這個周末是long weekend, 所以今天不用去上課~ 好不容易可以睡到自然醒~~ 起床後,洗了個澡就出門去染頭髮~ 花了四個小時+$70....好險結果還算成功,不然真的是會很嘔~
其實還蠻想去剪個髮型的...只是現在還沒有看到喜歡的樣子,頭髮也還在留長當中...就先算了吧.

最近不知道怎麼了...也沒有特別吃很多,天天還帶狗狗去散步,可是體重一直下不來....唉...其實都會一直想著這個問題,難道真的要咬著牙天天吃水煮青菜才有用嗎?? 還是女人hit 25歲後,新陳代謝就真的明顯緩慢? 也未免太準了吧....才25歲的過幾天而已....我還去找了新聞看,新聞說如果黃酮素(賀爾蒙的一種吧...)分泌不夠的話也會造成我現在的狀況耶....建議多吃豆類跟山藥....說不要吃肉...T_T....唉...真辛苦....

等等晚上可能會去steve家打牌吧~

Quarter Century

Goodness, I sounded so old when my 25^th birthday was called my Quarter Century event… I guess Howie on the show Deal or No Deal was really putting out some kinds of psychology effects to the audiences by always announcing $250000 as “Quarter of A Million Dollars”… Anyways, so this year, my birthday fell on a routine boring working Wednesday. The only exciting event was that 649 jackpot hit 24mil which I bought a 6 dollars ticket of, and I did not win.

May 13^th, 2009, same glasses, same ponytail, same business outfit, I went to work as usual at 6:20am. I got to work by 7:00am with two dozens of Timmy’s donuts. It was this thing in our office that people usually bring in treats on their birthdays… I guess it was just like how we used to do in elementary school, remember? So very quickly, people knew it was my birthday and started to wish me a happy birthday when I bumped into them in the hallways and washroom. About an hour later, whole bunch of them showed up around my desk and started singing happy birthday real loud, which I’ve never seen it happened to other co-workers on their birthdays, so I was truly surprised and touched!! One person suggested a “group hug” after singing the song, but we all knew it was too lame to do so the idea went down the drain and faded in laughter. After everyone went back to their work stations, I continued to read e-mails, reply e-mails, write more e-mails, attend meetings, have lunch, play cards, write e-mails again, attend more meeting until 3:30pm (yes, my boss asked me to worked 1 hr overtime due to a Scope of Work meeting schedule, and that was extra $70 for me, so why not).

Got home around 4:20pm, took care of the dogs, fed the cat, watched family feud and deal or no deal simultaneously (occasionally judge Judy), vacuumed the floor, mopped the floor, changed the sofa sheets and then Grace got home. She told me that we planned to eat out that night with Jen (just 4 of us). We had to wait for Leo to get home from work; so I decided to take the dogs out for a walk while waiting for the family member to show up. Even though it was a bit chilly for a May day, the walk went pretty well – no Cherry rolling in the wet mud nor Honey showing friendliness to other dogs by chasing them across the street and dragging me along with her. After the walk, Jen showed up with 2 cakes in her hands, I was like…why 2 cakes? I thought it was just 4 of us. The response I got was that other people will show up later…Other people? Enough for 2 cakes? I rushed up the stairs and started putting my contact lenses in and makeup on realizing that there would definitely be pictures taken later evening…lol. Jen also showed up with a Conair steamer (a gift from David and Jen together)…the steamer was not for cooking, it was like the Tobe steamer for ironing clothes that had been repeatedly advertised on the tv shopping channel for ages. Anyway, I will try it out soon.

