Warm greetings

Gone to Houston

If you have seen the movie Bolt, you would agree that there are three major cultural experience in the U.S.: New York's green Liberty lady, Texas' Cowboy and California's Hollywood.

The Atlantic cover story "Did Christianity Cause the Crash?" was one of the reasons for this visit: Joel Osteen's Ministry @ Lakewoods Church.

The Lakewoods Church, has 16,000 seats, is the largest church in the United States. In fact, it is not really a church that we would think of from a traditional viewpoint. Local people call the "church" a circus; and it is known for prosperity sermon. Also, I might have overlooked, but I didn't see any cross, except at the bookstore there.

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My first taste of the local Blue Bell ice cream... hmm... it was a bit too milky flavor and heavy for me. We also had the authentic Texan barbecue, but I enjoyed the bread more than the ribs.

I also discovered more and more good snacks, great cafes and restaurants. Look at our creamy Italian dishes.

*Christmas Day Brunch @ the Houstonian.

I found that Texan style French Toast is made with creme and dipped with caramel. (Someone posted this French toast served with ketchup in China... looks cute, but... it would be a no-no for me)

My dessert plates:

#1: unlimited mimosa, vanilla shortcake mousse with pomegranate seeds cup, chocolate mousse on pistachio shortcake , mini éclair, creme brulee, & baked chocolate chips covered with white stuff

#2: Bruche de Noel, Lemon Meringune & white chocolate mushroom

The holiday spirit is up! Many light shows... here are some of the best decorated houses!

more site-seeing:

museums, historic districts, I. M. Pei's J.P. Morgan Chase Tower, Yao Restaurant (yea, Yao Ming's family business. We didn't eat but took pictures at the door), and more.

*@ HMH: "Rememberance" + "Wall of Hope" + "Wall of Tears" + the soil of concentration and extermination camps = a timeless Memorial room.

*Korean Artist Do Ho Suh's artworks @ MFAH

*The gigantic Beatles and Presidents statues @ David Addicks' sculpturworx

@ the Galleria

Being a temporary caretaker of two Tibetan Shih-Tzu puppies 獅子狗 has been an extraordinary experience.

Avator = Awesomeness

The movie Avator 3-D was like a wonderful blessing James Cameron gave to us. It was one of the best movies with beautiful scenes I have seen in recent years. It was a story of everything that you might have heard of from history books or video games, such as the Hometree, tribes, floating islands, Colonialism... and the ending was satisfying.

Merry Christmas 2009

我心有您，聖誕快樂。

我現在要去食聖誕大早餐，回來再談。

Sport Today

爭氣

例子：

Hong Kong Team @ East Asia Olympics

26 gold medals!

Special congratulations to Hong Kong Soccer Team!

唔爭氣

例子：

Tiger Woods...

Complaints Choir

冬季已到，寒流襲美，天氣乾燥，小心着涼！

世界各地的 Complaints Choirs

喺時候要潤一潤喉嚨

唱出心底的怨言

很期待日本的版本

Green Living

綠色生活

除了有機食品和一般循環再用的用品外，這裡有餐廳用粟粉造的塑膠杯，更有超級市場棄用塑膠袋改用紙皮箱。

Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it [slowly] snow

西廂飄雪？

Dec 4th (Thu)

明日天氣預測：雪

。。。點解？點算？

Dec 5th (Fri)

真的下雪了。

細雪飄飄，能夠看見此奇景，真是幸運。

鄰居的貓貓也來湊熱鬧呢！

附近的鄰居喜歡飼養寵物，有不少貓貓狗狗通街走，其中有幾隻黑貓。

「小黑喵」的背影

：：以下句子非常港式口語：：

d貓貓好唔合作，一ling部相機出嚟，佢哋就用嗰背脊dak住我，激到我呀。。。

Flipping a monthly calendar

新的新的！

翻過月曆，由印有「最好沒有」的十一月到「天下太平」的十二月。原來已經整整一個月沒有更新網誌了。

如此慢，只怪自己早前休息期間，生活 Wii 嘩，之後又貪吃「糖蓮子」之過。哈哈！

~~請珍惜能讓您感到「苦中一點甜」的那個人~~

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Turkey Weekend

I was not one of those early birds on Friday, but I went to Staples on Saturday night and I found no line, no customer store. A prolonged big sale continued on Monday. Did you purchase anything on this "Cyber Monday" or just to be a spectator on "Buy[ing] Nothing" ?

