anniversary + christmas

last weekend, was a double-event weekend for us: our first anniversary and christmas celebration:)

Bui bui brought me to an expensive Italian restaurant, at the Portman Ritz Calton Hotel, well, food is ok (for me, vege soup is vege soup, sea bass fish is just sea bass fish, i can't tell the difference between a 30 dollar meal and a 500 dollar meal basically). But I was very happy that bui bui make me into a princess for a day at this restaurant (u see, i can't even remmeber the name of that restaurant). Hehe... we get a free dessert from the manager because bui bui told him the dishes are very delicious. hahaha... that italian manager is cute:) Speaking of dessert, I think the dessert tastes better than the main course neh..

I just feel very blessed to spend such a memorable day with bui bui:) I love you bui bui!!!

(I am wearing the gift now;) kekekeke... the picture doesn't turn out nicely, so... use your imagination lah, it is a 琥珀戒指, a 琥珀 is something from natural stuff, usually is yellow color, and inside the rock got other natural stuff.. er.. supposed to chase away bad things, and bring good wealth and good health and happiness to you. Anyway, in cn, anything is supposed to bring u good wealth and health, so, everything also very expensive.）

love google!

Google is really the best. Look, in just 0.22 seconds, it gave me the conversion of 1英尺 = 0.305 米 by just typing "1英尺 = 米" in the search bar. Bravo.

Merry Christmas guys & girls! I will not be blogging too til 26th. For some reason, our company decided to give us a day off on christmas this year. But still, it doesn't mean anything to me, bui bui still have to work on 25th.

I hate christmas in this sucky land~~~

Another..

我有一个同事，晚上有上一个英语课程的，老师是美国人。她今天跟我们在午餐的时候分享了她的一些个人看法。以下是她的看法：

1）我的老师跟我们讨论lazy worker的看法。他说有两种懒惰的员工：一、一律想推卸责任的懒惰 （懂怎么做但是不愿意做）。二、“笨”的懒惰（因为不懂怎么做，而懒惰不做）。我当时立刻就纠正我的老师，我告诉他：“还有一种懒惰，是“聪明的懒惰”（在短时间内做完分内的事，然后撒手不理分外的事。”我还很得意地跟老师讲，这种懒惰应该多多提倡。

2）老师每一课堂都会叫我们一些单字。但是有一些单字我坚决不学也不记，我觉得我根本不会用着一些单词的。而且，那一些很难的单词，可以用一些简单的单词代替，为什么还要学难的单词呢？

3）有一次我们的讨论话题在球鞋的品牌上。我跟老师说，尼克（Nike）其实在质量上根本是比不上我们的国产的牌子（林祥）(actually, i forgot what the fuck is the local brand name she said..)老师听了不很高兴。

4）又有一次，谈到车子，我跟老师说，其实日本的牌子是不实用的。只是外形好看。我最喜欢德国产的东西。可靠。

。。。

there are few more comments she made. To me, I don't agree to any of her statment. and I think she has an 阿Q精神. very surprised at this modern era, still got such "simple-minded" person, that lives in her own world.

Besides 不可理喻，it is also 不可思议。

I finally understand more what is in their mind. Again, another day of cultural shock.

报仇

I’ve been tagged by June

Layer ONE :
On the Outside Name :
Birth Date :
Current Status :
Eye color :
Hair color:
Righty or Lefty :
Zodiac Sign :
Can skip ah? so boring these questions..

Layer TWO : On the inside
Your Heritage: Chinese
Your Fears: staying in shanghai forever.
Your Weaknesses: hate shanghai
Your Perfect Pizza: Baker's Pizza punya pizza

Layer THREE : Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Your thoughts first waking up: Shit! I am in Shanghai. @#$%!
Your Bedtime: Mon - Fri around 11pm, weekends, after 12am
Your most missed memory: my lifestyle back in M’sia

Layer FOUR : Your Pick
Pepsi or Coke : Coke
McDonald’s or Burger King : McD
Adidas or Nike: Nike
Lipton tea or Nestea: Nestea
Chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or coffee: coffee

Layer FIVE : Do you
Smoke : second hand from the fugging people here? yes.
Curse : Every time, every day, every minute, every second (haha, June, this I copied from u too)

Layer SIX : In the Past Month
Drank alcohol: Too bad, can't at all
Gone to the mall: whenever i feel pissed
Been on stage: er yah.. but prefer not to talk about it.
Eaten sushi: Yes!! My favorite!
Dyed your hair: Not in the past month.

Layer SEVEN: Have You Ever?
Played a stripping game: No. Are you crazy??
Changed who you were to fit in: Please.. i want to stay civilized.

Layer EIGHT
Age you’re hoping to be married: 27, but it only happened when i was 29. Bui bui's fault.

Layer NINE: In a Girl/Guy.
Best eye colour: Brown
Best hair colour: Brown
Short or long hair: long, & curly.

Layer TEN: What Were You Doing.
1 minute ago : cursing
1 hour ago : Complaining about my fugging shanghai life with my KL fren through email
4.5 hours ago: Trying to wake up from my beauty sleep.
1 month ago : er... do you have to go this far??
1 year ago: getting ready for the BIG day, and relocation to this sucky city

Layer ELEVEN: Finish the sentence
I love: Malaysia
I feel: pissed at shanghainese women
I hate: shanghainese women
I hide: my hatred towards sh orang from my office co-worker. Shit, i am so fake.
I miss: home, and I mean the malaysia home
I need: to get out of this sucky city

Layer TWELVE: Tag 5 people
er... sister ah mi, you are tagged!

不可理喻的上海人！！！！！

实在是忍无可忍。

又是一幕地铁站的“丑景”。

今天的地铁特别挤，到站了，勉强挤到门前，要下车，却被一对狗男女挡住去路。挤也挤不过去，我就叫她让一让。这个女人，穿得很时尚的，一身的纯白色毛毛外套。可是没有想到，她却回答：“你自己挤呀，难不成要我让你？”说完还一脸的臭嘴脸！她和他的狗男友，真的把门都堵住了，请问门开了，你是不是应该退出门外（就一步，甚至是半步，而且门外没有什么人，你根本不会因为让出一步而又上不了车。），让乘客可以先下车？我真得很不明白这些上海人，为什么都这么另人讨厌？？都这么没文化素质？为什么身穿华丽的衣服，内心的素质却发臭恶心？？为什么？？为什么？？？为什么？？？？？？？！！！！！

我把她狠狠地推开（是她叫我这样做的），然后狠狠地丢下一句，“你真没有素质文化”。我不知道她听了后有什么反应。不过，如果她还有一点素质的话，她应该觉得惭愧。

我很后悔为什么没有把她那一身的白毛毛的外套抓破。她真的不配这一身的装扮。

我气得身体不由自主地抖嗦着。这一班上海人，去死吧！真丢人！

册那！！！！

sense of distance?

I really don't understand why the chinese here do not have a sense of distance (距离感). My another KL fren once commented, "these bastard, if they can kiss you, they would have. Totally no sense of distance."

Whether it is in the lift, on the street, subway, bank, airport... even though in front of them got lots more space, they just like to stick to you, this 贴身 feeling, are they enjoying?

Sometimes I just feel like telling them off, "can you just move a bit? in front of you got so much space u idiot!"

Of course I dare not. You know shanghainese, they very good at arguing, at high pitch tone some more, whether they are right or wrong, they scream first.

!@#$%! KNNCB!!!!!

