美国 - city of dreams

从周五晚上5点出发去机场。过了将近30小时，我还在 Mexico City等我的下一班飞往 一个叫埃莫西約 (Hermosillo) 的城市。 之前，我最远的路途就是去美国。现在还有更远的，就是去墨西哥。这是一个我从来没有想去的地方～ 老实说，我一开始还没那么紧张，当时间越来越靠近的时候，我才发现要去这个地方，要跨越美国，然后去到一个在美国电影才看得到的地方。安全吗？

周五晚上做了将近14小时飞机抵达 San Francisco。到了san fransico，我得转机去 Mexico City。用的是墨西哥航空… 除了亚洲航班，我其实很少坐西方国的航班。由于一切在美国是未知数，所以不少会担忧。第一次去纽约差点赶不上下一班机的阴影还在。不喜欢美国是因为美国人很傲慢，很不friendly… 记得上次第一班飞机延误，导致后面不够时间transit，immigrratuon的队又超长。我请站在一旁的美国大叔工作人员帮忙，他冷冷的看着我 然后回一句，与我无关。我愣住了。只要自己一个一个的问在排队的人我可否插队。然后死命的跑到下一个 terminal。

这次到了 San Francisco 飞机没有延误。心里松了一口气。结果，正当我们要滑到bay的时候，忽然飞机停止滑动的了。机长说，机场工作人员说我们现在的bay有台飞机即将起飞，让我们多等10分钟～ 十分钟还好… 结果时间过了，我们还没动。后来机长有说，收到通知说刚刚那台飞机故障了，他们的工程师在维修，要多等20分钟… 南你？没有其他地方了吗？后来等着等着，机长有说还需要多15 至 20分钟… 天啊，这是什么国家？我们准时到了，却被当地机场耽误。我的心里又开始紧张了。人算不如天算！我不知道过关的人数多不多，行李能否顺利抵达～心里很多 OS。 我开始拿手机出来 sign up 墨西哥航空的app，赶紧线上check in。我必须让他们知道我要坐！飞！机！

过了将近一小时，我们终于可以下飞机了。这是什么鬼国家。难道没有其他的bay了吗。幸好这个bay挺靠近immigration的。也幸好看到有一个通道是给 APEC card 的人。居然顺利通关。黑人警察问了我几个问题，来这里干嘛，来多久，身上有多少钱，有没有带烟和酒。我看到普通通道确实是队很长。一切顺利，一路找 information Centre 问，他们也很有礼貌。顺利check in 和过关去到 lounge。一切顺利。这次在美国我有点改观了。在lounge时，看到有个人，到了两个小孩，妻子和岳母，不小心坐了另外一个乘客的位子，他还很有礼貌的去跟那个人说他们以为他走了才坐在这个位子上，问她要不要坐回来。人家也很客气的说没关系。我这一幕也是愣了。原来美国有好人！奇怪，为什么本来很普通的举动，在美国我却觉得意外。如果同样的事情在亚洲发生，我应该会觉得太正常了。美国。。。。一个 city full of dreams的地方，一个city where your dream comes true 的地方，却在我眼里是那么的不值钱。。。。很多身边的人都不理解为什么大家都想去这个地方。。。不安全，被藐视，被欺负，不公平又贵又不方便。。。不解。。。

不认老

 上周末，我做了很久没做过的事情。想想以前做过这件事情也是 Covid 前了。。。算算手指，也至少有6年了哟！不久前，我决定去上海的那周，周末从上海直接detour去台北做我该做的事情，那就不用特别从新加坡飞台北。因为从上海去台北才2小时不到的飞程而从新加坡需要5小时呐。一开始想的很完美，我周五晚上去，行李留在酒店，然后周一一早回来上海，再借用一些做工的理由多呆一到两天， 然后再回新加坡。虽然出差时间会变长，不过还是划算滴。没想到，我这个似乎完美的计划就因为要申请美国签证而被迫改变。台北我是去定了。我一直请 agent 帮忙约其他时间，看似要去美国的人超多，所以没法约到适合的时间。工作还是不能耽误。毕竟我是一个非常负责人的人。。。哎，所以我做了个下下策。就是上海照去，周五晚上照旧去台北，然后行李寄放在机场，周日傍晚回上海，在上海等6 小时，再坐凌晨飞机回新加坡。。。抵达新加坡是6am，945am 约美国签证。。时间搓搓有余。其实这个决定我也折腾了很久。想到里面的 “工作量" 我已经昏了。不过我还是自信满满，因为知道时间一定会刚刚好。我从来没有担心过我自己的体力！

