Wahahhahhaha!! Interactive Youtube!

I don't know about you, but when I was a child, I loved those interactive novels which allowed the reader to choose different paths as he or she read along.

I haven't noticed those books anymore, but never fear, lately I found these Youtube interactive videos which is a little bit similar to those interactive novels. (Well, I wouldn't say they are novels, but they tell stories nonetheless. :D)

Here's one I enjoy a lot lately. :D Don't you love zombies?! :D




Here are some other ones I would check out later.
http://www.geekosystem.com/interactive-youtube-videos/

http://www.google.com.hk/search?q=youtube+interactive&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

不一樣的小食店。

近期在我家樓下有新發現。　一句講晒就係一問豆潤咁細，　但有賣有真翅的碗仔翅的小食店！

talkative 的老板!

那個有小裙翅的碗仔翅!! 湯底是真的不一樣的啊!!　并不是一般街上賣的 glue　啊!!

還有其他美食, BBQ 肉, 和 x.o. 將炒腸粉!

正!

頂！返錯更！

個 roster mysteriously changed without notice. 原本今日係返12 pm，返到公司才發現係返16:30!!!

本來倒也沒所謂，大鬼把野做。橫掂不想再做死線黨，咁咪call mon 下囉！

但，同事仔從來都吾care 個老細係返幾多點嘅，只要你個 pat pat 係坐係個位度，佢地就會找你！

我不斷地對他們說：「我未開工嫁。」但講得多又驚為難，所以，我都係走唯上著！

剛巧午飯時間，要食D野定下驚！叫了下面呢個「牛筋腩，雲呑撈粗！」

個心當堂定晒。哈哈哈！

包你入大學的補習Sir

返工時見到呢個街招...

"保証升大學!?"

如果補 "Sex Education" class, 係咪會包生仔呢!?!

唉!!! 王, 張, 李, 劉, 陳!?!?

我在春節時看電視, 其中有個節目提及 五大百家姓, 我以為自己好醒, 自言自語答道:  "咪係陳, 李, 張, 黃, 何 囉!"

但點知原來係錯!!!! I am shocked to find out 我個姓已經不再是大姓了!! 連十甲都不入!

連老劉 & 老林的家族都多人過我!!!   我吾"制"呀!!!!!

Chopsticks printed with my last name which is no longer the 5th biggest Chinese last name. :(

More related reading:
http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/22414831

春節特赦。 街頭小吃。

嘩！　好耐都沒有見過呢Ｄ無牌小食小販喇！現在Ｄ食環走鬼隊捉得好緊，　小販平時是不會現身的，　但過年時，捉人的也得休息吧，　所以初一至初三小販們便 full time　賣 illegal 熟食！

前晚天氣凍凍地（９ Celsius) 我也忍不住整返碗生滾艇仔粥，　暖粒粒的，the ultimate comfort food!

北上．在深圳海鮮街開年

自從上次去了深圳過除夕，我和我的表弟們好像對深圳這個地方上了引 (hooked on) 似的，一不留神，初二的時候又北上打了個白鴿轉，午後二時出發去老屈我最喜愛的舅舅請食開年飯，晚上九時才道回府！

我一直誤以為深圳的春節是一片死寂的，（是被那些”春運”的新聞影響）， 但原來現在比起十年前是不同的了．（對呀，好久沒有上大陸過節了， 以前真的沒有現在般熱鬧的，因為深圳是 S.A.R.　有很多外省　workers  在那工作，一到春節前夕，他們便回鄉和家人團聚囉.)

我們７條友仔，像瘋子般，好像是慶祝 every single one of the 十二生肖咁叫了十二個餸．

食客實在是太多了，　我們７個人中有四個是好有份量的，那張６人枱很擠，張枱細到連菜也擠在一起，我們基本上是狼吞虎嚥的，好等那些來勢洶洶的餸菜有位置放嘛! 但和自己心愛的家人一同擠也是樂趣啊!

好！又是 show hand 時間!

This is the store front area.. you get to pick your own seafoods similar to Sai Kung of Hong Kong. I was overwhelmed with freshness. :D HAHAH

Let's see, we have sea snails, greens stir fry, clams, peeing shrimps, squid and long mushrooms stir fry, beef and noodle stir fry. 

and then we have some more shell fish, beef and broccoli, chicken, fish, abalone, scollops!

