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。

hate

Hate undercertainty, unfairness, unreasonable people, and impolite people.

and... hate stubborn people too. They always think they are right, the way they think is right, and the way they see the world is right.

Shall I?

After being tortured by my boss to act like his accountant (without the title and of course, without the appropriate accountant's pay), I realized I do love accouting. I am not sure what happend back then at university, why I cannot make sense of those accounting entries. I nearly flunk my first accounting course at university while I have As for all other courses in Business. It all make perfect sense to me now after gone through 1-2 financial statements  preparation per company per year-end (yes, my boss owns like 10 companies). The fact that Canadian tax system is complicated even make me feel excited dealing each company differently. I actually love doing it!

I am thinking of getting an accounting professional certificate. Should I? Would I be too old to do that?

犹豫着呢....

hmmmmmmm.... 做不做呢？

Do I look like I have a computer degree??

One of my job function (unwritten of course), is, answer boss queries on his malfunction computer. And I hate it.

Hallloooo, which part of my resume last time said I have an MIS degree or computer related experience???

Whenever he cannot open a page, or error page occured, or hanged gei, or cannot sent out email, or got virus, or if he wants to save a page as favorite, or picture file size too big he cannot send out through email, he will ask me. I tried to hint to him this is not my area, but he kept pushing like I should know how to fix it. TIU. If I know how to fix it, you won't be able to hire me with such low cost ok!

@#$%!

很莫名其妙.

The weird thing is, unless he kena virus, most of his so called problem I am able to solve it for him. Which I hate it!!!! Oi, I am not paid to do this ok, just  because I am smart, you cannot take advantage of me! >_<"

Spring is in the air (yesterday)

Went to Stanley Park yesterday. Lot's of sunshine, but still very chilly. But it puts up smiles on people face just looking at the wild animals enjoying the sun/daily routine. They are so cute! And the flowers... hmm.. very beautiful. Don't know they grow it wild or someone planted them in the park??
This whole week will be groomy and rainy though. 好景不常??

My ah Bui!

We have an appointment with a Notary Public today at 5pm. I asked if Bui is free to give me a ride today, he said ok.

This morning, I know from past that sometimes his ears got issue, like cannot listen to my words... or my reminders, so I reminded him again, today, to be at my office at 4.30pm.

He said OK.

Just now at 4pm, I texted him to remind him to pick me up. At 4.15pm, his text came in, "I should be at your place at 4.50pm hor? I am leaving now".

Me, >_<"

Really sweat.... why my Bui like that one? Damn angry at him... sigh... SIGH!!!!!!! Gao Meng ah~~~~~~

无题

I hate winter. This year winter is super long, super cold, super windy, and super full of rain. Sigh...

Last week I saw 2 rainbows, 2 rainbows together leh. And normally the rainbow I saw before were very faint in color. But this one, 2 rainbows also very clear about the 7 colors!!! hoohooo... So happy to see rainbows. The purple color is super romantic neh~~~ hehehe..

Yawn... tomorrow is Friday. Supposed to feel happy. But then I thought of Monday, and then feel depressed again. Sigh.

la...la... la...

Please tell me why am I so busy while my boss not in office~~~ busy until I got headache, so rugi lah! tiu!!

Want to curi tulang also cannot... yiu...

I booked appointment to cut my hair across the street, tomorrow at 11am. Muahahhaa... don't care... Must do something personal so that not waste this golden opportunity. Was pretty happy since last friday because boss not here to torture me til this Thursday.

I have a small wish, I hope Air Canada on strike again tomorrow so that.... hehehehe.... wink wink... ^_*

OK... Honey moon is about to end.... by the way, my another colleague is leaving the company, got better offer and better boss, 他就好ler~~~~~~ So, left only me, the only one, to take all the shits from my boss. Let's see how long I can tahan? I recently went for an interview... apparently, I am quite valuable. I am so pumped up after the interview, regardless they hire me or not (if they hire, probably I won't go too. I had been thinking about it... Boss is great there, but then location is a bit far.. hmmm.... HMMM... well...), I feel motivated knowing I do have value in the market. But I cannot believe I feel sympathy to my boss when I know that that staff is leaving us, and I am also thinking of leaving him. Maybe he should 面壁思过, if he is good to people, people won't be leaving him ok. He is very kanasai. No wonder lah... anyway, I am angry at myself for pitying him if I do leave after that staff left. He will be alone, Who can do his stuff? Maybe he can ask his sister help him. BUT maybe there will be 家变 if that happens... well, workplace is the same as the saying 相见容易，相处难.

OK lah..... sibeh boss asked me to check him in for tomorrow's flight.... 讨厌！Sometimes I feel he should post a handicap stickers in his car, because he is "handicapped"! @#$%!

Skytrain is like a box of chocolate too, you never know who will sit around you..

People say, life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you going to get.

I say, taking skytrain is like a box of chocolate too, you never know who will sit around you. It is sometimes amusing, but most of the time annoying.

I don't know if I have a magnet or what, I always end up sitting near or around "unusual" people.

My work is at downtown, 2 stops before the terminal station. After working hour, it is a peak period, and to get comfy and be able to read decently, I will take that extra 2 stops to terminal station, and then I can choose the seat going home.

Most seats at skytrain are two-seaters. If you lucky, you get the lone-seater and nobody can kacau you, well, except if you get irritating people who stands near you. Believe me, it is no fun to sit at lone-seater at rainy days, the people standing with dripping umbrella is the worst! And some idiot, will just let their umbrella to drip right at your pants. @#$%!

Anyway, I normally get the two-seater, coz I hate being ka-ka cau-cau by standers who stand too near to the seats (lone-seater). Normally at the 1st stop, nobody will seat at the second two-seater. But afterwards, you get people filling in. That's where the interesting part comes!

I think I have magnet. I always get "unusual" seater sit next to me!!

- Yesterday, this stupid man sit next to me, he keep texting on his phone, and his text msg has this annoying loud alert when there's message coming in, and while he texting his messages, he laugh by himself, and his legs keep shaking!!!!! MEN!!!! Can I tell you that if you shake your leg at common area, for instance, like in cinema, bus, skytrain, plane, you will disturb the person whose chair shares some mechanical substance with your chair?!!! Oh Gosh, I have to stop myself from turning to him to YELL at him "QUIT SHAKING YOUR LEG!!!!". So irritating.

- 2 days ago, well this is not from the terminal stop, this is from the stop I aboard going to work from my house. Anyway, in the morning, there's seldom an empty two-seater spots (meaning both spots are empty leh). But that day, I thought I was lucky, I sat at this empty two-seater. But wtihin 5 seconds, I noticed a smell... it is those kind of smell if you go camping, you cannot wash your hair for 2-3 days... but, multiply it by 10. I think the guy in front of me did not wash his hair for 1 month. His hair is "wet".. "waxy"... "and got white spot". I don't know the white spot is dandruff or egg of something... But he is damn smelly!!!!!!! His friend sitting next to him is very clean though. They are both in their 22-23 age. Arghh.. I immediately move to the next seat. But I can still smell him!! The smell is like a curse... and then after work, I took skytrain back, and I got a feeling I sit at his same spot, the spot he sat at in the morning. Because on and off, I can still smell him!!!!! So disgusting!!!! Yucks!!!!

