Disappointing yet not?
I’ve had a pretty mixed weekend. Was somewhat excited Saturday morning about an upcoming Autumn market happening in town. I was so looking forward to going to this market that I actually postponed our out of town excursion that was tentatively planned for this weekend too. But arriving at this market that promised among other things, a live band, fondue, raclette, soup, farm animals, market stalls selling autumn harvest vegetables, arts and crafts, and more pumpkins than you can wrap your mind around… The only thing that met my expectations were the pumpkins. There were loads and loads of pumpkins! And for cheap too! But what am I supposed to do with a whole pumpkin? Can’t possibly cook it all! I can roast… make soup… cook curry… stir fry… but eventually I’d get really sick of pumpkin and the uneaten portions would be left to rot to the delight of the few fruit flies that are still hanging about my kitchen among bananas, onions and the garbage bag. Sad but true. So I didn’t buy any of the very tempting selection of pumpkins and squashes that were dirt cheap… I can’t buy a whole pumpkin weighing over 5kg for CHF4.00 in any supermarket here… I normally buy them in pie-cut slices weighing about 500g for approximately CHF3.00-CHF4.00. Too bad. A bit of a waste but I’m not totally gutted about it. I was disappiinted by everything else there though.
Kwang and I ended up in a clothing store and he bought a nice CHF20 pair of jeans (real good buy here), and I got myself a nice red knitted sweater… very happy with that! 
Bought some other stuff in town from a suermarket (ugh!) and went home to be bored and more disappointed.
But at home I was preasantly surprised to find some baby photos posted online by my good friend Jing Yi Last year (was it last year?) several of my friends got married. And it will come as no surprise that they’ve now also got babies! It’s a real baby year! Jing Yi gave birth to her son Jay Xuan Oct 14th. My sister in law gave birth only last night to a lovely daughter Jencie (?). Kwan’gs good friend Chia-An gave birth September 28th(?) to a daughter also. Josephine is expecting the arrival of her little bun in December. Yuko is expecting in January. WOW! What’s with this Second-Coming Baby-Boom?!! Suddenly everyone’s making babies!
Before anyone asks.. I’m NOT getting cluckly…I don’t feel it’s “my turn” at all. I’m really a little… intimidated actually. All these babies all in one go… a little much to handle. BUT having said that, I’m very very happy for all the new parents, new grand parents and also the soon-to-be parents. Wish I was there to congratulate them all in person! But they’ll just have to make do with faraway well wishes from Switzerland.
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