HALLOWEEN BASH @ OCEAN PARK

Haven't been to Ocean Park for many years!! I have been thinking to have fun there again and finally we made it this year :D We went there in the evening and it was quite crowded!! Many people dressed in Halloween costumes and the atmosphere was so good!!


We mainly wanted to visit the Haunted Houses and there are 7 haunted houses in the park. We went to the Chung Kwai's Ghost Gourd first. It wasn't allowed to take pics and videos inside the houses but even if it was allowed, I think I would be to scare to take pics!! It was so dark and spooky inside!! Some "human dressed-up ghosts" just came out to scare you in the corners or somewhere!! I was so scared and I screamed and hid behind PY and Hang's backs!! :P

We resereved the table from 6-8pm for dinner so we took the cable car to Headland and had dinner at Captain's Table. I expected the restaurant would be a bit spooky, dark and the food would look terrible but tasted good. But it was just a normal dinner. The food tasted bad!! Disappointing!!

After dinner we went into some Haunted Houses again like The Ghost Cruise, Mad Doctor's Bizarre Lab, Prison Riot... Actually I can't remember what it is inside, I know the decorations are different but for me they are just all spooky!! PY just visited 3 haunted houses and she was too scared to visit the others so she stayed outside to wait for us. Hang was so mean to leave us alone always since he knew we all were so scared. He even pushed me and Alice to die!! (Keep pushing us to step forward and move faster inside the houses and even threw me to the ghosts)

Apart from the Haunted Houses, we also visited the Aquarium and Sea Jelly Spectacular, they were impressive!! The Jelly fishes looked beautiful in different colours!!

Hang, PY and me went on some roller coasters but Alice and Finoa were scared so they waited for us. We went on The Abyss and Mine Train, I was soooo scared!! I didn't dare to open my eyes and I could only scream!! My legs felt weak afterwards!! But at least I wasn't chicken!! I was scared but I was dare to try everything!! :D

The Merry-go-round was strange!! There weren't horses but pandas!! What the hack is that? The Pandas don't match with it!! :D But it was fun to ride on it.

Overall we all had good time and it was just like a big halloween bash!! I enjoyed a lot and what a shame that we couldn't stay longer!! I feel like I'm as young as teens to play crazily!!

BECOMING JANE

A busy day for me!! Got tons of mail to reply at work, cleared up someone's mess, worked on the reports and prepared for the meeting... It's Friday!! Friday should be a relaxing day!!!

Went for the kickboxing class after work. Too tired to kick and punch but I think my skills have been improved :) Really want to join the Thailand Kickboing tour in December but I don't think I can go!! Too much work and also my colleague will have her 2 weeks honey moon vacation in December so I can't get days off!! Sigh... When is my 2 weeks vacation?

After class we went to watch "BECOMING JANE" at IFC Palace, kinda rush but we went there on time :) I had no idea of the life of Jane Austen and I thought it was a happy ending but the film doesn't end like her novels! A little bit sad tho I like this film!! The story is good and beautiful. I think James McAvoy actes quite well but the acting of Anne Hathaway isn't so good tho she is quite pretty. She tried to speak British accent but her American accent occasionally seeps in LOL Overall the chemistry is good!!

I like the way Jane eloped with Tom but what a shame that it didn't work out finally. How sad it is they seperated and many years later she met Tom and knew he has married and named his daughter Jane. Isn't it ironic?

It was already Midnight after watching movie but we didn't want to go home yet so we went to Causeway Bay to have a drink. Chitchated and then met some friends there. It was fun but I was so exhausted!!

SHOCKED AT WORK!!

This morning my manager asked me if I had time and she would like to talk something important to me. At that moment I thought she was going to tell me something about me or my assistant's job performanceBut what she said totally shocked me!! I didn't expect that!!

She has handed in the resignation letter to boss in September and she is going to leave in November!! What's wrong? I can't believe!! She said she is old and our company needs younger staffs. Also she thinks our company is expanding and she doesn't have confidence to manage this company. Really can't believe what she said!! There is no replacement or new staff yet so she will shift most of her works to me!! Oh my godness!! It's a good chance for me to learn more but it means I will be busier!! :(

CELEBRATE DAD'S BD

Celebrated dad's birthday in advance coz I'm not free next Sunday. Mom bought some delicious cakes tho dad isn't so into cakes. It doesn't matter, I like cakes :D


We had dinner at Cam Bo Thai Restaurant. We had Shrimp Sashimi, Curry Beef, Hainanese Chicken, shrimp meat balls and vegetables. It was delicious!! This is the only non Chinese restaurant that dad likes!!

