i like.... these things (part 2) - 1:1 Gundam in Japan~

my parents, my sis and her husband (and family) travelled to Hokkaido last week... (as per my previous post with yummmmmy melon :D)... afterwards, they went to tokyo and saw one of the things i wanted to go see: the 1:1 gundam!!!

my brother in law took these pics and i love them dearly.... makes me wish i was able to make it to see it before its taken down ~_~

during daytime... this was made SOO lifelike it's crazy! the stickers on it are so detailed...

my bro in law told me some guy was making gundam out of ballons!! so adorable T___T i want one~~
at nighttime, it looks even more impressive... i think my bro in law said they have this "about to fly" head turning + steam + lights thing on at the half hour mark every hour :D
from the back.. soooo detailed ~i want to be there! :(

thanks for the pics + souvenirs siss :heart: much love.

current mood: want to go~~

happy summer~ (i like.... these things... part 1)

hihi.. long time no update :D i've been busy with stuff and internet was messed up at my home so no time to update at all :( i've taken a ton of pics over the summer which i should send to silly for my assignment and also for her review!!!

since i'm not in a writing mood lately (well.. sorta.. haha), i've decided to just write posts about things that have happened or whatever that i like/enjoyed etc.

the most recent one (haha i'm not going by a proper 'timeline' here..) is this: 日本溫室密瓜!! melons grown in Japan's greenhouses.. this one was brought fresh from hokkaido, lugged back by my parents and their friends.. ::heart:: x 10000000000000000~ sooo delicious! i've been wanting to try one for aaaaaages as it's super expensive in hk.. and i finally get a chance to try it!

it's super super juicy and tastes like candy... even fishy, who tackled the lovely thing for us haha, ate two pieces when he doesnt' eat melon (same with mom.. haha)~

the lovely 溫室密瓜 with the "T" shaped stalk (which my mom promptly pulled off when she was lifting it out of the box =__=;;)


cutting it up~~

so juicy :D~nic commented how i look very 'pained'/辛苦 here... it's actually because i already took a bite (dedicated to nic and mio especially haha..) and.... it was so amazing.. XD
hope everyone's having a wonderful summer!

current mood: wah~ :D

random photos :D

lunch with my 'pork group' (half of them) at the appropriately named 豚組 :D

lots of fun... silly pics that were also posted in facebook:

normal with "apple" dear :D
copying dear peg's face (please see next photo for reference :P):
this pic was taken mainly because the "Medium sized" 菜 was actually.. humongous @.@ so much for taking the waitress up on her suggestion that 9 girls + 2 guys needed a BIG plate of 菜... thank goodness for the "食菜獸"s we have at work XD
random photo from manman ... in the UBC rose garden.. such a gorgeous, gorgeous place.. much love :heart:
and... i miss the japanese food there.. ever.so.much. ~_~ the fresh taste, great deals, the air.. everything :( most of the this girl here, my 姊妹 mandy~~
currently "打風" - ing in HK... but it's supposed to reach HK on sunday =__= why not monday!!!

current mood: not in work mode.. xD;

raven~ it's "Mondo Gelato" in vancouver :D if you ever go there, please try it :D they have the best flavours!! and tastes SO GOOD.

back home to canada: toronto and vancouver trip June 2009~

my trip's ended already! so fast!!!

i miss everyone (friends/family in toronto, more friends and "family" in vancouver), and especially all the beautiful sunshine, blue skies, white clouds and lovely fresh air :( it makes me want to travel again really soon haha.. i'm so tempted to do it again next year, but with more time in vancouver!!!

thanks to everyone who came out to see me and to take me around ... im' super super touched because people were taking days out of their normal schedule just to be around me and organised dinners, lunches, outings etc :D thanks you guys.. i feel SO loved!

i've posted pics here and there of what's going on in my picture book and on facebook. so please go and take a look :D some pics off of my dear man man's camera haven't been given to me yet but here's one picture of me happily doing one of my favorite things: eating icecream (i always have this silly grin on my face with icecream =_=)

to make it short, i've been having many breakfasts, lunches, afternoon teas, italian food, dim sum, niagara, taco bell, hot dog.. i'm so glad i did it all XD i also had my fair share of meeting new gfs/bfs for the first time, and also seeing OLD old friends (like mr. tuna :D) whom i hadn't seen since my first years in university!

