It's here.

My fren told me it's here.

I am one step nearer to my next journey...

Not as excited as I thought I would be. Perhaps the waiting time is too long until the feeling is not much left already...

I can't believe we have made it after all the hard work, planning and waiting!

Now, what's next? Is the result what I want?

I am confused..

2008 eve

My busy VIP show is finally over last Friday. It also almost marks my 2007 working life eh? I mean, today is Dec 31st 2007. I cannot believe I have been living here for more than 2 years (everytime i think of this, i have to "sigh" for a while). And, time really flies. Tomorrow is 2008 already loh. And, I am still here. Blardy...

Let's see what have I accomplished and what have I lost in 2007.

Accomplishment --
1) Got sick 3 times and went to see doctor in hospital 3 times because of that. Bui said I need to exercise a bit. Isn't the weekly grocery shopping and shopping is considered exercise?? Anyway... I will consider his proposal -- join a gym. Er... wait til winter is over first.
2) I learnt a lot in my job. I thought I know my job 3 years ago. But I realized this year is the year I hands-on a lot of things, and therefore learn the most. For this, I actually feel thankful to my supervisor and to my big big boss.
3) I can understand 70% of the shanghainese language now. Another 30% to go and I will be so happy to stand along the roadside to find out what they argued next time. Yay! It is this curiosity that keeps me interested in learning shanghainese language.
4) I changed my handphone.
5) I have been to Tibet. And have the liquid-medicine dripped right into my blood vain for the first time. Also the first time I saw doctor wear so dirty white clothes and smoke while doing his job.. Aiyo-yo..
6) Revisited Vancouver, and still fall in love with it, just like 9 years ago.
7) Realized 人不可貌相, some guys look really sibeh, but heart & personality damn good. haha..
8) Learnt that nothing is impossible in China.
9) Learnt how to eat hairy crab. And I actually like it very much now!
10) Addicted to Karaoke. Thanks to Purple Mushroom.

Lost --
1) Not spending time with my family. That's a huge lost to me as my family value is very strong.
2) Not eating butter crab for 1 year!
3) Almost go insane every morning dealing with rude shanghainese at subway.
4) Not able to live a life with a car.
5) Lost 1 fren in Shanghai because he decided to go back to kl! sob..
6) Not changing job yet... why no one wants me??

Shall I celebrate? Coz my lost seems to be shorter than accomplishement!! Hmmm....

2008... dunno how to welcome you... coz I don't see the "lost" part is going to improve in 2008 also. OK lah, i have to be optimistic!!

Happy New Year to everyone!:-)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas folks!!!!!

We had a great christmas party at Purple Mushroom house on the 22nd. Hehehe. And karaoke after that. My honey normally don't sing much in karaoke, but that night, I think he has less things to worry in his head (about work), and, he sang as much as Eric and winston! Oh my god.. haha..

It was also the first time I met fern. So pai seh, she gave me a present. Eee.. some more it's a perfume! Fern, next time don't do that again! Too bad i sibeh busy until this Friday, if not, could have go shopping with you in Shanghai. Can you come again??

Anyway, today, one of our best fren left us to go back to KL... Eric! Sob.. when we said goodbye to him after a yum-cha session yesterday afternoon, my eyes were wet with tears. It is so difficult to see a friend leaving:( Eric, it was so happy to have you here in the past 11 months. Anyway, I wish you found what you are looking for soon. You such a good man, you will find your 'dream' soon ok?

Merry Christmas!!!

Vampire thought

Was watching a DVD with bui last night, about a story that have vampires come out kill peopple at a town in Alaska, because every year there is this 30-days without sunlight at all.

It was a stupid show. But, it makes me wonder...

I asked bui bui, if I kena tangkap by vampire, what will he do? He said he will save me. I then said, but you can only find my cut-off head on the ground wor... how? Then he said he will commit suicide. eeeeeeeee... I don't like this answer.

Then he asked me, what if he was infected and turn into vampire? I said, then I will come let him suck my blood, get myself infected, and turn into vampire together with him. Muahahaa... that is so romantic.

It's such a boh liao movie actually... sigh.. life is so meaningless in Shanghai.

An ah ma that jumps like leopard!!

Subway stopped at Shanghai Sauce Station (aiyah, Shanghai South Station lah), subway door opened, and because today I took the 4th cart, it actually stopped right in front of the Shanghai South Station public toilet.

Just when I realized both toilet cubicles were taken (the red light is on if there is somebody occupying it), suddenly, the red lights diminished. An ah ma opened the toilet door, (some more I can see she just standing up from her squating position), hands still pulling her pants up, within 1 seconds, she jumped out of the toilet cubicle and jumped into the subway, speed is just like a leopard!! (the subway was about to leave, with the dit-dit-dit sound started with door closing).

She didn't wash her hand.

I was standing near the door.

I quickly make way for her, sibeh scared her hand touched me, and, I stand far far far away from where she stand, just in case later she can't stand properly and touched me with her unwashed hand.

It actually made me laugh today, coz I realized an ah ma can actually have the speed of leopard jumping out of toilet and then jumping into the subway, within 1 second. So amazing lah! I wished I could have captured this scene with the phone just now. Wasted.

Shanghai never fail to amaze me, every single day.

new phone, macam having 'new bf'

I have a new phone.

In the process of getting used to it, I discovered it is just like having a new lover, or new bf.

