Side effects of seminars

Some people love and hate attending seminars. To them, seminars arelike sleeping pills. They make you doze off. But the lovely thing aboutit is, you get to eat and drink every 2 hours. I even have friends whopick which seminars they want to attend based on the venue. Why? toenjoy food they don't usually get to enjoy if they were to pay for itthemselves. Of course i don't do that la. I attend based on my needsand wants to gain knowledge... such good employee right? hehe....Seriously, I should berewarded the employee of the company just for that. And not only that,ieven tried to save money on airfare for my employer. Initially, my colleague booked a flight which was $300 more expensive than the fares of a newly established airline. I told her to book the cheaper one and ended upwaiting in the airport for 6 hours as theplane was facing some technical issues T_____T

Upon checked in. I was given a McD voucher as compensation. How cheapam i? T____T

McD to compensate for my precious time lost 

by the time we boarded the plane, i was hungry again

Anyway, the side effect of seminars? my stomach growls at me that it is hungry every 2 hours nowadays T____T so i eat and eat andeat to shut my stomach up and end up gaining weight  T______T 

I know I could control myself not to eatso much during seminars but how could i say no to them when they wereso fresh, soyummy, so many varieties to choose from? Sigh, there is a saying "ifyou can't beat them, join them' and that is exactly what i did..... *growing sideways*

Fresh sashimi and veggies were my fav!

It's OK lah.. I can always go on a diet after that... the problem is, i say that everyday >_< haha...

I'm a food addict

Then I figured out the real reason why i cannot lose weight! Thank goodness for solving the x-files! *堕落* 

ta-da~

I love my stars....

I have a thing for stars since young. When I was small, I would sit outside and try to count the number of stars in the dark sky. They twinkled like Christmas lights and it felt serene and made me happy inside. 

Sometimes I imagined myself floating in the galaxy accompanied by stars. Then I collected them into my little pouch and my pouch glowed brighter and brighter as I collected more and more. I heard that the real stars are not star-shaped like, is that true? Awww.. what we've imagined is more beautiful than reality! That's why it is important to have good imagination! :P

I missed my family and friends when I lived overseas. I remember looking up in the sky and thought to myself that I maybe far from my homeland and away from my loved ones, but the sky keeps us close together because everyday we "share" the same sky, the same sun, the same moon and the same stars. Then I would feel less homesick. Haha, the power of own thoughts!

The other night i went to Kch Food Fair with my friend. There were hundreds of food stalls in one area but strangely I didn't find anything interesting to eat @_@ Everyone seemed to have something in their hands. Even my friend had already swallowed one pork burger, a beef pie and a can of green tea and i was still empty-handed and stomached! How could this be?!  Just when I was about to give in and just grabbed anything to eat, I got attracted by these...

Assorted cakes in porcelain cups!

Aren't they cute?

They looked so cute! And there were so many different sizes, shapes, flavours, designs, colours....!

I stood there for a while coz i was carefully examining each and every cakes. There were chocolate mousse, cheesecake, choc fudge, Japanese cake, butter cake..... Then I saw IT and immediately bought it. It was love at first sight! hehe...

It was a chocolate mousse in the cup with lots of colourful stars on top! It is Galaxy (银河) in a cup, just many times smaller :P

What do stars taste like?

One spoonful of galaxy and stars!

Wow, I didn't know that Galaxy actually tastes like chocolate! hehe...

Haha, am a sucker for stars. The stall owner made 6 bucks from me just because she sprinkled some stars on top. hahaha, that's easy money from me! haha... The choc mousse didn't taste so bad. And best of all, i got to keep the cup too which I sometimes use to drink coffee and tea :P

Coffee & tea

So I guess u can say, value for money? haha...