- One day of last month, there is this Vietnamese guy, young, I think 19-20, he was standing (so was I, in the morning, sometimes if I tersilap the hour and went out before peak hour ended, I have to stand for whole journey). I was holding onto the vertical rail. He came in 2 stops after me, and he standnig beside me. Holding the same rail. But his hand kept sliding down and touched me!!!!! Wah... this baga!!!!! I wanted to "excuse me, your hand", but before I can do that, I noticed he has something wrong. He kept shaking his body.... and then suddenly, he sing, in vietnamese language!!! LOUD. After he sang, he laughed. wah..... so scary lah... I quietly moved away from him. But luckily he got out after 3 stops.

- Also happened last month, also a crazy guy. I think he is homeless. At terminal station, we both get on the train. He sat behind me, I sat in front. And he suddenly threw newspaper at the guy sitting diagonolly of him. And then that guy speak in loud tone (but cannot figure what he speaks), and laugh at himself. I quickly moved to another seat. I cannot tahan another crazy man in the sky train. Not when I have to travel from terminal station to my place, that's 10 stops ok... the whole journey, he just keep talking loudly and keep laughing. And keep repeating the same sentence again and again. I think he really is chi xin.

Sigh... so many examples lah.... I should write a journal - My daily encouters at skytrain. 每日一则. Ha~~~~~

The Grey

We watched this movie at home last night.

It is about a plane crashes in Alaska, seven oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step. At the end, everyone mampus - eaten by wolves.

When it was 死剩 one last man, after he failed to save his last mate at the river, that man shouted at the sky (at Jesus more correctly), to ask Him to show him a sign! To save him! But nothing happens. And after all the effort of survival, long walk along the river hoping to reach a village, that last man, actually wander into the wolves den instead. It was such a sad ending. More like 命运弄人. Imagine, after you put in all your effort, walk until feet also feels numb and pain, you reached your enemy home!! What a joke.

This movie further reinforces my believe now - There's no God. If there is God, He won't let all these happens, survived from plane crash and eaten by wolves? Come on! If there is a God, He won't let Tsunami happened and killed so many people, and even worse, those survived, is now facing the threats of radioactive for the next 30 years. What a 命运弄人. By the way, it was an anniversary for them, March 11th 2011 was the begining of their nightmare. More 矛盾, I was reading 南京大屠杀 lately... so, if there is God, would He allowed those 350,000 chinese people died in just that 6 weeks?? In such cruel way?

Do you still believe there's Jesus up there??

Buy and Hold

Saw this on a line at moneysense.ca (my favorite magazine in Canada here), the joke is so funny, I have gotta share with you:)

....

"
Your eyes open slowly, and the light stings your retinas. Your mouth is burning with thirst, your muscles hopelessly weak. You’re in a hospital room, surrounded by an anxious medical team. “Welcome back,” says the doctor with an uneasy smile.
“What happened?” you manage, the words catching in your parched throat.
“You were in a terrible car accident: you were hit by a bus,” the doctor says gently. “You’ve been in a coma.”
“How long?”
The doctor glances nervously at her colleagues. “A long time, I’m afraid.” She pauses again. “Three years.”
It takes a few seconds for this to sink in. Three years? Your mind is filled with just one urgent question. “I gotta know, Doc. Give it to me straight. How have the markets been doing?”
Again the doctor looks nervously at the rest of the medical team, and they avert their eyes. “I’m sorry,” she says. “It’s been an absolutely terrible time to invest—the worst I’ve ever experienced. Europe is on the verge of collapse. The U.S. government is a financial basket case—it even had its credit rating downgraded. Japan had a terrible tsunami that caused a nuclear disaster. Iran may go to war with the U.S. Interest rates are at all-time lows. People are saying gold will hit $10,000 an ounce. And it looks like the Leafs will miss the playoffs again this season.”
You’re devastated by the news. The last thing you remember before that bus struck your car on March 8, 2009, was listening to a radio report about how “investors are potentially standing on the precipice of another Great Depression.” In fact, you were planning to sell your whole Couch Potato portfolio and move to cash as soon as you got home. But you never made it, and now it’s too late: the nightmare has come true. You must be wiped out.
Pulling yourself up in the bed, you demand that someone hand you a laptop, and you go online to read the bad news for yourself. You go to the iShares website and check the three-year annualized returns on several of your index funds, and here’s what you find:

iShares S&P/TSX Capped Composite	18.7%
iShares S&P/TSX SmallCap	29.3%
iShares S&P/TSX Capped REITs	37.0%
iShares DEX Universe Bond	7.0%
iShares DEX Real Return Bond	15.8%

That can’t be right, you think. The doctor said that the last three years have been the most difficult in recent memory. But these returns look like they’re right out of the 1990s bull market. “I guess Canada made it through unscathed,” you think. Then you tap the keyboard and visit Vanguard to see how the international markets did, expecting to see blood spill from the screen. But what’s this?

Vanguard Total Stock Market	26.7%
Vanguard Small-Cap	33.3%
Vanguard MSCI EAFE	20.1%
Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets	32.3%

“Doc, you must have been mistaken,” you say. But when you glance up from the screen you see the doctor is frantically trying to resuscitate the patient in the next bed. “Clear!” she shouts as she zaps him with the defibrillator. His body jerks violently, then slumps motionless. “Again!” she shouts, hitting the patient with another charge. But the heart monitor shows a flat line—it’s too late. “He’s gone,” the doctor intones.
“Who was that guy?” you ask.
“That was Byan Hold (buy and hold!). I’m afraid he’s dead.”
You take one more look at your laptop screen, still trying to reconcile the numbers with the doctor’s account of the past three years and the corpse in the next bed. Finally, it comes to you in a moment of clarity—you’ve figured out the secret of investment success.
“Hey, Doc,” you say. “Do me a favour, will you? Put me back in the coma.”

Source: http://www.moneysense.ca/2012/03/08/a-different-perspective-on-the-last-three-years/

new iPad

I know I have Kindle... But I have this strong "want" of the new iPad!!! How ah???

iPad! iPad! iPad! iPad! iPad!

I just want to read magazine on the device in color~~~~~~

Gun Cheong... dunno how much will the new iPad be selling? And whehter they have enough stocks?

Speaking of Apple... TMD the stock price is about to 冲破 550 already! People have gone crazy over this company already! (looks who is speaking... hahaha)

^_^"

Bruce Lee, Shopaholic, Chinese King punya wives ???

I really have diverse group of interests....

hehehe...

I discovered the Vancouver Public Library has a huge section (huge, compared to other languages but still small compred to English) of chinese history books!!! wah.... I kind of gotten excited...

I love VPL! They having Book Sale again on April 26-29. How ah? Why constantly temp me???!!! I haven't finished 1/5 of the books I bought last year!

It's Weekend

It's Weekend!!!!! (Happy, because no need to work, no need to contemplating want to smash the alarm clock kao kao in the morning so it can shut up)

It's Weekend.... (Not happy, because stock market close, and I don't have the "uhhhm" feeling in the morning to feel chi gek and take a ride with daily ups and downs)

Sigh..... why every thing is double edge sword ge leh?

p/s: I always tune in my alarm clock so it will go off half an hour before my "wish-wake-up" time. Then I snooze it for about 5-6 times before it reached my "critically late if you don't wake up" time. Then lately I realized if I snoozed it for more than the maximum time, it will just keep quiet until I woke up and saw the clock time and yelled "SHIT I AM LATE!!!!!! DAMN U ALARM CLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ah Bui always laugh at this drama scene. I think my alarm clock hates me. It's a revenge time for it.

I am late for work for 1 hour today.

Feb 29

The guai lo call today "Leap Day".

Once in every four years, so there presents a reason to celebrate today.

