Braveheart

I flipped through TV channel last week and there is this channel that was showing Braveheart, since my bui bui that time not at home, and I very mou liu, so I watched. I normally don't fancy about this kinda history and ancient movie. Some more hou dei dei, this movie was translated into chinese. Imagine the men are wearing scotland dress and speaking chinese language.. Wo de Ma...

Dim but zi, I was sucked into this movie! Marvelous movie!!! So touching in many scenes. 美中不足, there is a solid 15 minutes of advertisement in every 45 minutes!! So, by 1.30am, it is still not over yet, and thus I give up. The next day have to work!

When bui bui came back, he said, "silly, i have this DVD in the drawer lah~~ u can finish watching the ending any time. It is a great movie, I watched it 3 times!". Then I started questinoning him, "3 times?? with whom? :)" (with a dangerous grin). Hahaha.... women... trouble-maker.

So last night I find time to finish the ending, I actually cried when he was screaming for "FREEDOM" even before he was going to be beheaded. Such a great hero!!!!

But I have 1 thing I don't like about him, since he die also holding his wife's punya hankerchief, why he slept with the enemy queen earlier? Why men can be like that one ah? WHy men can say they very very love the wife, but yet, they still can sleep with other women????

That part I don't think he is a good hero. I "pei! pei!" him! Hamsap Hero is no Hero man.. I was screaming at the screne, "How can you do that? Aren't you still love your wife??!!"

Anyway... i know kai xin will be yelling at me, "man, this movie is in 1995!! get a life, don't always watch old movie!!". Well, a good movie will always be good movie, even though it is 10 years old.. 20 years old... or 100 years old.

So, William Wallace / Mel Gibson, you might be a hero to Scotland, but you might not be 100% good man to your wife!!!! HMMPH!!!

F U

Me: "Honey, Fuck U"
Jay: "fuck u back" (in a sleepy tone)
Me: @_@
Me: "Fuck u and no back" (getting louder)
Jay: "fuck u front & back" (still in sleepy tone)
Me: "Fuck u and no back and no front" (getting much louder)
Jay: "fuck you front front and back back" (in less sleepy tone)
Me: "Fuck you infinity no back and no front!!!" (screaming already)
followed by a series of me beating his hand, leg, and back.

This is one of the newest entertainment we recently found at home, 口角. Hahahaha... It all started with him sleeping at 9pm 2 days ago (due to jet lag) and me not happy about it.

Bla Bla Bla

Have you had some colleagues, position very high, but you seriously cannot see their contribution to the company -- never see they really work? And thus you wonder what's the justification on his post?

I have one. He is sitting next to me.

His at Manager level, but dunno what he does daily. At most make a few calls, chit chat, and go home at 6pm on the dot.

Oh, he is damn good at forwarding email to other people to get his work done. Brilliant.

And, I just found out he is a computer bak-chi, does not even know how to do print-screen.

And I think he 前世 is a singaporean, coz he damn kiah-su, whenever there is a company get together, he sure brings his son, never miss any event.

I think our Commercial Manager also know his irritating behavior. Incident is as follow: lately we have some free tickets giving out on F1, on 29th, 30th, and 1st. Oct 1st ticket, we mainly reserved for BIG clients, because these tickets are precious, and outside sell very expensive, and we should offer to BIG clients in the hope the clients will bring more business to us in the future. We all very sek-joh, took the 29th or 30th ticket. Only this stupid uncle sitting next to me, not only he thick face want to go on Oct 1st, he some more asked for anotehr free ticket to bring his son on Oct 1st. CM saw this and he made a comment to secretary, to ask her to tell him that is not possible. Damn siah-sui.

I am always finding things amazed in China. He is another "amazing" thing I see here -- thick face, lazy, and brings his son to attend all company function. Oh not only that, in our company funciton, we sure have lunch or dinner, he sure will order apple juice, orange juice, any expensive juice in the restaurant for his son. Like his son in his house will also drink only juice and no other liquid (bloody, I won't believe this is true loh).

