The Wait

The moment we are waiting for something maybe mind boggling. It is likely to be terrified or the contrary. Some particular moment could stand frozen and some we wish should never come to past.

In a beauty contest , the host asked 5 pageants chosen from the semi final that how they felt as he was going to announce the result for the 2nd runner up, 1st runner up and the champion. 5 of them shared the same feeling that they would like that current moment to be extended unlimitedly. Yes, all of us like happy hours and peaceful time to remain because we are not able to ensure what will happen tomorrow.

Tomorrow is coming without fail, how will it be ?

Gloom

I feel very sorrow recent mornings when I read the chinese press, Nanyang Siang Pau.

There are numerous tragedy and accident occurring everyday, I don't think I had been deeply grieved over unknown deceased.

His death has casted a gloom over the country and frustrated the nation.

IN RANKING LIST

Ha ha....I am top of the ranking order in this girl's list !

She Won (2)

Yan : I finished my dinner but mum has not arrived yet. It is 6.30 p.m. already

Me: Hey, you still have the mushroom on your plate.

Yan: No, I don't want to eat these.

Me: Mushroom is good for your skin, you will look prettier with a glowing face if you

regularly eat mushroom.

P.S : I always tell her that the soup or food will enchance her beauty when she is

choosy about food. If I mention that it would make her look gorgeous, she would then eat it.

However this time she leaned lightly against me and whispered in my ear:"You eat, your face has pimples and not pretty."

A Joy

It was a joy to hear my dad was fined for not buckling his seat belt.

I used to remind him when i saw it, he would answer me : "Don't worry, there is no any inspection at the distance we are travelling to." Well, apparently he fasten his seat belt for the sake of traffic police but not for his own safety. This is really dangereous though he is an experienced and calm driver.

Choices emerged

Bought a pair of new sport shoe from sales last evening, it took me about 40 minutes to try and wondering the white Reebook or the brown Nike at the 3rd sport shop I visited to. My legs were very pain for the about 5 hours I had shopped though just had dinner right before that, it was approaching to 9 p.m.

In fact, I hate to make a decision on spot among emerged choices but I need a pair of new sport shoes to replace. I have been wondering if I had bought the shoes I really like for changing my mind on what I had decided.

Before that, I had actually decided going back to the 2nd sport shop to buy the pure black Reebook after the dinner. I was too hungry to made a decision among all I had tried with, the Fila I saw at 1st sport shop is worth for reconsideration. All these shoes are on sales, all discounted prices are quite attractive against their comfort level offered. Comfortability is very important for a shoe other than the design, I hardly found shoes I like recently.

Lucky me just now. I realized that I was given 2 left brown Nike shoes when I attempt to wear it going dinner with my youngest brother. WOOwwwW ......were I or was he too careless? This might be an irreversible mistake if I realize it only when I return to KL or when I pack my luggage at next 2 nights. Then, the cheaper shoes becomes expensive for either 1 lesson paid with 2 left shoes or cost my brother for the help.

Lesson(s) learned -- Women, don't crazy for sales ........Always double check though you saw the salesman packing the shoes you just tried with.

Leave it or mend it ?

Something very funny has occured at this pair of shoes and for first and ever this has occurred, only to this pair of shoes for numerous pairs i had/have worn since I walk.

Have you noticed something ? It is not regard with the torn areas. The colour, the colour on the right shoe has been found fading faster than left shoe. I have been wondering the reason for many months, they are always placed at same place or walking down same paths. As can be seen, traces and torn area are compatible for both left and right but color is not.

This is OK for a pair of shoe, but if this happen between you and your partner .... leave it or mend it ?