After dinner, shopped around at TST and bought a handbag for my sister. She asked for birthday present tho it's a week earler!! Anyway I bought what she likes and it's time for me to think about what I want for my birthday :D

HEN NIGHT

I told my friend I'm going to be a bridesmaid and he asked if I would organise a HEN NIGHT. Hen night is for woman and Bachelor Party is for men but the term "Hen night" sounds so strange for me :D Why hen? Why don't call it "Ladies night" or "Babe party"? LOL Never join any Hen night coz it's not so common here but I think it would be fun. Get drunk, get a stripper, and have fun :D LOL Isn't it cool? :D

BE A BRIDESMAID

Doing kickboxing in the afternoon, then shopped around and dinner with friends. I was planned to have fondue with someone else but other friends asked me out for dinner for talking about their wedding banquet so I had to give up the fondue.

I'm going to be a bridesmaid in their wedding so we dicussed about the flows and what to do in their wedding. Of course the most important thing is to design some "games" for the gloom and the best men!! Yay!! I'm so excited now!! Can't wait to make fun on them!! :D I'm a devil!! :D

After dinner we went to Lucky Dessert to have some delicious dessert!! I ordered a Mango jelly with ice-cream (bean curd flavour), it's kinda new style dessert and it was tasty! I liked it! :) And then we went to a bar to have some drinks and chitchatted until 3am.

The drinks there were cheap but the cocktails sucked!! I bet the bartender is not professional enough. The waitress even didn't know what Vokda Lime is. How come?!! Drinking beer would be better than cocktails but I had durian before so they said it is not good to drink something with gas after eating durian. It would make your stomach sick. Interesting!! I have never heard that :D

NO EXPECTATION!

Last time I took a few months to realise the fact and this time I just a need few days. I've learned a lesson! I usually have expectation coz I believe everything is possible. Sometimes when it happens, it will just happen. There is no need to rush or force.

But I've done enough and it's still like that so I'm not going to do anything anymore. Life is still going on so I shouldn't look back!! Just wait and grap another chance!! Hopefully I can do that... All I need is TIME!!

STANLEY MARKET

Lunch with Chris at Bangkok Thai Restaurant in CWB coz he likes Thai Food. He had Thai Beef with rice and I had Thai noodles. It was quite delicious. Then we went to Stanley to walk for a while coz he wanted to see a bit more of Hong Kong.

I haven't seen been to Stanley for a long time and it has rebuilt!! It looks better than before!! I'm impressed. What a shame it was cloudly today and it rained a bit. It would be better if it's sunny day!! :D The pics are quite gloomy becoz of the weather!

Chris had something to do afterwards so I went to MK to get back some pics from the photo shop and then went home. I came online in the middle of the night, Michele was home. So me, Connie and Michele had conference call. It has been a while to see Michele's face and hear his vocie. He is as funny as usual. I'm glad that he and Kristine like the pics and my blog :) But he still insisted I was always drunk!!

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Michele asked me if I had webcam and I said no. He asked, "How come you have THOUSAND of cameras but not even 1 webcam?!!" Well good question!! Coz I only use professional cameras!! :D I don't have Macbook like him so maybe he should send me his Macbook!! :D

COUSIN'S WEDDING

My cousin had his wedding banquet in Langham Hotel! More than 400 guests were there!! Wow!! The decoration and design in Langham hotel was great!! And the food was good too!! It was fun to see the video of how my cousin playing the games before picking up the bride.

My sister said whenever she joins a wedding, it makes her want to get married soon. Haha! I think she is growing old now so she wants to marry as soon as she can :D Well I do imagine my future wedding but I never feel like I want to get married soon. Maybe I'm still young :D hehe

BUSY & ZONKED OUT!