这次在淘宝我也买了不少东西。我有一个东西是寄回来的，其他东西我为了省运费，反正我的weight 这么多，不用白不用，所以拼命买。周五去机场的时候，我有一个大箱子，两个小巷子，两个大包包，和一个小包包。我让司机停在机场二号楼，是因为回程是二号楼。我打算把行李寄存在那里，方便回来的时候去。我觉得自己太聪明了。哈哈哈哈。外面进机场是需要过安检的。主要是防爆安检。我这是感觉自己像逃难的。哈哈哈。反正一堆了排队进去，然后把所有包包都得放在 X Ray machine，然后又要自己把包包赶紧拿走以免耽误下一个人。耶，一切顺利！寄存两个包包也很顺利。是时候吃个晚餐。后来我从二号楼走去一号楼的路途遥远而且机场里面都不开空调。热死了。结果要进一号楼，又要过防爆安检。。。我真的好累好累。

终于在机上。顺利抵达台北， check in，睡觉。那时候也是凌晨12点多了。

回程才是挑战的开始！反正就跟周五的流程反过来，不过多了两个行李和两个手提行李。我觉得我一共带了60 KG 回去新加坡。哈哈哈。不要问我带了什么。回到新加坡的时候，我真的累毕了。一共只睡了3小时。530am抵达新加坡机场。飞机停在 terminal 的最后一个 gate，拉着行李走了10分钟才到 immigration。。。。而且新加坡机场的地毯太后，我使出吃奶的力量用力拉。可能是没睡饱的原因，那时候我真的觉得我快昏倒了。回到家，我立刻卸下行李，洗个快澡，冲去补眠一小时，起床去美国领事馆办签证。那天真的像疯子一样。。。年纪真的大了。晚上8点我早早去哦哦。。。一直到第二天的7点才起床！真的太太太爽了！朋友们对我这次的行程都佩服。我也很佩服自己。老实说，有时候我对我自己的决策能力很满意。哈哈哈哈。。。只有要毅力，什么都可行！

Generation GAP

 Sometimes i wonder if this is due to generation GAP or just purely lazy. i remember when i first left Kuching for HK, i was timid, innocent and lost but no matter what, i knew i had to fight for myself in order to protect myself or get what i want. this philosophy was introduced to me when i moved to HK. i took my parents to Langham place for lunch. As you know, queuing is unavoidable in HK for everything. So i got a waiting number for ourselves and waited quietly for our turn. During the boring wait, i saw an incident where a lady came out of nowhere and showed the waitress her waiting ticket. The waitress told her nicely that her number has passed and she needed to get another number and wait again. The lady got upset and scolded the waitress and the waitress let her in. I WAS SHOCKED.. and i did not know we could do this! so from them on, i always reasoned with the person to get what i want. i have to say, i was more brave while i was in HK and Shanghai.. but i got less and less brave after moving to Singapore. hahaha.. don't ask me why.. 

yesterday, i was having pet talk with my new senior. A shy Malaysian guy. He joined us for 4 months already but i havent not seen anything wonderful from him, so i scheduled a meeting with him to ask him how he was doing etc.. all those rubbish...my intention was to "hiam" him because i hired him to lead, not to be LED!!! i waited for him to talk, drive the conversation.. in the end, i got impatience, so i asked him a lot of questions which he couldn't answer and was not confident to answer. So i told him all of my expectations and asked him for his action plan and timeline. in the end, he smiled and told me this is the most constructive conversation he had after joining and that my expectations are high.

i told him that the manager position is open, as a normal person, one should fight for it. he told me he doesnt want it as he thinks he is not qualified. to be honest, i was a bit shocked coz before he joined us, he was a manager at one of the big 4 firms >_<  i remember, at his aged, i was already a senior manager ler.. and i moved to Shanghai at that age to do something i completely didnt know... and i did not think i was not qualified (even though i really did not know how to be a controller at that time). Perhaps i was in my own world.. but come to think of it... it was perhaps good that i did not think i was not qualified.. i just thought i should grab the chance because once it's gone, it's gone... and same for this guy... he doesn't think he is ready for the manager position.. then he has to stay in his current position for the next 3 to 5 years.. who knows.. unless the new manager i found is so crappy that he/she leaves in a short time or cannot stand my "high" expectations. hahaha..

i'm just thinking.. is this a generation gap where everyone just wants to take it easy or is it because my expectations are really high?!

