Cooking for Esther and Gavin

Sorry for using English all the time because I am too lazy to type Chinese even though my English is horrible. Anyway. So tonight we had a gathering at Katie’s place and we cooked for Esther and Gavin. A few more days before they will leave New Zealand. Since Esther wanted to try our coking, Jas bravely suggested tonight’s event, and, yes, lamb again – as Esther wished.

We did have something new this time: broccoli soup, green salad and mushroom. These are all our master chef James Bond’s ideas, I was just an assistant executor.

  

Oh, we bought a very expensive but very yummy ice-cream! Here it is! It’s approx. $20 a litre, but very yummy, well, at least everyone else thinks it’s very yummy. I think it’s okay – I am not really a big fan of chocolate most of the time. Only when I am stressed, chocolate becomes my friend.

You know, I am proud of myself, not because of the cooking, but the joy I had and the peace among me and the others. Recently I found out that I care less in a lot of things, and less sensitive (in a bad way) in people relationship, and did try a lot in showing my love and friendship. I am proud of myself. I have been a very good girl.

You will be proud of me too and say I am a good girl now.

Actually it’s not hard, I just have to understand and get it right.

Christmas 2010 III

Remarkable things in this Christmas period:

1. A secret santa present I prepared for the Christmas party at Sally's place. I bought a sitting cushion and drew on it. I like what I have done, I did put some thoughts in it.

2. I bought a reindeer thingy, it's so cute!

3. Christmas light this year is awesome like last year, and the telecom tree is even more colourful. That was a really good day. I knew more about Sally, Tony and Sally's mum Linda. Oh, and Ben Ben as well. By the way, Sally has accepted Christ about a week or two ago.

4. Christmas dinner with my family. Actually it is nothing special. It's just a normal dinner like every other night except there is ham, but I seldom have Christmas dinner with my family. I think from now on I will do this every year. :D

5. Today the English service had a Christmas party! I didn't join in most of the games, but it's fun watching them play and taking photos for them. Stupidly I brought my camera without a memory card, fortunately I have my iPhone 4 with me.

6. I hosted the Christmas party + service fellowship on Friday. People said it was good, I hope it really was good because I wanted people to bring back the right message about Christmas. Thanks God for giving me strength and wisdom to complete the job.

7. I gave out many Christmas cards this year! Yay! Good girl kiu kiu!

Christmas 2010 II

This year Christmas is not the same as any year in the past. I do not mean the Christmas day, on which I just spent the day alone till dinner time. I mean my mentality, my thoughts, my feelings, my attitude.

The birth of Christ is a great news, because this is the manifestation of God's love to me. Therefore, I shared this love to people around me. I thanked people for loving me, caring about me and helped me, and I wished them well.

Hugh said he thought I love them no matter what, unconditionally, not only because God loved me first. I told him without God's love in the first place there would be no us and no love, so I could not have loved anyone. It is true, there is a strong correlation here.

I always thought I love people, and I have always said God loves me, yet until my heart could for sure feel being loved by God and people, I can really say I love.

I guess I can finally say, I have love, the true love.

God bless us all.

Christmas 2010 I

Today is Christmas day! I had dinner with my family, called my honey, and he called me back too. I also said "Merry Christmas" to my mother-in-law and father-in-law.

Hope everyone has a relaxing Christmas holiday. :)

維多利亞壹號X白雪公主

昨晚說起《維多利亞壹號》，令我聯想起《白雪公主》。

首先要聲明，我沒有看過《維多利亞壹號》，也不會看。我對恐怖血腥戲完全沒徹，要知我非常怕血，而且驚嚇不起。記得那次看《I am Legend》，入戲院前不知是殭屍片，結果整套戲的過程簡直是折磨。

只聽說大概故事是主角買不起B座，便殺了A座和C座，以致B座搬出，並價向下跌，使其可以買得起那單位。

我想起《白雪公主》。先當你沒看過《令人戰慄的格林童話》，只是說家喻戶曉的那個故事。母后為了使自己是最美麗的人，下令殺了白嫩皮膚櫻桃紅唇的女兒。

故事同出一轍。

膚淺

曾經有人跟我說：愛到了一個地步可以昇華，只要對方幸福就好。

我突然間想起這話，含着一點的苦澀味，想：我總是那樣的自私，愛得總是太膚淺。

A very sad story in real life

Whenever I read or hear the news about this poor 9 year old girl, I feel really upset, deep from my heart.