:)

Despite all the shits that R.E.Y project has given me, I was recognized for a monthly award within the company for the efforts :>

Hahaha... before even getting the monetary award from the company, I have already spent it on shopping last weekend. The shopping bugs within me had all exploded in last weekend... wholly shit. But I kept telling myself "it is ok dear, buy more lah, you don't have many winter clothings anyway." But the fact is, my clothes have filled the wardrobe to the max liao. I need to sweet talk to my honey to let me hang a few pieces in his wardrobe:P

To： 我办公室的女人

突然想起昨天有一件事情我想记载的。

昨天午饭时间，我们几个女生（应该是女人才对，不过，女人sounds so old..)刚好都有带饭，就一齐用微波炉热了来吃。

一位刚来的同事，我叫她做J吧。

J：“你晚上自己做饭吗？”
我：“是的。”
J：“没有请阿姨？”
我：“有的，不过只是负责打扫卫生。”
J：“噢，那你很辛苦哦，回到家还要做饭。”
我：“不会啊，我做饭很快的，一小时就好了。”
J：“那肯定很累的。”
我：“。。。”
J：“每一天都做吗？”
我：“不是，一星期也有个3、4天。”
J：“那还是很辛苦的。”
我：“。。。”（心里面：diao你啊？我辛不辛苦是我说了算，还是你说了算？？）

我不明白为什么她这么顽固，我都说我一点都不觉得累，她还操心什么？还老觉得我可怜？我也不明白为什么有一些女人会认为做饭给老公吃是一件很累人的事。我真的觉得那是一件很神圣的事，关键在于我很乐意做，也认为当我老公吃得津津有味的时候，那一种快乐和成就是旁人不能理解的。那才是幸福。而且是双份的幸福（老公觉得幸福，我也觉得幸福）。

To： 我办公室的女人，我也很可怜你们的老公，老是吃外面的食物。我也更可怜你们的婆婆（我们俗称的家婆），因为你们的媳妇从来不做饭，还餐餐吃你们的。

如果你们有幸看到这一则谴责书，你们心里是不是不很好受啊？所以，请不要乱乱把你们的同情心滥发到别人身上。你们觉得累人的事，别人正做得很有滋味呢！OK? OK??!!

I don't like Monday

Mission Accomplished

Tonight I can sleep more soundly.

The stupid R.E.Y. project is launched. I am so glad.

Lots of argument in the process, lots of quarreling, lots of 'u stupid mouth, shut the fug up' thinking, lots of weird dream at night because thinking too much, lots of O.T. because their stupid store is so far away from the city, etc...

But, when I now think back, I do learn a lot from this project, especially on store design parts.

And I learn some good business sense from my CM, he is good.

And I finally know about what does it mean by "进退两难”situation in business. Tough.

OK lah, what I care is, I can have a good sleep tonite. Screw you R.E.Y., you fucking tiu company.

(R.E.Y. is not real name, so if you trying to google about it, please give up.)

fcking winter

Winter is here, and I fall sick again (i fell sick in last winter too).

Fever is on & off for few days already. And here no Klinik Muthu, I damn pissed. No western antibiotic to take. And if u very free, u can always go to hospital to let them drip antibiotic right into your blood. 点滴. very annoying.

I hate winter. My next happy day is CNY, can return home for a week mah.. looking forward to that.

I don't remember I hate winter back when I was studying in Canada. Why huh? If the place jin, the weather also jin one is it? JIN GAK!!

I think my P is coming. Totally up to the mood of scolding people now. fucking irritating.

Die loh~

I did something very stupid just now.

Was sending through a name list that we going to attend some opening function, luckily cc my boss.

He came to me after 5 min I sent through:" you mispelled our GM name.. both last name and first name."

I was like shit, 死咯，我不想活了, quickly correct the email, and this time, in order for my eyes to proof read correctly the spelling of the GM name, I put his name on the TO LIST, easier to check mah.

Then I forgot to delete his name from TO list, and the email was sent through!!!

I quickly recall the message, but did not get any notification that message is retrieved successfully.

So shit.Die lah this time.

So, at first the GM won't know I can't spell his name properly, but I have to be so stupid to send the email to him to let him know about this.

If your staff can't spell your name correctly, would you be mad? I WILL BE MAD!!!

I am gonna update my resume soon... 不想活了。

"This is so funny"

Bui Bui was having the company paid for yearly medical check up yesterday morning. So, when I met him at night after work, I was casually asking him how was it.

Bui bui: “it was OK. Except that when I reached the hospital, I heard my Japanese colleague Ogi was screaming.”

Me: “huh? Why??”

Bui bui: “Apparently, they were doing his 肛门检查 without getting his consent, actually more like they asked him in mandarin, but he did not shake head nor said ‘no’ nor asked further.”

I just couldn’t stop laughing. I did my medical check up 2 months ago, so I advise my bui bui the night before that if he does not want to do 肛门检查, he can tell the nurse, coz it is a bit painful to do it. If your 排便 is normal, u can opt to skip that one (a kind nurse told me this last time, so I skipped mine too).

Then the next thing my bui bui told me, is even funnier.

Bui bui: “after I heard him scream, I figured out must be the肛门检查, so I quickly run to tell the nurse me ain’t gonna do that checking, the nurse said OK.”

(You see, my bui bui must have forgotten what I told him a night earlier about this 肛门检查 thing before he heard Ogi scream. As usual lah, he always can’t remember what I told him, especially at night… sigh)

Bui bui continued, “then my another Japanese colleague Hiroshi heard the scream also said he does not want to do that, so I told the nurse Hiroshi does not need that checking as well.”

Me, still laughing, thought this whole joke was gonna end. But no.., my hubby continued…

Bui Bui : “then the nurse, forgotten I told them Hiroshi does not want that checking, the doc still stick his middle finger into his butt. He screamed. And he told us about this during the breakfast after we finished medical check up. He said, ‘it was damn painful, at first the doctor told me to squat then he told me to take off my pants, and my underwear, and then the doctor sticked his middle finger into my butt!!!’ Hiroshi thought bui bui has helped him explained to nurse already, so he 不疑有他 even when doctor asked him to take off his pants.

Now at that point, I really couldn't hold my laughter. I laughed and laughed and laughed, until reach the subway station I still laughing.

Bui bui conclusion is, perhaps the doctor knew they were Japanese, that’s why take this opportunity to give them a lesson. Hahahaha... so evil lah the doc.

The funniest thing is, when bui bui told me all about this, he did not laugh at all. He just commented “this is so funny”.

Pimples

Because of my busy schedule lately, I have no time to visit my facial center.

As a result, i have pimples~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

How ah? How ah? How ah? If lazy go facial for more than a month, the mr. pimples must popp out one is it? Is it Is it Is it??? Is this universal law? :`(

Sigh.. i had better go for a facial next week (this week is not possible again).

蚕丝被

Have I told you girls I bought a 蚕丝被？

Last night, we decided to use it (well.. since we are changing blanket-sheet also).

Bui Bui, while changing the sheet, he mumbling, "so expensive.. dunno worth it or not. Looks so thin, really can keep us warm ma?"

Surprisingly, the 蚕丝被 really keeps the heat and keep us warm!

I love it:) It is my new "pet" of the month.


I love 蚕丝被.

Nice...

Dispite all my grouches, this place, does have a beautiful side too.
(no hidden meaning, I really just mean this Pearl Tower that I have seen on Friday night)

STOP!!

Can you stop thinking you are the biggest player in CN?
Can you stop changing mind about your promo activities?
Can you stop giving me last minute surprises?
Can you stop thinking my 9 hours work a day is only servicing your account?
Can you stop thinking that I take care of everything from stock delivery to marketing campaign to design concept?

Can you stop messing up my life??????
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Yay!

Yay! One more step closer in a project we have planned in 2 years & 7 months ago!!!

Pray the rest of the steps are smooth... ~~~ whenever I think of it, I feel very gun cheong.

asdfgh

Yesterday after I took shower (first thing after reached home), i realized i have 2 missed calls. Before I can react, another call came in.

K: "thank god, finally you picked up the phone"
Me: "..." (what the fuck? shower also have to pick up your phone is it?)
K: "bla bla bla, bla bla bla"
Me: "K, listen, I did not know you are going to discuss this matter with me at this hour, and I don't have my laptop with me, so, can I get back to you tomorrow morning?"
K: "oh.. ok.. but I thought my manager asked you to come into SBM to discuss this matter with us in this afternoon."
Me: ".." (what the fuck? I report to your manager is it? You are just one of our client, I don't report to you!!"
Me: "if I went to SBM at your manager mentioned time, which is 2pm, then I must be crazy to wait for your meeting which only started now at 7.00pm. I have so many things to do in office, not just about your project, I hope you can understand that."
K: "bla bla bla... if we still have some questions, can we call u agian later?" (that time is already 8pm)
Me: "u can try, but i don't have the document with me"
K: "you should help us."
Me: "yes, during office hour" (i wanted to add, "and with nice attitude". YOur attitude makes me want to strangle you!!!)

Fuck! It is not about office hour not office hour actually. I don't mind to help. But, her tone of voice is as if I report to her or to her manager, they are just small fly player in china now. What makes them think they have such power to make me wait at one venue for them to have a meeting only at 4 hours later? (I waited for them few times before, so I gave in. Me not their leng, htey have no rights to ask me wait for meeting at their convenient time. ANd the venue, is so bloody far away from my office. 1 trip back and forth basically I don't have to work for the day liao. And I got life, I don't work after 7pm unnecessarily.)

