May 9, 2004 (Sun) Sunny

I get a new job successfully. Now I am working in a marketing research firm with the position of Research Executive. I hope it is my dream job and I will perceive it a my career instead of a meaningless job.

I am not a flexible person to adapt changing easily. As I have went for this new job for three days, my skin became very allegic, several tiny little red spots crawled over my right face. I felt so unhappy about this. The physical appearance is very influential to personal impression and charm. I hope it will recover soon.

I have practised hot yoga for one and a half month, it seems improving my fitness and body figures effectively. I will keep try my best to keep it a weekly habit.

In the soon future, I will move out with Jeff from our existing home, it is because the commuting time is long and unbearable. A geographical theory mentions that we could calculate two transportional values of any point of place, mobility and accessibility. Mobility is about the physical distance of certain place, when accessibility measures how transportation means could shorten the transport time. Obviously, the mobility and accessibility of our current place is poor for me to travel to Hong Kong Island.

I do love the existing home where I live with my parent-in-law. They treat me like their own daughter. But I guess we should somehow grow up and to be independent. Maybe this is the first step.

I hope I will not suffer from skin allergy again when I move to a new living place.

May 6, 2004 (Thu) Cloudy & Shower

Yesterday I went shopping with my sister, we planned to buy a gift for mother for the mother's day. Mom told us that she had owned everything already and did not need any present. Frankly, women's words are not reliable something, especially before those birthdays, anniversaries, and, Mother's day.

We shopped in the Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong. (my friends always comment I am a boring idiot because I visited Festival Walk three or four times a week, they said Hong Kong is a shopping paradise with dozens of large and small shopping malls I should go) We came to a conclusion to buy mom something that she could use in her daily morning jogging.

Finally we bought a Lesportsac bag with Tic Tac flower pattern in LOGON. I saw lots of girl croweded at that Lesportsac corner to buy something for their mothers. I guessed during May 9th, an influx of Lesportsac lady will exist in every Hong Kong street corners.

Have you ever bought something for your mother? Believe me, don't trust their words or attitude that gift is not important. It is not worth to take this risk, the opportunity cost is too high. You do not hope to see your mother with long face during the tea or dinner time this Sunday, when the mom in next table indulges her ecstatic smile and is showing off her expensive gift in the public, right?