i went to the ROM, saw sound of music with some good friends, ate lovely crepe, hugged many long-time-no-see friends and had a lot of fun just going back HOME. thanks so much~

best thing was to know that home is always home; my bedroom's the same, i can still fall asleep easily in my bed, and my driving skills are still here haha...

one thing i've really gotta start is to do my weekly picture thing.. i'll start by doing a small daily photo with my iphone (makes it easy) and a weekly dslr pic and go from there... i'll post on my blog daily just for that @.@ hope i can do it! i've named it "mr. tuna's photo challenge".. hopefully it'll push me to do more photography~

current mood: i miss you all~

18 days till toronto~ :D

i am so hyped up about my trip to toronto.. well not fully hyped yet, but i can't believe that i'm going SOON.. as in "i can count days instead of months/weeks" haha... thanks to small mui who keeps a countdown for me in her msn, the trip seems more real when now :D

thanks thanks x 100000000 to manman and frankie for "taking care of me" for the two and a half days i'm in vancouver! i am so excited to see her and frankie (and for a longer time too) that i'm kinda forgetting that the moment i go to vancouver, it also means i'm leaving toronto behind :(

upcoming, so many many many birthdays @.@

fishy, wildie, micsis, ken 阿哥, silly... and a lot more ppl... too bad i'll be missing the half of those bdays from flying around the globe =__=; (so sorry silly, i wanted to spend your bday with you but i can't leave HK at month end ~_~)

i can't wait till saturday.. when fishy's exam is FINALLY over and we have a day and a half to lounge around and not worry about him studying and me being bored xD i can't believe it's a holiday but everyone's busy (happy anniversary to my lovely darling sistee and dragon bro :heart:, btw :D :D)~

i haven't taken many pictures lately (i have a few but they're not on my phone =__= and fishy has no time to upload them...) although I've cut and dyed my hair @.@ i think we'll get a ton more pics when I'm in toronto :D

nic is in hk but currently on her australia trip ~_~ i hope she gets back soon because it's been so rainy, boring and i have hardly spent ANY time with her so far :(

current mood: @.@;; borrrred~

Final Fantasy 13 demo and etc. ~

i did a LOT of stuff in the past few weeks but hadn't had a chance to update ~_~

1. played FFXIII Agito demo (which was part of FF7 Advent Children Japanese version Blu-ray disc)... i have to say a few things:

- the main female character "lightning" is a LOT prettier ingame than in the cgs that have been passed around. screenshots don't do her justice! as in this picture:

- Mr. Tetsuya Nomura, the character designer for FF was told to design a female chara who was like Cloud... @.@ (to be honest, since FFX-2, which i really didn't like, i'm not a fan of female leads in the ff games... but i think lightning is pretty cool, even though i'd prefer to see cloud haha)

- the ingame play is like FF8 cgs, but more lifelike.
- the ingame CGs are AMAZING... the textures, facial detail/hair, designs are breathtaking
- it's taken waaay too long to send this game out :( it's at a possible "winter 2009" deadline...
- game play is interesting, with 'action points' where you choose actions to take and you can move around a bit

overall, i love it!

2. they also included a NEW trailer for FFXII Versus (which i so want to play.. but there has been NO deadline or even gameplay features shown yet D:) !!!

- i LOVE it!! i can't wait to see how gameplay is, and the full storyline.. i love the modern-ish type of setting, and i love the characters...

noctis (his hair reminds me of a certain Korean star @.@;;;):

stella nox (who is rinoa-esque and seems more interesting as she's supposed to be the opposition to noctis):- funny thing: while bro and i were watching the trailer, fishy came over, and as he walked in, my bro and i were like "!!!!! :O!!!!" because fishy was dressed EXACTLY like noctis in the trailer!!! as in the below (i wish i took a pic of fishy to show =__=):

very nice xD
i am soo looking forward to this.. if only square-enix would give us a date of release @.@

