Tuesday, August 31, 2004
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Just bought this book today.
I was to buy some exercise books for my two new students there in a book shop. The book just crashed into my sight in no reason. Such a simple designed cover, I picked it up, "The five people you meet in heaven".
"Who am I going to meet there, in heaven?", a thought popped up. Well, there's no idea or hint about it. My family members? No, I don't have any "precious moment" with them. Love ones? Well, Mr. J? No, I'm not sure about his heart. Mr. C? No, he's merely not "the one". Mr. Green? Er... I doubt he'll still keep me in his memory as an once-upon-a-time-lover for now we're not more than friends. Oh, friends? I have two few good friends and don't know whether they will take me as their good friend as well.
It's been a hollow in my stomache these days. This book looks fit for the stuffing job.
May be I should buy the author's previous book as well.
Monday, August 30, 2004
MK詞典
今日睇《便利》，發現以下「新」「潮詞」喎~同大家研究一下：
藍精靈：藍色制服街頭sales (都唔覺眼有藍制服…)
菜街︰西洋菜南街 (嘲~！估都估到啦！如果條街唔係行人專用區，點會有人同佢改花「朶」﹖通菜街都得啦！)
長枕：經常出沒之處 (都係好易諗到意思，我諗你同個路宿者咁講佢都同你吹到水。)
溫︰不停討好對方，直至對方溫溫燉燉。 (冇野呀﹖！我十幾年前都講緊啦！)
語癌：笑人講話唔流利 (呢個唔錯！點解以前D賤精諗唔到呢個呢﹖)
窒窒通︰說話斷開一截截，「通」乃寓意某電訊公司通話勁窒 。 (自從有「XX通」就開始聽人講啦…唉…)
呃水吹︰當你被人撩，而對方吹水好浪費你o既時間，呢條友就係「呃水吹」。 (呢個都唔錯！我會收入自己個字典度。我諗十幾年後都會有人用！)
灰爆︰十分悲哀 (唉…「灰」呢個字響白話文都成日會用啦，係悲哀同心情灰暗咁解丫嘛！中文流行曲幾十年來一直都有人用，冇聽過果個會係耳聾個lor！)
KO︰來自拳擊術語，即搞掂o左對手。 (呢個…機鋪有格鬥遊戲玩果時開始個個都識啦！我唔打機都知…)
跳個樓先︰即勁無奈，無奈到想跳樓。 (呢句都低能！)
等我都加幾句先！
我成日同人講：「我信『訓教』。」(信教的朋友，我沒有用閣下的宗教來開玩笑，只是拿自己來笑罷。沒聽過﹖知你信教我就不會講啦！)
「我今日要響屋企『特訓』呢！」有時我會講：「我今晚要見教主呢！」(同我的「信仰」有關，猜到了嗎﹖)
我成日用呢句笑我D學生：「你個G頭…」(豬頭諧音，因為用「G」可以玩icon。)
G頭呢…係咪好好玩﹖
Sunday, August 29, 2004
廳長
我做了一晚廳長。因為洗了床墊，沒床墊的床實在睡不到…(是床太爛了…)。
睡在地毯也不錯。那是一覺很好的……
Saturday, August 28, 2004
個天都咁玩我﹖！
今日收拾了一下家居，發現睡了三年的床舖開始爛，也是時候換新的了。唉…可以再等一會嗎﹖我還要一個人睡多久﹖
不想去逛街，怕逛半天都買不到反而買了不中用的東西。突然想起星期五報紙會有很多廣告，說不定會發現有什麼地方減價。於是，大下午去買了一份《老東》，因為她是最多廣告的。
一直臨睡才有一刻時間看看報紙，怎料……我就這樣的起來寫起blog來！
我一邊看一邊找…找…找…找…為什麼都沒有廣告﹖再翻一會…怎麼有「蘋果分類」﹖唉，一看之下，除了頭版和娛樂之外，其他版都是《蘋果》的！唉……我想要的廣告都沒半遍……
你知道嗎﹖超市、藥房、家用店、傢俬鋪……都在《老東》落廣告的……星期五是最多最齊的啊~~！
Friday, August 27, 2004
Nothing interesting ... 都沒什麼好看
In only a week's time the summer holidays will finish. Being an "average person", I haven't done the assisgnment in a good way.
