MERRY XMAS 圣诞快乐

MERRY XMAS to all my friends....received a lot of presents? i got a few gifts from my friends :) love you all....this yr, i didnt go back to Kuching for xmas like i always would, but it was good fun...met up with friends, had a lot to eat and see...and experienced the christmas spirit....hahah..even my security guard said why i have so many plans over the holiday....now, waiting for NEW YEAR 2009....ooh, almost time to say bye bye to 2008...sob sob...i still remember when i started this blog, i made a few resolutions or did i? i cant remember....feel free to go bek to my post in january 2007 (oh...this blog has accompanied me for 3 xmas, 3 NYs)...time sure flies...

MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE!!

Modern praying method

Today is the tang yuan festival and also a day when we get older....i dono how it works...are we considered a year older today or a year older on the first day of CNY? i dono, im a bit confused..can someone pls explain to me? anyway, today is also the day where people go to temple to pay their respect to wong tai sin for the wishes they previously asked for...so today, i made it a must to go...it was really really crowded...everytime i go...for several reasons:

1. u usually gets what you ask for;

2. it's a touristy place..flooded with hundreds of tourists everyday;

3. it's under renovation...space become even more limited;

4. it's the time when people pay back their respect....

i saw from the news the other day that the authority encourages ppl not to go to the temple physically especially at this time...coz they forsee that the temple will be flooded with people...and there are also a lot of people bringing food like roast chicken, roasted pig, fruits, roast pork etc....so these foods will be laid on the ground, making it even more difficult to walk...talking abt difficult to walk, i was burnt TWICE by other people's incest coz these people werent considerate enough to hold their incests high up!!! To avoid overflowing crowd, u know what the authority did? u wont believe it..hahahah...remember the singaporean movie where this guy visited the temple and made a wish and this guy asked the monk something and the monk asked him to visit http://www.guangyinio.com/ for more information? that was hiliarious...and guess what? it's happening in real life...HK authority just launched a website for WTS where u dont have to be present personally...you could put your wishes online and they will make your wishes for you...so guys, u don really have to be in HK to make your wishes at WTS...you could do it ONLINE...yahoOOOooo....but i wanna tell you guys that i havent found out the link yet...hehehehe...

Sick sick sick

Our global economy is SICK...seriously sick...and it seems to get worse and worse and worse...and nothing seems to be able to cure it...more and more businesses going bust, some on the verge of bankruptcy...people losing jobs and some people on the verge of losing jobs and some people may lose jobs in the future, companines cutting back salaries and headcount etc etc etc...In HK, the suicide cases grow daily...it rose higher than the hang seng index...it's just painful to read newspaper everyday :( Let's all pray pray and hope the global economy will become healthy and strong again like it once did...and hope it cures sooner...BUT with all of these crisis happening, HK maintains its reputation....Let me tell you WHY (in indian accent)...HK is an amazing place..with all of these happening, the only place you won't feel like economy is sick is when you are walking inshopping malls....the other, i brought my boss for lunch and we had to pass by rows and rows of shops...and guess what? people were buying like crazy...mayb it's because xmas is coming and people are spending on gifts....a lot of shops have sales up to 50%...there were a lot of shops with people fighting for merchandise and Q'ing up to pay...we just couldnt believe our eyes...my boss found it ironic....he's from US and he said in US, you don't see sights like this...this is just unbelievable..i nodded in agreement coz even i cant believe the scenes i was seeing...HK...unique :) and full of energy...i guess xmas could help people forget they are in such a poor state of financial status....and temporarily forget about the problems and threats....and i guess for human, esp in hk, the best way to cure people is discounts...mayb this is one way of saving $ to *wink* *wink*

Aunty and uncle

i remember when i was young, whenever i met my mum's friend, i would call them "aunty" just to be polite...and the aunties would smile happily acknowledging it and say: "you are a good kid, very polite"...and at that time, i was proud of myself for being polite and good...and from then on, i called every single one of my mum's friends aunties uncles...as i got older, it becomes weird but the habit still maintained...just last week, i felt that may be it is time for me to stop calling aunties and uncles and start greeting my mum's friends with a smile and say "hello"

it was funny...last week, my mum invited her friends over for dinner....as usual, my mum cooked a lot...a feast for 30 guests...the guests started coming around dinner time and i went down to greet them, just to be polite...a lot of people came with kids...somehow after marriage, people do not dress up and make up anymore...naturally, they look like...hhmmm...hmmm...uncles and aunties....well, so this unfortunate lady who has 2 kids came to the front door...my mum introduced me and said "this is my daughter", pointing at me...then i smiled at her and called her aunty...thinking that she would be happy to be greeted so politely and i expected her to give me a smile and said "乖"...instead, immediately after i greeted her with "aunty", her expression changed, smile faded and she just looked at me...blankly...OMG OMG, i thought to myself...what did i say wrong?! only after my dinner that i realised, oh dear, the lady with 2 kids may well be younger than me or just a few years younger than me..her kids are still...so, so, so young...because i'm not married yet, i still feel like a kid...thus, everyone with kids feel older than me and i thought it is just appropriate to be called aunty...oh dear..what a BIG mistake....so after some reflection, i think it's just safer for me to greet ppl from now on with a simple "hello".....just to be save...afterall, im not that young anymore >_<

scary or funny?

