there's something about ming~

ming has this habit of doing things last minute.
from university papers, paintings (when he used to paint), art shows, friends' wedding slide shows, master thesis, marking papers, report cards, to now homework as a student again. no matter what deadline he has, he will use it to its fullest. but you know what, he always aces them. he always gets A's on those assignments, and he always turns in quality work. i admire him a lot that way, but not the last minute thing. another great thing about ming is that he never gets stressed out (ok, maybe that one time when he had to finish the report cards, proof read my paper, and stayed up all night), whereas i on the other hand, gets stressed out weeks before the assignment is due. also another thing about ming, when he has to start working, he will always start organizing his desk, his room, clean the kitchen, or do laundry before he starts sitting down. this has always been the case. he says by doing that it "gets him in the working mood." so his work time always gets delayed hours afterwards. for example, tonight he mowed the lawn, did some laundry, and went to the bathroom before he sat down. and it was 11pm by the time he settled down. no matter, he will still turn in some great work and get >90% on his assignment (just like his last one, which he did the a.m. morning of the due date).

Very touched~

Had my bridal shower this past Saturday. I can't believe that i actually have so many great friends who care about me and showed up at my party! It was literally EVERYONE that i know in Toronto made it to my party. What a great turn-out!!! The party was great, thanks to the organizers Helen and Jamie. Helen made sure the night went smoothly with lots of events and Jamie was a great host at preparing food and drinks to make everybody comfortable. Jamie also did a lot of organization, starting from the invitations(coz i asked for it) to making sure there is enough alcohol for all the guests and herself. LOL... The night was so much fun, i think all of us are so busy with our own lives now and the girls never get to hang out without their partners anymore; so i thought it was such memorable time. I felt like a movie star that night, although i don't normally like to be the centre of attention. I just want to say THANKS, GIRLS!!! I had a fabulous time, nothing beats the party we had. :) by the way, jamie is next~

yesterday was 30 days till our wedding. and ming knows that i've been under a lot of stress lately, so he bought me flowers. how sweet~ :)

Last night we finally gave in and turned on the AC at home. Ming and i have been trying to avoid using it because we think it is such a waste to cool a 4-bedroom with a basement house just for two people. But last night i couldn't stand it anymore. I slept so well overnight, my face wasn't like a grease pan when i woke up this morning, which was nice. Today was cool though, hope this lasts...

grapes/raisins have a lot of Iron. blood also contains lots of iron (normally). i was eating a ~1 yr old Raisin Bran cereal, and i tasted "blood"~~ ooohhh....

Today i had a realization.

The notion of men being superior than women still exsits around us. I am sure that this thinking is comman in many places of the world, but it sort of came to a surprise when i felt it so close to me.
On one occasion with lots of friends around, i probably asked ming to do something more serious instead of screwing around, a friend commented "oh, i guess i know who wears the pants in this house." On another occastion, we were playing games with friends, i was winning or ahead of ming, so i told him that he could "organize my chips for me" and that was apparantly wrong. "Wow, if she does that in front of all your friends, it must be worse at home!" HOLY!!! No matter if i was joking or not (because i was actually serious about asking him to help me), what is wrong with "a man organizing a woman's money?" Absolutely nothing!!! Why can men scold at women or nag about them in the public while the other way around makes women "revolutional or untraditional." Maybe my tone of voice is not the nicest sometimes, but i truly don't believe in trying to save the men's face in the public (i welcome objections). Long as we both respect each other and we can "stand each other" there is no need to be afraid and think that men should be treated as "the man" when there are other people around. I have to say that ming is a great guy and probably the best thing that could have ever happened to me in my life (besides my parents and sisters) but i wouldn't have stayed with him if he believes that i should treat him as "my lord" when we are in front of others. We live in a 21st century. Men do things for women just as women do things for men. I clean the house not because i am a woman, i clean because i can't stand the dirtiness (not that i have been cleaning a lot). And i do the laundry or do the dishes because i know he doesn't have time to do it and i love him so i help him out around the house. Ming brings home dinner not because he was asked to do it, he does it because he loves me and he wants me to have a good meal. There is no such thing as who wears the pants in the house or "outside the house" anymore. Women and men are equal, they are the same privately and publicly. And if the couple seem to be doing well. regardless of what people think, other people should not barge in to comment about it. 姊姊妹妹站起來!!!

So we've finally sat down and talked about our wedding budget. I think we've always knew that this wedding is going to cost a fortune, but it finally hit us today(more to ming than me, coz i did the budget sheet months ago). It is interesting when the final budget came out to be 3 times the original budget, hahaha.... Was I being unrealistic back then or are we simply spending too much money. I have to tell though, that 1/3 of the budget is accomodations for the friends and family. I've learned not to stress over money. I know that i have had a fairly decent comfortable life that i never had to worry about money; but i still try to save whenever i can. But recently i have learned that money can save me a lot of troubles. Sometimes trying to save a small amount of money may end up costing me more, in monetary terms or other ways.
Anyways, a small wedding is turning into a big one (money wise). OMG~ I'm glad that i didn't try to spend less at Aritzia since it is so minimal compare to the budget.

I think this blogging biz has slowed down a lot these days. No one is really updating their blogger. However, i still check other people's sites once in a while, only to find the same old entry from weeks ago.

The summer is here, what have we done so far? Still got a s**t load of work to do for our wedding, but we are such slackers that i know things won't get done until last minute. My gown isn't here yet, ahhhh!!!! Scary!

Had a nice relaxing Canada weekend, didn't do any work at all. Ming pulled his back again. I did do a few things tho, met up with an old time friend, went to a baby shower, went picknicking with friends, and played board game last night. It was a nice weekend.

summer days

By the end of tonight (hopefully coz i'm still working on my papers) one of my two summer courses will be finished. Time has really gone by so quickly. In less than a month our friend will be delivering, less than 2 months, I am getting married, and less than 3 months i will be in taiwan. Pffff.... Scary!!!

I saw some photos of Chloe today on my sister's blog (finally, after so many weeks of malfunctioning of the site) and Chloe has grown up so big!!! She is seriously a big girl now. Pffff.... Scary!!!

We got 13 reply cards back for our wedding, out of the 90 that we sent out, hahaha... Now there are confirmed 80 people attending the wedding. How the list grew from 60 to 80, i don't know. :) The seating plan is done. Yay. At this time I am more concerned for my school work than wedding plans. One thing at a time.

random thoughts (during my slacking off from paper)

ming is snoozing away right now on the couch. he fell asleep right after dinner tonight, coz he didn't sleep at all last night, trying to finish his report card. he also told me some stuff about education and his kids in the class and i think he is doing some crucial job in the society, but being a "trying to do it all" type of person, he is bound to be disappointed coz sometimes it is just out of a single person's hands. there are too many other factors, like the whole government/insitutional system or societal factors that affect our jobs. i think being a teacher is just as hard as being a nurse. both physically and mentally challenging. i think these two professions should get paid the most in this world! but then i think about those farmers who grow the food that we eat, those clean our water at water plants so we can drink, and those police who protect us so we feel safe, and many many more, so i guess no one should be paid more than the other. therefore, maybe communism is better~ but then again, i don't know much about communism, hahaha...

no more basketball

Well... that's it for NBA this year.
Tony and I will go our separate ways now as he goes on to marry Eva and I go on marrying ming... Just jokking, ming!!!
MVP of the playoff. Well deserved. Eva jumped onto Tony after the game finished, such a sweet moment; she cried when Tony was awarded the MVP.
They will get married on 07/07/07, the luckiest day. How I wish I was a star~
Go Raptors!!??

