So busy

oiii... so busy lah~~~~~~~~~~

on the other hand, facebook has allowed me to "blog" bits by bits, that is why I seldom come back here to do a serious blog. hehehe...

We are going away during christmas time, to San Francisco! Yay~~~ hope everything is smooth lah. Will update soon.

公主嫁到

I have recently been watching this HK drama series 公主嫁到. So funny I tell you!!!! The jokes they tell inside the story is so funny~~~~~ Just one thing i cannot tahan, is they clap hands and make slogan. Whenever they do that, my hair on my hand will stand up. Really beh tahan.

It's has now just 大结局, finale~~~ Sob... I will miss this drama~

Speaking of HK drama, there's another one also very funny, it is just 20 minutes an episode, it's called 天天天晴. Damn funny too:) I am now on Episode 77, I heard total was 150 something... Hehehe...

So, besides sleep, yoga, cook, clean house, play iphone, another one of my favorite hobby here is watch HK series drama. ;)

September month 2010

I didn't blog much in September, because I have so much things going on at the same time.

First, I am all pumped up to go yoga at least 3-4 times a week. It started out fine. Then one day, on the way walking home passing through the stores in the mall, I saw a tea store, hiring a sales for 1 month. Why 1 month? because they are moving the store out of the mall to another location at the end of September. I like to drink tea very much, learnt from Jay. Jay likes to drink long jing, tie guan yin, jasmine tea, pu erh a lot in China. I actually can differentiate the types of tea by just smelling the tea nowadays. So, I came home from yoga class, took a shower, sat down and printed out my resume, and I grabbed Jay to go with me to the mall to apply the job. Inside the mall, I made Jay to go into the store to have a look, see if it is a "good" store, what kind of stuff they sell, etc. Jay came back and told me, "they sell ok stuff, not bad. Go do it babe.". So I went. The store manager is a Korean guy. He interviewed me at a cafe shop nearby, some more belanja me an orange juice tim, hehe... anyway, the point is, I got the job! I was so happy. The store is not a bad store, it sells 210 types of tea, from black tea, green tea, white tea, oolong tea, Roibos tea, to herbal tea, and fruit tea. And as a worker there, if the shop is not busy, we will brew tea and drink. I have tasted so many kinds of tea in the store in the past few weeks, and I have to say, I still like green tea and fruit tea the best. I really don't like black tea and roibos. And I have learnt lots of tea knowledge in the past few weeks, thanks to my 2 canadian colleagues, and my korean boss. They are so brilliant in tea knowledge. One guy, his name is Jer, (he looks like a Santa Clause to me, seriously), he can talk and talk and talk about tea for long time. He can be a good lecturer.

The tea shop closed up already few days ago. It's kind of sad. It made me also realized that retail job is very tiring, and the time is very inflexible. I am so glad this is just a one month assignment. They are moving to another place, my boss wanted me to move too, but I told him is too far. Actually, it is not far by subway, but I just don't feel like doing this anymore. And, opportunity arise, my friend's friend know a friend's company hiring in downtown, I went to apply, and I got the job! Monday is my first day of work:) It's a property development company. I will be doing something different from my professional, but it is a start. Who ask me want to migrate to a city where jobs are so scarce leh? See what do what first loh~~~ I always believe in fate. So, let's see how it goes.

Speaking of the tea shop sales, because of the sales and extra discount for staff, I ended up spent more than 10% of my pay to buy the tea pot, cups, and tea from the store! aiyoyo... memang rugi lah~~~  sob!

Update soon, and, wish me luck on my new job!!:)

p/s: at the end, i only did 9 yoga classes for the whole mth of Sept. Yeeeeee..... mission failed again! I planned to do at least 10 times!

Labor Day

Today is Labor Day of Canada, and U.S.

So different from Asia's labor day date.

dim gai leh?

It's a "No Tax Day" in Superstore. I bought the iPhone car charger. Now, if we are on the road, we no longer fear that my iphone is out of battery (especially when we are depending on it's GPS service). Yay. Saved 3 bucks oh. hohoho... If hari hari is No Tax Day, isn't that fantastic?

Also bought a bag of candle, it says "each can last about 8 hours"... I will try tonight. I discovered by accident that a brand I bought from carrefour in Shanghai can last about 5 hours, that's the longest I have seen in market. 8 hours? I first time hear only... duk ng duk gah?

Every where is on sale for Labor Day. I think after tomorrow, the kids will be back to school. Yay... everything will be back to normal, no more stupid college kids lingering in mall at day time (they look very 颓废). I also bought another pair of sun-glasses from GAP yesterday at downtown. I get 20% off if I signed up for their membership wor, so why not? Plus, they have this cool service, if the item you bought is having another sale within 15 days of your purchase, you will automatically get the difference credited back to your account. This kind of service, I 1st time hear. So considerate. I like it.

