Last Day of 2005!!

Last day of 2005 was a Sat... boss rotated work from this Sat to next Sat - so got a whole day off! THAT MEANS a WHOLE THREE DAYS LONG WEEKEND!!

wowowowo~~

Well, Sat afternoon actually just wandering around in Wan Chai area... Got 平井堅's CD mix (well, still haven't have time to listen to it - will have a review later on :)

Afterward had hotpot at home - together w/ yekini, CY & see fu *and of course mom* it's just feel so WARM to have close friends to get together for a HOME dinner on the last day of the yr - as i know this probably won't happen after CY leave next March.

Grateful they came, and we had a blast (ate sooo much!) hahahaha... Too bad jer couldn't join for dinner - but we went to watch Leon's 情義我心知(Moonlight In Tokyo) together (and kinda skipped the count down for 2006) :P

But it's okay.....

Anyway, I think 2005 had been indeed very good to me. I've friends and family with me all thesetimes - and at the very last day of the year. Although Grandma has past while I wasn't here - but she's with me all the time I know.

As my friend said on his MSN - whatever happened in 2005 has past.... don't look back 2005 as much - as it's time to look ahead for 2006~

:)

*Jan 2, 2006 02:21*

Last day of the Christmas 4-day long wkend...

So... today is last day of the 4-day x'mas wkend...

had so much fun on x'mas eve & x'mas day - on x'mas day went to friend's place to have a Big BBQ "party" (haha)... 3 of us tried VERY HARD to make some cookies as b-day gift for Ms. Kill Bill - but hahahaha.. it was a lot of FUN (and DOE) and turned out only the last batch work (XDDDDD)

cookies became muffin XDDDDDDDD

hehehehehehe...

and then the BBQ at nite was a lot of fun... Jer san took a whole bunch of videos and when watched again - just like "American Funniest movies" hahaha... oh oh oh, almost forget to mention, SOMEONE got DRUNK and became "kwan kung" (very red face) after ONE BOTTLE of Henekin...

wakakkakakakakakakaka

it's just great to have friends like these to spend the x'mas time with... afterall i've left ASAT for TWO whole years! Treasure a lot for the bond we've...

and for boxing day - just rest at home (and sleep A LOT)!! hahaha, just can't get myself out of bed until like noon (wow, go back to the typical holiday mode!) hehehehee...... eat and sleep more (never enough!!) hahahaa.. and finally did some housework (WOW) for the rest of the nite (come on, mom is coming back w/in 24 hrs!)

which also mark the end my "honeymoon holiday".... hahahaha... today (the last day of the long wkend) - well, i'll just do some "fine tunes" of the last bit of the housekeeping - and ACTUALLY NEED TO GET MY HEAD to do something for WORK....

anyway, it's a great holiday :)

Christmas Eve... A Happy & Warm one :)

So today is x'mas eve - boss is so nice - give us half day off (and since it's Sat - means NO NEED TO WORK!) hohohohohooh...

was thinking to sleep in - but then end up getting up pretty much the same time as usual (uh.. oh... b/c getting old and just couldn't sleep in!?) @_@ Anyway... went out had lunch w/ Yekini - as we're heading to Jay2U X'mas party (launch for Jay's official web - Jay2u) It was great to go to his concert (although not knowing much what he's singing), hahaha.... AND that we've stood for like THREE WHOLE HRS and he only sang for like TWO songs! V_V'' but it's okay, i felt like i'm a super fans like those in high school (i mean, i never done that even when I was back then)... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

After that we went for tea (I just USED TO HAVING TEA so often in

the last few weeks! wakakkakaa), anyway, get lost in TakFok Plaza XD hahahaha... and finally we were on our way to TST for the Nutcracker show - i can't believe there were SOOOOO MANY ppl in TST area already (got stuck in traffic for more than an hr!!!!!) Anyway, the show started at ~19:45 - actually i had wanted to watch Nutcracker for many many years - just like one of the "traditions" for Christmas, you know..... never really get my lazy self to go - until this yr - as Yekini & Wittybb would accompany me! hehehehee... so i went to my first Nutcracker show... hmmm.. i think it's okay - i mean, i don't know much about ballet.. but the female Senior Principal Dancer Faye Leung is REALLY good - very soft her body is when she dance, and very "into" the character :) The only annoying thing is ppl at the back actually TALK during the show..... so ANNOYING! X_X