You see, you got yourself a 'new phone' because you think your 'old phone' does not live up to your expectation, or because you think your 'old phone' is not trendy anymore, or because you think your 'old phone' not as nice as what you first met him (expectation changed with time). This is just like -- you met a 'new bf' and you think he is so attractive you must have him, you think he is so much better than the one you currently have at home. You think he is fabuloous, trendy, and, he is simply just so much better than your current bf.

So, you change bf, just like you change phone.

New phone, you need time to get used to it. For example, Sony Ericsson phone and Nokia phone, all function keys are terbalik one. You need to adjust your thoughts and fingers accordingly. It's a great phone, but, at times like this kind of adjustment, you actually think it is rather painful. It's just so similar like new bf. New bf, have new attitude, new behavior that you need to get used to. Perhaps new preference on food too. Say you like spicy, but he can't eat spicy food. Now, that's very painful. Or he like chou-tofu, but you don't like, that is so killing. So, you need to adapt to each other. Sometimes that is painful too.

So, no matter how great is the phone, you need time to adjust to its functions. No matter how good is a new bf, you need time to get used to his behavior too.

And at times when you are so stressed out getting used to the new phone, you actually thinking, "my old phone is not that bad also.. I can live with it actually". ... macam "my ex is not that bad either, I shouldn't have complaint so much about him. At least he eat spicy food, and not the blardy chou-tofu."

Hahaha... this is my thought this morning, when I was bang-sai-ing my yesterday shit.

p/s: but there are also at times, u playing with the new phone, and suddenly discovered new functions, and you slap your tigh and said "blardy shit! this is cool! and my old phone doesn't have this!".

I have a new "pet":)

I am so busy lately, until morning also cannot bangsai. BUT, I must blog about this.

Remember I blogged about the 索爱 phone? Bui Bui bought it for me yesterday! It's christmas & our anniversary gift! yeh yeh~~~~ ;)

Happy! ^_^ But, it was quite stressful to play with a new gadget, I think the aging process is catching up. I almost cried last night when I discovered I cannot transferred my old sms to the new phone (anyone knows how to do that??). Sigh.. all the sweet sms that bui sent to me last time when we dated, can't be transferred (but last time can transferred from old phone one, just dunno how that guy did it last time):(

Anyway, it's really a nice phone. Thank you bui bui:)

p/s: yesterday, supposed to do my ppt in afternoon. Yah, so cham, have to do work on a Sunday. But because we went out buy phone, came back I kept playing with the phone, when I realized I have not done any work, it was already 8pm. Blardy shit...

I am depressed.

I am not that serious yet... but I am constantly having depression in the morning from the moment I stepped out of the house, til I reached office. This has been going on for months.

I am so depressed.

I am so unhappy in Shanghai.

If hubby tell me tonight we leaving shanghai forever, I will be laughing and packing and rushing to airport without any seconds of hesitation!

I think I need to see psychiatrist .................. :-(

I am not laughing... la...

"Nesest stop is Shanghai SOS station" - It meant to say "Next stop is Shanghai South Station".

"可令的数据” - It meant to say "clean database"

"Please send me your plantation" - It meant to say "Please send me your presentation".

"Sin-sia" - It meant to say "Cynthia".

"Sank-Q!" - It meant to say "thank you!"

"emmmmmup-BA" with kek-ling tone - It meant to say "MBA"

This is how Shanghainese speak English...

I am not laughing.. I am not laughing! I am not laughing?!!

tap tap tap...

Sometimes, I think ang moh lang (specifically means our U.S. counterparts) do things very slow.

When you rush them a bit, they asked you give time.

Maybe we are still a keci-miao subsidiary to them, that's why... Wait til we become big big and u will be kanasai I tell u... there will be this one day soon... It's China, dun play play, GDP growth double digit for past 4 years liao ok. You just wait!

... fingers tapping on table... thinking of revenge day... tap tap tap tap tap...

stupid bugs, u no chance liao. Muahahah!!

Yay~~~ Bui Bui just sms me and said he has reached airport! He was away few days, for business trip, yah.. again.

Past few days, I am alright, except I don't dare to open the window or balcony door. And outside was hanging the carpet that ayi has washed and hanged there since Sunday. I know it should be dried by last night, but... I really scared once i ppen the balcony door there will be stupid bugs come visiting me, just like last time. You only need 5 seconds to let them in. They damn efficient and damn fast! Of course lah, they fly one... dun pley pley.

OK... which means tonight someone is going to fight to have the bolster with me. It's a headache if both husband and wife loves to hug bolster... eee...

^_^

Assistant on Sales!

Lelong Leong... Assistant on sale...
please take her away from me... FOC...
Value added service includes unlimited headache, unlimited complaints, and... unlimited enjoyment at her laziness~~~

Lelong Lelong..................

>_<

crying...

I am going for company outing at some ulu place starting tomorrow afternoon til Friday night. Meaning, stay over night at a ulu hotel, at that ulu place.



I have been feeling so sun-fu about this trip.

I just hope it is like taking an injection - fast come, fast pain, and fast over.

:( I don't understand why boss force EVERY ONE to go. Can someone please tell him not everyone like to spend time do simi team building with colleagues??

-ELP~~~~~~~

asdkj

My uni best friend is here over the weekend, we went to eat hotpot.