The morning cleaning aunty work in our company also once made a comment, said she saw him taking samples from our company whenever he comes into office early.

Amusing man. Amusing behavior. Once again, I am amused.

Morning Helpless Sigh

Have I told you guys Jay's new office is at the same building as my office, coincidently?

Was pretty excited about this. Imagine... we can hold hand go to work, and hold hand going back to home:)

Today is Day #2, of him moving to new office here.

Oh his working hour is 8.30-5.30pm. With him being the boss, he would like to be in the office around 8am, just to have a fresh start of work daily. Mine is actually anytime, then just plus 9 hours. And I normally reach office at 9.15am.

Yesterday, because of leaving to office together with hubby, I reached office at 8.30am.

Today, he has a morning tel-con with U.S., so I have to leave the house at 7am, reach office at 7.30am. Woke up at 6.15am, slapping the alarm off 4 times after it started ringing since 5:55am.

My face was damn-cham.

No body fight for the elevator with us. It is just two of us taking the elevator, compared to always have to line up for elevator and when u go inside, is all packed like satin fish.

...... and for once, I am the first in the office, instead of the last one, or the last 2 ones.

FUNNY!!!!

I would very much like to hold hand going to office and returning home, but I think I will sacrifice this part for more beaty sleep. I hope he won't mind when I go back home later and tell him I will like to go to office separately. Haha...

But going to office separately means I cannot take the cab with him. He insisted morning have to take cab.

But after today's experience with cab, i think taking subway is much better. The cab driver impatient sighing noise, and his rude cutting lane action, and almost "kissed" other people's car action, and the jammed on the highway, made my heart beat 4 times faster than when I was taking subway.

I think I would rather pek with other subway taker, than taking cab in the morning.

Sigh... I just have this lousy feeling of 这样也不行，那样也不行 today.

OK! Made up my mind liao:
1) Jay can leave the house earlier without me
2) I will take the subway, no cab.

I will resume to be the old me. Ha!;)

hubby is back

My hubby is back:)

Friday night, he was knocking on our house door, I thought he would have arrived much later, so I ask with a trembling tone (I scared mah), "是谁？！是谁？！”My hubby then answered, "aiyoh.. it is me.. quickly open the door lah~" Hahaha.. damn funny:) Aiyah, who would expect he arrived 1 hour earlier than what he told me before? hehe..

Then, at night, I feel so difficult to fall into sleep, the snoring sound is back~~~ for the past many weeks, my sleeping environment is very quiet, but with him, it seems very noisy neh~~~ so.. I couldn't sleep very deeply 1st night.

Then becuase he has jetlag, he slept at 8.30am the second night, and woke up at 4am. And when he woke up, he felt bored, and was trying to wake me up also. So, I didn't sleep nicely for 2nd night too.

And 3rd night, have to wake up at 7am because of work lah...

So.. i wish he won't have to go to U.S. that often. Not only he has to adjust to jetlag, I also have to adjust to his existence at home. Hahahhaa...

侬好

屈指一算, I have been in Shanghai for 9 months already.

And I just realized I can understand shanghainese language around 50% nowadays, as compared to just 2% on day 1 here. Quite happy about it:)

I have long time ago already given up to learn speaking shanghainese language. If can understand 80% is already very good. I don't expect I can learn to speak:)

Yeah~ gambatte!

SK-Ⅱ

Girls (& guys... ), if you are SK-Ⅱ users, please... please... please stop using it.

Lately, China government has discovered 12 products (including its magical whitening mask) has dangerous ingredient to human.

It was only 9 products discovered last week. Today, there is another 3 considered dangerous (I think because of their ignorant attitude of not wanting to recall the products and also not wanting to take down the products from shelf pissed off the china government).

