桃花岛 - 西塘

Jay's brother is here with his wife, and 4 other friends. Yup, you heard me right, there are 6 of them! First night when I go to meet them after work, I told myself, "sei loh... these few days I have to be with them??" Reason being is the 2 wives have very moody face. But then the next day, I think they have enough rest at hotel, these people have become so fun to be with, I am a bit miss them today already (they went to putuo today).

This is Jay and his brother, same face or not?:) The way they laugh, is so same! "hi-hi-hi-heee"

We went 桃花岛, before we go Xitang.

You don't see we post so sweet like that, it was full of bull's shit smell on the floor!!!! hahaha..



This is my favorite shot:





After played at Taohua place for 1.5 hours, we went to Xitang. It's a beautiful water-village.

The ah-ma was singing. We were on the boat across it. It's quite an artistic scene:)


It's a nice getaway weekend. Luckily the rain stops on Saturday afternoon and not raining on Sunday. Yay..:)

幸福的味道

Bui Bui 死要跟我一起同时间泡脚，桶好小的，然后他的大脚把我的小脚压在底下。

同时间，空气中飘溢着幸福的味道：）

I miss dad..

Lately I have developed 2 hobbies - play in share market & go for spinning class.

Play in share market, because I love $$. Jay always say I "lui-bian" (money face).

Go for spinning class, is when the music is frantically rise up, I will frantically cycle on my seats to forget about the hatred I have towards the electrolux bitch, and also the missing feelings I have with dad.

Sometimes I wonder, why can't I dream of dad. Why he never come into my dream so often? (So far, he only talked to me once in my dream. It was about he asking me to take care of mom, ask her don't cry so often. The dream, he was just like before, eating peanuts, watching tv, shaking legs. Just like what he used to do in living room)

I strarted to question, is it something we did wrongly? I mean, could it be because we didn't throw all his ashes into the sea? (we kept some, as rememberance)

Or maybe is it we follow some believe that is incorrect? Maybe there's no Jesus, so we should burn incent for my dad? Could it be because we didn't burn incent & money, so he was not allowed come visit us?

My mom said last time grandpa and grandma passed away, on the 7th day, there will be butterfly fly inside our house, or moth. But with dad, there's nothing in living condition fly inside our house. Not at mom's house, not at my house in Shanghai.

I really started to have a lot of questions lately. When people die, where will they go? Are they allowed to come visit us? And why didn't my dad visit me often? Is it because he died in KL, it is too far for him to come to Shanghai in the dream??? How does this work one?

The more I think about all these, the more upset I feel. I feel I cannot control the situation. And there are so many "what if" scenarios whenever I quiet down and think of my dad:
- what if I insisted he go check up 4 months ago? Would it prolong his life span? but would he want to prolong the life span? It could be a painful process
- what if that night I insisted to stay back and accompany him? Can I save his life?
- what if I returned to KL 3 days before scheduled, he hasn't gone unconscious, would he had told me many things he wanted to tell me?
- what if he can foresee himself dying so soon, is there anything unsettled he wanted me to settle for him?
- ....

I really miss my dad. But, Sometimes I ask myself, "why do you miss your dad? when he is alive that time, you also didn't call him often to talk to him. You only called mama, you seldom call daddy" And this makes me feel very regretful.

Many people said when their loved one dies, they can feel their presence at home. I have never feel dad's presense at home after he passed away. It is like "ziip...", from something to nothing. No thread, no follow up, no nothing. It's just erased. Why??? So easy to erase dad? After so many things he had done to the society, so many great papers he wrote, so many research he contributed to the university and publications, why so easily can get erased???!!!

I don't believe in Jesus anymore. There are so many bad guys in the earth, he let them live, but take away a great guy just liks that, "ziip...", from something to nothing.

Sigh... just one more encounter... I only begging just one more encounter with dad.. I have so many things to talk to him..

A Barbie Day

Yesterday, was Keng Fei's birthday. And next week is Gan's birthday, so we celebrated both birthday yesterday, at 滴水洞. The dishes are OK, just that the fried froggie leg is a bit disappointed. Other than that, food is fine.

Can you see how happy are both Birthday Boys? haha:

After that, we went to House of Barbie, it's one of the thing everyone has been talking alot lately. 1st Barbie flagship store in Asia, and I think in the world, because in U.S. also do not have House of Barbie, they only have American Girls. Anyway, along the way walking to the store, we find that it's really quite a walk from the main subway, so, they expect everyone go to that store have cars is it?

200 meters before we reach the HOB, we find many small girls, their hands have the pinky stylish Barbie paperbag (means they just finished shopping lah). And, their face is full of happiness. One of the girl, she even have her new doll on her hand. Yup, out of packaging. And the Barbie's hair is a bit messy already.

