停電的那晚

我們家的兄弟姐妹很少有機會可以開車載老爸，因為在他眼裡我們永遠是不懂事的小孩子~ 

那天停電了。我回到家時老爸提議早些出去吃晚餐。就這樣我開著我的車載老爸出外。路上老爸偶爾會小提醒幾句~ 可以換車道了，要開慢一點，走另外一條路比較快，等下要轉左...... 其實我是這區的'地頭蛇'。每天上下班我都得經過這裡，對這裡早已經滾瓜爛熟了。雖然如此，我還是順著我老爸話做。沒覺得他的話很多餘很羅嗦，倒覺得很溫馨~

路上的車子很多。大家是在回家的路上還是跟我一樣要去吃晚餐呢？我們從沒想過我們要去的地方很可能因為整個城市停電而休息~ 如果好不容易去到哪但又沒開，那不是白費心機了嗎？老爸似乎知道我的想法。他說如果哪裡沒開，我們就到其它地方看看吧~  嗯，就當著遊車河吧~ 雖然塞在馬路上很浪費時間，但能因此和老爸多相處，何嘗不是一件難得及有意義的事呢？

原本10分鐘的車程演變成30分鐘後才抵達。眼前就是我們要去吃炒粿條的地方！有燈喔！它就像黑暗裡的一盞明燈！我們開心的不得了因為我們的肚子早就餓到不行了~ 

停電的那晚，粿條叔叔的生意超好的！附近的鄰居都過來他这里吃晚餐。我們等了一陣子才等到我們的炒粿條加荷包蛋。哇！下雨的黑夜裡能和家人吃到熱呼呼的粿條是幸福！

回家的路上，車子還是一樣多。四周還是黑暗的，看來今晚可早點睡覺咯~

回到家，老爸坐在伸手不見五指的客廳 "看電視"。是的，通常這時間是老爸和電視談戀愛的時候，呵呵~ 我點了兩根小小的蠟燭，雖不能照亮全世界但在黑夜裡有它們，我們的世界就有溫暖了。在安靜的黑夜裡老爸突然說，自己好像回到電力有限的童年。嗯，真的！我雖沒經歷過這段，但我能想像那種純樸的生活。少了複雜卻多了親情人情。

在這停電的夜晚，四周真的很安靜！我看著窗外偶爾開著大燈經過的車子，彷彿自己到了宮崎駿卡通的世界裡~ 平日的大家都忙著看電視，上網，玩電話等等，人與人之間的溝通早就快消失了。也因為現在的科技太發達，大家似乎也不常靜下來好好思考事情了。為了打拼，每天的腳步都得很快速, 大家可能早就忘了生活中的幸福了~ 

我很慶幸那晚停電了。因為停電我和老爸能多相處。因為停電我沒法上網'玩電話'，才領悟到生活中的各種幸福。

電源恢復後，我上面子書（死性不改！）看看，發現好多人在抱怨停電給他們帶來的困擾~其實回頭想一想，偶爾不能看喜歡的電視節目，那又怎樣？偶爾不能上網又如何？偶爾晚點吃飯又怎樣？

我體會到，原來會感恩的人過得比較幸福~

黑夜里的明燈！

等待及被等待

上週末我們公司有個活動～因節目早上八點開始，我們大家犧牲睡到自然醒和早上跟家人吃早餐的時間一大早就趕到會場了。在哪裡我們等啊等，等啊等，因來趕不及吃早餐我邊等肚子邊咕嚕咕嚕的叫。眼看就快8 點30分了，怎麼還沒開始呢？原來ＶＩＰ還沒到！就這樣300個人在現場痴痴的等待。我的職業病發作，開始算了起來。哇！你知道嗎，300個人的30分鐘是150小時耶！那等於6.25天呢！我記得很久以前我去參加公司的尾牙，竟等到9點30分才開始上菜！ 300個人的２個小時是36，000分鐘耶！600小時！25天耶！呵呵，有沒有算得很精準？嗚嗚~ 看來只有ＶＩＰ的時間才是寶貴的！

其實我不介意等人啦。我諒解有時真的趕不及。只要你告知我，我都會很寬容的接受的。我是不是很好談？呵呵~ 

可大家千萬別把我的隨便但方便喔！我記得有次我和朋友們約了晚上吃晚餐。我和另位朋友很盡責的早15分種抵達餐廳。我們等啊等，等啊等，眼看快等上1個小時了，怎麼還不見其他朋友的出現呢？這1小時，我們倆很努力的自我娛樂，我們寬容到連一通簡訊也沒有給他們發，因為我們相信他們應該已在途中了。我們想，被等待的人現在的心情應該也很緊張吧~ 但後來才知道，他們遲到是因為另幾位朋友也會遲到，所以不用那麼早抵達 T___T 即然有計劃要遲到，好歹也跟我們說一聲，那我們可以一起'遲到'嘛～