The show ended at about 22:00 - and it's just sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo packed in TST - ppl are ready for count down for x'mas (i never quite understand WHY in the world they count down for CHRISTMAS?! i mean, i understand ppl count down for the NEW YEAR, but CHRISTMAS?!) ANYWAY, Yekini & I were kinda tired so we decided to just go to Queen's Park (?what's the official name?! the park next to Prince Building)... Anyway, they've a winter fest there - so just took some MORE picts w/ Wittybb - as a typical TOURIST in HK :P hahahahaha

Got home at around 23:30... geez, i'm exhausted.... and i'll have a LONG DAY tomorrow :P Glad to went out today though - esp. w/ GREAT friends to do CHRISTMAS things together :)

"Make Festival" (Winter Fest)

Chinese always say that celebrating the Winter Fest is even more important than the Chinese New Year...

this year i'm spending it alone... i mean, it's okay, i know mom is enjoying her time... but it reminds me of grandma...

it has been almost 4 months since she left.... i mean, i think mom and i "get back to our life' pretty much... but for some reason i still remember her home #.... i don't think i've been to Chai Wan area since she left... i still remember last time when mom was out for a trip, or just not at home, i'll always just give her a call and swing by for dinner... keep telling her that my sis already got married last yr.... remembering how i call "ah poi, shui ming ah, open the door" whenever i arrive her place....

a lot.. a lot....

but then i seemed to forget how her voice sounds like...

I just miss talking to her on the phone :~(

P.S. Although mom isn't here, glad that yekini spent dinner w/ me tonite... thanks deeply for the company....

Sending Christmas Cards...

So, this year my schedule got totally screwed up when it comes to Christmas Cards - to me sending christmas card is JUST PART of the TRADITION for myself - especially to those whom i NEVER write throughout the WHOLE year - it's just another way to maintain those "loose tiers" and stay in touch for those whom i used to treasure a lot.

Unfortunately this yr i was in EU until beginning of Dec - AND went on trip again to China + mom left for Hawaii (so have to do housework! hahaha)... so never really have time to just sit down and do the cards (i still insist to write every single one of them - instead of printing them)... Anyway, time is running out and got to a point that i just wanna "give up" the idea of sending any out...

until i got a x'mas card in the mailbox the other day when i came back from work - i was exhausted (was like 9-ish?) and just checking the mailbox and see how may bills i've to take care - and huh-ha! there goes my first x'mas card - actually it's from one of my friend who's in HK - ha, we're seeing each other like at least once a month but then i can't remember when was the last time i got a x'mas card from her :P feeling very silly, but then at the same time it reminds me the "happiness" when the person on the other side receive the card....

so that nite i just spent the whole 3 hrs... ignoring my son (poor dude), to write out like 10 cards.... yeah, wasn't quite exactly the most wanted x'mas card list - but then, flip through all the address book i've - some contacts really HAVEN'T write forever!

Just hope to bring a little smile on the other side of the world :)

Christmas just isn't "complete" w/o sending the cards out - ha, even it's a bit late~~

Merry Christmas~~~~~

Movies Review: The Promise & Perhaps Love

So haven't watch movie in HK since like Aug and all of a sudden watched 2 movies in a row last week - well, not that they're some REAL good movie, just that have friends came back for the holiday and for them it's like watching a HK / Chinese movies in theatre is a MUST on their things to do in HK list :P so why not?! :)

Anyway, watched The Promise (無極) on Thursday (12/15) and Perhaps Love (如果‧愛) on Friday (12/16)

For The Promise - let's put it this way, definitely NOT my cup of tea. It suppose to have VERY GOOD CG (spent like a WHOLE BUNCH of $ on the visual effect) (to be exact 投資高達3億4千萬人民幣, filmed for 3 whole years) - but to me, the story itself just not GOOD - okay, it suppoes to be "fantasy" type of movie, but just filled with "laughable" place (like 張東健 ran like a speedyman or sth?! MY GOSH)..... and the story itself is incomplete! like what in the world is 滿神? if not she "appear" the whole story won't be there - yet in the story itself doesn't mention anything about what type of God she's.