Yesterday, i went to an island near HK, called "long island" (AKA Chang Zhou) with my friends....we wanted to get away from HK, hoping to relax and enjoy the space...at the same time, we wanted to have seafood too...saigon seafood is too expensive and lamma island is a bit small...i remember once i was happily cycling around on long island, so i decided to invite my friends to stroll around there....it was a 45 mins boat ride, as usual, i slept thru the whole boat journey just to try to avoid seasickness....the moment we got off the boat and out of the pier, we were all greeted by mountains and mountains of people!!!! crap, our plan gone....it was just like any corner of HK...full of people..how could we cycle in this area???!!! so wat we did was, instead of cycling, we walked around...it was a beautiful little town...facing the ocean and backing up by mountain..the best feng shui ever!!! there were a lot of shops, selling all kind of things, food, candy, dried seafood, hawker stalls etc...we stopped and ate all sorts of junk...then we stopped in front of a place, which had a paper BMW parked outside...one of my friends said: "Oh wow, look at that...it's cute~~~" i looked at her and said:"oh that...that...is for the dead"...my friend was shocked and said:"oh...hmmm..i didnt know"...then we tried to walk away from that place and only we realised that it was a FUNERAL!!!! there were a lot of chairs in front and someone was "guiding" the coffin...OMG OMG...not a pleasant sight....we quickly walked away...we saw two ladies taking pictures of the funeral....i thought to myself...oh my, is that something she wanna keep? anyway, we laughed it off...

then my friend told us something really funny...she said the sister went travelling with her friends one time...i forgot where...one day while they were strolling around, they saw chinese opera on the street and that all the chairs in front of the stage were all empty...they were so happy, they said to each other that it was free opera and they got to sit down and watch...and so they did....after a while, someone tapped them on the shoulder and told them that the opera was not performed for them and the seats were not for the human too...both of them looked at each other, turned green and quickly got up and left....that night, both of them were....were....damn tired and went to sleep early...buwahahha..what were u thinking? :p

Depressed

it was great going home last week...i ate like there was no tomorrow...the consequence? i become fatter than i already was....oh man, my weight keep increasing...i seem to have lost control...im just an eating machine..chomp chomp chopm (ie chewing) is all i do all day...you ask me what i'm good at? i can tell u, eating is my expertise...crap...just the other day, i was lunching with my singaporean colleagues, i spilled out my problem and they also seem to have the same problem...we all feel like we need to eat everything in malaysia/singapore...they would also eat x meals per day, thinking that time would be running out if they don't...so we eat like there's no tomorrow...my hong konger colleagues couldnt understand why we want to do that, we explained, but still, they still couldnt understand..so we said, oh well, u would understand one day is u leave HK one day....

according to LJ the other day that i must control my weight coz now it's easier to differentiate between jenn and me...i still remember a comment made by a friend who hasnt met jenn before...she said she saw my twin the other day...i said oh ya? how do you know that's not me...i could've gone back without telling ya...guess what she said????? She said, Nah, i won't mistaken her for u coz she's thinner *slap* *faint* *cry*....jenn, i hope you are happy~~~~ :'(

vacation'ing

Sorry folks for not updating my blog for so long....like what i always do when im on leave, i will usually set out of office note so that people will know im out of office and will not expect quick response from me....too bad blogspot doesnt have such function..hahah...seriously, i think they should start thinking about this~~~otherwise my friends would quit coming to my blog thinking that i have abandoned my blog.... the purpose of this post is to let you know that "jane will be out of HK from 29/11/2008 to 7/12/2008 during which she will have limited access to internet. She will update her blog when she returns on 8/12/2008" This is a bit outdated...i wrote this post half way when someone came and picked me up...im leaving tomorrow :((((....sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....it's the same feeling again before i leave kch.... :'(

Bloody weather

Was in shanghai this week...and i LOVE LOVE LOVE the weather...most of my colleagues hate it and can't stand the coldness, but i'm different, i wish it could be winter all year round....just now i went out for a 10 mins walk with my colleagues to get starbucks coffee...it was quite windy and cold and i was wearing short sleeve turtleneck inside my trench coat and a short skirt...my colleagues kept saying that im "cold resistence"...ya, to me, it just felt like a happy day to stroll around..like one of those days in paris where you stroll in the park with your friends and having lots of fun chit chatting and enjoying the weather...aaahhhh...heaven~~~

am going back to hk tonight and i absolutely hate the weather in HK...eventhough it's end of nov, the weather is still so warm...i hate weather like this coz it's very hard to decide what types of clothes to wear...i always ended wearing either too much or too little!!!! crap...i just have nothing in between...okie, in summer, u wear short sleeves or sleeveless tops and either a pair of pants or shorts...in winter, u wear your coat and long sleeves top...but in weather like this...really dono what to wear....sighhhhh..tat's why i don like it la....

