3rd of October in 2007

3rd of October is my birthday and I was celebrating it with my colleagues at Lunch and Superman at dinner. I ate salmon salad and pasta and lemon tea during lunch. I ate caser salad and a pepperoni pizza for dinner. We went to Haagen Daz after dinner and I ordered 2 ice-cream scoops and a chocolate cake. I was very happy on that day.


My colleagues brought me a birthday cake and we ate the cake and took lots of photos. I received a handcream and a bed set as birthday gift. I continued my birthday celebration with my family on 2007-10-04 and we ate dinner at home. Mommy cooked me Fired Broccoli with Beef, Japanese Tofu, Big Prawns in Tomato Sauce and Steamed Crabs. I liked them all.

I finished reading “The curious incident of the dog in the night-time” on the same day as 2007-10-04 and this is the way the book is written. It is funny and I enjoy reading it !


Colleagues brought me a birthday cake !


Jane & B'day Cake.

The Fantastic Mates: Women & Desserts

We went to a brand-new dessert house at Central last week. This small dessert house is opened by a young lady called Jennifer and she gave up her job in Bank and went over to France to be the apprentice of a local dessert shop. We ordered “ Chocolate & Strawberry Pavlova” and “Strawberry Trio”. I liked the little jelly most coz it tasted like orange first and you will feel the flavor of Champaign at the end.

The best accompany to dessert is my soul mates, they are usually girls coz most of the man I met don’t like sweeties. It is such a good time to have lovely food and talk wildly. I have realized that friendship is so important to my life. You might not always need it but they are always standby your side. I am so lucky that I’ve met many good friends in my life, from college to work! Spending time with your soul mates will nurture your own heart from sorrow! Hey friends! How can you resist this!

My best Mates : gorgeous dessert & my soul mate - Jacq

My first boat trip !

Last Saturday, I finally went for my first boat trip in HK. We had about 20 people boarding the ship at 10:00am. It was a very nice day and God did give us a great present (Because it had been kept on raining the for whole week!). We were heading to the sea at Sai Kung and we started the water sports right away. But I was too scared to try the banana boat coz I really don’t want to be flown off!

Soon after the lunch, we started the key activity of the day – wakeboard! It was the first time I did and guess how many times for my trial to get “standing” on the water … here you go…. The ever first time! It might because I was doing snowboard and the balancing skills are quite the same. But wakeboard is a very energy-consuming sport. I only did about 5 – 6 times and I still feel the pains at my back and shoulders right now!

It was a great adventure and it was so fun to go out from the hustle and bustle life of Hong Kong. Here are some nice pics taken during the return journey!

Hey … Sunset at Sai Kung …


This is the speed boat for wakeboard !

風風雨雨

昨天本來是出海的日子，可惜天公不造美，更掛上了八號風球。起初，還為少了半天休假而耿耿於懷(因我已為遊船河而申請了休假)。但回家後看見新聞報導，人流一湧而出趕車﹑趕船回家，更有OL在中環站暈倒，有點慶幸自己沒有上班呢﹗

沒有出海，但去了看”Ratatouille 五星級大鼠”。戲中有一個很重要的信念，就是任何人都可以成為大廚。只要是用心去煮，就可發掘不同的食物配搭，創造新菜式。這是一個很令人鼓舞的訊息，也解釋了為何媽媽煮的皆是美食，也是我的心靈良藥。

在看戲前，我們到 Relaxing Tea House食午餐，食物水準ok。最開心的是可和弟妹一起享用，因為現在大家也要工作，一起用餐的時間也不多。沒有出海的日子，我們也很開心呢﹗


三份午餐，我﹑弟弟和妹妹 !

Super Power! by Heroes

Last night, TVB Pearl began its new TV series – “Heroes”, which is talking about people with super power! It seems to be an interesting subject. Do we believe in super-nature power? In china, there are many people claimed to have this “unusual” abilities. Would that be a gift or burden to them?

If I was given the chance to have super power, what should I opt for? May be I would wish I can move in a second to wherever I want. The first benefit is that I don’t need to spend more than 2 hours time per day in commuting between office and home. The second benefit is that I can travel around the world whenever I wish… just like one of the character in “Heroes” that he can freely go between Tokyo and NewYork.. It’s fascinating!