I'm zonked out!! Doing kickboxing twice a week + French lessons + busy work really tire me out!! Since I have come back from Germany, I don't have enough rest... I think I need another vacation!! :D

My famaily wants to go travelling in November and they are thinking to travel to CHINA!! May be Huang Shan or Shanghai. Huang Shan seems nice and it's good for hiking but I'm not sure if I can travel with them... They will join the tour and I don't like that... I would be happier with other destinations :D

DAN RYAN'S + NITESHOT

" the Doulos"

Going to TST with friends today. We wanted to try our DSLR cameras and get in The Doulos (world's oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship, which is used as a floating bookfair) but becoz it was last day, there were too many people queuing up so we just took few pics at the Harbour city.

Then shopped around and had a late afternoon tea at Haggan daz. I love the German Cheese Cake and ice-cream. Strange that I never had Cheese cake in Germany :P

Afterwards we had dinner at Dan Ryan's to celebrate one of our friend's birthday. We ordered a lot of food!! We had Appetizer Combo, Grilled Salmon Caesar, Lasagna, Rib & Chicken Combo and Cioppino! Too much for 5 people tho we could finish all!! :D

"Beijing Olympic Fuwa"

And then we took few nightshots for Victoria Habour, I didn't bring my tripod so some pics are blurry becoz of hand shaking. Seems that Taff's Nikon's better than my Canon by looking at the pics from the camera screen. Dunno yet tho, need to see the pics from the Computer to compare.

BACK TO REALITY

Coming back home at around 11pm last night and then started to work today... It's hard!! I didn't feel like working today!! Give me back my holiday...

My colleagues said I look at bit slimmer :D Well I ate a lot already!! Maybe the food in Germany didn't fit me :P

Kinda busy with work becoz someone couldn't follow up all my stuff and I have to do it by myself when I come back. Also my manager assigned me more workload!! Oh no!! When can she promote me?

DAY 12 MUNICH

This is our last day in Munich. We woke up at 9.30am. Michele and Kristine went to work already. We had shower and then went out to the supermarket to buy some sausages and leberwursts (goose liver for bread) and snacks. I bought nearly 30 Euro Stuff. Kinda crazy but I really like the German sausages, taste so good!!


Then we went to Michele and Dirk’s office to have lunch with them. It’s the last chance for us to spend time together. Michele worried if we were able to go to his office so he wrote down the way for us last night. But we got off the tram too early so we had to walk to Karlsplatz. We followed the tram way and took the subway to their office. Finally we arrived on time!! Cool!! :D

They took us to have pizza. They said in Germany people eat one pizza!! I didn’t really believe but Michele and Dirk and other people can really eat all!! Michele and Dirk even said they could eat two!! Unbelievable!! I shared one with Connie and we were full already.

" Michele looks so cool in this pic becoz I'm a good photographer!! :D"

After lunch we went to their office again to get back Connie’s iPod. It’s strange that they don’t turn on the light and air conditioner at work. It was dark!! Michele said it was ok though. I think Germany is doing quite well to protect the environment and save the energy. They use less plastic bag and their government encourages them to recycle stuff. It’s good to do that!!

Then we had to say goodbye to them. It was really sad and I didn’t want to leave. My vacation is ended so fast!! I enjoyed my trip in Germany and I’m happy that I have known them!! They are so kind to show us around and take care of us. I feel home in Germany. We become real friends and it’s a very good experience for me. I see a different Munich, it’s not what I can see if I join the tour or go by myself. I love Munich, I love the people, I love the BEER!! :D Hopefully we can meet again soon.

Though I don’t like to say goodbye, we still had to leave. We spent 2 hours to do our final shopping in Munich centre. I bought 2 pairs of Birkenstock and they only cost 100 Euro in total!! And I also bought a 1 Liter beer glass and postcards. Then we went back to Michele’s home to pack our stuff. I hardly put all my stuff into my suitcase!! My luggage was 27kg and I had extra 3 hand carries! It was a hard way for us to carry drag our stuff to airport!! One of my suitcase wheel was broken and I had to drag it like dragging a big stone. Dirk was right!! It was so darn heavy like a stone!! :P

Goodbye Germany… I wish I could see them again soon no matter we meet in Hong Kong or Europe. It was a great fun and I will miss them all. Can’t believe time runs so fast!! Remember the first day we were a bit unfamiliar with each other but now I feel like we know each other quite well. We make fun on each other and have really good time. I love Germany!! :D