Sleepless with Mama Mia!

I love musicals! :D

Mama Mia was such a fun movie to watch! :D

It's funny, it's touching and it's a musical! Nothing beats such a combination! :)

It's a movie which celebrates friendships, love, parenthood and summer romances. :)

How can you miss seeing 007 & Mr. Darcy in Spandex?!

Best of all, it accompanies me through this sleepless night. :)

Highly Recommend it. :)

逆市消費 II ! Shopping!

I think other than shoes, women's other best friends are body lotions and lip balms. :D

Last week, when I went grocery shopping to replenish my nuts I found these cute little apples and pears.

I must buy it! :D So I did. :D

Turns out they are high quality hand creams and lip balms. :D

The hand cream is very soothing, only have to apply a little bit and your hand don't feel dry anymore. :D It even has the smell of apple too. :)

The pear lip balm taste exactly like a pear. :D Yummy. :D

神主牌! My Shrine! :D

Hehe! :D

The plastic cover for my award has arrived yesterday! :D ehhe So we finally have a permanent place for our 3 ducklings to worship it. :D

My dad and I joked about it looks like my shrine plate (神主牌). :D

When my mom heard it, she frowned and said, "CHOY!" (It's a Chinese slang to exclaim when someone say something unlucky. :D Having one's shrine meaning that person is quite dead, therefore unlucky) :D

什麼'股' 最可靠?

今日有人問我有冇玩 股票, 我答佢話少少地都有買d 銀行股.
佢 又問我, 咩股最可靠呢?
我想了五 seconds , 答佢話:

最可靠的股是：我的屁股!! :D

嘩!! 開包啦!! }:D

你見過咁大個包未呀!!!??
Have you ever seen a bun this big!??!

星期六上班的時候發現一個超大的包包! 原來我個 boss, '啫喱' 年尾取老婆, 佢剛剛過完大禮.

This Saturday, when I showed up at work, I discovered this huge bun! Turns out one of my bosses, Jerry will be getting married later this year! :D This is the gifts his mother-in-law returned to him.

呢個大包包, 係女家嘅回禮. :)

Why was it returned? :D Well, it's more of a "Thank you for marrying my daughter" gift kinda thing. :D

中國人結婚真係好鬼多搗作. 經過少許research之後, 原來呢個包包好可能係傳說中的 '發糕', 寓意: 步步高升和發達. :D

After a bit of research, turns out this big bun is a wishing gift to the groom. It wishes the groom prosperity and double happiness. Do you recognize the 'double happiness' (囍) on the bun? :)

真係好鬼大個o家!!

資料來源:
Sources:

http://weddingchinese.info/05.html
http://jameskun.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3582D0617FFB4D53!244.entry

另外, 在呢個包 discovery 過程中, 又有一段好笑的小插曲.

我: 　　　　嘩! 整咩鬼咁 Q 大個包呀?!?
阿甲:　　　 呀啫喱 just 過大禮吖嘛
我: 　　 　　咁個包包食吾食得o家?
啫喱:　 　　可以嘅..
我: 　　　　咁快D 開包啦!
一眾人等: 　哈哈哈!

講完才記起 '開包' 嘅意思 :D hahha

開包咧! :D

The video quality has been altered to protect the identity of the involved. :D

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Lately, my neighborhood has recently gone through some renovations.  They had dug up strips of grey colored road and in place, put some yellow bricks there fore the blind.

I think it's a good improvment for the community. However, that got me thinking..



Why are these blind people friendly bricks are bright yellow?

I mean, blind people prolly cannot see the color. The non-blind people prolly don't need to see these bricks anyways. :p

Nothing serious, just random mindless thoughts is all :P

Dream Chronicle VIII: A little sexy, A little religious

I just had a weird dream! I wasn't involved in the dream at all and I was just an observer, here's the dream I just described to my boyfriend.

