EAS 320 (?) reunion :D

i dont really remember if the course was actually called eas320.. but anyway, wednesday night i met up with some old school friends from the modern standard japanese classes i took back at UT! as EAS320 was the last course that everyone took together before going our separate ways, i guess that's what our group is called?

philip had called me a few days before, telling me that justin was visiting hk for a few days (he's now in japan teaching english to .. get this.. all girl highschool... i think that's the dream of every guy out there hahaha), and he wanted to grab a bunch of us to get together. unfortunately hannah couldn't make it ; ; and a bunch of other ppl (ie. king, mandy, erica etc) were all scattered across asia and canada so they weren't there.. however, we went to this fantastic place in tst where we ate really lovely beijing (style?) food, and basically caught up with each other since we parted ways a few years ago! a surprise was that macy, who JUST came back from japan, was able to make it as well!

i have to admit, i was kinda worried that there would be a little awkwardness, as we hadn't talked/seen each other in a LONG time.. but there was no awkward moments or pauses at all and it just seemed like we got off class together and were having dinner~

reminds me of how awesome my university days are... i kind of wish i can go back now and re-live/re-experience the life then, because i realize how childish i was at times and REALLY regret not putting more effort into my studies ~_~; (ie. i'm famous for sleeping in class).. i think back and i remember that my "record" is for that psych class about relationships, where it was two days a week, three hour lectures each time.. and i only went to it twice, once for a test and the other time for only half the lesson... thank goodness for wonderful friends like king. it was from deciphering his notes that i realized i'd make a good assistant to him in the future when he becomes a (famous?) eye doctor!

after dinner, it was kind of sad to say bye to justin, because he'd be going back to toronto some time after his JET program was over and it really WAS him that brought this reunion together~ however, i know that friendship-wise.. nothing will change for sure~

me and justin:


philip, justin, me, macy:

group pic~


current mood: nostalgic?

ps: ah gor ken, nic wifey etc. : need to have a UT reunion! "eddie" (aka 'brandon' now i think?! hahaha) is in hk, and so is ricky etc. we need to re-live our UT times!

pps: raven i miss you a lot these days! really thinking about you (not sure why ~_~ i think the earthquake in your area scared me a bit, as i realized that for once, it happened in an area where a good friend was living -.-;;;) lately~ hope i can see you soon!

ppps: cylyna.. hope u're having/will have fun on your 'road trip'! remember, i need the juicy details when u get back!!

pppps: wilson/richter, sorry ; ; i've been leaving msn on but i havent really been there.. hope we can chat soon :O hope u're doing well :D

a new addition to the miffy family :D

the weekend was very humid and hot D: on saturday i stayed mostly at home then went out at night with friends (din etc). on sunday i woke up early (compared to what time i woke up on the previous day :P) and went to drink tea with lg718 and siblings~ we had a really nice tea at 'chui hang chuen' at miramar shopping center and i went to MK afterwards to look at toys with lg718~

it was there that i found out that the newest 'miffy' stuffed toys are coming out with a 'miffy's vegetables' line, where they have mushrooms and carrots that are labelled 'miffy's vegetables' and also stuffed dolls of miffy holding a basketful of mushrooms or carrots! so adorable! lg718 got me the smallest version:


which is definitely the cutest... the basket can be taken off too XD so cute!!

my collection is growing... D: i'm not sure how many miffys i have offhand but... the collection is getting quite large now ~_~;;

current mood: no explanation necessary ^-^

boring week -__-;

as it was a VERY boring week since i got back from sydney, i havent' been able to find ANYTHING to post about!

however, a few happy things cheered up the gloomy week for me:

I received the chocolate package from cylyna!! (shown below... the dark chocolate isn't showing here tho as it's at work :D~~ )

thanks dear, the chocolates are amazing, even the dark chocolate one! i don't normally like dark chocolate, as it's a little bitter for my taste, but this type was really, really good! it's made so that you can taste the bitterness slightly but it isn't totally offsetting the chocolatey taste~ and of course, my favorite is the blue box of chocolate.... my bro in law has started to say that this is the best chocolate he's ever tasted, and is better than the 'royce' chocolate we usually buy from Japan~ i have yet to try the other chocolate but i'm resisting the urge to open all of them, and instead force myself to finish it all one by one~

i went sports clothing shopping with lg718 this weekend and am really amazed at how beautiful sports clothing (for women) are now! i don't buy sports clothing often (except for my pilates/dance classes once in half a year or something.. maybe not even lol) and realize that people are really making sports clothing into a whole different thing now~ like i always say, it's easiest to make money off females because of all the different clothing/beauty products out there~
my favorite is the stella mccartney collection at adidas +_+

new thing at office: my boss recently purchased a few oil paintings from this well-known chinese painter tha paints really lively scenery and people~ my manager and i had helped choose a few, and i was lucky enough to be able to choose the one that is to hang on my left side. as my computer is angled, i can always see the painting to my left.. and it really makes this dreary office SLIGHTLY better...