But what happened to the missing day (Feb 30)? Really missing one day leh, expecially for business men. Right?

But there was no Feb 30 in the history anyway... so...

Again shows that we should not mourn for things we never had, but should cherish the things we have, or occasionally have (e.g. Leap Day, yeh!!!). hehehe.

Lynas vs dogshit country

Last time is, "China never surprises me!"

Now is, "Canada never surprises me!!!!!!"

This country is for dog shit only.

I have to 怂恿 Jay to think about next step.

But between Lynas and dogshit country... I think I will choose the later........ Dogshit still better than Lynas+ah Jib kor+ his wife & parliment.

很无奈~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Crooked story - by my favorite author!

Reading Richard Paul Evans books is really compromising my sleep quality... his books are the type, once you started the first page, it is difficult to put down.

I have finished 6-7 of his books now (I can't remember exactly), but the best he has written is "Christmas List" (I blogged before in 2010), "The Walk", and "Miles to Go". The Walk and Miles to Go are especially good. I am waiting for the next one to come out.

I don't quite like The Christmas Box where everyone says it is the best. I think the hype has been driven up too high and when I finished reading it, I only find it so-so, and thus extremely disappointed. And then last night I finished "Promise Me", I can only give 2.5 out of 5 stars, not the usual 4.5 stars that I will give to his books. "Promise Me" has a very crooked perspective of relationship... it talks about a happy family of 3 set place in 1989, then the man cheated on the wife, and he died and thus the wife is very devastated and lose trust in men. But then this another men from 2008 (from the future, that's right) came back to 1989 to take care of her, and he is good looking and young and he is her daughter's husband in 2008. You will ask why he wants to do that? So crooked right? It is because his wife/her daughter is dying from cancer in 2008 and he made her a promise that he will take care of his mom. And then some how he was back in 1989 where he is still 10, but he came back as an adult.. so confusing. And cut the grandma story short, THEY FELL IN LOVE!!!!! MOST CROOOKED THING I CAN IMAGINE!!!! Imagine, your mom and your husband fell in love!!!!!

Arghhh... was quite angry at Richard (author) last night. How can he???? I wanted to vomit. Whenever anytime out of ordinary happened, I will feel like vomit. arghhh... he has nothing better to do ah??

Good thing is, the author make it clear that there's nothing intimate going between the mom (because he told her the story, and she felt sad, and jealous of her daughter too!) and that 2008 man. In fact, he saved her life financially and mentally, he was in her life for just 10 months. But because he travelled from future, so he knows every bet/gambling result and he helped her win money to pay off her house loan. This is a way he promised his wife to take care of his mom. Hmmmph... After he left her to go back to 2008, and after 2 years, she met anotehr special guy and married to this other man.

She has to wait 18 years to finally reached that 2008 moment where her daughter's husband and her daughter come for Christmas Eve dinner with her and her husband. And the guy remember her! (because he just came back from1989 mah... aiyoh). And while they are alone, they hug each other tight tight to tell each other they missed each other. I wanted to vomit again at that point. ARRGHHH!!!! >_<

Crooked story that steal my sleep quality.... I am so sleepy now... and still feeling a bit angry. @#$%!

Happy Valentine's Day!

My bui is not a romantic person, this I know... but I realized as year goes by, he becomes even more unromantic~~~

Today is Feb 13, and he just texted me: "babe, I bought the cake and card for V day :)"

I
am
very
speechless
...

My bui bui...........................

Yyyyiuuuuu

Today I taste the feeling of "realizing what I did previously was wrong, and have courage to cut the pain short and take a loss!".

I sold one of the share at lost. Sob Sob.

And Warren Buffet is right, don't buy into those techi company! No matter how low and close it reached 52-weeks low! TMD!!

My soulmate

Afternoon: Me phoning Bui...

Me, "hello.... bla bla."
Bui, "Yes."
Me, "bla bla"
Bui, "OK"
Me, "...bla"
Bui, "OK, spit it out, what is it?"

wah.... I didn't even talk about what was bothering me, and Bui knew I was not happy from my tone!!! I am so touched.... Bui is really my soulmate.

Since Bui initiated it... What I did was:
Me, "bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla, and he was so stupid!!!! bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. Stupid right???!!! bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla what right he thinks he has to make my day like hell??? bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. I am going to change vendor!!!!!! and I won't pay him til 3 months later!!!! bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. "

And all Bui did was...
Bui "Yah. You are right Honey. Yes, he is stupid."

Even though he didn't do much, but he let me sweat it all out, and I felt so much better.

I really love my Bui =)

Snowboarding

I think I love snowboarding! Although now my whole body are aching now (upper arm muscles - from carrying the board; buttock - from falling to the ground; side upper leg - bruises from falling to the ground), but it is fun!!

OK, at least something to look forward to during the gloomy winter. It is an expensive sports though~ The day we went, the weather is so super cooperative - sunny, blue clear sky, and not cold! :) It is quite demotivating at first because kept falling in that 2 hours lesson. The instructor taught the lesson at a very steap small hill!!! After the lesson, we snowboard down the bunny hill, and it was much more flatter compare to the lesson ground, and therefore easier to control and balance the body. When the confidence level is there, it is so much easier to maneavur the board. You will not believe how sensitive is the board.  Have to use legs, body, hands to control the balance and the direction of where you are going. But once you can avoid falling, it was so much fun!!

I like it:)

Meaningless

Wasn't feeling very motivated lately. Not happy about job and quality of life here.

My boss is having male menopause. Therefore, you can imagine what kind of hell life I have at work.

Not happy about the fact that I was graduated from great university here, great GPA scores, great major, great work experience (in Asia only!) and yet, because of the "new immigrant" title, I land on a crappy job. Wanted to do something more meaningful but it means have to get new certificates (yes, even with MBA) on that specific field. And with that cert, it does not guaranteed will get me a good job. Yes lah, what else can be guaranteed in our life, except 生老病死.

I don't know what to expect from this crappy life:( This is so demotivated. I feel like I am trapped in this cage, and I can't see the sunlight, it's all dark.

I feel helpless and hopeless. Life seems without meaning, well, other than Bui and mom and sis, life is really meaningless... sigh... :(( I don't know what this tasteless and full of hell-ty taste Mon-Fri job will get me.

父亲的生祭

今天是我父亲的生祭。

特想念他。

想到他时还是会眼浅，这个毛病都不知道什么时候可以停止。有时候怪尴尬的。在吉隆坡我们一个特好的朋友注册礼那天，新郎Eric介绍了他老婆的一个朋友给我们认识，说以前是我父亲的学生，我的眼即刻就浅了，很努力的想着其他开心的事情来停止这尴尬的局面，幸好就一下子而已，然后话题转移我才逃过 (Eric, if you are reading... sorry leh... that day almost 坏你好事，呵呵）。

就是放不下，生老病死是自然的循环，可是当发生在你亲人的身上，就是很难跨过，要多少年才可以放下呢？

以前我们都还很小的时候，父亲生日我们都会自做生日卡，里面写满傻傻肉麻的东西。后来大了，宁愿花钱买卡也不要自己设计，真现实，肉麻的东西越写越少。不知道其他人是不是也这样的呢？然后再大一点，赚钱了，卡里就会塞红包，父亲看到红包，也不管里面多少钱，就会像小孩子一般咧着嘴巴满足的笑，还要求我们每人给他一个腮吻，然后他再回一个。年年如此。真希望时光能到流，让我再看一次父亲咧着嘴巴傻笑的样子，然后再在他的脸上亲一个。

爸，卡、红包、吻今天都给不了你了，希望你在天之灵，天天都快乐！

it's strange that even though it is I am at western time, all the important dates I "remember" are all asia time....