I love HGTV

I watch a lot of HGTV. I probably spend over 50% of my TV time on this channel. I have to say that for those who likes or interested in designing shows, you gotta watch Sarah Richardson's show. She is now my all time favorite designer!!! I watched her show when she was just a young little non-famous girl doing this show called "Room Service" where she showed a lot of crafty idea and projects. Then she started her own designing show called "the Design Inc." And now she has a new show called "Sarah's House" and it is a not only beautiful eye pleasing show, but also an entertaining one. You see all the construction/renovation challenges that even an experienced designer faces! In fact, not only one designer, but many designers, coz there are other designers on the show as well. I used to like Debbie Travis ( I still like her, just not as much), but SR is now my idol. Her house, her clients all have beautiful places! So envious.
Then my next favorite kinda show is those British real estate shows. There was one episode that they even went to Italy to find properties!
Yeah, so that's all. If you have the channel, watch it!
http://www.hgtv.ca/sarahshouse/default.aspx

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On my drive home from work last night, while i was passing by the airport that i always drive by on the highway, i suddenly saw this jet taking off, attached to it was a banner, a very long banner that says "___ WILL YOU MARRY ME" in red lettering. Oooohhhh, how sweet~ I wonder where the girl was at that time? And i hope she saw it, coz that banner was only flying for like 20 seconds then it fell off! LOL...

Canadian dollar hits 94 cents against US dollars today, amazing...

Lately I'm feeling very sentimental~

I heard that a few days ago ming's parents came to my house in Taipei to "lift kiss." During our conversation over what happened during that day, my dad was really proud of the work that he and my mom have put into cleaning up our house. He sent me a few (actually, many) photos of different spots in the house to show me how tidy it was. I was really proud and touched by what they have done. This is my parents you're talking about, two people who strive on clutterness. They did an awesome job, the place was spotless (well, I couldn't tell about the details, and I bet they would not be up to my standard, since my parents are old now and have bad visions), it must have taken them 'days' to do that! Seriously, coz our first floor is big and there is tons of stuff!!! They did this to protect me, to show respect to ming's family, and to honour the event. I am overwhelmed by their effort. This really makes me think even more (lately I have been thinking a lot about this) about living close to my parents so I could help them out around the house and take care of them (who knows if I'll do it once I do live close to them). Coz honestly, they are getting old and I feel like I should spend more time with them. Their house is big but they are not hiring anyone for help to save money (for what I don't know; me I guess). This summer when I go back, I will be cleaning up again. That's the least I could do, once every so many "years." Thank you mom and dad. :..)
This is only one section of the first floor. You can see the many things hiding behind the table. The last time I went back, the table was full of stuff, with tons of more stuff on the floor. I bet that those things are just stuffed in mel's room now.

it's gettingg hot out there~

The weather here has been crazy. Last friday/saturday it was freaking cold, then yesterday it was 30∘C!!! The humidity index was 34∘C! Something's wrong with this world... Global warming is a big problem. If we are experiencing such drastic changes in temperature at this time, imagine what it will be like 100 years from now. Probably 100 times crazier. Went shopping yesterday, picked up some shirts from bluenotes. They have this theme going on right now, about supporting the environment and keep it green. So i got both ming and i one shirt. Don't know if any of these shirts' profit is going anywhere tho, oh well, at least the shirts look nice.

Wedding matter

So the wedding guest list has been growing at an unexpected rate. Originally we thought it was going to be a small wedding, like 50-60 people, now the confirmed number is 70 with 20 possible/maybe coming. Holy... my friends, it will be a really "close" dinner for you. Everyone will know each other very well at the end of it. ~.^ All thanks to ming's "surprise, i have more friends that you know of!" There will be no space for dancing, which is fine (I think). So people, just eat and drink up, coz there will be nothing else to do! Wahaha...

Nash is the best.

So both of my favorite NBA teams are eliminated from the playoff.
I need to look for a new team to root for now.
Ming will probably say to me "you're so not loyal to your team!"
But i think no matter what happens to my favorite teams, the playoff has to go on and i might as well pick a side, or there is no fun watching the games.
BTW, the bruise on Nash's leg is really something. The scar on his nose is still there. He got beat up so bad in this series and got no justice served. Ahy~

My life is pathetic. It is 11:50pm and I am surving on the internet aimlessly and refuse to go to bed. There isn't even any websites that I want to visit or anyone that I can chat with. I just sit infront of the computer, feeling my aching left shoulder due to prolonged sitting at the desk and typing. How pathetic~

今天的水果

草莓+
巧克力(過期的瑞士巧克力^.~)

More like a dessert.

小時候的培根三明治

今天開始scan小時候的照片, 勾起了很多回億。 看著爸爸當時對我有多疼愛,還看到媽媽對著我笑的表情彷彿和現在mel & chloe 的interaction一模一樣。　小時候我是每天由爸爸送上學，從幼稚園到國中，因為每天都睡得很晚．還記得爸爸有用過車子，摩托車，腳踏車載我。不只有我，還有我兩個姊姊。　很多年爸爸是先載我姊去回來再載我去上課因為我們上課時間不同，也想讓我多睡一會。　載完了女兒去上課，爸爸就回去開診所。　現在想起來覺得爸爸真是個dedicated person。　當然還有辛苦的媽媽也要早起幫我們整理和做我不吃的早餐。 記得有一次我和爸爸說我想明天早上買美而美的一個叫＂培根三明治＂因為今天看到同學在吃．爸爸說好，為了讓我這個營養不良的小孩，雖然小時候家裡經濟還不是很好，通常都是家裡自備早餐。隔天爸爸騎著腳踏車帶我到路線會經過的美而美，點了那很貴的培根三明治（好像是＄３５，當時算很貴了，早餐而已）。 不知道為什麼那天等了很久，都快遲到了。 爸爸覺得很奇怪為什麼那麼久也一直著急。 等到終於好了我快快跳上車爸爸快馬加鞭的騎去學校。 我那天其實對爸爸很不好意思。 雖然那培根三明治還真的蠻好吃的，不過因為速度太慢和太貴，那也變成我唯一的一次在外面買早餐。 為了記念那經驗，我今天就做了培根三明治。 還是像那第一次的好吃。 謝謝爸爸戴我去買培根三明治，我永遠會記得那經驗的。

Went on some crazy shoe shopping spree... 我的戰力品... ^o^

2 weeks recap

so i stayed home for almost a week last week. i was home all day sunday waiting for our couch to arrive, then we went out for dinner. after dinner, i did not leave the house (except one late night drive through to MacDonald's on Wednesday, but i still didn't go outside coz i went straight from house to car then back) till Friday 6pm!!! What did i do for those 5 days? I was recuperating from the cold and finishing my final 2 papers. I finished writing by Thursday night. Then i spent the weekend playing. When ming finished proof reading my papers, it was this Monday already and i wanted to hand it in the following day when i go to class. But we had a weird weather on Monday, some extreme wind, rain, thunderstorm, and power went out in our town! I thought the power was gonna come back in an hour or so, but it was out for over 5 hours! I couldn't finish my papers until the power came back, ppfff... good thing the power came back around 11pm, and i was able to finish fixing my papers before i went to bed. The traffic that day was crazy, all the traffic lights were out, and many stores had no power. The wind was insane.
So i handed in the papers on Tuesday, and started my summer course the same day. I did not get any break at all, which sucked. So after class, i went and bought 2 pairs of shoes to relieve my frustration, and since i worked yesterday, i went to buy another pair today! Hahaha.... i have a problem. Hey, one of them was my wedding shoes, so it doesn't count. So that's my plain and "eventful" 2 weeks recap. Oh, just thought i will add this, we ate in everyday, except weekend, and the day that power went out (i was actually gonna cook that night, i washed and cut all the food already, but couldn't cook them coz we use electric stove), and yesterday coz i worked and ming bought dinner. I am finding eating in very relaxing and more healthy, but i still don't like cooking or doing all the dishes all the time.

