1st Roll@Natura Black / Probationary Period Ended

== 1st Roll@nAtUrA Black ==

I've developed my 1st roll of film of Natura Black!! ;-) How impressive is this camera!! The night pics and indoor dim pics are surprisingly good!! I fall in love with Natura now :P Although there are some pics out of focus, it wasn't my fault. Who took those pics, huh? ;) Never stop!! 2nd roll will be started tomorrow!!

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== Probationary Period Ended ==

My probationary period is ended!! Yay!~ Start from April, I am a permanent staff! Time runs so fast, I didn't realise I have been working here for nearly 3 months! Thanks boss for raising my salary a little bit, it's better than nothing, right?

CONCERT

Got free tickets to watch MARK & FRIENDS CHARITY CONCERT. There were so many singers such as Edmond Leung, Leo Koo, Andy Hui, Hacken Lee, Alan Tam, Leon Lai, Kelly Chan, Miriam Yeung, Candy Ho, Ho Wan Sze and Lam Yik Lin. They all sang Mark Lui's songs. I didn't know Mark has composed so many songs. Leo and Lam Yik Lin sang so well in live, Leon was the worst! He even forgot the lyrics!!

PULLED MUSCLES

Sigh... I have to admit I'm old girl now. I played squash tonight but I didn't have enough stretch and warm-up so I pulled my leg and upper arm muscles. Oh my godness it's really painful!! The overstretching of playing backhand pulled my muscle hardly! It wasn't a keen competition, it was casual playing only. Poor me :(

DINNER@JPN DINING SUN

Dinner at Japanese Dining Sun tonight. The food were quite good but it's not worth to pay so much. But I really liked the Foie Gras Lettuce Tsutsu and Kani Mango Rainbow Roll. They were delicious! Also the sashimi were fresh but the portion was so small. Anyway I don't bother coz someone paid for it!! ;)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BOOK

Oh Baby thank you for getting me this old copy of the Pride and Prejudice! How surprising!! You know I'm too lazy to read from the internet? It's much more better to hold a book in hand and read it. You think how long I can finish this book? I'm not a slow reader ;) You bet I can finish before May?

SAW A FRIEND IN CENTRAL

It's really hard to describe the feelings when you meet someone you haven't seen for few years. Would you just say hello straight away? Would you look at him until he is aware of you? Or would you pretend you don't know this person? In normal circumstances I would give him a friendly smile and make sure he has recognised me. I didn't plan to go to Central tonight, I was looking for Pedder Street and I just wanted to ask someoe. Then I saw this friend unexpectedly. Obviously he was busy with talking to his friend and I didn't want to bother him. I think may be I was just scared of talking to him :P It would be so embarrassed if he couldn't recognise me :P

NATURA BLACK

Oh Yeah I got NATURA BLACK at last! I have waited for so long! It's really hard to choose Natura Black or Classica. Zoom function isn't really important for me, F1.9 diaphragm is more attractive so finally I chose Natura Black :) I can't wait to test this camera. Let's have a night out and snap ;)

DINNER@OSAKA / LET GO

== DiNnEr @ OsaKa ==

I had dinner at "OSAKA" today. I haven't been there for a long time. The udon was still so delicious!! It wasn't sticky!! So fresh and yummy!! I first tried this fired chicken and ice tofu, so great!! The fired chicken wasn't greasy, it was still hot and crispy when I ate it. The ice tofu was so special! It severd with wasabi and special sauce. I start to understand why Japanese like eating tofu so much!!

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== LeT gO!! ==

Sometimes being eyes shut or turning ears deaf is better than sticking into the problems. Just let go and think optimistically, you will feel better. If you keep dwelling on it, you can never feel relieved. Take it easy!! A leopard can't change its spots!!

THE ITALIAN

I bought few CDs and VCDs today, one is this CD "The Italian" by Patrizio Buanne, the other is a French Jazz "La Vie En Rose". I have heard "The Italian", althought I don't understand the lyrics, it's good. "Il Mondo" is the hit on this album. Patrizio sings in a mixture of Italian and English, back by orchestra. The sound is emotional and high quality. I haven't heard the other French album yet, but I think it won't be bad.

The other two VCDs are "Amelie From Montmartre" and "Alfie". Someone told me "Amelie From Montmartre" was good and it was worth to watch. I wanted to watch "Alfie" since it was released in States. But it hasn't released in Hong Kong. Luckily I find a cheap VCD! Hopefully I have time to watch them in the weekend.

PLAYING SQUASH

I haven't played squash for few years. My racket is still quite new but the racket handle has oxidised and it made my palm black! So dirty!! I had no choice to use it! My arm is aching now and I feel like it's not mine. I think I'm old now... my backhand is so week and my footwork is slow. It was just like old ladies playing squash :P

MEETING

If a manager isn't willing to accept new ideas or comment, how can a company works things well? We are going to solve the problems not dwelling on personal criticism. I don't understand why my manager was so shocked to listen our comments. Isn't it normal to say your point of views? I don't think it's wrong. Unless she wants to cover her faults so she doesn't want to report to the boss and make any innovation. How can she handle things like that?

GATHERING

I don't like to arrange a gathering and being a contact person. It's fun to gather with friends but it's annoying to contact all of them especially those who are usually NOT SURE their schedule. "Will you go or not?" It's only a YES or No question, why make it so difficult to answer? If you are free, just say yes. If not then say no. Why usually say I'm not sure but I will let you know later? How can the host arrange if everyone tells him at the last minutes?