在家干嘛？

之前说过为何我们在家办公的故事了。。。所以我到底在家干嘛呢？当然是。。。。。。。。办公啦！哈哈哈

上礼拜，在youtube看到这个新的节目，好像叫什么在家干嘛的中国节目。。是因为最近大家都因为病毒被关在家里了。艺人也没办法拍什么节目娱乐大家。后来就出了这个节目。就是节目组把摄影机送到艺人家门口，艺人自己拍他们都在家里面干嘛。。。我觉得这个节目还挺有趣的。里面其中两个自己住的男艺人，就开始想如何烹饪。因为平常在家没时间做饭，就利用这个非常时期来学习学习。。。我觉得蛮好的。。。可能学着学着就变厨师了。哈哈哈有技压过人！反而是那些有爸妈在的，没这个想法。呵呵。。。

这期间，我都在家里自己随便搞一点东西吃。。太复杂的我不会，太高难度的我也不会。。。所以我只能做一些简单的。不知道为什么最近我爱上了香菜和大葱。。。只要我的饭菜加上了这两样东西，我就觉得胃口大开。香菜我基本上是一个礼拜2 - 3包。大葱5 粒可以吃一周。。。上周我差不多每餐都有生大葱。好好吃。我就是喜欢那些臭臭的味道。平常不太敢吃，因为怕身边的人闻到会翻白眼。呵呵。上周我去了公司两次。。。因为现在在防疫，所以防疫工作比较严格，我们公司同事会一天来测我们的体温两次。。。我上周两次的温度都很高。。早上37.2度，下午就37.6度。基本上37.5度以上的都会建议去看医生。奇怪，我也没有不舒服的感觉。在公司，由于上班的人少，大家手脚冰冷，只有我的是热乎乎的，还真的有点烫手。。。哇，难道。。我不要~~~ 我以为我上火了，回家赶快喝了一罐红毛凉茶。。感觉自己的手温有下降一点。。。后来，我同事帮我查了，说原来大葱会把体温提高。。。噢~~ 瓦卡里马斯（日语：原来如此）

这是我最近迷上的食物：

有点嘿嘿的是因为我用紫米。其实就是直接放到饭锅一起煮的萝卜和高丽菜。

绿油油的。是不是看起来不是那么开胃。。不过这个拌面还是挺清爽的。呵呵。老王卖瓜自卖自夸的感觉。呵呵

下周回去上班了。下次也许只有周末可以自己做饭了。。。以前整天出差。。。现在因为病毒不能出差。。所以周末就有时间。。。其实我还蛮想回古晋的。。心里虽想，可是又害怕害到家人和朋友。。。所以这个思乡的心情也只能让它延续了~~~

work-life balance...really?!

Recently, i'm being sabo to take on a global project to improve finance feedback in our company....so everyweek, i have at least one or two night calls because of this project! just for your info, i still go to office on time the next day, do my work and no, there is no pay rise for this additional work. the idea here is to make you happy without any monetary compensation *bitter smile*

so, one of our iniatives to improve the happiness of a finance person is....work life balance... guess what? look at the list below...except for me in asia, the whole list of people are still either online to do work, in meeting or in conference calls!

how contradicting is this?!

YES I CAN!

这个已经是在我的 DRAFT BOX 里面很久未完成的POST了。难得最近有闲情写POST，让我赶快把它完成吧~~~

去年的三月份（哇，时间过得真快。。。转眼间就过了一年了）跟老板还有同事们一起去沙巴爬神山。记得第一次去的时候已经是十多年前了。其实那一次过后，我已经没有想要再去爬神山的念头了。因为那次真的爬的很累。嘴唇发白，头发凌乱。回到家后我累了几天早早就去睡觉。腿上也有很多淤青的地方。发誓那是我第一次也是最后一次爬神山了。

前年的10月份爬完台湾雪山后，我莫名的被老板指定一定要去爬神山。应该他是想说我是马来西亚人，所以可以帮他们安排行程。我想尽办法逃脱去爬神山。用尽所有的方式说服我老板。我说我可以不用去我还是很乐意帮大家安排的。他说不行。后来我跟老板说我已经发誓过我不会再去神山的了。他问我是对石头发誓的吗？而且还说 "vow is meant to be broken~"
@—@ 如果被他老婆听见，我想他的日子应该很不好过吧。呵呵。看来我一定要去神山了。还是断念而开始锻炼吧~

终于到了爬山的那天。现在想回去觉得还蛮有成就感的。过程就不多说了，先说我的感想好了。。。

上一次爬雪山的时候让我更加了解自己。爬山是要靠自己的毅力的。了解了自己的体力再用自己的速度慢慢走上去。不要介意大家怎么看你。一旦你有害怕被看扁的心态，其实辛苦的是你自己。这个道理我非常了解，所以我从不强求自己要跟我同事比赛。拉猪尾被笑我也无所谓。上次爬雪山的时候，我的韩国同事为了证明自己的能力而坚持跟我老板的速度。结果受苦的是他。。。所以这次我还是按照我自己的能力和速度来爬神山。这次的准备肯定比第一次爬神山来的充足。