3. i went shopping (randomly) last night with fishy and FINALLY found a pair of the converse boots i wanted!! i have to write about it because the boots came out in Japan Dec 2008 and were limited to Japan but i.t. had ONE pair left, in black and MY size :D yayyyy~ i was so happy... and knowing they have the 40% discount thing going on is even happier~ i also managed to get my 'boyfriend cut' blazar (although fishy "nicely" offered me his own jacket instead, as he said it'd look the same =__=;;) and one that i look GOOD in~
will post pics later :D

It's mother's day weekend, happy mother's days to my mom, and all the other lovely moms out there~

also: nic's arriving sooooon~ xD yay x 100000000000!

current mood: excited~ (it's friday :D)

sakura in hk~ (and happy birthday dear apple <3)

if only it wasn't inside a mall :(
there was a lovely sakura tree display inside harbour city over the weekend XD i actually didn't notice it till i stopped by the agnes b delices story to buy some chocolates for fishy @.@ i was carrying a ton of stuff from badminton (and shopping for home stuff at francfranc) so i had sat down on a bench in front of the trees, THEN realised what they were XD

unfortunately, pics taken with an iphone camera, and also with the display inside a mall, there was no way to aim the camera/phone at the actual trees to make it look authentic :( i tried my best xD

it would be nice if this was in the middle of anywhere but an HK mall xD;

i also managed to clean the flat so that it looks MUCH tidier than my last pics XD i also freed my larger miffys (although some others are still stuffed into white plastic bags D:) and put away all those 紅白藍 bags~

and also: HAPPY BIRTHDAY APPLE~~ so glad to work with you and also start this new badminton sunday thing xD hope we both can become healthier and stronger this year @.@

re: new flat...
thanks everyone for the help and also comforting words about getting used to the flat =___= currently i'm just needing more space to put things (my parents basically spread their stuff eveywhere since they weren't going to be living there often anyway and wouldn't have much stuff altogether, and also figured i wouldn't move in hahah..) and also have a problem with those dratted silverfish! they appeared out of nowhere the other day, following some crazy changes in humidity (from 60% to 90% @.@;;;) , and i was forced to kill 3 ~_~;;; hopefully after i live in a bit they'll disappear as the house is pretty dry anyway....

for those who aren't squeamish and curious as to what we have in HK flats/houses to worry about besides cockroachs, please click here

i'll show pics of the rest of the flat soon :D (after it gets cleaned a BIT more this weekend.. xD)

current mood: SOOO TIRED! i need sleeeeeeeeep~~~

PS: i gave in an got twitter D: http://twitter.com/spark_ling
just so that i can keep a countdown with nic and such xD

nic~ thanks dear T_T i am getting used to my bed, but i need to have more shelves/places to put my stuffff~ my poor miffys are still stuffed in bags~~~ (but hopefully will be better when you visit!!)

i've moved :D

i've JUST moved (during the Easter long weekend) so it's been soo busy for me @.@ kind of last minute thing but it'll be good for me :D

long story short, i'm still in hk, but moving to a different area :D i've already forwarded my snail mail addy to all those i have in my email list so if you didn't get it (for some strange reason), let me know!

thanks so much to bro, ken阿哥, christine, kenny, phil (for fixing the router and asking now and then to see if i need more help as well!) and of course my darling fishy... i am feeling so loved =3=~~~~ thanks for the helppppp you guys!! i'll forever be in your debt~~

so sorry for the rush as well, but it was best to do it during easter long weekend~ thanks to micsis and bro who lent me over 16 紅白藍 bags to use, plus two of their suitcase and i also had multiple bags to hand carry plus my mini miffy suitcase... to a total of 24 items (not including my two bags that i hand carried lol)..

i've already cleaned up most of the bags.... here are two pics to describe what my flat looks like right now =___=

1. a big mess:


2. poor miffys suffocating in plastic bags :( :( sorry ~_~i will get down to cleaning up my flat this weekend!!! then i'll have proper pics to post xD

i've also been playing lots of badminton, which i'm really beginning to love xD i finally got my own racket a few weeks back and love it sooo much! the bounce on it is amazing and helps me a lot :D i can't wait till sunday when we get to play for 2 hours :heart: it's been really good to do exercise again after so long~

current mood: super sleepy due to 1. not sleeping well in new bed and environment, 2. the longgg break, 3. super humid and hot in my room but the a/c is quite "dangerous" to use at the moment (not cleaned .. no time! lol), 4. my neat freak genes (thanks mom!) causing me to want to clean up at least SOMETHING each time i come home... (even though my MOM told me to leave it as is and get some sleep....)

