Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

End of Year...

2014 coming to the end.

It has been a very very busy year (busy for nothing!?)  read back my blog (with very few entries), and highlights from various FB year end review, i'm glad some of my big plan (like my US) trip realized, small plan like getting more involved in the community is achieving step by step, another happy (in a nutshell) year with Elvin (LOL), and feeling loved throughout the year.

It has been a rough year, especially the 2nd half of the year, getting myself more and more aware and involved of what's happening in the political side of our daily life.  It's very sad to look back, and the current setting for our future, but I also feel like i'm so engaged and it's no way of return.  I never intentionally get up to the very front, without the bravery and guts to be frank, but i'm glad, in times like this i am here in a place call home. 

still call home, for now, and together, with a bunch of buddies who share similar values keeping an eye on my back, making sure I RAN away from tear gas, or guarding me against nonsense violence-abusive police.

I'm grateful, and feel being loved.

with different priorities in life, ppl around "selection" also have a twist, i guess, just like many others in HK.  it's not only about political stand point, but i think, in general, is one's priority and value of life.  As Chinese said, it is different to keep a conversation if 2 don't share the same beliefs.  I think as we grow older we just be a lot more selective who's around and whom to spend time with.

Afterall, we ain't young and don't have the luxury to spend limited time with those who don't treasure us as much as we treasure them....  I am grateful, being loved by sis's in Hawaii, friends in HK, my MBA buddies, my ASAT ex-colleagues, and of coz, my dear friends in US, and many others, who made my 2014 a colorful one.  Although I only have ONE birthday cake this year (and u know this make you 2 so special in my life!).  I also feel very loved for those who came all the way from different areas to just to meet up, a marvelous birthday weekend, and all the tailor made Christmas cards, not to mention, 2 wonderful meal at Jamie's Oliver ;-)

Grateful for 2014.  I hope, 2015 will be a better year.

and i really like watermelon's pict for this year's 903,  seeing this you're the one who came in my mind.  Yes, missing you, even now, yes even though we did meet up in the last day of 2014.  Things moved so quickly old mistake seems to repeat again, heart over head in a nutshell.  All i wanna do now is to enjoy the moment.  At the end no one can guarantee anything, why not at least create some good memories? I want to say thanks, for the positive impact you've given me - even though u're not the only, nor the first one to suggest, but I did take a step and had a dinner w/ my dad, after more than a decade since we did last time.  Thanks, for keeping me company when i was bored during road trip at work, or just being there having a McDonald's sundae together at 3 am after leaving Admiralty Harcourt Road.  All these, I'll never forget in my life, or i should say, I will make sure i won't forget all the details, like few years back.

I don't know how our relationship is heading, but for now, i'm thankful having you back in my life again, and because of you, I feel like I'm a better person (in my perspective anyway).  I hope, in the coming year, we can count down together, and many more to come 
西瓜
我喜歡「想」字,所以在今年的歌曲中,我特別喜歡馮允謙的《我好想你》。這句讓我很膽怯不敢說出的話,讓我可以偷偷在唱歌同時放進自己的心情。開心又糾結,是這句話包含的心情,也是2014年給我的感覺。2015年又會變得怎樣呢?先總結2014年再一齊走吧!

Thursday, February 06, 2014

故語有云,一年之計在於春...

故語有云,一年之計在於春...係唔係太早發夢呢??真係好想返學校行一轉,睇場波...仲有梗喺 Harry Potter Land!!!  唔好意思叫人等太耐呀嘛... (so very super sweet of Ed for not going and wait for me even though he has been visiting FL all these times)...

really hope my US trip will be solid this year!!!! cross my fingers!!!!


Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving 2011

My dear families (and you who take me as of your own sis/bro) :)

I am very grateful of having you in my life and thanks for taking care of me all these years!! Thx to fb / g+ / MSN or just email / PHONE to bring those who are thousands miles away so close to me as if they're in HK, and thanks for those who are in HK always treat me as a dear sis / bro XDDDDD

Wishing you, your family and your loved one a joyful and peacful Thanksgiving. Miss you!

Love,
Em

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on the side i did a little review for myself and the PCHK when replying to Kirk's email, afterall, it's a different set of experience PCHK has given me...

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... It has been a fruitful year, both for myself as well as the Club! As a Life time alum member (after graduated a decade ago!), and on behalf of the Purdue HK Club, we would like to say thanks, we are thankful for you and your team's hardwork to make the alum network stronger over the yrs! Thank you for making us Proud to be a Boilermaker, even we may have left West Lafayette for years.

Happy Thanksgiving!! Hope to see you soon, in HK or West Lafayette!!!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Holiday schedule - fully packed for the rest of 2010!