This is how i feel now in hk eventhough it should be winter by now~~~~

相遇不是用來生氣的

i know there should be copyright on posts....but i don't how to link it to refer to another blog coz it's in friendster blog...does that mean only people of who are friends of one person can read his/her blog? i dono...but i came across this really nice passage that it touches me....and i wanted to share with my friends and hopefully you guys will be touched too...(sorry again to my friends who cant read chinese~~~)

前日往回家的公車上， 一對上班族男女吸引了我的目光， 而他們的一段對話，更讓人難忘。 每天搭乘公車上下班，來回通勤時間約莫近二小時， 有時人少，可坐在位置上欣賞窗外的風景； 人多時，也只能慢慢地擠回家， 但這時，身邊乘客的對話總會不時地傳到耳邊。 前日往回家的公車上，轉程靠站時，乘客頓時多了起來。 一對上班族男女恰巧在我身邊，吸引了我的目光。 可能因為人多，男的不時地將手臂圍住女的， 並輕聲的問「累不累？」 「待會想吃些什麼？」 只見女的不耐煩地回答「我已經夠煩了，吃什麼都還不先決定，每次都要問我。」 男的一臉無辜的低下頭，而後說了令我印象深刻的話。 「讓妳決定是因為希望能夠陪妳吃妳喜歡的東西， 然後看到妳滿足的笑容， 把今天工作的不愉快暫時忘掉。 我的能力不足， 妳工作上所受的委屈我沒法幫妳， 我所能做的也只有這樣。」 女的聽了後，滿懷愧疚的說聲對不起。 男的這才似乎重燃信心般說： 「沒關係，只要你開心就好。」 而後親吻了女的頭髮。 下車前再回頭看看這對情侶， 男的依舊保護著心愛的人。 這樣的情景， 讓我覺得自己今天同樣在工作上有些許不愉快， 如果沒有聽到這一段對話，回家後的我， 可能也是一副全世界都對不起我的臭臉面對心愛的人， 只在乎自己的委屈， 卻忽視對方的感受， 不自覺地傷害最親密的人。 所以在踏進家門時，我問自己， 難道我要像公車上那位女孩一樣忍心 將自己的不滿委屈帶給身旁的人嗎？ 不，我想我現在應該做的是… 別再把工作上的情緒發洩在心愛的人身上， 破壞了最親密的關係， 並且主動給自己一個微笑。 相遇，不是用來生氣的！說得真好！ 當自己快抓不住情緒時，想想這句話， 應該會讓煩忙的生活，加些微笑的因子吧

why?

have you ever felt like your heart is thumping really hard and fast and you can't really figure out you feel the way you feel at that time? have you ever felt frustrated and annoyed at the slight sound someone/something makes? No matter how many deep breathes you take, how hard you try to figure out why, you just have no answers for it? this is how i feel today and right now and i don't quite understand why....even the thought of not having to work for two days and that my friend is coming to visit me, and that i will be going back to kuching soon, nothing seems to be able to cheer me up...why why WHY? can somebody tell me? i hate this kind of feeling....is it because i create this feeling myself? am i imagining it or am i really feeling it? i just wish the world could stop for a while and let me enjoy the silence for a while~~~~~sighhhhhh.....

Friends

Have you ever found that, as you get older, you find it harder to meet a new friend whom you could have a connection with, whom you could share every little detail of you life, whom you could trust and have fun with, whom you could share your deepest and truest feeling, whom will help you when you are in trouble etc etc etc...well, i came to realise that most of my closest friends are from school days and from my very first job where everyone was still fresh out from schools~~~of coz there are also some which we couldnt really connect to and lost touch alas....but i tried my best :)

last night, i went out with my old friend, whom i have known since 18 yrs old....it's been so many years and in between, we didnt keep in touch for 4 or 5 yrs...still we remain close...we share alot of things and a lot of fun...and i realised that with old friends, eventhough you may not have kept in touch for quite sometime, when you meet up, you still have plenty of things to say and do....the feeling of awkwardness just doesnt exist...i also remember when i met up with my OLDEST friend i know of since kindergarden, we had endless things to say...i had no idea what we said, it was not important :) lucky for me, i have alot of friends from school days and we remain close...and i also have friends from work which i treasured until now :) it's not easy to meet nice friends in your career..but i did meet them...:) hope they think the same as me :)

I was just chatting with another friend of mine....it seems that we all had the same problem...most of us find it difficult to make friends with colleagues...you don't know if he/she is geniunely sincere to you or secretly sabotaging you, you don't know if whatever you tell him/her will be the highlights of the next day's lunch topic and suddenly, you may become the laughing stock of the whole company....to some ppl, friends are just friends and friends can come and go....but to me, i treasure them as people and how they make my life a pleasant and memorable one....haha...mayb that is why i have a lot more old friends than new friends....

