AA制生活

Lately, I am watching this china drama series, called AA制生活.

It is about few family in Beijing... their marriage, family living, etc. And because of the hardship to live decently under the $$$ driven economy, they have this A-A system even after they married. It's very very nice to watch. And I love their northern slang, I don't know how to describe... just love it. But with laughters, there's also touching moment where they earn my tears (especially after episode 20 onwards, sigh). I am very easily 感动.

Last night, there's this scene where the wife gets to know about the intimate relationship of her husband and his 红颜知己. But the husband told the truth, the max limit they reached is only hugging each other, and that's it. The wife very sadly said, "what's the difference with your clothes on or not, if your heart already betrays our marriage??!". wah... that statement is very 震撼!!!

I turned to Bui. I told him if he ever betray me, he better don't let me find out. And I told him, 心灵上的出轨，其实比肉体上的出轨来的更狠. As usual, Bui does not get what I mean (sigh), he gave me his usual "teddy bear" look, and asked, "what do you mean by that?" Aiyoh.....................................

Don't you all agree with me?? 心灵上的出轨，is as bad as 肉体上的出轨. I find it very true. Well... unless you don't let your other half know your 心灵上的出轨, then is OK. But if your other half find out about it, even though there's no physical relationship happened, it is as bad as 肉体上的出轨.

I have 4 more episodes to go before the finale! Yay~~~ I think the wife will forgive the husband, this drama series has a light tone in it:)) Happy Ending is foreseeable.

Update

Update update, my admission application is accepted. 8 courses are exempted because of the degree and MBA courses I took before. Still, there's a 14 left to accomplish. Each semester is about 3 months, and then exam. I can foresee it is quite tough. I took MBA while I was working in KL last time, I can still remember the bitter taste: while everyone was celebrating public holiday, spending quality time with loved ones/family at weekend, I can only immersed myself into books and assignments and prepared myself for the exam. I also need to attend classes after work and weekends. It was not that fun. BUT one thing good is, I get to know some good friends at the class. We still occasionally communicate with each other. Well, actually, left just one in communication. haha... anyway... friendship sometimes does not count by communication (my theory lah). Some friends you know you can count on them when you needed help, regardless the frequency of your communication.

Course starts in June. Exam in August. I think I will start slow, just take one course at a time. I timed myself already, at this pace, I need 3-4 years to get my title, not forgetting I have to get into relevant job function for at least 3 years to get the title. But I can't take two courses given the short timeline, can die ok? I found the course blueprint, and they are not easy. Sigh... And then June-Aug is summer, I don't want to hike and do reading at the same time. NO FUN! haha... Sigh.... First course is the dry dry Busienss Law. Well, need to learn to crawl before walking stage right?

I need encouragement... OK, I call bui now.

Today at skytrain....

Today, the skytrain is quite empty. Two-seaters are gone though... left those one long stretch where you sit and face the in front person face to face on the front long stretch side.

I sat in middle, both of my left and right side are empty.

Then next stop, came sit a boy (college student I think) on my left. He is skinny, so, there's no fighting of space and his hand does not pushed to my hand.

Then next 3 stop, came a FAT woman!!!!!! as soon as she entered the sky train, I knew this bastard is going to sit next to me. So, unsurprisingly, she sat on my right.

I have no discrimination to fat people. And I understood the fact that because of that big size, their hand might eat into my space, and come in contact to my hand. Sigh.

But she is too much I tell you. My whole right arm is practicaly burried under her left arm!!!!! And she was reading news paper, flipping the newspaper so chou-lou-ly, you know, like those european fat lady, they put saliva on their fingers, and use the moisture (yucks!!!!!) to flip the newspaper.

Arrghh.... Beh tahan!!!!!!!

SHE IS SO FAT AND SHE INTRUDED MY SPACE!!!

:(

So different

I noticed there's a different way of expressing things over here. An example is, money.

How do you call "1400" in Malaysia? I will just say it as "thousand four". We all understand it equals to $1400, right?

I had experienced at bank before, I deposite $1200 cash in $100 notes, the teller asked me how much I am  depositing, I said, "thousand two". The teller doesn't seem convinced, he said, "twelve hundred u mean?". I said yes. But I cannot help to feel strange... why he behave like that.

Finally, I discovered the mystery. My colleague told me if you say thousand two, they will think of "$1002". I am like "what???". My colleage said you should say "twelve hundred". Ohhh.....

But of course, if it is $2000, then it is "two thousand". Not "twenty hundred". haha.

