Tonight's treat - Vin d'Alsace Gewurztraminer, France 2008

so although have to work tmr i decide to try the gewurztraminer i got yesterday :)

Turn out I like this as of the last one! (if not more!!) This is the 2nd gewurztraminer I've - I like my white fruity, sweet and NOT dry. This gewurztraminer i tried tonight has a strong lychee smell and after taste (stronger than the 1st i remember!), very fruity, and sweet. I think maybe a bit TOO sweet but it's still okay :) not dry at all (in which, come to a surprise as Alsace is usually dry accordingly to wikipedia)

Its taste is very easy and before i know it i've already finished 1st glass (ha, and now on 3rd glass)... definitely one of my favorites - and it's only $98 a bottle!!! Must on my "buy a case" list :)

Drink Drank Drunk

After 大食會 @ Kim's 同個 friend 傾起酒經, 撩起我 D 酒癮 *LOL*

So today went to Sai Wan Ho and hoping to get a few drinks from Vino - but man, they're CLOSED AGAIN (i wonder if they're still in biz!!!) oh anyway, so my friend told me Marks & Spencer actually got some nice white so instead went over for a visit - and here's my "harvest":

From the left (the regular bottle)

• Gavi, Quadro Sei Single Estate, 2008, Italy ($68)
  Never try this before, recommended by skin goh. will give it a try later
• Chardonnay, Barossa, 2008, Australia ($98)
  This should be pretty safe as chardonnay is always one of my favorites :)
• Gewurztraminer, Vin D'Alsace (Affelation Alsace Controlee), 2008, France ($98)
  Gewurztraminer is one of my favorites' grapes, already in the fridge now and will try later tonite. ;)

From the left (the smaller bottle)

• Chardonnay, Vin de pays D'oc, 2008, France ($25)
• Sauvignon Blanc, Alta mira, 2008, Chile ($25)
  this one is recommended by the M&S guy, he's the one who "reminds" me that getting 6 bottles will get 12% discount! hahaha... so will try this before my Gewurztraminer
  
• Semillon Chardonnay, South Eastern Australia, 2008 ($25)
  

The overall experience in M&S was nice - i was looking at Gewurztraminer and this M&S guy already recommend a few selection :) and 6 bottles (even small one!) will have additional 12% off! cool~ the total is only HKD$300.9 after discount! not bad at all (w/ this amount i probably only got 2 @ Vino's!) too bad M&S doesn't have a cheese section to go w/ the wine(and i forgot the name of the cheese we tried @ Sky Lounge the other nite).

oh well, it's okay :) Drink Drank Drunk XDDDDDDDDDDD

Movie Review: Love in a Puff 志明與春嬌

there's quite a few interesting movies showing during Easter holiday. Chosen Love in a Puff to begin this 5 days wkend with:



The story is a very simple love story, so simple that may happen daily around us. It's very light, not as heavy as 歲月神偷. Although the movie is almost 2 hrs, and the story itself doesn't have much 'climax", it's not bored at all as the best part of the movie are the actors' conversation in between - which did a great job to draw audiences' attention all along. Those Hong Kongese type of jokes really makes the night! :)

For the actors' performance I think Shawn (余文樂)'s acting is the best -very natural and a lot better than I remember, really "眼前一亮"... Miriam is okay but i think some times she's still a bit "too much" and over.

From the ghost story setting at the beginning (i thought i went to a wrong movie! great joke from 彭浩翔!), to smoking inside 7-11 (for real??), "ga-mei" smoke (hahahah), or "in 55!W !" ;) I've enjoyed this movie A LOT, although I'm neither a smoker (nor a "regular" foul language users) *LOL*

really love this 小品, gave you a very warm feeling, just brighten up your day! :) guess b/c of all the 親切 local jokes. A great dating movie (if your other half doesn't mind the foul languages) LOL this is one of the funny clip at the end (warning: content is rated R with sexual and foul languages) XDDD

《志明與春嬌》電影精彩片段 - 愛情入屋之乜x都冇

I am not sure about the earning for this movie, however if HK movies keep up a standard like this I'm sure more ppl will go to watch them in cinema more often, rather than just those big hollywood one.

Chung Nui Sei & Great news from Vicky!

I had so much fun tonite from dinner + k with some of my secondary schoolmates: paul son, flying cloud, mong kwan & swing.

