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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