And.... we saw this translation:
生抽酱油 - Lives Pulls Out the Soy Sauce (I think the correct words is just Soy Sauce leh?)

炸蒜茸 - Explodes the Garlic Deer Velvet (I think it was just called Fried Garlice leh?)

It was really word-by-word direct translation.

Jaws dropped. My uni best fren exclaimed, "gum gai siu geh??!!" He is a Hong Kong-nese.

After dinner, went to The Bund walk walk. Cannot remember this is the how many times I have been walking at The Bund, accompanying visitor. Frankly speaking, I don't like to walk there very much, coz it is crowded, rainy or not rainy days, CROWDED. And, very smelly. I think some of the beggers there pee on the walkway. Yucks. Anyway, I love to take pictures whenever I come to the Bund. Even though I don't like the place, I do think that Tower looks very magnificent at night... very romantic.

I want to sue cheap-plak smokers!

90% of male in this cheap-plak land smokes.

That leaves the rest of us, heavy second-hand smoker.

Can I sue them for murdering us the non-smokers?

I really beh tahan when those ugly cheena men walk and smoke in front of me. I once said before, it's as bad as those bin-tai-guy that pull down his pants and show you his kkj, it is that irritating.

Sometimes I really wonder, why they like smoking that much?

p/s: i have no issue with kl people smoking. coz they not smoking cheap-plak brand and they are not cheap-plak people! hahahha.. yes, i double standard la I know. chui ah?

A-B-C

Read about Zewt's entry, about how inefficient of our system is back home. Makes me wonder... which place I would like to stay as citizen, IF given a choice of:

A) A land that is famous for inefficient system, lousy government system (ranging from education that send stupid kids to overseas and leave intelligent ones at local U but without the first choice degree they wanted sometimes even though they can be ALL-A's students, after-death-money-goes-which-pocket, kissing-scene-cut in cinema until u dunno what's going on with the real story, income-tax that says will debit the money back to us if we pay more but I haven't received the cheque yet until now and dunno if they have accessed my file or not??? etc, etc, etc, etc, etc... BUT you have your great friends who grow up together with you, and all the great great great food on earth that you cannot get elsewhere.

B) A land that is full of cigarette-air-pollution, people's fresh spit on the road, people talking so loudly you thought they were arguing but they just merely in the "apa khabar" mode, lousy system every where including no line up at ANY where, quality control leakage in MOST of the thing u can think of including fake oranges or fake eggs or fake electronic model that can have Samsung name in taobao but when u get it is actually papa brand stuff and Taobao got the guts say they cannot do anything and consumer should be verifying the stuff before doing the transaction, no quality of service EVERY where coz there's no tips system, no l eng-chai everywhere coz they look very yong-sui without proper daily bath, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc BUT you get good job & good pay here.

C) A land that has great quality of life, great mountain, great air, great shopping road, great clean road with spit-free environment, great restaurant with NON-smoking area, great bridge, great park, great transportation system, great car price, BUT, this land is with limited working opportunity.

I am having this A-B-C thoughts a lot lately... SIGH... nothing is perfect. But some lands are just way toooo far from perfect eh?

Vacation is addictive

Vacation, is really addictive...

Shit... I have been thinking about vacation again!

I miss Redang... ever since I know bui bui, no beach in my life liao, he can't swim, so he not into beach. SOB...

Any girl friend want to go to Redang with me???

>_<

Osim iSnug

iSnug - bui bui's new toy!!

He has a satisfied look last night with the feet tucked inside that machine. Sometimes I think, he could have married an ayi that can massage his foot every night, he will feel very contented already. Haha!

:)

p/s: he said this is his birthday gift wor.. but I managed to negotiate to just pay for half of it. kekekekee...

p/s: Purple mushroom bought a uPapa. Haha...

p/s: I only get to know, Osim is a Singaporean company.

Sony Ericsson，索爱，Love, Affair, Sex-y.....

Sony Ericssion, in Chinese name is called 索爱, if direct translation, it meant "asking for love".

I saw this phone, s500i, at Hong Kong International Airport on Oct 1st. I fell in love.



I thought I have a "puppy love", those love that easy come, easy go. So, I decided to not buy it yet. (I also saw a Bally sling bag in HK airport. I thought I want it and I was going to get it on the way back from vancouver, stopping by at HK also. But, the desire was not there anymore when I come back to the airport)

Today is Nov 15th. I cannot tell you how many times this s500i creeps into my mind lately. It's so sexy... so so so sexy.. and the name, is like its chinese name, it's asking love from me!

Then I realized there's some changes of my attitude to my current Nokia phone.

I easily lose temper at it when it went out of battery.. I even hiam it's screen color is no longer nice. I find fault at its lousy ring tone, and I think it's getting heavy for me, in this era. I have him since May 2005. That time, I think he was cool, leng chai, handsome, yao-yeng, got attitude, and I seriously in love with him that time.

So I was thinking -- is this how those men who are having affair thinks? They saw hot chicks in the airport, went home kept thinking about her, can't help but to fantasize having the hot chicks serve them (ah-hemm..) and then, they start thinking the fat bitch who was sleeping beside them becoming unattractive, silly, fat, yellow face, irrational... etc. Is that how they feel?

That's scary.. I must ask this question to bui bui tonight (poor bui bui, always kena from me whenever I have "creepy" thoughts).