An excerp from news:
市食药监局向“宝洁”通报对本地市场监督抽检SK-Ⅱ系列化妆品的结果为：SK-Ⅱ清透防晒乳液等12种产品中均含铬，其中五种还含有钕。较国家质监总局此前公布的9种“问题”产品，上海此次抽检出的含铬产品增加了3个品种：SK-Ⅱ护肤洁面霜、SK-Ⅱ活肤抗皱修护膜和SK-Ⅱ重点净白精华液。12种产品中检出的铬含量在0.18mg/kg至4.86mg/kg之间。根据我国《化妆品卫生标准》规定，化妆品中不能含有铬、钕等禁用物质。

I think, P&G is pretty screwed up this time. They created so many obstacle for the users here to get the refund, and also asked them to sign a very unfair agreemment, the content is :“此处理方案为本案例一次性终结处理”. Signing that contract while you getting the refund, means that SK-II 经营者免除了自身的责任、排除了消费者今后求得损失赔偿的权利.

If you using SK-II, check with the counter whether it is from the same batch as the China products (heard it was manufactured in Japan?). Get refund if possible, don't use your face to 赌博。

I wonder if my beloved Dior product has dangerous material inside also?? .....

礼仪调查结果

I am VERY happy to notice that even the local people recognized this BIG problem. I read this on 时代报 today:

“文明走路、文明行车”公认为最需培养的礼仪

本报讯（叶芳）市妇联儿童和家庭工作部昨天公布的“上海市市民礼仪网上调查”显示，“文明走路、文明行车”被公认为当前最需要培养的礼仪，而“随地吐痰、乱扔杂物、在公共场合吸烟”被视为最让人讨厌的不文明行为。

They miss one point though “随时随地不排队！”也是最让人讨厌的不文明行为。

Or... even the local people does not think this is a problem?

Manicure

Yesterday afternoon, I was so bored at work, could have snake out gone home (coz bosses not around), but because of a stupid email I have to get from distributor in order to make decision(and thanks to their efficiency..), I have to stay around office, with nothing much on hand to do.

So, I have a brilliant thought, go down to 4th floor to do manicure!!! hahaha..

It only took me 2 minutes to grab my wallet and went down (same building as my office) after the first thought arise in my head. haha..

I chose a purple color, even though the girl recommended me pink. BUt I regretted today, looking at that purple color, I feel sick. I should have listend to her and get the pink! Damn it!!!!

But the feeling is great~~ sometimes you just need to pamper yourself;)

The feeling of doing this during working hour is even greater!! haha.. it only used up 1 hour anyway.

:)

Natural Disaster

Only late, I get to fully understand about the "external forces" that we once studied on text book, on economic and finance courses.

Government here, suddenly shouted a new rule (to be carried out June 1, 2007), called it 3C, for our range of products. Of course, sword always come in 2 edge - advantage is, all the tikus pasar malam players will be swamped dead; disadvantage is, we need to entertain their tests, fly their auditors to all our kilangs in the world to review the process, and each SKU of our products need to be tested, so there are fixed cost and variable cost, and we have total 300 ++ sku this year -- all these need $$$$. Best of all, there is no clear rules as yet now.

Our country manager, termed this as "natural disaster", something like 911, create damages in no time, and can't be avoided.

Our company is lobbying in U.S. now. Don't know got use or not. But well.. government seems kinda irrational to come out of this rule. Just like they implemented the VAT in 1992 (I think..) within 1 month time. Gou Li!

Of course, this kinda "natural disaster" will not hurt us at the end, they will only hurt the local consumer of our products. We estimated that each of our products might need to price increase by at least 10%. Gou li!

We also laughing at our own joke -- perhaps in no time, we have to change our strategy to become really FMCG style - mass-selling 1 type of products, just different in volume or packaging. Simple, and make money! haha.

Sigh..

Subway scene #2 - 我用鼻子跺死你!

There are just way too many 'exciting' scenes happening on subway. I can't help to record it down. So, today is number 2.

Man 1: "慢一点啊你，行不行？还没有到站。”
Man 1 is talking loudly to Man 2 in a Beijing tone, because Man 2 is pushing rudely to reach the door, as many of the passsengers here do. They are just too afraid they cannot get off that station on time. And while they pushed to reach the door, they always don't care about other passengers.

