一個人的牛肉湯河

上過YOGA堂後，獨個兒去食牛肉湯河，一進店發現店中已有兩名客，連我在內一共有3名女子一個人在吃河粉。想不到在假期前夕都有像我一樣 ... ...

以前是很抗拒獨個兒去餐室，總似是怪怪的。但在有選擇下，我寧可"食自己"也不想和討厭的人食... 起碼可以做番自己，更不需顧及儀態呢﹗

美味的牛肉河，盛惠$30大元﹗

春節後感

每年的新年假期，都是惰懶的最佳時候，今年也不例外。除了煲了一套日劇外，最開心的是可以一家人食飯、做賀年食品、燒野食、打麻將… …

大年初一，早上吃過老媽的素菜後，便到爺爺那邊拜年，還跟堂細佬們打麻將…. 晚飯還是吃早上的素菜呢。

年初二，先到大舅父家拜年，接著是今年的重點項目–春節BBQ。一行15人出發到城門水塘，但我們首先碰到的不是美味的雞翼，而是頑皮的馬騮仔。他們把我們的一盒曲奇餅偷了，還掉進山頭裡。不過這當然不會影響我們的興奮心情，要知道可以和一班表兄弟姊妹BBQ是很難得的，當天還一嘗由姨丈親手炮製的炭燒出前一丁… yummy!

年初三，金鼠行大運，一行五人從大埔出發，行到粉嶺鶴藪，以流水響為終點，水塘景象非常優美，給人很寧靜的感覺。晚上看了一部爛片，真的想不通它和片名有何關係。幸好，晚餐是和大學好友打邊爐，我們還買了一大pint Haagen Dazs 做賀禮，足以補賞看過爛片後的無奈。

經過三天的勞碌，初四主要是留在家中，但仍敵不過打麻將的引誘，在家中開台起來。妹妹在爸爸的從旁指導下，居然以一敵三，連熟悉章法的媽媽也自嘲運氣不夠呢﹗

年初六 – 開工大吉 ! 工作順利 !

年十一，一個很特別的聚會，出席者是接近十年沒有正式見面的中學同學。我們一共有八位單身女子出現，可能大家都未結婚，感覺上大家的轉變不大，傾起來也是老樣子呢﹗常說世事常變，套用在我們身上似乎不太合適呢，我們的心境還停留在會考完的那一刻﹗

今年的春節雖然十分寒冷，但連綿不斷的家庭及好友聚會，令今個假期份外溫暖，還留下了許多難忘的記憶，時間一點也沒有白費呢﹗

這一星期 ... ...

這星期真的過得很快，除了因為工作忙碌；社會上發生了非常震撼的淫照風波，而國內則發生旱見的雪災。若以新聞價值來說，後者應該更被重視，因為涉及幅員遼闊，更有人命及財物傷亡。但論對香港的影響力來說，前者則嚴重挑戰社會的道德呎度，更印證了互聯網的威力。所謂「水可覆舟﹑亦能載舟」，此話比諭互聯網的力量，可謂十分貼切。看OBAMA女郎的YOUTUBE宣傳片大受歡迎，可見internet + sex appeal = publicity 的方程式是最佳宣傳技倆。

若從公關角度看兩件危機的處理，高底可見一班。淫照風波的主角不斷逃避，以「不變應萬變」；那邊廂溫總則四出巡視重災區，慰問濟留車站的民工，重複又重複政府的Key messages ... 香港要成為中國的NEW YORK，首先要學懂「做秀」呢。

樂天的我要完結繁忙的一星期，當然是要開心啲啦。星期五晚終於買到一個自己很喜歡的袋，今天還為新年作出第一個準備 ---- 整年糕﹗

我的新寵兒

看多幼滑的泡沫，加上香濃的綠茶，就是我近期最受的新口味 — green tea latte! 喝下去的感覺就似是暖暖的綠茶雪糕。下午的氣溫突然轉涼，還下著微微細雨，手中的熱飲倍覺窩心。

午餐中，與友人討論有關婚宴的問題，因為她將會在年尾結婚。其實現在很多婚禮的rundown已層出不窮，星期一去了一對好朋友的婚宴，他們的出場是由天花的吊車飛出來的，中場還需要以舞會「客」，怪不得有人說「而家人情真的好難賺」!

