter means he doesn’t understand the magic of blocking, especially when dealing with lacey projects. The finished and blocked scarf measures approximately 152cm long, and 35cm wide.

I took the FO pictures right after blocking so that K can use it as soon as possible. (and that there is no chance of unblogged FOs)

I love the way the stripes look in the dropped stitches. It creates a casual yet stylish effect, accentuated by the contrast in colours.

Pre-blocking. Nice, bumpy and rustic, but have a tendency to scrunch up and thus not practical for use as a scarf, especially when in a rush! (Ever tried putting on a curling scarf when in a rush?)

Blocked. Flat, tidy, easy to use with no compromise on the warmth factor.

That is a successful knit. K seems to like it when he tried it on last night. Today is the testdrive. Lets see how it holds up to the real test. (and it happens to be a very cold day today. Sunny, but colder than usual)

I’ve started a new project. I was unable to find what I was looking for, even after extensive research on ravelry. So I’m going to create my own pattern. Back to designing my own sweater!

Mongolia Inspired Knits

Nearly 2 months ago, K went to somewhere near Gobi desert. He took quite a few pictures but my favourite ones are the camels. These are Bactrian Camels and the special thing about Bactrian Camels is that they have 2 humps.

And the landscape there looks like this:

I was told that its much colder in the countryside compared to the city.

And a couple of weeks ago, K went to some “holiday place” outside of the city with his internship friends.

Is it just me or does this look out of this world? The first time I saw this picture I thought that it looks like someone built a house on the moon or another planet!

The landscape there looks like this.

Last week I went along with K on some errands and took pictures of the streets along with my mittens’ FO pictures (yep, FINALLY…)

I love to look at those barren branches stretching out against the winter sky… The way the branches stood out strongly against the grey light and then softly blend in – such dainty clarity amongst blurness. I like to imagine painting them.

Modern Nomads Mittens
Yarn: Leftover Cashmere from the Entrelac Vest and Plymouth Baby Alpaca Worsted 0.5 x 50g of 3 different colours.
Pattern: Maybe
Afterthoughts: The alpaca yarn is really nice and fluffy. Amazingly warm. Its very lofty but that is because of the low twist in the yarn. I think this yarn is more suitable for accessories than garments even though its very soft because there might be ‘area pilling’ if used for garments. 

This is actually the second Modern Nomads Mittens I’ve knitted. The first was for K, and its already been used for a couple of months now. It was getting dirty and it wasn’t until this past weeked that I had the chance to wash it. I hope to be able to take pictures of his mittens before they get dirty again.

The insides look like this.

Some winter plants… I think they’re still alive but I’m not sure.

I can write up the pattern if anyone is interested in it.

Sunsetting behind the branches.

I wonder what spring looks like.

Currently I’m knitting K a cashmere scarf. (He still complains its not wide enough.. We’ll see after I block it.) Its almost finished and I’ve begun searching for the next project. I want to use up that 8 balls of worsted superwash merino in navy blue. A tunic, a pullover, a jacket…?

2009 draws to a close and a new year is almost here…

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanuka! Or just Happy Holidays! And a great 2010 ahead. Hopefully with less fighting and more love. And knitting, of course.

xox

This is the Post that is 1 Month Overdue.

Hey guys! I didn’t drop off the edge of the world. Nor did I die from some exotic sickness. Its just I didn’t have anything to blog about, because my camera was not functioning (K lost my batteries on a trip to somewhere around Gobi)…

BUT. Now I have batteries!! After grumbling for a month, with more intensive grumbling last week, K was ‘inspired’ to search more intensively for his rechargeable AA batteries (could’ve just bought them instead, but we just can’t bear the thought of it.. Just trying to do our tiny bit to save the world (; You know.)

Now that I have a working camera, I took a gazillion photos. I’ve decided to spread them out so that I don’t blog one big entry and then remain quiet the rest of the year…

Before I begin flashing the FOs, I want to let it be known: The Entrelac Vest is FINITO!! I’m probably the only one who is that excited but I have good reasons. Someone (K) had begun to tease me about gifting the cashmere vest in the middle of summer instead, when it will be “most useful”. Also, in my struggle to finish the vest, there had been a dry spell in other aspects of my knitting life. I’m glad I’ve finally finished the vest and gifted it. Now its time to cast on new projects! In fact, I already casted on for a pair of mittens for myself. I wanted to knit K a scarf but he said I should knit myself mittens first, as he still have 2 scarves and I do not have mittens. I’m knitting the same mittens as I knitted for K, and planning to write up a pattern for it.

When K went to Gobi on my birthday (13th Nov) I stayed at home and finished 3 projects in that 3 days. Thats what happens when I am able to actually concentrate. On 13th I finished K’s mittens (to match his hat) and started to work on Zetor in Rowan Kidsilk Night in Ballerina, on the 14th I finished Zetor and casted on for a hat. On the 15th I finished the hat.

The FOs being featured in this post are the Zetor Scarf and the hat.