First post in 2012

I am back~~~~~

The jet lag is very annoying. I felt so drained out by 8.30pm every night for the past 2 weeks. And the long haul flight is so scary... 12 hours in a closed cabin is just too long to stay sane. I am not kidding. Both Jay and I are not planning any long haul trip for the next 12 months, unless my sister is getting married in Dec (I begged her please NOT this year~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 可怜可怜你姐！)

So, what did I achieve this trip back to KL? I spent time with my mom and sis, that's the most precious achievement. I didn't really go out see many friends. Those that I went out to see are those who really tracked me down with all means, if not, I really lazy to make arrangement. Sorry kawan-kawan, your friend me is getting old... lazy to plan and think ahead. hehehe... next time babes~~~ next time.. I didn't even go on facebook for the whole duration! Some achievements eh? hahaha... and then I make a trip down to see my uncle and his family in Singapore, day trip.. sob sob... there really is not a lot of time. I hari hari like go to war, do all the official things related to government stuff and banking during Mon-Fri, and then have to split the trip in half to Muar and KL leh... and then Bui is aji ajo-ing already, he said I split the half not really half one, I pian xin, I put more weight on KL and only 30% on muar. hahahahaa... I think he is quite pissed off at me after he realized it but then too late, arrangement has been made. Well, perhaps next time we will just separate - he goes muar, I stays at KL. But then I miss the baby girl her brother has at muar... she is so cute!!!

Anyway, here I am, back to this lousy lalaland... snowing today... make it even more lousy. I really start not to like this place very much. Things are getting more expensive. Government wants to raise the public transport fees by 13%, and the healthcare monthly installment is raised by 7%. Sometimes I just want to give them my whole pay cheque and tell them go to hell. Anyway.... if summer is not coming soon, I think I will be cursing very very soon again~~~ ARGHH!!!!

Then YVR airport has the most stringent custom in this whole big world. They just want to catch you in every little thing. I read the declaration form about the definition of "food", it says something meat.. with seads... plants.. things like that. So we brought instant coffee, one pack of instant noodle, tea leafs, cookies (CNY mah). So I clicked NO on declaration form. It is really a NO if I follow the "food" definition. But according to the officer, they are considered food. Of course they are food, we put them into mouth and consume, but it was not the "food" as you layout on the form. But of course I dare not say like that. I just keep quiet. And then she said, "Just remember to say Yes next time if you bring them in again next time. Welcome home." The last phrase "welcome home" is really warm... But then I got home and realized our passports are not stamped. I am very very worried she forgot to stamp, but I can't do anything now. Wait see how next time. They always surprises us with the mistake they make. Don't make me start on the income tax mistakes they made last year.... Think of it also make me older by 2 years.... sigh...

I need summer to cheer me  up!!!!!! My brother is getting married in May in San Frans, so that's something I look forward to.

ngiaooooooooooooooooooo

p/s: on a happy note - I bought a new Lumix camera. yay!! And I was planning to declare it but it was not asked for. Hmm.................... why why why??

万事俱备只欠香蕉

We went to landlord house to pass him some cheques last week, he made me strawberry banana smoothies, from the blender he just bought! So easy. and the smoothies taste good!!!

So I went home and keep thinking about this...

Finally, I went to The Bay and got myself a blender yesterday. It was a $109 blender, from Gordon Ramsay (the Hell's kitchen chef leh?). I was prepared to pay this price, as the Kitchenaid is selling at $189, so I thought I have a good deal, consider that this blender from Ramsay is even easier to remove the motor and clean it.

At the cashier, the bill came to $50 something. I said huh?? Oh, I didn't know it was on 50% discount! wah... so happy lah =) hohohoho... Jay wasn't too happy because he has to carry the thing home, it was heavy lah (even though the mall is just in front of our house)... but I promised I will make him a good smoothie. hehehe..

Then I bought strawberry and milk just now. It is not a strawberry season now, so it is a bit pricey and small and not very red. Sigh... what to do... so I text Jay, "save a banana for me, I am going to make strawberry banana smoothie tonight!". He replied, "I finished the last one this morning...."... What the.... aiyoh!!!!!!! Normally our house has abundant banana one!!!!!!!!!! (he loves to eat, I also like to eat). The day I most needed the banana he told me he finished the last one:( Sigh...

Now I am like a basketball, except the air was let out... very 泄气neh!! Now I have to just make strawberry smoothie.... without banana the texture won't be the same... and then the sweetness also won't be the same... eeeeeeeeee.....

:< why why why~~~~~~~

@#$%!!! 忍！！！！

I
think
my
boss
has
PMS + Menopause
.

饺子

这是“before”的照片。I bought a pack of 饺子皮（一袋50个），一磅碎肉，一扎韭菜，一些虾，再切些冬菇，ta-da~~~ 包了45个水饺！

包水饺很容易，是之前的洗，切--耗功夫和时间。

我喜欢我包的水饺因为有虾，呵呵。外面买的没有虾。但是我觉得好像味道少了些什么...就是没有以前在家父母包的饺子好吃。可能我没有把肉marinate好。hmmm...有没有可能是皮的关系？这个现成的皮，当然没有我老爸杆出来的皮来得香和好吃。

ok. 请看之后的照片！：）我们马上吃了25个，我藏了20个冰箱freezer里面。Ah Bui 一直想把它们都干掉...

包饺子？

I planned to 包饺子 this weekend.

We had been addicted to eat jiaozi ever since we saw one it was selling at a supermarket. Frozen one. 28 pieces at $6.88. Then I tell bui for $6.88 I can buy 3 lbs of minced meat and make many many many jiaozi loh... so he dared me, "then u do it lah, since we both love to eat".

Haha... stay tune... will share the success/failure soon~~~~

p/s: every time I eat jiaozi, I think of my dad. The memory was so fond when dad and mom bao jiaozi at home. Yummy...

#$%^@#!#$%!#%!@##%^&&&&&

What I am experiencing in Canada now, is very much like my first year in China - frustration, shocked, surprised, helpless.

You know Fedex, some company in Toronto is sending a cheque to my boss by courier. Actually, I also don't know why they want to use courier, regular mail would have reached us in 5 business days anyway.

So anyway, they sent out on Nov 10. Should have reached us on Nov 11.

I don't know which idiot, put in wrong address, so delivery cannot be made due to incorrect address. That was on Nov 14. Then I let the other party know, because she is the sender. She only gave me the tracking number to track it. Hallo... you sent it leh, shouldn't you be tracking and let us know the status? Instead, she asked me call 1800. Fine. That was yesterday, Nov 21. I didn't call last week because I thought she was dealing with it. Only yesterday that I find it 忍无可忍, I tracked it and I called and I solved it (well, at least I thought I solved the issue). Apparently they have the wrong street address. Anyway, happily waiting for the cheque today so I can bank it in for my boss so I don't have to hari hari go bank. Well, guess what, the status is still "incorrect address". I api pun ada. Called 1800 and it is an acha, speaking acha english (@#$%!) and I scolded her how can  you still have incorrect address? She got the guts to say this to me, "it is due to lack of buzzer information". I said I read online it says "incorrect address". She said there's a second line says "lack of buzzer info". I said I could not see your SECOND line!!!!!!! I told her I never have ANY issue with ANY courier company, they don't need buzzer they just come right in, the door is not locked, it is a commercial building, come in, take the lift to 3rd floor!!!!! She said, "ok, let me write down?". After like dunno how many seconds, she said, "you said you are on 3rd floor?" Wah I tell you, my api goes to roof already. I told her, "THE ADDRESS SAYS unit 310!!!! YES, 3rd FLOOR!!!!!!"

