Recap of weekend :D (happy birthday mr. tuna!!)

(warning: image heavy blog entry! :D)

First of all, happy birthday mr Tuna!!! I know you dont' like to draw attention to the fact that it's your birthday but too late :P hope you like the presents i got you and that they arrive soon! (i hope it makes it in time for your bday D:)

i had a nice weekend, spending saturday night with the RHHS group~ kristy, timmy, jon and i had dinner at rice paper @ tst, then headed over to Sky Lounge on the 18th floor of sheraton hotel~ ricky and his lovely gf met us there afterwards and it was just a crazy 'catch up/get to know each other again/rhhs reunion' type moment! it's so funny to hear what happened to who from each person, especially if you can vaguely remember who they are and start remembering memories from highschool :D

after sky lounge we headed over to lkf and wandered the streets/random bars~! it was very funny, especially how we were giggling about everything that was going on around us! best part was when timmy started posing with two unsuspecting police 'people'~ (pics will tell it all~~)

me and kristy on top of some balcony area overlooking lfk:
kristy and timmy~ :D
timmy's dance in front of two wary police officers:
timmy getting friendly (i really can't believe he did that lol... i think we all realized she was a female AFTER the fact D:):
timmy's advances were rejected it seems XD (i think he was really lucky this time lol):
such funny, good times!

on monday, after that crazy weekend, i met up with timmy and kristy at cwb to have dinner together! after the dinner we walked aimlessly around cwb then they met up with jon~

i love the little pink cup timmy chose for me for the sake (not sure if everyone's tried this but when you drink sake, they usually bring out a bunch of cups to let you choose the one you want to use :D i think this really shows the person's personality when doing this :D and timmy's got mine spot on lol):
kristy's cup:
timmy's cup (i swear it looks like a paper cup XD):
stabbing into the cute pumpkin icecream:
kristy seems to be enjoying it :D
timmy and me :D
me and kristy at the lantern festival thing at victoria park :D (we're mimicking the mongolian lantern guy's position XD)
randomly on the streets:
another one just because i love kristy XD



i'll miss this girl so much when she leaves (well technically she's left already and already somewhere across the ocean~~)! the rhhs gatherings were awesome and it just shows that although we've parted our ways after highschool, or didn't even know each other too well then, we're still close friends and connected somehow~

happy mid-autumn festival everyone!! :D hope everyone has a nice view of the lovely moon tonight (i think HK is supposed to be obscured by rainclouds unfortunately D:) but .. i get off work earlier today at 4pm XD (why is no one leaving D: it's 4pm already!!)

will post the rest of the pics from that night when i get them from jon! :D

current mood: off work early~~

silly~ i miss you tons too! i wish you could have come back to join us.. would have been very crazy!!

nic~ miss you lotttts~ dont' get to talk to you much because you are very busy lately(?)! but hope you take more pics of mio and post it up for me to see! about green tea, there are soo many good ones in HK! you should drink more.. i drink at least 700ml of green tea a day (how do i know this exact number? my cup is 350ml and i drink two cups hahaha) and have tried sooo many different types~

some pictures and randomness~

it's been quite busy lately these past few weeks so i've been unable to type more blog posts :D however, i finally have a chance to post some pictures from my mom's and bro's bday dinners~

Happy family (selina here too :D)~

it's been pretty busy at work lately, or at least enough work to keep me awake and not nodding off now and then :P i finally forced myself to do some more database inputing as I've been putting it off for several weeks now... i had to keep reminding myself that this inputing only happens once (as the system is JUST implemented and we need to have the data all inputed and complete) and aside from some small updating work, i won't have to input as hardcore as i was for the last few months.

so.. as i was doing this, i found out that the UK and HK people tend to have pretty interesting names... i was having trouble identifying whether they were male or female -__-;; (no offense to anyone with these names XD;;) the UK names are mostly because of unfamiliarity, especially having been raised in toronto... as for the 'interesting' HK names, i think it comes from HK people being people who like interesting/different names.. but i won't comment further on that haha..

here are some interesting names i came across, mostly HK people, which is why it's interesting to me, because it's not a cultural thing or anything:

• Ulla
• Sirling
• Piecco
• Shark
• Tomorrow
• Hippo
• Gaurav
• Talent
• Happy
• Gucci (i'm sure Gucci group is happy...)
  