Indeed, FULLY packed for the rest of 2010 *LOL* (okay, i do manage to have a couple REST days in between so it isn't THAT BAD!) LOL

  • 20th (last night) - dinner @ Qui with BV colleagues (Carol, Joliot & Angel) - with a budget of $120 per head w/ appetizer and main dishes?! Out preformed!
  • 21st (tonite) - 做冬 dinner with mom (yeh, that's right, i DO make it happen...)
  • 22nd - REST DAY (i seriously need to clean up my place since exam!) LOL
  • 23rd - Classical music concert w/ Wah & Yekini, then drinks together w/ Paul afterward (re-celebration of wah's birthday)
  • 24th - Christmas dinner with Issac + wife, MAYBE drinks with Howard & Jan afterward
  • 25th - cookout dinner @ Kim's with Peggie, Paul, Yekini, Alison, and maybe Edward
  • 26th - REST DAY, but we suppose to go Harry Potter 7 w/ Yekini & ed
  • 27th - Jeff's wedding banquet
  • 28th - REST DAY LOL
  • 29th - Purdue Dinner for Ed (Natasha, big den)
  • 30th - MBA BBQ @ Shek O (so far confirmed 10 ppl to go!) woo hoo~
  • 31st - Dinner w/ Gret + Benny, Chun, Yekini & Ed, then count down at my place
  • Jan 1st - REST DAY LOL
  • Jan 2nd - Purdue Tea @ Jockey Club (current Boilers, Ed)

ppl / gathering can't fix in schedule

  • Ken / Marco
  • MBA - wkend mode!? (can't join their 25th k la... i would much prefer to crash w/ Kim's crowd!) hahaha

isn't this crazy!? I wonder what I did w/ so many spare times last year :P

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

聖誕卡 - 多年來"堅守"嘅 Tradition

十分同意 :) 也是我多年來"堅守"Tradition" 嘅意思 :)

Sending my 2nd batch of Christmas cards today (ha, to classmates - my 6 senses, jan, clara & how)

Merry Christmas, to those i care and care about me in the last year, and the yrs before... :)


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我恒我訴:聖誕卡

剛收到今年第一張聖誕卡,是來自教會裏一位十歲的小妹妹。那天,見她捧着一大疊賀卡,逐一派發,親口送上誠意的祝福,場面很是感人,亦提醒我聖誕節快到了。

我也曾經飾演過同一個角色。那個年頭,臨近聖誕,媽媽總會給我一筆額外的零用錢,然後我便跑到街角的文具店,站在那高高的木架前,就着手上的「Budget」,揀選心儀的聖誕卡:普通同學仔,送五毫子一張的便足夠;交情好一點的,送一元的吧;好兄弟和班主任會送三元的,打開時會彈出立體聖誕樹;手上剩餘的十元,會用來買兩張「音樂卡」,送給父母和一位最要好的同學。

小學生的世界既純真又直接(亦可以說很勢利),既然聖誕卡有「等級」之分,一班同學的關係圖,就此表露無遺:會互送聖誕卡的便是朋友,沒有的便不是;又或我當他是「死黨」,但他只送我最普通的一款,便知道「此情不再」。每年,總有人會眼紅,有人會失望,有人會因為收到的卡太少而落淚,一班同學的關係,便可能因一個聖誕節而大大改變了。

回到家中,又會與弟弟比併,看看誰的「聖誕卡龍」最長。可惜,這條龍一年比一年的短,後來更徹底消失了。到了今天,那張卡是五角的還是五元的已不再重要,最值得珍惜的,是有人仍會特地為你挑選一張實實在在的聖誕卡,親手寫上祝福,在信封寫上你的名字,單是這樣,已夠感恩。

親愛的錡錡,多謝你的「守護蛋精靈」聖誕卡,雖然我沒有看過這套卡通片,但仍衷心多謝你的心意,願我們的主一生守護你!

導演及電台主持

劉偉恒

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving...

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” ~Flavia Weedn

Finally I recover one of my favorite quotes (probably back in BSU days!) which, this year, don't know why all of a sudden, I'm really glad to have those who around me - both quickly go and leave footprints in my heart :-)
and they're never the same ;-)

Happy Thanksgiving~~~

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A note to my friends (and sister, of course)

My dear sister Cees and friends,

Thanks for always being there for me and accept me as who I am all these years. Although we're thousands miles away you're always in my heart and I'm indeed very grateful to have you in my life :-)

As my classmate (Lisa) said, Life is wonderful whenever there's Love around. Thanks for making my life wonderful :-)

Happy Thanksgiving ;-)

Love,
M

Thursday, November 04, 2010

下一站。。。北海道????

hmm... still have like 9 months to go... let's see.....

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Monday, July 19, 2010

下一站。。。關西?

MBA schedule was out last wk, checked the schedule and for some LUCKY reason only ONE CLASS per wk during Oct end *LOL*

taking off from work should be okay ;)

so, 下一站。。。關西?I mean, for real?!!?!?

