Soup or Dessert?

Do you think these are bowls of Papaya soup or Papaya dessert? :D hehe

It's really a tough choice! :D

It's a fish and papaya soup, but the papaya was sooooooo sooooooo sweet. The soup is full of papaya sweetness!!!

It's one of my favorite soup in the whole wide world! :)

It's a wholesome meal in itself because it has fish and fruits and liquid in it. :)

How the hack my mom can make such creamy white colored fish soup?!?!

My poor award! :D 我可憐的"最受歡迎女歌手" 獎....

I don't want to talk about it much...

But let's take a minute of mourning silence to mourn the damage of my once flawless HKCCA Award....

Acupuncdur

As I had mentioned yesterday that I had this awful persistent neck and shoulder pain. It was so bad that it rendered me 'mindless' throughout last 2 weeks.

Finally, my colleague sensed my explosive grumpiness and the lack of concentration at work, she recommended me this gadget called "acupuncdur" (智能針灸貼) to ease my suffering.

I originally had a great deal of doubt about these street formulas / machines. But when you are desperate, you'd try just about anything that might work.

At a cost of HK$3xx, it's not cheap! ( I am sure My friend Old Lee won't endorse ) The thing was, the pain has made me not able to sleep well, cannot concentrate, grumpy and my eyeballs fell like they are popping out. My neck pain has expanded and caused headache too, so I thought, for a mere HK$3xx, it's worth a try :P

It's quite easy to use, just just stick the blue pad on the sore spot and it send electromagnetic pulse on your muscles and massage it for a interval of 20 minutes.

After 2 days of applying this, the headache is gone. On the 3rd day, I feel that I can finally sleep well and wake up refreshed.

Tonight will be the 4th. The soreness seems to be reduced a lot, my neck can finally turn easily without too much pain. :)

I think this is the best buy I had this year!! :D

The pad has some kind of herbal glue which suppose to help relief your soreness. :P It also help stick to your skin too. But it's not really sticky. I mean it stick on your skin fine for the massage, but when you remove it, the black stuff does not leave on your skin.

It's just very awesome! :D

尋人... Gone Missing?... :P

Thank you all of you who wonder where the hack I went all this time. :P

Well, it's summer time and it's a season for me to hibernate :P

Well, there are are several reasons for my stop writing.

1. work has been hectic. :P When you have to write long emails / complaint logs almost every night, you lose the appetite to write more stuffs when you wake up. :P
2. I have been suffering severe neck and shoulder pain. I think it's because I slept the wrong way or something. :P The neck pain was so bad it caused headache every single day. :D You can imagine I have foul mood all these time. My poor colleagues.. they had to tip toe on my explosive impatience everyday.   
   
3. As I have always say... Facebook is evil. :P I have fallen to the darkside! :P My colleagues invited me to join and there it is, this bejeweled game I always enjoy is free to play on facebook! :D So during my mindless hibernation, I went there to play.... day and night.... 

But the end of August is approaching, Summer break should be over! :P

Thank you for all your threatening/caring comments about me not writing :P Hehe

Crocs Carnival

It's my day today and it seems day off is always busy :P

This morning I went to the Hong Kong Convention Center again and attended the Crocs Carnival! :D

This is the email I received notifying me of such an awesome event! :D

Everything is on sale! :D As low as 90% off!!! Of course, as a fans of this strangely designed foot wear, I must go! :D I even convinced my parents to tag along too! :D

My parents was originally resisted to try any of these shoes because 1) expensive at local outlets, 2) they look weird 3) they had purchase some faked versions on the street before and it's not comfortable 4) fake ones are stinky :P

But I told them, Mom! You spent hk$30 bucks to buy some uncomfortable fakes A-貨, why not go to the carnival with me and see if they have a 90% off real deal? :D

This tactic worked :P

My dad tried on a pair of flip flops and loved it right away! He declared, "Wow, it's really makes a difference!! (嘩！著落去真係吾同喎！！)"

My mom always had the same comment! :D

So, after 1.5 hours of browsing around, we bought 9 pairs! :D 2 pairs for each of us and 1 pair for my lovely little god son, Colin. :)

Although, end up getting only about 60-85% off for the items, it's still worth it. :D

Imagine buying a pair of flip for for hk$298 originally, now only hk$98?! :D It's like stepping on clouds. :p

These are slippers for me :D

My dad left a happy customer! :D That's the most important part. :D

These are all our hoards.