臘腸飯

今天看到什麼小米筒的website, 看到她做的臘腸飯，覺得我的original recepie被偷了。 所以我決定來做我自己的website on 臘腸飯。
準被要做時才發現，darn, 家裡已經有作天剩下的白飯ne,而且冰箱還有不知到放了多久的稀飯（應該還不算久因為是我生病時煮的，現在還在病），所以不想再煮新的飯。 不過我不會讓這小插曲影響我要做的決心，所以我improvise, 把它變成炒飯。eh, don't worry, it is just as easy as my original 臘腸飯。把蒜頭，芹菜，青江菜，臘腸切成小小段，越小越好。熱鍋，油, 把蒜炒香，加入臘腸， (look closely, 臘腸看起來有點像小梅花)炒到臘腸半熟時把飯倒進去炒到even, 再加入兩樣青菜。(Cindy會說菜好像太多了，don't worry, it's not.
等到菜熟時就好啦！ 可以加些甜醬油 before completion to add to taste (Jamie會說no, no, no!). 在此我也要給讀者一個見意（小米筒說什麼用培根來代替臘腸，我覺得太油啦）如過沒有臘腸可用“香腸“代替。 ~.^
成果：感想：
１．煮飯就煮飯還要照相，真累。而且還要用很多unnecessary的碗，i'm all about efficiency, man.
2． 還不難吃。
３．因該不會再做下一個entry on cooking了。因為打中文太累啦。
４．小米筒真強，i give it to you.

i'm wishing for a white summer

So we finally got our new sofa! After 8 months of waiting, or quoting my good friend jamie's verse "懷胎十月也不過如此".... Yeah, it's been a tough process. Ever since the 1st store that went bankrupt, i have started to doubt any service that requires a "deposit." Unfortunately all the services that we are having for our wedding REQUIRE deposits! Like the reception place, my gown, the photographer (~50% of the total price), the cake, invitations (full amount), and flowers.

Thankfully our friends came over to help move the old couch down the basement. Even the professionals who delievered the new ones told us to just forget it, that it wouldn't get through the stairway. Those delievery men were odd. They were in suits, shiny dress shoes, and at the end when ming was nice enough to give them tips, the guy said "5 dollars only?!" Hey, $5 per person and they were here for less than 30 min, that's some easy money! Consider the fact they ripped us off from the delievery fee, giving them tips was generous.
Anyways... the sofas are just fab. Ming keeps asking me if it's okay to sit on it, or sit on it a certain way. :P To me, they are just sofa. Great looking sofa that happen to be comfortable, so i will enjoy them very much~
Now we have these fab sofas, we feel like totally fixing up the room, which means more $$$ spending. Nah... i don't think so.
Since we are still trying to pay off the sofa.

Ahhhh~~

I had a scary dream last night.
The day of my wedding, haven't bought my shoes, the flower girl's basket, ring pillow, so i was running around in a complex with some stores looking for things, coz the stores were about to close!
Then when i saw all the bridesmaids were walking down the aile, i wasn't even dressed in my gown, nor are my make-up and hair done!
When all was finished, ming asked me what i thought of the wedding, i broke down in tears and said "everything was wrong, nothing was perfect like i wanted it..."
Many more things went wrong, but i can't remember today now.
pphfff... good ting it was just a dream.

An on-going | growing list

A list of all the things I want to own right now.
mini cooper S
new kitchen
balenciaga purse
laptop
new house
that's it for now.
i'm sure the list will grow bigger as time goes.

*If only life could be this way everyday*

After a 2 weeks of stressful life, i decided to give myself a treat today (well, actually started yesterday coz i went out shopping).
Today's morning class was another $*%@)&%(+# lecture. "We do not speak the language, language speaks us." It takes a thinker to say this kinda crap. I have had to endure this kinda talk for over 3 months now. Treated myself to a nice starbucks coffee after that class (i usually go with Tim's coz it's cheap). The afternoon class was a treat too, coz it was nice and relax (coz i didn't have to present!) Then i handed in my 15 page paper, pwhff, what a relief. That's the end of this course. Doesn't matter what i get on this paper, it's too late to think about that now. So after class, i decided to visit the downtown core, an underground place that i discovered last week, which had sooo many cute little stores. Bought some stuff for friends and myself, then i treated myself (again) to a JugoJuice, a juice that was too big for me to finish (that is when i miss ming ~.^) Ahhh.... what a nice day (except it rained and i didn't have my umbrella)!!!

今天滿腦都是D.T.的歌.
i just found out this thing, wikipedia on David Tao!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tao
There's also one for Jay and Lee Hom!

D.T. was in the house!

今天去看了David Tao的演唱會. 還不賴!!! 他真得很會唱. 粉絲們也很坄入.

回家路上開車經過一個房子看到有一群不太像警察, 但全身武裝, 防彈衣, 帽子, 槍, 按住一個人, 然後闖入那房子. 朋友就快速通過. What a night!

阿拉丁的飛毛毯到了！
All the way from Turkey.
Thanks guys, i love it.
什麼時後神燈會到哩?

something i thought about when i couldn't sleep the other night....

i flipped and turned for >4 hrs in bed,
and this is what came to mind...
有時間睡是一種享受，
睡的著是一種幸福； ＃.＃
有機會學習，寫作業是一種享受，
寫的出作業是一種幸福 ＞.＜
吃是一種享受，
可以感覺到餓是一種幸福；
能說話是一種享受，
說的出有識慧得話是一種幸福；
玩是一種享受，
玩的勁性是一種幸福；
有朋友是一種享受，
有知心的朋友是一種幸福；
寫blog是一種享受，
有人care to read my blog是一種幸福；

人想要享受很簡單，想要得到幸福卻不容易。
你還能想到有什麼更多的examples ne?

無解

To my dear friend:
今天我把妳blogger所有的 posts重讀了一次，從去年二月到現在．．．想知道我到底什麼時後失去了妳。
我想念從前的妳。 什麼時後妳才會 “回到過去“ 的妳？ 也許never．．．you mentioned 周杰倫得這首歌 in one of your blogs. this is why i love you, coz you love Jay too. :)
不管我在這寫什麼糊言亂語，妳也不會知道，因為妳也不念我的blog no more.
哎, am i responsible for any of this?

Invasion~

yo yo check it out yo~ this is DJ MixMaster Ming checkin' in for YaYa da sisterhood~ No one in the house yo, but the spirit of Ya still strong. Be strong, brothers and sisters, you fav. hostess will be back and bloggin' in style in no time~

peace.

Recently I've realized that blogging is a luxury. And i do not have the luxury for that these days...
Sorry.

For ming

Since ming is so lazy at updating his blog, I will write one for him here.
He got his teacher qualification evaluation back yesterday. After I think 3 months of waiting, it finally arrived. They gave him the highest level of qualification a teacher can get. I guess those BFA and MFA paid off eh?!
Congratulations, ming!!!

00.0

So this is what's happening in Ontario.
That means no gas available.
People have a real sense of what it feels like living without gasoline. Is that how it's gonna be in a hundred years when there's no more gas left?
So I've been staying home, minimizing gas usage. I mean, people can still get gas, just at a high price of >$1/L. The other night when ming and i went to get gas (at one of the few gas stations left that still has gas) they only had regular gas left. Even though ming's gas drinking 4Runner can only take supreme gasoline, he had no choice but to fill up regular.
So i am staying home, bored out of my mind (don't want to study), but i guess this is a good time for the enviornment coz less gas, less polution.

baby talk

There was this news last night: women may increase their chance of getting pregnant if they consume lots of high fat dairy, ie. ice cream. Notice the word MAY. Even though the study was done in a scientific way, there was still many shortcomings of the research, so nothing is really proven yet. So the news went on and talked about how women may start eating ice cream now because of this finding. They even interviewed a fertility clinic. This triggered my thinking. Do people nowadays want to have kids because they still feel like they need to pass on their genes/傳宗接代, or because they simply want kids. Will men still choose a woman if she is infertile? Looking at some stories that older men choose women who are much younger (like the playboy guy who just married a 27yr old woman), isn't part of that because younger women represent youth and fertility?
I do not believe in it, because people already have a hard time finding their mate, so don't think they would give up a relationship just because the woman cannot bare his child. Saying that, there are also cases where there is pressure coming from the male side of the family wanting the women to have kids. And admit it, you and I have all heard of that story....

新年不是過了嗎?