but not much -_-;

looking forward to easter holiday!!

current mood: bored :(

ps: re: comment from cylyna~ haha i can't believe you noticed the 'lingfish' thing!!! you know what? you're the ONLY person who came back with a comment about that.. and my bf laughed and laughed.. obviously he was the one that took that picture.. you crabs!! so similar!
about the wombat.. somehow i knew vicky and i would have similar 'taste' haha... remember we're your personal surround sound system!! can't wait till you're in hk.. hope you enjoy your 'trip'!! remember details!!!

pps: just got back from playing mj with friends.. i lost badly -_________-; i just knew it wasn't my night but i went to play anyway and i regret it :( oh well, like lg718 said, it's just for fun and stuff so i shouldn't be sad~ but still -___-; i feel stupid at what i did...

back from sydney :D

just came back from Sydney! i had so much fun :( i didn't want to come back.. the weather was absolutely gorgeous there! the people were really really really friendly (i think it has something to do with their accents... it's so high pitched and cheerful!) and i love how everything is multicultural and overall fun~

i'm a little exhausted from telling everyone how my trip went, so to sum it off i'll list the major things i did:

1. taronga zoo - i love the zoo XD it's so fun! it reminds me of how i used to have to go to the toronto zoo back in elementary school and.. i remember how it kinda sucked haha.. in comparison, the zoo in sydney is a LOT more fun and has a lot more variety in animals.. especially including my cylyna's favorite, the koala! (more pics in my photo album~) we went there early after a breakfast at our hotel and then took the ferry across to the zoo~ it was such a beautiful day XD we took this 'sky safari' car up to the zoo and had a great time wandering around.. how come zoos in toronto sucks D:.. we paid to take a close up pic with that adorable koala (which apparently we can't touch or it'll become very very scary and attack us or something.. so dont' ask me why it's sleeping!)~

my favorite animal at the zoo aside from this adorable koala are the wombats! they're... bear/pig/thingie that just looks so cute :D i'm not sure how to describe it other than that XD it kind of resembles a beaver close up but.. it's somehow cuter (though i've yet to see a live beaver in toronto.. haha)

(a shot from behind.. too many kids were petting it i couldnt' get close up ; ;)

2. the rocks market - i love this area! after the zoo we had gone to the rocks and walked along the harbour side looking for a restaurant~ after lunch, we went to take pics of the bridge, opera house etc, and went to the market area, where there were a TON of things to look at.. it was crowded but very very nice~ we bought a lot of presents for friends and also a few souvenirs for ourselves. as i really love wooden things, i was glad there were many cute items made out of australian wood for me to buy :D

3. fish market - loveee the fresh seafood here.. we took an early cab to eat lunch here and enjoyed all that lovely salmon, kingfish and swordfish sashimi.. :D~~ we also ate a lot of lobster , shrimp etc too.. thinking back makes my mouth water again.. ~_~! the best part was how they cook the seafood or cut it fresh for you on the spot :D~~ compared to the sashimi in toronto and HK, australia definitely has fresher tasting fish~

4. aquarium - i love it.. (err how many times have i said i love something...)i love the underwater tunnels that let you 'live' the experience of being underwater.. so beautiful ; ; i pet a shark (it has this weird texture but i think the cutest part was how it was sleeping and didnt budge XD ) and also a few starfish~ i loveeee how the beautiful tiny jelly fish were swimming around the tank, and how delicate each part of them were :O

i just love sydney a lot.. everything is soooo laid back.. i met this guy in the LV store near the area i lived in, and we just kept on talking and talking like old friends! i wish i got his email so that we could keep in contact but unfortunately we were in a hurry and i didn't manage to do that :( (i think yuu would be someone like that in real life.. Yuu where are you!!) everyone is just so nice and helpful that i'm surprised i liked it better than toronto~ maybe i just got used to the people in HK and how rude they are so had forgotten that not all people were like that..
after coming back to HK, i realize how people rush around and stuff ... sigh -.-;

however, back to work.. sigh... hope everyone likes the souvenirs i got :O for more pics you acn check out my photo book again ^-^

i've yet to open that kangaroo jerky i got to share with my family.. i wonder how it'll taste... /sweat/

current mood: i don't wanna go back to work D:

old friends :D

i met up with jon and ricky yesterday! i'm not going to go into details of why i was late (i feel so so so so so sorry for being late when i was the one who said i could arrive earlier ~_~;; so sorry....), as i've gone thru it with them, and some other friends, already (i'm actually still fuming over it.. damnit why do ppl not try to attempt to make it easier on other people and work as a TEAM!!!!) but i was glad i managed to meet up with them! i hadn't seen jon in about 2.5 years and ricky about 6-7 years! it's been such a longgg time but although we haven't seen each other often, it still seemed like just yesterday when we talked/met up... i'm so glad i joined facebook! thanks mabel/raven!
anyway we met up at tst and ate dinner there.. dinner was a lot of fun as we joked around and caught up with each other.. i wish we had more time to chat but it was already kind of late and we all had to go to work the next day.. but, we'll get more chances to meet up again soon! i'll post pics when i can get jon to send them to me... (which is whenever he makes an attempt to pass his hdd to me so i can grab some songs as well...)~

