FAERWELL TO COLLEAGUE AGAIN

One more colleague has resigned so we went to Jin Luo Bao Korean Restaurant to have farewell dinner with her. We ordered too many food and we hardly finish all!! :D I was all full for whole night!! We all questioned her and I finally know why she resigned!! Taking care of her son is only excuse, the main reason is she hates our boss!! Hahaha :D She is a nice person, it's kinda sad to see her leave. Hopefully we will hire a new staff soon... Darn my assistant is going to leave too... Hard work!!

I LOVE OYSTERS!!

Dinner at Island Seafood & Oyster Bar tonight. It was great!!! The environment and the service were good!! We mainly focused on oysters so we didn't order many dishes. We had Wagyu Angel Hair Pasta and different kind of oysters.

The waitress recommended us St. Peter Island (from Australia), Fine De Clarie, Roumegous and Perle Blanc (From French). They were all so delicious and fresh!! I like Fine De Clarie and Perle Blanc most. The Perle Blanc was creamy, rich and sweet!! Fine De Clarie didn't have strong "sea taste" and it was good. St. Peter Island and Roumegous were a bit salty but pretty good. I will definately go there again tho it's expensive!! Luckily someone treated us tonight :D Yay!!

After dinner, shopped around and then bought a nice hat. Didn't plan to buy a hay coz I don't wear often. But it was on sale and it looks nice :P

HERE YOU GO! MUNICH!!

Yay I'm going to Munich at the end of September!! ;) Kinda unexpected, huh? It was a bit rush to decide going there tho, I have just confirmed my ticket today!! My manager was reluctant to approve my vacation coz someone is going to leave. She asked me to change the departure date but I can't!! There is no choice for her :D I'm a bit excited for my trip now!! It will be Munich Oktoberfest when I go there!! I can imagine how fun it would be! I really should learn some German and get to know more about this country :P Luckily I have a friend who is so helpful and kind to help us!! :) Can't wait to go there!!

FRINGE CLUB LIVE JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Watched Live Jazz Orchestra at Fringe Club, it was great!! But the theatre was small and there were not enough seats so we had to stand all the way. But I enjoyed it!!

After watching the orchestra, we wanted to have a drink at LKF but all the pubs were full of people so we went to TST Ned Kelly's to have a drink, eat some snacks and enjoy Jazz band show again. It's really a good place to chitchat and relax!!

"big onion rings @ Ned Kelly's"

NASTY WORK

My company is expanding and there is reformation such as enhancing our brand and image to attract more customers. Our boss usually has many ideas and he's just taken over another company. That means our workloads are increasing. I got many meetings recently and I have to deal with some producing companies and stuff... It's ok I can deal with it.

But today got a really BAD news, my assistant just handed in her resignation letter!! Oh my godness!! She has worked for 2 months only!! She thinks her job is kinda boring and she wants to work in a sales and marketing team (but our company doesn't have sales and marketing department!!) I think she is quite smart and efficient and I was going to teach her more but now it's a problem for me if she is going to leave in a week. I have to take over all her work!!

My manager has some suggestions for me:

1) She has a middle-age Japanese friend, who doesn't know any Cantonese or English. My manager THINK she wouldn't mind to be my assistant and she can work well.
My opinion: I don't want a Japanese assistant it's only my manager thinks she is suitable. It's a big problem if she can't communicate with the non-Japanese speaking warehouse staffs and accountants. How can I order her to deal with things with other staffs?

2) Hiring a cheap local data entry assistant who doesn't speak Japanese. Or not to hire anyone but we all share the workloads.
My opinion: As my assistant, of course I prefer if she can speak Japanese and Cantonese, I don't want to translate everything all the time! I'm not a translator! If they don't hire another assistant for me, I don't think the other colleagues are free to take over some workloads! That means I have to do by myself!

As a conclusion, my company isn't willing to pay more to hire a better person. I'm sick to teach someone who doesn't work long. It's kinda wasting my time. What should I do? Doing all the work by myself?

NED KELLY'S

Chilling out at Ned Kelly's after French lesson. I wanted to go there long time ago since I knew there is Jazz live band show. Didn't plan to go there tonight but suddenly someone also wanted to go too so we went there to see how it is.

It's totally like a differnt world when I get into the pub. The woody decoration and atmosphere are good!! It's a how Jazz/Blues bar should feel like. Most of them are foreigners and middle-aged customers, they go there to enjoy the live Jazz music. We ordered few drinks, potato skins and salad. The potato skins were great but I didn't like the salad. Can't believe they made with canned tuna.

Live band show is from around 9.30pm - 1am. Luckily we booked the table, the pub was quite full! We had to share a table with 3 Dutch men. But they were nice and funny and they talked to us. I supposed they are also Jazz lovers! They even bought us drinks without telling us! I had great time and I love the live Jazz music!! It makes me want to learn saxophone so much!! I was in cheerful mood and I felt so relaxed. A great place to chill out!!