Blardy hell.... I black list Fedex already.

I black listed DHL before too... they got the guts to tell us we not at home on their 2 times delivery. We said we are at home. THey said  no body answered the door. At the end, I caught the uncle DHL guy (acha again) coincidently, he was ringing 50X instaed of 50Y. @#$%!!!!!@#$%!!@$#$!#!%@$@#$!!!

And then UPS once put the package outside the door, did not sign. Just leave the package out there.

I missed China kuaid systems. They never fail me in that so many years.

I think I officially hate Canada.

Busted

说的是2008年美国房产泡沫的始因。看了似懂非懂... 不懂的是因为不明白为什么这么荒唐的事情可以发生的如此明明白白。懂的是1+1=2这样简单的道理，为什么就有人以为1+1可以等于10这么荒唐？

U.S. real estate bubble, 是因为这些不知所谓的银行家 (Citigroup!!)，Fed Reserve, Insurance companies, Mortgage companies, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac 搞的鬼！借钱买屋子不用提交pay slip, income tax statement （no-doc）, 也不用交一分钱的deposit （100% loan）, 傻子都知道这是不行的！这是要方便那些破了产的人和欠了一屁股债的人也可以拥有房子。把这些烂臭loan 打包再分拆弄成其他的security instruments，转卖给其他投资者。投资者因为相信那些credit rating company 如 Merrill Lynch 说这些是triple-A rating就投资了，哪里会想到投的是一个烂臭东西呢？人天性是optimistics的，想到real estate一定会直线升值（听来很像温哥华和上海北京广州的房产）。好运的condo flipper 在还没有烧焦就转手把房子卖了，赚了个difference，当然不用deposit payment也可以生钱了。但是房价往下掉的时候，就烧了个焦头烂额！（这个就像股票中的margin）也有很多人当时不知道这样的subprime loan 要交很多的interest fees的。但是银行帐单也太行了，amount payable 其实是 minimum payment, 当你交了 amount payable, 你以为已经交完该交的钱，其实你还有那个minimum payment difference 没有交到，等等。

现在明白为什么那么多人这样生气这些credit rating company & banks. 他们知法犯法，把整个美国全世界的经济都拖垮了好几年了。稍微缓些气来，竟然来个欧式大“杂”蟹！什么时候全球经济才能正常起来呢？！越看这本书越生气。难怪有人要在华尔街示威！虽然内容未必相同，但是这些大公司只手遮天的行为也太让人气愤了！

She's 92

Saw my neighbor Dave in the lift yesterday. He was so nice, holding up the lift so I can have time to get mail from the mailbox.

In the lift, he told me his mother just passed away today. I thought I hear wrongly... I repeated, "your mother??". He said she's at Ottawa. I told him I was sorry... He smiled and said she's 92.

92??!!! Then I don't feel sorry at all. Hey, your mom outlived my dad for more than 1/4 of the century ok!

He didn't look sad at all... or he has not have time to reflect to the news? I don't know... Even if my mom live til 200 years old and if I know she passed away, I will be really really really sad.

One thing I find guai lou here, they not close to their parents at all... parents died, just die loh. No big deal.

:-( Why so different one?

Miso Soup

最近爱上 Miso Soup. 试了2个牌子，这个最好喝了！

Yum Yum... ^_^

What?!

Today, two things I discovered and my face was like the attached picture...

1) I owned some US stock, and they paid out some gei mun gai dividend. There's a 30% withholding tax on dividend because I am not US citizen. But because it is really gei-mun-gai, I bochap and tak hirau. Today I got some time and I googled and realized I should be paying 15% instead of 30%!! Apparently I missed filling in some form. W-8BEN. Wholly Mama.... I have received 4 times of dividend already and now only I realize this huge discovery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2) I Live Chat with an agent on my brokerage firm. Told him the situation. He said normally they won't missed asking client to fill in the form. But since damage has been made, he offers me a $2.50 rebate. I told him I don't think it is fair. I have been paid 4 times of dividend this year.. the difference is more than $2.50 (more like $3 something actually). Then the agent said he will rebate me with $4.95. This is the second time I have the startled expression... wah.... good wor... 做错就认，unlike in China, this kind of situation, the agent sure aji ajo one.

So I filled in that form and send it back to Ontario.. Hopefully my next dividend will be withhold at only 15%. Finger-crossed...

挖鼻屎

I thought this only happen in China...

Dim butt ji... in advanced country like Canada also can be like that....

The person sat next to me on skytrain this morning, was digging his beisi and he kept digging and digging, and then finally he digged out some, and he put them into his mouth... sucked them.

He is young, age 20-25, caucasian.

I am seriously thinking of driving car to work next year.........

>_<"

放荡

又一则笑话，directed by Bui Bui.

ok, 2, actually.

1st.
我生日的时候，bui写了一张很lum人的生日卡。正当我看到眼泪流下时，我却哈的一声笑出来。原来bui写了一个错别字。一帆风顺（你们也奇怪为什么爱人的生日卡有这一句？哈哈），写成一般风顺。差一点晕倒。差一个字，意义却非常的不一样了。哈哈。Oh my Bui...

2nd
今天我提到我老板。我说他其实善事做很多，但是却对下属时常发脾气。Bui就说，做老板当然得有老板的样，不然下属会放荡。我傻掉了。放荡，不是形容女人那种的行为吗？后来我想了一下，立刻知道Bui其实是想说，“不然会放纵下属”。Oh mama....

晕倒了没有？？: s

原来...

2周前，心疼得买下了这3本书，繁体的（幸好我会看繁体），应该是台湾著作。

就快要看完了《痛快皇帝》，讲的是雍正皇帝的种种事迹。我看呢这个作者好像对篡位没有什么见解，有些许失望，但是读着读着，竟然有很多事情让我惊叹：

1）原来废太子喜欢男人，也喜欢女人！（wah.....）

2）原来四阿哥小时候不是被亲生妈妈带着的，所以嘛，他妈妈比较喜欢十四阿哥（他的亲弟弟哦），而且深信康熙是传位给到十四阿哥，四阿哥是篡位的！她临死也不接受雍正给她的封号。好一个倔强的女人。可能失去母爱，造成雍正皇帝的这一些性格。

３）原来红楼梦的作者曹雪芹，是雍正的时代的。曹雪芹的叔叔（我忘了他名字咯），最后被雍正折磨要他还债，还抄了曹寅家族。

４）原来香港的第一批中国人也是那时候开始的。那时有一些贱民生活在船上水上的。即便后来“仁慈”的雍正准许他们上岸生活，但是岸上的居民都不喜欢他们，处处刁难，这一帮人就只好逃到一个荒岛生活，就是后来的香港！

５）原来康熙溺爱太子，是因为太子的母亲生下他后就死掉了。康熙很喜欢这个女人，所以就把太子亲自调教，无奈盲从的溺爱害死了太子。这一点这一代中国父母需要学习了。中国的 one child policy, 弄得１０个父母，１０个都溺爱自己的孩子。这是很危险的事情。你看康熙的废太子就知道了。

