Work Cultural Shock

This morning, I frantically handling with hundreds of things and phone calls trying to solve 10 things in 1 hour.

My assistant sent me an email, ask me check on a work (which should be done before CNY).

So, in the midst of my pengsan-mood, I look through the work.

Immediately I spotted typo error! Instead of 再加，she put 在家 and thus the sentence, if you read it, is damn funny.

I asked her, "xxx, 你以后可不可以先看过广告公司那边发过来的东西，去掉错误，才发给我？我很忙，真的没时间看两次。”

Miss xxx: “领导，你也知道，自己的错误，自己很难看出来的。”

I was holding my temper.......... totally speechless.

This is not the first time she did this kinda stupid mistake. Always just click the "forward" button and send the email from the agency to me without herself even gone through it first!!

I wish I can fire her... arrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

Am I too demanding??

红包

昨天，老板给了我一个开工利是。我只是略谢了一下。回家拆开一看，没有想到他今年这么慷慨。。。大概是麻将赢了很多钱？哈哈。其实有红包我已经很appreciate了。只是没有想到是个大的。（以前我的那些老板都是意思意思给的。）

老公昨晚叫人送水来。我也给了那个人一个红包。他很高兴很高兴。我给红包这么多次（今年啦），他的表情是最真诚的，最开心的。有一些小孩（KL的)，表情十分假，连谢谢也要父母叫才要死要活地讲一句。更不用说跟你拜年或说吉利的话。这么不甘愿，明年不给你们！哈哈~~~

又，很久没看见水果佬了。估计他又去卖香肠了。我还打算过年封他一个大红包呢。快快出现吧~老是要俺去家乐福买不新鲜的水果，讨厌。

I am back

I am back... sob sob...

Every time I changed back the SH sim card to my phone upon returning to SH, I feel very very sad... the feeling is undescridable.

Got some encounters on the flight back from KL to SH.

20 minutes before the departing time, the flight is still not full. So I was talking to bui bui, "many people still on vacation. Sob Sob.. I jealous..".

5 minutes after I said that, whole bunch of SH-nese came onboard. MY GOODNESS, they were so loud and speaking in sh-nese language. One woman was standing talking to anotehr passenger & blocking the path-way until the flight attendant kindly asked her to sit down coz the flight is taking off.

As soon as I heard them talking loudly in SH-nese, I was complaining to my hubby, "I thought I have at least another 5 hours of civilization time!"

They were so noisy I tell u...

Anyway, dunno is it because of waiting for them to get onboard, the flight was being grounded at the runway for another 30 minutes (thanks to them.....). But that was OK, coz we don't mind "staying" on KL land for another 30 minutes. Haha~~

When duty-free item selling time is up, they got so many questions, "how much is this?" "ringgit or renminbi?" "can I pay renminbi? no more ringgit", "does it worth that much? oh how about this perfume? how much?" "How much is that make-up pouch?" "ringgit or renminbi?".... I was sitting 2 rows behind them and waiting for the flight attendant to come by selling me the duty free item and these people asked so many questions. I swear the flight attendant spent like 20 minutes entertaining their question (since when MAS flight attendant is so patience??). Anyway, the above conversation is of course in mandarin.

At the end, they only buy 2 items. Pay renminbi.

They must not been shopping very frequently at local departmental store in SH, coz, if they have done that, they will know the duty-free items in MAS is very cheap. And the answers to questions they asked about how much are all printed on Temptation magazine in front of them, why asked so many questions? If they can try the perfume, i tell u, they will spend like 2 hours figuring what to buy. Aiyoh~~~~~~~~~~~~

20 minutes before the flight was touching down, flight attendant came to collect the ear set from all passengers. Guess what? They refused to return the ear set to them, reason is, "we got it so late, we want extra time wearing them. We will return it the last."

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I was sitting 2 rows behind. I couldn't have heard wrongly...

I was very down... I am back.

vacation-wishlist #1

西藏、布达拉宫~~~~

you are on my next vacation-wishlist!!

I read various articles about the xizang trip, must be in good health. I just wish my body can listen to me and be a good girl.

The last 'mountain' area that I been to was Kunming, and I had terrible 高原反应, I feel so ashamed of my poor health.

After CNY, I plan to go to gym again to train my body to tip-top condition for the xizang trip. Would I be successful? (that depends whether bui bui goes to gym together with me or not. hahahaha)

Everyday is a V-day!

Bui Bui bought me a Swarovski round crystal pendant from his last U.S. business trip. He said the simple round shape crystal suits me who does not like fancy stuff and 'love' shape stuff that looks very lao-tu. hahaha... he really reads my mind perfectly well:)

I have been keeping this pendant in the drawer for almost a month liao. Today, I proudly took it out and wear it! Purposely wear a lower cut shirt (it is still winter time here... cold cold..) just to make this pendant out-standing. hahahaa...

