Shoes..

My shoes....:

How ah? I really love this pair of shoes... I love the color, and I love it is flat, and it is weightless. But now the left front part torn like that (the surface is torned, but not all the way to my fresh), how to wear :(

Just throw it away?? Definitely not worth to fix it. I remember i bought it very cheap at Shanghai.

95%

Bui and I are very very very busy lately. Our new apartment has been completed, and we took key last week. It is small but it is "ours". The feeling is so different. 

Weekend, we busy went to Ikea to shop for some cabinet for living room and also for washroom. And shoes rack too. Since everything is small, so we have to take measurement carefully. We so glad we able to find shoe rack that can fit into the entrance area just nice. It was as if it was tailored made for it. haha. But I realized Ikea does not supply nail/screw for attaching purpose. Ikea ah Ikea, some of your fixture, blind also can see MUST be attached to the wall, can't you supply the screw instead of making us stop at that point, and only realized then need to buy screw, and it was late already, shop closed, and we can only continue the next day?

We only managed to install a white cabinet on top of the mahtong. Even that, was so tiring. we can only do a little each day after I come home from work. I have to save the holiday for my sister's wedding, can't use it on matters like such.

I almost screw the wrong side of the board... luckily Bui is more careful type of person, he corrected me before I screw it tight! haha...

With these guys help!:

Yes, I have become a handy man in Canada! hahahaha.... we do feel very sumtong when we put in screw into the wall, which we never felt so before (with landlord's apartment). hahaa...

We were so busy, we didn't even bother re-paint the wall. Anyway, the new unit came with a white wall. Good for anything to goes with it. For the time being, it has to be white.

With these things going on, I still have to take my midterm last Tuesday, and classes every week (after work, 2 days). Sooooo tiring. Before each class, we have to read the chapters first. And because the course is Canadian Business Law, we have to read so many cases in the class everytime. So many readings to do, and some wordings are so "deep". Luckily I am already used to reading a lot, but still. At one point, I almost cried to Bui "I want to give up, this is too difficult, at my age!". Bui as usual, let me do ANYTHING, he replied "OK, quit. I don't want to see you so suffer." Then me, as usual, very practical type, "then the $600 tuition fees, mah thrown into the sea?????? CANNOT LAH!!!!!!!" This goes on as a cycle for many days (conversation), while we busy doing renovation, and schooling. SIGH!

Last night, I got back my midterm 1. Guess what? I got 95%!!! At first I cannot believe it. I thought instructor gave mark wrongly. Then she goes through the questions with the whole class, only I realized this is real. hahahaa.... the korean girl next to me got 31%. She doesn't seem very happy... the guai low behind me, asked me, "how did you do on midterm?" I replied, "it was alright". Then I asked him, "How did yours go?". He showed me two big thumbs up and a wide smile! "Awesome!". I said, "good for you. so, what's the score?" He showed me. It was 88%. Ah cheh....... I almost laugh out loud. OK... guai low memang don't know how to be "him" 谦.

I was so happy I texted Bui right away. Then I showed him the test paper at night. And I still can't beleive i got 95%. Bui said he has a new name for me, the name is, "95". hahaha...

Anyway..... i still have midterm 2 and Final to pass..... hope I can do "OK". :p Btw, instructor said to me "good work" last night, when I said goodbye to her. Makes me as happy as a standard one kid!!! :-)

We have to pack stuff into boxes too. We are moving this Saturday. And then have to do so many little tweeny tinny thingy such as get insurance for the unit, arrange for tv cable and internet at new place and disconnect at old place, find movers, schedule electricity, change address (kill me, with quite a few credit cards!) wahhhhhh... head also  almost kaboom...:s Moving is really no fun!!!!! We are sick of moving, hopefully next one is gonna be some years down the road. But, we don't mind to move into bigger house next time! That's for sure:)

Sigh...
:-(

后宫甄嬛传

后宫甄嬛传， another great success of drama series from China!!

I am on episode 27... 75 in total.

The 坏人花妃，is so skillful in her acting. Ichiban!!! You watch this movie you really hate her deeply, but, that is the success part of her right? hahaha...

My boss has menopause

Boss with menopause (is a he), "can you give me the package for tomorrow's AGM meeting?"