anyway what jon said was true.. there will be certain close friends who, no matter how long, or how often, you see each other.. whether it be a year, five years or whatever, they will remain the same and there's never any awkwardness or need to keep in contact to be 'close'! it was definitely like that with ricky and jon last nite.. and like i said to them, after u've been working for awhile, you kinda realize that no matter how 'friends' you are with your colleagues, not all have the same 'substance' or 'closeness' as people you've met in school (usually that is... ray is different and has become my brother as well as ex-colleague!)~ i'm ever so thankful i met them again and realize that i'm not "alone" or distanced from people in HK and that they're here as well.. (ok i better stop before i become overly sentimental and go ramble on about friendship..) kind of like reassuring me that although i will meet ppl that change.. there are certain ppl who will always be the same~

end of the chinese new year :( officially it was on sunday that it was the 'last day', but i still can't believe it went by so fast! i got my final red pocket of this year on sunday after drinking tea and immediately went to open it up when i got home :P i took a pic of all the red pockets i received this year a few days ago.. but the pile looks so small without a few people's (especially my mom/dad's) red pockets D: (i was also too lazy to re-take it after i got a few more red pockets so.. there's supposed to be a few more X3)

my favorite ones are from my sis which is located at the top of the pile x3 they're the 'soft hard' special lai see pockets :D

two more days till sydney!!!! i'm so excited.. thanks to my wonderful coworker who's helping me and teaching me where to go, i'm even more excited :D i can't wait to ditch this awful place, even if it's only for a short while XD

current mood: XD excited...

PS: nic, take more 'ji pak' pics of mio!!!! she's absolutely gorgeous in those pics (haha kind of like friendster pics?!?!)!!
and remember to send me links to those bands u want me to listen to!!! thirsting for good music here!

Gundam Musou! :D

my bro in law got a new game a few nights ago, the Gundam Musou game that I've been waiting for a few weeks on PS3! for those who've played the dynasty warriors version, this is exactly the same except nicer graphics and the gameplay is a little more like the Gundam Seed action game than the Dynasty Warriors one. but the armor, attack increase items etc are all there! they also changed it a bit so that your pilot and your gundam have levels where their skills change when increased :D and you can combine parts you pick up from fighting bosses into your gundam to improve armor, defense, attack etc~

the only things i dont like is the way the screen is so tiny when split in 2p gameplay so it's very tiring to look at when playing for awhile, and how they give out commands in conversations during the game~ it's confusing when you first play it because you're trying to control your gundam but also pay attention to what you have to do by listening to the conversation @.@ the missions range from destroying certain enemies, to keeping home base safe to taking over territory (or "Fields" as they call it)~

i really liked how i was able to use pilots like Heero and pilot his Gundam Wing zero :D (one of my favorite gundams) and going against Zechs or other past gundam pilots (ie. amuro! he was in the first gundam series/anime i ever watched!!! in 1987 i think?).. for the Heero story i was playing, i had missions where i went against amuro and a few others (earth vs. colonies all over again)~ i cant' wait till i can pilot Freedom and Justice :D

tons of fun and definitely recommended to those who have a ps3! i haven't really played many of the ps3 games aside from tekken and virtual fighter (i'm so-so about versus fighting games anyway) so it's definitely my favorite so far..
but.. i can't wait till ffxiii!!

pictures of and from the game (from play asia website)





current mood: love this game XD (but my wrist + thumb hurts..)

ps: to answer some comments:

nic: i hope you got home and mio wasn't angry ; ; i really hope no more OT-ing for you!!
cylyna: go get facebook! it's addictive!! and cant' wait to see your italy pics :D
ara: yay come visit me soon! miss you tons :D hope you're really enjoying your new (old? hehe) job!!!

and funny how everyone who look at my CNY pics commented on how there were two miffys in the background lol! they're my chinese new year miffys ^-^

another test - the 9 personality types!

thanks to raven, i got it off her blog :D http://www.9types.com/rheti/homepage.actual.html

i actually scored the same score (7) on two types! type 2 and type 7.. reading through the two, i guess I'm a mix between them, but i really think i'm more of a 7 than a 2.. have fun! (lots of stuff written here for anyone who's interested haha)~

type 2:
The Helper (the Two)

Helpers are warm, concerned, nurturing, and sensitive to other people's needs.