那天我们凌晨230am开始攻顶。我知道自己体力不强，就先和我的guide出发。上山的路很抖，很辛苦。加上空气稀薄。天色还很暗，头上戴了照明灯。只能看到10米以内的路，前面一片黑暗。只能看到比我前面的人的一小盏一小盏的照明灯。虽然累，我还是一路坚持往上走。慢慢的走，一路走一路休息。。。虽然慢，还是可以超越一些人。后来我到了check point，guide要上厕所。我坐着等他。结果，越来越多人超越我。我等了久，开始发冷，心想到底guide去了哪里。后来他终于出现了，我们赶快赶进度。虽然超越了之前超越我的一些人，可是有些人我还是超越不了。但是，我知道目标就在前面。一些路途真的还蛮辛苦的。有一阶段是需要拉着绳子上去的。然后还有一段路是得爬石头上去的。我记得我的体力真的快不行了，我的向导伸出了援手把我拉上去。这一切都是在黑暗中进行的。山越高的地方风越大越冷。经过千辛万苦，终于登顶了。山上的景色真的真的很美丽。这一切的辛苦都是值得的。而且这次在山顶上的感觉跟上次完全不一样！一路靠着自己的意志力和guide的鼓励和带领才能到山顶的。

在一边攻顶一边辛苦往上走的同时，我忽然很感触：我们为了目标前进。如果你的脚步比别人快，你就赢人在先。如果半途中休息，怠惰，别人就会超越你。而你却要加倍努力的想办法超越其他人。而且有些人你还不一定能够追上。这个故事告诉我们，做什么事情都要坚持。虽然过程很艰苦，不过慢慢的走下去总有一天还是可以达到目的地。而目的地肯定是美好的。当然一路鼓励你的人，带领你的人也非常重要。因为他们在你快撑不下去的时候适时伸出援手，适时鼓励，适时带领你。当然自己的毅力也要够坚定。记得友人说过：成功是给坚持的人。这句话讲得非常好！

我非常感激当时我老板一直逼我爬山。原来爬山可以学到这么多道理。其实爬山可以看到每个人的真面目。。。平时大家和平相处，可是一到困难时，大家处理和面对的方式不一样。我有一个同事因为面子问题，累得不想走而发所有人的脾气。也有人累了选择默默的前进。也有人鼓励和帮助体力比较不好的人。什么样的人都有。

如果你问我还想爬山吗？我会说：不想了。哈哈哈。

Tokyo Time

 Valentines' day is a big event in Japan...for some reasons... i think the japanese are turning everything into special event so that people will just spend spend spend... so, i was in Tokyo last week for business....i think feb is one of the best seasons to go because:

• It is cold but not that cold (well...at least to me because of my tolerance level of coldness.... very different from other people);
• it is the season for strawberries
• valentines' day! The whole atmosphere felt like Xmas. The mall are full of decoration and you would see many people rushing to buy gift. The most popular gift for valentines' day is, of coz, CHOCOLATE... hhmmm...i wonder why people are giving chocolate as gift because most people are diet concious... then after i strolled around, I understand why... the chocolates are irresistible! They come in any shapes and form, any flavors, any colors you can think of! Sake Chocolate is my favourite...unfortunately, i have to buy it myself lo T_T

Then the chocolate i saw at the hotel looks adorable...i wanna give it a bite! i think they missed out of putting a Love Angel somewhere around the chocolate~

But what i loved most is their FRESH red, juicy strawberries! i was given a small piece in the supermarket and straight away, i took a box. After one box, I became addicted to them...the moment you put one in your mouth, the juice splashed out and it was sssooooOOOOOooooo sweet! The Japanese people are really lucky. they have so many good stuff in the country. *Envious*

Then i saw this in a shop.... WHITE STRAWBERRIES! wow...looks like white chocolate coated strawberries to me... i wonder how it taste...but USD 52 for 9 of them... nah, i think i will pass~ 

my conclusion is: Japanese are very good at Marketing. they can come up with anything to induce people to spend. one time i saw a group of foreigners buying JPY100K grapes from Ginza. Apparently they were curious about the taste so they bought it.... well, for me, luckily im not that curious or i would go bankrupt in Japan. hahaha

annyeonghaseyo 안녕하세요

Greetings from Korea! I have been in Korea for two weeks. I'm heading to Jeju island for the next week days. When talking about Korea, many people have this beautiful thoughts about it from the Korean drama.. my trip isn't exactly the beautiful type. My trip here is to go to those industrial area and rural area to visit our vendors.

Well, can't say this trip is bad because I get to see the other side of Korea. Now is still the best season to visit Korea because it is autumn.. u know, Korea is 70% covered in mountain so the trees are all turning into different colors... green, yellow, red, orange etc and the best is still the persimmons everywhere. 