I wanna take the opportunity to tell all my friends....YOU ARE THE BEST....after me...hehehe... i hope our friendship will continue to bloom and last forever and ever :D

Flash back

Last night, while i was browsing through facebook, i came across a status update by my cousin..he is 23 this year and in his status update, it wrote: " i have to take company law exam"...curious, i went to his profile to see what he was up to. He had a lot of messages from his Uni mates...some said it would be their final exam the next day and they would play as hard as possible, some said they gotta study hard for their last exams, some said they couldnt wait for it to be over.....suddenly, i had a flashback~~~alot of things flashed back to my mind...when was the last time i took my exams in uni? How did i ever pass my exams? How did i feel when i was studying for my exams? how pressured and how worried were i then? How did i study for them since i had to study 4 units in one go??? all those questions which were so clear to me then were so vague to me now...sigh...

it does feel like a few hundred years ago when i completed my uni exams....before exams, everyone would be worrying about what kind of topics would be examined, everyone was guessing and discussing, carrying text books and exchanging tutorial questions, busy preparing for a study group, some looked confident, some looked worried, some just didnt care....how i missed my uni days...nothing much to worry about but assignments and exams....well, mayb i did have a lot of problems then but i couldnt remember, or may be i have too much problem now that whatever used to be problems to me just don't seem like a problem to me now.... :p

Compare to back then, we have too many things to worry about...such as the economic crisis, money, career (whether u can keep your job or find a new job, how to make your boss happy and your colleagues like you), family, spouse, kids, politics - be it office or social...etc etc etc...u just cant be as ignorant as u used to be anymore....

like a famous person once said: i wish i didnt have to grow up. I learned that the older you get, the more problem you have....i guess mayb we were just ignorant when were young and everything was taken care of by others...mayb that explains why others had more problems thant we did *wink*

is it true or is it illusion?

I just had my BIG birthday a few days ago...having gone thru xx yrs and i came to realise something....there are times when we feel happy because you buy something you like, be with someone you love, or good things just happen to you...sometimes you feel frustrated coz things don't go your way or you are under alot of stress...other times you feel sad because your love ones abandon you or hurt you...there are also times you get mad or even furious coz someone just bullies you etc etc...somehow, your feeling is being controlled by a lot of things such as people, environment, deadline, actions etc....but have you ever thought that sometimes, feelings are all created by one person? Who has such power you may wonder...think clearly....

YOU are usually the one creating those feelings...why would you feel lonely if you already have plenty of friends and family with you, why would you feel depressed if you already have other love ones to surround you, why would you feel whatever you feel if you are blessed with alot of other things except for the one thing you may have missed? I was talking to my taiwanese friend and LJ, we all agreed that loneliness is just your own masterpiece...if deep down, you only want one thing that you know you cannot have, no matter how much other things you have, you will always feel unhappy~~~

"Like the feeling of loneliness, if one’s heart is isolated by himself, even though he’s with a bunch of friends, he’ll still feel lonely, but if he know how to make himself happy, he’ll still feel contented even if he is by himself." ~Quote from the famous author, LJ~

So my question is: do you think whatever you feel is true or is it just an illusion?

the key to happiness is: to be contented for what you have and who you are and you will be amazed at how blessed you are. :)

意外惊喜 SURPRISE

It's been a loOOooooooooong week...last week, i had conference calls everynight and i was so looking fwd to this week coz i would have more free time...turned out, i was totally WRONG....i also had conference calls almost every night except for 11/11...where i specifically told my boss that that day will be my private time...i told him it was my birthday, so he postpone the call to the next night...last night, i had conference calls from 745pm to 11.30pm...life is sure dull..and tonight too..sigh...i cant go on like this...i need space~~~~~i felt very demotivated already....until this evening...i came home, saw something in my mailbox...i didnt think much....must be one of those junk mails or electricity bills...coz it is that time of the month again..yup bill time..i didnt think much..so i opened my mailbox and took out an envelope...instantly, i recognised that it is a private mail..and i recognised the handwriting..oh my oh my, it's a mail from jenn!!! Seriously, i havent been receiving any airmail since...since i graduated from Uni...and that was about 9 yrs ago!!! oh, i was soo happy...so excited and wondering what was inside....i tore the envelope opened to find a puzzle inside and a sweet letter...thx jenn...thx for the birthday gift :')....im really really really very touched :) you are the world's best sister...and i'm the bestest still..hiak hiak hiak.... here is my very own airmail from jenn...complete with handwritten envelope, handwritten letter and a sweet and thoughtful gift... :') (the white stuff is not correction fluid..i did it on purpose..jenn wondered if someone would read her mail..so i "sprayed" some snow on it...and LJ thought it would be unsafe to expose my address, so covered it...thx friend, for ur wonderful concern and thoughtfulness :)) This is the end product...i love it...just felt like jenn had celebrated my birthday with me...eventhough we are far apart, our hearts are still together :)