The 9-year-old was found by police last month hiding in a wardrobe at a West Auckland home. Almost every part of her body had injuries. Part of her scalp had been torn off her head, allegedly as she was dragged down a hallway. She was starving, dehydrated and anaemic because of internal bleeding. She had a broken bone in her foot and had bruising all over her body. ***** Those injuries range from her scalp being torn away from her head while she was dragged by her hair along the floor, to vicious beatings with various weapons, and having her toenail pulled off and salt and boiling water poured on to the bleeding wound. ***** New claims emerged last night that the nine-year-old girl allegedly tortured by her parents was also sexually abused while in Child Youth and Family care.

Why the couple did this to their little girl? Kids should be happy and being loved by parents and families and everyone. Why would the extended family sexually abuse her? They were supposed to rescue her from the tortures! It’s horrifying, why do that to an innocent child?

Crazy, just crazy. The worst part is, her story, is just tip of the iceberg.

Inception

Finally watched Inception.

- if entering more than three levels of dream will easily get into limbo, I am probably already in it, since 7+ levels are usual to me.

- people's actions and thinkings are too normal, too sensible and too sequential for dreams, at least comparing to my dreams.

- the only thing the dreamers dare to break was gravity, how boring! There are so many things against metaphysical laws and nature are open to be violated in a real dream! Like dimensions, sexuality, functions, mathematical rules.

- memories in dreams... or dreams become memories. Pictures and scenes of my dreams always pop up in my mind in my daily life while I am awake and in the so-called reality. I then have to classify what is a memory from a dream and what is a real life experience. It's not only constructing dreams with reality objects causes confusion, unrealistic dreams also intrude my mind.

- sometimes it's hard to say whether there was something strange in the dream, or something strange in reality. I always thought I could walk in air, till one day I realize the fact that I can't, and I am not sure what here is the strange idea.

The week before Christmas

I am not sure what am I going to do on Christmas but this week is pretty much full on.

Monday 20th - WORK! Heaps to do.
Tuesday 21st - WORK! Half day work, and second half day company Christmas party.
Wednesday 22nd - WORK! Heaps to do. At night dinner with my family, 做冬.
Thursday 23rd - WORK! At night Christmas party at Sally's place. Esther and Gavin are here.
Friday 24th - WORK! Fellowship Christmas party and Christmas service. I am responsible for games and the actual service, so need to work out the passages, songs, etc.
Saturday 25th - THE DAY. No plan yet. Depend on the weather.

Unfortunately the weather in Auckland is crap at the moment, and likely to be for another week. Where is my summer sunshine?

Mosquito bite

Mosquitos do not bite, they sting, and only female mosquitos sting. "Mosquito" in Latin is "culex".

A mosquito bite on my right palm.

They know I would not eat them, so they ate my blood.

Exclusive: light golden brown hair for 15mins

Not too obvious in the photo, actually it's very light, I was shocked! Good that it's only the intermediate state. Joe sure wouldn't allow me to go to work with this light colour hair...

