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. ;)