So, how? The only solution is to give them no chance look at hot chick is it? But when I checked out the s500i at the airport, I was having this thinking "aiyah, one look only, won't die one. I won't buy ge lah... my own one is still in good function!" But I was wrong, u just need one look to have the "affair" feeling.

Having said all that... I think I still want to change my phone to s500i!! Yay!!! hohohoh... hey, it's body color was sexy green. I love it!

I am a text person

I realized I am a text person.

I love to use text to communicate with people. Email and SMS are my favorites.

My assistant is seating one cubicle in front of me, but I prefer use email to talk to her.

Reason? I hate to raise my voice and talk. I find it rude to raise my voice for a conversation.

Then, I realized most people are not a text person.

I have a good friend, his sms, is always less than 3 words. Either is "OK", "Call me!" or "Call me again!" Always short and crisp.

Then I have another friend, she doesn't like to reply email. Got update or no update, also no reply email one. So you won't know if she has helped you done that thing or not? And then because gun-cheong about the status, u have to call her. And worst, out of 5 calls, 3 calls go into voice mail one. And make u look like a physcho like trying to hunt her down. Why? Because u just want to find out what's the status of the matter only, only if she can just reply an email informing u of the status leh.

Then I have some other friend, you sms her asked her 3 questions, she will answer "OK." Don't know she OK with which questions?

I even have friend who refused to give me his handphone number, coz he said, SMS cost money. Better just email. :

Luckily bui bui, my sister, my mom have trained by me successfully to become a text person. If not, I will go crazy... Oh, my dad and my brother are not text person. They belongs to the group "reply short short" or "no reply".

Friends ah friends... can type more than 3 words on SMS next time or not? Nowadays mobile phone so convenient, I really think SMS can achieve more things efficiently, especially connection between overseas. Email need to check only popped out, but SMS, once received will beep beep you. So good. Why no use?

p/s: luckily my good fren here purple mushroom also a heavy text person. Hahaha... Sometimes in the weekend, we can "beep beep" here and "beep beep" there half afternoon, until hubby questioned me "why don't u two just picked up the phone and talk??". Hehehe...

蒸鱼记

周末，一个人逛超市（老公出差还没有回来），买了一条鲳鱼，想着周一晚上清蒸来吃。那条鱼，27元！这也是我第一次在超市买鱼。回到家才想起那人没有跟我去内脏，郁闷。我就一刀砍掉鱼的头，却忘了所谓内脏，是鳃、和其他的深红色东东。砍掉头，那些东西还在鱼身里面。郁闷！搞了很久才弄掉，放进冰格，周一晚上才来“调戏”它。

昨天（周一），怀着期待的心情，回到家蒸鱼，放了很多姜，切到我手酸，又放了一点番茄、冬菇、麻油、酱油、盐。总之，该放的东西一个也没有少。鱼蒸出来还是有腥味，也不够咸，肉也老老的。再次发誓以后再也不蒸鱼了！！

鱼啊鱼，为什么我跟你没有缘分？！

Last 2 days..

I was terribly sick last 2 days.

Tuesday night, sore-throat. Then I know for sure kanasai this time already.

Wednesday morning, fever, head very heavy, and I can't even walk properly. So, took bui bui's advice, stay at home, and call in to office sick. Whole day slept from 9am - 12noon, woke up, cooked a maggie mee, and then sleep again from 1pm-3pm, woke up drink water, then sleep again 3.30pm - 6pm. In between took those sibeh medicine.

At night, still feel horrible. Can't breath properly also because nose block.

Thursday morning, woke up, feel like crying, coz headache, fever, and worst, started coughing. The phlame is yellowish color. Tiu. Bui bui said I need antibiotic, but the stocks we have were finished by bui bui 1 day ago coz he was sick last week too. No choice, have to drag myself, change clothes, and go to hospital. One thing here, no clinic, u sick, u go hospital. If u got money, u pay couple of hundreds for registration, and then no line up, go see doc. If you not rich, you pay 5 bucks, wait 5 hours in the line to see doc.

I paid RMB 300 registration fees, see a doc in less than 5 minutes. She wanted to test my white blood cell. My eyes roll-big big, I tell her just subscribed me some antibiotic, I no need test blood!! I almost swear at her.

Then, she subscribed me pfizer antibiotic, which is fine (the most expensive in the medicine list). Then, the flu medicine, she subscribed me the one which I was eating for 2 days!! same one which I can buy over the counter in pharmacy outside. So I throw it back at her I said I want another brand. She looked at me, said, "flu needs a process. No magic. This brand is good. You have to take it or leave it."

So, I paid RMB446 in total, went home, cannot go to work coz my head was heavy (and doc said I no fever. @#%$! meng meng got fever she said no fever), and sleep. Bui Bui cooked me porridge in the early morning. He is so sweet... he accompanied me go see doc then he fly for business trip again. sigh...

At night, 8.00pm, i still feel headache, without fever. Then I realized I didn't take coffee for 2 days! (i sai also no energy to bang in the past 2 days can u believe it?) So, I took nescafe 3-in-1, can u believe it, my headache was gone within half an hour???

And this morning, I woke up, feeling healthy and energetic. For the first time, I feel so happy and blessed, to be able to get off the bed and go to work!! I reached office 15 minutes earlier than usual, with a big smile on my face.