沒錢的錢包

用兩小時給自己造了一個錢包，非常詫異，竟這麼快完成。想找個大一點的錢包許久了，就是找不到喜歡的，唯有自己弄一個。

最近唯一一件有建設性的事。

嬲嬲

一定要打中文，雖然唔知中文點打好，因為哩件事成個腦講嘅都係英文，頭先對住Joe同team blah咗一大輪都係英文，所以唔知點用中文講，不過唔可以打英文。

第一次俾MB激死！第一次俾個客激死！豈有此理！

最搞笑係小暉話我一邊鬧一邊仲係笑住，非常恐怖。而我一路鬧，Joe一路笑，仲搞笑！

無題 IX

看着Icarus墮進海中，我還是想飛。我可以在夜間出發，飛向月亮，這樣我的翅膀就不會燃燒。

前車可鑒，我一定要日光之前回來。是有一點風險，但時間掌握得好的話該可行的。遺憾是現在乃夏天，日長夜短。

我還是要飛。

Live on love

In an interview today,

Me: Yay Joe likes people who loves money.
Joe: Yeah that's right!
Candidate: Who doesn't?
Joe: Jacqui! She doesn't! She lives on love!

Joe, aren't you know me so well!

It’s quite true, I always live on loving others and being loved. Of course, money is also important, but not my motivation, and not likely to become a major one.

Blame my overly romantic nature.

Respect the CEO of the Snackbox

Doing second interviews these three days, actually I am currently at one of these, the guy sitting opposite to me is working on a problem. Just in case the last candidate who we will meet tomorrow may find my blog, I better not talk about the problems here.

Oh, but I still have to post a photo of our CEO of the Olympic snackbox.

Glow

Suddenly, a question come into my mind.

Do I glow? Luceone?

A dim light, maybe?

Special edition Christmas cards

Alright, I have a set of special edition Christmas cards, which are for families, relatives and some special aunties and uncles who had supported us a lot early this year when we had some issues. Since I have given out/posted all of them except one, it’s okay to post the design here now. This is the one we gave my family, and my mum insisted to have the flowers as background and the frog to hold the card. Well, so I listened to my mum to make her happy, haha.

 

I like this photo a lot, it’s very cool, very cute. Thanks to the photographer who took this for us last year, so this year I can make such a cute card! :)

Writing cards

Once I have started writing Christmas cards for people here in NZ, I realised that actually I do have many friends. You know, this pile here, is only part of the ones for friends in Church. I still haven’t started writing for my other friends and my workmates.

It’s good, it’s good, I do have friends, and many friends. I am so happy about this fact. I am never alone and never will be.

槍

昨日小暉買了一把槍，裝嵌完畢，公司就有兩把槍了。既然有兩把槍，又有很多障礙物，理所當然地會發生槍戰。Stephen和我一人拿起一把，馬上瞄準對方開始發射。

既是小暉的槍，當然要與主人合照了。

惡神

F：「我想食雪糕啊。」
S：「咪食囉！」
F：「肥呀嘛。。。食yought會唔會好啲？」
S：「會呀。」
F：「好幾多？」
S：「（發惡）你當我係Calories神呀！」

Calories神，咁嘅名稱，真係中文半桶水嘅Stephen先諗到。。。

夜半

夜裡睡不著，日間醒不來，物換星移，待日月相交；心思停不住，人情留不了，往還難盡，算遙遙無期。

貓兒眼

某人放在facebook上的一張貓兒相，看不見貓兒的眼睛。剛才無端想起這張相，連帶想起一段對話。

說起漂亮的眼睛。
J：「我的眼睛漂亮呀～」（厚顏無恥）
K：「你的眼睛才不漂亮啦，笑時眼尾一條線，像隻貓般。」
C：「皺紋吧。」
K：「不，她的眼是那樣的。」

聞言，我看向鏡子，哎呀，還真的是一副懶貓兒的模樣。

喵！

Luke 10:38-42

Luke 10:40
But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

Martha autem satagebat circa frequens ministerium quae stetit et ait Domine non est tibi curae quod soror mea reliquit me solam ministrare dic ergo illi ut me adiuvet

An interesting sermon from ET, although the things I found interesting are not necessarily the message he tried to convey. A bit related to myself, as some sort of reminder for what Candy taught me.