I can't even remember when was our last gathering - maybe last time when allie was back visit HK? was a long time ago. i mean i meet up with paul son and flying cloud every once in a while (plus msn / facebook) but really haven't got any face-to-face gathering with mong kwan & swing probably since graduation *LOL* I was a bit hesitate in the beginning and don't know if it'd be kinda awkward :P

Turned out that it was a blast - not only at the k part, but for the jokes we had when we were young, the way we talk to each other (aka 'inch'), the common "next destination" we share (Spain, although, my plan will be delayed until probably next yr), to "sip tai shui" (WAKAKAKKAA) i can't believe after all these yrs we still share so much similar, and more importantly, in the "present" tense - although we've different jobs and daily circles these days it's just amazing to catch up and still find so much we share the same :)

maybe afterall that's why we can be the core member of our newly set up "Chung Nui Sei"- not 中旅社，but 中女社! hahaha One of our next events will be 還神團 at the end of year! hahahahahahahaha

Actually I don't think the term "中女" is a "bad terms", as in some sense it does point out what is our "social status" LOL (and i'm looking forward to TVB's Tuesday's report on "中女告白," which will be air tomorrow (March 2, 2010 19:00 HK Time), stay tune for tvb.com rerun if you may missed it.

got home at around 1sth, checked facebook and found this great news from Vicky - she and daniel are expecting their first baby due Sept!!! OMG it's like as exciting as i knew the news of bryson! :) i'm so very happy and excited to hear about the news!

For me and Vick there's a lot happened between us when we were in school, (haha, typical college stories) haha... although all these years after graduation we have been staying in hk & chicago respectively, i feel like she's always so close in hearts and she's really like a little sis to me. I was so touched and glad i can be part of her wedding, and now she's having her first baby!! I can't really believe she'll be a mom soon!!!! hahaha.. Oh i'm so very happy for her and daniel! :) really excited and can't wait to know more about the baby :))))

Some ppl in life is for some strange reason can be so very close to you - although you're not spending too much time together - and Vicky is one of them, among many I know from Purdue :) Probably there's another reason why these days I'm still proud to be a Boilermaker. :)

Elvin's vet visit

Well actually i brought him in today b/c he has this little lump on the side for a while. - it was "fine" except in the last wk or so it started to bleed - and it just wouldn't heal / stop! so today I bring him to the vet and see if there's anything can be done.

The other reason I take him in is b/c he has been quite aggressively lately - I'm not sure if it's still b/c of moving to the new place (but it has been almost 3 months!?) or whatever the reason.. i just feel that he's not "normal" / happy lately?!

OR, just that i never have a chance to spend more time w/ him until recently V_V~~~

anyway, so the vet said Elvin may suffer from anxiety - it's NOT going to be cure by itself - only get worse if neglect the illness!?!? The vet suggest to start the medication right away and gave him 2-month supply of Clomicalm. He emphasized it's for temp only and not a permanent solution.

er.... i just know now there's actually medication for dog's emotion problem *LOL*

anyway so I started Elvin's medication once got home and he seems "calmer" - wait, i don't want to "calm him down" b/c he's hyper or anything?! V_V anyway the vet said the first few days Elvin may feel more drowsy. I also read some of the info from the web and feel better (er, at least it's FDA approved!?)

The vet also said that the little "lump" is a common skin problem, one shouldn't worry about it UNLESS it starts bleeding (Oh great V_V).. what we have to do is to have "a small surgery" to take it off, maybe a few stitches @o@

Since we've to put him to sleep in order to do the "surgery", the vet also suggested to wash his teeth as well, Oh, and along w/ a regular blood test (b/c he's over 8 years old)...

sure sure.. just get to the point that don't wanna miss out "anything" - just do everything in ONE SHOT and make sure he's all OK - before it's too late...

I think I start getting the anxiety from him already X_X haha..

Well, for sure it'll be a 4 digit bills waiting for me! (OH NO!!) well, just hope it's not MORE than 4 digits @_@'

Afterall, it's my son, he's snoring now so I guess he'll be just fine real soon :)

spam...

how annoying that suddenly some stupid spam appears again on my blog - and on some of the very old post (like back in 2005!) er.. i think i "let go" a few in the past but NOPE, not tonite! *LOL*

so i went through the email notification and deleted the stupid AV ad (4 in a row!) yet, make me read back some of the old blogs (Tonite's treat... Marques Casa Concha, London Terrorist Attack, Scorpio or not and APM)

Quite interesting to "refresh" my memories... those were the good old days....

maybe it's time for me to write more again, at least i've something to read 10 yrs from now *LOL*

Farewell 大結局 X 5。。。

Do you ever feel lost when the TV shows you've been following come to the end - sometimes the ending is so terrible you'll give a "boo", or sometimes u don't know what'll be next, and if u will like it or not... just have to adjust that the"familiar" theme songs won't be playing at certain time slot anymore... just fill with "uncertainty" and you've to adjust all over again????