其實大家擺酒的原因，是為show off 自己的幸福，還是要與大家分享新婚的喜悅？很多人在籌辦婚禮已發生了不同的爭吵，可以是家長之間﹑與未來的另一半﹑更可以是姊妹之間 ... ... 能推動自己攪婚宴的唯一理由，只是為了老人家們開心!所以在剛剛的婚宴中，由新人獻花給雙方父母的「節目」最為人感動!

野火會

星期六晚與同學一起進行野火會，感覺有點像中學時代的聚會，當然大家是老同學呢!我們所討論的問題也很廣泛，工作﹑結婚﹑日劇﹑下一代教育... ...。當中我們也有討論過博客的出現，其中老師提出一點使我反覆思量。他說我們的人生就是每天一點一滴累積，若我們不將它記下來，很快我們會把生命中的小事忘記，但它們就是組織成我們的人生呢!我們應很多謝博客的出現，使我們多了一個便捷的途徑記下來。就像我的朋友把他們子女的成長記錄在博客裡，珍貴的時刻除了可與朋友分享外，更重要的是見證了小朋友成長。

「樹高千丈．落葉歸根」這是今日從傑出華人節目中的一位物理學家所說的。成就有多高也要回饋培育我們的地方，這對自己的意義又是什麼呢? http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/tv/successtories2007/20080120.html

攝影習作-上窰郊遊徑

在雜誌的推介下，我們決定去這約3小時行程的郊遊徑。這條路線一點也沒有讓人失望，難怪一起步已見到兩對新人在拍攝結婚照呢!

野蝴蝶

鄉村裡的仙人掌

風繼續吹

The Tendo Club

Four girls met in Uni and formed their own club and sworn to support each other in lifetime. Does it sound so familiar? It's a novel I read last week. It's about what happened to the 4 girls in their mid-30s.The story begins with Freddie got 2 shocking news on the same date – a request of divorce and a message of father’s pass-away. They were very sad news to her at the beginning and also radically changed the rest of her life. When she was trying to realize the news, with the help from her nostalgic friends, she finally fixes the problems and finds her new life.

We always, like Freddie, think that relationship goes wrong with sudden changes or problems. But what actually happened that love is drained away slowly and being unnoticed years by years, days by days. We take care of love is just like take care of plants, we have to watering it everyday.

滋心．知心

等了很久，終於在今個聖誕節一嘗心願，就是某歐洲著名雪糕店的雪糕火鍋。不同口味的雪糕﹑生果﹑雜餅…… 加上暖暖的朱古力，一個近乎完美的配搭。

實物送上，最重要的雪糕球比想像中細和少，口味亦不可由自己挑選，實在是美中不足。但一起分享的是兩位摯友，大家都在快將來臨的08年也充滿著新挑戰，在品嚐誘人朱古力雪糕之餘，有心靈上的交流更為窩心，這一切已補償了食物上的不足呢﹗

攝影習作-南山村

常常聽說有關南山村的故事，終於可親身見證了﹗


南山大樓


久違的牆壁


潮髮

Welcome ! 2008

I have been sneaked away from blogging for ages and hopefully I am back for the new year!

Most of my friends would know that I have started up a new career which is very different from my previous jobs. I have felt much pressure on it coz I am so afraid of getting things wrong. Hope time could heal ..

Besides my new job, I have also developed some new intersts in the past year, they are :

1. English Reading - It's great that I have started to build up a habit in english readings. I was so sick of novel before coz I thought that I can't read English for a long time. Thanks for the encouragment from my teacher and now I do love reading english novels. It's just feel like that you are being exposed to a new big world and full of excitments.

2. Classical Music - Thanks to Nodame .. a character from a japanese TV series! She has let me get known to the world of classical musics... when you are listening to it and just like travelling from city to city and seeing different places and people.


3. Photograhy - This is much caused by my brother and he is a professional photographer and he has so enthuastic to introduce me different shooting skills, of course, he is the one providing me the equipments. What he taught me the most important thing about shooting is about how you see things. Shooting is about how you see the "object" from your own perspectives..

My new year was come with a breath-taking firework at HK. I didn't expect to see such dramatic view from the West Kowloon District. Here you go, a snap shot from "Saying Goodbye to 2007".

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...