還有一個星期，暑假就要完結了。身為有個再普通不過的人，我當然沒有好好做我的功課。
I attend no school. Yet, I'm a person really need a stable income apart from the unstable part-time job ones (although profitable).
沒有上學，只是，我正十分需要一份穩定的收入，好讓在那些不定的兼職收入(雖然很賺)補上來。
I promised myself to try my best in job searching during this summer holidays. However, days passed and nothing happened.
我曾對自己承諾要好好利用這個暑假去找一份工作。日子是過了，可是我仍然沒改變。
Monday, August 23, 2004
錢少賺了，但人開心了！
一個女人，三十來歲，在報館工作，有家了，也有了孩子，養了狗。
三十多個年頭的人生經驗，每日在報館分秒必爭，回家至少會相夫教子，逗玩寵物。這樣一個女人，在你心目中會是什麼模樣﹖
會是一個頭頭是道、正經八百、賢慧和氣和樂天開朗的人罷﹖
你這樣想就錯了。看太多電視、小說、漫畫…了罷﹖我讙你多些往街上走，交多些朋友，好壞無妨，會比走進大學讀心理更了解人類。
就是有一樣的基因，大腦的優次好惡仍是會有差異的。劃一的生活環境亦不等於培養到一樣性格的兩個人。
我說的這個女人，她因為朋友介紹，帶她囡囡來跟我學琴。她的朋友，是我一個學生，她是一位老師，頭頭是道、正經八百、賢慧和氣、樂天開朗…也快要嫁人了。我以為物以類聚會是天道，人道非必然呢。
錢不說了，因為誤會，我收她太平宜了。反正她會來我家，又是我不用出外工作的時間，我算是省了車費和時間好了。可是來的一個人，跟心目中的預期，差太遠了罷……
上課的時間快到了，這位太太打電話來，問我是否在家。我以為她想確實了時間才上樓…跟著，她說「我想問妳八點半得唔得閒﹖」我說我一會要上街。「我響妳樓下間Karaoke度唱緊K，可唔可以唱完先上來﹖」我跟她說我真的不可以改時間，而且上課少只不過半句鐘。結果她上來了。
開門，是一個染了髮的女人，金一片棕一片的，好不前衛。女兒一跳一跳的進來。我光著腳，她走到廰中央才問我「要脫鞋嗎﹖」。我看她囡囡追著我親愛的花仔走進睡房了，我決定說「不要」了，也決定以後都不用他們脫鞋。自此每次我必定將地氈收起(幸好那次剛好因為抹地收起了)。
囡囡很跳皮，花仔嚇個半死。第一課真的不易過，女兒左顧右盼，當母親的沒有在旁打氣，反而在嚇在罵…課好不容易一邊教一邊哄一邊唱一邊玩的過了。我開始在琴頂放著糖或貼紙。
往後的日子，囡囡都有盡力做到自己本份：在仍有專注力的時候彈了琴做了課堂作業、只是摸摸花仔沒有再追他了、不彈琴也唱唱歌打打拍子。問題是她的母親。這位女仕往後幾乎沒有一天不遲到(我記得只有大既兩天準時罷)，每次都遲一個小時「足鐘」。有兩次是公眾假期，第一次遲兩句鐘(那是剛好我沒節目)，第二次遲兩句半鐘(那天我朋友都等的不耐煩了，就不容氣坐在廳裏看著她們)，那天還有五分鐘下課她便說要走了，結果我還是留她囡囡多彈一會，讓她多羞一會。還有幾次，過了約定時間都個多小時了，她才打電話來說「唉~我們有事來不及了。」不是吧﹖有事也可以打個電話來嘛！說想遲一些來也可以！我等的時間不用花錢也不是有賺的，白白讓光陰溜走﹖誰會付﹖！一個看鐘會看慢一個小時的人居然在報館工作﹖怪不得「老東」的娛樂版只有三數頁還送兩版廣告！對，她告訴我在那裏的娛樂版當編輯。
當天我會因為那些學費，就忍一會，因為我要錢。我現在也要錢，不過我已經決定大不了再在外邊找工作，用不著要肚裏出著火來賺這點少得可憐的錢。我決定她再遲過一小時就把錢退回叫她走。
今天約了香港時間下午六時三十分。我跟自己說過我只會等四十五分鐘，然後上街去。七時十五分，我致電她手提電話，響了好一會結果是留言。電話不聽令我更氣，我告訴她「妳不是正在來我家途中罷，那就不用過來了。請打電話或留短訊告訴我妳的銀行戶口號碼，我退回學費給妳，我不可能教妳(囡囡)了。」就算她不回覆，我都會請朋友把那些錢還到她手中。(謝謝妳啊，Eon！)
既然口訊都留了，那就沒有上街去的必要，我決定留下來看看電視。七時五十分，有人按我明鈴，居然是她！我就拿著一早準備好的錢(當然是很有教養的用信封套著)去開門。我說留了口訊，問她怎麼還來了，她說沒有收到口訊！正好！我就當面告訴她既然住得那麼遠，不如在家近的琴行學好了，而且有工人接送，「我不可能再教了」，並將錢退給她。真的面皮好幾丈厚，她還問我「咁我就妳時間啦。」我心想：不是嘛﹖「就我」﹖難道要我在妳又遲到的時候走到街上或是扮作不在家嗎﹖我一口就說「我不想教」「沒有時間」「不可能」…她仍繼續：「不教了﹖那我的那個朋友妳都不教﹖」「哦，她我還會教，因為她已經學了很久，我會空半個小時給她。」(其實我很想說：「她很守時也很交帶，所以我會教她。」！！)其實我已經騙她說我會做其他工作，好讓她下台了，還真的要我說出事實﹖
同樣的說話說多一遍，她就走了。
別再給我見到她！
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Phuket 2003
It's time for me to tell you my Phuket trip last year. (Ye ... it's been ages ago ... 
)
Here, I've picked some photos for you.
We (Mr. C and I) stayed in JW Marriott Phuket Resort and Spa. It was all wonderful there ...
The JW Marriott is a 6-starred hotel, grand and great. The reception we received was a VIP one, sitting on a big sofa with a refreshing welcome drink, slow and relax. Not everyone receives such a welcoming but we bought the hotel-promotional package.