I've a habit whenever I'm home I'll turn on the TV - instead of watching what exactly is the program most of the time I'm just kind listening to whatever is on. And so yes, i've been attached to the TV quite a bit these days (since i'm always home! *LOL*)

SO ANYWAY, today is the last weekday before Chinese Tiger New Year on Sunday (Feb 14), and for some reason tvb air the last episode of ALL of its drama "on purpose" (no matter it's day time or after midnite)! So in ONE day i've gone through FIVE farewells for some of the dramas which have been my "company" for the last 2 wks or so (whenever i'm home)... :

1. 天下第一 (10:30-11:30)
2. 鳳凰四重奏 (12:00 - 13:00)
3. 畢打自己人 (20:00 - 20:30 - tonite's: an hr)
4. 五味人生 (22:00 - 23:00)
5. 人間蒸發 (00:30 - 01:15 - tonite: until 02:00)

Let's talk about 畢打自己人 first - although the show has been on for 1.5 yrs, as some of you may know not until lately i've been following this daily half hr episode (since i'm home). I think the ending is a bit funny/ridiculous (er.. a bit "ng hai fa" feel)... but it feels like u really know the characters as someone you know, and it's always sad to farewell and say goodbye - but at least it's a happy ending that 殷賞 (毛舜筠) finally marry with 余家昇(黎耀祥) I especially LOVE 余家昇's character :) Other supporting characters like 閆器 (陳鴻烈, past away not too long before the sitcom ends), 包公包國仁 (徐榮), Marco (趙永洪) are some of my favorites as well

天下第一, 鳳凰四重奏 and 人間蒸發 are re-runs. I don't even remember when was the first time they air 天下第一 (chked record it was 2007) - NOPE, don't remember ANYTHING about it. It's not that great anyway so didn't miss much *LOL*. The only good thing i would say about this is that 劉松仁 acts very good all along (nope, absolutely i'm NOT a 郭晉安 fans). I remember when 鳳凰四重奏 & 人間蒸發 were first air but never a big fans: i think 鳳凰四重奏's backbone is interesting (talks about the women's role in the society though 4 generations), but each story is kinda weak and not linking / adhere well.

人間蒸發 - well, the only reason i was following is b/c i've my TV on *LOL* i used to think 吳美珩 is very pretty but after watching this i think she is just NOT TOO GOOD in acting *LOL*

For 五味人生, one word - BORING!!!! it's so boring that actually every nite during this time i surf around different channels - ha, maybe b/c i just don't like 郭晉安 :P

next Monday - Wed will be having special programs for the CNY celebration - so by Thursday it'll be another "start" for other sitcoms.... hmmm.. maybe i should watch less TV and read more books :DDDDD

P.S. Other than watching TV, i also got a hair cut, went for facial :) and walked around the Flower Market - and get myself a pine tree! a lot achieved in a day!! :D

Slide.com - music off!

grr.. how can one ask slide.com slide show DON'T PLAY THE MUSIC automatically?? u see there are like 3 slides show i've posted previously but man, it turns out to be a DISASTER when all the songs are playing together!!!

I think i've chosen quite a nice background songs but it just wouldn't do it if i've to post it here.. oh well, i'll just take off the songs :((((

水瓶座。。。

水瓶座。。。 interesting OT....

Watching Pretty Woman, again

Definitely one of my all times favorite - ok ok i know i know it's a VERY OLD movie, and i don't even know how many times i've watched this *LOL* yet every time it's so tempting to watch it all over again - no matter it's the silly fun here and there, the great songs in the movie, or the "just right" conversation / reaction from Barney (Hector Elizondo).... just feel so touched every single time when Vivian (Julia Roberts) left Edward (Richard Gere), or just edward going up the stairs rescues his princess...

yes it's a fairy tale, but who doesn't want a fairy tale in their life?