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.... :'(