Our office has a private persimmons garden which belong to the previous GM. At his time, nobody could go to the garden. I heard one person stole a persimmon from the garden and he was caught and fired! Now that the GM is gone, that garden is now freely accessible by all. One fine afternoon, I was really craving for persimmons, so a colleague and me went to pick them. they were superliciois. Felt like a secret garden. So happy.

I love the cold weather. Love the wind.. but I'm really tired with the trip... we have to travel far.. so we leave early. Because we have limited time, so we come back late. All my dinners are room service and quite late at night. Last night we arrived hotel at 9pm. I was struggling between skipping dinner or having dinner. I was so hungry that I decided to eat. But after dinner, I regretted immediately :(

What I admire myself the most is me having the same breakfast every morning for two weeks! Seriously, who will get tired of this hearty meal~

My Korean style breakfast~ I mixed the egg into the rice, wrapped it with rice, kimchi, nuts and seaweed, then I took a bite of bacon. Yum. 

This is my korea trip so far

trouble maker

Recently, there is a trouble maker in our office...she appears like a hurricane and disappears like a hurricane, leaving sh*t to everyone... initially, i thought i'm the only one who had been sabotaged but today, i learned that i'm not the only one... everyone is complaining except for one person....who is, OUR BOSS! thus, the hurricane becomes more powerful and sh*ts even more on everyone...

i think there are many types of trouble maker...  let me summarize for all of you:

1. Trouble maker who knowingly/unknowingly creates trouble to other people but easily detected by the victim and other people. Thus, the trouble is not successfully received. This is the weakest trouble maker of all!
2. Trouble maker who knowingly/unknowingly creates trouble to other people but less visible to other people because the trouble is not complex or influential enough, thus, having less impact to other people. As such, it is received by other people. This type of trouble maker is well accepted by people.
3. Trouble maker who knowingly/unknowingly creates trouble to other people but because the trouble maker is well liked by everyone, thus, people do not mind the trouble.
4. Trouble maker who knowingly/unknowingly creates trouble to other people takes all the credit for the trouble solved by other people and push all the fault to you when thing go wrong... Worst of all, the trouble maker will force you to go through all the trouble unwillingly by getting support from the boss and the boss helps happily because for some reasons, her trouble seems reasonable and the victim should be troubled. In addition, the boss himself may be the victim sometimes but he doesn't know or doesn't feel it or just loves it...whichever it is...

I can stand 1 - 3, but #4 pisses me... unfortunately, we have #4 in our office and adored by my boss...we, as normal people, do not understand the rationale behind...what can we say or do unless we want to lose our job? siiiiiigggghhhh

一條龍

前幾天說了這麼驚悚的故事part 1， 每次想回去或讀回去自己寫的post，還是全身會起雞皮疙瘩～ 好像做了一場惡夢似的。只可惜，不是夢一場(~_~;)

今天來說說輕鬆一點的話題。話說有一天我比較早到公司。沒想到我的老闆比我還早！一大清早他就和他的秘書在談事情了，我也來「精進」一下。呵呵～ 總要假裝在老闆面前忙啊～(￣▽￣)

就當我在「忙」的時候，忽然聽到我的老闆喊我名字。我趕緊拿起桌上的筆記本和筆，咚咚咚的走去他的辦公室了。

以為這麼早就要吩咐我幹嘛，沒想到老闆卻問我：「你知道風水嗎？」我心裡在想，是中國人應該都知道什麼是風水吧。後來我就點點頭說，我知道啊。後來老闆就指著在他秘書手上的一個龍的銅像，問我那龍要擺在哪裡？我當時愣了一下，因為這個問題來的有點突然。呵呵。我只看到他的秘書手握緊了銅像，準備把它放在窗台上。老實說，那個地方擺銅像還真的有點怪怪的。

為了表示我的信心，這時我就冷靜的亂掰的說：「嗯～ 我覺得龍應該不能擺在所有人可以看到的地方。應該擺在角落。」老闆不解，立刻問我為什麼？我說：「你有聽過臥虎藏龍嗎？龍是hidden的喔～」然後我就隨便指了一個櫥櫃的方向的說，就這裡！

雖然他用著不太相信的眼神，不過還是把銅像擺在那裡了。呵呵～ 啊，總算混過去了(^-^)

後來我有很盡責的去找出正確答案。其實老闆的銅像沒有什麼太大作用，可以當裝飾品用就好了。其實只要心安理得就好了啦～

龙的铜像~

就在左边的橱柜上

回家路上

哈哈哈，真的覺得換個心態出差好了。居然無法改變事實，就好好享受過程吧。其實也沒那麼的糟糕。這次開會早上還算蠻精神奕奕的，到了下午，我感覺我就像在夢遊一樣。腦袋已經當機的說。晚上幸好還睡得很甜。只有起來看一下時間就倒下去了。

