Some of My Recent Read

Was running out of stuff to ‘read’ during my commute.  Saw that this James Patterson guy has tons of books on the library and thought that I would try out some of them. Murder mystery basically. But it wasn’t really a mystery cos you know who the murderer was right in the beginning.  The second book is still good but not as captivating as the 1st. The first book reminds me a bit of the the Jap comic 死亡筆記, the way how the good and evil try to outsmart each other. But 死亡筆記 is better, no doubt. These books, especially the first one, is an adult read tho. A bit much on the sex, in my personally opinion.

These are fantasies. Werewolves, vampires, fey, walker, sorcerer etc.  Pretty good actually. Definitely different from the Twilight series. I know I know, the girl on the cover of the books wears too little. But the book has nothing to do with wearing little. A pretty good series so far. I really enjoyed the first two. Will continue on the rest, long as the library has them.

Pregnancy Pictures

A few years ago, I rant about how ridiculous all those wedding pictures has become.

And now, since I’m getting older, there' are less of those wedding pictures to irritate me. However, as you might has guessed, there are now pregnancy pictures that are just annoying.

Don’t know if it’s a relatively new thing to do all these pregnancy pictures or is it just because I’m getting to that age that everyone around me are having babies. To me, it seems like it used to be a celebrity thing but now I guess everyone thinks that they are celebrity that others ‘follow’ them.

It’s not as bad as wedding pictures I have to agree. First, less proportion of ppl are doing it; second, there are usually less than 10-20 pregnancy pictures while wedding pictures could be hundreds.

But then, there are a lot less variation of those pregnancy pictures. I have friends from both HK and TO that has pretty much the exact outfit and exact pose and exact background in their pictures. Not every picture, but a portion of them.

The first time looking at them, the pictures seem pretty good, it’s sorta a ‘new’ thing to me. But now that so many ppl are doing them, it starts to get annoying.

其實世人真的覺得個大肚好好看，好有美感嗎？為什麼個個都要捧住個大肚腩影相呢？如果真係好靚的話，你又唔見Ｄ肥人個個去影肚腩照？！

我個人真係唔覺得Ｄ橙皮紋好好睇囉。個肚鬼死咁大，so unnatural, 好似會有異型會爆肚而出囉。其實我覺得有Ｄ恐怖...

而家呢個世代既人真係好自戀。
我其實都覺得我自己有Ｄ自戀，但原來我都唔夠人家咁勁。

外星話

Gangtoeby 和 Dastaphone

係小Ｊ自己作出黎既外星話，仲好 consistent. 以下係如何用呢兩個字的句子：

1. How gangtoeby!
2. What are you doing with the dastophone?

當我哋問佢呢兩個字點解既時候，佢通常都只會對你笑，跟住又再講多一次。

除此之外，小Ｊ仲會亂作Ｄ聲出黎唱歌，原全唔知佢唱乜，但佢自己會唱得超 high, 仲會超大聲。有時更會將 gantoeby 混入"歌詞" 之中。

小朋友的創作力太高了吧。

馬拉糕

一直都以為馬拉糕D咁既嘢係一定要出街食先得，但小妹近排成日整嘢食，發現到個馬拉糕食譜，係佢測試過幾次成功咗之後，仲send埋個食譜俾我，好似幾容易咁。今個星期六得閒，又唔想出街食，就試整了喇。

由於小J一定要幫手，加上食物份量係要磅，比較麻煩的關係，我要前一晚量好哂Ｄ嘢，到朝早簡簡單單係小Ｊ倒埋一齊撈幾撈就可以蒸。詹占喺前一晚有幫手量份量。所以呀，呢個馬拉糕係我哋三個一齊整的第一個馬拉糕！

唔可以話係好成功，尚有很多可以 improve 既空間，但食落去ｄ味都好ｏｋ。

我擔心only馬拉糕會悶得滯，煎多幾條煙肉等個早餐話哂都多一Ｄprotein.  結果就係一個中西合壁的早餐。（上圖的小手是小Ｊ的）

開心到跳舞

小朋友真係好可愛，可以為很小的事而爆高興的。（當然，也會為超小的事而哭個死去活來）

話說有一天跟小Ｊ說我們出街去餐廳食飯，小Ｊ聽完超興奮，係興奮到在家中跑來跑去，好像不知道如何處理佢既興奮的狀態。

（其實都唔知點解佢會咁high，不時一個星期大概都會有一餐出街食的。）

但由於我同詹占其實還未 ready 出門，又要執ｄ片呀，口水肩呀，奶呀之頪的，於是由向小Ｊ宣布＂喜事＂跟正式出門有一段小小的時間。咁小Ｊ跑完一兩個 round 之後，又開始怪叫，一路走來走去一路叫，之後又喺度 un 吓 un 吓跳舞，又唱歌（但唔知佢唱乜，佢有時會自己作Ｄ嘢出嚟唱，唔知係乜 language，可能係外星話）。