Love Hate Relationship

I am bored. I am going to apply for the volunteer job from canadian red cross. They asked me to do criminal record check because the volunteer job will include contacting the children who are in disadvantage or vulnerable.

I discussed with my fren Hosea. He said criminal record check need $$$ one... and not cheap. I said, "wah.... I free labor also kena pay meh?? I dun believe. And if they want me pay, i no do volunteer liao."

Hosea asked me call the RCMP directly... i very very very very scared... immediately in my mind I picture those mata we have back home... the impatient face, the "bagi kopi duit" face, the "don't ka-ka cau-cau" face. I very hesitate to call. But, I don't want to go all the way there to find out one simple answer "if i do volunteer job and they want me provide criminal record check, do i have to pay or not?"

I called... the automated machine put me on hold for a while, which made me more nervous -- "means they are busy leh... and they will answer this phone and realize it is a small matter like this and waste thier time, will they get mad??? oh dear... should I hang up?"

Just when I was tempted to hang up, a lady officer answered the phone. I told her my question, she answered very professionally (not rushing me to hang up) and explain very detail. Apparently if I am doing this for non-profit organization and if they gave me a letter, I won't have to pay. And she even advised me what to bring to do that. Wow... I am so motivated after the phone call. I love Canada! hehehe...

Even with this criminal record check done, it does not guarantee me a volunteer job. You see... this country is so lurn si... no job, even if it is a volunteer job, you need to be on wait list loh.

Love Hate Canada.

Save some trees, would you?

I signed up for a month unlimited passes to Yoga. It is a community recreational center, very very very near my house... so, why not?:p

Anyway, there's an incident happened today and yesterday (at bank), that makes me 感慨万分.

Yesterday, at bank, we are opening a new account, something like FD in Malaysia. So, the financial planner asked me, "do you want us to mail you the monthly statement? Or do you like to go paperless and view it online?". I have had terrible experience with HSBC on e-statement, I damn scared. I told her I want the monthly statement mailed and also i want to be able to view online. She a bit boh song wor... she said, "ok.. just thought will give you an option to save some trees... hehehe." I totally don't think it is funny loh. I want to tell her my bad experience with HSBC... but I refrained. I want both options still, i told her.

Today, at that recreational center, I changed something on my pass. So the guy at reception helped me changed in the system, and then asked me if I want to print out the statement (after he made the changes). I said, "yes, why not?" Then he pushed his computer screen to me and show me the changes were done, implicating there's no need to print it out lah. He said, "so.. do you still need the print out?". I felt pressured. I said, "fine, no need then." Then he like very happy, and he said, "great, we saved a tree!"

I have no problem in saving trees. But the "saving trees" and "HSBC bad experience" kept haunting me. They are like twins, whenever people said "save a tree", I will think of the bad HSBC. eeeeeeeeee....

I need to do more yoga to calm myself. huhuhuhuhu~~~

Okanagan Trip (Aug 13-16)

Some Pictures of what we took in the okanagan trip. A trip full of wine drinking/tasting/buying/vineyard photo taking, beach photo taking, our friends skinny deep diving (with clothes on though), staring at milky star sky at night, staring at RV and making the sound "ooooh... what a cool life style", etc etc.This is Suki, it is the first time she met Jay but it seems that she is very manja-ing Jay. Look at her.... so manja! She belongs to the vineyard called Forbidden Fruit.At a cross road...At a beach. No, it is at ONE of the beach, we visited so many beaches this trip, but Jay and I didn't go swim, we didn't bring swim suit!!First time see real grape in whole vine yardMore grapes...3 Men fantasazing at this "Dirty Laundry" vineyard. Can you see there are 13 women in this poster? This vineyard is called "Dirty Laundry", it has a story... hehehe... dirty story?:p Don't tell you.Hans caught a glimpse at this little bug and he picked it up, got bitten, but he said it is fine. While he was doing all these, we 3 asian went to shop for grocery, and bought sweet corns!! Damn nice sweet corn, better than those we have in Cameron Highland.Cool RV Van eh? They will be stationed here during the summer and when winter come, they will move down to Arizona. Even though this is not exactly a house, they still have to pay for property tax. How brilliant is canadian government?