I often questioned people's cares, as what Martha did, had in mind "if you/him/her/they care about/love/consider for/miss me then you/him/her/they should have done this/that/these/those." However, what caused me to have such thought? Have I not already decided what people should do to show their care? Have I not already decided what people should do to show their love? And when people didn't do what I have expected, don't I just assume they do not love and care about me?

Then I pity myself, angry at others, find fault with others. I care too much what others think and do, and not appreciate their ways of doing things enough.

My self-centre thoughts.

Good reminder for me.

Representation

As mentioned in the long comment I made in 無題 VIII, I do have some rather unusual expressions, sometimes.

For example draw on the cv of the candidate I am interviewing. Basically depending on the engagement, the candidate's mood and character, length of quiet time, the candidate's nervousness, my drawings are different, and style may change in an interview. Afterwards Simon and I would discuss the candidates and I always look at my "notes" as a reference.

Sounds stupid, but better than writing down words, pressuring onto the candidates.

Oh by the way, one of the guys I met looks so much like my primary school sweetheart, hahaha.

鴨寶寶

穿上鴨寶寶，好想睡。。。

Eternity

You were there for summer dreamin',
And you gave me what I need.
And I hope you'll find your freedom,
For eternity, for eternity.

無題 VIII

看著那唯一的照片，這麼近，那麼遠，她想她戀愛了。

記起那一晚，他坐在她身邊，她坐在他身邊，說著有的沒的，風花雪月，不着邊際。很短暫的一晚，刻骨銘心。

這刻她在這裡，他在哪裡，在做甚麼，她不知道；只是看到這張唯一的照片，在遠方的照片，她知道她戀愛了。

因為那思念竟蝕入五臟，那感動竟纏繞六腑。

而她僅有的，是那一晚的記憶 - 那是只屬於他和她的片段。

記得那一晚，她坐在他身邊，他坐在她身邊，說著有的沒的，風花雪月，不着邊際。很短暫的一晚，長留於心。

有些感情，沒有開始，也沒有結束。

Pretty Girls

Hmm, talking about pretty girls, it is true that different people have different taste, but there are some girls, everyone thinks they are pretty – alright, maybe not across all cultures in the world.

So what kind of girls do I like? What sorts of girls do I find pretty? Jean Seberg is one typical. I love her short hair, and I love her eyes.

聖誕卡

醫生第一個收到我的聖誕卡啦，他最近嘛，在澳洲。

我還要寫在紐西蘭的人的聖誕卡呢～

Interviews

So far, we have interviewed seven people. At the moment we are supposed to interview another one, but he didn’t come! Can you believe that? It’s okay if he got another job or whatever, but he should at least give me a call right? I cannot believe this guy just decided not to turn up. Guys these days.

Anyway.

You know, CV, Curriculum Vitae, is Latin. Curriculum means “a race”, or “a race course”, also used for “career”, second declension neuter noun. Vitae, genitive singular of Vita (Life), first declension female noun. So “curriculum vitae” is “Course of life” or “Career of life”.

At least five more interviews to go…kinda a bit boring, you know. :P

特別的愛給特別的你

突然想起這首歌，其實只記得副歌那一段。

特別的愛。。。嗎？

找女朋友

公司請人，我看了三十多份CV，選了些這幾天interview。跟Joe談這些CV，談著談著，又說起我們公司裡一眾沒女朋友的男同事們。他總是非常不解為甚麼他們沒有女朋友，而且，可以生存，哈哈哈。他常說自己年輕時一定要有女朋友才可以生活。Joe又問我怎樣可以介紹些女孩子給我們這班男生認識，我只能照實答他：好難哦。

不知道是我們這個行業的男孩子是這樣，還是這個年代的男人都是這樣。其實我又覺得沒甚麼問題，他們有自己的興趣，有自己的玩意，為甚麼一定要女朋友呢？現在也很好很開心嘛，他們又沒興趣找個女朋友，何必強逼他們呢。

當然，也有想找女朋友的男性朋友啦。。。呵呵呵～

Ponsonby Market Day 20101204

It was a full on day yesterday, we have done a lot.