昨天和朋友中午去吃dim sum, 吃不到一半突然餐廳出現了舞龍舞獅. 好久沒看過舞龍舞獅了. 不過從小到大都很怕也很討厭舞獅的聲音. 尤其在一個小小的餐廳裡那聲音實在是太吵哩. 連小孩都被嚇到哭摀奢耳朵. 我們也是被吵得都吃不下. 整個process至少長達40分有吧... 不過看那些人賣力的演出,覺得還蠻辛苦的. 尤其是做尾巴的那個要彎腰全程, 還要把前面那個抬起來. 他們有輪班就是了. 昨天其中有一個男得長的還蠻帥的, 我和在坐得女生朋友說, 結果ming就說"我們要不要請那位男的過來坐啊?" 哈哈哈, ming 有時還真風趣. ^.~

紅豆湯

煮了我最喜歡的紅豆湯. 我覺得煮得不錯因為紅豆顆粒都還在(用慢鍋煮的), 且味道也很不賴. 只是給小銘喝了後他竟然說他喜歡喝沙沙的... 我說那你乾脆喝"紅豆沙湯" 好了... 他說我奇怪... *.*||

almost "blind"

It is official... one of my eyes is over 1000º
I've been seeing double images lately and night vision is a problem, so i finally went to see an eye doctor. I don't know what i would have done if i don't have health insurance (i only have insurance coz i'm a student now), probably put it off even longer bah.
I think it's time to look into the option of lasix eye treatment. @.@

我不睡~~ (it's a nice song by 古巨基)

早上６點鐘，醒著。 哎一定是昨晚喝太多茶了。
既然睡不著就來寫個blog吧。為什麼不想想essay topic 呢，Ｊack？
昨晚２點多才睡，翻到３點才睡著。 ６點又省來真是命苦。

就來說說 how i spent my chinese new year bah...
i spent my chinese new year hugging my toilet bowel and slept the whole 2 1/2 day that felt like years.
i must have gotten some bugs from work, after sleeping for the whole day on Friday, i woke up saturday 5am and puked several times. i think i won't be having lasagna any time soon.
this is why you should keep your toilet as clean as possible (thanks to Lysol disinfectant wipes to make this possible) because you never know when you will be hugging it and if it is disgusting, it will only worsen your nausea.
(this message is especially directed towards my other housemate members)
so from Friday (after dropping ming off the airport and shoveling snow) till end of Sunday, i had: 1 lasagna (which i threw up), 1 bottle of water, 1 apple juice, 1 fruite cup, 1 bowel of congee (thank god for Helen and her mom), 2 Advil (for fever!), and 1 Gravol up my bum (thank god for Helen and her mom again). Helen was my life savior. If it weren't for her, i would be dead by now coz i would have threw up like crazy and got so dehydrated. i even lost weight (even though ming doesn't think so). i recall going to the bathroom less than 4 times in these 3 days. what a nightmare.

i thank helen and her mom for delievering food and medicine to me even when they are so busy and going through a rough time. i also thank my friends who called and asked how i was doing. thank you for your 關心 and 慰問. You guys know that i'm not a crying baby, so you called me to see how i was doing. I am lucky to have all of you guys as my friend.

Now the symptoms have gone away, ming has come back, and i am feeling much better now. (besides still cannot eat large amount of food at once and cannot sleep today ~.^ ) Time to start work again. I thank you God for giving me back my health.

weekly blogger?

this week's update= lots of things have happened.
there was a double murder case happened just around the corner of our place on monday. it was kinda creepy because the police blocked off the whole street onto the big road with yello tape all over, and lots of news reporters were at the scene too. choppers were circling above our neighborhood all morning. even till now there is a police car and a big truck that says "forensic crime scene ..." on the side of the truck outside of the crime scene 24/7. everyday when i come home i have to see that, kinda disturbing. turned out that it was a 四腳戀.... ok, maybe not, but a rather complicated situation. husband killed his wife and his wife's boyfriend's wife inside his house. what kinda wacko person is that......>.<

tuesday i went to school. thank god GO train is not on strike.

a snow storm has hit us on Wednesday-valentine's day. we got over 20cm of snow, where cities west of us got close to 50cm! i just spent over an hour shoveling our driveway and walk way to our door. i hate snow. i drove 2 hours and was 1 hour late for work that day. but i was just glad that i got there safely. felt so sorry to the nurse who waited for me to give me report. i heard that there was a mom on our ward whose best friend's husband drove in to deliever some food for the mom, but he got into a car accident on the highway his way back home and was killed... how sad is that....
despite that, ming and i still went out for dinner that night. it was a nice dinner at milestone. the food was excellent.

Thursday i worked, again! wow... at night, i watched grey's anatomy. for people who don't watch the show, u'r missing big. it's such a great show. last night's episode was so 震撼!!!

went to the airport with ming this morning at 4:30am. he's gone for the weekend. i will be alone for chinese new year. that's okay, it gives me time to catch up some school work.

it's been a cold winter. ever since i came back from taiwan, the weather has been pretty bad. yesterday was -20 degrees and -30 with windchill!

i pray for spring to come soon....

weekly $#$*%^@$*&

School is hard... it really makes me wonder if i can handle it. Maybe my mom was right, why get married this year? Why not after school is finished? I was probably afraid that i would never be able to finish school hence never be married. What's the rush anyways? Ming doesn't seem to be in any sort of time-contraint anyways. He is getting sick of me asking him about the invitations already (well, the truth is i have been pretty annoying about this issue). And i don't remember where i read it, but they say it's a bad year for me to get married. Why? i don't remember. But who cares about that.
I just want to be free... free of school, free of work, free of worry for no $. Life cannot be perfect eh...

楊伯伯 1928-2007

楊伯伯 is my best friend Helen's father. He passed away peacefully last Monday. He was an incredible men with little words, big smiles, and a big heart. He treated me like his own daughter. He is now at a better place with God and watching over us. Helen did an incredible job at taking care of the visitation and funeral. Many people came to show their respect and everything went beautifully and smoothly. I felt really sad to see Helen going through such pain and so much crying. Fortunately she has a bunch of great friends who helped her going through this. They were such supportive friends. I was very honoured to be part of the funeral service and stood beside Helen when she needed me. I will miss you very much, 楊伯伯, please go meet my grandfather, have some tea and some chat, you guys would make good friends.

Male blood vs. Female blood

This just in... so men's blood is better than women's blood?! After a close read of this health report, this is somewhat correct but not entirely true. The statement only applies to "plasma transfusion." So some of you may wonder what's the difference between plasma and blood? Let me give you a brief lesson here (coz i don't know a lot about it either, hence, brief): once blood is donated/collected, it is divided into red blood cells, plasma, and platelet (helps u stop bleeding, the clotting factor). Appearantly, women who have been pregnant develop this antibody to their babies' foreign father cells, and if this blood is given to some people who happen to react to this antibody, they will develop horrible reaction to it and develop serious complications to their lungs, which they may die from it.
What a ground breaking discovery!
Even though plasma is not often used in transfusions, it is still important. So men, go give blood.
This may make people think that women's blood is not wanted anymore, in fact, the opposite is true. Because plasma is seldom used in whole for transfusions, most of the supply is used to produce other important life-saving blood products, like the immunoglobulins (we give this on my ward all the time). Therefore, while men's plasma is being saved for people who needs whole plasma transfusion, more is needed from women to make up for this loss. Was this clear?
There's a new learned lesson everyday.

So i've finally uploaded the photos that i took during my taiwan trip. Go take a look at them at my other website bah~
http://jacklynsu.spaces.live.com/

Taiwan is a 好地方

我很懶... too lazy to type in Chinese, even though everything that i wanted to write in this blog was thought out in Chinese. I am just gonna do a translating job here.

Just came back from Taiwan. Very sleepy and tired. I'm old, a 24-hour flight really took a lot out of me. It's been two days and i'm still tired from it. Maybe today's school has something to do with it as well. I walked a lot today from subway to classrooms and then back and forth between the bookstore and 2 different copy centres. I don't understand why the prof would put her readings at a copy centre all the way up on Bloor street when her office and the majority of our classes are on College street?! So dumb... it was cold walking that far distance carrying over 5kg of books.