After we reach there, it's quite a "wow"... especially for the guys, they swear they are not going to bring their children here next time. It's a building full of materialistic stuff! Dolls, Clothes, and Jewelry.... Look:

This is selling at RMB280,000... that's like buying an Altis Car in Malaysia (I think..). Anyway, it's very expensive!

And this is selling at RMB15,800. Slightly more affordable than the above. But still.... man... sometimes I think I am very sua-ku... maybe many girls are wearing such expensive jewelry daily in Shanghai just that I am not aware, or I don't know only.

I don't know what to say about this store. It's very stylish, trendy (got Spa, got T-stage for catwalk, got Barbie cafeteria, got Barbie cosmetic section), pinkish. Definitely something that girls dream of. But, is it wise to show our little girls the world is full of expensive jewelry, that you can do spa at age of 6, and you can be a fashion designer just with some click click on the computer, and you can cat-walk with some fashionable clothes, all at age of 5 or 6... is it wise? I don't know... I guess I have to save my piece of comment til when I have a daughter next time...

p/s: Jay and Gan are complaining, "where are the washroom for guys??" hahaha... Hey, I have found out after asking my colleagues today, there are at 5th floor:)

足浴桶

The tong is here again! (I returned it last week because got leakage. The seller is very responsible, he checked, confirmed it has leakage, and returned me a new one)

I just had my foot soaking session, it was fantastic! My foot was warm now even I did the soaking 2 hours ago. I feel great!

The owner gave me 1 packet of chinese-medicine for the foot soaking one. Black black color one... I don't know want to use or not. But he said got 当归，人参 and it's good for blood circulation wor...

:-) This is my new toy! I am gonna do it every night!

My Childhood

Have you ever see something, and it reminds you of your childhood?

I have. Whenver I see Mickey Mouse, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snoopy and even Transformer, it will bring back so much memory, that it always make me very happy.

I can still remember last time when parents go pasar on Sunday morning, mom will sometimes bring back some VHS tape (yup, last time where got DVD wor... all VHS tape), I love the Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Those musics, those beautiful princess, those silky look princess dress, and the shinning princess shoes... oh... you cannot imagine how much I would like to be one of the princess that time, and kena kissed by the handsome prince. hehehe... anyway, those were the good childhood dream. Then when I get older, mom bought me Snoopy, Mickey Mouse VHS tapes. I love Snoopy's smart brain and his attitude. hahaha... and mickey mouse, I love it because it has a kind heart, and his girl friend Minnie, she has long eye lashes. And then transformer, was on TV, I think it was around 5.30pm last time, so called Prime Time for kids. hahaha. I remembered sitting down with my brother and sister in front of TV, chasing for the series on transformer, He-man, etc...

Oh, and also King Kong, I watched the King Kong movie with my dad (til past mid night I can still remember), for many times. The VHS tape was rented, and so, we watched few times before we returned it after a week... all these memory are so valuable now. (I secretly think that my dad looks like King Kong last time, coz he has big stomach, hehe)

How I wish I can rewind the time... actually, until today, even last 2 months when I was in Tokyo, whenever I see micky mouse, I feel so young again!

oh sorry... it ain't my problem

在中国，要吵才会赢的...不然，人家会把你当戆都（俗语：蠢材！）

是的，很累哦，要吵吵闹闹~~ 不然你的利益就会被夺走的哦.

不过，住久了也就习惯了。不知不觉也3年多了。越住越习惯，越住越有趣，现在我都很习惯跟本地人打交道了。他们有一点是比我们的b*b*好, 骂了有反应的，而且，顾客永远是对的。不像在我们的自己国家，骂那些人，脸还是一样的，错误照犯，时间到了照关门休息，要不然就是年假很多，主管时常放假，手下的人又拿不到注意的。你说死不死?

中国，好歹有一个12315的电话，给消费者投诉的一个渠道。我们自己的那个国家，压根儿就没有一个平台消费者是可以很放心的去投诉。你投资time-sharing property被人骗？oh so sorry... you asked for it. 你在大卖场被什么“刮刮卡”的游戏骗钱？oh sorry... you are an idiot, you deserved it. 你的电话刚买却时常自动关机？oh sorry... it's not my problem. 没有一个平台可以让消费者有理由的投诉！消费者的利益何在？

我很想爱我的国家，但是，它好像不给我爱...怎么啦？

oh sorry... it ain't my problem.

100% Housewife

Yesterday, I have to rush home around 2pm, to wait for the courier boy to pick up the wooden tong (it has leakage, I am sending back to the seller to exchange... arghhh... china made product, memang tak boleh diharapkan sometimes). Because they said cannot tell by which time will arrive, I have to be there. (takkan bring the wooden tong come office right?)