What make you are not sure? Because you are really busy? Or it depends on your mood, on the weather? Or it depends on another gathering you wanna go or not? Or it depends on who will attend? It's ok to be not sure sometimes but if someone is always like that, I don't think I'm interested to call him/her out again.

INNOVATION

My colleague asked me to write down something what our company needs to improve. And we are going to talk to our manager next week. I'm still new in this company but I can see there are many problems and we don't have a good system to work things well. I'm not sure I will work here long or not but if we keep working in this way, things will get worse. Our company is expanding, we need to be systematic. Sometimes I think Japanese are quite stubborn and they are not willing to innovate. That's why everything is not clear and sometimes I'm confused. So who made this?

I'm a little bit surprised to know a friend is being a fireman now. He is very fit to be a fireman but I still think it's not suitable for him. And is it too late to be a fireman now?

A NIGHT AT DL HOTEL

I got chance to stay a night at Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel for free! That's great! We stayed at Sea View with Balcony room, it's facing to South China sea and the view was so beautiful! This hotel is Victorian Style, the room design looks so grand. What a pity I had to rush to work on the following day so I couldn't watch the sunshine and enjoy the facitilies. The seven dwarfs bathset is so cute! There are toothbrush, toothpaste, shower cap, raxor & shaving foam, Cotton Pad & Swab, Sewing kit, emery board and comb. It's highly collectable!

ASIA'S TOP IRRITATIONS

== ASIA'S TOP IRRITATIONS ==

Just read a survey about Asia's Top Irritations. I do agree there are plenty of that drive us nuts. These common annoyances are really hard to bear!

Rank #1 Bad Drivers
Luckily the transport system in Hong Kong isn't that bad. At least most of the driver here obey the traffic laws. But in China and Taiwan, the drivers don't care about the pedestrian, the longest time for me to wait for crossing the road in Taiwan was 15 mins! Unbelievable!!

Rank#2 Queue-jumpers
I hate queue-jumpers!! They are so selfish, they think they are the only one to is rush? Those Mainland Chinese people don't know what is queue, they only know what is the fastest way to take advantage.

Rank#3 Spitting in Public
I don't understand why elder men like spitting in public. They don't have tissue or something? Or they think it's only public aera so they don't need to keep it clean? I bet they have never spat at their home!

Rank#4 Poor services in shops/restaurants
Good services impress people and I think good services is very important. Just like yesterday I went to a comestic counter, the saleslady didn't provide any good services. She wasn't willing to recommend their products even I asked her. She expected I would buy anything if she acted like that?

Rank#10 Smoking in public places
The smell of smoke is really annoying. Everytime after going to karaoke or some restaurants, my clothes and bag becomes smelly. Why don't people just smoke at home or smoking room?

Rank#11 Unpunctuality
I don't dare to say I'm punctual. I'm often late when I go out with friends. I used to be late at work even I worked at 12pm. I'm now trying to get out of this bad habbit. This new company have time recorder, I can't be late.

Rank# 12 Computer crashes
It's top irritation for me! I will get crazy if I'm working on the document and then the computer suddenly crashes without saving the data! Who helps me to do it again? Computer is convenient but it's not reliable. I learnt a lesson before!

Rank#13 People talking loudly on mobile phone
Many people talk loudly on mobile phone. Once I heard a man talking loudly in the minibus and he disturbed my sleep. I really wanted to ask him to shut off his big mouth. He talked loudly and he lied that he was in China and was rushing back to Hong Kong. Bad liar! And also I don't like people using 3G phone in public without using handfree, they expect everyone is interested to hear what they say?

Rank#15 Telemarketers
I understand telemarketer is only a kind of job but I hate those annoying telemarkets keep calling even you say you don't need their products. They say they would only spend you 1 min to do a survey but finally you talk with them more than 10 mins! That is cheating!

Rank#20 Plastic wrapping you can't open
Sometimes when I can't open plastic wrapping, I feel annoyed and just want to tear it. But it doesn't work. Especially if you tear the food plastic wrapping violently (such as potato chips), finally you can't eat coz the potato chips would all drop on the floor. The best way is to get a cutter or scissors, or you can use your teeth instead?

A GREAT DINNER AT TUTTO BENE

Dinner at this great Italian restaurant. The food and the atmosphere was good, the service was excellent. This salmon Linguine and tomato gnocchi were so tasty! It was expensive but it doesn't matter coz I just got my pay ;)

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After dinner of course it's dessert time! We had blueberry chessecake and frappuccion ;) The cheesecake was ok, it would be better if there was blueberry glaze on top.

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We wanted to play bowling at Olympian City but there were to many people! I think we had to wait for more than 2 hours! We didn't play fina lly but we met Andy Lau ;) There were so many fans watching him playing! His skill was not bad tho.

NEW CAMERA MEMBER

I got a SLR 35mm Film Camera! Thank you so much Newman!! I'm only a amateur and I have to learn how to use this professional camera. But I'm glad to have a "new member" for my camera family. It's my 10th camera! Is it too many? It is never too many! :P I'm thinking to get another cool camera "Natura Classica", it's a super nice camera which takes beautiful shots at night! It's hard to resist :P What a pity it has only released in Japan today and I don't know how long I have to wait to get in Hong Kong.