I tell u, after this christmas project, I am gonna give them really hard time. No more nice support anymore. L should fire K, she pissed off so many vendors, suppliers, and advertisers (news travel fast in this industry).

南京之旅

Went to Nanjing with family, by train. Surprisingly, train was comfortable, except the ticketing system is really sucks. Kinda difficult to tell u why over here, i can explain to you face to face next time though. It is very hard to believe that this high-tech country has such lousy ticketing system, not even close to intellectual status. Sigh. Anyway...

The trip was good:) Except for the rain. Rained for 2 solid days!! Umbrella also almost broke. My mom was a bit disappointed though, coz her mission in this trip is to visit the 南京大屠杀纪念馆, however, it was closed for renovation (bloody smart, choose this season to renovate). My mom said she will come again next year for this spot. I am not so hot for this museum, coz sure lots of "woo woo" one.. my scared of ghost.

The hotel was great! For less than 800, we get something like service apartment, with newly furnished furniture and fixture, 2 bedrooms, big living room, and kitchen, and also washing and dryer machine. Good deal eh?

Cab driver in Nanjing is not as honest as in Shanghai. One guy cheated us for a very near trip, he brought us to go hung-gai-gai, doubling the fare. Another taxi driver, we asked him to bring us to 瞻园，he brought us to 夫子庙。Although 瞻园 and 夫子庙 is very nearby, can't his fucking cab just stop at 瞻园 instead of anotehr 800 meter away of 夫子庙？Anyway... 瞻园is great, something like mini mini 北京的颐和园, not comparable but something like that lah. 夫子庙 is just like 上海南京东路步行街。If it is not because of raining, i would be shopping over there. coz stuff there is cheap, and many brands you don't get to see in shanghai, but selling good stuff. I love it. But the rain makes me feel lazy to try on those clothes... rain is very irritating if you have it hari-hari...

The next day, we went to 明故宫遗址, nothing much, but I bought a plant from there. I forgot what's the name of it (mom mentioned it me many times but i really can't recall now. it is a kinda 盆摘, why buy it in nanjing? coz i love it. it looks like 2 persons hugging together like that, very lovely scene. hah.)

I took this picture when my sister and I were walking behind my parents. So lovely, the way my dad hold my mom's hand. I am imagining myself, after many many years, will Jay treasure me just like my dad treasure my mom?:) I hope so. hehehe..

We visit 总统府 for the last stop. With this, we ended our Nanjing trip. It is a very memorable trip:) And my family now are on the plane back to KL liao... I felt kinda empty this morning after they left for the airport. It is like suddenly the house is so quiet. I miss them already...

卧虎

I watched 卧虎 last night with my family. Another good hak-seh-wui （黑社会）movie by Hong Kong director again.

Sometimes I wonder how come hong kong can deliver so many hak seh wui movie?? One after another after 无间道. Damn scary... i also watched 黑白道 earlier, also damn good. It's about a police go do 卧底 and later turn into a 鬼不是鬼，人不是人的生活。Very torturing.

Hmm................................

Police also selfish one. Because want to catch the head of 黑社会，go sacrifice so many 卧底。卧底也是人呀~~

yucks

Shit, I just realized I can be very fake too.

I just wished someone happy birthday in the office, someone I hated a lot in last week, and still hating.

Yucks.. since when I become so fake?? YUCKS...

Yippie~~~~

hullo~~~~~~~~~~

haven't been blogging, coz busy travelling to small towns with my parents. I was on leave yesterday.

I went to 西塘 again with them (i went there last month). Although this is the second time I go there, I still enjoy myself very much. THe view is great!! i love river and old houses (uh-hem... not the toilet though), and the fish is so fresh!! I love the fish, we had 巴丝 fish. yum yum..

Also went to 周庄, errr... no comment... I don't like it that much, coz it is very commercialized already.

I wish I can go to 西塘 again, and i will go look for the same 三轮车夫 again, he is very nice to bring us around, and he is the best tour guide I had ever met. We tips him quite good at the end of the trip, he deserves it.

No picture lah.. picture in my sister's camera, she forgot to bring the usb cable to download. anyway, i tell u, the trip is good!!!

Last night mom cook 糖醋排骨 for us to eat, I feel so happy... hahaha.

Anyway, they said they finally understand why I feel so frustrated living here. I feel so glad that they agree with me about my feeling here~~~~~~ finally.. they believe what I wrote, and they saw with their own eyes about the stuff i been through here~~~~~~~

Yippie, tonite also got mom-cook food waiting for me:> yipppie~~~~~~~

Yippie!

I was so busy these 3 days because of R.E.Y. new store opening ... so tired at night but can't seem to sleep well... My hubby looked at me this morning, and he said with 心疼 tone "babe you have panda eyes... is everything ok??".

But, I am happy. Parents and sister are in town!!!! Yippie!!!! :>

Tomorrow we will go one of the water-village for 1-day trip. Yippie!!!!:) update you guys later~

Prison Break

Finished the 1st season, now chasing for 2nd season!!!

It is a great movie! There is one point of time, morning before I go to orh-sii I also watched for 10 minutes, just to chase what's going to happen next.

However, the plot is not that realistic. I mean.. how can you break the prison with like 9 people!... aiyoh-eh~~~

But what the heck, it's just a movie. Good show!!

My friend got dumped

In August, I fly back from KL to Shanghai together with my this fren, let's called her T. And she some more staying with her guy fren in shanghai, instead of staying wiht me, so I already guessed something fishy is going on.

Then, she tried so hard to look for job in Shanghai. Mind u, orang ini tak tau mandarin nor can't read at all. So, i lagi suspicious.

It proves me right, she finally confessed to me, she and that guy had started liao. I was happy for her. Me and her not know each other very well, but, we are quite open when we talk through email. haha.. anyway..

Can't find job in one week, so she fly back to KL, continue with her good-pay job in KL, and hari hari pay lots of money to Maxis to maintain their relationship.

Yesterday, she emailed me, "babe, do you know what happened? He broke up with me, and I am flying off to sh tomorrow."

I was so shocked. Her friends suspected this guy met someone else in sh.

I was quite pissed also... how can he do that?

I asked me fren "so, you still wanna come?? cancel your flight lah"

she replied, "but i have 5 interviews line up for next week."

I was :|... I asked, "already broke up, you still wanna work here??"

she replied, "i can live without him. I still love sh."

I am amazed with her answer, both parts on "can live without him" and "love sh". I mean, how can she love sh????

I wish her good luck! I do hope she can find her happiness in sh soon. Well... i also wish she can work here so we can lepak togehter. But... it is kinda harsh for a girl to go through this, imagined u got dumped just 1 day before you flying off to see your honey. THe punishment is just too harsh.

Ms. T, see you soon yah~

So 欣慰。。。

I feel very blessed that my bui bui worked in the same building with me. Although we don't go to work together in the morning, most of the time, we will make it to get off work at the same time.

Last evening, a small gesture that he did make me feel so touched..

My hubby always worried because of my height (yes, he said I am short), i always get bullied in the subway... yesterday, this has proven him right again.

We are about to get off at the station, train has not stopped yet, it is "stopping", and the woman, from about 3 person's seat away, suddenly rush to the door, and i was standing next to the door, she almost hit me, but before i can react, my hubby already used his big hand pushed that woman away! I was gasping when i realized he did that. He said to the women in a firmed voice "大家都是要下车的，请你守规矩一点”, to my surprise, that women apologized!!!!! “噢，对不起，对不起。。。”

I am so proud of my hubby. Mucks!!!!:) love u!!!

fall sick

upon entering spring, bui bui and me fall sick.
Small sickness such as flu, can be the lousiest thing that can happen in china.

...

If your boss loves team-building, and he instructed the admin to organize a 2 days 1 freaking night trip to somewhere u seriously can already picture the lousy resort without having to go there yet, and also eating those food u dun like.. would you have the guts to tell him "I don't want to go. You guys have fun lah"?

I am in such dilemma. @#$%! Can picture he being not happy if I told him this, but at the same time if I go, some more have to stay there 1 night, with all the stupid kids around, I will be very not happy too.

Boss not happy more important? Or my happiness is much more important? Can someone tell me?

I am this bored

I am very bored, even though I am very stressed at work (yes, I do have work, and because I finished work very fast (efficient mah~), I am always very bored), I am freaking bored!

Below is a bored conversation (thru email) i had with my sister:

Me: "My TV got 雪花 last night. Dunno why.. only watching local 电视台is like that, watch DVD is fine."
Sis:"the snow enter into your TV.... "
Me: "tiu!"