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From Ads to Marketing Critique

I don't appreciate junk mails, so I rarely give out my e-mail or mailing address to retail stores. However, they can always find ways to surprise me. Today, when I opened the mailbox, there came with some early and unexpected holiday greetings. First, I got a Hallmark Christmas card from AT&T. Addressed to "current resident" sending from an address with a missing name of the sender, I knew it was a marketing product. Similar envelopes were already in the garbage can next to the mailbox, but I didn't ignore mine. I took "it" home. I opened the envelope and found a nice Christmas card and a service promotion card. Okay... a pretty wasteful garbage (an envelope + a card + a promotion card = Not green. Not convincing.) I also got a "Christmas card" from Walmart. Without an envelop, this card has a cute Walmart Santa Claus to introduce a $5 gift card on the front. I found warm greetings and the gift card inside.

The same "Christmas greetings"... but it looks like Walmart 的市場推廣技倆尤勝一籌 in my opinion.

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It takes time to realize... It's about time, or is it?

西邊小築。。。

答案已經找到了。。。

「任務」也差不多完成。。。

誰不知，一波未平，一波又起。。。

唉。。。

Halloween Party 2009

Halloween Party 2009

With a total different surrounding, people there ALL dressed up, chilling with a glass of drink standing by a heater pole or at the bar in line for food and drinks.

This year, I dressed up as a French mime artist, the Pierrot, but no one recognized me, even as a French clown. Only one person mis-conceptualized me as Harlequin. Apparently, there is room for my makeup skill to improve. Perhaps I should have made my face much whiter. Pale like white wallpaper. And drew more this and that. haha.

I have bumped into many interesting "creatures" including Tetris (俄羅斯方塊), an iron robot, a dog in sexy angel dog costume which reminded me of the sexy matching costumes Steven Colbert was talking about in his show.

This is a big year of Michael Jackson, vampires, and Alice in the Wonderland. I even had thought of dressing up like a female Mad Hatter. hah! I did see many Alice and vampires at the party, and I bumped into a vampire victim, but I was surprised to find out that Michael Jackson was missing. Instead, a giant dragon is dancing among them.

There were two Rauol Duke of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I am currently reading the book, frankly, I am NOT enjoying it for the fact that I was not born in the crazy-drug-use-1960s-of the U.S. Nonetheless, I will finish the book and watch the movie again. I want to learn more about this country and understand the American Hippie culture.

This party was so much fun! Although they did not serve us enough food to compensate my damage for the ticket, it's always fun to mingle with different people. Brilliant!

Oh, this year, I got a rental costume. I modified how it was supposed to be worn; and I liked it a lot.

Farewell to my first rental costume.

Next year, what do you [not] want to be?

Sunny-side-up

My flower...

freshly baked!

自製迷你太陽花蛋糕

She brought me a special "sunflower" (chrysanthemum because sunflower is not available in this region). yea~~~

October Full Moon?

最近好黑，黑到連黑客都來探訪我。真的是黑到爆！

I wish to have a sunflower (I don't have a constant preference for flowers... but this one resulted from watching too many Japanese dramas. haha.)

I also want to have a「平安符」because I no longer want to be that 「黑仔」.

I have been listening to Madonna's Miles Away all summer.

Autumn is here...

We are looking at the same Moon, aren't we?

Constructive Destruction

有建設性的破壞王

今日，本來去「破壞」人家的房子，到達人家的地盤才發現要為他們建房屋。我們一行十多名義工就做了大半天臨時建築技工。分組後，我參加了要做屋頂的小組。做屋頂，我們先要把二十多塊的鐵版剪角和屈曲，然後再舖上屋頂落釘。

疲累但愉快之後，另一項任務是要打擊破壞王。。。蒼蠅兵團。

Slow in motion

Sorry for my slow updates lately but I have been fallen to several illnesses.

不適合嗎？思鄉病發作？勉強自己嗎？

"Wok" N "Road"

Iron Chef

月兒彎彎配雲霧，短短三十秒，雲霧消散了。美麗的東西總是很短暫。

剛剛參加完了某基督教的中秋節活動。

今次真有食神，節日食品廚藝鬥一番。碟碟都花盡心思，好美味。

真的是大飽口福。

鐵廚們好利害啊！

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人若然忘記了愛。。。？

難道唯一陪着我們走動的只是神愛？

Sweet Poison

甜毒品

愛情如同甜毒品，一試即上癮。

我們這些爸爸媽媽的「愛情結晶品」，自小就被「毒害（愛）」了，享受「被愛」是慢性病。在日常生活中，我們經常要面對其他不同的「患病者」，漸漸發現愛原來是要付出的。付出過的愛未必會跟得到的成正比，有時候怎至會不被接受。

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當愛得愈來愈愛得深，它您會做令人意想不到的事情，令傍人難以理解的行為，成為不一樣的您。然而未嘗試過（去愛）的人無法理解它毒性的厲害。