Monday, May 04, 2009

A note from Osaka...

Tmr will be the last day of this 5days 4 nites Osaka trip... the only comments i've are:
  1. i am tooooo used to travel all by myself for so long and it's difficult to travel w/ someone else
  2. it's very difficult to find a good travel buddy, even though we're very close when we are in HK...
  3. it's very diffifcult to find a eating buddy - u know la, eating is the most important part of ALL my trips ga ma....
anyway, i guess by being selfish i achieved what i planned for this trip:
  • Universal Studios Japan - total disappointment as ALL THE GAMES are in japanese WITHOUT ENGLISH CAPTION!!! i think they should at least put english subtitle!!!! LOVE spiderman ride! awesome!
  • Museum of Tezuka Osamu 手塚治虫記念館 - it was awesome and i'm so glad i made it (in big risk of losing a friend!!!) it's not convenient in terms of traveling (in the middle of nowhere! ) and one "bad" thing is that NOT ENOUGH sourvinor!!!!
  • Kobe BEEF!! although only "street snack" the texture is sooooooo good!! and i'm so sure it would be a lot better if it's from a "proper" restaurant - since it's Sunday today when i visited Kobe, most (at least the 2 out of 3 jap restaurants i passed by) are "full house"!! @_@
  • oh yeh, not to mention i'm able to buy a box of mask, which is currently all sold out in HK!!
Things haven't achieve yet:
  • Temples in Kyoto
  • Sushi
  • sushi and sashimi and sushi and sashimi.....
Well, tentative schedule for tmr is kyoto but who knows, depends on what time we're ready to go! *LOL* yet it's okay, I guess I will just take it easy (as i really don't wanna fight my friend - and i've to go back to work the very next day!!) V_V''

It's just difficult to "live" w/ another person, even though just a few short days. i heard it's difficult but i hope i didn't risk the friendship this time.

i guess it works the same between bf / gf relationship?!

Picts to follow...

Jasper222
Osaka 02:21 May 4, 2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Next destination - Osaka!

okay yeh it's kinda random but no more taxi ride in the morning for the next 1.5 months (like it safe a lot!) wakakkakaa.. OKAY, no more starbucks as well (alrite that's save up!!), as next trip planned:

Universal Studio - Osaka, Japan

It'll only be a short short trip (no holiday ah!) yet finger cross it'll really happen as planned :D

Saturday, January 31, 2009

A note from my CNY trip - to Hawaii...

okay so here i'm on the way home after spending 8 days w/ Cees & her family - oh, actually am in narita airport now. Still got another 1.5 hrs before boarding back to HK so figure nothing better to get online and blog (at least still a note during the trip!) LOL

times sure flies and i can't really believe i've been away for 8 days already! it's like the first (and longest time!) i'm being w/ a baby - my nephew brysi :D okay, of course my sis and andy and their family are always there as well but it's just WEIRD to see my sis holding her own baby if u know what i mean. :P brysi is actually a very good baby as i imagine all kids cry a lot but actually he doesn't complain much - although w/ me around he "has to" give up many of his free playing / crawing time :D



he's just such a cutie and sweetheart! i miss my little nephew already... i know by the time i see him next he'll be running alll over and don't remember who i'm V_V'' oh well! but it's still great to see cees and andy.... knowing they're living great is really sth - maybe afterall when one get old the special bonding just grow in more a "special" way - although we don't really see each other as much as we wanted. not to mention the surprise trip to the big island... i feel so bad as it's so difficult to travel w/ the little guy and andy and cees make allll that efforts just for me. :)

Overall it's a relaxing trip - although i didn't really read my books or learn how to change a diaper! hahahaha... and the weather was a bit too cold so nope, not much tanner :P yet it really makes me forget allllllllllllllllllll about work (OH that's a BAD sign!!) hahaha.. so much don't wanna go to work on monday!!!!!


Us @ Hilton Big Island

P.S. oh nuts i just found that all the picts transferred from sis's cam couldn't view!! @_@ OMG!!!!!!!

Jan 31, 2009, 16:05 Narita, Tokyo

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Surprise trip to the Big Island!!!!

Today is the 3rd day of my hawaiian trip - and my sis and my bro-in-law got me a surprise 3 days 2 nites trip to the Big Island!!! wow!! they did such a great job covering (but andy's father slip out the word last nite during annual 團年飯 (wakakkakaka)

Already pack and leaving in about an hr! will post picts later on! yeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! :D

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Head over Heart...

Head or heart.. head win this time..

I know i Might have made the 'correct' decision.. yet i wish i would have chosen this itin instead..



Fact is, still can't clear my mind.. *sigh*

I guess i'll just have a relax vacation, not rushing through cities... and, seeing those who loved me most....

