Movies Review - Oldies...

In the last week or so TVB rerun some of the old movies after the midnite finance news (as part of the "celebration" of HK Oscar's 25th anniversary)... not every single one of them is my favorite, yet these 2 are on the "wish-list"

1. 秋天的童話 (1987)(周潤發、鍾楚紅主演) - i can't believe i was only TEN when this first come out?! All I can remember is probably from one of their reruns?! anyway, actually before i rewatch this the other nite i only recall this is one of those famous "romantic" story between 船頭尺 & 十三妹... (and of course, the famous "茶煲" starts by Chow in this movie)

hmm.. maybe it's b/c it's really a LONG time ago?! those so called "romantic / touching" scene doesn't seem that touching anymore. I feel bad to say, but many are just plain reality - and just kept thinking that Mr. XYZ or Ms. ABC I knew in my years in US had worse happened to them...

just don't feel "dramatic" at all?!?@ or is it b/c I've been in US??? or I've lost the so called "dreams" and stop believe in them? hmmmmmm a bit "disappointed" indeed.

2. 金枝玉葉 (1994) - (張國榮、袁詠儀主演) - i remember I've watched this many times - ha, # of times are probably just behind Forrest Gump. Anyway, for some reason i still like this movie a lot - in contrast this story is so not real - but the touching parts still remain touchy :) and maybe w/ the help of the theme song "追" by Leslie - I'm really getting old.... usually when i listen to the music i can recall the first time i hear the song - but i don't remember what exactly i was doing - and i LOVE this song (i know I've bring this CD w/ me when i return to HK)...

A mixed feeling when watching this again...

Anyway, the past is the past, we can't look back all the times, but still okay to "retouch" it once in awhile I guess. I'm glad I stayed up and watched it again.

Where / What were you doing when the above first shown on the big screen?

FW: Cathy: 聽話的朋友-3

失眠 lately.. but of course not exactly the below case - but isn't that happen to every one of us - in one or other point of our life?!?

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每到深夜，我都會很猶豫該不該打給你；
也許你很忙也正忙，也許你很煩也正煩，
也許你很累也正想睡，
也許你對我的容忍已經到達極限。
每到深夜，我就很難入眠，
一是因為沒有聽見你，
一是因為想聽見你又不知該不該找你，
然後我就會打給你了；聽見你說完了，
然後我才可以安然睡去。
今天晚上你很累，我放了一首歌給你聽，
發現你幾乎不搭他腔；雖然還想聽聽你，
還是跟你說晚安，
希望明天醒來，一切都比今天要更好一點...
星座書上說我太過積極影響到別人，
好吧!那我暫時不打給你了，
等你想念我在妳耳邊的瑣碎嘮叨，
你應該會自己找我吧!會吧!...
會，會吧?!我又要失眠了。

Something Small, Something Fun, Something Practical & Something Last - Wedding Gift for my Grandson...

My "grandson's" wedding is tomorrow! (actually today - april 2)... it's really a headache when it comes to getting wedding gift for close friend - the one i really have done was for Low dai - but he's a bit "okay-er" - b/c he's very "gin" ma! wakakakakakkakakaa... (and also, doesn't have to be "too much" for low dai's gift as i also do "yan ching" at the same time)... but this time, my "grandson" woh! wakakkaka.. just can't be too "outrages / ridiculous" as I'm the "elder" ma! hahaha... besides, he's not going to have any wedding dinner... so a bit headache....

So i have been out for shopping for the WHOLE SAT AFTERNOON today my gosh! i can't remember when was the last time i shopped like this - in terms of both $, time & energy! hahaa.. MAYBE x'mas shopping?! XD

well, i still think the bath set i got for Low Dai from Fruit & Passion is GOOD... so started that as the base (at the beginning I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed when I found their shop in Times Square was CLOSED!!) i was almost to give up but then maybe it's "fate"!? just found it in World Trade Center by accident! haha!

I also wanna buy something from Swarovski - nice and last - but nothing really really catch my eyes (okay, the wine glasses, or the pict frame "scarlet" are very nice - but a bit too "hong" and OUT of my budget la.... their candle holder is nice too but then charles said he and kitty doesn't use candle at home @_@;; hmmmm)

Gift Basket Gift Basket... with Something Small, Something Fun, Something Practical and something that can last a bit longer...

So this is what i've came up with - after ... 5 hrs in CWB! :P

1. Something Small - "Sweet" "Sour" "Bitter" & "Spicy" - 1st two symbolized by mixed Japanese candies, 3rd is Cova chocolate & wasabi biscuit, 4th is 2 small bottles of Tabasco (hahaha)

2. Something Fun - 7 types of Bath Salt from Franc Franc - just think kinda funny

3. Something Practical - ha, may not be as "practical" as one may think, but hey, at least the new couple can use the bubble bath / massage oil / insance / gift set together! that's the bath set i was referring earlier from Fruit & Passion

4. Something that can last a bit longer - 4 small heart shape crystal magnets from Swarovski - just after item 1 to 3 are "finished," the couple still have something to remind them their grandma did give them something during their wedding :)

Actually the couple has stated in their wedding invitation that they don't have a wish list or sth.... that's why i wanna give it to them before the wedding (not that i've enough time), but then my dear grandson fly me aeroplane twice @_@; so no chance to give these to the couple in advance - hmm.. i just hope they'll like the gift la.....