６）原来雍正很记仇。那些胤禩党和跟从胤禟的太监们，说是流放到西边，但是却后来把他们都杀掉（因为传说这帮太监们在民间散布谣言，说了些对不住雍正的话）。实在记仇。当然，胤禩（八阿哥）和胤禟（九阿哥）早就被雍正害死掉了。一点兄弟情也没有。

７）原来雍正记仇，但是也有仁慈的一面。以前康熙以及之前的，人民都是按人头缴税的。雍正（忘了哪一年）开始，就按你有多少亩田来缴税的。（富人多缴一点税咯，Obama新政策！哈哈）

。。。

继续看，再来总结：）

p/s: 这本书没有讲到这么贤能的八阿哥，是不是也像步步惊心电影里的八阿哥那样lengchai呢？！

清史

最近因为朋友的教唆下，把《步步惊心》这个中港人演的连续集给看完了。剧情有一点婆妈，但是里面的阿哥们实在令人赏心悦目。哈哈。我最喜欢八阿哥（他的痴情令我感动），然后是十四阿哥（他实在是太帅了！！高大英勇！），然后是九阿哥（是的，我就喜欢坏坏的性格）。一点也不喜欢那个四阿哥，就是后来的雍正。讨厌他的残忍（蒸人也想得出！），讨厌他的不择手段（虽然历史只是怀疑他篡改皇旨，但是我深信不疑！讨厌！！！）

为了查明他有没有篡改皇旨，我想买清朝的历史书来看。如果这句话传到我家人耳里，第一个立刻马上晕倒的人应该是我妹妹。哈哈。没想到你姐姐越来越像妈妈？？我今天在amazon.cn里找书的时候，看到那些什么DVD清朝讲坛类的，竟然想click! haha... 我也后怕。在此申明，我买这些历史书，只想搞清楚四阿哥的皇位是怎么得来的！康熙的阿哥们，是不是都是这样如虎如狼般的"hao zhu"皇位？

很好奇呢！那天在Richmond的一家中文书店看到类似的书，可是要加币$25. 我12月经上海，加币25元可是可以在中国买到很多的书呢。想着想着就没舍得买，现在后悔着....

谁说那些连续集都是浪费时间的呢？至少它挑起某人的历史线，很神经病 right?

Oops, I did it again...

Last week already saw the VPL (Vancouver Public Library) got the notice big big outside the building, Book Sale Oct 27-30. I told myself "ignore it!"

But then, this whole week I am counting down to Oct 27th. Yesterday, I curi-curi happy a while, because tomorrow is going to be Oct 27th (which is today).

After lunch, I grabbed my bag, and crossed the street to VPL. Boss said he aint coming back to office today because he has meetings, so, I have unlimited time to spend at VPL!!! hohohohoh.... so happy...  Went there at 1.30pm... by 3.30pm, my back was very very sore.. coz I took so many books with me, and my bag, inside just got wallet only, but still got some weight, so my shoulder and back are sore from holding bag and books.... If not because of this, I would have stayed longer and bought more!

我的战利品!

I wanted to see more, but beh tahan my hands... so, I have to come back to office. $15.25 is the price for all of them. I only picked the new looking books, and I saw so many of the books I bought on kindle, they are there too, new looking, and so cheap! I regretted. But well, at least I know there are some of my taste books selling at VPL, which is not bad. hehehe..

Shoulders still sore... I need a massage. I told bui what I did... his replied was "how you gonna bring home?".... I guess I have to drive to work one of these days to bring the baby back.

But I do make mistakes. Some books I bought before, which I thought was good to read but turned out other wise, I am thinking to donate them out.... to clear some of the shelf space for my newbie... I told Bui the bookshelf we bought before is too small, he no listen. Maybe I will sell the bookshelf and get a new bigger one next time, when our new house is ready.

While I was choosing the books, because the books are getting higher and higher, and I kept having to keep moving to the side because I am blocking people, then I suddenly found I'm missing one of the book that I selected. I panicked, I make rounds and rounds of where had I been moments ago, and I thought I will never see it again, but my eyes are good, I spotted it lying in between the other books! Hahaha... happy.

I will go tomorrow again... Shh... don't tell Bui. :p

Pontianak!!

We were talking nonsense one night. And I forgot how we get to the below conversation:

Me: "I dare you, there's no malay words you know, that I don't know."
Bui: "oh yah? Let's see..."
Me waiting patiently...
Bui: "... er... hahaahaha... I know this one you sure don't know one. This is a very difficult malay word oh!"
Me very curious...
Bui: "you sure you want this test?"
Me is very impatient already.... fists were ready... hmm.. hmm... hmm...
Bui: " PONTIANAK!"
..................... what the...

Bui actually think pontianak is a very difficult malay word.... I was trying to hold my laughter, but I failed...

Hahahahahahaahahahhaa.....

And he still dare to test me! He said he don't believe I know the meaning. I told him it is "vampire".

Bui has the most defeated look on his face... he turn around and sleep with his back facing me.
=_="

But I actually am very surprised he know this word. "Pontianak" is sure a very high level malay word for my Bui... no wonder he feels I won't know this word. Hahahahhahaha. Imagine, he doesn't know those common words like tunai, najis, etc etc leh...

He very ng dai duk... he still wants to dare me.
Bui :"what do you call sunny side up egg?"
Me :"mata kerbau lah!" (I think I am right... but I know what he says next is definitely not how you call sunny side up egg loh!!!!)
Bui :"oh yah? Listen up babe. I called it "matahari telur" one time at mamak, and I was given a very ridiculous stare from that an neh neh"
At that point... I really cannot tahan liao... what the.... aiyoh!!!

My Bui.....

I squeezed toothpaste from middle

Bui said I squeezed toothpaste from middle. He asked me why. I am surprised. No one ever told me that. Not my sis and brother where we obviously shared a toothpaste when we were young and stay with parents. So I make some effort to observe myself when I squeezed the toothpaste. I definitely don't like to squeeze it from the bottom. hahahaa... I think it is because middle is so 就手. hehehe.

So, do you squeeze toothpaste from middle or from the bottom? Not from the top gua I hope:p

Elfin Lakes

Elfin Lakes!

So beautiful... no words to describe the feeling

Doesn't it look like Sounds of Music?:)

美丽的倒影

See the biker?

spiky snow leaves

Summer was officially over two weeks ago, but winter is not here yet, we are in Fall. It was rainy for the past 2 weeks. But we saw the weather forecast said the last weekend was sunny!!!! WOW!!! 机不可失, one of the couple we know said they are going to Elfin Lakes at Squamish, so we said we will join. So, 5 of us, woke up very very early on Saturday (which is very difficult for bui and I), and started the journey.

From our place to Squamish is about 1 hour drive. Then from the highway, there's a half an hour unpaved road and gravel road to drive up to the parking lot, before we start the 22km journey (11km each way), by foot. We started at 10am from the entrance at parking lot, all pumped up and energetic, even feed the bird with part of our lunch half way through. And we reached parking lot at 6pm, almost half-dead, drained, and just want to go home. Have you seen people walking with auto-pilot mode? That's me... just one mission in my mind on the return journey, "reach car park!" hahaa... We don't feel strenous going forth. But we feel extremely strenous coming back. Don't know why...  But let me tell you one thing, the strenous hike is worth it!! Look at the lakes!!!! So beautiful! We didn't expect there's snow up in the mountain, but look! Amazing view!:) And what's more amazing is, there are people biking up there!! The elevation is 1200m (we, by foot). Imagine these bikers... the roads are not smooth, there are uphills, downhills, rocky hills, and snowy hills. Very challenging on foot, what's more on bike!