It's the first short trip we have in Canada. We stayed in different motel for all the 3 nights, the motel is exactly what I imagined (and i get the imagination from watching movie) and I kept thinking the police will come knock on the door and said "POLICE! come out with hands up!!", only people on the run will stay in motel in the movie ger mah, right?:p We each day spend like 3-4 hours driving on the road, it is a great experience. end up the motel is the biggest chunk of the expenses, the petrol is really cheap. 4 days 3 nights tour we only spent like $98 in total. And really appreciate our fren Hosea for contributing his car. hehehe...:) And we have had great fun - peach picking and tumbled into graveyard next to it (eeeeeeerie), and ended up picking at the wrong spot and got the small peach instead of the big ones, we are so blur! - driving at night and suddenly i saw so many stars in the sky, i was so excited! And Hans suddenly pull over the car, we thought he wants to go "sing song" (shuuu shuuu), no, he purposely pull over the car to let us enjoy the milky star! hohohoho... At that moment, I really thought we are the only creature on earth, the feeling is very 原始, dunno how to describe.

Taste Bud changed

I still remember when we first moved to Shanghai, we thought the food there sucks. It was too oily, too salty, and too sweet. But then slowly, we found restaurants that we love the food there. And then suddenly one year, when I went back to Malaysia, I excitedly go visit those my favorite stalls for chaw kueh teow, laksa, dim sum, and I ended up feeling very disappointed --- they no longer taste good. The cook has changed?

No, it was our taste bud has changed. It has been accustomed to Shanghainese/Chinese style and it strayed away from our Malaysian style slowly.

I think the same thing is happening to me again. Yesterday, Hosea brought us to this Malaysian restaurant. He said the laksa is damn nice. I was so excited. Went there, put the first spoon of soup inside my mouth, and I was totally disappointed again - Not nice one!!! But then Hosea finished his whole bowl of soup.

Jay and I tried out this Sichuan restaurant 2 days ago and we ordered the spicy froggie. I have never tasted such undelicious froggie... :( Obviously the froggie is not fresh and it was from frozen food. We were both disappointed.

Jay and I haven't really found any good restaurant that we both think it has good food. So far, whenever we go try out new restaurant with excitement, it always end up with disappointment. Sometimes I will murmur to Jay, "I cook also taste better than them... yew..." =(

Maybe it takes time?? So far, I really think I cook better than any food we tasted outside. This feeling is no fun. I am very 泄气. By the way, I am not a fantastic cook. I am just a normal cook, so, those cook outside can easily surpass my level, but no, the food tasted not nice one!

Help~~~~~~~~~~

p/s: The only thing that does not fail me yet is the Japanese restaurant here. Japanese food here tastes so much fresher and so much better than those in Shanghai. Of course lah, the salmon fish is from here leh..

My plant

Remember I had a plant 2 months ago (2 chives, 1 chilli)?

After I returned from Shanghai in August, they already not quite happy, especially the chives. But surprisingly the chilli is ready to harvest. I had harvested 2 chilli and cooked it with meal, it is very spicy! and nice:)

Lately, the plant have another 2 chilli, but they are half-blackened, not sure what happened. But this morning, I saw another baby chilli coming out. Hohohohoh...

I decided to gave up on the chives. It's too messy lah... 东歪西倒. Not pretty at all.

Jay said this is my another "3-minute passion" example... arrghhhh...

Refund Policy over here...

As you all know, America and North America have excellent refund policy. This is very good to consumers like me, who always change mind after buy the things. I always change my mind about stuff and if it happens in Shanghai, I can only continue using the stuff I suddenly don't like, or I throw it away. But here, if I don't like what I purchased, I can always return them and get refund.

I bought electronic hand held mixer, mixing bowl, and angel cake pan 2 days ago. Today, I refunded the mixing bowl and angel cake pan. But I am a bit bad person today, I actually used them and realized I don't like them, and I repackaged them nicely and have them returned. The mixing bowl, I decided I wanted the stainless steel type instead of the hard plastic type. And the angel cake pan, I returning them because I failed to make good angel cake, I threw away the angel cake I baked 2 days ago, it is that bad. So I cleaned up the pan nicely and sticked back the sticker onto them and refund them... and I have prepared so many lines in my head of the questions they might ask. Worst come to worst, I will become a mou lai, tell them "I don't care, I have the right to return the stuff I bought within 14 days, so just processed my return!" But they didn't ask anything. They just ask for my credit card to charge it back the amount to my card.

But actually, they have no lost also lah, I will buy the stainless steel mixer bowl and another loaf pan from the same store again. Yes, this time I can confirm stainless steel mixer bowl and loaf pan are what I indeed want to have. No more return lah.

I want to bake sponge cake. Anyone has any good recipe to share with me?? The guai low style of sponge cake (apparently they called it "angel cake") is really lousy, the recipe I got is too sweet and the taste is awful! yucks. I want sponge cake!

