How smart are dogs?

They are just extremely adorable.

Can't stop loving dogs :)

態度

由於夜了，所以在回家的路上經女人街都會看到一些經常出現的不合法的小攤子在賣小品如包包或是電話殼之類的。

十蚊有各式各類的包包，我好奇所以也走上前去（搏一搏看有沒有史努比）。

然後就有趣了。

一個國內的女人選了兩個包之後試圖用廣東話和賣包的香港人（約40歲女人）說“買兩個有冇平啲？”。但由於實在是說得太不像廣東話了賣包女聽不懂她只好用普通話說“買兩個可不可以算便宜一點呀”。賣包女直用廣東話很不耐煩地應了她說“冇得講價，買20個200個都冇得講”。

或許到這裡大家都會覺得以上對吧很不見外很正常。

但之後，賣包女就繼續和她的夥伴（另一個年齡相似的賣包女）不停地在討論……

“買兩個都要黎同人地講價，真喺搞笑”“咪就喺咯。佢以為買兩個大哂……”“要講咪俾佢講咯，都傻既……”…………

然後還有一堆我就不想繼續聽，反感，離開。

我沒有在偏護誰說話。只是覺得那個態度，真的有很大的進步空間，哦，當然這時候是在說那兩位賣包女。做賣東西或general一些是客戶服務的，態度不就應該善良嗎？討價還價本來就不是什麽很見怪的事情，誰去到哪裡都喜歡減價，買超過一件物品（甚至有時候只買一件物品）希望可以便宜一些些是個很正常的想法。那爲什麽人家只是問一問一句，你一定要反罵十句呢？是我就直接走掉不買了…難道這樣你做生意就會爽一些嗎？

哦，不說了。我想我平時也應該是經常被人罵到不像話的了，因為我也喜歡討價還價。呵，但……習慣就好。

題外話，最近的長命雨讓我有點想瘋掉了。但是否這樣……空氣中的污染，才會減少呢？

我喜歡，夕陽西下的陽光 J

An interesting Saturday

It is always exciting to know that you have a parcel waiting for you at the post office.

And thanks to Tim, for the postcard and for the shell made bracelet. I really appreciate it and I miss you guys a lot.

It has been a long time since I last volunteered.

My last involvement was the visit (Teaching Summer Institutes) in August 2011, where I taught F2-3 students in a primary school in Yunnan English and Computer. Ahh, I still remembered times setting questions and grading students' homework at 12am in our hostel room. I remembered the Yunnan Cross-bridge Noodles (過橋米線) too. Yummy. 

And yes it has been 9 months. Amazing 9 months. 

And today, I went to SoCO Hong Kong in Sham Shui Po to facilitate tutorial sessions for kids (mainly primary school students). This session was made known to me through my company's CSR department. And I'm happy to be here. I tutored a P3 student and to me, she is damn smart. She learn English pretty quickly and Chinese idioms that I barely remember myself learning.

It was a meaningful 1.5 hour spent and I'll definitely be back again.

And next, I decided to go collect my free bicycle :)

But damn, it's raining again. I originally thought of cycling back home from Jordan (2 stations away from home) but it doesn't seem possible so I decided to carry it back home. Well, moreover it is not properly set up when I collected it. I thought it wasn't a hard job but gosh....it's 15kgs and it nearly killed me while I try to carry it from the shop into the MTR and out from the MTR station and it was raining and I have to walk 20+minutes home. 

But it's a nice bicycle.

YAY! So I'll plan where to go cycle next.

 And then? After rain at 7pm....

純粹是個對話分享

我要分享一個讓我覺得很可笑的對話。

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事情是這樣的。A客人去做facial ，無奈約的時間出了差錯要讓A白等20分鐘，B女士（facial中心工作人員）一點要道歉的意思都沒有。