How to Get Along with Me

• Tell me that you appreciate me. Be specific.
• Share fun times with me.
• Take an interest in my problems, though I will probably try to focus on yours.
• Let me know that I am important and special to you.
• Be gentle if you decide to criticize me.

What I Like About Being a Two

• being able to relate easily to people and to make friends
• knowing what people need and being able to make their lives better
• being generous, caring, and warm
• being sensitive to and perceptive about others' feelings
• being enthusiastic and fun-loving, and having a good sense of humor

What's Hard About Being a Two

• not being able to say no
• having low self-esteem
• feeling drained from overdoing for others
• not doing things I really like to do for myself for fear of being selfish
• criticizing myself for not feeling as loving as I think I should
• being upset that others don't tune in to me as much as I tume in to them
• working so hard to be tactful and considerate that I suppress my real feelings

type 7:
The Adventurer (the Seven)

Adventurers are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute to the world.

How to Get Along with Me

• Give me companionship, affection, and freedom.
• Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter.
• Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories.
• Don't try to change my style. Accept me the way I am.
• Be responsible for youself. I dislike clingy or needy people.
• Don't tell me what to do.

What I Like About Being a Seven

• being optimistic and not letting life's troubles get me down
• being spontaneous and free-spirited
• being outspoken and outrageous. It's part of the fun.
• being generous and trying to make the world a better place
• having the guts to take risks and to try exciting adventures
• having such varied interests and abilities

What's Hard About Being a Seven

• not having enough time to do all the things I want
• not completing things I start
• not being able to profit from the benefits that come from specializing; not making a commitment to a career
• having a tendency to be ungrounded; getting lost in plans or fantasies
• feeling confined when I'm in a one-to-one relationship

current mood: very very bored on a monday afternoon...

facebook :D

thanks to raven, mabel, and wifey nic for introducing me to facebook :D not because i met new friends but because i realized that a lot of my really really good friends (yay i found my 'bestest friend' and ricky too :P) from highschool and some friends from UT have moved back to HK!

it's kind of addictive.. D:

it's the sixth day of the lunar new year D: which means that the holiday festive-ness in hong kong is about to end ~_~; i really enjoyed the happy holiday mood but when monday comes along, i'll be once again cramped in the mtr and have tons and tons of work to do D:...
BUT.. the sixth day is also my lunar calendar bday!!
so happy birthday to me~
when i was younger, i used to celebrate both 'normal' and lunar calendar bdays D: all those cakes and presents... D:

however... two weeks to sydney trip!!

wifey: i keep writing a msg in your blog each day.. since you blog every day, it seems like we're sharing the secret notebook again!! we need to keep this up....

randomly listening to: mika's nana album, yuna's first album, hirai ken's ep (all of them are so-so i think...)
any good music to recommend?

last night i went to watch 'Night At The Museum' (damn i had to look up the name in english because HK sucks in that they advertise the movie name in chinese.. and the chinese name either doesn't make sense, is irrelevant to the plot of the movie, or is a direct 'pin yin' of the english title name...so i end up never knowing what the movies that come out are called unless i've heard of it in some english news previously...) with lg718.. yes i know it's going to be one of those really silly comedies that make no sense and have a really stupid plot.. BUT. i enjoyed it.. i think it's something about the chinese new year where you dont' really care what you watch as long as you get some laughs out of it.. and laugh i did. a lot. so i'm glad i watched it... it has a bit of the 'pirates of the caribbean 2' type humour (although less funny and no johnny depp and i didn't laugh till i was crying..) and is great for when you dont' want to think so much! (it was either this or another 'the departed (chinese ver.)' chinese spin off..)

i want to watch nana 2! not for the new hachi but for the new shin and reira! my favorite charas~

current mood: nearly lunchtime :D italian food at soho :D~~

Happy Chinese New Year :D

happy year of the boar :D

17th - had a lovely home cooked dinner (yay for cold crab!! :D~~), then went out to a small flower market to buy flowers and food with lg718 :D we had tons of fun selecting random flowers to bring home~ we stayed at home for the count down as well (to cny) and had some snacks and lovely chiu chow tea afterwards~

my favorite is that purple ball-ish flower.. so adorable :D
my sis also happened to go to the larger flower market in cwb and bought the candy blow up toy that i kept seeing from tv! it's adorable XD she bought the large watermelon one (i wanted the strawberry one D: .. but it's ok XD).. it's HUGE...

from the front (sorry the lighting at home is terrible so it's kind of blurry :x) :

from the side XD:


