Still Here

Just want to put in a quick entry to say that I'm still here, still alive.
Life is super busy and exhausting at the moment that I simply don't have much time to update recently.
Ppl who should know why already knows. No need to explain more here.

Hope that life will be on track soon, although I am enjoying the chaos at the moment. :)

Later!

Blog Frequency

其實今年既其中既一類似 resolution 既嘢係想寫多ｄ，紀錄多ｄ生活既點滴．到目前為止，成績都不錯喎，而家係九月，但已經係呢幾年黎最多 entry 既一年．

當然，我現在呢個奶奶閒勁hea 既工實在是功不可沒，讓我成日都咁得閒喺公司打 blog，多謝老細！

不過呢份工對我既 blogging 仲有一個重大影響，就係老細太寬鬆，令我少咗好多對老細不滿，訴怨氣的話題，哈哈！

I suspect that my blog frequency might taper off a little bit for the rest of the year and the beginning of next year tho, with the new life and time-draining responsibility as well as my upcoming trip to HK.

Album Update

2011 Camping

餓鬼投胎

The building management of my office building nicely organized a BBQ lunch as appreciation for all the tenants in the whole complex.

It was just hamburgers and hot dogs and soft drinks. Nothing special. But it’s nice enough of them to hold this free BBQ lunch.

The whole thing ends at 1:30pm so I wasn’t rushing down when it opens at 11:30am. Colleague CMan said at around 12:30 that we probably should head down in case there’s no more food and I was like,

"唔會卦，building management 請得我哋食，唔預多都應該會預夠"
"你以為啦，我哋公司有ｄ人一有 free lunch 就搏哂命咁食，有ｄ仲又食又拎．"
"唔會卦（其實我上次又真係見到個又食又拎既人，不過I was hoping that it was just a special case.），應該唔會咁誇張卦．不過如果你想落去，我哋而家落都無所謂．"

So then, we headed down. There were already some ppl eating and there was a tiny little line up for the burger/hotdog to be cooked. So me and CMan got in line. And then there’s this Chinese dude, apparently just finished eating something cos he had a plate with him already, got to the front of the line and asked the lady if he could have a hot dog.

CMan and I looked at each other and I could feel her telling me. “See? I told you.”

Personally, I think that 條友都白痴架，見唔見到有人排緊隊架，你就算要添食都要排隊啦，真係想搏打．

And then apparently the hotdogs got cooked faster than the burgers but some of the ppl who were in line (including me and CMan) wanted burger so some of the ppl behind us got the hotdogs first, including this Chinese dude. 跟住我哋又見到呢條友又去番條隊尾度，喺度食佢既 hotdog.

跟住我哋都無留意佢，因為無耐之後我哋既 burger 就到手，so we went to the condiment station. While we were still putting condiments on, that Chinese dude arrived at the station with a burger! This meant that he has finished his hotdog and got a burger!

痴孖筋囉，唔駛錢啫，但駛唔駛喪食呀？仲要呢，我哋落黎之前佢都唔知已經食咗幾多轉．CMan 話佢都唔知係咪之前一晚無食飯，今日搏命食番夠本，仲食埋今晚嗰餐．駛唔駛 cheap 成咁呀？Burger 同 hotdog 啫，唔係乜嘢 high class 嘢囉，屋企買唔起咩？

嗰位呀生之後仲有冇繼續食我同 CMan 就唔知嘞，因為我哋攞完我哋嗰個包就返咗樓上食．同埋嗰位人兄究竟係何方神聖我都唔知道，因為個 BBQ 係我哋呢個 complex 幾橦 office buildings, 每橦入面又可能有幾間公司，所以呢嗰人係屬於邊度真係唔知，可能係我哋自己公司既都未定．

詹占有次都講過，話有次佢公司請食 dinner, 有幾個瘦猛猛，一睇就知平時食得唔多嘢既 chinese, 人哋都 warn 咗佢，個餐佢哋會食唔哂，但都係要 order 至貴既 lobster + steak dinner, 驚死蝕底咁，最後就咪係食唔哂，洒哂ｄ嘢囉．詹占 was so not impressed that time.