Ballerina Zetor
Yarn: Rowan – Kidsilk Night in Ballerina, 2 x 25g
Pattern: Zetor
Afterthought: I love lace mohair. A small amount is enough to make a sizeable scarf. With less than 2 balls of KSN I have a scarf that is more than 1m wide – Big enough to be a shawl when opened up. This is a very simple but warm scarf that knits up really quickly. I was unable to get the scalloped edges on the sides and I’m not sure if I cast off too tightly or the pattern was simply not made to have scalloped edges. But I do not mind it at all because I intend to use it as a scarf rather than a shawl.

The beautiful lace stitch used in this pattern.

I wear it like a scarf over my jacket.

Ballerina Zetor with the hat.

Aspen Bark Hat
Yarn: Beaverslide Dry Goods – McTaggart Tweed in Aspen Bark, 1 x 113g
Pattern: None.
Afterthoughts: The yarn is a little strange… The fibres break quite easily, but it did not break when I was knitting it. It is soft with very little amount of twiggy stuff. It fluffs up nicely and grows quite abit after wash.

I made this pattern up as I went along, inspired by the cable pattern on the famous Bella’s Mittens and Kim Hargreaves’ Kat. The initial intention was to knit this to match a pair of Bella’s Mittens I intended to knit with some green McTaggart Tweed I have. But I have since decided to knit fair-isle mittens to match K’s mittens instead.

This hat matches my grey overcoat and pink scarf.

The scarf again.

Did you see it? Maybe a little closer…

Its my engagement ring.

It wasn’t supposed to be so small, but after a misunderstanding at the goldsmith’s….

But I still like it very much. K surprised me with it on 16th Nov after his trip to Gobi.

Autumn is long gone but I have taken a piece of Autumn home with me.

Autumn meets winter. K told me that deep winter is coming, and for about 30 days it will be extremely cold. Currently, the temperature in the day is around -23 deg C and at night around -33 deg C. I must knit faster and finish my mittens before deep winter!

Keeping the long story short…

1) Finished 3 FOs on 13th, 14th and 15th November but unable to take any FO pictures because K borrowed my camera on a work trip to the countryside from 13th to 15th November, then came back with the camera sans batteries. Opps. Will have to wait till we pick up his batteries from storage.

2) Happy Belated Birthday to me! Seems vain or obnoxious doing this on my own blog? Oh well.

3) I’m sick. Shall spare you the sordid details…

4) Will update with 3 (or maybe 4!) FOs once I have pictures.

Stujin

In the mornings, I like to sit infront of my laptop with a cup of peach flavoured ceylon tea and have some biscuits or bread. I look forward to this part of the day much more recently because of the yummy cow’s-eye berry jam that the bf’s mom made and gave us. Not to boast or gloat, but that jam is the best fruit jam I’ve tasted. Its not too sweet and its so natural. And homemade. How to beat homemade jam made from naturally grown berries? I’ve officially added “learning to make jam” to the list of things I would like to ask his mom to show me… Once I learn how to speak more mongolian. (another item on the list includes how to cook Tsuvuun – mongolian noodles that I absolutely cannot figure out how to cook without making the noodles melt into a puddle of sticky sauce….)

In anycase, I’ve not made an progress on the entrelac vest (but its quite close to finishing) because I was working on the mittens. I’m not following any pattern and trying to wing it for an item I’ve never worn (mittens is not part of tropical wardrobe) means errors. I’m now making mittens v.2 and keeping my fingers crossed that this time there will be enough room in the mittens for THUMBS. (lol.. yes, people who live in tropics have thumbs too, but its funny the things I overlooked…)

Last week I tried some new mongolian food after grocery shopping again! This time its completely bizarre. I’m sure we’re not alien with Jello, right? Well, meet Stujin. The way I was introduced to stujin?

“You’ve tried american jello, but if mongolian people made jello, it will be like this.”

And boy, I totally believe it. Meet the stujin

Hello I’m the mongolian version of Jello and I’m made with beef rather than cocktail fruits.

Stujin is savoury rather than sweet. And the kind of jelly is exactly the same as Jello – made from gelatine. Heres another look:

I’ve been trying to figure out which part of the beef is that round thing, too.

I was a little wary of trying it.. salty jelly with meat is totally new to me. But it tastes quite nice. I was told that its usually eaten during Tsagaan Sar – the traditional mongolian new year, and is considered a delicacy.

Hopefully the next time I blog I will have a finished pair of mittens to showcase.

Winter Have Arrived

Soon this tree’s branches will be snow-laden.

I’m not sure if winter have arrived in other temperate countries in the northern region, but it have arrived here in Mongolia. It seems like when I was gushing about the brilliant colours of autumn, I read about knitters talk about the end of summer on their blogs. When I was feeling my nose get frozen whenever I go out of my house, I read about knitters talk about autumn.

In anycase, I’m beginning to think fingerless mitts are indeed pointless. Once I finish the pair of mittens I’m knitting for the bf, I’m going to add fingers to my endpaper mitts.