有人說，當您把心定下來後，往往能幹一番大業。因為它給予您的不但是為生活的色彩，且是為生命的意義。

愛得深卻未必真。曾經一見傾心，一吻傾情。

愛得如此癡心，換來的到底會是情深，還是痛心？

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苦戀把錯愛的假象看以為真，是錯也是苦。

失戀如同被迫戒毒，比苦戀更痛苦。

情傷是人生的一課，

有時候分手可算是一種解脫。

相信能治好甜毒品唯一的解藥只有愛。

請不要麻目地沉迷於愛，而要學會恰當地去付出和接受。

生活需要有愛的支持，要懂得愛，每天付出一點，吸收一點，甜甜蜜蜜的，才會活得平衡快樂。

因此，宗教往往是很多破碎心靈的最後依歸。

緊記一點，

愛是永遠存在的。

您是一直被愛而又值得被愛的。

再苦再困難都要愛惜自己；

只要堅強就會有出路。

Walking... Creation

原創的壓力

為搏紅顏一笑 (haha)，花盡心思到處張羅的一天。

Hope my special macaroon treat sweetened your life.

Happy early Birthday!

Friendship is priceless.

(I was gonna post some pictures, but realized that I did not have my wire. please be patient. I will post them as soon as I have things set up.)

20.09

20/09/2009 (English style)

Friendship is precious.

Vive Les Crepes

La Crepe Parisienne is finally open!

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Rise and Fall; Hot and Cold.

命。運

如果人有三衰六旺

小女子也許在行衰運

I seldom encountered with flying issues probably because I always prefer to take early and direct flights, but today was just such a bad day.

The first flight I flew on got mechanical problems and thus delayed. It caused me to miss my connecting flight. I was shocked to find out the next available flight would be in 4 hours. I looked around at the airport, the rush hour had just passed, only few passengers were hanging there. It was very cold at the airport, same as the cabin... Very cold.

I found this old woman who was sitting next to me while waiting for the first flight at the airport. Before boarding, we were having a brief conversation since we were going to the same destination. We got separated on the plane since her seat was pretty near to the front while mine was on the 2nd last row of the flight. I have always tried to avoid such seating since the engine would give me a headache. Indeed, I failed to sleep or do anything even if I had gotten my pill and plugs ready. Cold too.

At the waiting area of this airport, she told me that there was an empty seat next to her on that flight. If I knew it, I would have moved to sit there. She also told me that she received a $13 dinner voucher to compensate her missing connecting flight. I only I got a $5 meal voucher, so I had to negotiate with the staff about this an unfair arrangement... problem solved. Got a free dinner. but still, cold.

We talked through the 4-hour extra layover time. I enjoyed most when she told me her adventure to Macau and Hong Kong in the 1970s.

After mid-night, I finally got home exhausted.

Waking up early, I had another long cold day (Perhaps I should run a go-green-no-a/c campaign).

Cold. Sick. Cold. Sleep.

N-I-N-E

09.09.09

I was hoping to make this a memorable day for myself, but it didn't happen. haha. Anyway, to all couples: good fortune to everlasting happiness!

9 years of!?

Getting dark

前幾天，陽光普照，看到門外有一隻趴地松鼠懶洋洋。

今天早上，無法與光同行，卻沒有太大失落。

晚上

下着大雨

突然一閃

非常近

打雷的聲音

很猛烈

震動了房子

連電子鐘都停頓下來

撤夜難眠

Monkey Monday

禍不單行

It has not been a perfect journey becuase...

swine flu scare: I had been coughing for months, and my condition became critical as soon as I got here. Abnormal bleeding, breathing diffculty and tears bursting were making me miserable.

But don't worry. I am well now. ^,^

A/C or no A/C?

The air conditioner accelarated my illness on the first day, but then it broke. At nearly 95 degree room temperature, I felt like a steaming bun.

Internet or no internet?

I realized I can never live without a computer.

Internet service was fixed, but then the printer was not working.

alas...

I've got my driver license. a brand NEW one, but then it is going to expire in two months...

Worst of all, water leaked. Three hours of cleaning up the mess was extremely frustrating.

Staying away with the kitchen or printing area, I stayed at the couch, nibbling bananas. I have avoided eating bananas for years, but now I am eating them as if it were a newfound snack.

These dramas are like episodes... making me "ho mun"

Get-a-way

瀟灑走一回

暫別石屎森林

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躺臥在沙發上，仰望着天窗，

腦海閃出了一個問題：「我快樂嗎？」

Music

音樂......

總是令人心醉着迷的。

I want to see this movie 《KJ音樂人生》

Quiet moment

「家家有本難念的經」

最近，朋友的家事令我明白這句說話。

What can I say? How can I help?
I am always by your side, listening.


