Special guest visiting!

Look look who's here for a drop by!

It's my dear Didi! (Aka younger brother)

He's here from Sunday to yesterday! Four days in total. 

It was a great time it catch up and for him to know more about our lives as a practitioner, student, part time renovator, and church goer. 

Will blog in the next few days about the food we had over the last four days. 

Thank you for your visit Didi! 

Kcan

Whale watching

It is the whale migrating season from May through to September. The whales will migrate from the colder water of Antarctica to the warmer waters of the north. And east coast of Australia is right in the middle of their migrating route! And with mum n dad around, we decided to jump into the fun of whale watching, and head to the coast.

We drove up to Mooney Mooney, where the oysters farm were. We bought a dozen of unopened sydney rock oysters. Then further up north we drove along the pacific highway to Gosford, and through to Terrigal. There, we stopped by this high cliff face, where we spotted 3 groups of whales, swimming up north, blowing water as it surfaces. Yay! 

Sorry guys, no photos available as they were sooooooooooooooooooooo far away. We could only see the water fountain splashing around as they surfaces to breathe.

The day was so perfect for trip out. It had been so windy and cold the last week. So the no wind day was a good break for us to go out and enjoy some quality sun time.

This was Terrigal, where we saw the groups of whales.

After catching the whale, we rushed up to The Entrance, to catch the 3.30pm Pelican Feeding.

It started 20 years ago, where the local fish shops started throwing the scraps fish at the pelicans after work. And it became a daily routine, daily attraction, rain or shine, daylight savings and not. 

The pelicans will knock on the door at 3.30pm.

And few years ago, the council decided that it was unhygienic and unsafe for the pelicans waiting around the shop, so they purposely build this area next to the river for pelican feeding.

Look at how they catch the fish!

Don't they look identical?

After that, we head to the Norah light house.

Looking at the beautiful sunset.

That's a whale lot of travelling in a day!

Kcan

VIP visit!

On Tuesday, I had two very important visitors! They came all the way from Perth! They are none other than my mum n dad! 

Love having them around. Though it was a little stressful preparing for their arrival n getting used to having them around on the first two days. Haha. 

Their visit this time is aimed to get mum back in shape for their upcoming trip to China. She had developed this recurrent cough since last year, which always surface when there was a change in season. It tickles her throat, and makes her kept having the urge to cough. No matter how many different cough medication and even the asthma puffer, couldn't get rid of it. And it will last a few months before it disappear and then resurface again. Annoying. 

And being so far away from mum n dad is quite difficult for me, to diagnose and prescribe them with the right medication. So I suggest them to come over for some intense Chinese medicine treatment. To my understanding, mum is suffering from what we called a Lingering pathogen. Lingering pathogens are diseases which had not been properly treated, causing the pathogen to go deeper into the body and hide somewhere. And when your body's immune system is low, (such as the change in season for my mum), the pathogen will resurface n cause trouble. Conditions such as Chronic fatigue, unexplained illnesses, or something you can pin point to from when ever since you were unwell (eg: ever since I had the flu 2 years ago..., or ever since I had the medication....) , are a typical case of Lingering pathogen. 

So far, after three days of daily acupuncture and herbal medicine, she was showing remarkable changes. Even dad had his equal share of acupuncture as well for his frantic sneezing. His super duper loud n frequent sneeze (which will always gave me a fright, and ringing ear), was almost non existent after just one treatment! =D 

Mum made my favourite Hakka dish, Lui Cha, for dinner last night. The soup which goes over the rice and veges was sooooo yummy. Thank you mum for satisfying my Lui Cha cravings!

Yum yum. This dish is only good to make if there are going to be helpers to help cut n wash the veges. That's why I did not make this dish by myself. 

Have a good weekend everyone!

Kcan