Time stamps in blue is Monkeyman's respond :D Red is me telling him the story. :)

[12:04:24] hey
[12:05:00] ehhe slept till just now! :D
[12:05:23] sleep late
[12:05:47] i had this weirdest dream!
[12:05:58] like a little sexy.. and a little religious :D hahaha
[12:06:54] oh?
[12:06:59] yeah..
[12:07:34] it started with a bunch of kids watching day time sexy Japanese animes :D
[12:08:18] the anime's setting was in this huge church castle mansion building
[12:09:15] you know how weird those japanese hentai amimes are :D
[12:09:48] anyways, so after watching, those bunch of kids decided they should venture to a similiar building just near by, which is also a church
[12:10:06] i say kids, i mean people in their 20's :D
[12:10:14] uh huh
[12:10:35] then when they go into the church, they messed around with weird gadgets and stuff..
[12:10:39] somehow they found a secret door
[12:10:57] so they went in, they saw lots of beds in there :P
[12:11:11] so they figured they'd have sex there :P
[12:11:14] orgy :P
[12:11:16] anyways..
[12:11:33] one of the guys kinda saw a little girl, but she's kinda transparent
[12:11:43] so he followed her out of curiosity
[12:12:09] she led him to the dungeon level
[12:12:26] while he was following her, it seems like he's in a trance
[12:13:01] he couldn't help himself, he walked down the spiral stair case, and found very short cane
[12:13:18] the cane is short because it only has the "?" type shaped head.. it's missing the leg
[12:13:21] if you know what i mean
[12:13:53] hm
[12:13:53] so he picked it up and found out it actually has a button that would make the cane extend
[12:14:09] and it became a sword :D
[12:14:22] he kept walking down and found the dungeon..
[12:14:30] it was quite empty in the beginning
[12:14:51] somehow, a voice told him to find the bishop
[12:15:07] because the place was quite large, he had to split himself into 2 to look
[12:15:23] where are you with all this?
[12:15:27] his copy version finally found the bishop who is in his sleepy robe
[12:15:34] i was just watching in all this
[12:16:21] then he saw the little girl again who points at the bishop and told they guy "Kill him with the cane, he's the corrupted one"
[12:16:55] so the copy of the guy went and stab the bishop, but the bishop was wearing bullet proof vest!
[12:18:24] then the girl once again told the guy to aim at a weak spot, finally the copy could stab the bishop. but the bishop seems very strong and still standing and walking around even though the cane was still in his body. it went all the way through.
[12:18:33] so the copy of the guy fled
[12:19:06] a lot of security guards / worshipers ran in and discovered their bishop was stabbed, so they went and chase the guy
[12:19:39] suddenly the guy float up and looked like he was on the cross like jesus..
[12:19:53] people start to throw stones at him, but none works :P
[12:20:10] because he's doing a good thing.
[12:20:17] then they had to let him go
[12:20:26] the dream then fast forward
[12:20:41] these bunch of worshipers is at a dinner
[12:20:49] many of them nuns and priests
[12:22:21] their meal was hearty! Like it has oysters, prime ribs.. all the expensive foods, while they eat, they even joked about what kind of charity they pretended that they did. but they are spending all those money on these kind of luxury (sp) :D
[12:23:13] the dream ends when I woke up and thought to myself, "hypocrites! Evil! Liars! These church runners"
[12:23:16] the end :p
[12:23:29] haha
[12:24:26] the day time hentai anime involves 3 somes :D
[12:24:40] too bad it only lasted a little in the dream :D
[12:24:50] do you have some of those?
[12:24:55] no :D
[12:25:03] i wasn't even in the dream
[12:25:10] i was just an observer
[12:25:18] thats wierd
[12:25:29] you are not in the dream?
[12:25:30] I don't recognize anyone in the dream at all
[12:25:32] nope

佛在心中 / 食在肚中

While my dad was practicing "佛在心中" (Buddha is in the heart), i figured I'd show off my calligraphy skill too. :D  So I wrote, "食在肚中”　(food in the tummy) :D  Very appropriate. :D

晚飯一趣 : 你地無叉用!

我昨晚和同事撐抬腳, 兩人不約而同叫了個 '美式雜扒餐', 有了以下對話:

馬糞: 筷子點食扒?
我: 呀姐, 吾該比隻叉用下吖?
馬糞: [笑騎騎] 呀姐即係話我地無叉用囉
我: 嘻嘻! 咁我地又真係幾無叉用o家 bor.
呀姐: 哈哈! [把叉拿來] 來咧! 你地而家咪有叉用囉! :D

Hehe sorry, can't have any English version this time, because this involves a very local slang which I am incapable of translating :D

我終於看通了! I finally realized! :)

昨晚我有個瘋客.

