Boston Tea Party

If anything, China is good for buying tea. I mean while you can get just about everything in China for a price, I would normally get them elsewhere for peace of mind. However, I was getting my nails done and decided to buy some tea to bring back for Chinese New Year. Yalah, I resisted fake nails as I need to rest them for a bit before I jazz them up again to make my sister jealous. =)

I got some rose tea which is supposedly good for the complexion and for slimming (the things they tell you!), some flower ball tea where you can watch the ball of tea bloom into a beautiful green flower with a red flower in the middle suspended on a stem, some chinese tea for old people that I can't remember the name of and some 'tie guan yin' @ Iron Goddess of Mercy tea. I tried this other tea that smells like milk and another that looks like a giant biscuit. All these teas are believed to have some function or another. I believe tea is drunk for the taste and the smell. It is also a good way to get water into your system and to entertain your friends at a party. And to strike another bird with the same stone, it will please the grandparents and the friends when you buy them good tea. Tea is good for comfort.

On a lighter note, the Aussie Malaysian Medic is back in town along with this cute Indian ophthalmologist from Oxford. They want to go bungie-jumping in Macau and are trying to con me into it. Peer pressure can make you do a lot of things. We will however, go check out the fake Disneyland in Shenzhen one day. I can put the pressure on just as well!