Going back to Shanghai

Going back to Shanghai for few days! Yay!

I am debating with myself, should I bring Lee Kai Fu's 世界因你不同 to continue finish reading it, or the novel I bought in KL's mph "Dear John".

Dim leh???  Probably Dear John because it is lighter, and because I want to slowly read this great book written by LKF. Some of his childhood stories made me laugh even when I was bangsai-ing.... haha~~

Hooray~~~~~

Warming Drawer

I am very 孤陋寡闻，only today I realized the existence of such appliances, named "warming drawer". Quote from a website "Warming drawers are the perfect solution for keeping dishes warm while you're waiting for guests to arrive or putting the finishing touches on the rest of the meal. "

They are not cheap!

Look at that! It's really a perfect solution to keep your dishes warm while waiting for your other dishes to complete cooking eh? For me, I always have this problem -- i like to cook, then only take shower before eating the meal. So by the time I finished the shower, some of the dishes are already turned cold, which I really don't like. But there's no way for me to eat first and then shower later because that will mean I have to shower much later - 2 hours after the meal.
 
I want this "toy" when we have our own house next time. It's such a cool feature!

Inception

I had so much expectation towards this movie Inception after I saw its trailer 2 weeks before it's show time.

I went for a movie last night, to watch Inception.

The outcome --- not quite I expected. First of all, the movie have this jap guy right called Saito - without subtitle of the movie in the cinema (I miss those english movie with subtitles in china and in KL), sometimes I don't know what is he talking about with his strong accent. And the dying father of Fischer, the last word he muttered "disappointed....." the "....." is so important, but again, I can't hear it, neither can Jay nor my English speaking friend. Arghh... a bit frustrated on that part.

The whole movie is too "intelligent". I can't understand some of the part, like the part Cobb told Mal they did grow old together.. and the 50 years they spent in their dream, then how come they not old one?? OMG, it's killing my brain cells so much. I have to come back home and googled for "inception explained" and got some of the answers (not all).

Overall, I don't quite like it lah. It's not my cup of tea I guess. I like to watch something I can understand with my own intelligent level. But I get to know that the director of this movie Christopher Nolan, he himself have this experience and fantasy to control his own dreams since he is young. But have to admit his plot is very very sci-fic loh. And the "effect" is very "real" in some part. I like it when Arthur walks in the hotel upside down and sideways. Hehehe... very cool. :p

Recently also watched Clash of Titans (downloaded). I find it quite nice. Not super nice, but not that bad also lah. I don't know why most chinese in China do not like the movie. They said the movie very childish. I find it quite OK, i will give it 6.5 out of 10 loh. haha.. The chinese only give 4-5. I also "accidentally" watched andy lau's 未来警察, because it is starred by Andy Lau, I thought it is a nice movie. But I was totally, absolutely, miserably disappointed by the whole movie. It's cheap, childish, and totally without nice graphic effect except for Andy Lau's police outfit. Damn, wasted my 1.5 hour. I was very angry after I watched it.

Composting

Just get to learn new vocab as I researching on composting method:

- straw: 稻草
- bark: 树皮
- sawdust: 木屑
- manure: 肥料

And apparently coffee grounds contain high level of nitrogen which worms will find it tasty..

And then, there are those specialize compost bin for sale one, and they are not cheap. This is so new to me.

Have a little faith

I have become Mitch Albom's reader after my dad passed away in 2008. His books soothe me in some ways, not spiritually, just something I cannot explain. And also most of his stories are true stories, real life stories.

I bought this book in Chicago Airport last year, when I was transitting the flight to Virginia to meet my family for the vacation. And I only get to read it early this month. I finished the book this morning, as usual, his book always leave me with teary eyes at the end. I am easily touched by emotional sentences in the book, especially when it is death related, because every death related incident made me think of my dad, and I miss him so much, still do, every single day.

At first glance, it is a book of religions. After my dad passed away, I believe in no religion at all, for if something so powerful named God, I am sure he wouldn't make somebody as nice a person as my dad to leave this world so abruptly. This is unfair, and I still hold grudges towards Him (if he is out there). I don't care if I go to hell after I died, because I am losing faith that there is a Heaven anyway. Anyway, why do I still buy this book even though at first glance it is about religions? Because I believe in Mitch Albom the writer. Well, he proves me right again, this is aother good book written by him, after Tuesdays with Morrie. I have 5 of his books, and I still think Tuesdays with Morrie is still my favorite. I have to "murder" 2 tissue papers when I read the last chapters. It is that moving.

Just like to share some of the good books I read recently, now that I have so much time on hand for reading.