B: 因為你遲到啊，頭先以為你唔黎，所以就俾左間房人地……

A: 你唔喺話7.45既咩

B: 邊有啊，我話7.30渦……

A: ……………………

然後五分鐘時間還發生了一些無奈的小插曲。

B: 你喺唔喺做野做到遲左啦

A: 唔喺，因為你話7.45先有位

B: 喺呀但喺我話幫你安7.30可以上黎

A: 但喺你話7.30喺上黎作住先咁我不如就去食啲野

很好。B還是不想承認說讓A客人久等她自己有責任。

B: 哇，你塊面好污濁好污濁啊……你知唔知架。

A: 知呀

B: 下，你知架。有冇人同你講過你塊面有好多暗粒架……

A: …………

B: 有冇啊…………

A: …………

B: 哇你塊面真喺好污濁好污濁。我真喺好耐都冇見過有客好似你塊面咁污濁架啦。

A: …………

B: 你喺咪成日游水架

A: 唔喺

B: 咁你天生就咁黑架？

A: 應該喺掛

B: 好似我咁黑皮膚？你喺咪全身都好黑架？

A: ……………………唔知wo。

B: 咁你平時鐘唔鍾意做戶外活動？

A: 都鐘意

B: 咁會做咩戶外活動啊

A: 行下山咯

B: 哦，姐喺放假就會行下山咁既。咁你一個月行幾次山啊？

A: …………………………

B: 你幾歲啊

A: 24歲

B: 你喺咪由細到大都喺生咁多毛毛家

A: 喺呀

B: 哇你個額頭好多毛毛wo。你個嘴唇上面都好多毛毛仔渦。

A: ………………

B: 因為你有咁多毛毛呢，就會令到你塊面有好多暗瘡。…………………………（接著一堆暗瘡來源的解釋）………………唔怪得啦你塊面咁污濁。你知唔知架…

A: ………………

B: 你喺米野好耐啦？

A: 晏唔喺好耐姐

B: 咁喺米有一年啊？

A: 未一年

B: 你做邊行家

A: 會計

B: 哇……咁叻既你？你原來咁叻架？

A: ……………………都唔喺既。

B: 做會計要好叻先做到家渦

A: ……………………

B: 咁你一個月喺米有賺2萬蚊架

A: 梗喺冇啦

B: 下，你地唔系賺好多架咩？

A: 冇啊

B: 我以為你地賺好多既添。咁喺米萬幾蚊啊……

A: 喺呀

B: 我唔知呀嗎…所以米問下咯。咁你不如轉過黎做美容師呀，我地都喺賺萬幾蚊一個月。哇，你地賺咁少架咋，我一定唔會俾我個女讀大學。

A: ………………………………………………………………………………

B: 其實你喺咪唔喺香港人

A: 喺呀

B: 咁你喺咩人

A: 馬來西亞人

B: 咁你喺咪mix黎架

A: 唔喺

B: 咁……你喺果邊住？

A: (OS: What kind of stupid question is this) 之前喺呀。

B: 你幾時過黎架

A: 三年前左右

B: 你過黎讀書？

A: 喺呀

B: 點解會撿黎香港既？你好中意香港咩？

A: 都喺黎讀書姐

B: 我去過馬來西亞一次，我去完之後真喺覺得果度好悶。去過之後我同自己講我一定唔會再去果度

A: !!!???

B: 喺真架。你以為我整估你啊。你知唔知架？

A: errr………………

B: 咁你讀完書之後就喺度做野？

A: 喺呀

B: 點解留喺香港既？

A: 都喺做野姐

B: 咁你唔諗住返去啦？

A: 都會架

B: 你自己一個人黎呀？你屋企人喺果度？

A: 喺呀

B: 咁佢地咪好掛住你咯

A: 喺呀

B: 咁你掛唔掛住佢地呀

A: 梗喺啦

B: 哈哈哈。你話梗喺添………………

A: =____________________________________=

B: 咁你覺唔覺得香港好好啊？

A: …………

B: 至少冇咁悶啦喺嘛……

A: ……………………

B: 喺唔喺呀……你唔覺得咩？

A: 屋企好啲

B: 哎呀，你塊面真喺好污濁，我一定要幫你整一整啊。你呢啲毛毛咧，有冇人同你講過架？

A: ………… (lazy mode)

B: 下，你知唔知架？

A: 知呀

B: 咁喺啲朋友同你講要整走佢？

A: 唔喺，都喺知有姐

B: 咁你自己識唔識點樣整走佢

A: 唔識

B: XXXX （極力推薦product中，around 4 minutes）

A: …………………… (sleepy mode, wanna shut her up mode)

