recap of last week~ (dinner and wii party)

on thursday, we had dinner with lg718's family before they left for toronto on sunday :( it was a reallllly nice dinner and lets just say lots of random pics were taken which i will post in my photo album so enjoy a very 'normal' pic for now :P

as well, to celebrate the last weekend before silly leaves HK, i organized a dinner on friday at our favorite 'porkchop' place and wii party at my house! dinb said he'd only stay till 12am max, but he ended up leaving at 4:30am, and that was only because we were really tired and didnt' want to stay up till 7am like last time :P

lg718 had bought some lovely wine from citysuper to drink at home so after a 'warmup' playing wii, we opened the wine and was pleasantly surprised to find the wine reallllly tasty and sweet! (also, it turns out it tastes especially good with a certain "corn soup" japanese snack.. hahah...) I think silly and i drank too much and got very hyper... we let din and lg718 play gundam musou and the ducky game on ps3 after our longggg mario party game on wii and basically went crazy from then on hahah....

some random pictures:

a very thoughtful dinb (i think he is still trying to see if he can see through the eye that i poked with my finger by accident... D: lets.. not mention this story.. i think it can be summarized by saying i have bad aim ... haha):
me and dinb actually won silly's team! (i have a feeling it's just luck haha...) and we realized our miis look similar, boy/girl version of each other:

our lovely wine (2004 Louis Jadot - chateau des jacques Moulin-a-Vent):
excuse the messy table XD i think it was the only chance i had to take a pic of the wine before we finished drinking it all!: us enjoying the wine :D
i know it's blurry and someone's wiimote is in the way but.. only pic of me holding the wine glass D: before:after XD (mad at the cameraman, din? :O):
this is what happen when you drink red wine, are around crazy, fun people and have a wii; me and silly playing wario ware 'jumping' game and doing the last 'pose' XD:more in my photo album :D
such good times :( i'm gonna miss them all so much!! i can't wait to see them again and have this gaming party sometime again soon...

silly leaves tomorrow :( don't really want to think about it but it's happening soon ~_~;;; much sooner than i realized!

current mood: everyone's leaving soon~ (or have left~~)

PS: it was my mom's birthday today, so will post a different blog entry and pics soon :D happy birthday mom XD

songs, some new things

i never had a chance to listen to his new album till now.. but i've always liked this song, both for the music itself and the lyrics:

自由不變 - 林俊傑

不變不動不轉的世界
剎那瞬息片刻永遠　用全心記住你的臉
來來回回千萬遍
突然領悟你是如何愛我

一直習慣簡單的　隨心的
放任的自由　不喜歡凍結的酒
不慍不火日復一日無聊的生活

沉默的瞭解的是你的溫柔
不管我錯了　對了　因為你說那就是我

to me, it's meaningful!

on a side note: weekend update, after two days of shopping, i bought stuff that i have wanted for awhile but have never found a version that i liked:

1. 'rain' boots :D those plastic-y boots where u feel like jumping in puddles in!
2. a clutch purse, for those days when i feel like wearing high heels and bringing nothing out except the clutch... (if it's even possible to do that in hk.. i bring so much out..)

first found at sogo, second in the peninsula:

the strap is detachable :D and as the price of the bag was the same as a wallet.. @.@;; we thought 'why not?' XD

sorry for slightly over-bright pics, i took them in a hurry to post them so that i can sleep XD

on another side note this really shocks me:

One in four read no books last year

By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 21, 7:01 PM ET

WASHINGTON - There it sits on your night stand, that book you've meant to read for who knows how long but haven't yet cracked open. Tonight, as you feel its stare from beneath that teetering pile of magazines, know one thing — you are not alone.

One in four adults read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Of those who did read, women and older people were most avid, and religious works and popular fiction were the top choices.

The survey reveals a nation whose book readers, on the whole, can hardly be called ravenous. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year — half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual number read was seven.

(read the rest of the article here)

*****

I love reading/books! I know there are a lot of friends/people i know who don't like to read, but to me, the world of books is just.. amazing! :D it gives me a chance to go into different worlds, into different people's minds etc, and it's something I wish everyone around me could feel. i guess i'm lucky that books was one of the things my siblings taught me to really enjoy as a kid (computer/video games and comic books being the other D:) and i hope i can pass that on to my kid.

j9, I'm waiting for your book!!

current mood: no idea what i'm doing XD;;

nic~ haha i will send u pics soon.. i finally got pics of milan/milo!!!