My first attempt on muffins

My first attempt on muffin. Turns out quite good and Jay is loving it:) It is his birthday today. This is his birthday cake so to say:)

Making muffin here is so easy, they already premix some ingredient and sell it in pack, u just need to add 2 eggs, some water, and some blueberry:) And baking time needed is only less than 20 minutes.

I want to learn how to bake cake next!

The Christmas List

I haven't had this feeling for very long time, too long that I don't even remember when was the last time - to finish a book within a day because I simply can't get my hands and eyes off it. I borrowed "The Christmas List" from library yesterday, and I was having such a good time reading it. At some chapters, i will laugh out all loud, some chapters I will laugh cynically, and towards the end of the chapters, I was crying and Jay was so worried he asked me what am I reading, is everything OK?

This is a book of love, friendship, father & son, betrayal, redemption and repention, etc. Oh.. so emotionally rich! Towards the end of the chapters, I was first crying because I was feeling so romantic and touched, then I cried because I felt sad because his wife is dying, then I cried because I felt happy for him that he has changed to a better man!

I am seriously thinking of buying this book to keep. Jay said I crazy, it will just collect dust on our bookshelve and I won't even read it second time. Maybe he is right. Anyway, I can picture how great a movie will the plot from this book make. Not sure if they made it into movie before?

bui bui's "new" bike

Bui Bui's "new" bike. We bought used one advertized online. He joined a gym lately, the gym's location is not very far, not within walking distance either, so, driving is a waste and parking is a hassle. Instead, biking is the best option. But we very giamsiap on spending. New immigrant mah, get used one loh. It is selling for $100. It took us forever to get this bike fit into our car, and at the end, scratches our baby (our honda) a bit on the trunk. Bad boy! It had better worth all the effort in getting it. It is now sitting in our store-room. Bui Bui is lazy, he should have brought it to pump air in the gas station nearby, but instead, he goes to take a nap. He very 吊儿郎当 sometimes.

In order to bike "legally", he also made an attempt to buy a new helmet, and a new lock. We were so startled when we went into the biking store, it has so many biking related stuff that we will never even think of. Sports is a crazy industry and good business in BC. 

The used bike, as advertized, it is a "18-speed Sportek "Mud Dawg" Full Suspension with Shimano Altus parts". Without the stickers though.

It's a bright sunny day @ Stanely Park

We didn't have a swim suit when we visited Stanley Park yesterday (I totally forgotten Stanley Park has a beach), so we just chilling under a big tree, and playing with jay's phone's camera;)

new hobby

I bought chives and superhot chilli (指天椒) and transplanted them to small pot at my balcony today. Jay commented sarcastically "let's see how long will my honey's new hobby last this time". Hmmmmm....

I forgot to get any furtilizer... yiu.... have to go back to the farm again?

Learnt new vocab

I am constantly learning new vocabulary here (shy shy...):

I thought all 地毯 is called carpet. I didn't know the smaller ones are called rug until now.

I thought the small drawer next to bed is called drawer, but it is actually called "night stand".

I thought all tables are called table, i didn't know there's coffee table, tv stand (yah i considered this table too), and dining table.

And then, I thought chairs are chairs. I didn't know there's a type called "ghost chair", and I thought it is very scary. Then only I realized ghost chair is just those chairs very plastic feel, almost transparent, maybe that's why it is called ghost chair.

And then, I didn't know 烤 is broil. I didn't even know the word "broil" existed before this. Luckily we brought a dictionary over. So I checked it out and realized I have the chicken "baked" instead of "broiled" for past 5 minutes, so, I quickly change the setting to broil and have the wonderful broiled chicken. haha.

I have to say I am a bit lost here still. I really miss Shanghai a lot. Miss the food, miss the cheap books, miss the cheap stuff, miss the taobao.com, miss amazon.cn, miss sooooooo many things. wooo...wooo...... Miss communicating people in pure mandarin. sei mei?

One lazy afternoon at Granville Island

All the troubles seem so far away when you have such beautiful day.

Canada Day

Tomorrow, July 1st, is Canada Day. Holiday.

National Day for Canada. (Don't ask me how many years it went independent, so memalukan to say, I also don't remember how many years has Malaysia went independent)

Strange that I don't see many houses or cars hang the national flags... Maybe here not "heng" this??