Here are a little something from my friends.....i didnt expect that...thx too....this birthday is the best ever...of coz not as good as those in EYs....we used to play till we were mad..hahaha..the good old days~~~~

hairy crab

Hairy crab is in town these days...it's the season to eat hairy crabs...for those of you who haven't seen it before...let me explain..ahem ahem...hairy crabs are crabs with hairs (*DUH*)...well, not all over but only on its claws...in chinese, it's called 大閘蟹 (pronuciation: da4 za2 xie4)....well, last week, i had TWO big hairy creature....it was yummilicious...why? coz even though they were male crabs, they had a lot of egg paste...yummy..the thought of it made me drool....

Last week, i had my first very own hairy crab to gobble on..it came with the usual crab eating utensil plus a pair of scissors...hhmm..i was wondering what the scissors was for..so i asked my friends, hey, is the scissors used for cutting off the hair on the claws before u eat? they all burst out laughing!!! oh well, i did that on purpose :p...i knew it was for cutting the soft shell on it's small legs....in shanghai, nobody wasted any flesh...well, i was just lazy, i chucked the flesh on the small legs...and 8 of them!!! was it eight? i guess so....then i had my second one last saturday cooked by a friend..it was again, super good....this time, i ate without any utensils but only my fingers...too bad ah fai couldnt eat...but look at the brightside fai fai, im high in cholestorol now while you are not...see? life is not always not grey... :) let me share share the pics with u....

(Hairy said: HI EVERYBODY~~~~) suddenly i thought of hairy in sexy and the city...hhmm..

big fat crab....gonna be gobbled down by Jane

November 11 - memory lane

it's the day again...jane and jennifer's birthday on 11.11....nice numbers for a pair of adorable twins...the birth date itself is a mirror image of each other and so are we :) i wanted to put together a series of photos we took on each of our birthday...but i didnt have the time to find the photos yet...here, i put together some old pictures...both of us...looked...eeerrr...YOUNG & INNOCENT....while trying look for pictures, i found myself looking at my old pictures...well, let's ditch the word old since i have never really admitted myself as old...i looked at photos from years ago...i realised that i have changed....well, except for the hairstyle, i realised that i have grown as a person.....crap..now i have to admit that i'm OLD~~~i shouldnt be in denial..but i told all my friends, age, is just a number...so just be IGNORANT!!! hahahaha....here are some of the pics..mayb you guys can tell me the differences....there u go....laugh all you want..just not in my face please :)

photo 1: Jenn & me, celebrating birthday together in 2003...i remember this dinner was arranged to be a "satay house" and both of us were forced to drink a glass of warm water with soy sauce and egg and cream....by the infamous chef, Goolace...we didnt drink in the end...buwahhaahah :D

Photo 2: birthday celebration in 2004 @ holiday inn....nice choco cake...no one did anything naughty to us on that day...or i just couldnt recall...both jenn and I were making our birthday wishes...my wish? yup, to make the world a better place for everyone~~~hiak hiak hiak..how fake is tat!!!

Photo 3: birthday in Nov 2007....@HK

Phot0 4: birthday without jenn :'( in Nov 2008

me, flight attendant?

i came back to HK this evening from Zhuhai...phew, finally no need to go back to this place again...well, it's not that zhuhai is not good..it's in fact a very nice place...spacious, clean air, cheap, neat, relaxing and with seaside...my friend laughed at me for being in China at this time...according to J, nothing could be eaten in china these days...i had porridge and bun everyday...but J said even buns contain melamine...oh my, so i said i switched to water, but J said even water has it because ppl dumped the poisonous milk powder in the water of china..crap..so what can i eat? anyway, that was just part of the story...today was the final day in zhuhai and we took a ferry back from Zhuhai to HK....it was only 1 hr and 15 mins..pretty fast...i was queuing to get a taxi for half hr and when i did, the moment i stepped into the car, the driver chit chatted w me...and i think he stared at me over the rear mirror and i think he had been holding it for quite a while and finally he broke and asked if im a flight attendant...i have alot of question marks...why would he think so? then i replied...no, im not..if i were a flight attendant, u would be picking me up from the airport instead of a ferry..he went..yeah, that's wat he thought too..but he said i look like a flight attendant...and i said, oh, no, im not...then he insisted that i look like one...ooh, i was so flattered :) ...hopefully im the type of flight attendant as shown in the pic below and not the type that works in US....we used to joke abt the flight attendants there....someone said the airline could be a nursing home...so bad....

i guess i have the height..but me a flight attendant? hhmmm....im still searching for answers~~~