佢錯誤地用了個virtual account 去買機票, 當佢昨日看到 佢張 e-ticket 上寫咗句 "Please bring along your credit card which this purchase was made to check in." 嘅時候, 佢成個人便癲咗咁 打來要求我們 出張 plastic 比佢張 virtural account.

話明係 virtual account, 即係虛無嘅啦, 只係一張好似 密碼紙咁, 信用額可以在用完一個交易後減低到 $1, 多 D 保安. 但係如果一 D 商戶要求客人收貨時出示 買野時的信用卡的話, 就當然吾好用呢張 virtual a/c 去 order 啦.

我相信呢個客人一定係少 travel, 吾知道 一些 airline 會要求客人出示張卡, 佢咪 '瀨 tart' 囉! :D 佢 爆晒粗口, 失晒理智, 話 我 stupid, 話 guarantee 客人消費順利係銀行嘅責任.. etc etc.

要知道銀行係吾能夠保障客人嘅低能行為o家! 吾好咩都話係我地錯得o家!

當佢不斷咁侮辱我袓宗十八代的時候, 我突然領悟到一個道理:

佢吾係侮辱緊我, 而係侮辱緊佢自己, 佢吾係認為我 stupid, 而佢係係度'怒罵'緊自己 stupid.

我係應該同情佢嘅! 所以, 我今日花咗我自己一句鐘嘅私人時間去幫佢打去個 airline 嘅 hotline 問下係咪一定要 show 張信用卡呢? answer is No. :D airline 只會要求客人出示 credit card 如果那 機票是在上機前廿四小時買的!

又比我學到 D 野囉!

English version:

Last night, I had a crazy customer.

He mistakenly used a virtual account to buy plane ticket. When he received the e-ticket asking him to bring along his credit card which matches with this purchase, he panicked! Practically nervous broke down crazy! :D He insisted us to issue a plastic for his virtual a/c.

The name, 'virtual account' means it's not a real card, it's just a virtual internet a/c. It is issued in a form of pin number sealed envelope, it offers more security to customers. After customer made an online transaction, he can reset his virtual a/c limit to $1 to avoid info stolen over the internet and suffer fraudulent transactions.

I believe this customer must not have traveled as much as I did. :D As you know, some airline would actually ask you to show the credit card before they issue you the boarding pass at the check in counter. When I told the customer nothing we can do to help him, he went berserk! Yelled at me and said I am stupid and sworn at my whole 18 generations of ancestors. :D He even insisted that the bank has to guarantee customers' transactions a success. etc etc.

Regret to say, bank does not protect customer from their own stupidity / ignorance! Although bankers are now one of the axis of evil, we did not wrong the customer in anyway in this incident.

However, when he kept on swearing at my ancestors, I had a realization!

He is not swearing at me or humiliating me, he's humiliating himself. He is not mad at me for being stupid, he's actually mad at himself for being a retard!

I felt that I should show some compassion for his stupidity. So I spent 1 hour of my private time at home and helped him call the airline. The answer I got was "customer only have to show the credit card if the purchase was made within 24 hours of departure!"

This is truly a learning and self discovery lesson.

愛心劵 Charity Tickets

At the snake dinner last night, a bunch of old people took the role of selling raffle tickets.

The selling point of these tickets is not really 'charity'. :D It's all the coupons attached. :D

Especially the 2 free cakes vouchers. :D

The raffle sellers keep yelling, $10 raffles! But the value is $50!! 2 free pieces of cakes each ticket!! Buy now!!! :D

Elderly people are like this, they like these kind of little cheap exchange.

It's nonetheless for charity though. :) That's why I bought 2 myself. :D

My folks selling those tickets :D

A video of my folks selling the tickets! :D

政府人員協會 蛇宴! Gov't Employees Association Snake Banquet!

今晚係呢個"政府人員協會蛇宴聯歡敘餐" 的大日子!  Tonight is the big day for the "Government Employees Association Snake Banquet"! :) My late aunt was a government employee, that's why we can tag along some of her old colleagues. My mom kinda inherited my late aunt's friends nowadays.  

