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 ^-^