Turkey Trip, & TV Program - Little eyes see the world

Just returned from Turkey trip (biz, of course!)... hmm.. it's really different - 1st time i'm in a Muslim country.... English doesn't take you too far, and can't deny customs are really different - food isn't the best (as I don't really like lamb - and no chicken on the menu due to avian lu)... so all I had is really beef.. =6 but for sure it's a pretty city (well, if it's not that cold it'll be better)...

Anyway, I think I'll save my reports tmr :P

A bit jet lag, so still watching TV - came across a program called 小眼睛看世界 made by Japanese TV crew - a documentary about a village girl in China struggling to get her secondary education.

Probably not the best "program" to watch - as at the very end there's no "good ending" - because her fmaily can't finance RMB 300 registration fee (~US40) and so she has no other choice but to stay home - although her open exam's result qualify her for the best secondary school in her region.

RMB300 - not too much to many of us - but to her family it's already 60% of the WHOLE YEAR's income. I mean if i were one of the crews i'll probably just fund that RMB 1000 for her whole yr's expense (since the secondary school is very far away she has to live on campus and all the misc. ~ 700) - not that I've a lot of $, but that I just think spending this RMB 1k worths a lot more than other spending that I've spent on other things...

I don't know what'd happened to this girl... and i know in reality thousands and thousands of similar cases happened on a daily bases - not only in China, but around the world... The documentary states that at least 10% of children in China are facing this problem and the Chinese Gov't are starting to fund by scholarship and stuffs...

i really hope that this girl can't reach her dreams one day - to be the teacher in her own village to teach the younger generations...

FW: Cathy: 聽話的朋友-1

今天，我留了短訊要你給我電話，
我們嘻嘻哈哈又笑又鬧也又說了好幾個鐘頭。
掛上電話我繼續讀起神之船，
在你打斷我之前，草子已經六年級...
和平常一樣我將右臉放在枕上躺著看書突然想起你，
鼻子一酸，左眼淚橫過鼻樑和右眼淚匯合，
緩緩暖暖靜靜流下，
被枕頭吸浸，為什麼掉眼淚?
不止一次，像說故事般的跟你說著她的寂寞，
我感覺你心疼...為什麼掉淚?
因為發現我更寂寞...寂寞到了頂點，
一說出口怕就會被擊垮，而麻煩的事你也跟我說，
再細碎的小事我也要跟你報告；
我和你都期待每一次的交談，
但我和你卻又同時都很有默契絕口不提。
關於我們...現在我和你相距1小時20分，
很快的，我將離你更遠更久，
到時候你用什麼理由，我用什麼藉口，
請你來看我，你能告訴我，關於我們關於我，
你在想什麼?我們在做什麼?
有什麼未來可言嗎?你可以告訴我嗎?
要這樣繼續，還是等待時間
漸漸讓你把我忘記...而我也不再想起你?
葉子說：人與人之間一旦邂逅
就不會失去對方，是嗎?
可時間...卻總是逼著我背叛我所相信的永恆啊
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Cathy, always my favorite~ just remind me one of my old friends...

We haven't talk to each other for a very long time - well, since like last summer? Actually we haven't see each other for a very long time. Whenever we meet in HK I kept saying I'll visit him whenever he's - from England, to Japan to Indonesia now... i just never make it there to visit him...

Sometimes I wonder the inner me keep myself away to visit him is that i'm afraid... once we met it just won't be like the old days anymore... afterall both of us has grown up... after all these yrs...

As a matter of fact it just happened that I called him right after i stepped off the flight today - ha, every time i'm in the airport i just like to give him a call - unfortunately only got to his voice mail - hmmm... i'm not the type that leave messages... afterall it's nothing "special", just wonder how he's doing.

Maybe I should really plan for my next vaction in Indonesia...

Family Reunion Part 2 - Cousins...

Well, it was only a SHORT dinner - at uncle's shop... hmmm... probably b/c I was late and there's a kid around; some still jet lag, others have to rush for next meetings... ANYWAY, I guess it's still nice to just get together :)


Our next gathering - 2008 in Vancourver! :)

Misc & Family Reunion (Part1)~~

Skipped work today - well, have headache (well, nothing new), but since i've exam tonite so i just skipped work and just 'studied" (i did really study ga!)

Grateful it's open book, o/w i won't get 10 pts! (even open books it's tough... it's a LONG exam - like starting from 19:45 to 21:30!!!!) ANYWAY, after exam I just rush to dinner - family reunion dinner.