18th - chinese new year!! as part of HK tradition, i had purchased a new coat and a whole outfit to wear for the first day of the new year (from head to toe XD). however, the weather was abnormally warm (around 25 degrees omg) so i ended up wearing this other outfit i had planned to wear later in the springtime, a cute short sleeved one piece gray dress :D
i had a nice lunchtime tea with my sis' husband's relatives and then went to shop around with lg718.. we went home afterwards and then visited his aunt and had dinner there too.. they then came over afterwards and played cards till late XD

random pics XD sorry about the colour, they were taken with the fluorescent lights on XD


lg718 who was playing nds but forced to take a pic XD

19th - second day of the new year, i stayed home in the morning because i had slept late the day before and we ended up watching this chinese movie ( it's kinda blah.. not too good)... afterwards i went to 'bai lin' at my great aunt's house (wow she's amazing.. she's in her nineties but very healthy and alart...) and i had a really good time.. this year my bro in law went for the first time and we had a LOT of laughs (especially considering how my bro in law is quite frank when speaking /sweat/.. there was an adorable toy poodle there that looked like a big bear! i was wearing white so i got micsis and my bro 'to borrow' her from the owner to play with for a bit.. her/his name is "piggy" (ju jai) and was such a good puppy we didn't want to give her back XD she didn't bark or get overly scared from strangers holding her! we managed to take some cute pics of her :D

ronbro (who looks good but the puppy wasn't looking at the camera lol):


me and micsis~ this is the ONLY pic that the pup looked straight at the camera and that was because the owner's brother was getting her attention and helping us guide her eyes to the camera!

20th - third day of CNY.. basically woke up early to drink tea with lg718's family and spent the whole day at his place playing mj/card games XD i also played a bit of MJ on my nds and managed to go from level four, to getting three orbs into 'green dragon' level! that's raising about five and a half levels @.@;; it all came from this one east round of mj, where i got the largest (i have no idea what i did really.. i gotta post the name of what i put together) amount possible.. 48,000 @.@;; i basically won the round second game into the round @.@;; craaazy~

21st - back to work today ~_~ but.. i got a few red pockets from my coworkers and boss! so all is happy~ will post a picture of my "victories" later mwahah~ like i wrote in nic's blog, i feel like i really 發過豬頭 because even though not all of the red pockets contain a LOT of money, i received a lot of them, so all those envelopes make me feel good ~ xD

happy chinese new year again~

current mood: XD

happy belated valentines!!

Happy belated valentines day!

i just got my bonus today so i'm giddy with joy~ it was pretty much what i expected to get and it's even better to get the actual cheque and see it for real :D

i get off work at around 4pm today too so even better! and Chinese New Year is coming up (18th!) and i get monday and tuesday off~

so far soo good~

anyway.. how did i spend my valentines day? well i had made gifts for my collegues and lg718 and close friends the day before and brought it all to work :D i should have taken a picture of the cute pink and white boxes with the chocolates inside to show off but.. i forgot ~_~;; however, i'm so glad that my colleagues loved the idea, loved the chocolates and really enjoyed getting a gift on that day :D i had taken some winnie the pooh valentines from my sis (she bought them in the US for her friend's kid ._.;;;) and wrote msgs and gave them along with the chocolates :D i even had comments such as "omg! i can't believe you made this !!! it was delicious!" and also "those (meaning the box + chocolate) are soo expensive..." by a passing colleague who saw the gift i gave to my other collegue :O (i forgot to make them some too ._.;;)
lg718's gift turned out nicely too and he finished them really quickly :D (he unwrapped it before i took a pic D:)


his gift to me.. yes i know it's quite hard to see XD;;


i got off work around 6:15 and met up with lg718 at p&s to buy food for dinner XD basically dinner was very random that night.. random as in he let me choose whatever foods i liked to eat without setting down an actual menu (ie. it's not steak, gravy, and spaghetti or something but just random items of food i love o.o;)... so i chose random items such as chicken wings, steak, broccoli, eggs and bbq pork XD;; lg718 is an amazing cook so everything turned out sooo delicious! (the cny thing hanging behind us lasted for over a year lol)


valentines day gets a lot less 'surprising' each year, and to me, i think it's just a day where you can give gifts of chocolate/flowers out to people you care about just because you can XD i randomly saw this tiny nice dough flowers and bought them for my sis who's always so sweet to me :O so it was nice to surprise her with it on valentines day :D

i got off of work at 4:45 today which was really, really nice. we had a nice lunch buffet at work as well so the day passed by really quickly! as it's nearing chinese new year, people are starting to really decorate their apartment buildings etc, and a lot of people are going to the 'lin siu', a kind of convention where they sell chinese new year flowers, items and random cute things :D as usual there will be waaay too many ppl so i doubt i'll go ~_~;;
harbourcity as usual has one of the most beautiful displays i've ever seen :O


random golden flying pigs (i love pigs XD so adorable) at langham place.. sorry for the bad centering D: i was on the long long escalator and i had to hurry to take a pic of the pigs before i was past them XD



current mood: :D

vivienne westwood rocking horse platforms D:

i want these:

i've always wanted a pair for sooooo long D: where can i order them (aside from that crazy HKD13k pair on yahoo auctions hk... ~_~) aside from the VW UK store (or can someone help me get them from there T_T ).. i dont' want any knockoffs becuase i really like that actual leather 'tie' that goes around the ankles ; ;

current mood: i want DX

touching ~

Read this from yahoo news:

ROME (Reuters) - Call it the eternal embrace.