我愛雨天~

傍晚時份突然下起大雨。

泡了一杯有茉莉花香味的普洱茶，站在窗口邊喝邊看雨景。啊，我好喜歡這種感覺~ 下雨天，少了車聲人聲，彷彿世界只有我一人。好安寧！

雨天的風景特別的美。人家都說矇矓的西湖最美，大概就是這個意思吧？

在黑暗的雨中，我看著遠方那戶人家的黃色燈光，心裡突然覺得很暖暖的。我幻想，住在屋裡的人泡了一杯熱巧克力，窩在電視機前看自己喜愛的節目，還有一隻懶洋洋的貓咪躺在她的懷裡睡午覺。呵呵，這好像是我自己理想的傍晚耶~ 我不小心把内心的 OS说出来了，哈哈~

我特別喜歡晚上時間下雨，感覺世界比較和平了。下雨天打戰，多麻煩呀！

聽著滴滴噠噠的雨水聲，煩惱也自動少了一半，不知不覺讓人放鬆下來。滴滴噠噠的雨水聲給了我莫明的安全感~

滴滴噠噠的雨天最適合窩在自己的床上看一本好書，聽好聽的音樂，和家人好友聊聊天或發發呆......

還有還有，我最喜歡在滴滴噠噠的雨天裡吃咖哩。心裡暖呼呼的！

哈哈，最後那一句好殺風景！我怎麼那麼不懂詩情畫意啊？:P

My food philosophy

Sometimes i wonder, what would happen to the fridge at home if I didn't exist. 

If i didn't exist, food would overflowed from the fridge and mum would probably need to buy many more fridges to keep her creations. Oooo hooo hoo, for the first time, I feel really important! hehe...

My mum is a good cook. And she loves to cook a lot. when i say a lot, it means A LOT!

My mum stayed in Perth for a month not long ago. She stayed with my eldest sister who emailed me to tell me that she felt like her stomach was going to explode because of the amount of food my mum cooked everyday. Not only that, her fridge was exploding too because she kept a lot of leftovers inside. That's the way my mum showed her love. She worries that the kids don't have enough to eat. 

My eldest sister asked me how I 'manage' it everyday. hehe, simple, just finish what mum makes on the same day. That's my philosophy -  "今日事, 今日毕" ("Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."). Otherwise, more food will come the next day and i will never be able to finish everything. It's just like our everyday work. if we don't finish it today, things will  pile up and we will end up with lots of backlogs! Aren't I wise? hehe

Every morning, i find big portion of breakfast waiting for me in the kitchen. I know, i am a lucky kid to have such lovely home cooked meals everyday! And it's sinful to waste mum's love so i eat everything in the morning and sometimes have to split them into breakfast and lunch because my 4 stomaches are already filled up. Sometimes my colleagues and friends think I am on diet (or probably i'm cheapskate for skipping lunch to save money) coz every time we go out for lunch, I only have drinks. The truth is, i already have a hearty meal before that. Drinks is sort of like my 'dessert' hehe...

In case you are curious, here is what my one week's breakfast (& lunch) looks like:

Day 1: chicken thigh, egg, veggie, noodles, 

cheese muffin, yoghurt, passion fruit;

I had to use 2 containers to bring everything

Day 2: Home made BBQ pork, veggie, 

flat noodles, scallop & white raddish soup

Day 3: fried rice, 2 slices of pizzas, 2 sweet corns, 2 bananas

Day 4: Fried Rice, curry chicken, bananas

Day 5: Fried noodles & Pumpkin (my fav!)

So, the next time u see me not eating, u will know that i'm practising my 今日事今日毕 principle :P

Come to think of it, my real challenge is how not to get fat  T______T

星期天早上

昨天發生了一個笑話。但你要懂一點丁客家話才會覺得好笑喔～　

昨天早上，我起得很早。哎，最近的天氣真的很熱！一大早太陽就高高掛了~ 也因為太亮（加上太熱），所以我很早就醒來了~

媽媽在看早報，看見我就叫我趕快準備，我們一起去吃早餐~ 哇！我最愛一大清早和家人一起吃早餐！我如一陣風般，很快就準備好了。

我問媽媽她想到哪裡吃早餐。她說 "我們去吃雲吞。在浮羅岸的 miào 那邊。" 