Oops.. I should come back from my day-dreaming! I was having a wonderful this afternoon. It was a small but cozy café near my office. The nicest thing is to have lunch with an old colleague (met her at about 4 yrs before, is that counted as “old”?) and we haven’t seen each other for nearly 1 year. There are not so much changes between us… at least both of us are still at the same job! The only thing scares me is the speed of the passing of time…

Here is my lovely lunch…. costs me $42 !

A new family member

I have been lazy in updating my blog and so I got to do some write up tonight..

My home has a new member to join.. yes, she is from Indonesia and have been working at my home for about 2 weeks. Her name is Faye and this is the first time she works aboard as housemaid. At first,I was very hesitated to hide a domestic helper at home and I always think there will be some problems..and it turns out - so far so good !

Faye is quite willing to learn and she really helps my mom a lot. I felt so relief coz I don't need to feel guilty of spending less time at home. Since my mom used to take care both the housework and the our little grocery shop, I am so afraid that she will be exhausted !

Faye, Hope you will enjoy the time at my home....

"Chase" ... by Leslie

"Chase"... a song from Leslie Cheung, a local male singer who stay at the top of pop in 80s and 90s ... Although he has chosen his way to leave us and I ( and lots of other people ) always feel that he is still with us ...

What reminds me about this song is the random play by my iPod Nano on my way home. I was quite unhappy when I left office.. the politics is getting stir up now.. everyone is trying to protect against their own interests, people used to be close are started work against each other .. yes,what can you expect from a work place ?

The lyric of the song is about what we are chasing in our life.. time, money, power or just the one you loved.. the loved one could be your second half, you son and daughter or even your parents...it make me remind all my close friends and family around me.

I also want to dedicate this song to my dear dear flatmate whom has been in an unhappy state, I hope this song remind her that we all have many good things around us and never stop to love the ones who really deserve your care...

Enjoy..

Sushi...by jane

I love eating and so do cooking ! In the times studying in UK, I was cooking almost everyday. After returning to Hong Kong, since we have an official cook - my mom.. cooking seems to be a bit unnecessary for me.

Last weekend, I made a new type of Sushi ( Tai Rolls ) with mushrooms, sweet eggs, crab meats and japanese cucumber. I used to make rolls with eels, but has given up as some toxic chemcials were found last year.

So.. here we are

Ten Years ...

Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China. This 10 years have been a really remarkable times for most of the people in Hong Kong. We passed over the Asian Financial Crisis, the SARS and the strike in 1 July 2003 .....

This times, I would like to share my personal changes in this ten years with you :

1. Age
Ten years before, I was only 18 ! So young and innocent ! Today, I am being called as "Auntie Jane "

2. Education
I got a degree from Birmingham University, not very tought couse but I had to face many new chanllenges of starting a new life in another country. I still remembered that the frist day I arrived England - taking coach from Heathrow, ariving in coach station of Birmingham and reaching Griffin Close with cap.. all just happened yesterday.

3. Career
I spent 3 years in Banking but found that I am not satisfy with numercial works. I started my adventure in exhibitions and it was one of the jobs I like most. Today, I am i the field of marketing of property. It is also an interesting job but I need to decide whether I should stay in this field or not... let's time to prove.

4. Family
In deed, it was the area that sought my concern most. My parents are getting old and all my younger brothers and sister all went to work now ! The times we could dinner with all the members become less and less ( about 1 per week). But luckily, we are still very united and close with each other. Especially, my relationship with my elder brother seems getting better and I always feel that we could be together to handle all the problems !

5. Love Affair
Yes, in the 10 years time , I've spent 8 years with the same guy ! At this moment, he is my Mr. Rigth... and hope same to the future ! God bless us!

6. Interests
I learnt swimming ( yvonne, remember that I was almost drowned in B'ham) and snowboarding. It was really a big change to me as I used to be very lazy of doing exercises. Started from last years, I have also developed my new interest - Yoga.. hope I could continue this .... coz Yoga is claimed to be ANTI-AGING !