David called to say happy birthday around dinner time because he was a loser and would be in the lab for the rest of his night…So Jen, Leo, Grace and I went to eat the Ramen on Yonge near Centre Point – it was NOT good! So later we went to Centre Point and ordered KFC hot wings– it was GOOD!! By the time we got home it was close to 9pm, soon the Wang family showed up with Citadels; the Wang’s family was going to drive over due to the light rain, but Mark figured even if they had driven, there would be no parking space at my house, and they would end up parking at their house and walk over, so they decided to walk… then Bruce showed up, then Daniel & Angie showed up with a basket of home-made alphabet cookies with MY name! The cookies were delicious! Lastly Leo showed up with a pair of tiring puppy eyes, we all thought that he just came out from the lab downtown U of T… We talked, we laughed, we sang, we ate the cake, and played Citadel until midnight. Towards the end of the board game, Steven revealed something unbelievably great about the game – whoever reaches 8 districts is immune to Warlord attack! In other words, in the previous two team games we played (Steven and I a team), our team “technically” and “legitimately” WON both games and Rick + Sunny could not have illegally attack our districts at the very end of the game!!! Muhahahahahaha!!! That news made me felt like my life was complete…maybe that was a tiny bit exaggerated, but hey, talking about competitive activities…

Finally, I want to thank Jen and Grace for putting the event together, everyone who showed up at my door that night, everyone who left me birthday wishes on fbook, everyone who texted me the birthday wishes, and my parents who did not call, but sent me pictures of them having tons of fun in China with no words nor messages what-so-ever via e-mail while I had to wake up before 6am the next morning and still go to work for the rest of the week! I mean, what else could I complain? Love always!

正常

我需要的只是一個正常會關心我的人...
每天每天的這樣過,我的心就像是每天每天的這樣一點點的磨損,一點點的失落,一點點的感傷...有一天可能會消耗殆盡...

天分

有人常說...成功是需要先天的優勢再加上後天的努力的...
其實我們忘記了一個非常重要的元素 - 運氣!
雖然把一個人的成功與否跟運氣沾上邊是個不但推卸責任既天真的想法...可是不可否認的,運氣實在是個很玄的東西. 而且不只是我想過這個問題.有一個挺有名的人也思考過這件事,這個人叫做Murphy. Murphy 說 "if anything can go wrong, it will". 我其實還蠻喜歡Murphy所說的話.雖然我不認為那是對的. Because I think it should say " If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong only for those lack of luck".

女孩的第一個名牌包! Designer Bag!!

If diamond were girl's best friend, then designer bag must be our second best friend!

The weather was beautiful this weekend, so I decided to take a walk down the bloor street and get Jen a nice bag.

David came visit from Waterloo on Saturday, he arrived around noon. So we took the subway down to Dundas, and went to Salad King for lunch. Salad King was as packed as usual, and the food was as delicious as usual too. David claimed that he had his best pat thai there. After lunch, we walked on Yonge towards Bloor. We went into all these designer stores, and opened David's eyes (espcially when he saw some really ugly plastic bags being thrown around at the reduced section and still had the price tags around $1000) at Holts. Anyway, we were on a mission of finding Jen her first Coach bag.

I've known Jen for almost 12 years now. She has always been very caring and supportive. Every year, she would get birthday gifts for me, she mailed me post cards from taiwan and even Christmas she would get something small for her friends. On the other hand, I am not that type of person who remembers details, sometimes I even forget her exact birth date... But I thank her for all the things that she has done for me, and I thought about girl's second best friend - a designer bag! As a girl, I can probably say almost 100%, you can never forget your first designer bag! For me, it was my Miu Miu bag that I earned and bought for myself, and I don't think I'll ever forget that. So I decided to get Jen a Coach bag to not only show my appreciation for her being such a good friend of mine but also have her remember me forever..haha! When I was at the Coach store, I was surprised that the price in CAN is the same as the price in the US. After getting the bag, David and I decided to go for some dessert. The sunshine and the warm breeze were just perfect, so we didn't really mind to walk a little more. So we strolled back to Dundas and had the super good ice cream brownie at Hardrock Cafe. Then we walked around in Eaton Centre and went home. Since we had a pretty late lunch, we decided to have a late dinner. So we went to Duff's wings for dinner around 9pm. After dinner, Sarah called me to go sing Karaoke at RQ with her, so I went and we had whole lounge for ourselves; we had so much fun actually singing at karaoke instead of mad drinking! LOL!