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, hugging each other.

"It's an extraordinary case," said Elena Menotti, who led the team on their dig near the northern city of Mantova.

"There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging -- and they really are hugging."

Menotti said she believed the two, almost certainly a man and a woman although that needs to be confirmed, died young because their teeth were mostly intact and not worn down.

"I must say that when we discovered it, we all became very excited. I've been doing this job for 25 years. I've done digs at Pompeii, all the famous sites," she told Reuters.

"But I've never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special."

A laboratory will now try to determine the couple's age at the time of death and how long they had been buried.

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very interesting!

current mood: 'ngeil'-ing~ (ngeiling?!)

post birthday entry~

well, after a really really fun x 1000000000000 weekend and birthday.. i can't believe it's time to go back to work.. sigh~

to start off the re-cap:

26 Jan - had office January birthday party :D yummy icecream + cake + hea-ing time haha~ then i went to play mj with some collegues in causeway bay! since our bosses were away on a business trip, we were able to leave a bit earlier than usual~ i had LOT of fun.. not just because I won (haha which i can't beleive i did.. i'm still a 'baby' in mj... i think it's beginner's luck) but becuase I got to know my collegues even better~ i think this type of team building will be a bit better than the one i'll have to do in march...

28 Jan - ate dinner and shopped at cwb! it was a family gathering (plus kenny and etc) and we ordered a ton of our favorite food from outback :D more presents!! the chocolate icecream brownie cake was delicious :D~~ too bad it collapsed before i could bring it around and take pictures ~_~

group pic :3


29 Jan - had birthday lunch with my good friend ray at One bar~ i had enough cake that day to satisfy my craving for chocolate lol~ he treated me to a lovely lunch and ordered our favorite chocolate cake and blueberry (damn i actually typed burberry lol) cheesecake~

30 Jan - my birthday~ had tons of nice 'happy birthday' wishes!! even my boss knew it was my birthday lol.. my manager organized a birthday lunch with 7 of my other collegues :D we had lovely shanghai food at this place in central (damn i never know how to get to these places...) and i felt so bad that i was treated to lunch AND also got a present from my manager ~_~;;
i had taken half day off so after lunch i went out with lg718 to pacific place and look at tiffany's :D i had seen this pretty star necklace on their website but it wasn't what it looked like in real life D: so i ended up getting something else ^-^
towards nighttime, i met up with din and tat to go to 赤柱 and eat at this german restaurant they booked~ it was realllly delicious and i had a really nice and yummy icecream cheesecake :D i had so much fun XD

some pics (tattat and dindin refused to take pics ~_~;)



31 Jan - had a day off! i went out with lg718 to mk to buy stuff for our nds (yay! no more gba slot :D) and to shop around for stuff~ i got my snack pile refilled as well :D

altogether, the week went by waay too quick ~_~ the next thing i look forward to is: chinese new year!!!

thanks to everyone who called, wrote, sent card, present, ate dinner/lunch with me... im so touched that even though i'm far away, many ppl took the time to wish me happy birthday!
lg718, tattat, dinb, cylyna, raven, W, kari, aiai, rukie brob, gils, nic, j9, ms + rb, ray, 'see foo' ben, vikki, mandy, king, my collegues, friends overseas that i missed etc THANKS! love you all~

some of the stuff from my bday:


necklace manager, chocolates + bear biscuit from cylyna in swiss, bunny umbrella from msrb, bear from raven in japan, bunny bag from lg718 :D , and lunch box set (yay i dont' have to borrow my sister's large ones anymore!) from my sis (she also got me the agnes b watch i wanted :3)

more pics in my album as usual :D

current mood: full and satisfied :3

so touched T_T thanks~

just wanted to thank W, raven and cylyna for surprising me with card/gifts! (although i was 'warned' ahead of time about cylyna's lovely and VERY 'sweet' gift hehe) i love you guys so much ~_~ its not only the fact that i'm receiving gifts but that i'm actually lucky enough to have close friends who are spread out across the world (W in toronto, cylyna's in switzerland, and raven's in japan!) but who take the time to find a gift/card for me and take time to mail it out etc!

cylyna: love u lots as usual! take more pics for me! i can't wait to eat the lovely chocolates but i'm going to force myself to hold back till my actual birthday!

raven: love u lots~~~ i hope this new year will be even better for u and that u will not get sick often and that your body is a lot stronger! i havent opened your gift yet but... i'll love it no matter what!