那麼多地方，最不喜歡去的是美國。因為感覺有壓力 - 給小費的壓力。聽同事說第一天他們hotel吃完早飯沒給小費，第二天服務員對他們的態度差天差地。我總是會給個美金兩塊錢。不過還挺麻煩的。去餐廳有時候真的不要知道要給多少。超過多少人好像又要增加多少。至今我還搞不清楚。就連house keeping來清理時，你也得留些現金床頭。。。不然別怪你用的牙刷早已跟馬桶親嘴咯～ 所以我的訣竅就是，永遠放「do not disturb」的牌子。反正我也沒什麼需要清理的說。

轉移話題咯～ 我現在人在Frankfurt轉機，在等洗澡，再來個豐富的早餐。呵呵呵。幸好這次是商務艙，不然打死我也不想出差。原本覺得很累很煩的旅程，去掉心中的不滿，其實還是可以enjoy的。已經看了一堆片，吃了一堆的東西，睡了很長的一覺。我只希望今天晚上回去還可以好好的睡一覺！

出差记

老實說，當我在寫這個post是，我人在美國。星期一晚上的飛機，星期三凌晨1215am抵達紐約。現在還在車裡，要到另外一個城市，總共3.5小時的車程。我為了不讓自己在車上睡著，就用這個時間update 一下我的部落格。

自從搬來了新加坡和換了老闆後，我真的又回到以前audit的日子。超過一半的時間都在外面飛行。一開始還可以接受，時間一久，我真的開始吃不消了。奇怪，以前audit的時候也是這樣飛的說。看來年紀真的大了。這一點必須接受。哈哈哈。

這次出差來美國是被逼來的。第一次從新加坡飛過來。飛行時間真的很長很長很長。以前好像就多也只有24小時。現在如果door to door的話，我居然花了31.5小時在路上。我的媽呀。如果加回程，總共63小時呐。這時候好希望有任意門。

我這次出門有點擺烏龍。明明是晚上2335pm的飛機，我一直覺得1035pm到機場有2小時buffer。昨晚1010pm我還慢慢叫車呢。過了海關是11點，還打開電腦跟同事聊工作。我當時才發現電腦上顯示的時間是1105pm。把我嚇了一跳，趕快趕去boarding。幸好新加坡機場的效率還蠻高的。幸好沒miss飛機（其實心裡是想miss的。。。哈哈哈）

我打算這次不要調時差了。這個trip後，我還要去上海，韓國日本泰國～～～ 我只有一句話...我！真！的！很！累！

送哪個好呢？

今天跟同事去挑選送給老闆的farewell禮物。老闆自己是蠻有taste的人，我們只想送個禮物給他老人家做紀念。今天到豫園，原本說好買我朋友看到的有手掌畫出來的墨汁山水畫，後來因為我們看到手工剪紙的畫後，我更喜歡它的魅力～ 我們倆無法抉擇到底老闆比較喜歡山水畫還是剪紙話，結果我們兩個都買了。

我又有個難題了，你們覺得一個住在亞洲20年的美國人，喜歡獨特的藝術的話，會比較喜歡哪個呢？

這個比較小，難度小一點。有十條魚～

代表十全十美～

這個難度很高。每條魚的魚鱗都有不同的花紋。有六條魚，代表六六大順～

送哪個好呢？

驚喜

在日本大吃大喝的日子差不多要劃下了句號了～ 雖然日本空氣好，天氣好，食物好吃，可是畢竟不是自己習慣的地方～雖然上海不是我家，空氣也不好，天氣也不好，食物也不健康，可是還是習慣了自己的狗窩～ 所以明天要回去了也特別開心～ 我的同事說我無時無刻都很餓，可是他從踏進日本的那一天起，從沒餓過，也忘了餓的感覺～ 他看到我吃東西的樣子，一直露出很佩服的眼神^_^

我還是喜歡日本。他們做事情還是蠻用心的。買個小東西都幫忙包得像自己送禮物給自己似的～ 擺盤也很讚～ 那天我和同事走來走去，就是找不到要吃什麼～ 後來就隨便走進一家餐廳～ 哇，還不錯吃耶～ 最喜歡這個～

右手邊的是看起來一點都不起眼的豆腐！當我挖了一小口時，哇，我被震撼到了。口感不一樣，豆腐QQ黏黏綿得很～ 是胡麻豆腐。好好吃～ 我一口接一口，吃完了竟然看到讓我超開心的東西～ 日本真的很用心！

嘻嘻

下雪的東京

今天是日本很重要的日子之一〜〜 情人節。到處都看到情人節的禮物，廣告〜感覺好像聖誕節那麼隆重〜 呵呵〜 日本什麼都有，讓人看到眼花花〜像我這個土包子，就覺得很新奇〜 好多東西想買回家。。。幸好及時想到家裡已經堆滿東西才克制住。

今天也是日本下雪的日子〜聽說會下到50公分之高呢!