Man 2: "他妈的，你唠叨什么？！有种你就跟我一块儿下来！”

Man 2 was talking rudely just when he was boarding at that station.

Man 1: "你有种就不要下车，我用鼻子跺死你！你他妈的！”

I was laughing out loud (actually, more like chuckled), not because they were about to fight， but because of that phrase 我用鼻子跺死你. that is so funny!!! And it is the best civilized scolding phrase I have ever heard.

我用鼻子跺死你

next time I will use this phrase to scold people! Muahahaha...

Bad evening...

I was really having a bad evening last night.

Because of hari-hari 9am meeting this week, I was having a very fatique body condition yesterday after work. So I decided to take a cab home.

Happily sat in the cab, reached home within 20 minutes, clean, no pushing, and quiet ride. Opened the house door, and I reached for my cell just to check sms as usual.

CAN"T FIND MY CELL!!!

I panicked. I left on my office working desk, unattended. And we have a cleaning ah-yee to clean the office everyday at 7am. I don't want to be "small man" (小人）but I really afraid she will take it, because I remembered I put it at a very easy-looking place!! My whole KL connections and SH connections and some of my banking security stuff are all inside my cell!!! And best of all is, I can't even remember any of my colleague's number, so I cannot call them up to check whether they are still in office and if they are, they can help me keep it in the drawer first. I cant even remember their office extension number!

Left with no choice, I took another cab back to office. THe feeling is damn silly, take cab back & forth from office to home, home to office within 30 minutes time. SIGH!!!

Luckily found the cell lying neatly on my desk when I reached here (不幸中的大幸）

After that, I took subway home. Yah, subway..

Reached home, took shower, is already 8.30pm. After cook (I have to cook, coz I defrost the chicken wings for 2 days liao. If still not cooking it, it will spoiled), it is already 9.15pm. THe feeling is damn 凄凉~~~

I miss my hubby...:( luckily only another 7 days before he comes back home.

(Lesson Learnt: I will go buy a small booklet, copied all the important stuff with hand written numbers on taht booklet, and keep it in my house. I cannot be 100% depending on my handphone anymore. Too dangerous! All the personal data is in that small machine. Losing it is more cham than losing money!)

大大老板来上海

今天早上，我们的大大老板(鬼佬）会来上海的办公室。昨天我们的大老板已经多次提醒我们要准时上班（平时，我们有时会迟到，他也不会很在意）。

为了这事，我已经紧张了好几天。我很怕我会迟到啊！我平时都是9点一刻才到公司的。今天要我9点以前到，无名的压力，只有我才知道。

今天，老早就起身了，因为紧张，没有时间做我每一天早上必做的事情，心里很不愉快。唠叨地拖着脚步来到公司，还有一些睡意。所以当大老板领着大大老板来我的座位say hi的时候，我也blur-blur的。叫错大大老板的名字！（把他叫成大老板的名字！）后来我恁了一下，紧张之下竟然想不起大大老板的名字！不过幸好我转得快，所以还是“补”回来了。

还没有清醒，又被大老板叫到会议室，一起和大大老板go through 一些powerpoint, 也go through 一些我做的competitor analysis, 没有想到看似简单的report, 大大老板竟然很欣赏，频频说Good Job!听到我爽爽，睡意全没了。哈哈~~

爽过了，但想到今天早上没有时间做的那一件事，又有一点不爽了。讨厌！大牺牲！

I hate morning meeting~~~~~~~

嫁入豪门

最近在看一本小说，《嫁入豪门〉，是一个上海女人写的。

里面剧情很娱乐性。也有真实性，比如她说上海女人是如何的犀利、尖酸刻薄、但爱面子。但很多是很搞笑的部分，比如她妈妈如何用花瓶来比喻女人的贞操，并用此来警惕自己的女儿，要嫁入豪门，就要保全身体的“完整”。但也有的部分很耐人寻味，如，她遇到一个很谈得来的老头，他竟然在她的一个生日里，送了一个四合院给她。

还没看完，但很期待看到结局是如何的。到底这个妈妈有没有成功的将自己的女儿嫁入豪门呢？

估计这个星期可以知道答案；）

9-11 2001

It is hard to believe that it has been 5 years. 5 years, is such a long time.