I don't even know when was the last time we have some many of us gather together around the dinner table - to be exact, i don't think once *in my life* - as i think this is the ONLY time in my entire life to have dinner w/ Auntie Nancy, Auntie Amy & Auntie Connie, Uncle Michael and Uncle Hung altogether.

missing family members - Auntie Angela (and her fmaily), oh, and of course, my dad, which i don't think they'll make it anyway - at least not the one w/ me & my mom in...

Anyway, looking for Part 2 of the family reunion - dinner for ALL COUSINS this coming Sat - w/ niece too (wait, 2nd cousin i should say!) haha

In some sense I guess one won't treasure family reunion as much if family reunion is too "easy"...

Scorpio or not!?

The below was actually written last Oct (2005)... just sat in the draft box for 2 quarters XD hahaha...

so for whoever is reading out there, please add onto the list and justify that I'm a "typical Scorpio"! XD

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Lately I begin to wonder if I'm REALLY a Scorpio.... hmm... like I think I've a pretty good "feel" of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, Pisces and MAYBE and MAYBE Capricorn

But what exactly is a TYPICAL Scorpio like?!

Some times I think I'm as spontaneous/extreme as a Gemini, but then when it comes to decision making can be as troublesome as Sagittarius... (hahahahaha) sometimes I think I act like a Virgo to think deep w/in myself but when it comes to "action" I act like speed of thought Pisces' thought (but I, of course, can't speak / respond to as Pisces as fast... and act w/o "head" is definitely a BAD thing)...

jealously, definitely a "typical Scorpio".... is "hard neck" one of Scropio's characteristics (oh, let's put it on a more positive way - INSISTENCE) hahahhaa... what else what else?

maybe after all I'm just a rotten Scorpio - or a person with all horoscopes' rotten characteristics XD

hahahahahaahahahahahahahaha

FW: 7 Characteristics of women leaders...

Was reading CW's blog and found one of the news clips talking about 女性領袖七大特質:

必 備 的 特 質 (1-3) & 領 袖 特 質 (4-7):

1. 有 遠 見
2. 顧 全 大 局
3. 聰 明 智 慧
4. 做 事 靈 活 變 通
5. 願 意 承 擔
6. 胸 襟 廣 闊
7. 知 人 善 任

well I'm not quite sure about if I'm #1; and #2 I really seldom consider (fight fight fight, complains complains complains!!!!) hahaha..... I don't think I'm #3, nor #4... #5 okay gae (except that i'm blogger now as i worked until midnite last nite)... but then I'm a typical Scorpio so can't do #6, and also the jealousy part of a typical Scorpio couldn't really practice #7

wakakakakakkakaka~~~

probably that explain why I'm not a successful leader :PPP kekekekee... *and better not let my boss read the above (even though he might know it deep down!) hahahahahaha*

alright alright, let me print it out and post it on my cubicle as a reminder XD

Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus (something like that)

so lately my mailbox was STUFFED with responds from cousins all over the world (well, just put it this way - HKese in my generation has their relatives pretty much every where in the world as most of them immigrated to other places berfore th 97)... Nevertheless, many of my cousins are planning to come back visit in the next 2 wks so we'll have a family gathering (for the cousins).

although i haven't met most of them for 5-10 yrs (geez, really getting old)... when it comes to "blow water" we still can blow like good old days (haha)... just then when it comes to 'marriage' i just couldn't quite "fit" in and couldn't really "blow along" - OH WELL, guess it's still funny to get this out from one of the cousins who married (not too long ago!?) - and also from my younger sis who just married for a bit more than a yr :P

For the GUYS out there... i think you'll be happy to read this which has fwded from one of my cousins Derek XD

*and this guy actually copied his wife my cousin-in-law while sending it out! darn, missed a chance for blackmail!*

hahahahahahahaha

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At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down Finally , the guys' side of the story.

We always hear " the rules" From the female side. Now here are the rules from the male side.

These are our rules!

• 1. Men ARE not mind readers.
• 1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.
• 1. Sunday sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.
• 1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
• 1. Crying is blackmail.
• 1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!
• 1. Yes and No are perfectly Acceptable answers to almost every question.
• 1. Come to us with a problem only If you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
• 1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.
• 1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.
• 1. If you won't dress like the Victoria 's Secret girls, don't Expect us to act like soap opera guys.
• 1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one ..
• 1. You can either ask us to do something Or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
• 1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials.
• 1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.
• 1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not! A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.
• 1. If it itches, it will Be scratched. We do that.
• 1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
• 1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear. 1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear Is fine... Really .
• 1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or golf.
• 1. You have enough clothes.
• 1. You have too many shoes.
• 1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!
• 1. Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight; But did you know men really don't mind that? It's like camping.

Please note.. these are all numbered "1" ON PURPOSE!

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I can't wait to see my cousins after all these yrs - sometimes i kinda "regret" that i missed the chance growing up with them....