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.