我還遇過更誇張的。以前在澳洲上高中時，我們有位朋友很愛放鴿子。好幾次我們約了在周末碰面，等了1小時以上都不見人影。當時手機是奢侈品，我們這些窮學生根本買不起，所以要聯絡人我們還得特別到電話亭去打電話呢~ 好不容易找到電話打到她家時，她竟然還在跟周公約會！有次她還說她很懶不想出來了！真的超誇張的！她跟人家約好，不敷約竟然是理所當然的事情 *暈* 

其實我也說不上很準時，有時會遲到15分鐘，但我絕對心裡會很焦急，所以會告訴人家及道歉。雖不能彌補什麼但至少讓人家知道我已在途中了。說真的讓人家等 待真的很不好。大家的時間一樣寶貴，我也不該浪費他們的時間。只是這是我的道理又有多少人會贊同呢？我想，如果大家都能多為其他人著想，世界會和平一點的~

己所不欲　勿施於人嘛~ 

呵呵，我好有深度！（其实都是从阿亮的歌學到的中文句子及禮儀！）

痴痴的等~ 

原来我是对的~

When I was small, I love to take cold stuff. On hot days, I would take an ice cube from the freezer and pop it into my mouth. And sometimes, I froze the milo drink my mum made for me in the morning and when i got back from school, i would dig the frozen milo with a spoon. I also liked to make Milo Godzilla. My version is to put a few scoops of condensed milk in a mug, then filled it with half a cup of milo powder. Then I poured iced water and quickly stirred it until it's sticky and gooey... it is nice and sweet to eat like that! When I was small, the word FAT did not exist...... 

When we were studying in Aust, we sometimes cycled to the deli near to our home and each of us bought a cup of frozen coke. We had a little competition where we drank the frozen coke with a straw and the first person to get brain freeze lost.... haha, the good old days where kids like us would do anything to entertain ourselves haha...

As i grow up, I realise that it's best we avoid taking cold stuff. Yup, i finally grow some wisdom! hahaha... I figured that since our body temperature is 37 degree celsius, if we consume cold food and beverages, our temperature will drop... Just imagine the amount of work our body has to go through to increase our body temperature to 37 again! *sweat*

After knowing the side effects, i try not to take cold stuff unless necessarily. I have weak will power when it comes to food but very persistent when it comes to taking cold stuff. Even on super duber hot days, I insist on taking hot drink or soup. Once, there was a black out in our office. All of us decided to have a drink at the cafe in front of our office to cool ourselves. All of my colleagues ordered something with iced cubes while i ordered hot milo. They were amazed and asked me if i didn't feel hot.... 

Weird to say, I didn't. In fact, i felt cool. I may look mad to have hot drink on hot days, but u know what, today i found that the Chinese Physician actually agreed that hot drinks should be taken during hot days! 

我有古人的智慧！呵呵~

This week, I sort of broke my own rules a few times. well, because my friends wanted to share iced kacang with me.... Well, I sacrifice myself just for my friends~~~~ 

Red Bean with ice

It's HUGE! bigger than my head!

I feel a bit unhealthy so to make myself feel less guilty, i decided to take ... ginger drink!

Instant ginger drink!

I'm so clever! 我是有智慧的人！其实是自欺欺人.....哈哈

Holiday Food

We had a 4 day long weekend a few weeks ago. I love holidays because holiday means not having to be woken up by the alarm clock, not having to work, u can do anything u want and best of all, it's OK to be lazy :P

Of course, i didn't be lazy la. I used my time wisely by doing things I didn't have time to do, like cleaning my room (although it is quite well maintained all this while)! :P

Although i love that fact that i can take things easy, but it was a pain that most of the kopitiams were closed! Every morning, we spent our time exploring the whole town because all our usual eateries were closed T___T Then we decided to take chances and ended up with not so delicious food, but their business was good anyway because all the good ones were also on holiday.... 

On the 3rd day of holiday, one of our usual eateries was opened (Yaye!). Mum being mum, she ordered the biggest plate of special curry rice for me! It came with veggie, an egg, steamed chicken, roasted chicken, roasted pork + a bowl of curry soup. Wah, i think it could feed 2 people! But i finished it anyway and thought of skipping lunch later. Mum asked me to go grab her a morning newspaper. It was quite a hot day but i didn't mind taking a walk because it would definitely help with digestion!