I have told my manager I will be working from home in the afternoon. I appreciate the freedom she gave me, so, I also don't want to destroy the trust she has on me, so even though I missing few hours she normally won't notice as she is in HK, I prefer to be honest to her. And she is very understanding, she just approve all of the time (so far lah).

Gao dim the courier around 3.30pm, I sat down doing some emails and some work at home, turning on the TV. Realized nothing good is on show, I turned on the Spain music, enjoying sunshine coming from balcony, I decided it's a good time to wash my quilt cover. So went to remove the quilt cover and throw it into washing machine, and hanged it dry after it has finished.

Sat down replying some emails, do some work, then realized my house is out of fruits. So, I put on my jacket, walked to carrefour (which is just next to my house), bought not only fruits, also bought pork, vege, frozen bao (just in case we hungry sometimes at night), toothbrush, etc. Went home, saw got garlic, so I cook bakuteh. But before that, I already defrost the chicken wing, so, the dinner will have bakuteh and also steamed chicken wing with mushroom, and vege. haha...

Gao dim everything, sat down, replying some emails, settling some stuff that is dued, voila, it's 6.30pm already! I go check on my bakuteh, almost done but I decided to let it cook longer for stronger taste. Then I cut mushroom to be steamed with the chicken wing.

After I got a taste of what's it like to be 100% housewife, I feel like I really want to quit job. No worry (just have to prepare meal, do laundry, buy fruits, etc), and so much freedom. I asked Jay when he come home later at night, "do you like today's meal? 2 meat, 1 vege + soup?" Jay answered "Yes, feel so hung fook lah", then I asked him, "then shall I quit my job and be your 100% housewife?" Jay replied, "today is only half a day u doing this, what if it is really 24 hour? you will feel bored and keep bugging me on phone one. I disapprove!"... so sad... why? Is it so obvious I always get bored at something within short period of time?

But I must say, the freedom that I have yesterday afternoon, is really some kind of getaway from the corporate world. Itu niasinggai corporate world... sometimes I just hate to get my hands dirty!

My new toy - 泡脚桶

Went to beauty saloon for body massage the other day, the masseur mentioned my lower part of the leg has slow circulation, and thus got water retention on my lower part of the leg. She advised me to 泡脚 every night, and so, I went taobao.com to buy a wooden tong, for DIY 泡脚 at home.

I will blog more about it after I have tried it out tonight. Right now, it's sitting inside my bathroom after I have it "bom-bom" (cleaned).

Pretty excited about this... as I have always enjoyed 泡脚 but not foot massage. I love to immerse my foot into the hot water. It's very relaxing. hohohoho. I will make it a habit to 泡脚 every night before I go to bed. Yay!

p/s: I really think Ma-Yun is so cleaver, he invented taobao, online-shopping has become so easy and can do it anytime. This 泡脚桶, if I bought it at that special street near Raffles Tower, I have to spend like 50 bucks on cab to take it home. But with taobao, I just spend 10 bucks on delivery, and I can even specify when do I like to receive it because other than that specific day, there's nobody at home to receive the goods. So glad got this kind of platform for online transaction!

Electrolux BITCH!

So stressed lately, from work!!! Thanks to the bitch... arghh... I so meng fu, last enemy is gone, but new one arrived. Why is it like this?? Why can't everyone be as nice as my boss? Why some woman just like to be a bitch in front of me but when she is with other people, she changed to different face one??? Why????? I so hope her bf get fired soon from Electrolux and she has to crawl back to KL!

I need another holiday. Can you guess where is this place?

-no subject-

I feel so many people are visiting Shanghai lately.

Thye visited me 2 weeks ago.

Sheau Huey visited me last week.

And, this week, my ex boss from ex company, is here in Shanghai!!! I feel so excited to meet him again. He is another nicest boss on earth - kind, understanding, and intelligent. And he is from lebanon if I remember correctly. Has big eyes, long eye-lashes, make me jealous.

Jay's brother and 5 other people will visit shanghai end of this month also.

It's always good to meet old friends, bring back many fond memories.

And after I total-failure on the curry fishball last weekend, I kept thinking about curry fishball... what's wrong with me?:s

And niasing-gai AmInvest!! I pui pui you!!! I hate b*b* company! I remembered I said the same thing 5 years ago when Ambank do stupid thing, so I cancel my credit card with them and sayorana forever. Only dad still believe them and put money in aminvest. PUI PUI!!!!!!!

Arghh... what a day... pardon me on my "no-subject" bla-bla-ing..