An enormous complex the hotel is, we took nearly 5 minutes walking from the front desk to our room (a quite "near" one). We then got lost some times later. See the pics? The pool was only a small one, there's a bigger one at the reception and the swimming pool takes over 300 steps walking from one end to the other.
The room we ordered is the smallest and cheapest one. Yet, it has about 510 square feets having a king-sized bed, a 29-inch TV with DVD set, a big work desk, two big armchair, two massage mats, a balcony and bathroom with shower and a bathtub that we can both jump into it. There's a big "window" between the bedroom and the bathroom so that you can jump into the bathtub directly from the bedside!
The hotel owns a beach which is a part of the Sirinath Marine National Park, unpolluted and beautiful. Wow! 
We dined there for a few times: Cusina for Italian food with an "European" playing a guitar singing songs, the hotel delight - the Shrimps evening and the Pool Bar near the swimming pool. The place is no doubt excellant but the food and mood echo in my mind till now. I love Cusina the most, their food is just so tasty!
Local-trip is the most popular programme in Phuket. Of course, we had one, a half-day one. We went snorkeling at a outbound island.
One night, we went to Patong, a small beach-side town. We accessed the internet, shopped and ate there. The food there is much cheaper. 
Staying in "Resort and Spa", having a spa is a must assignment. The package includes a spa sample package. It's a 2-hour full course spa though it's a "sample"!
We stayed for 4 nights. Guess how much? The original price is US$125+ a night during low-season (summer) for the cheapest room (the one we ordered). Yet, we had a 75% discount as we ordered the promotional package. It's a promotion of selling the "vacancies" (not the room) of the resorts of the company. We have to pay a morning on the sales tour for the 75% off. A morning and you save US$375 (HK$3000)! What a nice deal!
We then stayed one night in Bangkok. The night bazaar is a really "must-go"!
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Yeah!
I've just received the reply from the publisher:
I do want to have the deck asap, yet I can wait until Oct. I'll turn to the www if the BB Cats are not sold here in hong Kong then.
By the way, I've just found this blog from Google!!!
Friday, August 13, 2004
This is the cover of the menu book.
It's the "Lovers". Have I got it right?