ps: looking forward to nic&mio (much love), lessons, badminton & tennis, my trip to canada (yay new suitcase to use :D :D :D :D)

mr. tuna~ once i find my postcards again, i gotta continue on my trend XD

raven~ *HUG* can't wait to see your smiling face~~~

nic~ mio ::heart::

silly~ i miss you so much girl ~ i can't wat to see you again!

random happy things :D

i've been sooo lazy in updating lately because i've been busy with lessons, badminton, work (hmm it's number three.. lol), seeing friends and basically not having too much time to write ~_~ and also i dont' think i have too many interesting things to talk about hahah

however, i did receive/buy some random happy things that i'd like to share :D

the weather being super cool in hk lately, fishy and i decided to head over to 女人街 and see if we could find the octopus card sticker that he wanted to get awhile back.

we ended up buying these reallllly adorable cut-out cutters (? lol i have no idea what to call them.. cut-out punchers?) which i tested out on our journal:



it's soo adorable! not only can you use this for the cut-out but the punched out section looks adorable and can be used to decorate things XD *is proud*

second thing we got was this nice sticker for the octopus card.. unfortunately they only had one so i took it :3 excuse the weird angle, as it was hard to take a picture of, being sparkly and all xD it's leaning against the lovely lovely coffee grinder fishy got me in taiwan. i need to find a chance and take pics of it alone as it's super lovely, and very steampunk-ish, laputa-world-y~

and finally, the book came :D it's written by 彎彎, a taiwanese girl who's known for her simple drawings and funny, down to earth humour on her day-to-day life :D this book wasn't available in any of the bookstores in HK since it's release last last week so i had to order it from taiwan.. it's super cute xD i highly recommend her other books!
and.. a "bonus".. fishy recently (OMG FINALLY, after TWO MONTHS) sent me pics from my birthday dinner, and i found that he captured a perfect scowl on my face... i had to upload this for the hilarious factor and because i remember how ugly i felt that day (i looked so weird in every single picture i took =__=) and none of the pictures were turning out well, and ppl were walking around etc etc and i got pissed xD and no.. unfortunately i'm not really faking this scowl haha...

a scowling 利是封 xD
(however, it does fit my current mood in a way =___= aughhhh)

on a side note, sooo looking forward to iphone 3.0 XD copy and paste yay ~~

on another side note, super thanks to mr. tuna, who is one of the several superheroes of mine who volunteered to drive me home from the airport as i needed a ride in june when i fly to toronto :D (thanks jay and silly & keith as well!! you guys are awesome too xD) his fast "i'll be there" before i had even asked him if he could do it was sooo sweet as it was a working day and i'm arriving in toronto at 5:45am with a big suitcase, carry-on bag and a bad case of airplane smell =__=;

however, i just learnt about 2 mins ago some BIG CHANGES to my schedule.. apparently my trip to toronto is not gonna be what it seems to be...

current mood: sigh...

temporary miss 雪糕妹~

i hate wearing this mask =__= it annoys the hell out of me cuz i can barely breathe even though fishy helped me cut a really nice and invisible 'gap' for me to breathe out of ... hopefully i can take this stupid thing off and destroy by friday.. in case anyone's curious, i'm wearing those SARS-like masks...

one of my lovely colleagues at work told me i look like a 公仔 (doll) and resemble '雪糕妹' . at first i was thinking "hmm who is that @.@" and realized it was an 80s doll that resembles raggedy ann type of doll with yarn for hair... and the main thing was her face: her freckles.

after googling her this is what i found:

haha...at least they say it's not a bad thing and i look "得意" and "可愛" because my face looks really 'fake' ... -.-;;

at least 雪糕妹 has a friend :D (fishy? haha..)

a few more dayssss ~ what girls will do for beauty.... haha...

current mood: oxygen deprived...i hate wearing this massssssssssssskkkkkkkkk T__T