B: 但喺你喺咪都會嫌貴呀

A: 喺

B: 有冇話一個月可以俾幾錢做美容

A: 冇

B: 一個月幾百蚊都唔得？

A: 唔得

B: 譬如話，一個月300蚊咧？你覺得貴？

A: 喺

B: 200幾呢？

A: 都貴

B: 百幾蚊都唔得？

A: 唔得

B: 你駛唔駛俾家用

A: 要

B: 咁你宜家自己一個人住？

A: 同friend一起

B: 幾多個人

A: 3個

B: 咁你租喺米好貴

A: 喺呀

B: 你租邊度

A: 旺角

B: 旺角租都貴？一個月幾錢租？

A: 9千一萬度啦

B: 哇咁米一人要3000幾蚊？

A: …………

B: 勿怪之得啦。你一個月賺7、8千蚊咁少，應該都唔捨得買療程去毛毛啦

A: 喺呀

B: 你快啲賺多啲錢啦，做多啲part time啦

A: …………………………

B: 你咁樣落去唔得架。你其實都想改善架啦喺嘛？

A: …………

B: 喺唔喺架？

A: 冇諗過

B: 你喺咪有時聽唔到我講咩架

A: ……

B: 聽唔明喺嗎？

A: err………………（OS: 唔想理你姐=.=）

B: 你地講英文喺米好叻架

A: ok啦

B: 喺咩？你地唔喺都喺講英文架咩？

A: 都唔喺架

B: 咁你平時講咩啊

A: 睇情況啦

B: 哈哈。咁同屋企人咧？

A: 普通話咯

B: 真喺？？馬來西亞人都識講普通話架咩？

A: 唔喺既

B: 咁你喺邊度學家？

A: 學校咯……

B: 哦……咁所以你聽普通話反而就好啲？

A: …………

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以上就是不只可笑也很膚淺的對話。當然，認識我的話當然知道那個很無奈的A君就是本人。之後其實還有一些無奈插曲但我不想說了。寫到這裡都已經是MS Word第七面了，全都發生在少過1小時以內。

更無奈的是，還有七次，我要來這裡做facial。

已經不是第一次了，被人這樣踐踏或說下去。啊，不可以這麼說。才不會被那麼low-b的傢伙踐踏。我只是純粹很無奈很想叫她收聲。然後心裡狂暴粗。但我沒什麼氣，可能已經放棄了這裡的人的思維，所以也不覺得有什麽值得氣的了。

哈。

And the first Saturday of May...

(And I realized that I have not been blogging much about my life in the year of 2012, but instead posted lotsa Mayday videos *winks*)

Supposed to be studying. Supposed. (okay who knows if it might or might not happen? LOLs)

It's Vesak Day in Malaysia. But Buddha's birthday in HK was last Saturday. Why such difference I have no idea. Wanted to go to a temple this morning but the weather wasn't good. Weird rain happening these days and it could get pretty annoying. Went out for facial appointment. And once again, another rather disappointing service experienced in this region.

People here are just too motivated for money, instead of satisfaction through happiness. 

Words couldn't simply describe it all, and I just felt so ....("XXXX"?) about it.

Saw a golden retriever on the streets. I so wana have a dog or at least Patty by me.

LOL Obviously this is no Golden Retriever....but a Huski equally adorable. MISSSS DOGSSS.

Gosh I have soooo much to do and time is just never enough. Weeeeeeekends are too short. Just too short for me to organize my photos from the Japan trip, upload photos from my company's annual dinner, recalculate expenses for the Japan trip, study, blog, house chores, get some nice sleep, write letters to the kids I met last summer etc etc etc etc etc.

TOO SHORT.

PENDEK.....

末日願望

因為第二人生所以五月天去到很多各式各類的綜藝節目都會被問道自己的末日願望究竟是什麽。

有時候我自己也會想……………

有時候真的覺得末日就快來了，但從來沒有真正想過末日前夕到底要幹什麼。

會不會像阿信那樣……睡過去就算了呢？呵呵呵。

嗯…超愛看阿信的畫，簡單且可愛。

你呢？有想過你的末日願望嗎？

五月來了。五月天，也快來了 :)

Major minor updates

And so when I come back to blog, the whole interface of blogger changed. Just like Facebook, and everything else perhaps. Why could things just change so quickly in these days.....and I wonder.

How long has it been...since I last flew a kite?

Hmm. Has life been good?
"Ma ma dei lar..."--that's how "so so" is represented in Canto.
I can't believe that I have worked for 7 months! Well perhaps 6 months as there were quite sometime in the middle where I spent on studying, exams and some holidays [Yes people I just went to amazing Japan wohooo....].

And I am still considering whether this is the career path that I would like to carry on and work on with. Well, to be more precise, when will I actually know? Ah....perhaps till the day when I really have to shout "Stop!".

Winter is finally over (well I mean since beginning of April, and not that I don't like winter why did I use the word finally over there....), and there has been quite a lot of rainy days lately. Rain makes people moody on the streets as umbrellas bang each other and water sprints over everywhere, ooh, that definitely includes me. Makes me so wana go home and drive lol. Spoiled. 

It's Bersih 3.0 today everywhere across the globe I heard?

Yah, just some updates and random thoughts before I go to bed.
Nights.

A couple of shouts.

A couple of funny/interesting things that happened this week that I would like to share....

1) The Bank of China issued 2 million commemorative notes in Hong Kong in order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of BOC. And people went up for grabs like crazy. The lines were crazy, people line up for 10 hours to buy the notes. The 2nd hand prices were super crazy too. It was sold at HKD150 from the banks and it was valued at around RMB800 in the market. Wohoo....good profit here...it made me felt like buying too. They call those "middle-men" trying to make profits the "yellow-cow"s. LOL.