On the very same year, I was damn hurt by a stupid ex. I guess he was too young to be faithful to one girl. There were so many tearful nights on the same year. I forgot how did I put through those nights & days, and I am glad that there is no rewind in our life. If you have never been betrayed, you won't know how bad was the feeling. Took a long while to recover.

2001, bitter memory for american, and non-american.

Plant

My favorite plant. I placed it in toilet:)


Actually, this is the plant I first owned here. It grows very fast, and quite tall now. I wonder should I get it a bigger 'home' for it? It looks quite crammed in the small pot..

My next target, get some plants that have flowers.. wooohoo~~~~ excited!

Hmm...

Today, is the first time I feel sympathize at cheena orang.
Story starts over a lunch conversation:

While we were happily eating our wai-mai at the conference room, the bitch we hated most walked in and sat down. While we always address her as bitch, we still have to 'entertain' her a bit.. colleague mah...

Cyn: "hey Jud, you looked tired and 憔悴,are you OK?" (though all of us really dun give a shit if she is gonna take sick leave or what)
Jud: "I woke up at 6am today!" (this bitch, always start coming to work after 10.30am， so it is really a surprise for us she woke up at 6am)
Cyn: "why?"
Jud: "Have to apply for germany visa for my personal vacation, attended the interview, they think i fake my agenda and hotel booking, throw my document out and say "NEXT!"" (i tell u, this bitch, why we called her bitch, because this kinda sia sui thing, she also can say it as if telling a story that concerns other people, not her)

then only i get to know that it is damn difficult for cheena orang to apply U.S. visa, Germany Visa, basically any western or european visa, if they are not on business trip, and if they are females (scared they go to do gok-gok-gai I think, which 90% of the time, they do!)

FOr instance this germany tourist visa, apparently to apply it, cheena orang need to provide credit card statements, bank statements, salary prove, hotel booking confirmation number, your daily agenda and which hotel you will be staying, your flight details, your local trasport detail (if u gonna take train..)etc etc. THey really scared people go into their big land and disappear and be gok gok gai forever on their land.

after feeling 2 seconds sympathy, I said "抵死”, in my heart of course, haha... and they think they very rich and very welcomed at other foreign countries. Me pei!

活该！！

Fug

Just yesterday evening, and today's morning, on the pedestrian bridge near my house area, I almost kena people's spit!!!!!!!

1st incident:
An ah po walking in front of me, she spit suddenly, and her spit fly to the side, and as I walking forward, it almost landed on my shoes.

2nd incident:
A 30 year old man, walking, also suddenly spit. Before I can take precautious action, the spit already landed next to my right feet. If I walk a bit senget by 5 degree, it will land on my right feet exactly.

BLOOODY HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can anyone just educate them or not??????!!!!!

Why ah????? WHY?????!!!!!!!!

Why they make such beautiful shopping complex, such nice highway, such convenient public transport, such spectacular Pearl Tower, such great view The Bund, such good chinese food, but yet they have this ugly behavior and no one is taking any action??????????????

Can somebody just calm me down?? Damn furious, since last night!

包饺子

My sichuan colleague, came to my house to bao jiao zi last saturday (her hubby is a pilot, so, she a bit bored alone at home).

Quite fun, except the one made by me is a bit ugly.

Can you guess which one is made by me?


This is made by my friend Cynthia:


This is made by me...


hehe... but the taste is so-so only, coz I think we put too much jiu-cai (韭菜）. Should have put more meat instead, and next time, i definitely will put in prawns, without prawns is missing some taste:)

I love eating jiao zi. Made me think of last time we whole family in KL making jiao zi. My dad sweat so much while making the dough, i worried so much his sweat will dropped into the flour... hehehe... my dad can make good jiao zi too:)

blogspot

I just discovered that china server unblocked all the blogspot access liao...

meaning 1.3 billion of cheena orang can read my blog?

@#$%! Saya tak suka.