what a harrowing morning. the parents are in christchurch this week on holiday and to visit a friend. got a text from my dad before 9 saying there was a major earthquake, 6.3 on the scale. thankfully they are both ok, if a little shaken. but more aftershocks expected within the next two days and airport has been closed till further notice. i’ve just been scanning the local news and the damage seems to be quite significant, with multiple fatalities and casualties.

The parents are totally hooked onto that annoyingly long-running Taiwanese serial that airs every single day on the chinese channel. I don’t watch it but sometimes I’m held hostage when we’re visiting my aunt or my grandmother and it’s 7pm and everyone only wants to watch 爱. Plus Audrey is a freak who’s already finished the series by watching the original Hokkien version online. Yah, seriously?

Anyway my mum mentioned the other day that one of my dad’s friends approached him about investing in a boutique hotel project. And immediately I told her, “Then it will be like 爱! They can call it 世界饭店!” My mudder was quite amused hahaha.