Overall comment - just not my cup of tea - yes, the visual effect is "nice", but a bad movie is still a bad movie when it itself doesn't have a good story.... (also, Mr. Nich Tse's acting REALLY sucks.... always pretend he's "stylish).... @.@;;;

Then on Friday (12/16) watched Perhaps Love (如果‧愛) with Jacky Cheun (張學友), Zhou Xun (周迅) & Takeshi Kaneshiro (金城武) (alright, there's also Ji Jin Hee (池珍熙) but i think he's just.... not that necessary in the movie).... Anyway, a lot of musical, lots of dance - yet perhaps i'm not expecting much i think this turns out to be GOOD woh... ha, maybe i don't know much about musical i think it fits in "Okay"... and of course, with handsome Takeshi everything balance out (wakakakakkkakaa)

But seriously i think the story is good.. may not be anything "surprising".... but love story always works - together with a little bit of 悽美 i think most girl will buy :) my friend said it's a bit too long (also 2+ hrs) but i think it's alright....

Jacky's "你是愛我的" - when i first listen to it, felt a bit "overdone"... but after watching the movie kinda "accept" it a lot more..... :)

Probably that's another reason why i went w/ a girl friend for Perhaps Love and went w/ a guy friend for The Promise :)

Next one on the "to watch" movie agenda - Harry Potter 4 (yeah, HK won't show it until 12/22! *sigh*)

Wisdoms from a friend....

Had a brief "discussion (MSN) with one of my friend - I think I've only met this "friend"... ONCE (?) for all these yrs we've known each other?! Type of friend's friend / "hi-hi" on icq/msn list's friend... probably know each other's "daily" stuffs from each other's blog - yet never really talk to each other in depth...

so today one question just popped out my head (and at this time of the day not too many ppl on the list can I talk to)... anyhow, here's some very interesting things he's pointed out....

1. Don't guess...no implication, just let it be...


2. If things are planned to be happen, it will happen.. if no thing will be happen, nothing will happen.... just wait and see what has been planned to you...


3. Be patient, no expectation - the smartest audience of a movie is 'wait and see what will happen', if you think, if you expect, you'll be disappointed - especially for a girl...


4. Wisdom from the past: Do the things that opposite to what you want to do


5. you have been thinking toooooooo much

Suggestion - practice NOT TO THINK.. just WAIT...

what an interesting comment~~~~

Planning for ANOTHER trip...

so today went out to plan for our Macau trip - well, were thinking to spend a nite there but afterall the "saving" of day trip can be spent a LOT "wiser" in other things - so decide will just plan for a day trip instead - and spent a WHOLE afternoon to plan for ONE day trip - how "effective" that planning is!?

HA-HA!

but i think it'll be okay gae - ha, a LOT of FOOD i can just foresee... gosh :P we actually got a BOOK for it (i know it's a bit too much to buy a BOOK for MACAU!) hahaha..

really looking forward to - i mean, i know i shouldn't be, but then i'm excited :P the only thing is that i should have planned this during / right after the wkend - instead of heading out in the MIDDLE of the week - geez, i still have to work TWO DAYS before heading for the trip!!!!

and for some reason i know i'll be okay afterward woh :) it feels... different.... maybe i ain't expecting?

*just BEG that my coughing and fever & headache won't get WORSE in the next few days!*

also Pearl was showing LOTR2 tonight - i know i've watched it b4 but then - just get so addicted and watched the whole thing AGAIN - there i go - NO report done during the wkend....

OPS! :P

alright, i'll get up EARLIER tomorrow to "compensate" for the same :P

HA - HA

P.S. well, mom took off to Hawaii & will spend the x'mas w/ Ceci & Andy... hmmm.. no morning call tmr tim.... @_@''

Shopping Day.. (well, kinda) :P

so today i went out the WHOLE day w/ ah CY (yeah, don't have ANY jet lag as a "morning" call at 11:30... geez....)

anyway, ha, we spent a couple hrs at Langham Plaza to look for high heels (but turn out getting NONE b/c of my picky-ness!) hahahaha.... bought some skin cares (i need it la!)