I am this bored. KNN!!

关你叉事啊？

Do you think that if I open a tour agency just for malaysian+singaporean or southeast asian (and no local china chinese) is gonna work? My this travel agency will arrange trips internally (inside china) and also outside of china just for malaysian and or southeast asian to join, definitely no shanghainese can join.

I mean... I googled this, nothing came out.. if there is a demand, there is a supply rihgt?

The thought of having me to plan for a trip of 4-5 days, eat and sleep with the locals here really is killing me.

Fucking shit, and the public toilet that the tour agents will bring us to, on highway, and at the tourist spot. YACKS!!

And the thought that your tourmates does not change clothes in the 4-5 days tour, and thus no luggages, realy suffocates me. People will say, "tiu, people no change clothes, 关你叉事啊？”I just cannot stand it lah~~~~

I really have this thought, if I gonna visit Korea from china, I will take a flight back to KL, and then join the KL tour to Korea. Very $$$ wasting, that's why haven't done yet, and that's why googling for the above request.

AIHHHHHHHH...

Halloween

It's Halloween~~~~~

I remembered last time in vancouver, at Halloween night, the whole downtown street was full of people in costume, and the ambience is very "happy", though everyone looks like devil. hahaa...

I miss western Halloween 气氛。

Lousy place here yesterday celebrate 重阳节, for old people here. Old people will eat 重阳糕 on this day, and it signifies they will live long life and stay healthy and be happy wor..

OK, stop bitching!

Halloween~~~~ Halloween~~~~ Halloween~~~~

Burberry Purse

This is the Burberry purse that I talked about last week… so girls, does it look like aunty? Or… the problem is with me?

Actually, this morning when I looked at it again, I kind of “OK” to accept it… getting better.. or, getting more aunty?? SOB!!



By the way, Happy Anniversary (Oct 28th, at 新天地）：）

Nightmare

I woke up with a headache today.. because i had a nightmare.

I dreamt that my hubby said he wants a second wife. I was shocked. When I get to see who is that girl, I was even more mad. It was someone very close to me.

Why her? Could it be because last night I called her and chat with her so the last person in my mind before I go to sleep is her? Sob..

I remembered the last word I said to my hubby is, "I want a divorce". Then the alarm clock went off. I woke up, still sobbing.

(this morning my hubby went to work earlier than me.. so I cannot faat-pei-hei when I woke up coz he was not there).

I wish by writing this down, it will break the spell and this ugly thing will not happen.

Gossip

I wanted to write something, but don't know what to write anymore. I ain't gonna bitch about this city anymore, after doing that for 10 months, I am kinda bored. So...

There is this interesting topic we brought up during lunch time. And because of this, we had a 2 hours lunch. This is not new to a lunch with 4 women, 4 talkative women, 3 nations (shanghainese, hongkies, and malaysian).

What kinda topic can last for 2 hours, with 4 women? About men la of course. Ha!

H was complaining about her bf, do nothing at home, expect her to do all the house chores, including waking up early in the morning to massage his soring back. She said she does not mind doing all the house chores sometimes, but not all the time. She wished he can help her share some burden, but apparently this 大男人主义 man think otherwise. She was quite in pain -- but because she still loves him, she decided to stick with him, and endure this lousy attitude.

It makes me feel very glad my hubby is not like this. My hubby share most of the house chores with me in fact. Sometimes when he thinks i am very tired, he will help me do laundry, this includes put all the dirty clothes into the machine, after the machine is done, he will take out the clohtes, and hang them onto the rod at the balcony. In the evening, or next day, if I am still lazy, he will help me take the clohtes back into the house. But of course, unless I am super tired, he will leave the "folding" part to me. He can't even fold his underwear nicely. hahaha... :p And he did the washing dishes too after meal, including cleaning the dining table. I am very glad:)

Then S commented, there is this guy, they know each other for more than 10 years since secondary school. He is very rich, very detail, very clean, and very like her. But she does not like this kinda good man. She likes naughty guy. Haha... we really 犯贱 I guess. hahaha... But also true, sometimes even the nicest datuk is in front of you, but if you don't have common topic with him, no matter how rich he is, you also feel like strangle him gou li gou li to make him shut up. Woman... can be very mean.

Then they commented what they like their men buy for them for special occasion like birthday. One said she cannot accept any silver necklace. She has to be branded, like Tiffany... the other said she likes Gucci bag. Me?.. I actually don't have any taste for this... I mean... I don't mind LV bag.. but if I know he spent so much buy me LV bag, I rather he give me the money. hahahaha... my bui bui bought me a burberry purse from U.S., I know it is quite expensive.. but his taste is not the same as mine... I feel that design is very auntie neh... so I haven't been using it. Sigh... I rather he bought me something else... maybe perfume.. or other purse from other brand (I dont like burberry.. I like a brand start with Guy L something...). Now I am very 苦恼 how to deal with that expensive burberry bag. Should I give to his mom? It is very auntie seriously... oh I am so bad..:p

So... this is our lunch topic. I wonder when the men have lunch, do they talk about us also?:p

大闸蟹

这一段日子，是吃大闸蟹的大好日子。9月吃雄的，10月吃雌的。我们吃一对! (right side is female, left side is male. male is always bigger than female) 老公的公司出外旅游的项目之一， 所以我也去了。阳澄湖大闸蟹！！（阳澄湖，1.5 hours drive from Shanghai, quite a nice place)

大闸蟹，此蟹非彼蟹。我们在吉隆坡吃的是海蟹。这个是湖蟹。大闸蟹的脚是毛毛的。活着的时候，还是金毛色的。很恶心。那个钳子，上面黑黑的一块，不要以为是seaweed，是它的毛！！！然后母的更恐怖，那个部位，开了，也是毛毛的，令我想到是我们的那个部位，立刻反胃。（i know i shouldn't... but i can't help it... it really look like our v... arrghhh).

我们承认我们不会欣赏大闸蟹。因为他们都吃得很开心，就我们几个（还有一个日本人，也是吃得很痛苦。哈哈！）吃得一脸的无奈。脚和钳子因为太小了（compare to our butter crab)，我们都吃不来。可是他们都吃的津津有味，脚也全干掉。厉害。

我的公司下2星期也会组团曲阳澄湖吃大闸蟹，I think I will say no but thank you to them.

I miss our butter crab back home. Sob...

Some pictures:


where they keep the crab -- the restaurant is on the lake, and they keep the crab behind the restaurant. The crab is caught in the middle of the lake, slightly far from the restaurant..

Actually before the crab-eating sesssion, we went to a small town called 锦溪.quite beatiful. In such a narrow place, can allow 2 boats to pass through at the same time. Amazing eh?

work # N+1

Jen come to me, gun-cheongly...

"Hey did Li confirm on the DM and promo tag? HHN is chasing for it, promo tag is gonna be on air soon, and we need it YESTERDAY."

Li. is the mkting mgr in R.E.Y. She is from China, but she also studied in KL for 2 years before. So we actually quite buddy (so far lah).
Jen is just an assistant to one of the brand in our company. Easily gun-cheong type.

Li was in meeting, she can't check email until like 8pm... so I have to tell Jen:

"Will revert first thing in the morning OK?"

Jen: "and the sponsor prize is dropped from 500 to 200 right? no more changes right?"
Me:"yes, last meeting, this was the conclusion."

xxxxxx

this morning...

opened my email, 3 emails from Li.

email no.1 -- "promo tag, besides $200 sponsor, we want to add gift-beg."

email no.2 -- "DM, logo, we want both english version and chinese version."

email no.3 -- "we want 3,500 pcs DM on 28-28th" (where as we can only spare 500...)

Jen almost faint when I fwd the email to her.

Jen:"shit, that means changing anohter round. 1 small change we have to do 3 rounds neh - promo tag, DM, and leaflet."

Me -- smile :) This is life. Do it whether u you like it or not.

Like it or not, we have to support R.E.Y. due to political reason. So, like it or not, we have to do it. So don't ah ji ah joh so much lah... u think I run the company meh?

Spring, where are you??

今年，中国入秋特别晚。都10月中旬了，还是可以穿短袖或无袖的。我一个月前买的秋装，还没有穿过，心里很郁闷。每天上班前都看着新衣但不能穿的心情你们懂吗？

听说今年可能一夜就入冬了。如果是这样的话，我的秋装怎么办呢？wooo.... woo... sob.

不过，天天28度的天气还真的很凉爽：）如果365天都是28度，就太好了。

R.E.Y.