I am so sleepy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hey, I miss Shanghai!!!!! I love Shanghai!!! It took me 2 years+ to fall in love with Shanghai, will it take me same amount of time to switch to love Canada??? Sometimes I feel so pathetic to be a Malaysian -- pardon me and forgive me but I have to say this out loud - I feel I am a second citizen in everywhere in this world, including my own country! But to be honest, I don't feel so "second" in China at all. In China, we foreigners are treated so equally with the rest of the chinese people, it makes us feel so comfortable in that sense without any "discrimination". They don't have special discount for locals in buying houses regardless your skin color (eh-hemmm..); they don't have certain bank acount or termed deposit for certain kind of people (eh-hemmm-hemmmmmm!!!); they don't have the kind of different attitude in police station in treating different skin color people (eh-hemm-hemmm-hemmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!).

When can I fall in love with my own country without feeling depressed???

p/s: I feel depressed recently because my sister got bullied at "polis" station because of the accident involved with a "ah-hem" race and we chinese race. The polis man immediately have that kind of look on their face that shows "must be the ah-hem race correct, chinese is at wrong". WTF is this???? Still got 天理 in our country or not??? This is totally high-level-discrimination!!!!!! The very truth is, the ah-hem race is at fault because his stupid motorbike hit my sister car because he still goes at red light and there are witnesses and the polis still want to say the guy is right and my sister is wrong! WTF is wrong with our country?

Hmm...

I am so going to watch Sex and the City 2!!!!!!

And, just discovered iGoogle, it is cool! The search page now is empowered with your unique preference style.

Someitmes I wonder, what were we doing when we were without internet and handphone last time?

Fuzzy Wuzzy

I bought a new "gadget" today.

You know how I cannot stand the dust on the table surface? Today while I shop at a supermarket, i saw this thing called "Fuzzy Wuzzy". It is a unique double sided multi purpose mitt, that allows you to clean the dust easily. And then the other good thing is, it is machine washable - again, this is environmental friendly and economical eh?

Mine is the pink one. hehe. Can you see the BEFORE and AFTER effect?

I didn't know it sells so cheap on Amazon. I paid like 5.99 to get this leh... and I am so surprised it only sells 0.99 at amazon. eee....

This baby really sweep away the dust so easily and leave the surface so clean and smooth. I guess the dust are all trapped in the strip like thing on this fuzzy wuzzy thing.

Better than 鸡毛扫？=）

老爸，你也在听吗？

以前就觉得bui bui在很多方面很像我父亲。今天，他在youtube播放了很多他喜欢的老歌--猫王的"only you", "love you tender", "always on my mind", John Lennon's "Imagine", Simon & Gafunker "Sound of Silence"... 听着这些老歌，让我很是想念我的父亲。听着听着，眼眶湿湿的...

bui bui 说他很喜欢这类老歌。连这一点都像我父亲，不爱死他是不行的了...

不知道我的父亲这时候是不是也在天国享受着这一些老歌，还是他已在tea-time with Elvis up there???

My new toy - Vacuum cleaner!

I bought a new toy today -- it is a vacuum cleaner! I feel very happy when I bought it, and it suddenly hits me to realize that... am I 100% silai nowadays? I can feel very happy easily if I bought a useful household items, a nice oven plate, or even a handy rice container can make my day. Geez.... .....

Anyway, I am now charging the toy now. It is a cordless, bagless, stick broom type of vacuum cleaner. It is light, small and can fit into store-room closet perfectly. I didn't know the brand name before this, it is Oreck. But I came back yesterday and google for its review, seems pretty decent. So, I went back to buy it today. The indian seller gave me a free-gift. He wanted to give me a watch, it is very a cheap watch. I have so many nice watches I have no time to wear them, and u expect me to wear those china-made watch meh? So, I boldly asked him if he can give me other same value gift or not, I don't need a watch. At the end, he gave me a hand sanitizer liquid. Hehehe... this is much better. See? I am happy again for this liquid... Geez..... .....

I will try it on tomorrow. Hopefully it meets my expectation. My expectation is not high -- i want it light and no restriction for me to move around, so cordless it is; I want it to be able to convert to crevice tool to pick up dust in between sofa's cusion, this one can do, so should be alright; I want it to be economical and I don't want to keep buying bags to replace bag, so this one is bagless, I am glad. I just need it to work on the floor and some rugs, and keep my house clean. This expectation is minimum right? The dust is driving me crazy. I cannot stand to see dust lying on the surface, it drives me crazy and I will mumble whole day. Jay kept asking, "Have u taken your medicine, Martha?" [if you watched "24 hours", you will catch this line.. martha was president logan's wife, and she was mentally ill, at least that is what Logan believed, haha]. And I will answer him back, "are you my lover Aaron or u are stupid Logan?" [Aaron is Logan's body guard, but he became martha's lover at the end. Haha...]

We met a guy on the lift when coming back just now. He wished me "happy sweeping"... I really look like a silai I guess. SOB!