I think my limit is 6 hours of hike per day. Anything more than that, it had better be a very amazing view to tempt me to go. haha...

Our friend said she wants to go for anotehr hike again this Sunday.. hmm.... let's check weather forecast:)

刻骨铭心求婚记

最近听到某某要结婚，就联想到自己的那时候，然后就很生气。因为那时候也不知道为什么，随随便便就"O"了，然后才意识到他还没有正式求婚，就在车里随便讲，“不如我们结婚吧”，这样不算求婚，但是我答应了，想想就后悔！！！

昨天很生气，就跟bui bui说，“不如我们离婚吧！”bui bui说，“为什么？”我：“这样你才有机会再跟我求婚！”然后bui bui骂我发神经。我更生气了，我说，“那我给你7天的时间，我要刻骨铭心的求婚记！”bui bui给我痛苦的表情，我就折磨他，捏他打他出气，搞到半夜1点钟，我还是很生气！！！

女士们，如果你们的男人没有刻骨铭心的求婚，不要随意答应，多年后，it will come back to haunt you.

现在bui bui还有5天。他这样不罗曼蒂克，肯定不会有什么刻骨铭心的下场！我得再想法子整他!! bleah!

"I am eating Bao at shenzhen, 20 hours ago"

越来越觉得facebook很没有privacy... 是我多心还是...?

看到很多人去某某地方，甚至是去个餐厅也post location at facebook，post picture of you in the restaurant is OK, but post the location like "xxx am at Tropika Restaurant, 20 hours ago" 就很那个，弄得很没有私隐，然后有一些人本来没有很多动作在facebook的，突然间生了baby，就天天post 她baby的照片，拜托，这个世界上，除了你的小孩，还有很多很有趣的新闻的ok?! 顶不顺。如果他是平时这样hiao的也ok,就是生了小孩后才这样发神经的，这才令人发指。

昨天去了Whistler 一趟，本来想弄个location at Whistler的，但是觉得这样很那个，然后让我想起某某某去吃个包也post location的，很欠揍，就没有兴趣post了。越来越想把facebook给弄掉，是老了吗？

Jokes

I come across this joke before, but everytime i read it, it is so funny. I am sharing it on my blog now. hahaha...

A store that sells “New Husbands” has opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:  

You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increases as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 -  These men Have Jobs 

She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:  

Floor 2 -  These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.

'That's nice,' she thinks, 'but I want more.' So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 -  These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.  

'Wow,' she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going. She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads: 

Floor 4 -  These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help with Housework.

'Oh, mercy me!' she exclaims, 'I can hardly stand it!' Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 5 -  These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.  

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 6 -  You are visitor number 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor.

This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please!!!

Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.   

(scroll and keep reading!)  

.....

To avoid gender bias charges, the store's owner opened a “New Wives Store”

just across the street.

The 1st Floor has wives that love sex. 

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th,5th and 6th floor have never been visited.

The Scent of Woman

At my age, I didn't know I still can get so hooked up at watching the korean drama series. I am recently watching this (no.... I finished it last night actually, haha), in english name it is called "The scent of Woman 女人的香气". So nice to watch.... there's laughters and also tears in each episode. I cried like watching 大常今 last time. Jay hates it when I watched movie and cried, he said it is not healthy. But I find it very healthy... got laugh must also balance with tears ger mah, right? hahaa... sometimes I will exclaimed out loud, "where on earth can there be such good drama series like this one???!!! wah..................."

The man is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo handsome in this movie... I really love him!! arrgghhh.... hahahaha... and I thought only girls at age 18+ are like that. I am not normal I guess... :P The part he took off his shirt showering and show the six packs, wahhhhhh..... I asked J come and look at his six packs.  But Jay is not even a bit of jealous wor... he is very full of himself. I told him if the man in this movie come and kao me, he might have a marriage crisis. He laughed... yiu... slap him.

The story line is very moving... but a bit unrealistic lah... you watch you will know. But hey, the handsome man part can offset this part easily. hahaha....

What's next?;)

By the way, I am so busy lately... at work. So many companies under my jurisdiction is having year-end... have to prepare this and that. Even have to yeng chao by having lunch with accountant. But good also. Today is the first time I met one of the accountant that I always spoke with on the phone. He looks like one of my friend in Shanghai (Winston) though... haha..

My eyes are so tired lately... of course lah, hari hari after work my eyes glued to tv for 4 hours... wah....  must rest liao now that I finished this series. I don't know what's it called in Korean tim.... hmm....

I love korean drama series!!!!! My next target is, 公主的男人, korean drama series too!! Hooray~~~~ more tears and laughters to come! But not these few nights, let the eyes rest rest first.

由买书延伸的一段童年回忆

我妈是个嗜书狂，我虽然很小就很爱看书，识字能力也比同龄的高（这个是我邻居跟我说的，他有一次跟我借书，那时好像是3-4年级，他看了我的书，竟然challenge我，‘里面的字你都会?不要骗我啦！’我说‘是的啊，不信你问我？’问了几轮，他终于投降，哈哈。但是上了中学后我就没有再进步了），但是老笑我妈，“你太恐怖了，满屋子都是你的书！太吓人了。”讲后必被她骂，老妈最讨厌人家讲她的书多，她说她就只有这么一个嗜好，又不打麻将，又不花钱妆身，也不花钱乱吃东西。听了也有道理，但是有时候就是忍不住要说。哈哈。

我小时候，很小很小的时候，妈妈就知道我也爱逛书局，她就久不久就会带着我一起搭巴士下坡到大众书局买书，一逛就是一整天。她那时也“玩臭”的，每次都是先看她的书，看得我都不耐烦了（要知道，我那时真的很小），她才拧着她买的一大堆的书，到我的儿童部门去看我的书。我都忘记细节是什么了，只知道每一次去书局，我们两个女人回家的心情都超棒的，很开心很开心。然后你知道的啦，两个疯狂的女人去买书，这么多，肯定不能搭巴士回家了，一定要坐计程车。但是你们也知道吉隆坡的天气的啦，下午（是的，我们每次都待到很晚）4-5点多数下雷阵雨的。苦了我们咯。计程车一听到我们住哪里（到我们家，要经过出名下雨就淹水的旧巴生路）都拒载耶。每一次都要碰上好人司机才会载我们。载我们的司机大概都是可怜我们母女俩，呵呵，有时候还会搭讪说怎么买这么多书？？;)

我笑我妈，但是我却越来越像她了。嗜好也能遗传的吗？但是我喜欢的内容和我妈妈的不一样。她喜欢国家地理杂志的类型，读者文摘，动物、地理、文化、历史等。我喜欢的是好笑的包括漫画，爱情、感人、真人真事类、赚泪的、商业(management)的、医疗健康的、女人故事、真人memoir的等，所以遗憾的是，妈妈的collection 我一点也不感兴趣... hahaha...