DULL life

I HATE this week...i cant wait for this week to be over...why? you may wonder~~~just look at my calendar for this week....it's the fourth row...where you see a lot of meetings at night time for a particular week...yup, that's how dull my week is gonna be...sigh..im not soo looking fwd to it~~~~i dreaded it...i hope it will be over fast...i wish i could fast forward :( :( :( :(

one question...why do we always have to be the one sacrificing our free time to accomodate them??? whenever we organise meeting for them to attend at night, they never seem to be able to make it....i think we are just too nice and too polite to reject....this is so not fair!!! they are spoilt by us....but looking at the brightside, at least they don't expect us to wake up at 5am in the morning just to have a meeting..i heard that there are some companies that do this....oh man...there's no human right and yet, they keep talking abt human right....i want OT pay!!! im gonna sue------------------------- >:(

nightmare before xmas

HAPPY BELATED HALLOWEEN~~~~~

In chinese culture, we celebrate the ghost festival by burning incest, paper money, paper house, paper LV bag, paper maids, paper car and food....which is kinda....SCARY when you really think about it....however, ppl do it differently in western culture..they dress up as monsters, ghost, skeletons, wearing masks and wigs just to have fun....TRICK or TREAT...hehhehe...i wanna say "happy halloween" to all of my friends and the main character of halloween is of coz....Mr Pumpkin....hehehe...

Mr pumpkin could be found standing at the roadside of canton road in tsimshatsui....this looks like a pumpkin witch..."nyiek nyiek nyiek" (in very high pitch~~~ ^^)

meaning of love

came across a post of a friend of mine which i wanna share with my friends :)

爱情为何你会如此复杂?

有时候,

爱情会令人感觉到是个奇妙的天堂,

此时也不知觉驻进我的生命路线.

才知道,有了这种感情,

是能带给人如此多的甜蜜回忆.

愿你我能天长地久,

与你分享世界的所有所有.

有时候,

爱情回令人感觉到是痛苦的过程.

因一些挫折,

你我的距离也因此被天地的地平线风割开.

彼此也开始重复在简单寂寞的生活.

愿年复一年岁月能改变你我,

永远把彼此从脑海中忘掉.

究竟什么是爱情啊???

i made this collage...isn't it beautiful? ehehhehe

my god daughter

i am now officially a god mother (AKA 干妈）....my best friend brenda gave birth to a cute little gal on 19 Sept :) ever since brenda found out she was pregnant, she already told me that i will be the god mother of her child :) i felt so honoured :') honestly, i don't really know what a god mother should do....hhmm...can anybody help me? after 9 mths of burden for my dear brenda, finally she gave birth to a cute little baby gal...she named her "charlotte"....what a beautiful name...the fact is that both of us love sex and the city so much and that the character, Charlotte, is brenda's most favourite...in our impression, charlotte is beautiful, feminine, gentle, loving, pure and a romantic gal....there...brenda found many reasons to name her beautiful baby CHARLOTTE...congratulations my dear..you are now officially a mum and me, a god mum...let's wish our friendship will continue to flourish...

here's a picture of 3 weeks old little charlotte

Pretty charlotte in mummy's loving arms...does she look like mummy? i think so

Little charlotte taking her milk..wanting to grow up faster...isnt she adorable :')

拔牙风云 (a story about tooth extraction)

It was public holiday in hong kong one day....the day we all love to snug at home and rest....i havent had home cooked meal for ages, so that day, since i had nothing much to do, i decided to cook at home and watched my favourite cartoon~~~aaahhhh..the thoughts made me smile...as i really enjoyed watching the cartoon so much....anyway, i cooked my favourite fried rice with eggs and lots of pepper...jenn called it pepperly fried rice...i used to cook fried rice to feed my bro and sis back in Australia..i loved it so much..and still love it now...oops, a bit out of topic....anyway, while i was enjoying my dinner with my favourite cartoon, suddenly i munched into a rocky thing...i took it out and thought it was a small pebble from the rice....so i continued to eat...hhmm..it felt weird in my mouth and after that realised, the pebble belong to a part of my wisdom tooth...now i had a BIG hole in my mouth...frantic...coz that means i would have to visit the dentish...which i hate so much...but i had no choice...

this is part of my wisdom that fell out while i was having my dinner

the next day, i went to our company dentist...took x ray and a brief check up, hoping she could help fill the hole...instead, she delivered bad news to me and said the hole is too deep and couldnt be filled and the only option i had is to pull it out at a cost of HKD1800...additionally i might need operation if the tooth broke while she try to extract...i was sweating...i looked at her with a sad and worry look...she thought i think the cost is too high...she then said, take a few days to consider...then i said, i will definitely pull it, but i'm just afraid....i was really really scared that i didnt dare to make the choice...the moment i was at my office, i called all of my friends to ask them what i should do....i know what i should do, i was just AFRAID....after a few hours of counselling and encouragement from my dear friends, finally i picked up the phone to call my company dentist to make an appointment for the next day....who knows, the nurse told me that the dentist said she will need ONE HOUR to pull it...i lost faith in her immediately...so i went to another dentist recommended by my friend...there, i had my appointment the next day....

the next day at 330pm:

1. dentist checked my tooth, told me sadly that it couldnt be filled and the only choice is to pull out;

2. Took x-ray...dentist told me my tooth had 4 STRONG legs...and it was a big tooth...she would try the conventional method to pull but if the tooth broke, i might need operation

3. me expressed my fear but i had no choice...the dentist pulled out a huge needle, i closed my eyes while she injected...she said she needed to break the tooth a bit to make it easier...so she started with the "construction" work....