My mom bought 2 pairs of this style of shoes. This is a pair of red one, another pair is black and grey. :D The one she is wearing now is a faked one! :D She was trying to demonstrate me how awful those fake ones are compared to her new comfy real Crocs. :P (can you tell I really don't want this company to go under!? :D)

Hehe This is just a comparison how Colin's shoe size measures up to mine! :D My shoes are such 'dragon boats' :D

These are dad's special edition pair of crocs and a pair of flip flops. :)

I am now officially a registered member of the Friends of Crocs club. :D I should get some kind of discount next time I buy crocs again. :P But these shoes seems quite durable... ...... Do I really need more pairs in the near future? :D hahaha

Maybe I will donate my $50 coupon to my best friend, Viv :P

The Book Fair Hoard

I bought 9 books in total in the book fair this year. :) 8 for myself and 1 for my dad. :D

It's so nice to have the books on sales for up to 30% :P

I even bargained my dad's book to 35% off!!! It's a book of many Chinese painters and calligraphers' works.

宋雲軒藏品第八集

It has all kinds of calligraphy and Chinese paintings in the book. for a mere HK$150, my dad praised my bargain hunting instincts :P

潘紹聰 系列.

He is most famous for hosting Ghost/paranormal radio shows in Hong Kong. I download his show's podcast to listen on the bus before and after work. :D Since I am a fan of his, I must get his books! :D 30% off. It's a good deal.

歷史的大爆炸

This is a documentary about the June 4, 1989 Tienanmen Square Massacre. I was a teenager at the time. I think most of my peers in my generation who had experienced going on the street to protest with the students at the square share the same passion about this piece of tragic history.

Mao's Last Revolution

This is the only English book I managed to get at the fair. I think the subject was interesting. I am by all means not a commie. I tried to read it on the bus the last few days, but it seems after a few paragraphs, I always fall asleep. :P I will tell you what I think when I finish this book. :D haha

Last but not least!!!!

"我的低能.." 系列

These comic books are written by my friend Viv's friend, 馬仔 (Maggie) :D It's an enjoyable read. I finished both books on the bus ride home from the fair.

It's enjoyable, but I must say that "我的低能婚禮" is still my favorite. :D

我認為,"我的低能旅行" 可以再長D 就好了, 有點到喉吾到肺 的感覺. :)

而我的"低能大肚之道", 有趣, 但我對生仔呢家野沒有共鳴, 所以沒有 "婚禮" 那本咁正. 不過, 馬仔的書, 無論 topic 關吾關我事都好, 我一樣支持! :)

Fanatic Hong Kong Book Fair 2009!!

This year is the first time I have been to the Hong Kong Book Fair. This is the 20th anniversary of the event.


I don't know why, I have been back to Hong Kong for 10 years now? I have never been to the book fair before. :D


This year, very strangely, I had the urge to go. :D Very very strange indeed, coz I usually avoid crowded places.


I went there on the last day of the event because I have been working everyday since its opening and only have a day off on the last day (28 June, 2009)


Due to working late till 4:30am the night before, I only slept like 4 hours before I head out to the Hong Kong Convention Center located in Wanchai.


There's a a Chinese saying "People Mountain People Sea! :P 人山人海" describes exactly how the last day of the event was.

This is when I was lining up to get the ticket.

The arrangement was not so good that day. I went near the venue and asked a policewoman where to get tickets. She instructed me to go up to a shopping area to line up which I did.

But turned out that line was not for tickets, but for 7-11 snacks!!!! WTF :P

Good thing there is another policeman walking around that snack line and broadcasted, "People! This is not the line for the bookfair, this is the line for food and drinks. If you want tickets to the fair, you may go down stairs (where I just encountered that stupid woman police!)"

this is the snack line which wasted 15 minutes of my precious time! :D

After about 15 more minutes, I finally entered the convention center and bought my HK$25 ticket to enter the book fair. :) So exciting! :D

I arrived at the convention at around 12:30pm. :D At the time, there aren't that many people yet. But when the closing time approached, it got really crowded!!


:) You can look at the slide show here.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ticklyhippo/Small#slideshow/5365931544388485138


I think I have encountered some celebrities at the book fair that day. But being out of touch of the local entertainment industry, I have no idea who these dudes are. :P

I left at 4pm to avoid the traffic. :D I end up buying 9 books. If I stayed longer till the end, I could possibly get more. The news that evening said that books are as cheap as hk$10 for a huge king size pillow case bag! :D But my home really has no space for them. :D

Happy Birthday Old Lee! :D

Happy Birthday, Old Lee! :D

Welcome to join the rank of Mid-Trigenarian!! :D haha