From The Bible, "For the love of money is the love of all evil." alas...

A weekend of

「走」與「酒」

值得慶祝的兩件事：

最後的工作天 (officially jobless) + 考車合格 (2nd time)

一個好女兒家又充滿八、九十年代的音樂的週末：

與好姊妹相約在BYOB + 認識了 Lil fluffy



He keeps licking my fingers.
I think he likes me. haha.

Brunch @ Tea & Sympathy + New Discovery @ Three Tarts

Am I ready for tomorrow?

I asked myself the same question last night.

I am asking this question again tonight.

Am I ready for tomorrow?

Day(s)

無事生事的麻煩日

皇太后親臨，邊說邊拍打我的肩膊，七、八次之多

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離奇的一天

麻煩事接種而來

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比想像中困難

Courage on that day

那天的勇氣

自是一點任性

還是過份理性？

留下來需要堅持和毅力

離開時需要勇氣和決心

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凡談情說愛的事情
都值得鼓勵

能將愛意表達出來是另一種勇氣的表現。

喜歡你的男子氣／／妳的真性情

想了解您多一點

但欠缺了些坦白

請教我如何去認識和欣賞您，好嗎？

Open sesame

芝麻開門

最近收看了心理學和精神病學的電視劇集「仁心解碼」和有關腦科學的日劇「Mr. Brain」
多了知識，少了誤解。更重視精神健康的重要。

我要做個好打不平的俠女！哈哈！

August

八月：任性的追尋

女人是天生購物狂？未必... or maybe. haha.

猜猜我最喜歡逛怎麼樣的店舖？

A Mid-Summer Night

仲夏夜

一個螢火點點夜晚，

凝視着熊熊的柴火，

有一點暖暖的心動。

My favorite Sunday activity

星期天茶聚

Sunday brunch at any European cafe or Chinese dim sum restaurant

今日，跟長輩飲茶聊天學做人。聆聽叔叔的人生哲理。跟R&B交談後，有點心郁郁想提前返香港玩。

I will miss you

她新婚後給予我的驚喜是她要離開了。

二十四小時內的第三個，我還能承受多少個同類型的消息？

Getting ready

難得天氣好，一定不能患病。

可是，持續咳嗽、喉嚨痛和頭痛的日子非常不適。

京都念慈菴枇琶露成了飯後「補品」。

明天，一定要外出。

Melon Pop

今早六時多就彈起床，嚴重缺水頭痛的一天。

回來時，特意到迷你雪糕甜品麵巴車買Melona冰條。

天氣悶熱，嘆返支雪條，人生一樂也。

Nearly down

今天的我，很累。

No kidding.
In the past 12 hours, I may have reached my limit.

normal work day + pc broke down + Lil A + (>,<)* Boss.

She said, "He is like the weather, [constantly changing]"
She said, 「鑊鑊新鮮，鑊鑊甘。」
I think, "Today, a storm just came from nowhere."

早會時，那位剛剛旅遊回來的同事，來電請病假。無料到她只照顧了A小妹一日，就病倒了。可見A小妹功力深厚。今日，她最後堅持要教我羅馬尼亞文，但很快就被發現她寫的生字十個有九個錯。這個自封導師的小學生非常不稱職。

下班時，我差不多要暈倒。還要考試，死梗。

Double "shark"

A小妹給予我的驚喜回歸令我血壓上升。因為她每次出現的日子，公司總是很忙。而且是非常忙那種。

雖然市道不景氣，我公司仍超忙，但Boss的心情勁差。真不明白他。可能他不滿意昨日的性格分析結果。

Headache

"Wing Wing Dei"


Taking a pleasant walk on the High Line Park.

Dehydrated?

Place too crowded (special festival). Wait too long. Walk too short.

Walking or biking across Central Park may be a much better idea.

Summer Time

剛發現我做義工的機構雖無彈性上班時間，但有夏令工作時間。

As summer comes...
Gotta love the sun.
Gotta have more fun.
Gotta love the summer hours in New York.

7.8.9

七八九，無得「投」 ﹝延續篇﹞

G.E.M.
only 2, but smart like a 5-year-old sweetheart.

Lil A
a 3rd grader, but taller than me and two times heavier than me. Cute yet very distracting.
After "sided" baby-sitting her for one day, she brought me a "sweet surprise."
In fact, another day like this, I will faint.