I woke up at 8:30, washed the clothes – ah, I mean put the clothes into the washing machine. Then at 10:00 I went for my second class of hot yoga. Again I sweated through and was completely wet. How bad it was? hmmm, I have to out some junk papers under my bum when I was driving home, and afterwards the papers were all wet.

At 14:00 I went to meet KK and then she drove both of us out to Ponsonby for the market day. We walked around a bit and met up with Mary. Oh, and yes, KK took her dad’s camera with her.


Later Jason came along too, but we were looking at dresses and so he went off for a while on his own, haha. After a while Sally and Tony called, so we went to meet them at the Christmas tree. They were there with Sally’s mum Linda and 6 year old Ben.

Ben is a very good dog, even Jason who doesn’t particularly like dog played with him. We took Ben with us and walked further more, then put him back into the car, and went for Gelato.

Where Kat, who was supposed to be here earlier but went onto the wrong bus, joined us for a short while before she went off for dinner with her friends. She bought a cool camera with her.


Soon after Gelato, we had decided to have an early dinner. Jason picked the Crib. The man drank some cocktails and face turned red.

At 20:30, the sky was still bright. People were singing on the street, in the restaurant. We walked our way towards the tree.

We didn’t go under the tree at once because the lights are barely visible under the sun, so we lined up to call Santa. Jason’s wish is a really good one, a must watch!

The sky started to turn darker, so we entered the tree and soon we had some bean bags. This year the tree has more interesting colours and patterns.


Afterwards we went to Franklin street to watch the light decorations, and our cars (except Jason’s one) were on that street. We took Ben with us to the tree and also Franklin street, so many kids played with him. He likes kids.

At about 22:00 12 left and our day ended. Went home, shower and sleep.

What a wonderful day!

Christmas tree

You can tell Christmas is around the corner when you can see the Christmas tree put out by our receptionists at the entrance:

I have a very small Christmas tree, which I bought two years ago when I was alone here in NZ as well. I think this year I am going to take out my little Christmas tree again.

Christmas 2010

This year I am sending Christmas cards. How many years since I wrote my last Christmas card? Hmm… probably over ten years ago. One day I got an email from Vistaprint, offering free printing for Christmas cards, so I have decided to print some. Of course, I still need to pay for delivery.

So I have printed some Christmas cards, and posted some already. No no no, I am not going to take a picture and show my cards here because you may receive a card from me (if I have your address!).

聖誕節，啦啦啦～

I want to make this year Christmas to be one for expressing love and care. Lots of love and care.

Dear Mr. Handsome Christmas Elf

Today I saw you working hard with your mates so I secretly took a photo of you. Hope you don't mind.

Look forward to see you in person after you have done all the Christmas work.

Yours faithfully,

Little Gypsy

再見螢火蟲

某家人一起看「再見螢火蟲」。

某爸看著看著，妹和哥都死了，便哭了起來，對一旁的子女說：「嗚，讓我聯想到你們兄妹倆呢。」

妹妹：「爸，我們還在這裡呀。。。」


這是星期一晚聽回來的故事。鳴謝余氏小姐的分享。

順帶一提，我們看時沒哭，只覺得好悶。

Hot YOGA

Went to a hot yoga class today. 90 minutes in a warm area doing yoga, it was so tiring. I could see and feel every part of me sweating, and my face was red like a tomato.

Have a need to regulate my exercise since I am not doing any - yes, absolutely nothing - which is of course not very healthy of me.

Many men were in the class, surprise surprise. I thought yoga were a girl thing. Obviously I was wrong.

As a result of the work out, I am going to sleep early tonight.