W: thanks for the adorable card.. im glad you liked the gift we got u :D come back soon~~

lovely j9 aka 666: hahaha i was laughing at your chicken butt tshirt thingie... i'll pretend i received it and.. i think i would be too busy laughing my head off for the rest of the day! thanks for cheering me up with that thought (haha still laughing at it)

current mood: feeling

Happy birthday W!!! (plus, i hate job appraisals)

weekend passes by so fast, as usual :( i'm realllllly depressed this week because i've been working my butt off for the whole month, leaving around 7-8 each night and not having much chance to go out and do my own stuff! especially since the stupid mb kept threatening my collegue and i with the job appraisal stuff, i was even more depressed. let's just say we were 'sacrificed' (in chinese 'eat dead cat') because the bb yelled at the mb and mb just felt he needed some people to put the blame on... it would have been ok if he didn't mention that 'job appraisals are coming up, and this is the type of thing that affects it'... what a 'fun cheung' (sorry.. typing at work so no chinese characters..) i mean... damn, since you wanted to be in charge of a whole department, you should also be able to take the blame for mistakes that _YOU_ made...

anyway, i got my stupid job appraisal reviewed today and, as expected, received all "B"s and "satisfactory"s. it was like reviewing my highschool report card, only worse because this guy doesnt' grade on how well you do your work, because he has no idea what ANY of us do, but on how much he likes you and how much you suck up to him~ but.. at least our company is doing well and my bonus should be not too bad, regardless of this *#*!?@'s review~
however, i'm a happy go lucky, easily satisfied, glass half full type girl so i expect myself to be better by the end of this blog entry haha..

so, aside from that horrible guy, i had an ok weekend where i got my lovely trench coat-ish item from the As Know As online order that micsis organized~ i love it so much! it's exactly the japanese style coat i wanted. i had a fantastic night at karaoke with a bunch of my collegues and ex-collegues (i wish that could have gone on for awhile longer :( ) and then met up with lg718 and dinb etc to have a drink at this lovely place by the harbourside in tst.

on sunday i went to do highlights with lg718 at HAIR since he needed a haircut as well. i love it! we had a lovely discount and i was able to choose haircolours that wasn't red and purple for once (everyone seemed to enjoy recommending those colours to me in the 10 years i've been dyeing my hair... it's like red/purple is ALWAYS 'in' for chinese people or something) and that were actually "in". copper + brown :D it's kind of not too noticeable, which is great since i wanted a subtle change, but it warmed up my face instantly! my black black hair added to my pale pale face (even paler from it being wintertime) made me look like a walking corpse at times ~_~;;

will take pics later to show ~ (i need to post a few pics of other stuff ~_~;;)

on a nice side note, some happy things are:
1. it's my birthday soon :D
2. birthday lunch, shopping and dinner on sunday
3. birthday dinner
4. guitar lessons XD i'm finally starting them this weekend!! i'm so glad i managed to find someone that i could trust (case's friend.. thanks so much case :D) and actually push myself to do something i've wanted to do for the past... 10 years (damn i feel old..)~
5. will start to look for various other classes to start :D any suggestions? i'm thinking of taking modern dance/jazz or something, and maybe another instrument as well~

current mood: still in a semi "i hate your guts and really want to kick your ass MB" type mood... but better XD as predicted~

PS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY W!!!! Hope you enjoy our birthday present and that you have an amazing birthday :D i miss you!!!!!

yay :D

lg718 just called me to let me know that he won the bid for the license number i liked:

X9X333 (with the "X" being letters that you can't change ~_~)~

as j9 would know, i've always been the 333 girl (while she was always 666... she should also be 999 though, for obvious reasons haha) so it's a nice surprise that he won it :D and since 9 has always been lg718's number, we're all happy~

on a side note, i don't like the car he'll be driving :( i'm unfortunately biased negatively towards landrovers so.. hopefully it'll prove me wrong :(... i hope it's really really really really safe ~_~

i have a new manager at work... she seems to be really nice, and i just hope that there are no big changes except me having to do a little less work and have even less interaction with the sb and bb here....
however i've been so busy these past few weeks and leaving much later than usual ~_~ so it seems like workload wise, nothing's changed D:

but from looking at emails that summarize 豬年運程, it seems like i'll FINALLY be having a pretty good year~ ^-^ although i dont' believe in those things 100%, its nice to be able to read something positive about my year from those chinese zodiac books... because year after year, whether it's year of the dog or not, everything is negative (worst was when i was in my graduating year in highschool and they said i would have a horrible year of school, bad grades etc and it got me doubly paranoid because i was applying for university! and all highschoolers at that point in time are paranoid to begin with!)~

current mood: it's my birthday soon....