Carry on

多了又少了

爸爸帶來最順便的手信：Tempo AppleWood 味紙手巾。

我的私伙：﹝飛機上）最厲害的「防毒軟件」，Ultra Sensitive No-Fog Face Mask (Level 5) 口罩。無聊。得啖笑。

July 4th Weekend

朋友，今天特別想念您。

兩年前的今日，我開始寫網誌。為每一個您而寫。

去年，跟IVE League 尖子們宿營。隔樹觀煙火，友誼大躍進。

今年，跟一班「露宿者」流落在有BB熊比我還要大的地方，那是我人生第一次真正的露營 ﹝讀書時期的體驗營不計算在內﹞。在湖邊欣賞零碎的煙花和看星星，好不浪漫呢。難忘的是當「冷靜沈實派」遇上「魯莽輕率派」，擦出來的火花，惹笑非常。

Last day of June

Still raining

假後的第一個工作天，點解又落雨㗎？真的想唱句「雨季不再來」。

Eleven Days

閒在紐約的十一天

It begins with relaxing activities, such as chilling, biking fun, etc.

It ends with birthday parties and dancing until dawn.
One drink. One night. One special weekend to remember.
Cons: the music was a bit too loud & people kept stepping on my feet for more than ten times that night.
Pros: Awesome & wonderful time that we all spent there... priceless.

Bonus: my random VIP Korean encounter

之前，不在狀態，什麼文章、功課都總是寫不出來。玩到最後今日，寫到出汗。終於都寫完喇！

Rain falls on a bright sunny day

雨點散落在耀眼晴空的一天

這個週末，終於放晴了！

可是，醒來以後，她的一句說話，把計劃好了的事情全部取消。

之前的猜想，猶疑和憂慮竟然成真。

突然，我任何事都想不出來。

或者只因太累了，不想再想太多。

善變是女人的一種專利。

Chocolate DIY

Do you like DIY?
This box of Tai yaki DIY chocolate is more than fun, but you are also paying for it's package.







This is just a random post I decided to write on at 3:55am.

Showdown in Chinatown 2009

2nd annual charitable soccer match

NBA stars playing soccer in the field. Sounds fun, isn't it?

Rain pretty much stopped at the right time for the match. Lovely.

Guess who did I meet and who did I cheer for there?

"Echo-phone" phenomenon

"echo-phone"

First time happened in my life.

Both my home phone and cell phone rang at the exact moment with the same tone.

Amusing coincidence~

Belated but well blessed

遲來的更新，無限的祝福

Congratulation to all newly weds and newly grads.

I wish you all have a wonderful future ahead.

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天「雨」弄人的六月

戶外活動多取消，最後參加了馬友友樂團於露天公園舉行的音樂會。
Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble @ Damrosch Park of Lincoln Center

Life is short

人生有幾多個十年？

看罷了「巾幗梟雄」，很認同劇中主角的名言。

人生的短暫。有起有跌。

誰為誰奔波？誰為誰停留？

何不痛痛快快地幹一場？

知已難求

如果有幸在短暫的人生中遇上您就好喇！

Metro Life

生活Latte

居住在城市，每分每秒都在接收新資訊。
對我來說，居住在Manhattan感覺似是從九龍搬到香港島。
新資訊更多更快，令人很費神呢！

沒有「叮叮」，Subway 是我主要的交通工具。
搭地鐵給予我很多思考空間，尤其是有老鼠跟您打招呼的時候。
我就會想這個是什麼地方？

快車？慢車？怎麼N車走B車線？慢車變快車？
倒底是我糊塗，還是城市生活令人糊塗？

活躍的都市。。。連路人甲也想太多了。

我需要多一杯咖啡

June

六月添新色

從魁北克（灰白黑）到灰白紛

"Fun" yan?

婚姻是對您一輩子的承諾
今後一切都會與你分享
任何事都會與你相討

婚禮和婚宴是要向全世界宣告：「您是我的唯一。」

如果你問：步入教堂是幸福的典堂，還是戀愛的墳墓？

也許只能答你："Happiness in marriage... is not only marrying the right partner; it's being the right partner."

Dancing gloriously

雖敗尤榮

DWTS season 8
Gilles Marini and Cheryl Burke got the second place, but they were the best in my opinion.

A beautiful break up

In a French movie Paris, je t'aime (2006), Francine said to Thomas: "There are times when life calls out for a change. A transition. Like the seasons. Our spring was wonderful, but summer is over now and we missed out on autumn. And now all of a sudden, it's cold, so cold that everything is freezing over. Our love fell asleep, and the snow took it by surprise. But if you fall asleep in the snow, you don't feel death coming. Take care"

Digital Loss

傷心的是「數碼相機不見了！」

樂觀地想：違失不等於違忘。

Be afraid of...