I walked in the lonely street. All shops were closed and there wasn't even much cars on the road! Half way, i saw a stall selling fried you tiao (crispy rice rolls 油條). The father was busy frying the rice rolls while his little son was in charge of serving the customers. I hadn't had this for a long long time! I remember, when i was working in the dim sum restaurant, one of my favourite dishes is steamed rice rolls stuff with crispy rice rolls (炸油條腸粉). The outside was soft while the inside was crunchy, it was such a heavenly combination! 

in case you are wondering what's 炸油條腸粉, this is it! 

Doesn't it look yummy? *drool*

So i decided to buy 2 pieces  (hmmm, didn't i just had a big breakfast?!) and continued my search for newspaper. Good thing that the newspaper stall was just around the corner!

 Crispy rice rolls + newspaper

I walked back to the kopitiam with my 'trophies'. my mum was happy to see that i got her a newspaper and even happier when she saw the crispy rice rolls. I couldn't believe it but I actually ordered a cup of milk tea to go with the rice rolls! what to do? Must consume them immediately because soft crispy rice rolls are awful!

you know what? i didn't manage to skip lunch that day. My friend wanted to eat Indian food and I had Nasi Bryanni + Teh Tarik.

Indian Cuisine!

Sigh, no wonder my skinny jeans are getting tighter and tigher :S

國際人

別以為從小講的語言，你就精通這語言喔~ 我們是道道地地的本地人但每次在大廳廣眾說客家話時，別人就會問我們是哪里人。每次我們都得重複同樣的答案~ “我們是本地人呀”~ 然後她們就會用懷疑的眼光看著我們說“真的嗎？可是你們的客家話不像本地的客家話”。這樣的情況一直重演，剛開始我們會一直解釋，但人家還是不接受。現在 我們發現微笑是最好的答案！哈哈~

今天午餐時間，我待在公司。剛好 Jane 打電話給我。掛上電話後，我的同事過來跟我說'哇，你會講'新安'客家話啊！ 我解釋說我是在講河婆客家話但發音不准。她說"你不懂啦~ 你講的明明就是新安客家話。我從小聽我媽媽講新安客家話，我知道的!"。明明我妈就是河婆客嘛~ 他一直堅持說我就是新安客，他懂因為她從小聽她媽媽講等等等........ 後來我以微笑回應她。好啦，你比我更知道我的根好吧~ * 無奈*

其實這樣的事件從很久前就一直上演了。我早就不知道我到底是哪國的人了~ 呵呵... 我是走國際路線的喲，哈哈~ 因為我在自己的國家常被認為是外國人，在外國他們又認為我是其他國家的人。在這裡，人家會問我是不是台灣人，大陸人（是上等美女的那種喔，呵呵~ ），韓國人（如果是整了型的韓國美女，我OK啦），住外國回家鄉渡假不會說華語的人。在外國時，人家以為我是日本人，香港人，台灣人......

我記得以前我和jane在澳洲時，有天放學後我們騎車回家，途中有個紅毛阿姨把我們攔住。她說他多幾個月要去日本旅行了（我們那個年代網路不盛行啦~） ，想請問我們到時的天氣會是如何，要帶什麼樣的衣服去比較適合。很可悲的是我們從來沒去過日本。有次我在KLCC等朋友，有位日本人前來跟我說日語。我疑 惑的看著她然後說'素米馬森，娃大使娃你紅金雜阿里馬森' （對不起，我不是日本人）。她很不好意思的一直道歉。哈! 沒想到中學時期學的日文這時還能派上用場！呵呵~ 

又有一次我因為要買些本地土產給國外的朋友們，就去了紀念品一條街走走。結果老闆跟我說‘阿納海色喲’。我看著老闆跟他說我是本地人喲。我會說華語，能不 能算便宜？

有次我去北京渡假。北京人問我是不是北方人。去台灣時因為發音不准，他們問我是不是香港人。有時我說華語時，有些人會嚇一跳。他們說我看起來是說英語的。 還有一次我去莫爾本時，跟當地的人員乘巴士去雪山，那位主辦人過來跟我聊天，問我是不是很常去滑雪。我說沒有耶，這是我人生第一次因我住國家是熱帶，只看 過 iced kacang 的雪片而已。他很驚訝的說我長得一點都不像馬來西亞人。呵呵，馬來西亞人有特別的長像嗎？哈哈，反正這樣的事情發生很多很多遍，我老早已習慣 要為我的'身世'做解說了~

我想到了，以後我再被問到，我會回答'我是世界公民’ 但人家應該會覺得我瘋了吧？哈哈.....