high tea @ the peninsula~

its already friday today! the week passed by really fast and i'm super glad that today is really sunny with no sign of rain at all (:X maybe i should keep quiet for now haha...)~

to recap last weekend, on friday they hoisted the level 8 typhoon signal! the storm supposedly left us on wednesday but had circled backwards to HK mid-way and ended up hitting HK straight on~ it was a really awesome day... longgg lunch till around 2:10 when they announced that they will hoist the T8 signal around or before 3:30 ~ then we left around 2:45 as it was hoisted early. i left with my colleagues which was a good thing because the mtr stations were already crowded. they shut down the gates for central station after we were lining up to get on the trains because there were just too many people @.@ it was terrible! i watched the news after and people were crowded in the station, with some fainting etc. and the trains not moving at all D:.. this is what it looked like (i believe this is admiralty?) at central too @.@ but much more packed and barriers around the entrance to the station and all @.@

anyway i managed to catch a shuttle bus after i got after the mtr so it was perfect :D however, like everyone else said, this typhoon was definitely NOT a bad one... when i got home, not only was there no RAIN, there was no WIND @.@ after watching the news, it turned out the typhoon weakened as it hit HK and then dwindled away @.@;; so all that 'hype' but nothing to it! except half a day off work (yay!)!

as noted in the post below, i got my hair permed on saturday @ HAIR ... it isn't much change as they only permed from the ear down (i'm afraid of perming starting at the top! haha my last perm was a bad experience)... it looks nice and i like it (not many ppl notice the difference, which is good :D) but i kind of wish it was a lot longer type of curl @.@ why can i never get a perm the exact way i want D:
afterwards i went furniture shopping with mom and sis on saturday but didn't find anything we liked.. at night we met up with lg718 and his family for dinner at outback! always love spending time with them :D

on sunday i went out to meet silly at causeway bay because it was her turn for a perm! as usual she looked beautiful after it and we met up with timmy and carmen at the peninsula for high tea.. it was verrrry lovely there and i really enjoyed chatting with them and just enjoying the moment. i'm so glad they're in hk and suggested this outing :D the little cakes and desserts were really dainty and tasted really delicious~





after i went to mk with silly to meet up with lg718 to buy random camera stuff and lens! i got a pair of zoom lens 18-135mm for my cam (my wallet has died from the $$ impact~ D:) and also a webcam so i can see my lovely silly in ottawa and also W from toronto :D we ate dinner a chiu chow restaurant where we made the following interesting observation about the following cups :P (can you spot the odd one out? :P)

then the rest of the week has been lessons, rest, lessons, dinner, dinner lesson etc. rinse and repeat. i am not looking forward to next week :( last mandarin lesson with silly, last weekend with lg718's family before they leave, last week with silly etc. it seems like with them leaving, the summer is leaving as well! the summery feeling is slowly dwindling away~

current mood: sigh :(

nic~ milo/milan... haha funniest names so far! we need to think of more!!!

mr. tuna~ thanks for your suggestions :D i took that photo in a hurry and it was the best of the bunch XD i'll show you more later! :D

testing the camera....

as promised mr. tuna, the below are the random pics i took with my new cam :D

the bear is hiding among miffys XD
and my before and after pics.. i look too tired in the second one D: sorry.. a long day.. so technically it looks like i look better with straight hair XD but the stylist and everyone i talked to said they preferred the perm :D prolly cuz my hair is too 'blah' if not straightened :X...
all who like playing dynasty warriors: please go watch the trailer!!! number five is coming out :D amazing (and my favorite character too :heart: xD)
current mood: lovin' the cam :D

nic~ haha i thought u knew i had all the consoles tim! that means u have to come back and 'try them all la' /heh
as well.. i hope that my future kitten will be able to "make" the job for mio-leng la!! haha

my camera ::heart::

i finally took the time on the weekend and bought my first dslr :D the nikon D80~ it's been out for awhile but as the price dropped a bit and i didn't like the D40x, this was the choice i made at the end!

i love it! i've been busy every day since i got it so I was unable to play with it :( the battery needed to be charged for X number of hours so i couldn't play with it the day i got it either ~_~;; but anyway, i LOVE it. i got the lens my dear silly recommended and also has herself, the Nikon 50mm f/1.8D~ it's been raining for the past two days or else i'd run and go outside to take random pics!

hope the week gets better so that i can practice D:

on a side note, weekend was a TON of fun. LG718 came over on sunday after an exhausting XX num of hours shopping for my camera, and we tried out a bunch of new games we got for ps3, wii and xbox.