 
雖然平時我如果有 day off 的日子, 我比較 prefer 留在家中, 好似預先享受 '退休 生活' 一樣, 但我為咗 '食!', 我當然就出窟啦!

Normally, when I have a day off, I prefer to stay home to enjoy a "retirement" state, but "Eat weird and prosper" is my philosophy of life, so eat snake I must! :P

呢個係 menu :

• 太史五蛇羹 <三窩>            (Offical's snake soup <3 pots>)

 We had 3 pots of these yummy soup!! It was so yummy. You put these little crispy chips in the soup to make it extra yummy. :D

• 七彩炒蛇絲                         (Rainbow veggie and snake stir fry)

 I think this dish has more pork meat then snake meats in it. :P

• 蒜子扣瑤柱脯                     (Garlic cloves and dried scallops cooked in abalone sauce)

 This was so good!! The dried scallops are so sweet! Well I think it's the abalone sauce that is sweet.  The scallops are high quality big ones too. Very good.

• 燒石岐三喜鴿                     (Roasted pigeons)

 

 

 Pigeons!! The flying rats! I think they are the most yummy birds in the world! :D

• 北芪 黨參 竹絲雞炖三蛇   (Chinese herbs, chicken and three different snakes soup)

 

  

 

 The soup was so good!! I had 3 little bowls and ate some snakes afterward. :D

• 豉汁蒸大鱔                         (Black bean paste steamed white eels)

 

 

 Steamed eel is one of my favorite dishes too!

• 枝竹炆羊腩                         (Lamb pot belly and tofu skin stew)

 

 By the time they serve this lamb chop dish, I got a little full already. :D So I only had 1 small piece and a slice of tofu skin.

• 蛇汁灼生菜                         (Snake juice cooked Lettuce)

 I wonder how they make the 'snake sauce'. ;D This lettuce dish was very good though.

• 腊味糯米飯                         (Sticky rice cooked with Chinese sausages)

 Sticky rice, it's one of Hong Kong people's winter favorite. It suppose to keep you warm for awhile. :) I had a small spoonful. The Chinese sausages are very fragrantly too. 

• 生啤, 蛇酒, 汽水                 (Beer, Snake bile wine, soda)

 I had a glass of beer at the end, coz by the end of the dinner, my body really felt extra warm! :D

I had a little tea reading session at the banquet too! :D

You see there's this piece of tea leaf that stand up. As I know, it means a friend from afar would come visit (有朋自遠方來).

Lo and behold, at the end of the dinner, I heard that the uncle in Beijing who welcomed me and Mike 2 years ago would come visit Hong Kong for a week! :D

All in all, the dinner was a success! :D I enjoyed it very much.

LaBean 大茶飯 :D

Winter is here! :D It's only about 20 degress. To the skinny Hong Kong people, it prolly feel like their nuts are freezing by this kind of 'coldness'. :D

To me, it's just right! :D This is the weather perfect for some steamed dishes. :D So here I present my lunch today :D

Top: Steamed Mushroom and minced pork patty.

Bottom, 1/2 of it split into the dinner pile. I ate a few mouth full of veggies before taking this picture. :D

The steel bowl reminds me of China labor camp's bowl! :D So I called this post 大茶飯 :D

逆市消費! Shopping spree in this financial tsunami!

The subject did shock you, didn't it? :D

Well, I am about to be laid off, so I didn't have the mood to write much these days.

I guess to say I am about to be lay off is a bit too paranoid actually. Just that my company has just announced that they will lay off about 500 employees in HK.  I might or might not be one of the 'lucky' ones.

So, of course in this uncertain time, I of course won't go crazy and went on a shopping spree. But good thing for 2nd Life, I can satisfy my shopping craves there! :)

See here, I just refurnished my living room. :) Dinning room is next!! :)

As professor Lee just informed me this morning:

Sonia says (5:34 AM):
網 癮 列 精 神 病
病 徵 ： 每 日 上 網 逾 6 小 時 評分: -- (未有評分)    回應: 0
「 唔 係 呀 嘛 ， 一 日 上 網 超 過 6 個 鐘 ， 就 係 患 精 神 病 ？ 」 冇 錯 ， 內 地 正 式 將 網 癮 列 入 精 神 病 範 疇 ， 其 中 將 上 班 時 間 外 每 日 上 網 超 過 6 個 小 時 ， 列 為 病 徵 。 難 怪 引 起 各 地 網 民 嘩 然 ： 「 我 們 都 成 精 神 病 了 ！

 If going online for more than 6 hours a day = insanity, I have been insane since I am 20 :D

So, as a certified looney, i say, "Viva 2nd life!"