So I'm back..........................
Back to T.O., back to reality. 10 days in Taipei flew by in a blink. I'm singing the post Taiwan blues now~
I've always wondered why i get so unfamiliar with my own home back in taipei. I forgot how different bathrooms are back there, it perplexed me why the house needs sweeping every single day, i didn't know where anything was placed at, i didn't even know how to dispose garbage. Then it hit me. I've only lived in that house for 4 years! For heaven's sake i've lived in the house i'm living in for over 3 years, lived at 362A Johnson for 3 years, and the house in surrey for 5 years! Looking back, i've been all over the place in my life and the time i've spent in the taipei home was really minimal compared to the others! That really surprised me, coz i've always considered taipei my "home home," not surrey, not kingston, not toronto.
I still love taiwan very much. It took me a few days to get used to it, but i quickly blend in and lived like a local. The food and the shopping definitely helped. ;) But i loved the efficiency of taiwan, ie. #1 i was sick for over a week before i went back, and the symptoms did not seem to improve with time, but as soon as i took my dad's medicine, 3 days was all it took and everything was fine. No more coughing, no more phlegm or sniffles, amazing. ie. #2 there are lines for ppl to line up at subways, i love that, and ppl directing the crowd. there's also policemen directing traffics at major intersections. Taipei ppl know their traffic is bad therefore they have these police helping (unlike Toronto). ie. #3 there is even ppl directing customers lining up to buy 雕魚燒! Another thing i love about Taiwan is that Taiwanese ppl try to do their job very politely, even if their job demand assertiveness; unlike Canadians or Americans especially, the two concepts will never go together. You either be mean/rude to get your way, or you be soft/push over and lose your voice. This really annoys me. Like the lady who worked at the airport at the baggage conveyer belt yelled at me for standing there, wanting to see that my luggages actually get sent into the little hole.
Anyhow, taiwan is a beautiful nation, the culture is unique and the ppl are friendly. Even in a busy city like Taipei, you can still find caring and compassion, i imagine that there will be more in smaller cities throughout the country.
I can't wait to go back again, i miss it already (but i don't miss the 蹲式馬桶, it's just gross) and i miss my family a lot. You can probably guess that this is pms talking again...

Merry Christmas!

Honestly, ever since I heard that Takko's out on the blogger biz, I didn't feel like writing anymore. Coz what's the point?! Ming doesn't write his blog until it reaches 3 weeks mark, and i don't know anyone else who keep up his/her blog as dedicated as Takko. Plus i've been sick staying at home, so haven't really had anything interesting happened to me besides our dinner on CN tower on Saturday. So I've been basically staying at home since last Thursday! Went out for dinner on Saturday, this cold has really killed my days off. I wanted to do so much but instead i had to stay home. There is a little part of me that's glad i'm sick, coz it gives me excuse to lie in bed all day. I am loosing some money making opportunities tho, I planned to work for a few days before going back home so i can make a few extra bucks for shopping. ;) That's okay, coz i'll be doing lots of that when i am in Taipei. Can't wait to go back, but also scared coz that means one step closer to the new school semester. This will probably be the last blog that I'll write this year (or maybe not). Merry christmas and Happy new year to everyone!!!

The dating game

So apperantly I am in one of the top 5 female professions that are "datable." But i guess nurses cannot compete with Models or "air host" since they have to be pretty in order to do that job. As for nurses? There are some ugly nurses out there...
Both male and female doctors are the most desirable professions by both sexes. Really? Men like their girlfriends to be doctors? That's just against the tradition, i thought men don't like women with autonomy?
THE DATING GAME
WHICH PROFESSIONS WOMEN THINK ARE DATABLE:
Doctor 92%
Architect 89%
Lawyer 89%
Property Agent 89%
Fire Fighter 86%
Accountant 78%
Pilot 78%
Teacher 78%
Athlete 72%
Builder 72%
Musician 72%
Nurse 69%
Social Worker 61%
Dancer 58%
Model 58%
Plumber 58%
Artist 56%
Sales Assistant 50%
Bartender 47%
Air Host 42%
Politician 31%
WHICH PROFESSIONS MEN THINK ARE DATABLE:
Doctor 92%
Model 92%
Air Host 88%
Dancer 88%
Musician 88%
Nurse 88%
Property Agents 87%
Sales Assistant 84%
Teacher 84%
Artist 80%
Bartender 80%
Athlete 76%
Lawyer 72%
Architect 68%
Accountant 60%
Social Worker 60%
Pilot 44%
Plumber 44%
Fire Fighter 28%
Politician 20%
Builder 16%
Source: FastLife and Lavalife
Vancouver Sun

星期一 Activity (還有寫工課啦)

今天聽了楊乃文的新專輯X2. 很不錯聽喔, 而且第11首歌還有小驚喜哩, 嚇了我一跳.



晚上煮了排骨海帶凍豆腐湯, 好喝又健康! (好像很不要臉說自己煮的東西好吃, 呵呵呵)

step 1 2 3

This is the third time that i've changed the date of our wedding... let's try to keep it at this date now please.... going crazy here. Next step (or steps), find florist, cake maker, and photography (coz all have to be arranged on the same date). Maybe i should start looking for my gown too? At the mean time, i should finish my two final papers first then worry about the wedding. One step at a time. No need to panic.

天氣多變化ㄚ~

This is more like the real projection of what next 7 days of weather looks like. Lets get the story right here.

pillowcases and children?

What the heck has this world become of? I was out shopping for some pillowcases. I could not find anything less than $20 per two! They are just pillowcases! Where two pieces of rectangular fabrics get sewed together! Give me a sewing machine and i can make you 10 for under $10. I hate coming home empty handed....

Everything has become so expensive nowadays. I had a thought that maybe i should not have any children coz i won't be able to support him/her. I can barely support myself... I still want to buy all those nice things for myself, not for another person. But maybe this "another person" will feel like part of me that when i buy for him/her, it will feel like buying for myself? Who knows....

I love Grey's Anatomy

If you haven't seen Grey's Anatomy, you should really do that. It is a great show!!! I don't know why, but it's just great. It's got the cheesy love-hate relationships between men and women, and it's also got some interesting medical cases (mostly exaggerated tho, but that makes it more like TV and not real life, which i like). And i just realized that there's a character in it whose name is the name i want for my future daughter, it's "Izzie." She's an interesting character as well, and she's quite pretty. I can't believe that she's only 27 in real life as opposed to Meredith who is 37! Oh, and Mc.Dreamy... He is just tooooooo dreamy....*.*

"Jolin最愛現場音樂精選"

Late night reading and "Jolin最愛現場音樂精選": a good combination. It starts off with some fast pace music to get you started, then it eases off to soft light music to keep you awake but not interfere with your reading too much. That's my pt. of view though. Try it.

數大就是美

it finally snowed~

We finally decided to rake the leaves of our front lawn yesterday afternoon. It was freaking cold... my hands were frozen so i had to bust out my gloves, my cute pink gloves... our neighbor must think i'm such a princess, wearing pink gloves and my fancy coat raking leaves. It was so cold coz it was about to snow! We did not know that, and good thing we did it before it snowed or else our leaves would be barried under and kill our grass when snow melts/spring comes. I don't think we did an amazing job, coz there's still tons here and there, but we ran out of bags and it was getting dark/cold. I bet our lawn will have bald spots next year. :S Because of this stupid lawn work, it took up ming's afternoon, so he couldn't get his work done and stayed up all night. You still want a house, ming?

sad...

總統說，政府對蔣家提供的禮遇和尊崇，已是第二代、第三代，大家習以為常，並不認為有什麼問題，但現任總統寓所也發生類似情形，則認為是特權、貪腐；這些都值得深思。

I have to say... President Chen, u'r wrong for saying this... u'r supposed to be the real demoncratic president for the present generation. what the prevous president received has nothing to do with you, whether it was right or wrong... u should just do whatever u believe is right but also be thankful for the things that a president gets, or not gets... ahy...

This blog is for you~

To all of my friends and family who views this blog of mine, i want to make an annoucement.
I do not pick up phone calls (very rarely). When you call me at home please leave a message. I will pick up your call while you are recording a message, or i will call you back if i am not home while you called. If you don't do the above, i will not know who called and you will not hear back from me. Getting more than 5 calls at home during the day with no one leaving a message prompts me to write this message because i do not want to miss my dear friends & family's calls. There. And no, i am not 吃飽沒事做 .

me and my mess

When i look at my place, the office, my room, and many more places in the house, i know it is messy. Ming cannot stand messiness. But for some reason (maybe laziness), i don't mind it. In fact, i enjoy the mess. It gives me a feeling of "home." I think only my family would understand what i'm talking about here. ~.^ But do not confuse messy with dirty, coz i cannot stand dirt, whereas ming doesn't care much about it. I write this blog to try to justify my messiness.

busy busy work

Went to work on Monday. It was so freaking busy. We have this program called GRASP at work that measures our work load for the day. After you enter in what you've done for the patient for the day, it would tell you approximately how many hours you've spent on him/her. I did it on one of my patients, he turned out to be 9.12 hours!!! Plus i still had 2 others who were rated 2. something and 3. something. Plus i went for my 1.5 hour break. How does that add up? I do not understand... The people up there probably don't look at these anyways, they won't be able to comprehend the amount of work that we do at bed side. I have to say that I am proud of what i've accomplished for the day and still be able to go for my breaks.

