YEAR END PARTY

We were having year end party at FC's home. It's good to have a place to chill out. We had order the food in advance so after work I went to FC's home directly.

FC and PY were sick and they didn't go to work. I arrived Ma On Shan at around 7pm then Hang picked me up and we bought some snacks and drinks at the supermarket and also bought the takeaway at pizza and a Thai restaurant.

We had also ordered some sashimi for the party!! So yummy!!! FC's also cooked the steak for us but they were too raw. So Hang had to cook again and they tasted delicious.



We chitchatted, watched TV and then waited for the counting down for new year. The TV broadcasted the countdown of IFC building. There was firework as well. I didn't have much strong feeling for the new year may be becoz I wasn't counting down in the crowds like I used to be.

Then we exchanged Christmas presents (tho it was a bit late!!), watched TV and played PSP3 until 4.30am and then we went home. I was so tired but I enjoyed it a lot!! Goodbye 2008!!

IS THAT ALL MY FAULT?

My manager admonished me 3 times today but she rarely acted like this. I think she must be stressed out recently. But I'm not happy what she said to me.

The 1st thing was that I let the other colleagues to take the free samples during office hour. I didn't let them to do this, I told them to take later but they were too excited and they didn't listen to me. So is that my fault for not being harsh to them?

The 2nd thing was that I talked too long private calls today. It wasn't too long!!! Hey today is new year eve!! Everyone is in holiday mood and what's the problem for just talking on few calls?? I didn't stop working!! She said that as a senior, I should be a good example to the others. I don't think I have ever set a bad example.

The 3rd thing really pissed me off. She admonished about my arrival time again!! I usually come to work 1-3 mins before 9am but she thinks I'm late and requested me to come to work at least 15mins before. WTF!! I'm not late at all!! What da heck is that I have be accused for being late?? I always work overtime (no paid!!) until 7 to 8pm, is that meaningless to the company? I was so angry and it upset me by being scolded at the end of the year. Darn company!!! Darn rules!!! I think they don't have anything to challange me on my working performance so they just did something nonsense to defeat me!!

BAD OMEN?!

I'm not a superstitious person but what happened on me recently really frustrated me. My necklace was broken, my new cup was broken and my favourite mobile belt was broken too. What a bad omen :( What is it going to be next? Hey it's year end already!! I want something good for year 2009!!! Give me some luck please!!

DICK + BIG DEE + TON'S HOME

Did kickboxing after work as usual but after boxing we went to ton's home for dinner. I've never been to their home & I was curious of how it was like but AC & CT warned me that it was a mess!! Men's home are supposed to be a mess, aren't they? LOL

They are living in the 5th floor and there is no lift in this building so we had to walk upstairs. Ton met us up on the ground floor, Dick and Big Dee went to supermarket to buy some food. Their flat wasn't so mess and it is big enough for them to live. There were not much furniture not even a table or a chair. We had to sit on the ground.

Big Dee cooked some food for us and he took something from the kitchen. I had no idea what they were. Fishes and soup LOL The fishes were quiet good. They put the plates on the floor and we ate with our hands. Kinda strange for me!! CT said Thai people were like that and it was normal!! It surprised me!!

They all said Big Dee could cook very well and I tasted the soup that he made, it was really quite good!! :) It was Tom Yam Kung soup but he didn't teach us how to make it!!

Dick and Big Dee taught us some Thai swearword and but they asked us not to say that coz it is rude :P Surprising Dick knows quite a lot Cantonese swearword!! It was a very funny night to learn Thai language in bad way!! :D

TWILIGHT

After watching the movie of Twilight, it interested me to read the book coz the story in the movie was too simple and I heard that the novel was more interesting then the movie so I started to read the book. There are 5 books in total!!

Luckily I found the e-book from the internet but I can't stop reading!! It's very interesting and romantic!! I almost spend my whole afternoon reading but not working :p Well who cares?! We are all still in holiday mood!!

BOXING SHOPPING DAY!

Went shopping with AC at CWB today, I wanted to buy some clothes but finally I bought 2 handbags. I think I've bought quite a lot unnecssary things recently. I don't know why, maybe becoz shopping makes me feel happy but on the other hand my credit card bills are getting more >_<



We had dinner at a Japanese restaurant and then we went to watch movie. I had no idea what was Twilight about before watching it, AC said it was very popular in States and the main actor was good looking so she wanted to watch it. I thought it was a violent or SF and I didn't expect it would be a romance!!

This movie is based on the popular young-adult series, the epic romance between a human and sexy vampire. It was a true romance and the dialogue was very romantic and touching. But the storyline was a bit simple and I was expecting some more action / fight scences :P I haven't read the original novels so I don't know how it follows exactly. But overall it was good and I like this movie! And I think I will get a book to read it!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

This morning a thought flashed through my mind and I suddenly thought of something that happened last year before Christmas. It's not important anymore but I didn't realise it has been a year already!! Time flies!! I'm not ready for Chrismas yet seems it's coming too fast!!