Then next day, Sunday, We took Cherry and Honey to the park, and we went Wasabi for supper.

Monday was Thanksgiving, since no stores were open, we stayed home and made Lasagna. (of course it was so good as usual! haha)

David left to Waterloo around 6pm, along with his food and Jen's Coach Bag. Around 8pm or so, I got a msn msg from Jen with "HOLY CRAP, I AM SPEECHLESS! THANK YOU!", and I knew she got her present and I got her surprised and she loved it. It felt really nice to make someone happy! Haha.

For those of you who are having a hard time figuring out how to be the special someone in a girl's life...take my advice, it is simple, be the person who get her the first designer bag or the first diamond ring! Can't go wrong with THAT! Here is the bag I got for Jen, it is really nice!

BUSY SUMMER!

OMG! I can't believe it's October already!!
Work has been extremely busy for the past couple of weeks...the worst part was, again, people screwed up and I had to somehow fix their $hit! Seriously people, pay attention to details! details! details! Track your work! Meet your deadlines and deliver your products in an organized manner please! Anyway, I really didn't mind the workload (if people didn't actually screwup), but the fact that I had to spend so much time, on top of my 1000 things to do, doing OTHER peoples' work sort of upset me a little! The good news was, Clemen called me last week and told me about a job opening in his group that he was wondering if I would be interested. I was very flattered when I heard his offer. I mean, it was not really the job that I was really excited about, it was the fact that someone actually recognized my hardwork and the "I am wanted" sort of feeling really energized me! We'll see how things go!

Mom and Dad left for Florida and the Bahamas just last Saturday! I hope everything works out okay for them!!!! they haven't called me yet... so I assume everything is going smoothly...
Cherry and Honey are so bored at home during the day time now, I feel a little sorry for them!! (even though Cherry does chew and mess things up at home when nobody is around....)

I signed up for George Brown's Culinary I class, every Sunday 1-5pm from Sept to Dec (Sarah and Justin actually signed up for the same time slot in the class next door). I truely enjoyed every single class that I have been to so far; like 1000000 times better than Engineering class!!Last class, we made Lasagna...it was REALLY good!! I also got the chef uniform; mom couldn't stop laughing when she saw me in it (cuz she said that my face was even "rounder" when I wear the chef hat...). I guess I will take some photos this Sunday and post them.

Long weekend is coming!! nothing planned yet...hmm....

一路以來都很平安

上個禮拜收到我認養小朋友從Rwanda寄來的信,收到的時候心中還真的是暖暖的. One full page of writing describing his country and family. He is in grade 5, and he is in a single parent family with 7 other siblings. 雖然一個月要40塊錢也不便宜,可是算一算連我一小時的工資都不到就可以幫助一個小朋友,心裡還是挺開心的.
話說我這一路走來都很平安,雖然在交朋友上有一點坑坑洞洞,可是大致來說,不管是學業也好,事業也好,都很順利.感情上嘛...不知道該怎麼說,雖然沒有轟轟烈烈的愛情,不過也沒有遇人不淑.應該要滿足了!! 現在想要買什麼就有什麼.想要買車,去mercedes就搬回一個e300,想要買包包,就去holtz搬回一個miu miu (雖然真的是有點小貴...),想要sponser小孩,馬上可以sign up monthly payment, 想要做fence,馬上2500可以寫cheque叫人來做...買什麼,吃什麼都不需要考慮太多....就是連買房子,要買的話也不是買不起...難怪survey說有錢的人過的真的比較快樂,我還真有感覺到一點咧! 而且最重要的是用自己的錢,肯定了自己的能力,這也算是一種另類的成就感吧.
最近對吃的以及運動都有特別的照顧,雖然還是沒怎麼瘦下來...>_<
可是每個禮拜去做hot yoga都有覺得body and mind 都有變乾淨! 流出一身汗,精神也比較好呢!
我想要感恩社會,還有我身邊的人的心...make me a better person, make the world a better place and ENJOY IT! Isn't THAT the meaning of life?! :)