7. Friends
I am lucky that I have met many good friends in the ten years. My flatmates and seniors in B'ham, my ex-colleagues ... all are still very close to me and we can really "talk". This is very important coz friends are the one who support you hold and belief, whenever you fall !

To conclude, I wish the next coming 10 years would be another good times to me ... I guess I will have quite a dramatic changes .. let's wait and see !

Dear Chairman Wu,

Thanks for coming over to see us in HK. You are the "CEO" in China and I hope you will lead us to a new era - a country which is prospect in terms of both economic and political and therefore we could really become a strong and healthy nation and being recognized in the world !

Salute to Chairman Wu !

Baby Sitting !

Last Sunday, I went to visit baby Leanne again. She is now 3 months old and I found she is more "mature" than she was first born. When she slept, she can stay very stable and peace... but when people talked , she would open her eyes and see... so curious she is.

We had in total 4 babies coming for this gathering, it recalled my memory of childhood times. My cousin, brothers and sisters were used to get together during different occasions, like CNY, Mid-Autumn.... and it was just that noisy.

Here you see, I am trying to let baby Leanne sleeping in my arms, it seems she is quite enjoying... hum.... am I qualify to be a baby sitter !










Babies are getting very excited during "cake cutting" time, even not their own birthday and baby Leanne is still sleeping...

My very first Cuttlefish …

As living in Hong Kong, one of the hottest activities in summer times is boating. However, as renting a boat is quite expensive (abt 3-5 thousand dollars a day), people usually have to gather a group which is big enough to share the costs. However, I hardly find any group that I could join in the past times.


After years of waiting, my virgin “boat trip” in HK came last Saturday and what we did is fishing for cuttlefish at nighttime. Shouldn’t use the word “fishing” but “hooking”. We drop a hook to the sea and keep pulling the fishing line up and down to attract the cuttlefish. (A spot light was pointing to the sea and created reflection to the hook). Once the cuttlefish gets caught, it will squeeze its ink out and therefore we had to be very careful to make sure that no inks was left inside its body…. Finally, we got 3 cuttlefishes in total and we had a “Master” as its size is much bigger than the others …

Warning to my ex-flatmates: the following photos might cause discomfort to you!

The Enthusiast

Suddenly, I want to understand myself more and therefore I did some Enneagram test from website. However, I am quite confused that I got the results of type 4 and type 7 - The Individualist and The Enthusiast ... and their characters are :

The Individualist - I am unique.

The Enthusiast - I am happy and open to new things

After reading the descriptions and try some more tests, I might say I am quite a typical 7. What I am pursuing in my life is "Happiness" , here are some desciptions to Type 7:

How to Get Along with 7s :

Give me companionship, affection, and freedom.
Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter.
Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories.
Don't try to change my style. Accept me the way I am.
Be responsible for youself. I dislike clingy or needy people.
Don't tell me what to do.

I would say they are fairly true to me ..... ....

http://www.9types.com/

My dearest flatmates ...

I am writing to my dearest flatmates in Blk 26, Unit 161, Griffin Close, Birmingham ...

Thank you so much for your love, care and support and I am sorry to make you worry about me. In deed, my relationship with S has been for such a long time and we still have disagreements.. I would see this as a lesson to both of us and I hope that we can overcome the problems in our lifetime.

No matters how this is going, at least, from this incident, I am very sure that I have true friends around me and I am no longer afraid of being handle problem by my ownself... I am sure that in case there is any problems in my life.. like work, family, relationship.. I will let my flatmates know and support me !

Thanks for your love...

What a blue blue day!

This picture was taken this morning when I was queuing for bus. It’s such a blue and clear sky that has long been disappeared in Hong Kong.

However, this summer is extremely hot and evenly in the early morning, you could get sweated after a few steps walk. I heard from the news that we have “red tides” in different beaches due to the badly warm weather. Hey, I still think this is a clue of warning to the human beings to take care our planet !

