A tiny heart on a beach...

Autumn love

Love for love...

Looking through the heart...

The heart hanging on my window

See the heart formed by the fence and its shadow on the face of this cute Chinese fellow ?

By the way I arrived home safe and sound. It was a tiring two-day journey but now I'm fully enjoying my time home...
I want to express my gratitude to Clytie and her sister Beth for featuring me and my photos on their blogs. You are awesome!
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Thank you!

Japanese soup hearts

I was having Miso soup (Wiki) this morning when these cute tofu heart appeared. One of my Japanese classmates gave me the soup, since I've mentioned to her I'd had it before and I love it. And this one, original from Japan was just so tasty! My day had a great start! :)

EDITED: I'm shocked to find about the devastating earthquake in Japan. My friend says she has relatives in that region and can't contact them.
My thoughts are with the people in Japan, hoping to recover quickly.

a Napkin heart

A delicate white heart's wishing me good luck for my 26-hour train ride to GZ, South China.

Can you see my hearty ear?

I can hear you out there
calling for me,
I can hear your love
cos I have a heart, not ears...

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Hearty leaves

This group of hearty leaves smiled at me the other day near the bridge as I was waiting a friend. You see, the middle leaf has eyes. lol..My fave, though, is that tiny yellow baby leaf..

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Singles day heart

Today one of the teachers gave us a lollipop as present for a Singles day.
Honestly I didn't know there was such a holiday.











Guang Gun Jie 光棍节 or Singles day is a Chinese pop culture holiday on November 11 for people who are still living the single life.

Happy Singles day to the single ones wishing you to find your love soon.

I did. :)

Happy 11.11.

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Love is in the air....

Have a love-filled week!

a Coffee trip

Well, let me take you on a coffee-making trip since the coffee plays an important part in Macedonian culture and it's different from other kinds of coffee. It's actually the method of preparation, not the kind of coffee.

I took a lot of coffee packets, here in China. :) And I brought the pot called gjezve.This coffee is also called Turkish coffee and it originates from the Ottoman period in Macedonia.


This is my heart coffee jar. Bought in China. :)

I put a teaspoonful of the ground coffee per cup. The amount of coffee may be varied to taste. I put little sugar too.



And this time I got a sugar heart. This is actually how it happened to share this story ( though, I might have told you this before, if you remember my coffee hearts). I put the sugar and was astonished to see a heart.

Then I poured in cold water in the pot.

Next step was heating the pot as slowly as possible.

Sometimes it overflows, if you dont watch it boiling.



For me, it makes a fantastic after meal drink.
A well-prepared coffee has a thick foam at the top. Obviously this was not he case. :P

The smiley badge made me company. I love its tiny cute heart.



The grounds left after drinking the coffee can be used for fortune-telling. There are a few hearts here too.
The cup is usually turned over into the saucer to cool and then the patterns of the coffee grounds can be used for a kind of fortune telling.

I was doing this with my girl friends in high school every single day. Ahhh miss those days. So much fun then.

Usually having this coffee means enjoying your time with the people you care about. Now I drink my cup of coffee alone ( well, I had this smiley badge today ) and I do miss my family, friends home :(

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На здравје кафе.

A heart lock

On my weekend trip to Mount Taishan, I met this lovely heart lock. People put locks on a chain for love, luck and happiness.

You can see more about Mt. Taishan here on my Snowflowers blog.

Have a lovely dear, heart-lovers.

Whose love is written on this bamboo?