I don't even know there's an AGM meeting for tomorrow, to start with. So I replied, "I did not know about the AGM meeting.. I don't remember seeing the package from them."

Boss with menopause, "are you sure? check and get back to me."

After 1 hour, he came back from lunch.

"I printed out the package for you. I got it from the secretary of ABC, I asked her to email me."

Boss with menopause, "so, did they not send to us?"

"... I did not ask about the detail, I thought you just want the package"

Boss with menopause, "you should be more curious. Find out if they sent it to us earlier! Because if they did not send out to us, the other Mr will not know about the meeting. Do you get what I mean? xing xiu xiu la"

I REALLY WANT TO KILL HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@#$%!!!!!!!!!!

The other person did not send the package to you, you can scold me???????

:< I am so wanting to slap him!!!! Hate him so much. Fake face.

The Hunger Games

I am reading The Hunger Games. It is unbelievably interesting to read!!!

Should I bring it to SF tomorrow to read on flight? What if I dai-tao-har and misplaced it? Then I have to pay fines to the library. hahaha.... not only that, the on-hold readers will kill me. I have been reserving this book for more than 2 months only reach my turn. Such a hot book.

My mom and sister and soon to be BIL come and go just like a 龙卷风. They only spent 4 days at Vancouver loh... now they are playing at SF already... I think they are tired. For me, if the trip lasts more than 5 days, I will be dead tired and miss my own bed at home. haha... anyway, will see them soon :)

May 2012 - what a busy month for us!

I love Summer!

My lovely Dahlia

Tuan Tuan dan Puan Puan, remember I blogged about my dying dahlia?

Look now:

Mom is right, it was"thirsty" before, therefore gave me the sour face. Hahahaha... the flowers are so pretty after I water it and cut off the dying leaves!!! And it seems pretty happy at the moment:) I did try to put it outside the balcony to suntan a bit. But just for 3 hours, the leaves gave me some sour face again. So I know already, ini dahlia, cannot kena wind, cannot too cold, and cannot thirst. 真嗲！

^_^'

"I will Remember you"

Come across this canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, and found her famous song on youtube - "I will remember you." The youtube that I listend to, some of the commentor dedicated this song to his dog that passed away. But when I listen to this song, all I can think of is my dad. Especially the part "weep not for the memories", "Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose", "You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me life".

Baba, I will remember you, will you remember me?

LYRICS:

I will remember you, will you remember me?


Don't let your life pass you by,

Weep not for the memories

Remember the good times that we had?

I let them slip away from us when things got bad.

How clearly I first saw you smilin' in the sun

Want to feel your warmth upon me

I want to be the one



[Chorus]

I will remember you, will you remember me?

Don't let your life pass you by

Weep not for the memories



I'm so tired but I can't sleep

Standin' on the edge of something much to deep

It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word

We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard



[Chorus]



I'm so afraid to love you

But more afraid to lose

Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose

Once there was a darkness

Deep and endless night

You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me life



[Chorus: x2]

I am 花克星？

Day 1, happily brought it back from a garden. Costs is almost $3 bucks.

I put it outside the balcony.

Day 2, I immediately sense (and also can see) the flower is not happy. I brought it inside the house. The flower is not happy, but the leaves are OK.

Day 3, both the flower and leaves are not happy at all!!!

I give up on it... it's name is Dahlia. I read the instruction, did not water it at all (because it says only water once a week), take care of it, and still it gives me sour face. What did I do wrong??

disappointed by 那鸡！

Read so many news and messages about Bersih 3.0

Cannot understand why our mata can be so 流氓 and brutal to citizens. And why they so smart think of so many strategies to create 暴乱. If they can just use this brain of 10% to catch those snatch thieves or thieves that banged through your car window and took your stuff, then isn't it we will live in a much better world??

While people are participating on Bersih 3.0... they are other people just don't care about everything and continue life doing travelling or makan-ing with their kids on April 28... Don't you know your don't care attitude will reinforce the corrupted government strength in Malaysia?? Your kids is going to be raised in this land! You think they can breath separate type of air (Lynas, yes no?), and live under separate sets of political environment?

So disappointed at our government.:(( And why they can be so 无法无天?? Is this the saying of 鬼又是他们，神又是他们?自导自演，实在厉害。那鸡你出尔反尔，亏你可以无羞耻的当我们的领袖！

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。