Lately I am handling a project, REY (sorry, can't use real name... against policy. hahaah... kai xin, if you can guess... it's Wing's account). They are opening thier 1st store in Shanghai. And on their big opening in Dec, our big big big head in U.S. will also come and have a look, coz it is supposed to be most outstanding store in Asia for REY. And so, I slowly feel the pressure, coming from every where. People who know me will know I really don't give a shit of my job. But... as many Leo persons, I value my face (mian zi) and reputation more than the stuppid job. I can screw up the job, I don't care, but I cannot screw up my own face or reputation for screwing up on this project. Haha! Leo!!

Doing this project, let me get a valuable chance to understand in my company, who is the lazy type, who is the snake type, and who is the serious type.

I am just very confused, why the lazy and snake type also can be managers??

REY may be a pain the ass. But the lazy and snake type, especially in your own company, your own colleague, can be 10 times more than the pain in the ass.

dirty joke

We have a fast-food local chain here called 东方既白，the food is quite nice, and price is quite reasonable also.

But my hubby one day told me, do you know what's this name mean in hokkien?

I think for 2 seconds, then we laugh together damn hard!!

Nowadays, my hubby will say, "hey, should we go to 'eastern pussy' to have lunch?".

Dirty joke ;) (you all get the joke right?)

Gabriel

Flowers are so cheap here. So, I bought a new vase, and I bought flowers last Friday, from an old ah ma near our neighborhood.

Each kuntum is only 80 cents (rmb), can you believe it? So cheap~~


Guess which one is my favorite color?:) Is orange lah of course.. ha!

The night I bought, I purposely put it onto the table, that you can't miss it when you come into the door. But, strangely enough.. my hubby missed it. Man....

If I am not mistaken, this flower is called gabriel.

Flowers in the house is always good, the real flowers.

(i sent the pic to my dad via email. He asked me, "is this artificial flower??")

non-mutual hate

A: "when are you going back to KL again?"
me: "CNY bah... depends whether got tickets."
(side track a bit, today I called MAS here to book ticket back, do you know the officer told me the tickets were fully booked since July? Wholly shit! that many malaysian in shanghai meh??? we are on waiting list, shit!)
A: "want to ask u help my son buy a few books. Not available in Shanghai, only available in KL.They are good books."
me: "..." (speechless... because I not willing to spend my holiday at Petaling Street 大众书局 just to dig his books, on CNY, on my personal time, and I don't like Mr. A at all, coz normally at office, he is a lazy worm, do nothing, and like to ask people to do his job)
me: "oh, in malaysia, CNY is a big thing too. Bookstore are closed for 1 whole week. I don't think can help you buy."

I lied. But well... is better to tell him, "fuck off, me ain't gonna help you buy books. Books, so heavy, I rather buy more 猪肉干 to bring back sh to eat."

I hate Mr. A. But I guess Mr.A does not know I hate him.

Hon, I think I fart again :|

This scene took place last night, at the living room.

hon: "bla bla bla... and then, I told the staff.. bla bla bla... the target for the quarter is 100K, bla bla bla.."
(he was excitedly telling me about his day at work..)

then.. he suddenly changed his expression from excited to shocked.

hon: "honey, you fart?!"

me -- innocently turned my face away from him, keep on watching tv. Trying to hold my laughter, i answered, "yes gua" (actually I not very sure.. )

hon: "oh my god~~~ it smelled!!"

me taking the pillow to hit him, and we laughed and then we were talking something else. And I got up to take some hot water. Then I smell something funny again... and I honestly told him, "hon, I think I fart again.. " (with a shy look, 不好意思 look)

hon:"..." (trying to hold his laughter, but after 3 seconds...)
hon: "no babe, this time is me." HAHAHAHAHAHAA...

hon: "where got people fart or not also don't know one? some more said 'hon, I think I fart again'. You damn funny lah. HAHAHAHA"

Another round of pillow fight was put on scene.

....

I was pretty negative lately. I think is not so much of the city here. This time, is the job...

Just for example (but it did happen):

I email A,B,C... for their comment on a design. Yeah, unfortunatly, my job nature is a bit like ah leng to these 3 nicest people on earth.

"Dear A, B, C,

Please have a look at the attachment. Please share your comment. If everything is fine, I will pass this to Mr. D to finalize on the 3D image."

A replied, “OK, except I don’t need that section x, can you please remove it?”
Me: “but I thought you want to communicate this message on every possible means?”
A: “yah, but this event is not important, so, can leave it out for this event.”

B: “why you use this image? It is not official to be out in market yet. Jenny never told you this?? Please use back the old one.”
Me: “but this is a permanent space Ji fought for us in departmental store. Will last until next year. The old image won’t look good after 2 months from now.”
B: “yah, but right now is still unofficial yet. Cannot use new image.”

C: “I don’t like that xyz hanged on the ceiling like that, and the logo, can you take out that 6 chinese words? and i don;t like to display demo in this store.”
Me: “…… (don't know what to say, coz she is the one insisted she wants the 6 words last time, and she is the one insisted demo in the store)“
C: “since it is gonna last til next year june, I would not want to have the same 6 chinese words for 8 months. I might not want to focus on these 6 words anymore. And the demo is not suitable, more demo we did, more hurt it did to our brand.”

Another example (and it also did happen):

me, "B, the project with ZD, we are gonna do this this this and this, and ballon color we will use ZD because is free, but different color, OK with u?"
B , "sure. (head not even tilt to give me a look, because she too happy to have her vacation soon) anyway, they are small player, don't worry, anything is fine."
--- after the project is carried out---
B email me from her vacation (I am surprised) after I emailed her the picture, "what? why the kid's drawing pictures is covering my brand image?? why there are only 1 table? we have 3 tables! and balloon, why different color???"
me, "there are 3 tables as what we agreed, but if you only look at one picture, you will only see 1, there other 2 is covered by people. and if you look at other pictures, you will add together to 3 tables. Balloon I alreayd informed you before, you said OK."

No wonder I am so restless these days.

I hate my job. No sense of ownership. I mean, fuck them, they suka suka said “I want this this this”. Suka suka changed mind, “I don’t want this this this anymore, take out.” A more classic one (I hate the most) is, they suka suka don't reply email. And when you were forced to give it a go signal because of time pressure, they will revert after you gao dim everything, said they not OK with this and that, and they want another change of the current version. Or, they take long leave, but still want you to wait for thier 'approval', but you know for sure if wait for them to revert (they dun check email when they on vacation), you gonna miss the deadline.

I am not a worm inside your bloody stomach, so can you guys stop asking me to coordinate your 3 bloody keep-changing opinion??!!! Aiyoh!

I hate it. I hate being a leng. I hate the fact that I am not less capable than these 3 people and yet, my every step in the project is depending on them!!! @#$$%! And these 3 people (1 is actually quite ok, she is A), are the most difficult person to face at work, all females not married!!!

I wish I can be like kai xin, just quit the job and do the stuff she enjoys doing.

From A to B, to C, to D...

My friend told me he is moving away from Holland to Australia, for career advancement. And Australia is just merely his 3rd stop.

It suddenly makes me think a lot.

Don’t u think that this generation is very “restless”, I can’t even tell where will I be in another 2 years. Life is so full of changes, and changing destination. Everyone is on the move, be it in Malaysia or outside Malaysia.

I looked at my parents generation, they seem to have their plan figured out nicely. Like, they can say something like this, “in another 5 years, I am gonna change my car”. Me? Another 5 years, I don’t even know if I will still live in a country that provokes me to have the thought of owning a car (definitely not in SH). In another 5 years, don’t even know where will I be, doing what…

But I do hope that Jay will finish his work here in China in another 2 years, max. I made him promised to me the other day. I told him my life-span won’t be long if I hari hari complaint about china this and china that. I know it is irritating to many others, but I just can’t help it. I can’t help to pretend I am happy everyday here. Well, on average, I am happy 1 out of 7 days, based on statistics.

After China, where will I be? I don't mind to go back to Malaysia:) I miss everything there. But I know my bui bui will be looking at somewhere else.

西塘一日游

First stop is at a place called 平湖市， we went to visit 莫氏的老房子。请看房子的floor plan，真大。

有没有留意到，这样大的房子，只有一个厕所？：）


他们的名片（古时）。


我们在他们的庭院留影。


我们留意到平湖这个城市，很干净！比上海还要干净！！我开始爱上这种小城市了：）安逸平静。


Second stop - lunch. We did not expect the trip fare includes lunch, and it was indeed not a bad lunch at all, 10 people per table (we have 47 people in the bus), and many many dishes (mostly vege though, but I don't mind, I love vege). Too bad I did not take the photo, i was busy eating. Oh, the restaurant is inside a hotel, and the toilet is damn clean!! and smells good!!! I was very happy:):) This place is at 嘉善. Clean city as well.Muaks!! I love it.

