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:)