情人節下雪也蠻有氣氛的。看到雪花飄飄，我也很興奮〜 東京剎那間變成白色東京〜 

在這種天氣好像`坐在火爐前喝個熱巧克力，看著窗外浪漫的景色。。。或者到雪白的地上做個小雪人~~不過我還是得沖到公司上幾個小時的班耶。我拉著行李和背包，沖去便利店買雨傘，被大雪吹打，被風吹，地上濕濕髒髒的〜 滿頭大汗的擠在地鐵裡和走去公司〜幻想很快變成了現實〜為何跟在電影看的不一樣的?! 呵呵

不過在室內看到雪花，感覺還是很溫馨的

祝大家元宵節和情人節快樂噢

搬家達人

從小，我的腦海裡記得的是我們沒幾年就會搬一次家。家對每一個人來說都很重要。家讓我們有歸屬感，感覺很踏實。即使是小小的空間，只要是自己的家，都是舒服的。印象中，小時候住過現在是 sugar bun 的小木屋。曾經住過現在是別人家的排屋，和現在住的房子。還算正常，爸爸媽媽沒幾年 upgrade 一次~ 呵呵

現在自己在國外，沒有自己的房子，要“寄別人的離下” ，幫人供房子 [AKA 租房子] 。。。第一年去香港的時候不敢買是因為沒錢，而且我下定決心隻去一年，所以為了省事，我就租房子。。。。結果后來想買的時候，發現房價已經飚上去了，又更買不起，結果還是租房子。記得有一年在香港，因為找到新工作，就想找便宜一點的房子來住，反正要經常出差。那一年，我在短短幾個月裡，搬了3 次東西。第一次，因為還沒找到房子，可是租約到期了，就把一小卡車的東西搬到朋友家寄放。第二次，把東西搬到新家。后來我一個朋友找我一起住，我又從小套房搬走。就這樣住了2年。后來我朋友結婚生子了，就離開香港，我當時還沒找到地方住，就把東西搬到我姐姐家。后來過了一個月，我就幫出去自己住了。就這樣，在香港5年，搬來搬去5次，第六次就是離開香港了。

在上海3年，搬了一次家。其實搬來搬去真的很累。要花很多時間收拾東西，整理東西是最煩的。在搬家前，還得花很多時間找房子，真的很痛苦~~ 哈哈，不過經過這麼多次，我覺得這好像是我生命的一部分了。哈哈哈。為何？ 我發現在公司，我的座位也一樣。之前在香港的就不說了，在上海，剛來的時候我坐在4樓的一個小辦公室裡，一坐就坐了兩年，后來被要求搬到三樓。坐了6個月，因為換崗位，我又回到四樓。不過之前的辦公室已經被佔了，就只好暫時坐在其它空位上。一坐就坐了9個月。后來辦公室裝修，我又搬到另外一個座位，坐了1給月。一個月后，又搬到新的辦公室~~ 希望可以落地生根啦~~

搬來搬去真的很累~~

Gaining weight

Lately I had been taking Pu Er tea as it is supposed to be healthy~ last week I drank it three days in a row~ I think it did make me slimmer.. At least that's what I think :p *self-console*

It was all ruined when I went to Japan this week.. I just couldn't resist the temptation... Sashimi, tempura, sushi, miso, their icy cold beer~ I could gulp them all in in one go! I think Japanese have a love for icy cold beer to chill themselves everyday after work. My colleague drank 3 glasses before the start of dinner... Or may be he was too thirsty... I have to admit.. Their beer was pretty good!

I didn't shop a lot in Japan despite it was sale season (I just found out when i landed shanghai or I would extend my trip!)... There, it's a small achievement for me :p

Let me share what I ate as a token of friendship for my dear dear friends!