Then finally we arrived at XiTang. Beautiful old town, and surprisingly not crowded. Lots of small stalls, and they look very "nice" people, well, at least this is the first time I bought mineral water with just 2yuan from those stall, compared to many tourist place where we normally spent 5 yuan for the same brand of mineral water. Again, I am happy:) hehe..


They make buttons with this machine, from the pearl from the shell. Amazing.


They still sell this kinda scissors. Antique.





Lots of rivers & bridges.



They hanged clothes along the river, and they washed clothes, with detergent (I　saw it). Wonder the fish can die or not.


唱大戏。


石皮弄，宽仅０．８米。很窄的一条弄。


Jay 的朋友与他女友。


Misson Impossible 3 was shot at Xitang, here!



The bird, can you see one stick on its neck? Apparently this is to avoid it swallow the fish they caught, so the fisherman can take it out from its throat when they fished. Very cruel. The fisherman asked for 5 yuan from us to demonstrate this. And bad us, we paid him to demonstrated this cruel act... yacks..


On our way back to shanghai, we were so tired, we slept through the 1 hour bus-ride. :)

With this, we ended our China National Holidays~~~
Happy:)

Happy Festival??

I think if I am not mistaken, today is Mooncake Festival. We asked a cab driver while we were in his car on wednesday, "when is the zhong qiu jie?". He chuckled, "I am also not sure. Perhaps this friday? definitely not today though." I made a sarcastic comment, "so, people are rushing to buy the good-looking mooncake (not necessarily taste good... do you know last time they also have gold-stick hide inside the mooncake and they normally buy for important officer or important person? last year, the mooncake can cost up to RMB 10K, I heard), but they don't know when exactly is the real date. Very good."

Anyway, supposed it is today, I should feel at least peaceful if not happy right? It got spoiled by an stupid old freaking ah ma in the morning already!!!!!!! she came on board into the subway 1 station after mine. And bear in mind that today still a lot people not working, so the subway is not packed at all. But perhaps my forehead got the word "push me please... old or young, push me.", that old ah ma pushed me from where I was standing to a few foot steps away!!!! I cannot believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And when I was about to get out at my office station, she needs to get out as well. Again, from behind, she pushed me.

She is old, but she is definitely still very tip-top healthy to do what she did to me!!!!!!!

I am really freaking bloody fucking assing-hole sick of the people here!@#$!%@*#(&$!!! Ganiniah!!!!

Plant Exhibition

假期我们去了上海世纪公园的植物展。票价为35元。售票员面无表情，好像家里死人似的。sigh.. 上海...

进去了，才发现到地方真的很大，很多草草树木。走到半死，只见到中国的展览，国际的展览就只有几样。以下的Tea Pot就是国际的。



My bui bui drinking the tea from the tea pot.


Hahaha...

Some other pictures we took...










The sky turns dark even before 6pm, we still have not finished walking the whole park. Feel our money is cheated.. boooooohh.....

but overall, we quite enjoy ourselves over there. :) Good weather always make people feel good eh?:)

《夜宴》

有没有看过一套电影，看完了，还可以讲久久？《夜宴》就是。

这个星期二，我和老公做了一件事，是我们在上海做的第一件事--第一次到戏院看电影。我们其实也是挣扎了许久，早晨起身后，两人赖在床上，还在琢磨着应不应该看。不是钱的问题（虽然这里看戏确实很贵），而是我们很怕去看戏的人素质很差，比如在戏院里吸烟，讲电话，开口讲话大大声。后来，我们的conclusion 是，戏票这样贵，素质差的人恐怕也不会花钱看。而且为了确保没有万一，我们俩决定去high class 的地方看-- 新天地！哈哈。

果然，没有人在戏院喧嚷、卖票的小姐也有很好的态度、还有也没有人在戏院接电话。我们很欣慰。唯一一点吓倒我们的是，这样的“有露露”的成人电影，有父母竟然可以带4-5岁的小孩一起看。唉哉！

《夜宴》真的很好看！冯小刚，You did it again!!

我今天上班马上查看结局的真相。真的令我大掉眼镜！原来她是凶手？！！我和老公一直猜是太子。

不过那个网站也不是官方网站，所以那个人也可能是瞎猜。But he has got a point too.

螳螂捕蝉，麻雀在后---this is the conclusion I got after I saw the ending. Marvelous plot!!! But indeed, it is a very sad Love Story too...

至于章子仪，我其实不是很喜欢她本人的。但是，我必须公平的说一句，她在《夜宴》的演艺中是最好的！！在一分钟内，可以有几种不同的表情在脸上，真是一流--从悲哀，到愤怒，到快乐，到无奈，到hungry for power。真得很棒的演技！

还有戏里面的舞蹈、歌曲，也是很有意思的。舞蹈有一点趋向于日本式，但要表达的意境确实很“古典美”。这种组合真的不简单。

太棒了！我决定破例一次，这套电影，我会尝试去买正版的DVD收藏！

看完了电影，我们俩就过着游客的生活，在新天地吃了一个Brunch，那地方叫KABB，很好吃，天气又很好，我们坐在外面，看游客经过、拍照、走路。。。吃完了Brunch,我们马上hop去另一家店，吃Dessert,很好吃！！我们要了一份Chocolate French Cake， Fabulous!!! Coffee also tastes good! 一流！！那一家店叫La Maison. 很好吃！！

I love China National Day!! sorry... I mean, I love the holidays of China National Day!!! hahaha... hurray~~~

We did many other stuff too, will update next. ;)

Braveheart

I flipped through TV channel last week and there is this channel that was showing Braveheart, since my bui bui that time not at home, and I very mou liu, so I watched. I normally don't fancy about this kinda history and ancient movie. Some more hou dei dei, this movie was translated into chinese. Imagine the men are wearing scotland dress and speaking chinese language.. Wo de Ma...

Dim but zi, I was sucked into this movie! Marvelous movie!!! So touching in many scenes. 美中不足, there is a solid 15 minutes of advertisement in every 45 minutes!! So, by 1.30am, it is still not over yet, and thus I give up. The next day have to work!

When bui bui came back, he said, "silly, i have this DVD in the drawer lah~~ u can finish watching the ending any time. It is a great movie, I watched it 3 times!". Then I started questinoning him, "3 times?? with whom? :)" (with a dangerous grin). Hahaha.... women... trouble-maker.

So last night I find time to finish the ending, I actually cried when he was screaming for "FREEDOM" even before he was going to be beheaded. Such a great hero!!!!

But I have 1 thing I don't like about him, since he die also holding his wife's punya hankerchief, why he slept with the enemy queen earlier? Why men can be like that one ah? WHy men can say they very very love the wife, but yet, they still can sleep with other women????

That part I don't think he is a good hero. I "pei! pei!" him! Hamsap Hero is no Hero man.. I was screaming at the screne, "How can you do that? Aren't you still love your wife??!!"

Anyway... i know kai xin will be yelling at me, "man, this movie is in 1995!! get a life, don't always watch old movie!!". Well, a good movie will always be good movie, even though it is 10 years old.. 20 years old... or 100 years old.

So, William Wallace / Mel Gibson, you might be a hero to Scotland, but you might not be 100% good man to your wife!!!! HMMPH!!!

F U

Me: "Honey, Fuck U"
Jay: "fuck u back" (in a sleepy tone)
Me: @_@
Me: "Fuck u and no back" (getting louder)
Jay: "fuck u front & back" (still in sleepy tone)
Me: "Fuck u and no back and no front" (getting much louder)
Jay: "fuck you front front and back back" (in less sleepy tone)
Me: "Fuck you infinity no back and no front!!!" (screaming already)
followed by a series of me beating his hand, leg, and back.

This is one of the newest entertainment we recently found at home, 口角. Hahahaha... It all started with him sleeping at 9pm 2 days ago (due to jet lag) and me not happy about it.

Bla Bla Bla

Have you had some colleagues, position very high, but you seriously cannot see their contribution to the company -- never see they really work? And thus you wonder what's the justification on his post?

I have one. He is sitting next to me.

His at Manager level, but dunno what he does daily. At most make a few calls, chit chat, and go home at 6pm on the dot.