A couple of days ago, we went for a wee bit of hiking. We didn’t hike long because of the weather. Right now (afternoon) its 2C. On the day we were hiking, it was -20C (-4F) because it just snowed the previous day, and it was outside the city.

Lichen coated rocks and a sprinkle of snow crystals, with the sun setting behind a mountain range while throwing its last few warm rays over the land.

That was the only decent picture I took because my camera is kinda broken. One of the battery’s latch broke again. This is the 3rd time in 1+ years. Not like I abuse my camera.. My other cameras did not have the same problem. There isn’t any canon service center in Mongolia so I’ll just have to live with it for the next 8+ months.

There is some knitting to showcase, though. Here is the hat that I knitted for the bf this summer.

Stranded hat with the scarf I knitted for him last christmas. Will blog properly about the hat and give specifications next time. Now I’m making a pair of mittens (at his request) to match the stranded hat.

Another picture taken from the top of the hill, looking towards the direction of the city (which is not visible from this picture).

Me wearing the first hat I tried knitting for the bf in the summer of 2008. The width was too small for him so I inherited the hat instead.. Until I clear a few gift WIPs so I can cast on for a hat for myself. WIPs include:

Matching stranded mitts
Entrelac vest (just got past the armholes currently!)
Endpaper gloves/mitts.
Pinky fluffy shawl/scarf

I need to knit faster.

Yesterday we did groceries and bought this:

The bf told me its Russian cheese. Its kinda dried and braided. Tastes a little smokey, quite salty and chewy. I like it quite alot… Its already one third gone in this picture.

Back to knitting!

A Few WIPs…

… And a few rants.

Hello~

The good stuff first. My apologies about the crappy webcam pictures with me peeping from behind (its difficult to position the objects when I’m behind the object instead of behind the lens, IYGWIM). I have yet to get my claws on obtain a battery charger to charge the camera batteries.

A shawl/scarf I’m making with some blue cashmere I bought in March this year. Improvising as I go along. Maybe something along the line of Ishbel.. Then this will be Ishbel-ish, right?

I spent less time on this than the blue shawl/scarf. Lace definitely goes faster than garter.. Garter seems to take forever to grow. Same goes for cables, but I digress. I’m sure I’m not the only one in the secret club that does not like knitting garter or cables much… I frogged the Romantic Pullover V.1 to make this mohair shawl/scarf because

i)    I don’t have enough yarn to finish the pullover
ii)  I want a mohair shawl/scarf in pink and I don’t have any pink mohair yarn with me now.
iii) I decided I will make the romantic pullover in another mohair yarn, or maybe not at all because lace mohair is not that practical for a garment…
iv) I need a shawl/scarf.

It was painful ripping that mohair. Partially because it was almost complete, and partially because its lace mohair and you know how lace mohair frogs, right?

This is a cashmere entrelac vest I’m knitting for the bf’s dad. I acquired the yarn in March, together with the blue cashmere up there. This knits up quite fast but the big size means its just as slow, anyway. (-__-) I prefer knitting for myself because the size makes everything faster.

But all those are currently on hold. I am going to finish up the last couple of rows of my endpaper mitts and use the handyed yarn for a scarf based on the Beech Wood Cowl.. Because thats the only yarn I have that is of the correct weight and not monotone. (I do have a beige handyed yarn but I intend that for socks, and another KnitPicks green kettle-dyed sock yarn I am keeping for a leaf lace shawl..) Perhaps I will swatch it to be sure.

I had brought some Beaverslide McTaggart yarn along to make a scarf for him, but he does not like the yarn. He says it feels synthetic. Seems like he is more of a yarn snob than I am.

And last night he stopped dead in his tracks when I showed him one of the finished endpaper mitts. He asked “where are the fingers?” And after explaining to him “fingerless mitts” he almost got angry. Apparently, fingerless mitts are totally useless and are a complete waste of time because fingers are the first to get cold. So whats the point of “fingerless mitts”? I have no idea why he thinks that the things I knit have to be made for the extreme cold. I can wear the fingerless mitts under gloves for extra warmth without losing flexibility. Or I can wear it in the house if my hands feel cold, right? Anyone from temperate countries care to explain the usefulness of fingerless mitts? Or maybe I’ll just go back and add 5 fingers.

I was going about my usual stuff when I remembered how my sis scolded me in public in front of my mom’s sister after a dinner. We were just meeting up with relatives before I come to Mongolia and my sister thought that was a fantastic timing to say a few words. She is usually hardly at home and never talked to anyone except to ask for something. Somehow she have this idea that my parents are sponsoring my trip, and that I’m always using my parents’ money. But I’m proud to say that every single cent we’re using now are saved from honest work (from our summer job) and thriftiness. Even when I was studying, I worked for my pocket money and saved up for my travels myself. Very unlike the way she did, asking for pocket money and even including pens, stationaries, transport fees, etc. I won’t feel bad at all if I never see her again. I just hope to shut that chapter of my life, or until she finally stop being an ass.

Enough washing of dirty linens in public… I do have an FO to show but maybe in the next entry, when I can use my camera.