PS: i'm glad you got my card kari! i love you tons and miss you too!!

melancholy~

random thought:

i really dislike fake people who use the excuse that talking on an instant messenge, such as msn, means they can get away with however they act in those msgs they type... i'm not meaning anyone that reads my blog off course, because i bet this person is waaaaaaaaaay too lazy to read through a bunch of english...
i guess i kind of turned down, disappointed and somehow let down his person many times in the past and it's coming back to me? although it was a good thing i did so.. however, we were friends, good close friends for the longest time even though i disappointed, so for someone like me, who feels that fighting is not necessary, who feels sorry exactly 3 minute after a heated argument, who feels that every friendship and relationship is worth fighting for no matter how rotten the last interaction was, it's not surprising to see that yeah, i do get sort of disappointed that friends can be sooo different on msn.. whether it's someone you haven't contacted with in awhile, or old friends who are busy with life.. it's just so sad that someone who u've known for a long time and who once treated you really well is sooo different just because you've moved on in life, and moved to a differnet place and haven't contacted each other for awhile..
okay i'm not making much sense, but i think a lot of people will know what i mean when i say i hate it when you type up a long msg to someone and get:

1. oic
2. i see..
3. oh/"dim ar" (i realllly dislike this reply)
4. haha
5. no response (in my opinion one of the worst things someone can do is just disappear without a single word, bye, brb whatever, unless their internet is crap)
6. some random response about 30 minutes later, when u've forgetten u even msged this person~

and apparently the person who i'm talking about has repeatedly done number 3, 5 and 6. and what's worse, he forgot which day my birthday was on -.-;

so yeah i'm annoyed. annoyed enough to rant about it haha.. maybe it's pms or i'm just feeling bitchy because i was told to research and compare freaking plasma tvs during my work hours by my boss... no matter i had about 15 reports to send out...

okay done!
small offtopic thing:
i love rain's voice a lot. yes yes i was against him for awhile becuase he was over popular and overdone here in hong kong like a lot of asian/hollywood stars tend to be.. but now that it has all faded a bit, i listened to his voice and like it.
내가 누웠던 침대(In My Bed) ~ i really love this song.. listening to it over and over.. it's funny though, i bet it's how one of my good friends is feeling right now.. this song fits him perfectly and i dedicate it to him becuase he's apparently 60% on the mend! thanks for all those fantastic lunches~ ganbatte ne...

current mood: sigh... melancholy mood~~

year end work sucks D: (AKA work sucks!)

work related rant.. i'm just glad i'm not the only one who feels the same way XD
as many may know, i work in an investment company...
so, i just wanted to whine here about how much i hate year end work. D: annual reports, quarterly reports, monthly reports.... ALL have to be sent out soon and all i can do is sit here and wait while others give me what i need D: and no one seems to be in ANY hurry except me!! augh~~~
on top of that, i have to do various misc. things for my boss, which is NOT FUN.

okay. end rant D: hope weekend is much more fun and i really like the light blue evelyn bag, that i'm thinking of purchasing as my personal bday gift, after i see it D:

current mood: D: nothing is working out!!

but..
my birthday is coming soon~ i better cheer up~~ (and hot pot on sunday with kenny etc and i can restock my snack supply mhwahah)

Happy New Year!

I have yet to address the new year 2007... 'address' as in, say thanks to people, make new years resolutions that i probably wont' keep etc.

here goes (sorry if i miss anyone .. i have a bad memory and i'm at work writing this lol):

Thanks to lg718 for taking care of me and being my best friend, listener, partner in crime, joke teller, personal cushion, chef, doctor, interpreter, seamstress, bodyguard (haha..), and overall a wonderful and loving person~ you've taught me so much and have taken so good care of me that I dont' feel as lost as i did at first, even though I'm away from my parents and i get sick so easily~

thanks ronbro, micsis, my lovely sis for taking care of me, and letting me get to know you guys even better (especially MSRB)~ i love you guys!

thanks dinb for always letting me whine and joke around with my stupid/silly comments~ u're really my 'somay' fishie person who will always understand what i'm talking about (especially regarding interests/dislikes etc)

thanks selina for always trying to chat with me on msn and catching up, even though I know you hate staying on the computer all the time, especially to use msn! i love you~ you'll always be my bestest girlfriend/wife etc.! (and hope u're having a lot of fun in swiss~)

thanks to aiai for sending me that adorable brown bear for christmas ; ; it really cheers me up to know how well you're doing now and that I had helped you in some way~

thanks rukiebrob for listening to me all the time and being a really true and awesome bro!

thanks to W, nicole, janine, casey, mandy, becky, MS and king for sending me christmas cards/e-cards/gifts... it's so hard to keep in contact when we're in all places around the world but you guys made the effort and i'm so so so so touched~ i haven't received this many mailed cards since highschool lol..

and to everyone else: i love you guys D: i know i do XD;; i hope all you guys receive my cards and they don't get stolen by the postman or something D:

wishes for the new year? i hope everyone is happy, accomplishes what they need to accomplish and is in good health~
for myself, i hope that I'm able to locate Yuu and Jon somehow (I miss both so much ~_~), can learn to play the electric guitar better, can save enough to travel to europe, and won't get sick as easily this year~

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