Oh, he is damn good at forwarding email to other people to get his work done. Brilliant.

And, I just found out he is a computer bak-chi, does not even know how to do print-screen.

And I think he 前世 is a singaporean, coz he damn kiah-su, whenever there is a company get together, he sure brings his son, never miss any event.

I think our Commercial Manager also know his irritating behavior. Incident is as follow: lately we have some free tickets giving out on F1, on 29th, 30th, and 1st. Oct 1st ticket, we mainly reserved for BIG clients, because these tickets are precious, and outside sell very expensive, and we should offer to BIG clients in the hope the clients will bring more business to us in the future. We all very sek-joh, took the 29th or 30th ticket. Only this stupid uncle sitting next to me, not only he thick face want to go on Oct 1st, he some more asked for anotehr free ticket to bring his son on Oct 1st. CM saw this and he made a comment to secretary, to ask her to tell him that is not possible. Damn siah-sui.

I am always finding things amazed in China. He is another "amazing" thing I see here -- thick face, lazy, and brings his son to attend all company function. Oh not only that, in our company funciton, we sure have lunch or dinner, he sure will order apple juice, orange juice, any expensive juice in the restaurant for his son. Like his son in his house will also drink only juice and no other liquid (bloody, I won't believe this is true loh).

The morning cleaning aunty work in our company also once made a comment, said she saw him taking samples from our company whenever he comes into office early.

Amusing man. Amusing behavior. Once again, I am amused.

Morning Helpless Sigh

Have I told you guys Jay's new office is at the same building as my office, coincidently?

Was pretty excited about this. Imagine... we can hold hand go to work, and hold hand going back to home:)

Today is Day #2, of him moving to new office here.

Oh his working hour is 8.30-5.30pm. With him being the boss, he would like to be in the office around 8am, just to have a fresh start of work daily. Mine is actually anytime, then just plus 9 hours. And I normally reach office at 9.15am.

Yesterday, because of leaving to office together with hubby, I reached office at 8.30am.

Today, he has a morning tel-con with U.S., so I have to leave the house at 7am, reach office at 7.30am. Woke up at 6.15am, slapping the alarm off 4 times after it started ringing since 5:55am.

My face was damn-cham.

No body fight for the elevator with us. It is just two of us taking the elevator, compared to always have to line up for elevator and when u go inside, is all packed like satin fish.

...... and for once, I am the first in the office, instead of the last one, or the last 2 ones.

FUNNY!!!!

I would very much like to hold hand going to office and returning home, but I think I will sacrifice this part for more beaty sleep. I hope he won't mind when I go back home later and tell him I will like to go to office separately. Haha...

But going to office separately means I cannot take the cab with him. He insisted morning have to take cab.

But after today's experience with cab, i think taking subway is much better. The cab driver impatient sighing noise, and his rude cutting lane action, and almost "kissed" other people's car action, and the jammed on the highway, made my heart beat 4 times faster than when I was taking subway.

I think I would rather pek with other subway taker, than taking cab in the morning.

Sigh... I just have this lousy feeling of 这样也不行，那样也不行 today.

OK! Made up my mind liao:
1) Jay can leave the house earlier without me
2) I will take the subway, no cab.

I will resume to be the old me. Ha!;)

hubby is back

My hubby is back:)

Friday night, he was knocking on our house door, I thought he would have arrived much later, so I ask with a trembling tone (I scared mah), "是谁？！是谁？！”My hubby then answered, "aiyoh.. it is me.. quickly open the door lah~" Hahaha.. damn funny:) Aiyah, who would expect he arrived 1 hour earlier than what he told me before? hehe..

Then, at night, I feel so difficult to fall into sleep, the snoring sound is back~~~ for the past many weeks, my sleeping environment is very quiet, but with him, it seems very noisy neh~~~ so.. I couldn't sleep very deeply 1st night.

Then becuase he has jetlag, he slept at 8.30am the second night, and woke up at 4am. And when he woke up, he felt bored, and was trying to wake me up also. So, I didn't sleep nicely for 2nd night too.

And 3rd night, have to wake up at 7am because of work lah...

So.. i wish he won't have to go to U.S. that often. Not only he has to adjust to jetlag, I also have to adjust to his existence at home. Hahahhaa...

侬好

屈指一算, I have been in Shanghai for 9 months already.

And I just realized I can understand shanghainese language around 50% nowadays, as compared to just 2% on day 1 here. Quite happy about it:)

I have long time ago already given up to learn speaking shanghainese language. If can understand 80% is already very good. I don't expect I can learn to speak:)

Yeah~ gambatte!

SK-Ⅱ

Girls (& guys... ), if you are SK-Ⅱ users, please... please... please stop using it.

Lately, China government has discovered 12 products (including its magical whitening mask) has dangerous ingredient to human.

It was only 9 products discovered last week. Today, there is another 3 considered dangerous (I think because of their ignorant attitude of not wanting to recall the products and also not wanting to take down the products from shelf pissed off the china government).

An excerp from news:
市食药监局向“宝洁”通报对本地市场监督抽检SK-Ⅱ系列化妆品的结果为：SK-Ⅱ清透防晒乳液等12种产品中均含铬，其中五种还含有钕。较国家质监总局此前公布的9种“问题”产品，上海此次抽检出的含铬产品增加了3个品种：SK-Ⅱ护肤洁面霜、SK-Ⅱ活肤抗皱修护膜和SK-Ⅱ重点净白精华液。12种产品中检出的铬含量在0.18mg/kg至4.86mg/kg之间。根据我国《化妆品卫生标准》规定，化妆品中不能含有铬、钕等禁用物质。

I think, P&G is pretty screwed up this time. They created so many obstacle for the users here to get the refund, and also asked them to sign a very unfair agreemment, the content is :“此处理方案为本案例一次性终结处理”. Signing that contract while you getting the refund, means that SK-II 经营者免除了自身的责任、排除了消费者今后求得损失赔偿的权利.

If you using SK-II, check with the counter whether it is from the same batch as the China products (heard it was manufactured in Japan?). Get refund if possible, don't use your face to 赌博。

I wonder if my beloved Dior product has dangerous material inside also?? .....

礼仪调查结果

I am VERY happy to notice that even the local people recognized this BIG problem. I read this on 时代报 today:

“文明走路、文明行车”公认为最需培养的礼仪

本报讯（叶芳）市妇联儿童和家庭工作部昨天公布的“上海市市民礼仪网上调查”显示，“文明走路、文明行车”被公认为当前最需要培养的礼仪，而“随地吐痰、乱扔杂物、在公共场合吸烟”被视为最让人讨厌的不文明行为。

They miss one point though “随时随地不排队！”也是最让人讨厌的不文明行为。

Or... even the local people does not think this is a problem?

Manicure

Yesterday afternoon, I was so bored at work, could have snake out gone home (coz bosses not around), but because of a stupid email I have to get from distributor in order to make decision(and thanks to their efficiency..), I have to stay around office, with nothing much on hand to do.

So, I have a brilliant thought, go down to 4th floor to do manicure!!! hahaha..

It only took me 2 minutes to grab my wallet and went down (same building as my office) after the first thought arise in my head. haha..

I chose a purple color, even though the girl recommended me pink. BUt I regretted today, looking at that purple color, I feel sick. I should have listend to her and get the pink! Damn it!!!!

But the feeling is great~~ sometimes you just need to pamper yourself;)

The feeling of doing this during working hour is even greater!! haha.. it only used up 1 hour anyway.

:)

Natural Disaster

Only late, I get to fully understand about the "external forces" that we once studied on text book, on economic and finance courses.

Government here, suddenly shouted a new rule (to be carried out June 1, 2007), called it 3C, for our range of products. Of course, sword always come in 2 edge - advantage is, all the tikus pasar malam players will be swamped dead; disadvantage is, we need to entertain their tests, fly their auditors to all our kilangs in the world to review the process, and each SKU of our products need to be tested, so there are fixed cost and variable cost, and we have total 300 ++ sku this year -- all these need $$$$. Best of all, there is no clear rules as yet now.

Our country manager, termed this as "natural disaster", something like 911, create damages in no time, and can't be avoided.

Our company is lobbying in U.S. now. Don't know got use or not. But well.. government seems kinda irrational to come out of this rule. Just like they implemented the VAT in 1992 (I think..) within 1 month time. Gou Li!

Of course, this kinda "natural disaster" will not hurt us at the end, they will only hurt the local consumer of our products. We estimated that each of our products might need to price increase by at least 10%. Gou li!