Feeling Healthy is so hung-fook!!

gao-si-gurn

I have a gao-si-gurn customer.

I hate it when they think they are very big, but in fact they just have 1 store in the whole blardy china.

I hate it when its staff talk to us like we are idiot, but in fact, they are the idiots. They also are the biggest liar on earth. e.g. "I called you many times, cannot get you." "but my phone didn't even ring your number at all." "I don't care, I don't know what's wrong but I did call u and u did not pick up my call!"

I hate it when they everything want exclusive, nice, and yet, they don't even want to share a penny.

I hate it when they see good product, they want to sapu all, but historical sales data tell us they cannot eat all the stocks. eat 1/10 also tak boleh. Eat all can mati!!

I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it !!!!!!!!!!

They hire similar type of people -- If your character is very irritating & snobbish & u think you are the best and other people eat shit grow up one, then, you can join this company! And, congratulations, all my company employees will hate u as well!

Blardy shit You listen to me, if not because we have global relationship starting in U.S., u bark whole day whole night I also won't even look at u. tiu nia sing.

a-b-c

Today's lunch, Woman B told us her vision made last night.
She wanted to take GMAT...
She wanted to do MBA...
I cannot believe what I heard...
She said she realized she was wasting her time.

WOW.................................
I am speechless...

From learning to drive a car, to learning to ride a horse, and now MBA??

原来大波妹的脑子有一点问题~~~~

A Saturday...

We went to makan at a place called KL Sakura. It was advertised on the daily newspaper, so we took a cab, went there with excited feeling.

Ordered nasi lemak -- and it came, and I couldn't express how disappointed I felt. Where got nasi lemak without the ikan bilis and sambal one???

The teh tarik sucks too. So bitter. and no teh tarik feel. Only got red-tea with some cheaplak milk feeling. tiu...

I swear, I not going to eat there again. I cook also better than what they have there.

Then we went to Pudong bin-jiang-road, to enjoy the sunset... it was quite nice, not really crowded.

And then, guess what? We saw gamblers, just right beside the binjiang-road. They looked like tourists (local ones of course), but I think they are killing time by gambling a bit, next to the nice scenary.

Who will you fire?

2 staff, in the office. One has been talking on personal calls (using office phone of course) for the past 1.5 hours, one has been feeling sleepy so she goes to a famous local job-search site to search for job.

The one talking on the phone, has been talking so loudly, about where to go for vacation.
She:"we go cambodia, so cheap. Can take the group via Hong Kong, even cheaper."
.....
She:"or we go Australia. I heard Perth is great. Oh, and the gold coast. ...."
.....
She:" but cambodia is very cheap. How to decide?"
.....
She:"we 剪刀、石头、布 to decide tonight lah"
(above conversation of course all in shanghainese or mandarin, cham-cham one)

Actually, the job-searching staff also because of being seriously get distracted by her conversation, so she feel dulan, nothing to do and go for job-search online.

So, my question is, if you are the boss, and u happen to know about this situation, who will you fire?

Who?

Pussy?

Woman D went to entertain an international visitor (company of course) yesterday. Below is some conversation going on. Oh, besides Woman D and visitor, there's Woman E, and Woman B too.

Visitor:"So, where are we now? Pudong??"
Woman D:" nope, we are still at Puxi."
Visitor:"what's the difference??"
Woman D:" Puxi is at the west of Huangpu river, while Pudong is at the east of Huangpu river.""

after a while....
Visitor:"So, where are we now again?"
Woman D:"Puxi."
Visitor:"PUSSY??!!"
Woman D:"....."
Woman E:"Now, that's a BIG Pussy! we have been in this Big Pussy whole day eh?!"
Woman D -- laugh fakingly... Woman B -- no comment.

Very funny hor?? Pussy~~~~~~~ Big Pussy~~~~~~~~~~
>_<

婚姻= Tiffany & Co. 钻戒？

几个女人下午一起吃饭。

女人A:"我们昨天谈了结婚的事，他说明年想买车，所以婚礼得调整。”

女人B，很紧张，“调整？？？”

女人C:"不办了？？”

女人A:"不是啦，他是叫我prioritized, 例如，钻戒可能不能1卡拉，如果要1卡拉，就不能挑Tiffany & Co."

女人B:"哇，不行！怎么样也得挑个大的钻戒，而且一定要Tiffany & Co, 会升值的，以后如果不幸离婚，还有得赚！”

女人A:"那他要买车子，我也不想他的负担这么大。”

女人B:"情愿车子小一点，钻戒怎么也不能妥协！钻戒是你的，车子是他的。而且，求婚戒指也应该到Tiffany & Co 买个一对的，这个钻可以小一点。”

女人C:"那你自己以后结婚，钻戒要多大？”

女人B:"起码得2卡拉！”

女人B，她自己还没有谈朋友谈到要结婚的地步。女人C, 女人D(懒得发言）只能干笑，因为她们已经结婚，而且钻戒没有很大，也不是Tiffany & Co，但是，她们有很幸福的婚姻生活。

谁说婚姻得拿Tiffany & Co. 的几卡拉钻戒来衡量？

Citibank China - sucks!

Ladies & Gentleman, I have something to "complaint" today!

I, as a "marketing" supporting consumer, saw a new add pasted on our lift door yesterday, about Schroders Unit Trust under Citicorp group. So, I support them by visiting their website to find out more.