Deep down my heart, I felt a bit "blue" (upset) coz I was having a quarrel with BF last night. Why can’t man tell what they are thinking? Why can’t they just let you know how they feel? I don’t know why that every times he only tells when you felt intolerable ….may be I shall take some lessons any learning “how to speak with mankind!”……

2 happy things I done on Wed’s night

Last Wednesday, I went to my yoga class as usual. I was originally planned to get on the class on 6:45 but it was already full. So, I straightly go for the next class without knowing what type it is. Finally, I found it … the first half of the lesson is doing Asana – seating in still posture and working on some breathing exercises. Like breathing from your tummy, breathe in and our from different sides of nose .. At first, I was being so impatience coz I always hate to sit still. I would say I prefer for hard physical works then cannot move. After the 30 mins exercise, I really found that I was so relaxed and filled up with positive energy.. So , I hope I can tolerate “Asana” and take up more classes.

The second thing made me happy is just what women always love – shopping. H&M has opened its flagship store in HK and I was so curious about it as I read from the news that it is always patched with people. Remember that in UK, we seldom went there simply because its apparels just too old fashion to us. However, this visit surprised me – the clothes are chic and cheap. I brought – 2 skirts, 2 tank tops, 1 scarf and 1 necklet… they costs me about HK$600. H&M success not only rides on its promotions ( H&M X Madonna / H&M X Kylie Minogue) ; but its genuine fashion at fairly affordable prices.

H&M Store at Central


H&M Super Promotion at HK with Mandonna Collection !

What are we going to do after 40?

I am now doing some market research for a new property project and try to find out some advantages of "work at home", and it seems to be a lot:

- no commuting, no traffic jams, you can start working earlier even you wake up late.
- 100% control over your own schedule, you can take a break whenever you want.
- Just wear anything you feel comfortable, no make-up
- No office politics, no need to be sociable as going into the workplace.

Is that a dream? they all seems to be the key elements in an ideal life which we never find in office.

In deed, I’ve been discussing with my friends about our career life? We’ve just started thinking of what I should do after 40 ? In the field of marketing, I seldom see " Officers " and "Executives" in age of 40. Sometimes, even Managers in 40 are a bit "old" now. What shall I do by that time? Should I learn a new skill-set so that I could still "work" if I couldn't survive in the office environment? I need to think this …....

Secretary's Day

I have no idea of what is "Secretary's Day" for until after joining this company last year. We have 2 secretaries in our department, one is directly serving our GM, another one is serving the leasing team. They are different in job functions, so as their outfit.. one is very skinny and one is a bit fat.. regardless of this, they are all very helpful and they teach me the "greatest love" of secretary and their hardness in works. For example,if we are eating out for lunch, they are the late comers also the earlest one to leave.

I have never thought of myself to become a Sec since I always think their work is too clerical. In fact, after organizing a reunion dinner with more than 20 executives last year by myself, i know "making appointment" is never any easy job. Anyway.. happy Secretary's Day to my dearest Skinny and Fat secretaries.

you see... skinny sec. is working overtime ... again!

Who are we ?

We are friends meeting from form 1 ( first year in Secondary School) and strickly speaking, we have been met each other for 17 years... such a long long time.

Back to our old school time, we were so close to each other and one of our habits is to speak and chat on phone... may be this the old version of ICQ / MSN... we talked till midnight and did that everynight (i just can't remember why we have so much to talk).

Today, one of us has move to live in England and 3 of just are staying in HK. One become a kindergarden school teacher ; one is working in Bank and me, jane , is working in marketing field. Instead of speaking on phone everyday, we usually meet 2-3 times a year, mostly fall on one of the birthday.

The photos was taken as Janice coming back to HK , she is now starting her new live in Bournmouth,UK. My "old" friends, I wish we could stay in our relationship forever !

An Inconvenient Truth

Dear friends,
I have just read through a film called "An inconvenient truth " ( presented by AL Gore, Former Vice President of US ) which talking about global warming. I guess most of you have already experienced this in our last "HOT " Chinese new year and, indeed, the planet has already sent us a WARNING!I strongly recommend you to see this film and what it has mentioned is so important and serious to our life... not only us.. but our next generations ( ie. your babies, your nieces and nephews.....).

Video at ChimeLong Paradise