4. A nurse held my head while the dentist tried to pull my tooth out..she twisted clockwise and anti-clockwise...the process went on for exactly 30 mins before my wisdom tooth was pulled off...the dentist put it on the bloody tooth on the table and asked if i wanted to keep it...instantly, i shook my head...what should i do with it? give it to the tooth fairy? hehehe....

i was so relieved that it was finally over....but there was a big hole in my mouth now and the blood kept streaming out...it was swollen for a few hours and i was living on porridge for the whole weekend....here are some of the pics i took....

me just finished my 30 mins agony....i still had the cotton in my mouth

My bloody cotton

I was terrified...it just wouldnt stop my blood didnt stop streaming out until the next day....

买粪？

today before i went to B's house for lunch, i wanted to get something for B...so i went to the nearby shops to get something...after that i thought i better bring more things coz i would have a FEAST later at B's place....so i went to the nearby fruit store to get some huge dragon fruits....while at the fruit store, i overheard the following conversation:

Lady A: 哇，你们卖 “Si” 啊。。。(me interpreted as you guys sell shit? i thought the fruits had some shit stuck on them...i was a bit shocked....)

Salesperson: 是啊。。。我们的"si" 很美的啊。。。（translation: our shit is very pretty ar。。。again, i was amazed at the conversation...how could shit be pretty?)

Lady A: 是啊。。。你们的“si” 真的很大很美。。。(translation: yeah, your shit is indeed very big and pretty）

so i turned around to find out what they were talking abt...oooo...it was not shit that they were talking about...it was....ta-da

i hear it wrongly because...persimmon in chinese is called 柿子(shi4 zi3)...in cantonese, it is pronounced as (si3) which sounds like shit in cantonese....hahaha.... (^^) phew

Real life doraemon

As all of you know, i already moved to a new area...what i haven't told you is that, i have a very nice security guard...as LJ called him "papa guard"....he is an old man from Singapore...the day when i moved in, he asked me where i'm from coz i don't look local...so i told him..."Malaysia"....his eyes lit up immediately and told me he's from Singapore...from them on, he treated me like his daughter....everyday, i go out, he would ask me a few standard questions such as "where are you going?" "have you eaten?" "what time are you coming back" etc....i told LJ about him and she asked me to be careful~~~you know these days, there are a lot of weird news....he could be a psycho..who knows...anyway, he's been nice so far...he knew i just moved in and i havent had a lot of furniture...so one day, he asked me if i want a table....oh, perfect, i was just gonna get a table~~~it was nice of him, so i bought him a bar of nice chocolate as my appreciation....mayb he likes my chocolate :p, he asked me another day if i wanted an air purier....i didnt know how to say no....so he gave it to me and it's now sitting in one corner...what's an air purier anyway? so i returned him my appreciation with a bowl of delicious and hot bak kuk teh soup....and after that, he asked if i wanted table lamps....actually i told him i already had one and just bought one...he insisted that i take them....well, i took them but they are sitting in a corner of my cabinet..they look hhmmm.....well, let's just say, not my taste...i wanted to throw away but i was afraid that he would know...so i kept them anyway....just yday morning, i woke up late...mayb he was worried so he intercommed me and asked if i'm ok..i said yeah...then he asked if i have a fridge..i said yeah, i just bought a small one...then he asked, is it enough for you? i said yeah...then he said actually i have got a fridge here if you want it, u can take it...then i replied, oh, hmmm...shld be ok, i think the small one will do...

if he offered earlier, then i wouldnt have to spend on fridge lo..but nvm la, i don't have space for it anymore...and somemore, i don like second hand fridge..who knows what the previous owner stored~~~~~could be human flesh~~hiak hiak hiak....i told my friend about it and mentioned something i havent really thought about....don't you think papa guard is like a DORAEMON? hehehehe....come to think of it, he does act like one...luckily he doesnt look like one :p thanks papa guard :p

• this is the table i got....initially i wanted to get a nicer one...but since i already have this, i just bought a table cloth to make it look nicer....

• this is the air purifier...hhmmm....i don't know what it's for...tat's why it's still sitting at one corner collecting dust....