Website does not say much about this trust (which is a big failure!), and then, I clicked on "contact us", filling up a not-user-friendly request form (the form cannot accept "?", so my question to them sounds like a statement instead of a question coz without the permission to put "?" on my text box), sent to them. My question was "can a foreigner working in China buy Schroder's unit trust".

They replied my question through email timely, which is very good. A person name D**o, wrote to me:

Dear Customer,

First of all we would like to thank you for browsing Citibank website and submitting your requests to us!

Regard that the product don't provide for the foreigers purchasing.

Should you have any further inquiries or concerns or suggestions, please feel free to contact us via Email or our 24-hour toll-free hotline 800-830-1880(* Or please dial 86-20-38801267 directly). We are glad to be of service to you.

Thank you and best regards,

D**o T***
Citibank (China) Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch Customer Service Center

After I received this reply, I was so furious, this D**o, is so typical chinese!!!!! "Regard that the product don't provide for the foreigers purchasing." That's it??? THat's it u can reply? Can't you elaborate more, e.g. what other type of unit trust foreigners can buy? Or, perhaps you should just reply "none of the unit trust offered by Citicorp is available to foreigners to China due to local financial policy". I am a rational consumer, I can accept that if he reply the later statement. Not just "Regard that the product don't provide for the foreigers purchasing." This is so NOT HELPFUL!

I am seriously thinkinig about calling their toll free number and scold kao them!

Waste my time browsing their website.

Citibank, I thought you are international financial institution. Guess you are sitll not to that standard yet!!!

Clarks Luna Galaxy

This is exactly the pair of boots I bought from Vancouver, Clarks Luna Galaxy (i search website then only know it got a name). It was so comfy! Branded stuff is really different from cheena-made stuff lah, I swear.

I didn't experience any pain at all in this boots!

And I was hoping today's weather can be colder. Dim butt ji, it goes up to 23 degree. Wasted my boots wearing purpose. But I did check weather forecast today - no rain. So, it's good to have "virgin" boots on a great sunny day:)

I am glad there is still something I can do today to make me feel happier :-)

p/s: when I buy that time, I a bit sum-tiah... costs me more than 1,400 renminbi (it was close to 200 CAD dollar, after tax)! I swear I have never spent so much on any shoes in my life. I just afraid "once it started, there's no ending" to this behavior. Help~

sibeh entry

Have you ever feel that you are not quite fit with the organizational culture of the office you working at?

I have this feeling lately. And I don't know what should I do about it. The jokes my colleagues tell, all not funny one, but they laugh like there is no tomorrow. The dishes that they ordered, all not tasty one, but they eat like it was the best dish on earth. The topic they talk about, all so boring one, not like those ones i have with purple mushroom or my other good friends.

Also, I think my assistant has bad influence on me. I think she bad mouth me in office. Lately I realized my colleagues are all abit weird, they like not talking to me. Last time used to talk to me one.

I hate people who bad mouth people. Hey, my mouth can be sibeh ugly in my blog, but I never talk bad about a single bad word of her in the office to anyone ok. This is called professionalism.

Sibeh assistant. Make me feel like seeing a psychiatrist. Tiu nia sing. I hope you continue sibeh fat!!!! @#$%!

>_<

Why no head hunters called me one?????????

I miss my ex colleagues in KL...:(

I supposed to PMS last week, until now also don't have, and it's making me feeling very agitated easily!!

Could it be I have menapouse??? Tiu loh!!!!!
..elp~

Incapable assistant

Tell me, how should or how can I work with an incapable assistant??!!!!!!!!!!

Men are made of wood

I think men are made of wood.

They cannot understand why women needs more than 2 pairs of shoes, coz they only have 2 pairs of shoes - one is for going to work, another one as sport shoes.

They cannot understand why women like to risk having toes pain and still want to stick the feet into the lethar shoes, and got herself pain whole day, and causing bleeding or bengkak on toes.

They cannot understand why we risk our lives just to wear nice looking high heel shoes.

Instead, when you complaint to them you have a bad day coz the new shoes causing you pain and uncomfortable time and your toes bengkak, their only comment is, "throw that stupid shoes away." instead of asking "how's your little toes honey? is it serious? let me kiss kiss it.."

>_<

last night have a cold war with hubby because of this.

After we come to talking terms, he still dare to make such a comment "this stupid shoes make us cold war for few hours, let's throw it away."

The almost dimmed fire got flame up again...

I hate that Men are from Mars, and we women are from Venus. Bleah!

sexual harrasement ad

Recently, saw a stupid tv ad from a shanghai station. 优先乳， some kinda drink, I think it is yoghurt.

Anyway, the ad goes like this:

1 male, 1 female on the scene. Man drinking the 优先乳, then the gf asking him, "do you know what is 优生乳?" (in mandarin of course. But since some frequent readers of mine cannot read much chinese, I will use English except 优先乳).

The man appeared puzzled. The gf took away his drink (优先乳), and replying, "it is a drink for women - women first (优先 - first, 乳 - women's breast).

Then the girl drinking the drink, flirting with the guy. The ad ends with "女生优先 - 优先乳！".

I supposed the ad is targetted at female yoghurt drinker. But, this ad actually got my pissed.

I want to tell the ad-thinker of this ad that it is totally a sexual harrasment advertisement. How can they say this drink is for women just because of a women's breast word on the name??