2) There's this interesting ceremony called the "borrow money from guan-yim" ceremony which happened on Fri, 17th Feb. People starting queuing up since the night before at places that are near to guan yim temples, including the football court just beside the building I live in, and the queue was there all day long...as in it was still there when I came back from work at 8pm. It's amazing to see how Hong Kong people are so into this tradition ....I guess it "works" in some way and that's why people are still following it.

3) The debate. Most Malaysian Chinese would know what I'm talking about hehe. Yeah....and facebook is truly "scary"....photos and videos and pages and sites and comments and more sharing are everyone within just a couple of hours after the debate. And the focus of the debate would be lady of MCA Selayang, and now better known as the parking lady, or "kak tunda" in Malay. Hmm...and you could look the whole debate if you're interested. 

抱歉我缺席了好久

好像我忘了和你請假，親愛的部落格，抱歉我缺席了好久。

很大場的兩場試都考過了，聖誕新年諾亞方舟首航也過了。

2012，來了。

那天不知道是看到報紙還是什麽，突然才開始慢慢相信那個瑪雅的預言，原來真的有可能，會世界末日。

你，相信嗎？如果你相信，最想做的事情，還有什麽呢？

我不知道在這個犯太歲的龍年我又會發生什麽事，只求我可以工作順利，有更多機會回家這樣應該就够了。

很錯的馬克杯喝香檳呵呵~！管他的呢。

嗯，一起……乾一杯！

Welcome 2012~~

Cause I wanna.

Cause I wanna skip talking about Mock Exams, so I skipped blogging on Oct 31st. And pretend that Oct 2011 only has 30 days, and I pretend that Halloween 2011 does not fall on Oct 31st.
YES.

Hmm....I decided to blog about FOOD from today onwards for the week. LOL so what's first?

Let's go to Watami 和民。ワタミ株式会社 ！
Cause I have their CC and cause the CC is tied up with Watami, I got this HKD100 coupon for dining in during my b'day month. Yummy.

Xiaoqin's Cold Noodles 冷麵. 冷そば :)

HKD52 (including Miso soup+drink. My Garlic and Butter Seafood Rice in Stone Pot Set
(LOL the names are always long....)
石鍋蒜香海鮮飯. 石燒海鮮ガーリックライス

Cause I've always enjoyed Japanese food, although I can say that this is genuine Japanese food. But still a nice treat.

Well, one interesting which happened when I was eating the above rice. While I was about 60% away from finishing my food, I realized a HUGE crack at the Stone Pot =.= Yes, one whole line straight through. And so I ate away most of the seafood and ask for a change for a new pot of it. LOL. So I had almost 1.8 portions of the rice and 2 miso soups for the meal. So it's lunch+dinner.

Lol. Satisfied.

Milo in the office

What it used to be

Minum milo anda jadi sihat dan kuat!

Lol people who know what I'm talking about, knows what I'm talking about and correct me if I'm wrong cause I haven't heard of that song for a damn long time.

I used to LOVE milo alot. Yes, I love it.

During my schooling days, every morning, my mum will prepare a cup of milo for each of us (dad+mum+sis+me) as breakfast before we head for school. And during most of the nights, we will drink milo before going to bed. I guess it's the same for lotsa families and Malaysians do rely on milo A LOT. The price has hiked up pretty much till I stop being so addicted to it years ago (I think the other reason was because mum realized that the sugar content in milo is too high). We use to buy a whole tin (1.5kg?) of it which costs around RM15+- till they start producing the 3-in-1 packets to make mum's job easier. But no joke 3-in-1 started with a price of around RM8.5+- and now it's on average RM13 (if I've not mistaken). Fuyohhh....inflation. When milo is on sale (I remember it used to happen quite a lot in Lai Lai Supermarket on Burmah Road), I used to be the useful family member trying to grab as many tins/packets as we could in front of the storeroom door. No shock, every else does that too! It's a matter of whether you're fast and ganas enough. And I remember being pretty ahem...proud of myself for being able to get 12 units (capped at max 3 per customer) for my family during each sale.

And now.

Those were the days.

When we started to feel that milo is just cutting consumers throat with the rapid price increase, we did thought of alternatives such as Vico or Ovaltine. But they're just not....milo. Haha, so today, it is still guaranteed that there'll be some milo in my house cause my dad is still so loyal to that drink.

Well, for me, not drinking it at home doesn't mean that I don't like it anymore. I was pretty excited to learn that my company has this beverage vending machine which also makes milo, yes and unlimited and for FREE! And so, milo is the next beverage I'll not miss whenever I'm in the office after coffee. 

Lol, sure kena diabetes leh....one day.