Went out for shopping today coz I still haven't bought X'mas gifts (especially for myself) yet :P It was very crowded everywhere and I didn't have patience to wait and line up for getting in the shops or trying things on. I wanted to buy some T-shirts but finally I bought 2 jackets and a gift for my year end party.

Surprisingly it was kinda warm today and it feels not much like Christmas. Every year before Christmas I plan to travel to somewhere cold to have white Christmas but then finally I don't plan anything lol Oh well may be next year!! I want to have a real White Christmas!!

X'MAS EVE

So darn busy at work !! But our team had to prepare the lunch x'mas party for the whole company. We had a lot of preparation before such as planning the rundown, thinking about the games & dercorations, asking suppliers to donate us gifts, ordering the food and buying gifts. It occupied me quite a lot of time!

This year we had 50 staffs to join!! Wow I didn't even notice our company is growing up so fast! I was being the MC but I didn't have micophone, it was hard to shout out loud in front of 50 people and take the control.

We had some food and then played some games such as Bingo. I know some of them weren't so participated but it's the party that we only join once a year! We also had lucky draw, our suppliers were very generous that offering us some cash and a LV wallet. We had other gifts such as ipod shuffle 2G, portable hard disc 160G, housewares stuff... I don't know if I was lucky or not coz I got the ipod shuffle 2G. I have a iPod classic and Touch already so the shuffle is totally usless for me. So I gave it to my other colleague.

After party, we had to clean up stuff and I still got a lot of work to do!! I worked until 7.30pm :( That's crazy!! Then I went out and met up Maggie and Jacky for dinner. Maggie came back from Holland again!! We haven't seen for a long time!! It's good to see her again!!

We had Japanese food for dinner and then we went to a cafe, relax, talk and had some coffee. Lucky her to have 3 weeks vacation in Hong Kong!! How can I get a job in Europe? :D

X'MAS SNAPSHOT

Having hotpot dinner with old and current colleagues after work coz I like to have gathering on or before big festival. I haven't seen Gobby for a long time but she still looks quite the same. But it is bad to know that her company is going to close down and she has to look for another job. The financial tsunami really affects a lot of companies. Luckily my company is still working very well and our business is growing.

After dinner, me, Seki and Man were going to TST to take some X'mas pics. The rest of them didn't join us coz they were not so interested to be photo taken. And it was a bit late for them. It's fine! I still got my models :D

Kyoko was hanging around TST so she joined us for the photo shooting as well. Seki lent me his tripod coz mine is too heavy and I didn't like to carry it around. But his tripod isn't tall enough! So I didn't use it finally...




I was a bit disappointed coz the Christmas decorations and lights were not as beautiful as I expected. We only took few shots at Ocean Terminal and then walked along to New World Centre.

I wanted to go to Central and IFC but we didn't have time. What a shame!! Next year I have to be earlier!!

TO KNOW OR NOT TO KNOW?

Sometimes its better not to know than getting to know something you don't want to know. It's complicated,huh? But you can't control when it comes to you. Life is like that and you still have to go on.

Anyway no matter how it is, it's not important anymore. You are only an outsider. Everyone is changing eventually, you may not realize on small things but you do realize someone you care about. Or you change youself for someone but you don't even know you have changed. So that's the interrelationship?

FEW DAYS BEFORE X'MAS

I slept at 6am but I woke up at noon today coz I had to go out and do x'mas shopping. I don't like going out to shop around on Sunday especially before the big festival. I'm not ready for X'mas yet coz I feel like I still have a lot of work to do. But when I walked on the street, I could feel the x'mas atmosphere and people were so busy for shopping.

I didn't buy anything for myself but only buying something for my company for lucky draw use. I bought a nice speaker. Then I went to develop the pics and shopped around the computing centre. I wanna buy a internal hard drive coz mine doesn't work now but I think external would be easier for me. But finally didn't buy anything for myself coz it was too crowded!!

PRE-X'MAS DINNER

X'mas is coming soon!! We were having pre-x'mas dinner at Dan Ryan's. What a shame that Jeff and Kyoko couldn't join us. Jeff's sister's husband is in the hospital so he had to look after the children and Kyoko had fever... Hope them they will all get well soon!!

I was a bit late becoz of the traffic jam... hehe I wasn't the latest one tho :D We haven't met for a long time!! It was good to gather together and talk about recently life! Then we ordered some food such as pasta, steak, salad, risotto... The food was great!