1 day K.town trip

Ming and I came back from a 1 day intense/busy trip to Kingston last night. We had a party here at home till 2:30am Friday night, woke up at 8am on Saturday, drove down to Kingston, Brockville, then we returned at 5pm. We did manage to fit in Don-Nang into our crazy schedule though. ;P We were originally going to stay over-night in either Kingston or Brockville, but we decided to save the hotel fee and came back to our comfortable home. It turned out to be a good idea coz we finished everything that we wanted to check out by 5, so we figured if we drive back, it wouldn't be too late. Even though the two of us were dead tire from lack of sleep the night before, but ming drove the way there, and i drove half way back (while ming snored away), it turned out to be not too bad. Ming was so tired though... this kinda one day trip is really tiring. The main purpose of our trip was to check out wedding reception places (and i bet we'll be doing a lot more of these in the near future, so anyone want to tag along, u'r welcome to do so). After seeing 7 places in total, we are still very confused as to what we really want. Not one place was perfect. It is going to be a hard decision to make, but one that needs to be made soon, coz we can't drag it on for too long anymore...

Help me~

I have a sickness.... an over-spending sickness...
Help me... take my credit card away from me...
Or i am going to be broke very soon.

little fat sheep

I meant to write this entry 2 days ago, but have been too busy...

So i guess some of you might have already seen my msn nick name for the past little while all about this little sheep. And guess what i found at T&T the other day...

So ming and i had this for the last 2 days. I gotta say, the taste was still good, but it wasn't as fun as eating it at the restaurant, coz "I" had to do all the cooking for 2 people! Plus the preperation work! And the fact that there was no other friends present made it less meaningful as well. But i gotta say, the package was worth the money, just $2 you can have little fat sheep right at your home. Just gotta deal with the smell in the house afterwards though... my scented oil was burning for the whole night after dinner X2 nights.

perogies

昨天煮了一種波蘭菜叫"perogies." 雖然很簡單但也花了我一些心思. 煮的時候一直想念著我那遠在波蘭的表妹, 不知道她是否常常吃這玩意兒? 好好保重自己吧. 請看.

I feel old...

Yesterday I went to my favorite clothing store, aritzia. This girl helped me with the dress i tried on. I had trouble deciding whether i should get the black one or the red one. So she asked "do you go to school?" "Yes," coz yes, i am going to school (just not the grade she was refering to). "then i would go with the red one, coz it's more flashy," she said (did she think that i go to high school?). "I would never wear this to school," i replied, that is just too much. Then she asked "why not? it's so sharp and trendy," so i said to her "that's because you are still young..." She smiled and said "well yeah, i am 17." !!!!!! WHAT!!!!! She was only 10 years younger than me, nice... I feel old...

I went to another bridal store by myself yesterday. Last time i went with a friend, but i didn't really get to see anything, coz appearantly i need to book appointments to try on dresses at bridal stores! Same with the store yesterday. This is just a store near our place. The owner said that they've been in business since 1968! Anyways, because i didn't book appointment ahead of time so i couldn't try on any dresses (that's okay, i didn't want to anyways), but i just wanted to check out the place. The owner suggested me a few things (he was quite nice), ie. look early, don't try on dresses that's out of your budget, blah blah blah; then he said to bring my mom or sister with me next time, so i can get opinions on it, since they are the ones who would know me best. I told him that they won't be able to help coz they don't live here. So he said, well, who is going to come with you? I said my friends. Then he said that's even better, coz you can't choose ur family coz you're born with them, but you can choose your friends! Hahaha... what a funny guy. But honestly, after i left the store, i thought about what he said, 鼻頭有一點酸酸的. Seems kinda lonely here without any family...

完了, trick or treat 結束了, 糖果還沒發完... ming, 小心嘍!

I feel poor---

I don't know if some of you know that I love Cinnabon. Only those fresh ones you get right our of the oven. Yesterday ming and i went to the mall and saw the crowd in front of the cinnabon shop. We couldn't resist and bought 2 (one was supposely for ming's cousin, coz she said she wanted to try). The price came out to be ~$7.75. For TWO cinnabon?!!! The two of us went "wow." We paid and walked away from the shop feeling guilty. With that kinda money, we can eat two good bento boxes at a chinese restaurant. For the first time since i've gone back to school and be a student, i felt poor... I could see it in ming's face too, he must have felt it too. Then again, maybe he was just thinking "what a rip off!"

I am a princess

I am a princess. I admit it, I am a princess. Everything has to go my way, or your head will get chopped off. Nobody shall bug me when i don't wish to be bugged, or your head will get chopped off. You should all accommodate me to suit my needs, or your head will get chopped off. You should all update your blogs whenever i check them, if not, your head will get chopped off. I admit it, I am a princess, hence this is a fairy tale. (jack going crazy here)

I am a princess

I am a princess. I admit it, I am a princess. Everything has to go my way, or your head will get chopped off. Nobody shall bug me when i don't wish to be bugged, or your head will get chopped off. You should all accommodate me to suit my needs, or your head will get chopped off. You should all update your blogs whenever i check them, if not, your head will get chopped off. I admit it, I am a princess, hence this is a fairy tale. (jack going crazy here)

要煮飯又要洗碗是世界上最#%&)^#!*^$%( 的事....

a blank week

woow, i haven't written any entries for a week. there really isn't much to write. life has been up and down, and probably because of all the events that have happened cancel each other out so i can't remember a thing. have you ever had this feeling? living life like a train passing by in front of your eyes, going so fast that you can't remember what each trailer looks like and you just blank out... you know that something has happened, but can't remember the details. life is sad like that.

牛肉麵

最近還蠻常煮飯的, 今天煮了我有史以來第一次的牛肉麵 (茄汁的喔). 我覺得還不賴啦, 雖然有可進步之處, 但對第一次的新手和不挑剔的pandaboy來說, 我已經很滿足了 (eh, 有煮就很難得了). 請看!

＂妳拿下來要幹嘛？＂

昨天我在我們的廚房櫃裡發現一個很像餐廳在用的茶壺(很噁)， 還有一個長的很像台灣路邊攤用的塑膠碗(也很噁). 心想為什麼家裡會有醬子東西? ming 問我＂妳拿下來要幹嘛？＂　＂當然是丟掉啊，　不然拿出來擺設啊？＂　為什麼？　我不懂．

pathetic experience

I raised a comment in class today. 當時心裡pi pi chua. 講完了還心跳加速好幾分鐘... so pathetic. ;) English is not my strong suit. >.<

Can't think of anything to talk about

I haven't updated my blog for so long~
Here is a photo of the Banana Bread that our chef friend had made for us.
It tastes like the ones they sell at Starbucks! So professional.
But of course, ming's was pretty good too.

我和寂寞的月餅．．．

今年的中秋節/Thanksgiving，沒有烤肉，沒有火雞，只有月餅．．．

Happy Thanksgiving and Autumn Festival~

While ming is having a blast in Vancouver (with MY family!!!), i am here in the cold blue toronto city, reading a bunch of boring journal articles. :(
There's so much to do, but i have so little energy and interest in doing them. Reading, writing, playing... see, so much to do.
I will see my family in December. I am looking forward to that.
Happy Thanksgiving and Autumn Festival. Who wants to eat moon cake with me?
P.S. Looks like Yankees are going to lose this series...