Our cell phone package - How I get "con" into subscribing to iPhone

We got our cell phone packaged gao tim on Day 2. I didn't do a good home work on this, so, I just go for what everybody says a good phone company - Rogers. It is just like Maxis in Malaysia.

We visited the Rogers at Downtown inside the Pacific Center, the system was down for more than 2 hours, so by the time after our dinner, it was still not able to sign us in. The salesman suggested us to go to another nearby branch, I think it was on robson street or somewhere there. So, we went. At the Pacific Center, both Jay and I have made up our mind to just subscribed to the minimum package, they have this thing called "couple plan". Then when we reached the robson st. branch, this lady, her 口才 is damn good, she ignited my passion for the iPhone with their promotional plan! I think the store got ghost also, coz it blinded my mind, I signed up for the iPhone package, which tight me up for the next 3 years. 3 years leh~~~~~ after I came out of the store, only I realized 3 years is a hell long time - after 3 years, I can be citizen already if I want to! So, it is a damn long time! But the lady is very good, she is very helpful, very passionate about her job. And she stayed up til 10pm that night just to sign us up (their working hour is supposing til 7pm only). we really appreciate for her help, even though she successfully "con" me into another iPhone customer.

But.... iPhone is really a great phone!! Lots of application is very user friendly in daily life. I love it, although the "3 years" thing is very haunting... anyway, what is done, is done.

We both signed up for 3 years deal, both got a new phone (free if u signed up for 3 years). Jay didn't get an iPhone, in fact, he didn't care about phone, he is fine as long as people can find him on phone or make phone calls. He got the LG again (yes, again... he is such a LG man), and the phone has the push-email function, so whenever he received an email, his phone will beep.

So, this is our cell phone package hunting (or, hunted) experience. Phone package here in Canada is so inhumanely high. In china, my phone bill per month seldom exceed 150 yuan (that is like 24 CDN dollar). But over here, my phone bill each month, minimum is 70 cdn dollar!!! (before blardy tax some more ok). I really miss shanghai....

Would I stay here for the next 3 years???

p/s: It has been a while I get pushed by pedestrian here. In Shanghai, I get pushed everytime I am walking on the street. I kinda miss the pushiness over there... Help~~~~~~

Big Ticket Item - Car

As soon as we arrived, we realized we needed a car. We are not those energetic students anymore, can figure out where to take bus. Unlike in Shanghai where subway can practically brings u to anywhere u wanted to go, and for places where subway cannot reach, you can always take a cab. It's totally totally different here. So, we need a car. (I really miss the subway-life in Shanghai... so convenient... I think I am a very subway-girl... :s)

My good fren Hosea is very kind to lend us his car while he goes to work. So, we take his car to shop around car dealer shop. Our aim is to get a used car. If we were to sell it off again in a year's time, it won't depreciate that much. We have test-drove toyota matrix, honda civic, and toyota corolla. Matrix is quite spacious inside, but the engine is very loud, yes we know this version engine is quite loud, but it is very uncomfortably loud, so we passed that one. The corolla is in orangy red color, Jay doesn't like it, and I also think the resell value could be affected given this strange color, even though its mileage is very low, so we gave it a passed as well.. so, at the end, we bought the Honda Civic, it's blue color - Jay's favorite color, and it's very comfortable. Both of us test-drove it (the car dealer very scared of me, coz i so used to Malaysia road system, i drove very to the right side... could have hit the right lane car one... til today I still have this issue... dim suen??), we both love it, the only disadvantage it has is its mileage is very high, well, nothing is perfect in this world. We feel it has some connection to us, like we knew him very long time like that. So, this is yuen fen, we bought it. I bargain for it, wanted to bargain for 500 off, at the end only get 350 off... ok lah, better than nothing. The car salesman is a Korean guy, can see he very happy to make this deal. While we sigining the paper, the toyota guy kept calling my handphone... yew... so hungry meh these salesmen? So, we paid the money in cash (what to do? new immigrant, no cheque book yet, no credit card yet), gao dim the insurance in 15 minutes (damn expensive the insurance here!! and I already got 40+% off because I hold canadian driver license for more than 10 years, luckily I got it renewed on last trip), and drove the new baby back the same day. We are quite efficient in buying car. Haha...

Do you like it?:) So, this is our first big ticket item - Honda Civid used car - got it on Day 3.

p/s: by the way, car dealer here is very strange, they can sell new car (say authorised car dealer for toyota), and at the same time carries different brand of used car. Very chap-ba-lang.