Was thinking to knit a hat for Ovi's x'mas present - but after "consulting" w/ Dr. Love I decided probably it isn't the best idea (yeah, she's also my personal love consultant)... as i said in my friendster.. things are just a bit "complicated" and guess better to put it aside for now.

anyway, after that we went to Festival Walk as CY wanna buy a x'mas gift for her other half - okay, we'd spent like 3 hrs there but turn out still in the "thinking" stage.... hahahahahahah.. i guess that's the "fun" part of shopping?? :)

actually we didn't buy that much stuffs - i bought some cosmetic stuffs.. i don't think CY bought anything?! my gosh! XD (oh, okay, we had Cova ice-cream too!)

Afterwards we had Thai food in Kowloon city - it was great... I enjoyed so much hanging out together - and knowing her good news make me feel sooo touched, i mean REALLY touched - to know she'll be well taken care of, that she'll be happily ever after....

I know I'll definitely miss CY when she leaves.

Note from London, UK...

so i'm now in London office - yes, practically IN the office and PRETEND to be working SO HARD w/ my notebook (but writing blog instead!)

hahahahahahahahaha

well, I just want to say - i HATE it here in London office... okay, maybe i shouldn't use "1 bamboo to destroy the whole boat" (sth like that, u know what i mean), but man, ppl here can be REALLY annoying - they're so "nice", "smiling", "friendly".. blah blah blah.... but man, at the end i just feel they're too PRIDE of themselves and NOT to do anything CONSTRUCTIVE - they're TALKING and TALKING the whole time w/o getting anything accomplished!?!

Okay, maybe they've accomplished to be the KING of BS?!

*really bull shit*

and they kept saying US only has "US" in their own eyes - okay, i will not deny that's a "little problem" w/ the US culture - but at the same time, i feel like MY EDUCATION never teach me (and make me) look down on ppl - sterotyping them, trashing others to nothing and make ownself being the "superio"?

e.g. ppl in the US have no idea where in the world is Kenya; and the one who said this CLAIMS ppl in China / UK will aware the same

comment: okay, so ppl in US may not know, they don't know anything about AFRICA, but then why make a big fuss on that? i think this can happen ANYWHERE in the world - i'm SO sure so many of my DEAR FRIENDS IN HONG KONG don't know where in the world is KENYA?! Even in CHina?! ppl in UK knows - maybe b/c Kenya used to be colonized by the Royal country?

Another example: US's education is ONLY good for engineering/technology; for business - UK still the best and US has nothing to compare with

comment: oh wow, REALLY.... US is THAT BAD in Business huh? okay, so why in the world his boss will graudate from Harvard Biz school next April?

My point is, of course, i'm "proud" of my education, my views must be bias from many points of view - but i wouldn't say something like 'UK IS TERRIBLE in technology and worth nothing to go there for it" or things like that, u know what i mean?!

I TRIED very hard to respect w/ different cultures, different way of doing things - but then, i felt soooooo offended whenever one is saying their way of doing things MUST BE RIGHT and the way you do thing MUST be WRONG?! I can't imagine that ppl actually SAYING it OUT LOUD that they refuse to CHANGE, that they act with a PROBLEM in GENDER (being a female) and AGE (younger / junior) - in THE WORK PLACE!!

Of course they've their choice of ways to do things - I just think that's a bit outranges in the professional level - in today's world.

They think American all extremely rude - I consider myself as "American" in this sense - b/c we would rather be open up - doing SOMETHING w/o just BS-ing.

Ppl here just irritates me - I think i shouldn't be so childish to argue w/ them as afterall it's just their way of doing things...

*and now i understand/remember why i never fancy England - the atmosphere in Brussels is SO TOTALLY different - you can really FEEL the acceptance of different cultures over there - maybe i'm just "lucky" when i was there...

London Dec 1, 2005 12:55