Bui Bui, I love you!!!:) And you are right, everyday is a Valentine's Day for us:)

CNY~~~

Just realized I posted 2 complaint posts. So, I should start posting some happy ones, if not, some people might actually think I am only good at complaint, and don't know how to enjoy life. Muahahhaa...

few more days, I will be back to KL celebrating CNY. YES!!!

then few days ago, I just realized I do not have any new clothes for CNY, a yearly tradition that I must have. I used to have at least 3-5 new dresses just cater for CNY purpose. And new shoes of course. hahaa...

But how to buy summer wear clothes in a winter city?

I have 2 pair of new shoes that I bought at the end of spring, so i still can bring back and wear as new shoes.. but how about new clothings? I only have few new t-shirts, but CNY supposed to wear nice dress, not T-shirt!

OK.. ok.. this is small matter... the important thing is, I get to lay my mouth on nasi lemak and hokkien mee by this weekend... hoohohohohoh...

I had better not get sick (last year I went back, ate too much, then lou-sai and have to stop eating for 2 days, wasted~~~).

urgghh

I really don't like some people who tries to act cute or funny with me when I am damn serious with them. There is this local media company, always try to act cute with me. And, she always repeat what I said, but made it sound like it was her idea, and I should agree with her (yah... agree to my own words, isn't that sound funny??).

So, just now I gave it back to her gou li gou li.

She :"bla bla bla...."
me: "I want the logo to be top left, and chinese words to be on the right side."
she: "bla bla bla.. yah, why don't we put the logo at the left, and chinese words on the right? don't u think that is better?"
me: "(fire is already on my head...) yes, which is what I said to you just now. Can't you hear me??"
she: "oh.. bla bla bla. I just think that you should agree that logo on the left looks better."
me:" (almost lost my mind dealing with a psycho) Lady, that's what I said just now!! It's my idea!! don't make it sound like it is your new idea and try to educate me!!!" (in fact, I already lost my patient at that time).

I slammed down the phone at her after that.

I cannot, I repeat, I cannot deal with stupid local lady that tries to act cute and funny with me! urghhhh... what has got into her?? did she just left her brain, or ears at home today???

Weird Dream

I was having trouble posting and commenting on blog because I move my blog account to gmail. Finally got it solved today. Phew.

I wanted to write about a weird dream I had 2 nights ago.

In the dream, I was riding a bike, and was turning into a shop lot lane as usual. Just when I made that turn, I suddenly see a gui lou policeman standing there grinning mockingly, and he signaled me to stop. He said he has to saman me because I was making a turn illegally. I immediately shouting at him (live in c*ina too long, anything not right, shout loud loud first), said, "为什么不可以？！以前都可以的呀！”. I'm not sure why I was speaking chinese to the guilou policeman, but anyway..

He answered, "because since this morning the rule has changed. This lane cannot make left turn, u must go further a bit to turn in.", he wa still smiling mockingly. I hate his face.

I then tried to sweet talk him a bit (malaysian way when kena saman..), asked him can he give me a chance.

He said, "Nope ma'am. I am sorry."

I then angry, "他妈的你娘！有什么了不起！多少钱？我多多都给得起！！”。

I was awaken by alarm clock after that. I cannot tell did he really saman me or not.

I was swearing when I woke up from the dream, coz I don't understand why I dreamt I riding a bike, instead of driving a merz???

Could it be the local culture here made me think that bike is a transportation mode for me? ? OMG..

Anyway, I hope next time if I dream, if it's not a Merz, at least is a Honda that I was driving. So insulting... a poor bike... yucks.

I am so busy!!!!

I was, and I am still so busy even since I posted the Simpson picture... meetings after meetings, ppt after ppt, excel spreadsheets after excep spreadsheets... A&P budgets, etc etc...endless stuff. And I totally have no time to check on blogs nor maintain my own blogs for the past 3 weeks. Scary...

Anyway, I am counting down to go home for CNY. Yippie..:) I want to eat nasi lemak, hokkien mee, ban mee, and endless list of food when I get back. Yes, for sure will gain weight but I don't mind! Muahahhahaa...

And this year I have 3 malaysian frens coming to work in Shanghai. I am very excited to have them around. haha. One of them is already here. Wow.. seems that Shanghai is a place to be nowadays? No longer Singapore? Seems like many people i know will end up in shanghai. Hey, could you be next?:)

Will update more next time. Hope have time to go read your blogs also... ta~~~~ Hope to see some of you in CNY also~~~~ those have kids, remember to get angpao from me, first year giving angpao away, quite excited. hahaahhaa:)