We only ordered the drinks in this picture, such as a beer and a bottle of blue berry juice which tasted a lot like Ribeana (利賓立). We of course didn't order these raw clams (top left), buggs/worms (bottom). But I just want you to see for good entertainment. :D

食物Qualty:             3.5 out of 5 stars
食物Choice:            5 out of 5 stars
食物Price:               5 out of 5 stars
餐廳Atmosphere:    2.5 out of 5 stars
餐廳Location:         5 out of 5 stars


华城渔港
地址：罗湖区乐园路101号华城渔港
电话：0755-821816605


Openrice.com 的食評：
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=31976

National Anthem of LaBean Land

I finally found my country's National Anthem!!!! :D hahaah

I was watching CCTV with my dad  a couple days ago and found this song called "辣妹子" (Spicy girl :D).  Naturally, I am attracted to anything hot and spicy, so I went online to find the song again. :D

While searching for the normal version, I found this Englishized version of the song.  I loved it so much that I decided this funny English version should be my homeland, The Land of LaBean's National Anthem!! :D

I am sure you will agree that this song is perfect for my land! :D hahahah




Below is the serious version I saw on CCTV. :D I must say the soprano's voice makes me have unfortable goosebumps everywhere though. 

宋祖英presented辣妹子@維也納金色大廳

 

作曲：徐沛东 作词：余志迪

辣妹子从小不怕辣，
辣妹子长大不怕辣，
辣妹子嫁人怕不辣，
吊一串辣椒碰嘴巴。
辣妹子从来不怕辣，
辣妹子生性不怕辣，
辣妹子出门怕不辣，
辣妹子辣辣妹子辣...
抓一把辣椒会说话。

辣出的汗来汗也辣，
辣出的泪来泪也辣，
辣出的火来火也辣，
辣出的歌来歌也辣。　

辣妹子说话火辣辣，

辣妹子做事泼辣辣，

辣妹子待人热辣辣，

辣椒伴她走天下。

 

 

 

 

 

 

行年宵。

係人都知我最怕多人的地方，　但我係不會錯過一年一度的維園年宵嘅！

我會嘗試用最多的圖片，　最短少嘅字去介紹今年嘅　老維年宵！

請用你 mouse 嘅　right click　去放大圖片！:D

玩物篇:

食物篇:

花卉篇:

其實過年呢個傳統嘅節日係令人好 tired 嘅, 大 clean up 啦, 行年宵買花啦 (我就買了棵樹) , 食九大鬼啦, 接紅封包啦...... 好累, 好累啊!

Kung Hey Fat Choy! :) 恭喜發財!

小妹在這祝各位： "龍年 萬事如意, 心想事成, 龍馬精神, 財源廣進, 身體健康, 人見人愛, 車見車載, 花見花開，　無本生利，　不勞而穫！！！！"  ^_^

明天再跟你報告行年宵的情況。

團年飯 showhand! :D

成枱都都係餸!  連埋湯渣有八餸一湯! 世上沒有比我更幸福的人哪!!

Menu:
發財好事炆豬腳, 鴨腳,冬菰,
雞汁生財
蕃茄蝦祿
黃金咸豬手
蠔油炆辣鴨舌
辣媽子招排炸排骨
酒香白切雞
鮑魚,花膠, 響螺 藥材雞湯 +　渣

當然一餐是食不完的。　年年有餘的解釋是：　餘下的幾天就是吃 left overs 囉!! :D heh heh

不過，　有鮑魚做 left overs 也不錯吖!

團年飯 Rehearsal

It seems I haven't written about food for awhile (1 week to be exact)  :D hehehe.  Today  Yesterday after work, I treated my parents a lovely dinner. :D It's consider a rehearsal of our year end dinner tomorrow tonight. :D hahah

Top: our favorite raw fish :D bottom: assorted tempura and Tonkatsu

Top: Love the grilled squid and pan seared steak cubes.  Bottom: beef hot pot with udon noodles :D

And last of all, California strawberries for dessert :)

Just looking at the vivid color pictures makes me hungry again :D hehehe

Additional New Year's Resolution!

After cleaning up my fortress, I have decided I have to do something about my stacks of unread books.

So, other than previous 7 new year's resolutions, an 8th is added!

8. Stop buying more books until I finish these first!!!

The "After"...

To continue from yesterday's mess.....

Now, let's play a game of "find the difference" :D hahaha

Top: Before WTF :D.  Bottom: After Much Better.

Stuffs I threw away
A:    Empty pork jerky paper (豬肉紙) box from Taipei.......
B:    A stack of 吳尊尊 covered magazines!!! :D Well, I threw away those pages without him and file the pages in the light blue folder there :D
C:   All the boxes from different computer gadgets which may or may not contain any type of computer related gadgets :D
D:   Calender from 2011 which still shows the page of Jan2011 :D
E:   Boxes of outdated computer related magazines hidden inside the cupboard

Stuffs I relocated
F:   Stuffs planned to deliver to SFO on my next trip :D
G:   Toiletry bag that is not belonged here... :D

Come to think of it, I think I feel more 'protected / hidden' with the before.  It was like a war zone bunker. Hahah. Now that it's all organized, I feel nakkid :D

The "Before"...