更奇的是小Ｊ會跟你說，＂We are going to restaurant＂。好像是他出的主意，怕你不知道，現在告訴你的模樣。笑死，明明是我告訴你的嘛。

見到佢興奮成咁咁，真係超搞笑，我同詹占望住佢都忍唔住爆笑。點解可以 high 得咁緊要？！

小朋友真的是很可愛很可愛，佢哋個腦真係唔知諗乜。同埋，對於佢哋嚟講，everything means the world to them.

真希望小Ｊ的童真可以不滅啦。

我要去旅行呀

雖然唔係好耐之前去咗，但基本上都係去湊仔，都不算是旅行嘛，所以感覺上好似好耐好耐無去過旅行了。

我要去真的旅行呀！

但係，基本上，短期內都唔會發生啦。嗚嗚...

很窮，又無人睇住小J…

Conference

做咗好幾年，第一次有得出 conference. 上一次類似既經驗係剛轉黎呢間公司無耐，俾我去咗一次 software training course.

不過真係唔係講笑，要去 conference 真係要通過重重難關先可以去，第一，要經理批。不過呢個唔難，經理係好人，加上個 conference 真係同做既嘢有關，經理看了看就批了。

難的一關是要 business line leader 批，除了真正的動機（去學嘢）之外，要堆砌一Ｄ對公司有經濟效益的原因，雖然唔係全然老作，嗰Ｄ嘢例如 networking with potential client 諸如類此的厄鬼原因，雖然真係會有機會發生，但以我咁自我封閉既性格，係唔會發生囉。

好慘架，要 fill 埋張不知所謂既 form to calculate how much the company loses in monetary terms due to the fact that I’m losing two days of work + the cost of the conference. Since the amount is over $1000 (which really doesn’t take much to exceed, 個 conference ＋tax 都超過$500），張 approval form 寫明如果我一年之內自願離職，咁我要賠番哂Ｄ錢俾公司囉。超 cheap, 佢計我每日既人工唔係用我真正既薪水去計，係用佢哋 charge client 個 rate 去計。我明白點解，因為咁先係計到公司既 '損失', 但咁計就死啦，點可能唔超過 $1000. 所以除非我想賠＄＄，otherwise, 我呢一年內都唔會轉工。(actually I’m no longer looking recently, getting tired of it… mainly waiting for them to lay me off)公司真是超 cheap, mult-billion, international 個屁，區區千多元都要同我少少員工計。好彩個 cost  唔過千五咋（因為好好經理俾我 charge 其中一日落佢個 project 度），otherwise, 仲要一個再大粒的簽 approval.

Anyway, after a few other conditions, with the help of my current manager’s (which is going to expire in two weeks since my proper, but interim manager is coming back from sick leave soon) help, I got the approval.

Nice to get out there. 聽聽書，學下少少嘢。話學到好多嘢又唔係，d seminar 講嗰Ｄ嘢都係好 high level 既 concept, 唔到肉，不過如果講得太深我又唔明既啫。

有Ｄseminar 很不錯，有Ｄ就很 disappointing. 有幾個我勁恰眼訓，尤其是 lunch 後的一個，真係釣哂魚。

不過去 conference 好攰，雖然全日只係坐喺度，但返到屋企都超攰。可能因為我平時返工唔會成日都咁集中精神，反而 conference 嗰時會。

最不幸的時在 lunch time 時俾一個舊同事發現咗我，一齊坐，我基本上只想做隠形人，minding my own business, eat in silence, eat in peace. 但 end up 要同佢 small talk, 佢去 conference 既目的就真係 networking, 於是又自我 introduce 俾全枱其他既 strangers, 咁我又迫住要 introduce myself and talked to these strangers. 我好攰，根本就無出過我既綿力去製造話題，佢哋有人直接問我嘢我咪答吓囉，otherwise, 自然會有其他人講嘢。I really don’t care. 所以話呢，我唔係 manager 既人才，我唔鐘意 social, 我亦都唔恨做 manager, 因為做 manager 要出去搵生意，我唔鐘意。I am happy where I am. (This kinda related to a frd who seems to b having a bit of career crisis right now but that will wait till another post.)

出 conference 仲有一個好處，就係我今個星期公司無乜嘢做，我出咗兩日，今日返黎，半日已經做好哂手頭上有既嘢，聽日都唔知點算，如果冇出到去，今個星期真的會死得很慘。