In Vancouver

Hey folks, haven't been blogging for a while, I hope I can resume doing so next week. Time flies, we have been in Vancouver for 3 weeks+ already! Wow... I can still remember the night before our flight, I was having difficulties in sleeping because my mind was still twirling around the luggages - "will it be too heavy?" "did I bring everything?" "where did I put the lock? shit!" "would we create a scene with 4 big luggages?" "excess luggage charge?"

But it turns out everything is fine. MU didn't even check the luggage weight. However, we did have some small issue in Vancouver Airport. Apparently we have to know EXACTLY how much money (different currencies) we bring into Canada and declare it. As you know, we are quite a heavy travellers, we have unfinished euro, australian dollars, US dollars, canadian dollars, renminbi, ringgit, HK dollar, Macau dollar, Japanese yen, Indo notes, etc etc, we really do not know EXACTLY how much money each currency we have! So, we gave an estimates to the officer. The officer jotted down our words, and then he said, "OK folks, I am going to search your luggage, if I found more $ than what u declared, they will be confisticated, understood?". WAHHHH.... I immediately stopped him, "actually, those are only estimates. If you want the real number, let me count in front of u. we don't want to lie to u, but we really do not know how much we have." So, as we searching for keys to unlock the luggage, officer said, "OK, wait here.". He went into a room, and when he came out, he just said, "I believe the number you told me this time. But next time, please know how much currency you bring into Canada. Today is the only warning you going to get, understood?". What a relief... phew... actually, they just want you to declare how much money u bring into canada, they are not going to tax u, they just need to know, so to avoid terrorist bringing big sum of money into the country.

Will blog more next week =)

Enjoying house wife life

It's been quite some time since I last blogged. Partly it is due to I have been busy with all the preparations, secondly I realized most of the time (last time) I only blogged when I was pissed at work. So, now that nobody is my boss (not even bui bui), my life is fill with happiness and skin also become better tim, I find no time or no reason to blog. Hahaha...

I am enjoying house wife life!!! And fuck you, M*tt*l, fuck you Karen Ong!

(sometimes I still pissed thinking what she did! I hope she is not sleeping with the bosses again, like what she did in Electrolux, shame on you!)

See? Whenever I blog, I like to venture out my dissatisfaction, be it now or accumulated from last time. Haha!!

I have been busy packing (say only... i only packed one out of 7 days...), gettiing quotations for various reason, calling to get more info (e.g. If I have a golf set bag, does it count to my luggage weight limitation as well? e.g. Can I use your "e-boarding" services? No??? Why??? It's for domestic flight only?? Oh....), reading to understand more on info on buying house and buying car over there... medical coverage... etc etc etc... Whenever I get 1 question answered by reading or by asking question, I feel satisfied and I go play facebook, go see stock market, go email, go msn, give excuses to myself "Yay, accomplished something today, let's have some fun now lah. haha" Days go by without me knowing, it's really time to count down. It's just 1 month's time away.

I am both excited and worried about my new chapter. But I am definitely happy not working for the stressful and full of bitch company (just one bitch only actually). And as I said before, it's such a nice feeling to cook for bui bui and see his satisfied look every night at the dining table, he himself also said, "if I knew earlier of this good life, I would have asked u not to work from day one." :) so sweet of him.

That day went shopping with my girl friend, passed by 2 shopping mall, went to see the x counter. Cheh... thought that bitch got simi power said she gonna do this do that, my ASS, nothing has been done, the counter is as old as last time, and no customer also. Some more said when she gonna launched the fashionista, she gonna hired Coco Lee to come do the dance, sing, be on TV and to be the brand ambassador.. My Ass again!!! Nothing was going on, and the fashionista is already displayed out, means what? Means they are NATO again (no action, talk only!). cheh cheh cheh!!!!!! Don't even mention that bitch also said want to renovate the in-store look. My ass again, the store still look the same as 4 years ago. Renovate with new fixture? Where huh?? after spending RMB200,000 on fixture/merchandising design, where is the result huh??

Hahaha... so happy bitching on my own blog. Yay, satisfied now, gonna log out and enjoy my tv series time, followed by cooking.

Ciao~ til next time~~

2010 CNY Family Gathering

We - one big family of Jay's side and my side, spent our first few days of CNY at Muar - Bukit Tinggit and then Cameron Highlands. This will be a great memory trip in the future:)

At Bukit Tinggit:

At Cameron Highlands:

Gong Xi Fa Cai!!:)

Melaka Trip with mom & sis

I am really not a Malaysia tourist fans (the weather is too hot to enjoy any scenic visit), but since my mom likes melaka so much, so we went there over the weekend. But this trip is very relaxing and with great food. All the famous food that requires lining up are tasted by us with no lining requirement! Hohoho... wise choice to go there during non-long-weekend eh?!!