On wii, i highly recommend playing big brain academy! it's basically similar to the one on NDS except the games are a lot different when playing with a wii-mote XD we were supposed to have this gundam game but somehow it was misplaces -.-;

on PS3, i reaaaaaaally liked Ninja Gaiden Sigma! the graphics are breath-taking (as usual for PS3, and ESPECIALLY after you switch from playing wii haha) and the gameplay is a lot of fun. Bloody, but a simple-ish action rpg game :D
Minna no golf is a LOT of fun too! the characters are so cute and it's a lot of fun to play with other ppl :D I highly recommend these two totally different but both really fun games~

on xbox360, we tried the new transformers game! this is also quite fun, with great graphics and all~ as you're allowed to throw/destroy anything you like, it was a lot of fun :P (for those who haven't watched the movie, the game is based closely on the movie)

current mood: sleeeeeeeepy~

nic~ haha you come back and visit me and i'll go on a trip with you for sure!!
about the kitten, not 100% sure if we will get it but.. will let you and mio know if we do.. haha mio's 'leng' ah ma!!

Mr. Tuna~ thanks XD i will try my best.. hopefully there will be a BIT of sunshine this weekend so i can take pictures........ (i haven't even had time to upload the pics i tested the cam with lol)

trip to macau etc :D

First of all, in a totally unrelated topic, i finally finished harry potter monday night! i'm happy to say that i enjoyed the book, although i am kinda of sad that it's over! I'm not going to post any spoilers here because I hate it when people ruin movies/books etc for other people and i'm very very glad i read the book in HK where people may post things online but i have a choice not to read it (as opposed to in toronto where everyone you meet seems to want to tell u the ending that they googled up D:)

anyway, last fri-saturday, i went to macau with silly, mary, curtis and curtis' friend edward to celebrate mary's birthday! at first i was worried that my mom was flying in on saturday but luckily she changed her flight to tuesday (yesterday) so i was able to go ahead on this trip :D

i haven't been to macau in aaaaaaages so it was really nice to go with silly and them and see all the new additions! according to them, macau is changing so fast, with the new casinos, new roads/shops/touristy areas and the new fishermen's wharf area (kind of like a 'mini europe') that each time they go, it's totally different~
we did the usual stuff, lovely dinners (italian one night, porteguese the other night), really delicious and famous crab congee, porteguese style eggtart and visiting the usual sites (the new casinos, wynn, new lisboa etc and the ruins of the st paul cathedra/大三巴, which i really liked, especially the serene crypt...). What i'm really looking forward to is seeing the Venetian being completed and getting a chance to live at the "little venice"! when we passed by it, it was shocking how large an area it had; not only was the hotel huge, the surrounding man-made gardens and lakes complete with gondolas (which aren't all completed yet of course) area was really amazing. i really want to come here again when it's complete :D
did i mention that it was searing hot, at 34+ degrees celcius, no shade or wind, and i was already wearing a tanktop and shorts D: it wasn't like in HK where every few steps there's an airconditioned place D: but i survived XD (this is not the most difficult thing i've had to do yet anyway :D haha)~

the following pictures are courtesy of silly's blog (as i've yet to get the pictures from her). thanks dear! i really need to go camera shopping with u soon so that i can take lots of pics to post too. for the rest of the pictures, go to my photo book or to silly's blog~:

on the way there (curtis, mary and edward in the back):
what does this look like? XD (i need to see the real thing D: ) :just SOME of the bright casino lights of macau:
day two: lovely egg tarts! (they taste so much better than the ones in HK)lovely mary, me and dear silly in the cafe, eating the above for afternoon tea:
a really beautiful light/chandelier inside the new lisboa; this resembles shooting stars!
"inside" the ruins of the cathedral (me, mary silly):
me and silly in front of the cathedral; it's so beautiful and grand... (i wonder what my reaction will be when i visit europe and see more of these types of buildings.. a permenent ":O!!" face..?)
in front of the water lily pool that's in front of the site for The Venetian hotel! it's crazy, this is only a tiny section of it:
random church near that area :D
this will be the last trip i can take with silly before she leaves :( i'm already upset thinking about it!!

mom's back! i'm super super happy about this because it seems like we're in toronto again :D and she's super happy to be around us~ i can't wait till the weekend~~

current mood: i'm back~~ and so's mom XD

nic~ hahahah i will let you wait till the seventh movie comes out.. don't want to ruin too much for you la, since you dont' read HP!!
the cake is jeng! you must come back one year for your birthday and i surprise u with one, ok? hohoho~

raven~ yay! i'm looking forward to you coming :D remember to set a date to see me ok? last time we didnt' get a chance so i havent' seen u for more than a year! (and when we last saw each other, i left in a hurry lol)

ara~ i miss you tons too! what have you been up to lately? please update your blog soon so i can take a look at the pictures you were talking about posting :D