This is my expression before and after my meal ~~~

I love breakfast in Japan... I had salmon and rice! Yum yum

My trip in Japan

Am in Japan this week....a visit which i dragged on for months until now because i was not looking forward to the trip... i found that whenever you have low expectation, that whatever always turns out to be better than expected~ it's the case for me in this case :)

This time in Japan, there was no earthquake and typhoon like last time...this time, all i had was rain, rain, rain...hehehe. My trip was a bit different than last time where i would just be in tokyo...but this time, i went to another prefecture instead..something like another state if i need to talk malaysian. hehehe...it's called Shizuoka (静岗）. didnt know what it looked like before i came, didnt bother to do research..hehehe..just knew it's 1.5 hours of shinkansen away from tokyo and where you could see Mt Fuji if you are lucky...the thing is, because we have two factories there, so my impression is, it must be industrial~

well, i was WRONG~~~ the moment we touched down the airport, on the way from airport to Shizuoka city, i was fascinated by it...it looks like the country side we always saw on TV...it is greener and more spacious...people here live in houses instead of tall apartments..and they are not side by side..some houses are surrounded by rice paddy fields. they are....beauutiful~~ gosh, i love it so much. I just learned from my colleagues that Shizuoka has the best seafood..of coz we didnt miss out on this. we had abalone sashimi! yum yum..

yesterday, we took a 3 hour ride from Shizuoka to Tokyo and i'd have to say, i have done a mini tour around Japan~~ Shizuoka is closed to mt Fuji, i was told the tap water comes from there...yes, they are fresh and ICY cold~ love it in hot summer days like this :)) when we passed by a town yesterday, we actually saw a lot of people stopped by to fill tap water...my colleagues told me because that is natural spring water from Mt Fuji and it's cold.

i think Japan has done a good planning. see, in China, there are also many nice places..but they are mostly ruined..but in Japan, they maintain nature so well and make things available and easy for people. this is what i like...yesterday, we went to another town full of tea trees~ i was told...again that kakegawa is famous for tea..i will sure look out for it. the scenery was breath-taking. the place was surrounded by green beautiful mountains...as it was raining yesterday, there was haze around....unfortunately, i didnt see mt Fuji...i'm not faded to see it..for the past 2 times, 3 times including this trip, i never see mt Fuji...MT fuji, where are u~~~???

sorry my friends, i didnt take picture this time..felt embarrassed to take pics. hehehe...but i am still nice coz i extracted some pics on the net...hehehe..use ur imagination oh

the mountain and some houses

tea trees (but i didnt see Mt Fuji, it's hidden somewhere, playing hide and seek with me)

Golf (April 26, 2012)

am in pattaya this week for conference...actually they put 50% work and 50% entertainment...which is very thoughtful of them...who can ever concentrate at a place like this? miss tiffany, red light districts, bars, pubs, musics, beach and the fun list goes on and on and on and on....yesterday, our bosses treated us for a hot afternoon golf...gosh...it was HOT indeed!! i was over-cooked in the hot sun!! well, i was thinking of going out for a fun shopping but since everyone was going, i made myself go as well...oh well...i wouldnt know how fun it would be if i never try..somemore, i cant afford golf, so, WHY NOT?

yesterday, each of us was given a caddy...with our name on the cart and i had my own golf set, personal caddy...i didnt have to do anything, just got in and out of the car, she chose my golf club for me, bring for me, carry my umbrella etc etc etc...it was not as bored as i thought it would be...just the heat made me lazy~~

funny conversations around yesterday....out of 29 people playing, only 3 are female...i felt priviledged :p anyway, i heard many guys conversed like this:

"where's your ball?"

"I couldnt see my ball...it's too far away"

"did you take my ball?"

"Jane, you have ball?" jane replied:"no"

"have you taken my ball?"

i was laughing hilariously inside...may be they didnt know how funny it was, but it was certainly an entertainment to me under the scotching hot sun!!

Travel Disaster

I took a morning flight to Korea on Tuesday night…..sometimes, I like travelling, sometimes I just hate it…I used to hate travelling only when I’m going to places that I don’t like or when I will do something I don’t like or see someone I don’t like or go somewhere I don’t like for too long or when I just don’t feel like travelling….now I have another pet peeve…I don’t like to travel at midnight!!! Why? Because first, I’m deprived from my beauty sleep, then I will feel very very tired after the flight…second, I don’t like to use my own time to fly for business trip especially when I have done it so often already…I kinda feel imbalance inside…hehehe..i flew at 215am on Wed morning and took a 1.5 hours car ride to the hotel…my initial plan was to take a nap at the hotel for a short while, take shower, have breakfast then go to the office to fight a battle with someone…the moment I got into the taxi, I FAINTED and started to dream…I slept till I couldn’t wake up…oh man…that was how tired I was…then when I was abt to check in the hotel, the hotel told me that they didn’t have the room…I was MAD MAD MAD…coz my colleague helped me booked early check in already where they would charge me 50% of the room rate…and now, they treated me like this? Well, no matter how I scolded them, I would never get a room…so I went to the fitness centre to take my shower…I treated the ladies’ room as my own room…I poo’ed and I bathed naked in an open space at the sauna area….aaaahhh…the good thing is, I had the sauna all for myself since it’s DARN early in the morning….who even goes at this hour!!!