And we all brought a present (budget $10, it's crazy, huh?) and exchanged to each other. I got a lavender oil hand cream! I just wanted to buy handcream!! Great for me!!



Seki and Man couldn't join the dinner too coz they had to have dinner with family. They were joining us for drink in LKF. Satoko and Kelly were supposed to join us but Satoko had to meet her bf so finally only me, Seki and Man were going for drink.

We drank until 1.30am and then I joined another group of friends to go clubbing. It wasn't as crowded as I expected in the club and it wasn't that fun. I think coz I was too tired. We danced and drank until 5.30am and then we went home. Glad that I didn't get drunk at all LOL

LEVEL 9 FINISHED!

Level 9 of French is finished!! Tho I missed some lessons in this term but I enjoyed the class!! It's very funny!! But I'm not going to promote to level 10 coz I can't catch up and I'm left behind the level. So the coming term I'm going to take the workshop and focus on speaking and grammar. It's great that Schindler, Kelly, Zoie and Bruce are not going to promote too!! We will take the workshop together :)

After class we went to Red Chimneys Restaurant to have later dinner buffet. The food was quite good and there were not many people becoz it was quite late! We took pics, video and had great fun in the restaurant!! Alexis was very funny and he kept making grimace to entertain us!! We all had great night!!

TANGO NIGHT

Tango Night again!! It may be my last lesson coz Karolina is going back to Poland on Friday and I don't think I will learn Tango alone. It's fun tho!! Some of my friends are interested so maybe I will go again if I have company!!

We leaned some new steps but they are more like advanced level. I hardly caught the steps and I couldn't dance well LOL But a good partner is very important coz if someone can't lead well, you may get confused easily! The teacher was quite scary coz she expected the students could dance well and she was quite bossy!! It's ok to learn for fun but seriously I don't like to be taught by this teacher!

JEWELLERY DESIGN WORKSHOP

Karolina is working a jewellery design workshop at C&G Department and I'm interested to know what she is doing so I joined her workshop today.

I had no idea how to make accessories but it was fun to have a try. Karolina taught us some basic skills and then we started to use the materials (semi precious stones, pearls, glass beads) to make our pieces. I first tried to make a earring (the blue one) and it was easier that I thought. The reason that I made one only coz I don't have piercing on my right ear so just try one.

Then I made a pair of red earrings and it seemed strange to make one only. Karolina said they looked good and she said it would be suitable to wear for the tango dance :D Well I'm not going to wear something that I make coz they are not good enough. It's just for fun only!!

And I made a pendant and necklace as well, it didn't spend me much time. 2 hours including learning and making my pieces!! :)

ME & HANG'S BELATED B-DAY CELEBRATION

Me and Hang's b-day is close so we celebrated our birthday together tonight. Me, AC and PY went to MK to shop around and bought a A&F jacket for Hang. We bought some A&F clothes for ourself as well!!

Then we went to Central, met Hang and FC and then we took the taxi to the Peak. FC booked the Peak Lookout and we had dinner there. The enviroment and atmosphere there was good and they placed the dishes very fast!! We had oyster, chicken ceasar salad, steak, seafood risotto, Salmon penne rigate pasta, ribs, cripse apple tarte, chocolate souffle.



And I got a Diana F+ Chromiacs Limited Edition camera!! :) Thanks Buddies!! I like this camera very much!! And I have a new toy to play around!! Yay!!

After dinner, we walked around and took some night view pics from the Peak. The sky was clear and night view was impressive!!

Then we went to LKF to have a drink. FC suggested to go to Balalaika so we went there. It's Russian bar and restaurant so I drank Vodka :D There is a ice room and they provide furs for you to wear and getting in. It was so cold inside!! But it was fun!! :D

We drank until 2am and then we left. Then we met Ruck, Fanta, Dee Dee and Christine in another bar in LKF!! What a surprise!! Christine asked me and AC to drink together so we both stayed and FC, PY and Hang left first. It was very funny to see them dance. Me and AC couldn't stop laughing!! We drank until 3.30am and then we went home.

TANGO

Karolina is interested in Tango and she wanted to find someone to go with her. So we both had our 1st Tango lesson tonight!! I had no idea what Tango is and I didn't know how to dance at all!! The Tango that we learned was Argentine Tango.

"Argentine Tango is danced in an embrace that can vary from very open, in which leader and follower connect at arms length, to very closed, in which the connection is chest-to-chest, or anywhere in between. Tango is essentially walking with a partner and the music."



It was quite hard in the begining coz I tried to focus on the steps and forgot about the eye contacts. And I often stepped on my partner's feet :P But it was very interesting and it was more fun than I expected!! I like the Tango music too!! I didn't dance much but it was still great to see how people dance!! Very enjoyable!! Would love to go there again!!