我真係唔明，點解ｄChinese 成日都咁 cheap? 映衰哂其他正常既 Chinese. 添食唔係唔得，添一次都夠皮啦吓話，駛唔駛好似飢民咁？

詹占因為我既關係，多咗去ｄChinese 地方，見得多咗中國人既優良傳統，令佢對中國人有所改觀，佢一直都以為 scottish 係 stereotypically cheap 民族，但佢而家已經覺得 Chinese 係有過之而無不及．

I heard that 印印同屍你難加既人都可以好 cheap，I sort of 有少少經歷，就係 garage sale 既時候，件貨已經係賣一蚊，佢哋都仲可以同你講價，叫你５毫賣俾佢，我心諗，唔係吓話，一蚊你都仲想講價，你不如真係唔好買啦．

Mayb there’re always cheap ppl in each ethnic group. It’s just more noticeable in Chinese since I have more contact with them. I don’t mean to stereotype but they drives me nuts sometimes and is such an embarrassment.

各散東西

Got an email from one of frdR that she’s going to England and had indeed already left. Well… I’ve already knew that she might leave for England for a while but the shock was that she’s already left when I got the email. Not even a chance to say goodbye.

Not really complaining cos I am sure that she was so busy making all kinds of arrangement since there was only 1 week between she got the notification and her flight. Just weird how rush the whole thing seems. I guess she probably couldn’t wait to go over there to meet up with her honey.

Ever since we graduated, this group of ppl have been spreading out slowly. First, there were GPA, W, J, M and V who decided to pursue their engineering education out of the country. Only M came back. And then there was A who pursues some other career/field of education out of the country. And then now, there’s R going away to continue with her post-doc career. And M is going away soon to pursue an different career path out of town.

What’s left is just me, C and S (S stands for Sing so as not to get confused with the other A). In this scenario, the chance of having everyone together is very very slim cos there’s no way all of them will come back to visit at the same time, especially W, who has no family here so it’s not like he would come to TO during xmas or something. In view of this, the next chance to have everybody get together would be at someone’s wedding.

W is not going to have a big wedding even if he gets married so we can count him out. I doubt that M will get married anytime soon. So that leaves R, V, S and A. Therefore, at most 4 more big gathering until maybe one of us die that we will start getting together again bcos of funerals. Hopefully, that scenario is not going to happen for at least another 40 years.

Not that I see these ppl very often even when we were all in TO but it just felt weird that we are all spread out everywhere now.

My New Toy

My 3-yr cell contract is finally going to expire in end of Sep. I hv been waiting for it for a while since my phone has been abused by me so much that it can no longer connect to the blue tooth in the car anymore which poses a big problem cos I don’t want to break the law.

Instead of waiting till the end of the contract, I decided to went to shop for a new phone last Thur. I didn’t want to wait till end of September cos I could be too busy by then.

Took forever to get a new phone tho. There was only one person working at the time and there was a customer in front of me. The saleperson was having a heck of a time to activate the phone for the other customer. She also had a hard time doing mine as well and hence forever^2.

I ended up staying with my current wireless provider., which means that I could have renewed my contract and get the new phone 6 months ago. Oh well… not really that big of a deal cos waiting till the end of the contract enabled me to shop around different providers. It wasn’t like my old phone wasn’t working anyway.

One annoying thing of staying with my current provider is that some of the deal that they offer only applies to new customers. I was like ‘what the hack’. Shouldn’t they treat returning customers nicely as well bcos we have been loyal? It reminds me of the bank commercial:

I was so not impressed by the fact that I didn’t get the phone for free even tho I signed up for another 3 years but have to pay $50 for the phone. It doesn’t seem fair to me.

So which phone did I get? The first smart phone in my life is:

Nexus S.

Yea… I didn’t want an i瘋 cos the fact that so many ppl have it and the number of ppl think that owning an i瘋 is a fashion statement annoys me.

I’m been pretty happy with my new toy so far. I don’t really care too much about those little games that one can play on a smart phone anyway. To me, it’s more important to have a keyboard so that I don’t have to press a button 3 times to type a ‘r’ in my text msg, as well as the ability to use WiFi/Data that appeals to me.

One thing tho, is that the battery doesn’t last too long (compared to my old phone) even if I am not actively using it. Have downloaded some app that apparently helps elongate the battery life. I’ll see how it goes.

Finally saying goodbye to my ‘dumb’ phone!

One little extra story. As I was waiting for the sale girl to work on the system to renew my contract, 3 little boy the age of 10 at most came into the store and one of them said, “Hey, look! That’s your phone. Nexus.” Turned out that they came into the store to look for a protective case for one of the boy’s Nexus. I was like, “Oh wow… a 10 year old has a smart phone…” Kids these days are so privileged. I’ve seen a little 1-2 year old playing with an iPad while still sitting in his/her stroller. It seems so wrong…

Album Update

2011-07 Trip to Quebec City