心理测试

按下面的步骤一步一步做，不要作弊，否则你的希望会落空（用３分钟完成）发送这个留言的人说：她的愿望在十分钟内变成现实，记住：不要有欺骗行为。这个戏的结果非常有趣，注意：按顺序往下读，不能跳跃地往下读（只要花３分钟，值得一试）首先拿一枝笔和一张纸，当你在作出选择时，如果是人物，保证是你认识的，无论是数字或人物，必须是?#123第1直觉，每次向下移动一行――记住：不要跳行往下读！

一、首先，在一列中写下１到１１的序号（即１、２、３、４、５、６、７、８、９、１０、１１）
二、在序号１和２的旁边，写下你所想的任意两个数字
三、在序号３和７的旁边，写下任意两个异性的名字。（注意：不要跳跃的向下看）
四、在序号４、５、６的旁边，写下朋友或亲戚的名字幕（不要有欺骗行为）
五、在序号８、９、１０、１１的旁边，写下４首歌的名字。
六、最後，许一个愿。
结果：
１. 你必须把这个游戏告诉给（序号２旁边写下的数字）个人。
２. 序号３是你所爱的人。
３. 序号７是你所喜欢的但不能与之相伴的人。
４. 序号４是你最关心的人。
５. 序号５是非常了解你的人。
６. 序号６是你重要的人。
７. 序号８的歌适合序号３的人。
８. 序号９的歌适合序号７的人。
９. 序号１０的歌最能代表你的想法。
１０. 序号１１的歌是你对生活的感受。

读完这个结果之後，在一个小时之内转载到2个论坛，如果照此做，了你的许愿就会变成现实，否则，就会事与愿违

翻译 Translation

熟悉香港朋友都懂香港的路名与地方多是英译. 小时玩大富翁时总觉得难念极了:
看见这路名的翻译, 我不禁要问有小强街吗? 是否译为 Cockroach Street ?

Family Day

This morning, six of us squeezed in my dad's car and went to tomb sweepings.
Both of my great grandfathers' and grandfather's tomb are located at 2 different places in Klang.

If I am not mistaken, today is the 1st time 4 of us accompanying our parents for this festival. We might have going together like today when we were young, but I could not remember at all. Perhaps, we had not....it has been any of us who were free following or accompanying them instead. I could only remember I cried pestering my parents to follow them to tomb sweeping, I was five in that year. My dad shouldered me climbing fences surrounding tombs before reaching my grandpa's tomb. It was a raining day and both of us nearly stumbled on the fence.

We had Bak Kut Teh after sweeping my great grandfathers' tombs with uncle, aunt and cousin.
Then my family only went to sweep my grandfather's tomb at further distance from Klang downtown.Before back to KL, we looked for the "ABC" ices at the old hawker place.This was one of the food spot my father used to bring us for when we came to Klang during Sunday.

Though it was a normal Sunday or just a "duplicate" Sunday we used to have, this was a great and precious time we had other than the Chinese New Year nowsaday. In fact, we had not been living under same roof since Sept 2006:

• 1996 Sept --I left for study
• 1998 July - Chung Yau left for study at early month, I returned in month end
• 1999 Sept --I left for working
• 2004 June -Chung Yang left for study
• 2004 July -- I returned for good
• 2007 Dec - Chung Yau returned for good, but always lives outside rather than home.
• 2008 Oct -Yee Jia left for working.
• 2008 Nov - Chung Yau married and moved out.

Returning home at afternoon, Chung Yang started getting himself prepared to catch his bus back to Singapore. Chung Yau returned his home after meal, Yee Jia will return to HK in coming Thursday when she need to return to her work.

I missed those days we waited for each other watching Hong Kong drama /movie rented, or evenings we watched dramas from TV2 or TV3 with our dinner plates on our hand respectively.

She Won

My mother has become nanny to Yi-Yan again in last December and in the same period she turned into 6 years old.

When Yi-Yan was a toddler, she did not cry, whine and scream if anythings she asked for was disallowed or her request was not being fulfilled. I remembered before she knew to speak verbally, she liked to pull or push us out from our seat. Pointing to the door, she told us in her language, “ I want to go out, please bring me out for strolling….please, please.” This happened almost every evening when she approached 18 months and just few months before she followed her parents going UK.