我鄒了眉頭一下，心想“浮羅岸有廟嗎？” 腦海裡出現浮羅岸的畫面，我從街頭scan 到街尾，噢，街尾好像真的有一座廟喔，但那裡沒有茶餐廳呀。

我問媽媽，她說的廟在浮羅岸街的哪裡。她回我說浮羅岸那裡不是有miào嗎？呵呵，我媽媽就是這麼可愛。回答了好像跟之前說的沒差～  我常常得用不同方式再追問她才會有答案。　

我頭腦又再不停的轉動。那裡只有一座廟啊，到底是哪个呢？我问妈妈哪里是不是有新的廟？媽媽說，“那個賣豬肉的店的附近不是有大大的miào嗎？

我立刻電燈泡亮起來，噢，我懂了啦！媽媽說的miào不是指‘廟’。是那隻在街頭迎接大家的貓貓像啦！都怪我平常把貓發音為 miāo，所以才會貓和廟傻傻分不清楚 ～　我媽說著一口流利的正宗客家話，不知為何她的孩子們說的客家話就是有點'走音'。不但被人家誤認為外國人，還跟自己的媽媽鬧出笑話，真的太搞笑了！呵呵～ 現在回想，明明廟的客家發音是miǎo 嘛,怎麽會搞错了呢？應該是我太早起床了，身體醒了但頭腦還处在睡觉的状态，才会這麽烏龍的~ :P

就是它！妈妈指的‘廟’！哈哈~

話說回來，我們到貓貓附近的茶餐廳吃早餐。我雖常帶媽媽去他們鄰居那裡買肉，在那裡吃早餐是第一次呢。

‘舊舊’的外观

這茶餐廳真的很復古！感覺自己好像走到了阿牛的'初戀紅豆冰'電影的茶餐廳耶！充滿了古時唐人街的味道！其實我也不懂那是什麼"味道"，只覺得這裡的擺設都很古老這樣子，呵呵～　一大早大家很憂閒的在吃著早餐，我還蠻喜歡這種假日懶懶的感覺～ 我們的座位旁邊擺了很多糕點，媽媽忍不住買了一包餅。幸好我們的雲吞很快就上桌，要不然我媽會買更多！　

　古色古香呢！

懷舊吧~

我在其它地方吃的雲吞湯通常都只放炸紅蔥和一點點的青蔥，雲吞的餡少到我以為只有云吞皮 T___T 可這裡的雲吞大顆而且湯裡有很多青菜！好難得喔！再喝上一杯奶茶，喔哈哈，好幸福！

青菜躲在雲吞下喔~

每次看美食節目時，都會聽到主持人形容"吃起來有'古早味'"。這３個字也變成了很多美食點的招牌之一。到底古早味是什麼味道呀？對我來說，食物只有好吃和不好吃，而且味道也只有酸甜苦辣。古早味是哪一味呢？是應該說作法是以古早的方式做出來才對吧？有誰可以解我的愚問嗎？

Pinky & Meow

Once upon a time, there lived a pig called Pinky. He did not have any friends because he was different from the rest of the piggies in the village. U see, he was only as big as a grape.

One day, Pinky walked to school and was stopped by a group of school friends. They teased him like usual, pushed him a little and laughed that he was abnormal. 

Pinky was sad. He cried and ran to the lake behind his school. He sat down on the rock overlooking the calm water and wondered why he was born different. He wished he was as big as the lake so he could hug everyone in the village. He loved them but could never give them a proper hug......

While he was thinking, a red cat named Miao came sitting next to him. He asked Pinky why he cried. After Pinky told Miao everything, Miao smiled at Pinky and said "although you are small, u have a big heart! Can I be your friend?" Pinky was surprised at Miao's request. He smiled through his tears and nodded his head. Pinky was soOooo happy that he finally had a friend!

Pinky and Miao immediately became buddies. Because Pinky was very tiny, Miao let him ride on him everywhere they went~

Although the piggies in the village had bullied Pinky before, Pinky continued to show his love and was always polite to them. The piggies felt ashamed of themselves and asked for forgiveness. 

Pinky asked if he could be their friends and all of them nodded their heads. From that day onward,  all the piggies stopped making fun of Pinky and they all lived happily and peacefully ever after...

Pinky and Meow

 Jane bought for me from taobao

How do u like my little story? hehe....

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！