A picture is worth a 1000 words.... :D

Let's contemplate the laziness of last year.... :D

Let's pretend I am showing some shameful expression on my face right now.   ಠ_ಠ  :D :D :D

Be afraid, be very afraid

I visit Wiki everyday, when I try to search something, I always opt for the wiki link first and then read the other links from google as I go along.

Today, it's their blackout day in speaking out against SOPA and PIPA, I feel fidgety not being able to access my favorite source of reading on the internet.

This is how everybody should feel (worse than fidgety) if SOPA and PIPA were to be passed!

When wiki goes back up tomorrow, I am definitely gonna donate some money to them again!

DOWN WITH SOPA! DOWN WITH PIPA!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

Whoa! Found my time capsules! :D

I didn't do much cleaning last Chinese New Year, so this year, when everyone in the family is all well and alive, I finally decided there is no excuse to not clean my fortress anymore. :D

Cleaning up my fortress is at least a 3 parts series! :D hehe

As I was digging into the grounds of my fortress, I found 2 shoe boxes I forgot what I put into... so I open the dusty cover and found out that the shoe boxes are actually time capsules .

I found these ring bounded note books which are actually my diaries from as far back as 2002!!!!  So awesome when I flip through them briefly.

I forgot how I put pictures in my dairies just like I would when writing blogs :D This picture shows my parents and myself dinning with my late favorite aunt.  What a nice family photo.

Hehe, this entry is about visiting an Oyster farm in China and how much I enjoyed eating monstrous sized oysters there.   :D

I think my writing style hasn't changed throughout the years.. :D It's mostly about foods!! :D hahahah

I stopped writing these notebooks since I started blogging. :D Finding these diaries has stirred a  certain nostalgic emotion inside me which re-reading this blog doesn't even come close to giving me the same satisfaction.

Year of the Dragon decorations

The year of the Dragon is coming, there are dragons everywhere!!!

Unlike Christmas, I probably won't roam around malls this Chinese New Year.  :D So, I present to you the mall closest to my office, Tai Koo Shing! :)

There are seriously huge Chinese Dragons around the mall. Everything is so giantic, even the fake peach blossoms are like 2 stories tall!  Impressive!

The dragons on the walls and the peach blossoms are really enormous. You can see the people walking under the dragons are like stick figures. :D

I like these Dragon banners hanging above the skating rink.

To celebrate the year of the dragon, the mall even has a King's Dragon Robes exhibition (I call it "大展龍袍") .  These are robes worn by Guangxu 光緒  & Jiaqing 嘉慶.  The Black one was worn by The Empress Dowager, Cixi 慈禧太后. The Dragons on the Emperor's robes has 5 claws, while the Empress' would only have 4 claws to distinguish them apart. 

 

As a bonus, I give you another dragon which is located near my home. :D I'd say this one is too skinny and unimpressive.

Rainy night, ghostly tale...

Would you pick up strange abandoned umbrella somewhere and bring it home?

I wouldn't! :D

As a diligent ghost story radio listener, I must say, other than the legendary red silk embroidered shoes, a stranger's umbrella on the street is my other most fearful ghost story related item.

Legend has it that those ghosts without a grave would attach themselves to umbrellas...  If you picked up an umbrella on the street, the ghosts which attached to the abandoned umbrellas would follow you home and do strange ghostly things to you. :D

It's a rainy night last night, on the way home after work, I found a green umbrella hooked in front of the seat I was about to take.

This is the most uncomfortable ride home ever as I have to struggle to suppress my fear of the ghost inside this stranger's umbrella. 

Sure hope the ghost in the green umbrella didn't migrate to my black umbrella!! :D Heh Heh!

提早做節, 開黎 魚, 蝦, 蟹! 仲有田雞湯!!

Clockwise from Top Left: steamed fresh fish from the sea (石班), 白灼中蝦, 薑蔥辣椒 肇興酒炒大肉蟹, 臘腸介蘭.

昨晚老媽子大顯身手, 你是否流緊口水?

仲有呢個田雞湯, 是用來補下我和我老爸那 "遺傳性仆街症" 的痛手痛腳的.

做個有媽的孩子真的幸福, 四餸一湯, 白飯不用裝, 最 suitable for my low carb diet. :D

Are you a Hong Konger or a Chinese? :D

I read a piece of news from washingtonpost.com yesterday, titled, "China denounces ‘Hong Konger’ trend". I thought it's an interesting read.