A pleasant surprise

Life has been busy... however, a pleasant surprise came to me tonight. I happened to chat with an old friend/classmate thru msn, and he told me that one of my closest friends back in highschool, maggie, (whom i've lost contact with), has gotten married and opened a resort in taiwan!!! Maggie is the God mother of my imaginary son, Teddy; some of you might have met Teddy, he is my fav! I was very sad and disappointed when i lost touch with maggie. She moved back to taiwan after high school and we kept in touch by writing each other (do you still remember those days when we used to write?). Then she had to move from northern taiwan to central taiwan, and during that big earthquake in taiwan, it hit her town, so my letter to her must have gotten lost. I was in university, things started getting busy ie. boyfriend and friends, so i just got lazy and never tried to find her again. I think i just gave up. But believe it or not, i've always thought of her, coz even ming, who has never met her, knows this character. I was so excited and happy to hear that she's doing well now and i am going to write to her through email, now that i know how to contact her. If you have time, take a look at the resort that she's opened. I think it is very charming. Some of the descriptions of the resort are hand-written, and i believe those are her hand-writings. The website tells a touching story at the beginning as well.
http://www.misting.com.tw/index.htm

My first Nike watch ^^

Something is wrong with the blogger tonight, so I am going to write this again.
Last night ming and I went crazy at the Nike employee store. Ming got this invitation from work, so it was a pretty rare event for us. Therefore we just bought so much. Well, actually i bought more!!! Can you believe that, me, spent more money than ming at a Nike store...
My proudest 戰利品 was this watch-



This watch probably costs 1/100 of ft's P watch, but i absolutely love it. It has a 24hr clock setting, which is so cool. Maybe i'm just very outdated.

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How cute!!!

Shoe talk

This blogger is in response to Lance's yesterday entry.
Here i want to talk about "CROCS." I first knew about Crocs during one day at work. Our hospital was selling them at the atrium, and they had tons of them. I was originally looking for a new pair of sneakers (for work walking), and they are usually priced at >$150. So while i saw Crocs, i thought, "hey, why not give them a try, since they are only $35". So i got a pair! They are awesome!!! Ever since then, i wear it to work all the time, or if i just want to go in/out of the house, Crocs is the best choice! You can wear them in the sand and then just spray them afterwards to have them cleaned; good for gardening and beach activities. They have holes all around that prevents smelly feet. The thing that impresses me the most is even after 12 hours of walking/standing, my feet still feel great (well, my legs will feel tired nonetheless even wearing sneakers), but because crocs are so light, i am not dragging weights (sneakers do feel like weights after 6 hours), so it is less work out for me. I love them so much that i mailed my parents each pair! (they finally got them afte over a month), and i also bought ming a pair. I know that a lot of teenage girls are wearing crocs now coz they are "in" but seriously, they are the most comfortable shoes that i've ever owned. Now, i don't know if it helps to support your spine or anything, all i know is, after 12 hours of being on my feet, i really can't complain about them. Mine is coulor purple and i think it is the best colour.

Taiwan's media is so screwed up

I haven't written blogs for a while now, so i am going to 寫個夠.
Taiwan's media is so screwed up. This is the heading of a news on Apple Daily:
李遠哲：依法拉下總統.
But here is what's in the article:
【顏振凱、李淑華、蔡日雲╱台北報導】泰國政變後，倒扁總部總指揮施明德昨呼籲陳水扁總統：「應該多關切歷史與國際情勢，就能知道很多借鏡，可以讓自己有美好的句點（指下台）。」但中央研究院院長李遠哲前天認為，民主應以法治為基礎，台灣若確定維持民主法治體制，人民就應壓迫檢察官，讓調查總統報告盡快有結果，只要司法判總統違法，就可把他拉下台。
Isn't that title misleading?! Well, i find it misleading. Plus, 李遠哲 probably didn't use this exact wording "拉下台."
I think 李遠哲 is very right. You cannot ask someone to be prosecuted without letting this person to go through a trial. Afterall, it is a law-obeying country. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. I am not saying that the president is not guilty, but there's gotta be a lawful way to deal with this, instead of rallying naive don't know better tends to follow taiwanese crowd to congregate. It is a waste of government and public's resources. It is hard to be just when the whole media is biased. Therefore, an innocent person may be protrait as guilty, or a guilty person may be seen as innocent. Taiwanese media is screwed up.

王建民從遠遠的看還是蠻帥的

If you have read ming's blogger, then you may know that we went to see a baseball game on Tuesday night. It was the Jays against Yankees. Due to stupid roation problem, we didn't get to see Wang. However, because the Yanks won, they all came out to the field to hi-five everyone, so i saw a glimpse of Wang. He was tall, hair was long (i don't know how he gets away from it), and looked really poised. You ask how i could tell all that from sitting far away? I can only say that 'i have good eye sight and 6th sense.'(and plus he uses LV too) ;)
This was on the Apple Daily news:
"昨天王建民沒有先發，不過藍鳥主場還是出現很多球迷，拿著中華民國國旗進場。原本如果不是上周洋基主場天候影響，王建民預定要投這場比賽，因此很多球迷早就買好票，卻是撲了空，但又不能退票，只好進場把比賽看完，國旗還是要拿出來秀一秀。"

http://www.appledaily.com.tw/AppleNews/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&showdate=
20060921&Sec_ID=10&Art_ID=2904745##

I think there was a lot of people who went because they like Wang, not because they like baseball. Just like a lot of taiwanese ppl now, who never used to like baseball, but because of Wang, they start to be interested in it. I call these people "fake sports fans." ~.<

Another long week~

Another week as passed (because today was my last class of the week. well, i have another class tomorrow morning, but it is non-credit, so i don't really count that as a real course). It was kinda a crazy week. A lot has happened during last week. I almost thought i would never return to a peaceful life anymore. The hectic construction is still going on tho, but at least we are getting closer now. The new carpet is in and it is looking fab!
I am slowly getting used to the commute by public transit. But as the weather starts to get colder, I am leaning more towards driving. When i finish my ride tickets, maybe i will start driving. This morning a lady got onto the bus, paid the driver, then the driver said to her "lady you are one cent short." I couldn't believe it when i heard it. The lady was very polite and said "oh, sorry," then she digged into her wallet and pulled out ten cents and said "here, and don't worry it (the change)." But the driver insisted on giving her change back. What a stupid driver! I still said thank you to her when i got off the bus tho.

來遲了的壞消息

剛剛收到了一個壞消息，那就是．．．I HAVE TO WORK ON MONDAY!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh..... Ohhhhh...... :...(

our contractor is in big trouble. he's gonna get it from ming (more like from me but lucky for him i won't be here tomolo)

And again, I hate commuting. Today the train that i was catching was slowing leaving in front of my eyes.... So i had to wait for the next one, which was 30min after. If i had ran just a little bit faster, and i shouldn't have used the escalator, should have used the stairs, then maybe, maybe i could have caught the train.

I am going to drive to classes from now on. Coz i've calculated it, it actually costs the same amount of money for me to take public transit and to drive (includes gas money). Therefore, I am going to drive now! Sorry air.

Today our reno guys created a huuuuuuuuge problem. Ming and I are F*cking pissed!!!!! So pissed..... but i gotta sleep right now, coz i have to wake up early tomorrow....

What a scary and sad news...

I can't believe what happaned in Montreal today. This world is becoming colder and colder. While i was reading the news from different sources, each on says different things. I was wondering how the guy could fired over 20 shots? What kinda gun did he have? If he had a small one, did he like switched to new bullets in between shots or something? Or did he have a big one that allowed him to shoot continuously? If that was the case, that would be freaking scary... how do people get their hands on these weapons? This was such a shocking and sad news, coz this could happen anywhere! On any campus! I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw the news. God bless those who were at the scence and especially those who are still in the hospital.

reno biz again...

We have been eating out almost every meal now. Even if we eat at home, it would be take out or left over take out food. This actually gets me out of "cooking duties" and it is A OKAY! I don't want to cook when there's constructors at the house and i wanna wait till everything is finished so i will have a clean kitchen again. Our kitchen has been covered under a pile of 灰, which is from all the sanding down of the ceiling. I wipe and the next day the same thing happens again. When this whole reno is over, i will have to wipe down the entire kitchen. A good friend of ours is having house reno too and we will be helping him out with his painting this weekend. Kinda look forward to it. I bet there will be cleaning that needs to be done as well. Don't know why i am always willing to help out other people with their house jobs but when it comes to my own, i just feel "tired." Hopefully the house will be ready (at least 80% ready) when ming's cousin comes. I would hate to show a newcomer a filthy house. Ahy, lots of work to do but i am too lazy to move....
ming says "i will help you clean! yeah right"

Winner's, you should go!