We also laughing at our own joke -- perhaps in no time, we have to change our strategy to become really FMCG style - mass-selling 1 type of products, just different in volume or packaging. Simple, and make money! haha.

Sigh..

Subway scene #2 - 我用鼻子跺死你!

There are just way too many 'exciting' scenes happening on subway. I can't help to record it down. So, today is number 2.

Man 1: "慢一点啊你，行不行？还没有到站。”
Man 1 is talking loudly to Man 2 in a Beijing tone, because Man 2 is pushing rudely to reach the door, as many of the passsengers here do. They are just too afraid they cannot get off that station on time. And while they pushed to reach the door, they always don't care about other passengers.

Man 2: "他妈的，你唠叨什么？！有种你就跟我一块儿下来！”

Man 2 was talking rudely just when he was boarding at that station.

Man 1: "你有种就不要下车，我用鼻子跺死你！你他妈的！”

I was laughing out loud (actually, more like chuckled), not because they were about to fight， but because of that phrase 我用鼻子跺死你. that is so funny!!! And it is the best civilized scolding phrase I have ever heard.

我用鼻子跺死你

next time I will use this phrase to scold people! Muahahaha...

Bad evening...

I was really having a bad evening last night.

Because of hari-hari 9am meeting this week, I was having a very fatique body condition yesterday after work. So I decided to take a cab home.

Happily sat in the cab, reached home within 20 minutes, clean, no pushing, and quiet ride. Opened the house door, and I reached for my cell just to check sms as usual.

CAN"T FIND MY CELL!!!

I panicked. I left on my office working desk, unattended. And we have a cleaning ah-yee to clean the office everyday at 7am. I don't want to be "small man" (小人）but I really afraid she will take it, because I remembered I put it at a very easy-looking place!! My whole KL connections and SH connections and some of my banking security stuff are all inside my cell!!! And best of all is, I can't even remember any of my colleague's number, so I cannot call them up to check whether they are still in office and if they are, they can help me keep it in the drawer first. I cant even remember their office extension number!

Left with no choice, I took another cab back to office. THe feeling is damn silly, take cab back & forth from office to home, home to office within 30 minutes time. SIGH!!!

Luckily found the cell lying neatly on my desk when I reached here (不幸中的大幸）

After that, I took subway home. Yah, subway..

Reached home, took shower, is already 8.30pm. After cook (I have to cook, coz I defrost the chicken wings for 2 days liao. If still not cooking it, it will spoiled), it is already 9.15pm. THe feeling is damn 凄凉~~~

I miss my hubby...:( luckily only another 7 days before he comes back home.

(Lesson Learnt: I will go buy a small booklet, copied all the important stuff with hand written numbers on taht booklet, and keep it in my house. I cannot be 100% depending on my handphone anymore. Too dangerous! All the personal data is in that small machine. Losing it is more cham than losing money!)

大大老板来上海

今天早上，我们的大大老板(鬼佬）会来上海的办公室。昨天我们的大老板已经多次提醒我们要准时上班（平时，我们有时会迟到，他也不会很在意）。

为了这事，我已经紧张了好几天。我很怕我会迟到啊！我平时都是9点一刻才到公司的。今天要我9点以前到，无名的压力，只有我才知道。

今天，老早就起身了，因为紧张，没有时间做我每一天早上必做的事情，心里很不愉快。唠叨地拖着脚步来到公司，还有一些睡意。所以当大老板领着大大老板来我的座位say hi的时候，我也blur-blur的。叫错大大老板的名字！（把他叫成大老板的名字！）后来我恁了一下，紧张之下竟然想不起大大老板的名字！不过幸好我转得快，所以还是“补”回来了。

还没有清醒，又被大老板叫到会议室，一起和大大老板go through 一些powerpoint, 也go through 一些我做的competitor analysis, 没有想到看似简单的report, 大大老板竟然很欣赏，频频说Good Job!听到我爽爽，睡意全没了。哈哈~~

爽过了，但想到今天早上没有时间做的那一件事，又有一点不爽了。讨厌！大牺牲！

I hate morning meeting~~~~~~~

嫁入豪门

最近在看一本小说，《嫁入豪门〉，是一个上海女人写的。

里面剧情很娱乐性。也有真实性，比如她说上海女人是如何的犀利、尖酸刻薄、但爱面子。但很多是很搞笑的部分，比如她妈妈如何用花瓶来比喻女人的贞操，并用此来警惕自己的女儿，要嫁入豪门，就要保全身体的“完整”。但也有的部分很耐人寻味，如，她遇到一个很谈得来的老头，他竟然在她的一个生日里，送了一个四合院给她。

还没看完，但很期待看到结局是如何的。到底这个妈妈有没有成功的将自己的女儿嫁入豪门呢？

估计这个星期可以知道答案；）

9-11 2001

It is hard to believe that it has been 5 years. 5 years, is such a long time.

On the very same year, I was damn hurt by a stupid ex. I guess he was too young to be faithful to one girl. There were so many tearful nights on the same year. I forgot how did I put through those nights & days, and I am glad that there is no rewind in our life. If you have never been betrayed, you won't know how bad was the feeling. Took a long while to recover.

2001, bitter memory for american, and non-american.

Plant

My favorite plant. I placed it in toilet:)


Actually, this is the plant I first owned here. It grows very fast, and quite tall now. I wonder should I get it a bigger 'home' for it? It looks quite crammed in the small pot..

My next target, get some plants that have flowers.. wooohoo~~~~ excited!

Hmm...

Today, is the first time I feel sympathize at cheena orang.
Story starts over a lunch conversation:

While we were happily eating our wai-mai at the conference room, the bitch we hated most walked in and sat down. While we always address her as bitch, we still have to 'entertain' her a bit.. colleague mah...

Cyn: "hey Jud, you looked tired and 憔悴,are you OK?" (though all of us really dun give a shit if she is gonna take sick leave or what)
Jud: "I woke up at 6am today!" (this bitch, always start coming to work after 10.30am， so it is really a surprise for us she woke up at 6am)
Cyn: "why?"
Jud: "Have to apply for germany visa for my personal vacation, attended the interview, they think i fake my agenda and hotel booking, throw my document out and say "NEXT!"" (i tell u, this bitch, why we called her bitch, because this kinda sia sui thing, she also can say it as if telling a story that concerns other people, not her)

then only i get to know that it is damn difficult for cheena orang to apply U.S. visa, Germany Visa, basically any western or european visa, if they are not on business trip, and if they are females (scared they go to do gok-gok-gai I think, which 90% of the time, they do!)

FOr instance this germany tourist visa, apparently to apply it, cheena orang need to provide credit card statements, bank statements, salary prove, hotel booking confirmation number, your daily agenda and which hotel you will be staying, your flight details, your local trasport detail (if u gonna take train..)etc etc. THey really scared people go into their big land and disappear and be gok gok gai forever on their land.

after feeling 2 seconds sympathy, I said "抵死”, in my heart of course, haha... and they think they very rich and very welcomed at other foreign countries. Me pei!

活该！！

Fug

Just yesterday evening, and today's morning, on the pedestrian bridge near my house area, I almost kena people's spit!!!!!!!

1st incident:
An ah po walking in front of me, she spit suddenly, and her spit fly to the side, and as I walking forward, it almost landed on my shoes.

2nd incident:
A 30 year old man, walking, also suddenly spit. Before I can take precautious action, the spit already landed next to my right feet. If I walk a bit senget by 5 degree, it will land on my right feet exactly.

BLOOODY HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can anyone just educate them or not??????!!!!!

Why ah????? WHY?????!!!!!!!!

Why they make such beautiful shopping complex, such nice highway, such convenient public transport, such spectacular Pearl Tower, such great view The Bund, such good chinese food, but yet they have this ugly behavior and no one is taking any action??????????????

Can somebody just calm me down?? Damn furious, since last night!

包饺子

My sichuan colleague, came to my house to bao jiao zi last saturday (her hubby is a pilot, so, she a bit bored alone at home).

Quite fun, except the one made by me is a bit ugly.

Can you guess which one is made by me?


This is made by my friend Cynthia:


This is made by me...


hehe... but the taste is so-so only, coz I think we put too much jiu-cai (韭菜）. Should have put more meat instead, and next time, i definitely will put in prawns, without prawns is missing some taste:)

I love eating jiao zi. Made me think of last time we whole family in KL making jiao zi. My dad sweat so much while making the dough, i worried so much his sweat will dropped into the flour... hehehe... my dad can make good jiao zi too:)