When you fill out entry form at foreign countries' customs, would you write your nationality as "Chinese" or "Hong Kong"? :D


Most of the time I'd write "Chinese" on entry forms, however, when I feel childish, I would fill "Hong Kong" politically incorrectly just to declare I am a Chinese from HKG, not a Chinese from China! :D


I think I am a 70% Hong Konger with 20% North American influence and 5% living in my own coo coo world.  The remaining 5% is Chinese as a race (But then, my mom said I have some Mongolian blood! :D)

I am one of the group of people China wants to denounce :D... well my parents also wants to denounce me for not loving my mother country enough. :D

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-denounces-hong-konger-trend/2012/01/10/gIQAmivNqP_story_1.html

新銀紙有寶嗎?! 不環保呢！

As Chinese New Year approaches, people scramble around to get brand new notes for red pockets.  These people include my colleagues. :D

The bank I work at has this staff benefit, which help staff to get new money for red pockets so they don't have to line up for money.

As a supervisor, coordinating and distributing these money is my task. So yesterday at work, 3/4 of my work time was spent counting money!! Paper cuts on thumbs were unavoidable.

But I don't understand why it is so important to get new money.  As I am still on the receiving end of the pockets... I must say, I don't freaking care whether the content inside is new or old...

Just "SHOW ME THE MONEY!" :D

This is the latest version of HK$50

Disappearing Vistors Stats... :(

Lately I have been noticing inconstant report with the ClutrMaps gadget.

See this shows I have 3 visits on Jan 10, one from HK, one from India, and one from USA

Then, this morning, I check again, most of the Jan 10 stats are gone!  And the one left behind (HK)'s time doesn't match with the previous one.

What the hack!!?!!?

Oh!! BTW!!! :D Hello! Unknown Friend from India!!!! :) 

史上最鬆化的 cookies

近日有個同事過了大海, instead of buying the traditional 杏仁餅, 他買了呢個話係好出名, 但我從未聽過的 cookie 孝敬我!

呢D cookie 鬆化到吖!!!!

真的不能用字去describe!!

一食停不了口, 我和另一位 supervisor 一同分享的時候, 連不為食的她也禁不住吃了4, 5 件!! 怎麼攪的, 眼見我的手信快沒了, 我連忙把它收起, 說要留給爸媽的...

給了爸媽後仲慘!! 一不留神, 兩分鐘內報銷!!

下次我自己去澳門, 一定會大手入貨!!!

Faeries :)

The first thing that came to my mind when I took this picture was "Faeries!!" :)  We all need a little romantic escape from time to time no matter how adult / mature we want to appear. :)

KFC of China

This is a KFC store front.

Saw this on New Years Eve in China when I visited my uncle.

Look closely inside the blue circle...

I thought only McDonald's in Asia have rice burgers to suit the Asians' taste-buds...  I guess the fast food business in China is very competitive too, so KFC has to pull something Asians also.

Left to right: 香燸意米粥+安心油條 (sticky rice congeegee & chinese fried rolls), 香煎烟肉堡+醇豆漿/經典咖啡 (Bacon burger + coffee or soya bean milk), 皮蛋瘦肉粥+安心油條 (Thousand year old egg and shredded pork congeegee and chinese fried rolls)

For only $6 bucks of China money, you get to have a non-chicken breakfast at KFC(CHINA). :D

百萬行直激！

4:30am 札醒咗！
6:45am 食早餐！
8:15am 準時到逹大球場！還沒見到認識的同事！

8:30am 秘書小姐說不來了, 叫我照顧其他同事.
9:00am 最後只找到一位Admin team 的同事, 不熟, 但不再孤單..
9:15am 屁股可以 leave 個坐位, 起行!
10:15am 仲排緊隊逃出大球場.... 今年沒有很好的 organization, 找不到公司個 Banner, 怎走才好呢?!
10:30am 終於出閘喇!!! 為什麼沒有 Group pictures!!!??!!?!?!?!?!?
10:45am 好不容易找到另外兩位 "卡添" 嘅同事, 我地 sneak 埋同中環 branch D 同事一起做個迷你 group picture 吧!!

Left: The big bosses head out the stadium :D Right: Scamming my friends to sponsor me.

A license to pick nose

Lately I have been suffering from frequent unprovoked nose bleeds like I have some kind of terminal illness.

Just 2 days ago, on a day off, I was bedridden with an exploding headache around the nostril area, so I decided to visit the Dr. to check it out.

Turns out, my nostrils' inner membranes are very thin and I am having a minor case of Sinusitis (鼻竇炎)!

The Dr. prescribed me with this cream, I think they smell like Vaseline and he told me to stick my finger up my nose to apply it just like picking my nose! :D

Yay, now I've got a license to pick my nose and best of all, not terminally ill yet. :D