'yeah' show~ :D

a short post to write about the 2009 'yeah show' that i went to on saturday with fishy, my sis and her friend (as my bro in law couldn't make it back in time). for those who haven't heard of it, it's a great big 佈道會 where famous stars/singers work together to worship God and provide testimonials and perform etc etc. some of the famous guests this year include 孫耀威, 關心妍 (who both had testimonials), and 森美 and the main speaker was, of course, the pastor 林以諾牧師.

my sis somehow managed to get first row, RIGHT in the middle seats so it was a great view with no obstructions :D however, it was hard to take pics cuz the lights were super bright and i only bought my normal point and shoot ... so excuse the 'blown out' fuzzy-ish faces xD

關心妍's (Jade) testimonial was very touching and i think it helped a lot that she discussed and described in detail about the most current and embarassing event that circulated youtube for weeks (for those who dont' know, she went on stage and took the award from the person who just received it because she thought she won it @.@). HK is a place where ppl JUMP on any small misatkes famous ppl make and i can imagine how it felt that moment @.@ the song she sung afterwards was also very very touching and i was glad to hear her testimonial, especially as i hadn't really paid much attention to her beforehand and, to be honest, didnt' care much for her.

it was really nice to see 孫耀威 on stage, although i wasn't sure what his testimonial really was about @.@ i've always liked his voice (i used to be a fan of his in elementary school hahaha...) and i really loved the song he wrote for God.. so beautiful and touching and hearing him sing the song he wrote live actually said much more than his actual testimonial.

森美 performed this magic show.. and it turned out that his volunteer was the actual magician! (he was sitting behind us too lol).. it was very entertaining and fishy told me i was like a little kid .. XD (i'm a sucker for 'magic shows' hahah...)

林以諾牧師 was hilarious.. i liked his dvds and i was glad to see he didn't let me down in this show XD i just kept laughing and laughing with fishy (especially the part about wives/gfs before and after... hahaha and the whole thing about 'owning husband's head'... XD)

i highly recommend ppl to watch this :D especially my dear friends in toronto when it'll show sometime in june~

currently it's quite cold in HK for march.. i hope everyone takes care and doesn't get sick~ (especially those in super cold canada D:)
current mood: happy :D

ara~ i love every single art thing you made!! please make more and take pics of yourself as well :D miss you tons my dear~~

raven~ i hope you're doing ok in japan and not getting sick :D miss you tons~~

korea + ray's wedding :D

i'm back xD (for nearly a week actually haha)...

i've been super super lazy in uploading photos and such this week because i got sick (yet again) from Korea and needed time to rest and practice my beloved instrument so decided not to write/upload things till i was free-er~ my mom also left on saturday (D:) and my dear brother ray's wedding was tonight so i was VERY busy~

to summarise my trip, it was a LOT of fun... i'm glad i had a chance to travel with my darling sister and do a girly shopping trip with her (and i mean PURE shopping) :D we normally dont' get too much time to see each back in HK as she has to study/work and i have work/practice/friends/etc and so we actually only see each other most on sundays when we attend church and have lunch and such.

korea is a great place to go shopping, especially since their Won fell to super lows against the HKD when we went (i think it's still falling D:) and it made EVERYTHING super super cheap :D i got tons of la neige products for my friends/family/myself and also got a lot of really nice clothing at MK prices xD (cheaper than MK even..)

however, looking back, i realised i didn't take too many pictures as we didn't really go sightseeing and i had left my dslr in hk as i knew this would be a shopping-only trip~ so, not too many pics to share unfortunately :(

some of the stuff i got :D.. clothing (i love every single article of clothing i have here):

and stuff from kosney.. i love this place :D

some yummmmy korean gaozi place with yummy noodles :D

random picture next to some random bus stop haha... (it was quite cold.. and as i was sick already, i actually wore more than i would wear in colder weather in toronto @.@)

my sis already wants to go again haha.. but i'm hoping the yen will drop by year end so i can go to japan again =__=

second happy thing, my dear god brother raymond got married today! i just got home from the wedding banquet which was very lovely and successful :D i was so glad that i had a chance to witness my dear dear friend + brother get married! :D

me and irene:
me and the handsome groom in white :D

congrats to the lovely, lovely couple! :D

current mood: i'm back~