我在上海的时候，妈妈还狂到时不时把list给我，让我在上海买（中国买书真的很便宜！！！），她来看我的时候或者我回去的时候带给她。我上海回吉隆坡的行李每一次都几乎超重，一点也不夸张。但是看到妈妈幸福开心的笑容，就什么也值得了。

我来了这里后，也一直很担心没有了中国的source我的精神粮食怎么办呢？福建人讲的“没有鱼，虾也好”就是我这种情况啦。就看英文的咯。Bui 买了kindle给我，因为我投诉很多书很重，背着上下班我的肩膀都要断掉了。kindle很好，但是让我发觉到有时候去书店买书，那个价格比kindle version的还要便宜（碰上打折）。所以我就有时候kindle，有时候还是手捧着真的书。

我公司100米就是全温哥华最大的图书馆，1km以外却有着一间很特别的书局，它不是很大的bookstore chain，但是价格却让我很开心。里面不常有当今畅销的书，但是却有很多的宝贝。我买过很多本很好看的书，之前都在这里有介绍过。所以这一周当我看到它说“closing sales”我真的很伤感。大概这边租金太贵了，它赚来的钱只够让客户开心，不够让他们交租。唉哉！

我周二买了2本，折后才5块多，我都不敢相信。前天我又去买了两本，也才7块多。今天老板不在公司，吃了饭我就只带了信用卡，包也不背（嫌站着看书的时候背着重，影响心情）就去了。快乐不知时间快过，我竟然待了2个小时！看着摘选的8本书，有一点不知所措。都买吗？为什么这个情景这样像我妈妈那时在大众书局的情景？也是买单的时候叠的高高的。（她不止买8本的... 3-4倍还差不多）。我最后狠下心都买了，也不就是32块多。哇那个快乐的感觉真的很棒，即便带点幽幽的伤感。以后没有了这个书局，我的日子要怎么过呢？太单调了。：（

天下没有不散之席。我们再会吧。或许我会碰到另一个新欢。世上没有绝对的'忠心'，不是吗？;)

"Why my Third Husband Will be a Dog"

I was strolling aimlessly with bui at Chapters few weeks ago, and saw this book. Chapters is a book store that is located just within 200m from my house. In fact, the biggest mall in this city is located within 200m from our house.  hahaha... love it.

Anyway, there are many short entries in this book, and they are so hilariously funny. First of all, who will think of such a title for a book??? and it was on sale, original price was 24.90, on sale for only 6.99. So damn cheap. So I bought.

Turns out there is no single entry about the title!!!! phff... what the... but then, the author Lisa Scottoline is so funny, she described her 1st ex husband as Thing One, and 2nd ex husband as Thing Two. Hahahahhaa... Who will call their husband as "Thing"? I love her writing style:) I finished reading already loh... feel so sad, the fun is over:(

Besides the humourous side, she does have the sentimental part... talk about how as a mom, you feel happy that your child grew up, graduated, and left the city, and yet you feel so sad that they are slowing leaving you from the first second they were born. I am not a mother (yet, haha), but I can sort of relate this feeling from the way my parents expressed their love. Parental love is the most unselfish love on the earth. Yes!

OK... if it gets sold in KL, try to find this book to read. Very very funny, and yet warm. Have I told you she has 3 dogs (or 4??), 2 cats, and some chickens as pet... Yes, you heard me right, chicken.... the way she described her chicken is also damn funny....

I just hope she writes about the title "why my third husband will be a dog". This remains a mystery!

Eat healthily

I have a close colleague, he is going to have a heart surgery next Wednesday. He has 9 blockage on his heart arteries.. he is having a high chance of going into stroke if he does not go through surgery soon. The doctor at first wanted to just balloned out his blocked artery. It was in that process that they discovered he has 9 blockage (each is about 70-90% blocked), that they can't just do balooning, they have to do surgery. He was put on priority list, even that, he has to wait for 10 days later only can do the surgery, which will last for 7 hours... I guess it is a big surgery?

I wish he is alright... He is only 54... he didn't even have strength to talk to me on phone. We just rely on text messages to update each other. He is a good man. I hope he will survive this surgery with little or no damage.

I went to visit him at hospital over the weekend with Jay. Seeing he is hooked up with the heart reading equipment, makes me think of my dad again....

Lesson here is, eat healthy food. Do not hari-hari starbucks with 3 packs of sugar and 2 packs of milk. Do not A&W every week even though it is just around the corner downstairs our office.  All these will come back to haunt you when you get older. Guaranteed!

Get well soon my friend!

马来西亚时间的现在

3年前的这个钟数，你决定撒手离我们而去。

我知道你已经很努力在撑着等弟弟回来（以生命迹象来看，你其实5天前就可以走的），但是估计你已经知道他已安全抵达吉隆坡国际机场，你不想再撑了？还是你真的撑得很辛苦？我们不得而知，因为你已经在麻醉药的作用下昏迷了好多好多天，插了喉管，即便不昏迷，也不能说话。真的很矛盾，我们也不希望你醒着，深怕你会感觉到疼痛而痛苦。阿觅只要大声地叫你，你就会企图睁开眼睛，不知道是药水的作用还是什么，你的眼白都泛黄的，看得我们都心疼。从出世到那时，从来没有流过这样多的泪水（即便经历过几段现在看回去觉得幼稚的恋情），可再多的泪水也不能换回我那健壮，面带笑容，和什么样阶级的人都可以打成一片的父亲。那段时间，世界似乎都停下脚步，我们每天的生活就是医院，回家换班，再医院，没有其他有意义的事情可以引起我们的注意力。连和bui bui 通电话的时间和力气都没有，也不在乎有没有和他通电话。那段日子真的不堪回首。没有经历过的人不会明白。也不希望有人会经历这样的一段日子。那时每天想的事情就是，希望医院的帕车位能在低层，靠近电梯，这样就能少走几步路可以快点看到爸爸。唉，即便是这样小的希望，也不是天天可以达成。

妈妈每天以泪洗脸，她一直认为你还没有入院在家里休养的时间里，她对你的照顾有欠。她认为她可以做得更好，也希望能亲耳听到你说你没有责怪他。但是你一句话也不能说，你知道她有多想你吗？我们都很想你。人家说时间可以冲淡一切，是骗人的。时间或许可以冲淡失恋的痛苦，但是绝对不能冲淡对家人的思念。多么想再靠在你强壮的肩膀看电视；多么想再看到你在知道我买了你爱吃的东西回来时，你像小孩子童真般的笑容；多么想吃你周日在巴刹买的猪畅粉；多么想再吃到你煮的螃蟹... 你有太多想做但还没有做的事情，你说过还想来上海找我的，然后我们再去北京一趟，你食言！我只能带着你的骨灰再和妈妈去一次北京。妈妈那次很棒耶，她竟然爬上好一大段的长城，连我都不敢相信。我们在长城的一端纪念着你，你知道吗？你晓得吗？你看到吗？你听到吗？

本来还以为3年了，再写上这些陈年回忆会不那么伤感，至少可以不流泪，还是不行。人家都说女儿是父亲前世的亲人，看来是真的。真希望能在梦中和你再相会，再聊天，再珍惜彼此。

3年了，有时候觉得好像昨天才发生的事情，更多时候是觉得好像发生了好久好久。这三年很多事情发生了，我移民了，阿觅换工了，你儿子也博士毕业在大学教书了（你欣慰吗？），妈妈和阿觅搬家了。妈妈在老家老是想起你，我们想想这样不是很好，刚好阿觅的condo建好了，就搬进去，刚开始不习惯，现在应该好一点了。家没有你，就是不一样。你为什么要这么早离开我们呢？很多很坏，对社会没有贡献的人都比你长命耶，这又是为什么呢？为什么无所事事的乞丐可以活到七老八十，而你是为国家社会培育人才的却要这样早走呢？这个世界真的不公平。

无从知道你现在过得怎么样，但是阿觅老是告诉我她知道你在天堂。世上都这样不公平了，确定真有天堂吗？怎么样确定的？能通梦告知吗？

爸爸，真得很想念你。如果有来世，我想做你的父亲，让我好好无条件无回报的疼疼你，爱护你。