wisdom teeth out

My wisdom teeth is gone forever. and ......I look like a fat pig now.
Already 5 hrs after surgery ...still numbness ....hopefully everything will be alright.

It has been a long time

Have not write anything for my blog for a very long time....so much happened recently that I do not have the time to manage myself to write a blog.

I have been throught stress, depress and exhausted in these recent months. But it is good as I have good friends support me all the time. Thank you so much for them ...if not...I am not sure I can able to write have the time to write the blog..

Old story ...

Just remember a story happened more than ten years ago.....

When I was a primary student, I got new pair of leather shoes every year. My mum bought me shoes from a local shop in Sheung Wan. I still remembered the shop is "Shan Da Shoes shop" and the salesmen there were quite old. Even though I cannot pick the where I shop but my mum allowed me to choose the style.

This habit got changed when I turned to be 11. My parents decided to get me a better quality shoes. We went to a department store and got a pair of leather shoes with cute bow in front. I remember that was around two hundreds dollar (which was very expensive to me). I really love the shoes. I treasure them as it was one of the best thing I ever owned.

I was only able to wear the shoes for a week at school and something bad happened. I was the prefect at that time and I needed to open and close the gate during the school hour. I closed the gate as usual but something got stuck that day and made me push very hard. I could not handle the force and the gate scratched my foot (the gate is a large one which at least two meters high and wide)....that means my shoes also get a big red scratch from the paint (I cried immediately not only because of the pain and also the paint....

Even though my parents did not scold me but it caused bad memory for me. I felt bad to buy nice and expensive thing for a long time....Of course I start buying luxury stuffs again but I left a sad memory that I do not think I will forget...

My new coffee machine

Nespresso Pixi is my new coffee machine. I came across this machine for a long time but never thought I am able to afford it (I guess for such a hygienic and hi-tech stuffs must be very expensive). However, it is just a bit more expensive than normal coffee machine. It is for sure worth the money if you want to save some time for preparation and clean up. I am still trying the sample pack of capsule and will try to find out the flavour most suitable me.

New members

2011 seems to be a year that more than half of my friends are going to welcome their new family members. Three of them are getting marry this year and four of them are expecting baby this year. It is a year full of joy.

My entertainment

Finally I have my new notebook. My old one - IBM Think pad died one year ago and I finally have decided to buy a new notebook. After a long search, I decided to get the Asus A42J. So far it is working very nice . It is a small notebook which I am able to carry around easily. I also got a Logitech speaker lap desk yesterday, so I can able to put my notebook on my stomach without feeling the heat . It is a very good lap desk which work perfectly with my new notebook.

Tao's PS3 broke two weeks ago. He tried to fix it by himself but not successful and he tried to bring it to some technician to do it. However, it seemed it was the motherboard problem which needed to be sent back to Sony to fix it. It costs around 250 AUD so we think it is better to buy a new one instead. ...Hopefully we can get a lot of entertainment from my new notebook and PS3.

Back home

After a two weeks holiday, I am back to Brisbane again.

At first, I thought it will be a bad one as my flight got delayed for 14 hours and would end up not having to able to eat new year eve dinner with my family. However, we got upgraded to business class which I am thrilled...haha. It was a nice experience to enjoy a great service on a 9 hour flight.

We, again shopped a lot during these two weeks in Hong Kong. I got nearly half year stock up for cosmetics and skincare which I believe I saved a lot. It is unbelievable that these products are selling at least double the price in Australia. I cannot figure out why it is the case even though the Australia dollar is so strong right now. It is non sense but just trying to steal money from customers. Tao even got a luggage that only 1/7 prices which is selling in the Australian airport.....?!!!! ridiculous

Most fun part is I can meet most of the friends this time. I can meet friends that have not seen after graduation from high school .....and can also meet my best friends just back from holiday in Argentina. Haha...I can talk about high school stuffs (good memory) and also new things from my friend's interesting holiday. Such a happy gathering...hehe