>_<

Stupid!

Beautiful British Columbia

This is where we can see from our apartment's window - busy downtown streets.

White Rock - Beautiful houses, a nice place to retire.

Crescent Beach

Lion Gate Bridge - connect North Vancouver and West Vancouver

Stanley Park on a gloomy day - we saw a wild life sea lion swiming. It even turned its head to look at me after I screamed "Sea Lion!!!!!!". I guess he was a bit pissed I scared the hell out of him too. Hahaha.

Lynn Canyon - The suspension bridge made me nausea. I really scared of height.

In Vancouver, even a spider web can make me smile:)

Stanley Park on a bright sunny day!

My campus - University of British Columbia. So nice to walk on campus again.

Grouse Mountain - we hiked up the mountain for 2 hours, it was a great challenge as the steps were steep. But the view at the top of the mountain was magnificent. Those were my friends in Vancouver, all are malaysian except Yeng's bf, Steve:)

I have waited for the trip for the past 8 years. I was almost in tears when I looked down from the plane upon landing at the airport, the view is so familiar, as if I have never left the place. As if I am meeting my old friend again. It was such a touching moment.

It was the first trip to Vancouver for Jay. And he is more excited than me :-) Out of 9 days, we only have 2.5 sunny days. Yah, vancouver is a city always in rainy day one... But, this makes us treasure the sunny day more than usual.

We'd been to: Downtown area Robson/Granville/Burrard ST. (of course, we were staying in downtown); Stanley Park, White Rock, Lynn Canyon, Grouse mountain, Granville Island, Metrotown and also back to my university UBC. Managed to meet most of my friends who are still in Vancouver. They were all doing good there. So good to see old friends:)

I am back!

I am back from Vancouver.
I missed the city already:( Sob. It was such an enjoyable trip. I love it. Jay loves it more than I do, coz it was the first time for him to be at Vancouver, the Beautiful British Columbia:)

Because of jet lag effect, I was out at 9pm last night, woke up at 4am and forced myself to sleep til 6am. And got to office at 8am, first time in my life.

At the entrance door, my mind was blank. I can't believe I forgot my password to the office!!!!

after several fail attempts, I called my office admin. She was blurred too, she said, "I did not change the code last week. Still same password, 1xx0"

I damn pai seh. I guess I really enjoyed my vacation until I can't remember my office entrance password. hahaha...

Photos are coming up soon:)

wooooo-yay~~~~~~~

This is me this week.... :s Yucks.. So busy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And yay!!!!!!!!!! I can't imagine how I will feel next week:>

Happy Holiday to all the china malaysian folks. (yes, I am very discriminative one. Hah!)

阿觅，生日快乐！

祝你生日快乐 ~

祝你生日快乐 ~

祝你生日快乐 ~

祝你生日快乐 ~~~~~

祝你生日快乐 ~！！！

Ai Mi, Wish you have a great birthday!!! With lots of muacks!!!!!!!!

^_^

p/s: I am so proud of my this little sister. She is smart, pretty, young, and most importantly, she has the nicest heart I have ever seen - good to parents, and nice to friends:) Overall, she is a nicer person than me, and I am really proud of that:)

Cultural Shock... again

I always find "amazing" scene on subway. Sometimes I can laugh it off, sometimes my eyes nearly popped out, sometimes i was pissed.

Today, I saw a woman, quite big breast (but not extremely big, how to say leh... u won't say WOW if you see her breast size, but you also won't say it is small, that kinda size), she was making her way to the subway exit door (today, very crowded, don't know why), and I saw with my own eyes that she doesn't care and use her breast to brush through the crowd, and her breast was really brushing through of a man's back!! No shy, no embarrasement, she just did that!!

My eyes nearly popped out.

The man doesn't seem to mind (who will mind???). The girl doesn't seem embarassed.

So, guys, do you want to come to Shanghai for this? "FOC" service oh~~~ :-)

@#$%!

I realized the locals here, is indeed very "stupid".

They went on leave, came back, checking email, and without looking through the whole inbox, started replying email. Asking you questions that have already been answered in subsequent emails and some more dare to cc big boss, want to look as if they are very hardworking after coming back from holiday.

tiu nia sing.... for goodness sake, browse through the whole inbox, use the "sort" function by "subject", and read every single reply, you DUMB ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@#$%!!!

I replied by attaching the email that I replied earlier, "please see attached email on this matter that has already been solved. Btw, the email was cc to you too", also cc big boss, to that person. He sure dulan, but I don't bloody care.

Holiday

Holiday can be addictive...

I kept thinking about my next targetted china city - chengdu's 九寨沟!! Oh... My... my... my...

And the typhoon outside now makes me angry at the local government, why no holiday for typhoon one? Taiwan today already holiday liao loh because of typhoon...

I need another holiday!

西安之旅

去了一趟西安，对中国历史了解得更深刻。我这才知道，秦朝过后是汉朝，然后是唐朝。



走游了：

Day 1: 东线一日游

印象最深刻的是：蒋介石被抓时藏身的洞穴（骊山），了解了西安事变的整个过程，还有为什么后来他要软禁张学良，it all makes sense now!


然后就去了秦始皇陵。了解了这个在位短短几十年的暴王/君主，过的是什么怕死的生活。其实我想他后来应该也不怕死，这么多宝藏和妃子、骏马跟他一起陪葬。他的陵墓，至今也没有被挖掘，因为探测仪探测到下面水银、机关重重，至今还没有technology可以破解（这个市导游说的，I doubt so).