In fact, Yi Yan’s 2 lovely aunties were staying next door to us. They mentioned to us Yi –Yan ‘s popular lines when being with them, "Auntie, you are very boring" or ' I am just a 4 years old kid, it is unfair to ask me to do homework!'

1st Incident

At her 1st day she came to my house in last December, I took a nap after lunch because I was not feeling well. She woke me up every 3 minutes pestering me to take medicine after she knew that I was not feeling well. In next few days, Yi-Yan saw me having the chewing gum and asked me on spot. I told her that the gum was the medicine as I believe she is too young to have chewing gum at her age of 6. I noticed that she observed me taking the rest of "medicine" in following days , she had only asked another time to clear her suspicious if it was really the medicine. She must have wondered how come I did not sleep or how come I took the medicine for looking healthy, but she was quiet about these. That was 1 day in the following week.

We were doing household shopping with Yi-Yan at Jaya Jusco. We pushed the trolley toward the counter when we almost finished. Supermarket always displaying various candies, chewing gums and chololates around payment counters. When Yi Yan saw these, she pointed and asked, "Is this medicine?"
Recently I took chewing gum in front of her, she asked me on spot what was I eating. I bluffed to her like 5 months ago. Standing beside my table, she picked up the wrapping paper and read the wording –Chewing Gum. Off course, she asked me: “Why it is written Chewing Gum”. She caught me wordless!

2nd Incident

Yi –Yan is a very playful kid and it is quite difficult to get her to sit well finishing her homework without any rest. Her mother has always prepared a timetable scheduling her time for games, writing, coloring , drawing, TV and anything in daytime when she stays with us

One afternoon, I requested her to replicate my drawing in an A4 side paper. She refused by saying “This is your paper.”
I mentioned that I would like her to have the paper, but she kept on rejecting my offer and told me that she could not take my office paper.
No matter how I explained and reassured her, she insisted that it was my office paper and the paper is for office used.
Our conversation was eventually ended with an open remark. She pointed to my laptop and uttered, “ Can you give me your computer? Can you give me your pencil case?”

I was astounded, I was wordless and seriously I did not know how to answer her remark.
You see, she wins ultimately !

Crazy or Creative?

This should be the normal way we take our pictures at the scene with statue and/or waterfall. Some crazy guys had however figured out a creative way of their photo -taking , which attracted astonished crowd, including me :

Tunnel

Why no Mandarin ?

WHY there are traslations of Italy, Germay, Spain, French...... and even Japanese and etc,

but no Mandarin ??

How soon will the trend be changed?

Another 50 years ?
Really?

Slot Machines

When I was a kid, slot machine (vending machines) were my targets to follow my mum going to medical halls and grocery shops. However, I found disappointments most of the time due to limited choices and slow replenishment with new inventory. If my memory serve me well, the size of toys I could withdraw are similar to these:


Last few quarters, I noticed there were few types of vending machines at the mall I was shopping for food. There are installed with interesting ideas, available for both kids and adults :

Games installed at the machine seems very complicated, you buy yourself the fun, challenges, victory and gift when you decide to insert some coins.


Toys picking slot machine is more straightforward and suitable for range of ages, I think. I would remember the Shih Fu who played the game on the similar vending machine at the trip of Blackpool, she was so happy and exicited when the game was carried on. She was like a kid, I have not seen any kid happier than her at the moment. Not sure how is the Shih Fu and where is she right now.

Slot machines selling women's pads and tissues are general seen in toilets, but it was my 1st time seeing toothbrush vending machines at Hydro and Frankurt airports respectively:


From the list of pictures, the toothbrush seems like rolling around your teeth automatically. Perhaps the vendor should indicate the instruction of using it in addition of those pictures , it seems unbelivable that the toothbrush will roll on its own.

Airports in Asia can consider this though passengers can always request a set of toothbrush and toothpaste during their flights. These toothbrush are more creative without the need of toothpaste.