最怕

• 失憶
• 想太多
• 時間不夠
• 太愛你
• 視力退化

From a Bachelorette

兒時以為生自小康，長大後發現表面上的完美並不完美。

不知道由何時開始就習慣了一個人。

我的心思無人能看得清，猜得透，我的步伐無人能跟得到。

是選擇，是個性，還是習慣？

單身本來是獨立自主、自在的。

但踏入適婚年齡，社會壓力為單身帶來了一份尷尬。單身的女性比男性在這方面特別容易引起社會的注意。

極速約會？單身配對？

Forecast

Changing seasons :: Summer of Love is on its way

MAY (chilly sunny)

Mon: Work
Tue: Work + V1
Wed: Work +V1
Thu: Work + C
Fri: Off to V2 + Gym
Sat: Work/ Off to V1
Sun: Gym + Housekeeping + Grocery shopping

JUNE (sunny)

Mon: Work
Tue: Work + V1?
Wed: Work + V1?
Thu: Work + C
Fri: Off to V2 + Gym + D
Sat: Work (1st & 2nd) off thereafter
Sun: Gym + Housekeeping + Grocery shopping

JULY (full of sunshine. perhaps not too much. hopefully. haha.)
Love + Play + more FUN

Love is Happiness

人長大了，漸漸地少聽了媽媽的話。

沒有她在身邊的母親節，特別享往那份無私的愛。

尤其是這回要與弟弟相依為命幾個月，跟過往自住，或跟同屋居住很不同，因為多了一份責任去「照顧」這個人。

毫無疑問，能夠被愛是一種幸福。

Distance of Love

愛情的距離

有了你，一切變得很美。

可是，愛情是很脆弱的。

習慣有你在旁，突然你不見了。

有了距離的愛情為這份愛增添壓力。

零距離的愛情未必是最完美的，但應該是最理想的愛情距離。

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拍拖

拖得好，長長久久，恭喜恭喜。

相反地，拖得不好的話，拖拖拉拉，只是浪費大家的青蔥歲月。

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Chemistry of Love

化學愛情

愛是一種需要

需要見到你的笑容，
聽到你的聲音，
嗅到你的香氣，
親吻到你的唇，
接觸你的身體，
因為愛你， 所以需要你。

這種「化學」作用的發展很微妙。。。

Discovery of Love

發現愛

想你
想吻你
想拖你手
想要寵壞你
想靠在你身旁
想把你擁入懷內
想與你分享大小事

May has begun

五月，

一個「紅色炸彈」開始[亂發]的月份。

我會以愛情為主題，跟您談談情。

Almost perfect

跟它相遇，是近乎完美的巧合。

April

四月，

玩樂加公幹，

忙極也樂極。

The gloomy weather had me down for so long. My sunshine buddy is finally smiling and wobbling his head.

A little bit of [black] luck?

可憐的小黑

There is a black squirrel living around my work area. When I first saw him, I thought it was a rat. Today, I bumped into him when he was walking on a handle by the sidewalk. A pigeon that was two times bigger than him had been watching him.

All of the sudden, the pigeon attacks the squirrel from above.

...that one second...

Standing there, eyes widened... "Oh, no..."

The squirrel jumps down, cautiously looking for the pirate pigeon.

It is not over yet.

The pigeon returns for a second attempt, and the little black one jumps to defend...

I did not know how the battle turned out, but it was interesting to encounter with such a mini-drama on a work day.

(Seriously, you should look at my expression when I saw this happen)

Spring is here

粉紅色的櫻花月

I was airborne by Southwest wind to Texas and then to Washington D.C.
When I came back, I arrived at the airport and my wallet was "kong1 kong1 de"

Things are constantly changing a lot in this pink April. The rest of the month seems to be very busy, but I will keep you posted.

P.S. I am currently behind on updating my album, please forgive me for the delay.

Spring rain

春雨

Expiration Date

有效日期

Everything has its time and space.

Everything comes and goes.

It's everything.

Or nothing?

Change.

One more day to my wonderful 10-day off!

A hardcore battle...

against...

the obnoxious virus

I am glad that it is over... at least for now.

3.12.2009

3.12.2009

跟它合作已一年了。

Lesson Learned

不倒翁精神

不倒翁雖倒不下來，
仍會被「卡住」。
您怎樣看不倒翁的精神？

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鬥不過它

四四方方的它，
麻煩多多的它。
日日面對着它，
十個工作小時。
弄致了一頭煙，
要設法收服它。

無錯，就是它。

Until June

I meant to say July, but June sounds better.

It's 12 a.m.

Gotta move forward.

My work schedule in Spring:

I am happy with my precious weekend off.

I am excited about my upcoming vacation too.

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I may not be an open book.

I am willing to be open and read by you.

=)

Serenity

寕靜中

我仍然相信，有您。

您那有聲無聲的支持，是我能撐下去的原動力。

Fragile

謝謝您。

雖然不知當中有多少個您只是路過，就被流彈擊中，真的不好意思。

A headache

不尋常頭痛的第N日

uneasy day today.

inhale... exhale...