I'm definite there are a lot more names i came across and missed but these are the ones i remember most~ xD
maybe someone out there finds my english name strange as well haha...

This week has been pretty packed! i was so glad i managed to see Karen for dinner FINALLY. we've been trying to arrange for dinner since early august when she found me on FB but we were both too busy :( i'm so proud of her at her new job tho and reallly hope we have more opportunities to eat together~

so.. brief summary: japanese class on monday night, a lovely lunch with Jon on tuesday (i love lunches with him.. brings back the silly elementary school-ness to things!), mandarin at night, lunch with eddie on wednesday (which was a lot of fun XD but too bad his company is moving to cwb soon D:), dinner with karen on wednesday night, lunch with colleagues thurs, dinner with ray etc. at night, tomorrow i have lunch with irene, dinner with din (hopefully we can finish watching "Tale of Earthsea"....), saturday lunch with kristy (yay! i cant' wait to see you again :D :D), and then afternoon with lg718, sunday with family...

wow. i had trouble typing that up @.@;;
next week i have a bordeaux wine workshop which i'm looking forward to too! my level 1 course doesnt' start till next month but i'm excited.. then there's mid-autumn festival at the end of this month, and then national day at the beginning of october too~

really enjoying life :D

current mood: relaxing (with green tea :D)~

re:

nic~ haha i think i will use them! but not sure when /sweat/ just too cute haha.. take more pics of mio for me soon! so cute~!!

raven~ it's ok :D i'm sure we'll get more chances to see each other! i didn't see you online before you left and should have also thought to email you my number D: i might go to japan at the end of this year so i'll be sure to see you then if i do go!!

mr. tuna~ yah that's what i thought (reflective surface thing)! but i really didn't want to take them out because they were too.. happy in the wrapping :P anyway lots to talk to you about.. hope you have time next week! (and that you're not in pain still from your sprains!)

:D

my dear silly has left hk :(
i went with her to the airport on wednesday (having took the day off) and i think the hardest part was seeing her off through customs and then going back to 'normal' life in HK. it feels so empty when a lot of ppl visit u then suddenly leave, all at the same time! i guess it's something about getting older that i have to get used to.

i really hope she does well in ottawa and that i can see her again soon! i miss her very terribly still but i think it's good to know that she's back in ottawa and will be pursuing her beloved career and also able to be around her family again!

to recap a bit, i took a half day off to go around to do last minute shopping with silly. we met up with timmy, carmen and ricky for a nice dim sum lunch at hopewell at wanchai, (i love each time i meet up with them :D) then went off to mk to buy miscellaneous souvenirs etc that had been left till the last moment! i successfully convinced silly that getting a phone was a better idea than a camera that she may not use at all, and after picking up the rest of the 'needed' things, we headed off to tst where we had birthday dinner with my mom! then on saturday it was my bro's birthday and we went for this large dinner buffet at kowloon.. time passes by too fast -___-;;

skipping the first few days of this week, to quickly summarize, i had dinner with ray on thursday (which was a TON of fun as usual :D), and friday dinner with dinb who then came over to help me play more gundam musou :D

going forward to today, i went out to dinner with bro and micsis and then went to MK with bro to shop for speakers. we ended up buying my needed camera bag from the camera store i got my lenses at :D so glad! finally have a chance to bring my other lens out without fear of it getting crushed when going to crowded places (and really, which places in hk aren't crowded D:)! thanks to mr. tuna, i got this cute little bag XD they didnt' have black left so i got the light blue colour instead :D (the miffys look quite grumpy D:)

and from my dear dinb, these are the spoon and fork i've wanted for the longest time but hadn't been able to get till now (because dinb told me it was stupid to buy it D: so i didn't... and that was 3-4 years ago! i hadn't been able to see it again till now so dinb got them for me as an "apology".. or maybe just to shut me up XD i never let him forget the fact that it was HE who made me unable to get these for 3-4 years...):
i apologize for the plastic wrapping which causes this weird blurriness XD i dont' want to remove it yet till later :D and oh, it looks like an ad for log-on XD i love this set because it's just so.. happy XD imaging waking up and using these for breakfast...

current mood: happy and satisfied :D

ps: will post random pics of bro's bday etc soon...