Bloody scene

Was in KL the other day. Stayed with my friend and found out that she was into scary movies called Saw. There are 7 parts to the movies and she watched one part every night before she went to bed. I didn't watch it with her as there are too many bloody scenes. I can't handle blood and violence *weak heart*

Are u the same? If you are afraid of bloody scenes, u should stop here.

If you are against bears eating, u definitely should stop here~

BUT if you are hungry, just keep scrolling down for more!

Honestly speaking, i didn't know bears could taste so good. OK, i can't believe I'm saying this, because bears are so cute and I love teddy bears! Many years ago, I even went to a Teddy bear cafe in Taipei city to have afternoon tea with teddy bears! I never thought I would eat bears until i had one and fell in love with it.

Having tea with teddy bears!

The other day, my colleague brought some bear samples for us to try. I took one, examined it coz it just looked so adorable and without further thoughts, i popped it into my mouth and instantly, i placed my order. One week later, i got my very own bears to eat! yayeeee~~~

They look so cute and innocent in there!! I think they scream "Get me out of here!!!" haha...

Bear Family

We loved to watch Disney cartoons when we were small. And we kids like to assign cartoon characters among us. Somehow I always ended up with the 'funny' characters.... Jane is Donald Duck, the grumpy one and I'm Goofy, the blur one; She is the smart chipmunk called Chip while i'm the not-so-smart Dale etc.... Coincidently, the bears have black nose and red nose which kinda reminded me of Chip and Dale, aka Jane and I....

Twin Bears

I like to play with food... haha, not that i always play with food la. just that it's fun to eat it in different ways..So how did i eat my bears?

1) Too cute to eat! So just put it there as a decoration!

2) Headless bear! 

3) Eat half of the body

4) Break the legs first, so teddy can't run away

5) OMG! I lost my body!

6) Now you see it, now u don't!

OK, am childish! (haha... what's new?)

Still Alive and Strong....

I browsed thru my own blog just now and realised that I've written 472 posts over the past SIX yrs! *bravo* \(^^)/ Can that be considered as a life achievement? haha

When I first started my blog, I didn't think I'd last long. I sort of have a bad habit of quitting half way. You know, like abandoning it and letting the wild weeds take over after the hot steam cools down ;P 

6 years (going on 7) have come and gone in a blink of an eye! I'm glad to say that my blog is still up and running! Even I surprise myself! Updating my blog is now part of my life... Although it's funny to see that the number of posts decreases over the years haha... At least my blog hasn't been concurred by weeds, so it's good :P

I've read many blogs. Many seem to have a specific theme like food, travel, hobby, fashion, family etc. For me, I don't have one. I share anything that comes to my mind. Sort of like curry cooking where u put in all kinds of different spices, meat, veggies... 

It's good that I record my life journey thru a blog (BTW, i used to write with my own hands). When I read thru it, I started to recall some of the events that I didn't even remember! Ahaha.. so in a way, my blog is my memory bank! Good. Coz that means I don't have to worry about not remembering anything when i get old or suffer from amnesia. What's more, it could be published into a book in the future! The problem is, would anyone want to buy it? haha

Recently, some of my friends have plans to start their own blogs. Am excited and really look forward to getting connected to their worlds! ^^ They asked me how to start a post as they can't seem to think of anything to write.... 

Honestly speaking, I still have a lot to learn in this area. However, since I'm able to continue to write for 7 years, I think I could be consulted on this matter la :P ahahaha... 

I'm more like a 'free-styler'. I write anything that comes to my mind. Even petty things make it to my blog! haha.. well, i guess the key is not to restrict yourself. Be creative. As long as u feel like sharing, anything is fine. After all, it's your blog! 

was talking to LJ just now and we found that a way to come out with posts anytime any day of the week is by making nothing into petty things, petty things into big things and big things into bigger matters (无事变小事，小事变大事) Hahaha... That way, u will find a need to write about them. Isn't that a bright idea? Disclaimer: you should only practise this philosophy in writing blog and NOT in life ok!

Whatever ways you use to squeeze out a post, just remember to sit back, relax and write... come, let's have a cup of cuppa first.... 

Me Enjoying a good cuppa in a cozy cafe in Perth