Pain

痛

大風雪帶來的冰雪打在臉上，很痛。

但就算把上月的種種痛症，如頭痛，牙痛，足痛，綜合起來，都及不上無人明白的心痛。

很多事情看此是理所當然，但其實每個人都有自己一套的處事手法，只是未必人人能瞭解清楚。

錯過了，就要努力地改進。但如果被誤解了，又有必要去澄清嗎？

自以為成長了不少，卻又犯下了五年前同樣的錯。

我，原來沒有進步過。

孤單並不心痛，但那份挫敗感，深深的刺痛着我。

知己難求，唯有以文字來解憂。

Visiting

送暖到Brooklyn

今日探望剛出院的姑丈，我見他的面色比我還要好，舒了一口氣。同時收看了NBA球賽。離開時，看到那隻肥肥松鼠爬來爬去和呆呆白鴿在跳樓梯，我淺淺地笑了。

可是，晚上仍然連一頁書也無法看完，就重看了Amelie.

不可不提的今日港股大事： 滙豐供股

Light snow before dawn

清晨的飄雪

天仍未亮，一片灰藍色的。

Bitter cold Feburary

嚴寒的二月

很短

但很忙

堅持信念

要努力向前

難過的一個月

終於都已捱過了

期侍三、四月回春

週末或可以「行開下」

Oscar 2008

2.22.2009

今年的奧斯卡，熱爆。

Slumdog Millionaire has my vote!

I have been reading some Oscar movie related books lately. For example, I picked up Revolutionary Road after watching its movie. I am also reading Man on Wire, which is nominated as one of the independent documentary films. Okay, gotta go watch the Oscar.

Assistance Dogs

Tonka

There are some basic kinds of assistance dogs: guide dogs, hearing dogs, social dogs and service dogs.

Tonka is a service dog. A BIG one.

Although he was in a sleepy mood today, his friendliness remained irresistible. When he came in, he walked toward me, leaning his head to greet me. Before leaving, he jumped on my desk to say goodbye.

A day with "Emily"

愛美麗的一天

話題

如果男人的話題是車和工作，那麼女人的話題就是烹飪和時裝。

口紅

我的IPSA唇彩用光了，就跟她們去了SOHO 的MAC化妝品專門店。其實早在決定去逛化妝品店時，她們就開始Mac Talk了。

女人的梳妝臺

她們的隨身電子相簿中不乏化妝品系列。種類繁多，難怪有女人居住的房間，男的得要讓出一些空間，放置一張梳妝臺，好讓心愛的她專心打扮。

MAC 店 (guys. not the apple store)

我鍾意逛街，但很少買東西。今日MAC SHOP 竟然有收穫。

MAC * HELLO KITTY 系列的唇膏。

奇怪的是我喜愛HK的程度只是一般，對唇膏的興趣又麻麻。

Champagne & Roses

香檳。玫瑰

情人節前夕的另一種甜蜜

"February is Pancake Month" at Clinton Street Baking Company.

I ordered the special pancake of today: "Fresh Strawberries and Champagne Zabayon Pancake"

My lovely companion ordered a Clinton Omelet with ham and mushroom.

Few things I like about this visit.

1. No crazy 2-hour wait for a meal.

2. Having a daily special pancake & omelet is like hitting two birds in one stone.

3. I passed by Falai's first store.

After that, I met up with another friend, having a Raspberry-Rose cocktail at Chikalicious.

That's just life

人生如戲--「珠光寶氣」the Gem of Life

最近在追看的無線長劇「珠光寶氣」快要大結局了。雖然故事有點兒戲劇性和誇張，但是我覺得它好看。
劇中每個人物的性格都很突出，故事發展有如錯踪複雜的人生。
人生，是一段很長的路。當中我們要面對的人和要處理的事，大多都離不開親情、愛情、友情和 對金錢和權力的慾望。遇上了，一起經歷過，敵人也許會成了合作伙伴。雖說商場上無父子，但如果被致親欺騙了，您會容得下嗎？還是會幫理不幫親？對於男女感情，三個婚姻失敗的現代女性，青梅竹馬的未必會因瞭解而結合，情投意合的又可能會因誤會而分開。情場上沒有對或錯，只有真或假。

兩個「她」

二月一日的早晨，矇矓中收到「她」的短訊。
她要離去了。面對一個又一個的離別，我只嘆了一口氣。雖然很無奈、唏噓，在送別的時侯，仍然要笑着送上無限祝福，要為她的前途打氣！

最近得悉「她」患上了重病。下次見面，原本打算買她最愛的紅酒，現在要改買保健產品了。

朋友，健康無價，請保重身體。

La Chandeleur

Crepes~

A little bit Glay...