Nightmare

Brisbane, the city I am living now is having its worst Nightmare ever. Endless rainfall since November have brought tones amount of water in the whole Queensland. Warning started Tuesday this week that Brisbane river is going to break its bank and the third largest city in Australia is going to experience a large scale of flood . After I read the news about flooding at the Mackay, St George ...I had bad feeling that will the flood come to Brisbane. Tao said that the water system is totally different to the middle part and water will not flow to Brisbane but directly to NSW. However, his assumption was not right and my worry has become a nightmare to all Brisbane resident. First, Ipwich river is going to raise to 19 meters and Brisbane river is going to raise to 5.4 meters (later revised to be 4.6meters). Everyone is scared and rushed to the high place. Most people did not have time to put their precious things with them and can only leave with nothing but their lives.

I am very lucky enough to live on the hill side which can escape from the flood this time. The area that I am familiar: CBD, Milton, Paddington, Toowong, Indooroopilly, St lucia, Southbank , West End........etc , they are all under water now. The area that everyone knows , entertains , live, eat.....are all under the dirty water. The university I studied, the colleague I lived...is also under water. I cannot imagine the water level can go up so high . A lot of people had lost nearly everything in this flood. How terrible is it...Video showed horses swimming kilometers to rest on roof after being exhausted to swim in order to survive.

I am good to be able to still have food at home, fresh water to drink ....I know many people do not have power and food to survive as they are stuck in buildings or their suburbs are isolated. I hope that everything can be back to normal asap. God bless QLD.

2010 sum up..

2010 is not a easy time for me. A lot of sad things but also have some nice experience.

1. We get our new car and in January and I am able to drive to anywhere I want....Feel so free with the small car..hehe
2. Had bad experience working for a Taiwan bitch.....the worst working experience ever.
3. Got the new dresser. I can able to wear make up comfortably in front of the mirror and my cosmetics are so organized now.
4. First time to in surgery room to remove a lump on my ear. Feel scared at time time hearing every clipping sound ....
5. Bought a new mattress....the most comfortable ever. It is going to stay with me for 25 years ( 25 years warranty)..haha....definitely a important decision in 2010
6. Earn good experience in working a termpory job.
7. Say yes to Tao's prospose and received my dream ring.
8. Know some good new friends.
9. Go to Sydney a day only for a lunch
10. My notebook died after 5 years...


Hopefully 2011 will have more happy experience ...

Christmas key

Tao, Thank you very much for the present. It is a big surprise. I love this key a lot...and so happy that I have added a new item to my Tiffany's collection.

Novel ...

Have not read chinese novel for aging.. but once I pick it up and I do not want to leave it .
I really enjoy reading "亦舒" a lot....Need to get more when I back to HK next time.

Christmas is coming ......3 weeks ...

My favourite festival is coming again...however....this year willl be another wet season in Brisbane and seems that I cannot do much but will stay at home most of the time. ....
Last year, it rained for the whole holiday and I stayed at home doing nothing ...um...
seem I must think of sth to do in case I waste another good time to play...

I am stupid

After having my iphone for more than half year...I finally know how to type chinese ....
Previouly , I believe I had to purchase app from the App store for some software in order to type chinese....but....

I google it today...and find out that I only need to add a chinese keyboard to my setting , so I can always type chinese ....

How come I am that stupid....

Accident ......o

My hand got burn yesterday when I was cooking dinner. I guess the veggie I put on the pan get some water and when it came contact with the super hot oil, the oil immediately spilled to my hand. O...that is so painful and I just run my hand in water and put some cream on. Now, I get to wrap it with patch ....hopefully will recover soon...

Finally come the new Mattress.

The old mattress has been worn out for a year and I have decided to buy a new mattress for the new bed. I had bad neck and shoulder since I was 10, so I wanted to get a good quality mattress. Tao and I have been looking around for a good mattress for a few months and still had not made up a decision.