Office 一趣

Today I got an email at work which contained a series of comic strips. :D One of the strips is so true. :D It depicts the normal practice of many hotline CS agents :D

Strip 1: 都是我們的錯失 (Sorry for our mistakes)
Strip 2: 係, 王先生, 謝謝你的批評, 指正 (Yes, Mr. Wong, Thank you for your criticism and correction)
strip 3: 嗯嗯, 是的, 是的, 我都用電腦記錄下來了. ( uhha, yes yes, I have recorded it in the computer)
strip 4: 王先生, 謝謝你! 再見囉. (Mr. Wong, Thank you, bye bye)
Strip 4 on the computer monitor: 操你媽... (Fxxx your mother!) :D

So Many Coupons! :D

As you know, last month I had won that HKCCA award. :D Not only did I gain fame from work, I also got some Sogo Department Store coupons!! :D


There are so many more than I have expected! :D You see, when I first started this competition, internal rumor was that if I won any prize at this award, I'd get $800 coupons of some sort! :D

Last week when I got the coupons in a thick envelope, I was surprised to find that it contains $1800 worth of shopping coupons!!! :D

So I took my parents shopping too this Monday. :D

My parents both end up buying themselves pairs of shoes! :D hehe

I haven't bought anything for myself yet. But I used those coupons to buy some treats for my colleagues. :D

These are the cakes 'sticks' I bought for my colleagues. :D They are not too big, but price is at about $$$$ out of $$$$$. :D  They are delicious though and since it's delicate size, I think it's not as guilt imposing after we ate our share. :D

Hong Kong Post Advises: "Correct Address, Prompt Delivery!"

I went to the post office this morning to mail out some postcards that I got from Cheung Chau. :D When I return home, I found this message on my computer from Professor Lee.....

Sonia says (1:11 PM): Did I tell you that I received your postcard from taiwan?
Sonia says (1:11 PM): it's pretty cute
Sonia says (1:12 PM): And I saw that you almost wrote ARbana again!
Sonia says (1:54 PM): 嘔血!

Remember this post back in August? :D hahahah History almost repeats itself again! :D

Just so happen, I found a pamphlet from Hong Kong Post which educate kids the importance of writing the mailing address correctly... :P

When flipflops tumble ^_^

20 years ago, my shoe tumbled on the bus! :D
20 years later today, my flipflops tumbled on the bus again! :D

This time though, I didn't scream for the bus to stop. :D  The person who followed me up the upper deck just quietly wait till I fetch my flipflop back on the stair before she can go up too. :P

What good memories! :D

This is the left pink flipflop which left my foot and tumbled down the stairs from the upper deck bus! :D  Better training is needed for this slipper to be better attached to my foot in future. :D

x_x ! Whao!!! Bus on fire!!!!

Although I got out of the office on time tonight, it took 30 more minutes to get home!! All because the highway was blocked and by going the slow way, we encountered every red light possible on the unusual route. :P

Turns out a bus was on fire on the highway at around midnight! Thank god it's not my bus which does that!

Here's the link to the instance news (Chinese though, sorry)

Happy Halloween!!! :)

It's the 31st of the 10th month of the year!! It's Halloween!!! :)

Too bad there's no "Trick or Treat" activities in Hong Kong as we live in high rises.

I remember though, in the first year I went to Vancouver, I went trick or treating with my little god sister, Rene (契妹) for the very first time of our lives. :D

We didn't even have any concept of what a real costume is back then. :D So after a brief discussion, we figured, we'd both be "sleeping beauties". :D So, our costumes were simply our night gowns. Those that is like a dress robe. :P

It was strange, but in deed very good childhood memories. :D

If I were to trick-or-treat this year, I think I'd be... "Pukka" :D Below is a picture of pukka. I will be the girl with 2 buns :D