... Craze

I was looking for videos on YouTube and I found Glay's recent concert.

Here is the year countdown to 2009 video on YouTube. Their performance was undoubtedly amazing, but I still like how they performed the song "I'm in Love" with 200,000 audience in the past.

Actually, I heard of the concert long long time ago, I guess six months before the opening of the concert. As soon as I learned about that, I started finding connections to get their tickets, but still I could not get any. Maybe I just got no luck on drawing. hah.

An old video from South Africa

African dung beetles

I took this video after almost running into a huge turtle in the middle of the road.



The ranger said they might have spent days, weeks, and even months, on rolling the dung ball and trying to push it into the bush.

A Long Day

I had a day off today, but I was up at 207th Street at 9 am.

With about 15 other passengers, I was on my way to upper Manhattan. Before the 200th St. stop, he and I were the only passenger remaining. He got off, and I was alone. I saw a big crowd leaving the train, so I thought it was quite a big station. I checked the subway map, making sure that there was one more stop to go. After five minutes, the train was still not moving. I took a peek of a look outside the train. I found no one. No announcement either. Next train was empty too. Now I realized that I was all by myself... without my cell phone. Two minutes passed. "Ding." The door finally closed. I got off in this unfamiliar neighborhood for the first time, but quickly found the right way to my destination.

I took another trip to lower Manhattan for another business. It was my third attempt for the same volunteering opportunities. It had been so dramatic every time I went there. For example, a fire drill occurred at 16 degree last time and I ended up getting a new camera. This time, I found out that the director was pretty mysterious after talking to the staff there. I did not get to see him. AGAIN! So I decided to totally give this up and find something else.

To relieve my anger, I found myself at Century 21, looking for a new bag... or bagSSS. Big one too. Nonetheless, I got nothing.

Being tag-ged

From Facebook...

16 random things:

1. 一個典型的天秤座女仔。

2. 外表冷酷，但其實生性率直，感情豐富，愛笑易哭。

3. 鍾意紫色，最愛burgundy。其次是深灰藍，綠色和銀色。但家中最多的是黑色和白色。

4. 是四眼妹一名 (有齊遠視、近視、散光和視力大鴛鴦，所以我好愛惜自己的「靈魂之窗」。)

5. 我很平凡。

6. 平日鍾意行街睇戲食飯或在家看書同食共瞓。

7. 放假鍾意去旅行，最想去歐洲和澳洲 。

8. 愛簡單、愛幻想、愛和平、愛觀察、愛攝影、愛玩樂、愛遊歷、愛創新。

9. 熱愛音樂。支持原創。

10. 十月出生的我最愛秋天的涼風送爽。

11. 「十一號巴士」。我好鍾意行路 。行山更是我的興趣之一。

12. 善忘。

13. 瑜伽初哥。

14. I am artsy not mathy.

15. 常答： “why not?”

16. 常問： “why?” For example, why do we have to write 16 random things about ourselves after being tagged. Not 12 or 17?

Things will get better soon

沒想到牛年的開始會是這樣的......

年初一，在吵閙中渡過，我變得沉默了。

年初二，新貞頭的第一個工作天，Boss 給同事一道新鮮的「豉椒炒魷」。

種種不安正纏繞着我的心頭、擾亂着我的思維。

翻開記事簿，又要計劃出走了。祝我好運！

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy OxOx~

今年是牛年，希望牛市興旺，人人都和氣生財，萬事勝意。

Refining a beautiful mind

Daniel Tammet

His numbers. His visual images.

My comprehension. My inspiration.

A series of unfortunate events have been happening to me lately, but my current reading Born on a Blue Day, is inspiring my soul.

Everyone needs a little bit inspiration.

I encourage you to read this book, his new book Embracing the Wide Sky, or click <here> for his interview with Scientific American.

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

昨天。今天。明天。

昨天
要記住他們的笑臉，久別相聚的歡樂。

今天
猶豫。我可以嗎？

明天
相信。

Happy 2009!

My New Year's resolutions:
Learn something new
Enjoy life more
Spend more time with family and friends
Volunteer
Take a trip (or more)
Read more
Keep fit
Eat right and cook more
Save up for good
Be more proactive and independent

How about yours?

2008 Year-End Review

2008大事回顧

今年過得很快，雖然定下的目標只達到了一半，但是快樂的回憶卻不少。最開心的是遇上了一班新朋友，近幾個月以來經常有聚會，令我感到人有了工作仍可結識新朋友。

曾經關起了的心屝如今緩緩地開啓。。。

明日，新年。希望新一年，世界更和平，經濟更繁榮，生活更開心，工作更順利。