We narrowed into two choices : memory foam and pocket spring with pillow top. I always prefer the memory foam as I think it fits to the back comfortably. I like the Tempur mattress as it felt so good with the sink in feeling but Tao disliked it so much. Thus, we had to abandoned Tempur . So, the option for memory mattress left to be Simmons Comforpedic Nassau. I decided to pick this as it was a good deal from the end of financial year sale at the shop.

The mattress was finally delivered yesterday and I was able to try it. I quite like it and I did had a good sleep last night. I dreamt of meeting a lot of my high school friends.....one of my favourite dreams.....

Hopefully I will always wake up with good dreams sleeping on this mattress

1 tonne of stones

How much is one tonne of stones?!

I never thought I will need to face a tonne of stones in my life time. I believe 1 tonne is a big number and definitely not a weight unit that I will need to deal with. However, I bought a tonne of stone yesterday to get my garden done. Tao decided to tidy up the garden by placing stones on the side to prevent the growth of grass and make mowing to be a lot easier.

When the truck driver delievered the rocks at front of our door, I just realized a tonne of rock is so less in volume. We used around three hours to lay the rocks at the backyard. We have to transfer those rocks from the front door to the backyard and it is seem a long way when we needed to carry those rock with a small bucket. We are so exhausted after a whole day placing the rocks. I hope I will never need to leave 1 tonne of stuff anymore . 1 tonne is enough.....no more

Feeling good

It is always good to chat with someone that you trust and can rely on. I am so happy to have such a good friends to chat with. A good friend is someone that you can trust and feel very comfortable to talk with. More important is you feel so warm every time when you have any contact with such a good and best friend. Thanks my dearest friend I feel so good after chatting with you on last Friday.....hehe..

My dresser

I wanted to have a nice dresser for ages. I guess most girls prefer to have the nice dresser so they can put all their skincare, make up and accessories there.

Previously, I put all the my stuffs in a tallboy and my make up and skincare on top of it. I hang a small mirror on the wall so I can use it for make up. However, it is no really convenient to do that every day as I had to lean towards to wall to see my face clearly. However, this situation is going to change as we bought a new set of furniture for the bedroom.

I am thrilled to have the dresser. It gets a huge mirror which I definitely no need to lean towards the wall anymore. I spent nearly two hours organizing all my stuffs into the new dresser. It was really nice to have the drawer that are separated. So, I can organize my accessories much more easier. I found that I really have a lot of stuffs but luckily I am able to fit all the stuffs in and still have rooms left for more...haha..

Whale watching

Whale watching must be on my top summer activities this year. I wanted to go Whale watching since the first year I came to Australia to study. I believe it must be a nice experience and that why I always wanted to go. The best time to go whale watching is between July to October. However, I did not go for the past years because of various reasons eg...laziness, weather, cost...etc...Finally, Tao booked the Sea world whale cruise on this Saturday.

We arrived at the Sea world Wharf at early morning. It was a sunny day and the sea was real calm. We sailed around 10 km away from the Gold Coast. I could not believe it was so windy on the sea and my tears kept rolling from my eyes. I stared at the sea for around 10 minutes and nothing came up. I was afraid that I could not see any whale today. But after a while, we were able to spot some spring and saw the shiny reflection on the sea. The vessel followed the whale and we were able to see this wonderful animal so close. It was a Humpback whale and it was so exciting to see it kept coming up and swimming down. The whale seemed very playful and even swam under the vessel and showed its tail. What a wonderful experience!!!

room escape .....

I found out a pretty cool game posted on facebook and I tried a few on the website :http://gam.ebb.jp/index.html. All of games are very interesting and you need to think a lot in order to solve the games.

This type of point and click games remind me of a game that I played online ages ago. It was a game called MOTAS: Mystery of time and space. I remembered I played it around four years ago . I did not know it has more levels designed and I am going to try to finish this game.

These games can make you feel very frustrated and for sure time consuming. It is a great activities to do when you are bored ...