(and yes, it's 4am... and yes, need to work tmr....) @_@... heading to bed...

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Check Point: Top 10 place i wanna go...

was talking to my friend about trip... chking out my last post regarding to the top 10 places i wanna go before i die - want to update 1 chk pt - Beijing trip I took in Sept before on board Samwoo :)



hmmm.. next trip shall be visiting Bryson @ Hawaii... so probably next check pt will be the British Museum on the way to visit Gerry May 2009... (finger cross if all things work out)

Thursday, July 17, 2008

A note from Guam...

it has been a very long time since my last trip (to Ken ting). This time - trip by myself...

didn't really plan much, just go and search for things after getting here... Guam is a small place - yet just feel like not have enough time to do all the stuffs i wanted to do! one problem is that don't know why time totally screwed up (only 2 hrs difference!) but then always slept a few hrs in between the DAY / EARLY evening time so missed out quite a bit I guess... also didn't take much picts this time - not sure, just not in the mood? i think took less than 100 for the whole trip (usually 100 per day from previous trips!?) maybe it's b/c getting old? i'm not sure.... tried to use the trip to put Pisces COMPLETELY behind... but totally FAILED V_V'' tried to get burn but also unsuccessful @_@ aiya... also tried to go to the 1st "show" ever but ALSO FAILED
-_-'' i guess it's an unsuccessful trip afterall - and an expensive one too @.@

oh well, at least i get out i spse.

P.S. For those who's planning to come to Guam - make sure you pick up some japanese before - # of ppl fluent in Jap is >>>>>>> # of ppl fluent in English!!!! @_@''

P.P.S. Things i still wanted to do w/o having enough time: Trip to Talafofo Falls, Hiking in the mountains side... and more beaches!!!!!!!!!!!

July 18, 2008 00:49 Guam

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Christmas recap...

last nite was a bit drunk so missed out quite a bit *LOL*

Here's the few recap:

Dinner - Harubang Korean Restaurant 哈魯邦韓國料理
Made reservation earlier so at least we can have a table :D hahaha well, I would say the food is so-so, not bad but not great great either (er.. korean bbq, what to expect?!) the only thing i probably wanna complain is that they're waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too under staff so they will only stop by your table more than 30 seconds when you order Coke (wakakakakkaakakakakakaka) :D


Movie - National Treasure - Books of Secrets
Well, let's put it this way, it's not bad at all - full of actions, fast pace for the entire 120+min, although i think all the riddles / clues are just way too "easy" to solve, it's movie worth to go gae :D i personally like Da Vince code more lor :P

Side note: Kim cher said she actually watched TWO movies - one is rated R ah! aiya, missed tim! hahahahahahahahaha

Drinks:
actually we didn't get that crazy or sth.... the whole light only finished 2 bottles of white not that much hahahaha... but then all the recent trials i still like the last one i had :P

The red I got for my birthday from smartone was =666666666 - maybe b/c i don't like red in the beginning.. well, let's put it this way, the smell and taste itself is very "complicated" - but the most outstanding taste is the wood @_@'' maybe it spse to taste like that?! just.. not my cup of tea lor hahaha

Games, DVDs...
I got sooo "prepared" for this little gathering - tons of chips (different types), chocolates, drinks, monopoly (although never play XD), UNO, DVDs... hahahaha... here's the final score:

Ed - 655
Kim - 892 <--- Queen of UNO la wakakaka
Yekini - 549
Emily - 620 (I was leading all along.. but then someone added me like 80 / 90 pts in the last few rounds lor)


I do had fun, hope the rest too...

P.S. not to mention, we actually have to go to Youtube to see how to open the wine using the wine opener hahahaha

Christmas eve's drinking party

so after the movie National Treasure - books of secret, we finished the movie at around mid nite - which is the christmas 2007 :D

we went back home and .. well, start out drinking with a couple games of UNO.. and watch some DVD (Leo's concert and David to's)... well, update score for now:

Ed Yekini kim me
286 274 607 201

hoohohoh

how much have we drink? let's see.. we finished 1 bottle of semillion chadonnay from australia, half a bottle of the red, and begin w/ the 2nd white now.. not that much at all (ha, i drank most of it anyway)

oh, and numerous chips..... and chocolates :D

i'm having a fun time :D

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Mission Accomplished - posting trip's picts - DONE!

actually i haven't post any picts on either Kodakgallery / slide show for a very very long time (actually i didn't post any picts on kodakgallery in 2007!!!) anyway, with all those jet lags / "do not want to sleep as it's wkend" etc etc i've finally uploaded ALL the picts tonight - in both kodakgallery and slide :D heehee.. mission accomplished!

Here's a "condensed" version that i've put up in Slide - let me know if you wanna see the FULL version XDDDD