Sago Taro Milk Tea

These Bubble Tea drink shops are popping up everywhere. Son K and I shared this delicious Sago Taro Milk Tea the other day, requesting 30% sugar. It was delicious. The sago are small tapioca balls that you see floating on the bottom. Then I googled the nutrition information for tapioca balls. Tapioca is pure starch extracted from the cassava root, albeit gluten free. So a cup of those balls amounts to 540 calories, a carb counter's nightmare. Delicious as it is, I think I will avoid these drinks in the future.

It is Chinese New Year today, Happy New Year if you celebrate, the year of the Rooster.

A Learning Experience

Hershey is making Chinese New Year chocolates! The reason is that we have a large Chinese population in the area. I am Chinese Jamaican myself. I googled the exact date of Chinese New Year and that would be January 31, 2014 this year.

This Thursday morning, I took son K to school for an 8am class.  Well it turns out the class was booked at another campus!  The morning became a panic as we tried to resolve timetable issues at the start of the semester.  We sat on this timetable over the holidays complacent that everything was in order, we never checked the room number on the timetable.  Luckily the deadline for making changes was the next day Friday at 5pm.  Needless to say, we have learned a lesson, we have to check things very carefully!  K is still new at the school and the room numbers at this point don't raise alarm bells.  Did I mention it was a critical course and we had to change 5 of his 8 courses around to make it all work?  Then a better time for the critical course came up and we tried to move everything closer back to the original schedule.  We first went through their extremely busy advisement helpline and got in the queue until we finally figured out how to do it all ourselves.  I think the helpline got us into this problem in the first place (no blaming, just a fact). We will chalk it down to a learning experience, hopefully we are fine now.

A New Friend?

Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate!


Sharing a sweet email for Carol's Magical Mondays:

Hope this starts your week with a BIG SMILE!!!

Could you imagine coming home from work to find this tiny creature napping on your couch with your dog? Guess who came home for dinner? It followed this beagle home, right through the doggy door. This happened in Maryland recently. The owner came home to find the visitor had made himself right at home...This hit the 6 o'clock news big time.