• these are the lamps...hhmm....they are sitting in my kitchen cabinet....i don't know what to do with them..anybody wants them?

it's good to have someone to look after you when you are in a foreign country...but the downside is, sometimes i don't feel like going out because i don't really like to answer questions :( one day, i left the country for two weeks without his knowledge, i was so afraid that he would come up and knock on my door to see if i was ok....i must tell him my work schedule then....:p

special drinks in HK

This only would be funny to those who can read chinese...went for a movie with Ah Fai the other night...before dinner, we decided to have something to eat first before the movie..so we went to a noodle shop nearby...as usual, we get to choose set meal or just noodle...so both ah fai and i looked carefully at our menus and we both decided to order the same thing.....after selecting my maincourse, i decided to order drinks too...hhmm...when i looked at the menu, there were alot of questionmarks on my mind...they sure have alot of new drinks...and i couldnt make out what they are..so i asked ah fai...

Me: hey, do you know what is 滑香滑檬檬洋？

Ah Fai looked at me and frowned and said: What? what's that? (Pause) oh, hhmmm..you should read the wording horizontally...not vertically...

Me: Oh? (looked at the menu) yeah, you are right...(*blush*) ahem..i thought the menu is arranged vertically like most chinese books and menus....i get it now...

Ah Fai and I couldnt stop laughing...hahahhaa....what would be 治治乐喜蜜啡?

these are some extracts of the menu.....me so blur~~~

I made a fool of myself...hehehe..here's an extract from my friend's blog...d*mn funny :D 滑香滑檬檬洋 時間: 九月某夜晚飯時間 地點: 葵芳某商場某雲南米線快餐店 人物: A (某香港原居民), B (南洋某小國原居民, 而又不願透路來歷人事) 對話節錄: A: (向B) 我要這個那個米線... B: (向A) 我也要這個那個米線....(看著餐牌飲品類)......甚麼是'滑香滑檬濛洋'...????? A: (看看餐牌飲品類).....嗯...... 餐牌是向橫看的........呀哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

New bags

i have always wanted to get a trolley bag for my laptop...my laptop is d*mn big and heavy and everytime i travel, i felt like my shoulders were gonna fell off my body...especially when i go away for weekend with it and my clothes....felt like i am walking with a big rock on my back....don't i just feel like kung fu panda when he is getting his training? Pain~~~~so i decided to get a bag..it's not easy task...i looked up and down, left and right in philly for a perfect bag..but they are either over my budget or they look ugly..so i decided to hunt in HK....finally, after x days of searching, i found it in Sogo yesterday....so happy....thanks to jenn who also helped me search in kuching, i still found it in HK~~~~ and yday, while i was spending on my bag, i helped jenn spent on her bag too...my friend and i both thought that it's a really nice luggage..what's best is, it's buy one get one free~~~like all other aunty (AKA 师奶), we couldnt stand the temptation....Elle was on offer too and initially, i thought of buying that but after knowing the promotion...i ditched elle and go for these...ta-da...jenn..ur new luggage....

The two black bags behind belong to jenn...and the one in front is my new trolley bag...im so happy~~~ \(^^)/

my small party

i decided to invite my friends over to my place for dinner one fine day....so i sent out my invitation one fine day and 9 of my friends replied!!! unfortunately, two had to work on that day and cancelled on me last minute...i was sad but what the heck, party would still go on...i had problem deciding on my menu on that day...hhmm...unlike jenn, i didnt go online to search for what to cook...i just followed my instinct...so early on saturday morning, i visited the supermarket near my place...it was early, i was tired and me, for some reasons, kinda regretted that i had decided to cook instead of just doing a potluck.....my brain wasnt working...so i bought pork ribs for bak kuk teh, minced pork for steamed mince pork, chicken, tomato, veggie, fat pork, all sorts of sauces (fyi, i had nothing at home...so for one party, i had to get all of the sauce ingredients, plates, spoons, chopsticks, chair, carpet, pillow etc etc etc...that's why i regretted)...but it turned out to be good and i was glad that i arranged such event...think i will do it more often from then on :)

after much preparation, ta-da, i had everything made..my bak kuk teh smelled super good...my mince pork looked ok, my soy sauce pork looked yummy...after that i cleaned my place, took my friends to wong tai sin...and i even treated papa guard my bak kuk teh...he loved it...fyi, he's from singapore and he treated me like his own daughter...gave me this and that...i just felt guilty for not showing appreciation...anyway, the night was good, my friends brought all sorts of fruits, tit bits, soft drinks, red wine, yao zha kuih and everything...they loved my bak kuk teh...hey, im so proud of myself..it was my FIRST attempt..thanks to my master...my mum..she gave really good instructions and i didnt follow the instructions on the packet....here are some of the pics....the food and gathering was good that i forgot to take pictures...hahaha...sorry~~~~

• My malaysian style bak kuk teh - 肉骨茶

• My soy sauce pork - been cooking for TWO hours

• Food all gone....

• My living room - doesn't it look cozy? i love it...do u? :p

• my kitchen...small but it was where i made myself a chef :)

• my bedroom...with my pink piggie toy