最新消息！A News
在Amazon找了又找，左看右看(還錯手買了一套…幸好還可以 delete…唉，都不知會不會過了數)之後，發現原來那套 Baroque Bohemian Cats' Tarot 是沒有淨牌賣的…只有套裝或者淨書，但是可以即日寄出。(之前說的deck-set原來是同一個出版商另一套將會在十月發行的牌。)
After a long and detail (on my best) surfing in amazon.com, I've finally reckon that they are currently not selling the deck-set of Baroque Bohemian Cats' Tarot. What they have are kit-set and menu book, yet it can be shipped on the day of purchase. (The deck-set I've viewed was another deck of the same publisher, which will be launched in October.)
但是我實在等不了，所以寄了電郵到出版商，問那些卡會不會在亞洲(怎至香港)售賣。(因為我怕在寄來的途中會撞花包裝盒子…請問有沒有人在 Amazon 訂過書﹖寄到來會完齊無缺嗎﹖)現在只好等一下……
However, I'm just too hot for it and I've just sent an email to the publisher asking whether the deck/kit will be sold in Asia (perhaps, Hong Kong). (I really don't want to risk any damage on the kit cover during shipping. By the way, have you ever order any books from Amazon? Did they arrive "in perfect condition"?) Now, there is nothing but to wait...
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
The scent of garlic
It's been a long time haven't cooked a real meal, not quick noodles, for myself. I had sausages with sweet peas and quick rice noodles.
Slightly boil the sweet peas and sausages*, heat the pan, add some oil, then garlic, salt, stir until it smell good, then add the almost cooked peas and sausages, stir quickly. Ah... the smell and scent of garlic. I love garlic! *Boil the food beforehand: 1, if you want only a little taste of stir-fried style; 2, to prevent over-burning your food before it's well-done.
Some friends say that I'm rather talented at cooking. Yet, I seldom cook for only my ownself. I don't like table-for-one dining. I cook everytime someone's coming to my place. I used to cook for Mr. J. We seldom dine out. Months ago, he started coming less and less, and in return, I cooked less and less. It became a vicious cycle.
I have less enthusiasm to cook for others (except my friends). Now, you know why I still don't cook though having Mr. C and Mr. B.
I've bought pork chop. I'll try it tomorrow.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Baroque Bohemian Cats' Tarot
I've just learnt this from the web:
So lovely! But, I'm now wondering where am I going to buy it?
Buying from the publisher is quicker yet dearer, US$32 + 8 (shipping from USA or Czech Republic, don't know) = $40($311). Amazon is cheaper, US$23.8 + 11.98 (shipping from anywhere god knows) = $35.78($279), but it says that the product is not yet released (the publisher says "by late summer") which means it could take weeks or months for me to get the set. Alida is pricing at Euro$29.95 + 7.75 (shipping from Italy) = Euro$37.7($360), 10 to 15 days.
Ah!!!! I really want the deck!
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Are human heads designed for looking back?
I received a telephone call from Mr. A this afternoon.
May I introduce Mr. A to you first? I met this guy two years ago. He's cute, handsome (he looks like Alex Fong方力申), fit and three and a half years younger than me.
Of course, we've been together as I was "abadoned" by Mr. J that time (still, though). But, he left two months later, with the reason that he was still having his ex in his mind. He told me this on phone two weeks after his disappearance - she was a terrible girl as he described, yet he was just too deep of her. I let go as I took this nothing but an affair. We then had one or two telephone conversations. We didn't contacted since then though he remembered my birthday and sent a message saying "Happy Birthday". Er ... he called up some time last year and seemed to woo me again. I just gave him some fudge and mudge. He left soon silently. (Or course, it'll be another affair if he stayed.)
Mr. A called (again) this spring. This time he stayed. (I might haven't given him enough fudge...) He said I am the kind of his ideal-spoue-mate. Yet, he left after a month or so and, again, I take it as normal. Yes, I did nothing on the relationship. He may be a good partner or even husband. But, his "come back and stay" was too suddent.
He sent me another "Happy Birthday" message this year and then nothing else till the phone call this afternoon. He asked me about my life and whether I had a great birthday. I just said the truth, "So far so good...Nothing special." We soon hang up.
This is just a(nother) little episode in my life. However, I won't mind if he come back and be a good boyfriend or husband who love me from his heart in real.