Sigh... so different lah... and in China, 300,000 they called it 三十万. For me, I called it 三百千. Whenever they say "万", I have to stop and covert it into 十千/百千 in my head... needless to say 一个亿， that, I have to stop and tell myself it means 100 million . (in writing this, I have to verify if it means 100 million by googling how many zero does yi has. )

So different!

Dental Check up

I tried to "force" myself to do a dental check up every 6 months. Today is the day...

I dragged myself to the appointment. Sitting on the dental chair... 我心里开始发毛. Every time also like that... I hate the machine sounds when they are doing teeth scaling... and the sprinkle water that gets to your face... and the suction thing that suck out your saliva (the image of this always turns my stomach upside down)... Arrrghhh.... hate it hate it hate it..

So there I was... on the chair... and in my head, the image of next visit is already playing there... yeee.... why 6 months pass by so darn fast one???

BUT, after the session was over, I was as happy as a bird again!!!!! Yippie... no need to think about it for the next 6 months!!!

At first, doctor sees me, asked me what's wrong. (they so busy one meh? no time to look through the paper? I am sure the nurse got scribble somewhere there I am here for teeth scaling) I said nothing is wrong, I am here for the routine thing - check up and scaling. After checking up my teeth, doctor said my teeth is good. I said the lower front ones like getting over sensitive. He asked me how sensitive? I said when cold wind blew and if I sucked in the cold air, I feel the tingling feeling. He asked me use sensodyne toothpaste. Does it really work???

Next thing to do is the annual body check up... have to start the good habit of not eating junk food from now... we plan to do the check up in June... two more months to act good. This is called 临时抱佛脚！hehehe... hmmm...

Alaskan King Crab

Suddenly thought of the Alaskan King Crab we had over the weekend. The crab was huge!!!!!! over 10 lbs. And they are very very very very delicious!!! Dunno how to tell you, you know we malaysian really like our butter crab, those type? This is totally a different level. Of course, the price is also not cheap. That crab alone costs us nearly $300 before tax. There are 8 of us. With other dishes, each of us paid about $50. This is considered very pricey in Canada. Normally a meal should not cost you more than $20/head. But all of us very happy with the crab. hehehe... Money well spent.

The photo I took is in my camera. But I will show you a photo I saw on google. Just to show you the size of it. Sorry to the two gentlemen in the picture.. haha.. I just want to showcase the proportionate size of a king crab vs us human.

I heard this year we export king crab out to China and it costs them RMB1000/lb if eat at restaurant. I don't know how true it is.

My ah bui is not a crab person, he also very like to eat the king crab:) It is almost end of the season by now. I think the restaurant we went to eat has 10 left. After that, should be no more. That's it! For such high price, once a year is also enough lah. haha...

Yum Yum:)

Yoghurt

Some yoghurt, doesn't look good, but taste good.

Hmmmm....

Good Friday

Yes, tomorrow is Good Friday, off!!!!!!!!

I don't really care what is good friday, or what is easter. I really don't care. Don't ever start by telling me simi resurrection. Please..... eh-hemmm....

I already made arrangement with some frens to eat King Crab tomorrow! yay... I had eaten King Crab once last year, boss belanja office, it is quite delicious. 顾名思义, it is a huge crab with long pointy leg. Yum Yum...

I hope the weather cooperates tomorrow. Was outside a while just now and kena the wind and now feeling a bit under the weather. Speaking of that, I should go drink some Vit C, just to make sure I stay strong during the long weekend. Falling sick at long weekend is the shittiest thing you can have here. hah!

^_^"

Today is my colleague official last day here. After he is gone, practically, I am the only one left to take ALL the shits from my boss. Or-ni-toh-fut.... sigh.

I am gonna miss him. Even though he always curi tulang, but he is the most decent human being in this office. Sigh. SIGH... Why good men always have to leave first?

By the way, at the farewell lunch today, an English educated chinese business partner said something of the following, I almost chocked on my dessert..:

He, "you know last time the china emperor has many concubines... He has the power. I wish I am like him, has all the power and women."
Me -- almost choke, but OK lah... he is so innocent. Didn't he know most china emperor die very young age? They hari hari do, all the 精华 kena lost in the process...
He continues, "he has many concubines... then the concubine's palace nearest to his palace is the most advantage one, he will visit her most often"
Oh no... please lah.... the game is not played like that ok.... u think the nearest person gets advantage???? Arrrgh...

from there on, I switched off liao. I hate listen to conversations that they think they know everything...

Applied

Applied for the admission today. Waiting to be advised how many of the degree courses can be credit transferred and hopefully can start from middle-upper level onwards.

Regarding the $150 application fees, 心疼着... 在打没有把握的仗，不心疼才怪。