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?