FEELING DOWN

Have been feeling a bit down recently... I'm unable to feel excited or energetic about anything... What should I blame? The bad weather? The nasty work or someone who doesn't do something constructive? It really irritates and frustrates me. A friend reckons I'm easy to be annoyed recently but I just can't help. Of course I want to be happy always but what should I be happy for?

RUSH HOUR 3

Watched RUSH HOUR 3 tonight. Not a best movie but it was funny!! There was no gripping storyline, the stunts were okay, just old tricks of Jackies'. Not much surprise and predictable ending but it was interesting. The jokes and gags make me laugh. The movie is a bit too American and I don't think French people would like it LOL

RIVIERA CÔTE D'AZUR

Joined a travel seminar of France today, it makes me want to travel to France so much!!! Know some more about the geography of France and the way to travel there by train. Seems it's not that difficult!! I have a clear picuture that where to visit!! Tho I'm not going to Europe this year, I can plan it for next year!! Paris, Riviera Côte d'Azur are a must go place!! Can't wait for my trip!!

After the seminar, dinner with friend at TST and then we went to Central and shopped around at H&M. New Autum and Winter clothes are released!! So fast!! It's still hot summer!! I found a nice coat but it's too hot to buy it right now... May be I should wait to buy it later. Then we had drinks at LKF, we drank 2 cocktails at The Fong and I got a bit tipsy. Fell asleep immediately when I got into the bus :P Luckily I still could get off the bus and go home :D

THE SIMPSONS MOVIE

THE SIMPSONS MOVIE was hilarious! I watched The Simpsons cartoons since I was very small so I hardly remember the personaility of the characters and the story. But I quite like the movie!! Homer does something truly thoughtless and stupid. It's a plain, simple comedy. A bit short tho it makes you laugh a lot!

TESTING PHOTOS

Having some tests on my camera, overall it's excellent!! It's complicated and I have to spend more time to figure out how to use!! Finally I can try to take some pics with depth of field. I have Snoopys to test with me :D The Snoopys are clear and the background is blurry, it's what I want but the Snoopys are not sharp enough. I think I didn't focus quite well. Need to practise more!!

CANON 400D

Yay here we go!! My *New Toy* Canon 400D!! I got it finally!! I have been waiting for few weeks!! :D And today I spent a lot!! I bought a camera bag, a 4G CF card and a 400D guide book, they are necessaries so I have to buy them... I'm so poor now!! But it's a thrilling day!! Can't wait to test my camera!! It feels so great to own a DSLR!! :D

NEW WATCH

Shopped around at MongKok and dinner at Pizza Hut with friends today. Didn't have mood becoz of the rain. I really don't like going out during rainy days. It's annoying! I just wanna do window shopping and I didn't intend to buy anything but then when we went into an accessories shop, a watch caught my attention! I bought it without much consideration :P Those evil friends just made me to buy it!! LOL Actually I really love watches and I'm quite into classic simple watches recently. Can't afford to buy my dream watch and I think it's not too extravagant to buy a cheap one, is it? :D

KENZO + HAAGEN-DAZS

Dinner at Kenzo with family tonight. The food was quite good but it wasn't as good as I expected. I had it once 2 years ago and last time it was great! May be we didn't order the expensive stuff lol Anyway we had good time and enjoyed the food.

After dinner, hung around and then had dessert at Haagen-Dazs. I like the German cheese cake!! Not too sweet and it tasted good! :D Let me try to make one by myself!! :D

TYPHOON SIGNAL #8

Thanks for the typhoon!! I was off from work at 2:30pm today. Didn't want to go home right away so went to APM cinema to see if there were tickets for The Simpons. But there were too may people and only 1st row was avaiable!! Then my colleague suggested to play bowling but the bowling alley was full too! The shops were also going to closed so nothing we could do. Finally we had to go home. It was a waste to go home tho I had some time to relax :)

DEAD END

It's hard to say I enjoy or I'm tired of busy life. I should be happy to do something I like and I don't want to regret when I'm old. But sometimes when I rest myself and think about it, seems like I'm rushing myself to do many things at once. I don't like the feeling of doing nothing, it makes me feeling bored and losing my way. Some people may not understand but please don't blame me if I'm too busy. I know what my top priority is and I'm trying my best to arrange my schedule. Really need to figure out what to do, otherwise it's going to the dead end. Gimme some more time!

FAREWELL DINNER

A colleague is going to leave and today is his last day so we had farewell dinner with him. I'm glad that finally he can find another job coz our manager was too mean to him. Also this job really doesn't suitable for him, there is no meaning to be suffer here. Really hope he can have better prospect in the next company!!

We had buffet dinner at Todai, the food was good!! Haven't been there for a long time!! I like the uni sushi and the loster!! They were goood!! The oysters were ok, not fresh enough so I didn't eat much. I love the dessert!! They were tiny and sweet!! :D Overall it was good!! It wasn't really like a farewell dinner coz we didn't act like we would miss him coz I'm sure we will see again soon! Hong Kong is small, right?