先拜始皇后拜兵 -- 之后就到兵马俑参观。真是一幅令人观为叹止的场面。秦始皇真的很怕寂寞... 我很佩服做兵马俑的师傅，手工真的很厉害，连胡子、头发、鞋底的纹路，都刻得清清楚楚。 在这里，据说每个佣的脸部表情、样子都是不一样的，每个展馆、每个佣、每件兵器、甚至那些佣的每个姿势都有着属于自己的故事和历史痕迹。Oh by the way, 秦俑好像都有留胡子的。这点很man. 哈哈。

我还在那里买了一本书，因为当时兵马俑的发现人杨培彦也在场，让他给签了一个名。呵呵。你们知道他当时挖出来的4件兵马俑，博物馆给了他多少钱吗？10 元4件！有一点剥削哦~


过后去了华清池。你们知道为什么杨贵妃那么爱泡浴吗？she can spend whole day bathing! 因为她有狐臭。但是有趣的事，唐太宗有鼻炎，其实他是嗅不到的。哈！真有趣。
我们晚上还到了回明街吃小吃。很多muslim, wear tudong some more. 小吃很便宜，都是1元卖的。酸梅汤、凉粉、镜糕、馅饼、饺子，都很不错哦。没有想到西安里还有这么一条街。很有“味道”。

Day 2: 西线一日游


咸阳，看汉朝的3千彩绘兵马俑。很特别哦，跟秦朝的兵马俑很不一样。这个的颜色还有，而且样子很斯文，都没有穿甲衣的。

茂陵-里面有很多座墓 - 有汉武帝陵、他最爱的李夫人，霍去病陵墓，卫青。有趣的是，还有一个风水先生的陵墓也在里面，而且，他敢敢死把最好的灵位（风水）留给自己，第二好的才留给汉武帝。真是莫名其妙的人。里面有一个马踏匈奴石雕，很有意思。
这一些土丘，都是某人的陵墓。


然后来到一条人造的村子（反应武则天那时的时代），我也忘了是什么村子，因为不是很interesting,随便看了一下就走了。有意思的事，陕西10大怪清楚地在这村里描述了。：）


说起“裤带面”，真得很好吃哦，宽得像根裤带,类似我们的板面。还有另一种面，叫biang biang 面。那个字，康熙字典有的，但是现代的字典都没有，笔划很多，很难写的。我拍了一张这个字的照片。来源是当时围在一起吃饭的所有人的姓。很有趣。哈哈。


午餐后，我们到了唐高宗和武则天的乾陵。走在司马道上，两旁由南向北有华表、石马、鸵鸟、石人等，显示着一派帝王陵墓的雄伟壮观的气势。石人塑着十二对翁仲。“翁仲”，原是秦代一猛将，叫阮翁仲，身长13尺，异于常人。始皇帝曾命他出征匈奴，死后，立铜像于咸阳宫司马门外，后人就称铜像或石像为“翁仲”。武则天希望自已有像翁仲一样忠诚的卫土，故立之。这十二对翁仲面目表情各不相同。体现唐人碉刻艺术水平。所谓鸵鸟，唐人叫朱雀。石马大都被破坏掉了，就是文革期间，破四旧给打砸抢造成的。想想那个混乱的年代，多少文物被破坏，不禁有些伤感。

“无字碑” - “无字碑”上当初为何“一字不铭”？后人对此猜测甚多，概括起来有三种说法：一是说武则天留有遗言：“己之功过，留待后人评说”，因而一字不铭；二是说武则天“德高望重，无法可书，留后人评”，因而一字不铭；三是说武则天死后，唐中宗李显难定其称谓(如褒扬武则天，刻上“大周天册金轮圣神皇帝”，作为李唐子孙感情上不情愿；如贬斥其刻上“则天大圣皇后”，而武则天又明明做过16年的“大周”皇帝)，左右为难，干脆“一字不铭”。 This is so interesting.

陪葬的六十一蕃臣，左右个六十一个，体现了大唐强盛的国力。唐高宗驾崩后，各国首领前来参加葬礼，武则天命人将他们的形象永久地定格成这一尊尊雕像，分立在司马道两侧。可惜现在蕃臣们的头颅已被悉数削去，只能通过背后刻着的名字辨认他们的身份了。 至于为什么没有头，导游讲解的时候我分神了，没听见。。回来百度也没有找着。

这是乾陵的另一个方向拍的。叫双乳峰。像不像一个女人的双乳？：）Bui Bui 死要做这个咸涩动作，aiyoh-eh~ :p

我很庆幸我来到这个地方，真的增长不少历史的知识。

下一站－我们来到了唐朝永泰公主的陵墓，地下的。很深，很“凉快”，里面还有一些壁画，真的很“神奇”。我为了要尊重她的陵墓，就不在里面乱拍照，只在门口拍了一张留念。

永泰公主的死，至今是个谜。有人说是被武则天乱棍打死（因为她守不住她的婆婆武则天“养面首”的癖好），有人说是难产死的。如果想知道更多的，可以读这一篇文章。

最后一站－法门寺。Er...里面有佛指真身舍利。

With this we end our 2 days Xi An trip:) This is a picture of 3 of us.