The other day i found this piece of bathroom accessory that fits perfectly with our new bathroom. I found it at winner's. If anyone happen to go to winner's and see any of this line of bath accessory, please buy them for me, as i need more. I bought a toothbrush holder, it is a rounded ceramic, it has a dark wooden colour bottom (actual wood) and horizontal lines of mixture of blue, green, and yellow i think. It is a line called H2O trends. If you see any more of these, let me know!!! Maybe i should just take a picture of my piece and post it here.

First day of class...pwhhh....

So today was my very first day of class towards my degree. While i was walking on U of T campus, i thought "hey, i fit right in!" even though i may be 10 years older than a lot of kids there, but i dress just like them (does that mean i should dress more like my age?). It is a big campus, U of T. I think i did a lot of walking while i was at Queen's, but Toronto is HUGE. Maybe it's because i haven't done a lot of 'intense' walking for so long, today's walk seemed so tiring. (then i thought, why am i doing this again?) Remember those "quick walks" that we used to do in between those 8:20-8:30, or 9:20-9:30, etc? I wasn't in a rush at all, but i just thought i should be walking fast coz i was "going to class," funny eh? Today's class was bigger than my whole undergrad class back at queen's! And that was not even the entire 1st year grad students! Toronto is big. So today i became one of those 'scary' train/subway riders because i was 'kinda' (only kinda) running too. But i have to say, i hate commuting, and i hate union station.

sleep~time management

It is now 1:48am and i am doing absolutely nothing. I am just browsing the net and going over and over the bloggers of my friends to see if anything new has come up. Why don't i go to bed? That is a question that i ask myself as well. I gotta quit this latenight wasting time habit. It's time to get myself into regular routines since i am a student now.

Ming's 29th Birthday

Today was ming's birthday. We went to this Japanese restaurant recommanded by our friend Steven. The food was great. Ming was happy. The Spicy Tuna Roll and their Tamago sushi was the best i've had so far in Toronto. Then we had their homemade Mandarin Pie, it was great too. Also recommanded by Steven, but he made it once for us and i thought his was just as good as the restaurant's. There was a lot of Japanese customers at that place, so we thought of our other friend Greg, who's also a Japanese (but speaks no Japanese). Then on our way out, we saw Uncle George! Who is Greg's uncle! What a coincidence!!! Please view more photos on my msn space.
http://jacklynsu.spaces.live.com/


Yesterday we also celebrated ming's birthday at Egg/Dumas' place. Lucky ming got a toy bike and a scatch book (and a cake!). We have nice friends.

The nightmare continues...

So what happened today?! I was getting evicted out of the bedroom and out of the bathroom/shower that we have been relying on for the past 3 weeks, even though the newly renovated bathroom was not 100% finished yet...
I am so frustrated with this whole reno, today i couldn't even use the bathroom at all (coz the new one was not finished and the window had no curtain on, they rushed me out of the master bedroom's bathroom, and the powder room is now the constructors' outlet). So i said to myself that i should use the bathroom when i go out, since i had some errands that needed to be done. But guess what, i forgot to go while i was outside! I only remembered it after i had returned home.... so i had to use the disgusting powder room. I can't believe that i have to squat to pee in my own home... >.<
So what have i been doing? I've been cleaning everyday, and they just come in and mess it up again. This routine has gone on for weeks now. Tonight i had to clean the small bathroom, since it is the only usable one now. But what's the point, they are going to mess it up again when fixing more stuff! (the light above the sink is totally off to the side, the tile still needs to be fixed, there's more painting to do, and the shower doors have yet to come). On a side note, the new toilet that we got, is incredible. :P
Negotiation is a very tiring thing. Making decisions is also very stressful. And since I am home more than ming, the contractor has been pulling me here and there to ask me questions. Very tiring...
Now we have pot lights in the house. The very first 4 pot lights of the house and they are in the kitchen. However, they are not bright enough!
The new bath vanity stand for the master bathroom finally arrived today. But they drilled the hole wrong on the sink top! So the top went back again...
Ahy, what else can go wrong with this on-going nightmare.....

I hate reno....

Ok, so when you watch all those TV home make over shows and so many things go wrong and you wonder if it's all an act? Not true... I've had and still have first hand experience in home reno frenzy, so i believe anything is possible...
* In the midst of budgeting, our basement started to leak... that ended up costing $700 extra.
* They dumped a garbage dumpster on our drive way, forgot to move my car, so it is now forever trapped in there, and it is now full of dust since they are doing work in the garage (like cutting wood or tiles).
* The shower faucet system had missing part, ming had a fight with the home depot ppl whire returning it, got really mad and got a speeding ticket on his way home.
* The shower system is now installed, i just realized that the shower head is an entirely different one from what it's supposed to be (and i only realized this coz i took a 2nd look of our system at the home depot today and thought "hey, that looks different from ours at home!")
* The standing shower tiles were put on unevenly and unleveled, we let it go, then one of the floor tile is unleveled too! Mind you we only have what, 9 tiles in the entire bathroom floor coz they are big tiles.
* Ikea screwed up, so after visiting Ikea in Vaughan (which is >30min drive) over 5 times, we had to drive all the way to Ikea in Etobicoke (another way 30min drive as well) to find the product that we want.
* The bathstand that we got did not fit with our water pipes, so they had to cut it, make some changes to it.
* Spent another extra $300 for a ceiling vent that wasn't part of the plan.
* They painted the whole family room in one colour! When we had asked them to paint the lower part (below the trim) white!
* The new windows have not arrived yet.
* The new carpet has not arrived yet.
* The new bathroom vanity stand was supposed to come yesterday, but neither ming or i were home to pay the company.
* The guy walked into the bedroom while i was still asleep!
* They started taking out the lights in the kitchen while everything was still on the counter. So i had to clean off everything and remove everything.
* The house is in a constant mess/dirtiness. We had to move everything out of the small bathroom, family room, master bedroom, now the kitchen. Things are just being moved around.
* Tons of communication problems with the contractor, regarding what was said and what was not said... i hate it.
I hate reno, i hate having to stay home when there are strangers in the house, and i hate to make decisions regarding the reno all by myself.... please don't let me make any decisions, ming.... >.<

Driving is still better~

I had my first ever GO Train ride today. I must say, it was a horrible experience. I am not like ming, i did not enjoy the train ride at all. The whole ride was so slow that made me very sleepy. I am a very impatient person, so if i see that the train is going at 5km/hr, it drives me mad. The morning ride was not as bad as the afternoon one. I saw lots of happenings, a guy got busted for not having a valid ticket, the guy sitting beside me helped terminated a bee for us 3 girls sitting there, and the transit system was really crazily busy in the morning. Then in the afternoon, because i missed the last bus leaving town, i had to wait almost an hour for the next one, which was a train. While i was waiting in the station, sitting there reading a magazine, there were so many people rushing through beside me, people were running, puching in their tickets, dragging their suitcases on wheels, it was just a feeling that i did not like. Have i become a country person? I don't think so, i am just too attached to my car...

There's ur Super Mario DS >.<

I haven't written a blog for a few days now. Don't really know what to write anymore these days.... Until this happened!
Ming has been bogging me to recover his Super Mario DS game, he claimed that "I" lost it. This happened since MaMaMing was here. The truth is, when he asked me about it, I truly didn't know where it was coz I could not recall the last time that I have seen it. I knew that it was not me who lost it, however, I did not want to say anything in front of MaMaMing, since I was not 100% sure of it myself and I didn't want to argue with him in front of his mama. But seriously, did he have to harrass me like that? He 宰贓 on me and used not very nice tone either, almost everyday! So guess what happened today?! He found the game himself!!! Holy Sh*t!!! For all these times he claimed that I was the one who lost it, when it was simply HIMSELF who put it away and could not remember that he's done so!!! Like what he always dose!!! Of course he was sorry and embarrassed. Ming ming ming... next time don't blame me for losing your stuff, coz most likely it would have been yourself, who put it away, since I really don't organize our home. :P