Daddy Long Legs

Last week I bought a lot of books from the book fair. One is Daddy long legs Chinese version, another is Daddy long legs 2. Remember that in form 2, Daddy long legs was a must-read novel and it was 'taught' during English classes. And at quite the same time, the cartoon episode of this novel was launched in TVB Jade children's period. Then, Daddy long leg became the very special collective memory of St. Cat girls of our form. I am sure a lot of girls even dreamt they would meet their own Daddy long legs when they grow up. The story of Daddy long legs made me feel that the world is filled with love and hopes!!

'Daddy long legs' in this story means, as I know, a kind of spider, not the long legs of Daddy. The story consisted of 76 letter from an orphan Jerusha Abbott to a rich, secret benefactor who paid her to college. As Judy could just seen the shadow of this benefactor during the first time they met, his shadow crawled over the wall and was lengthened, which was like a daddy long longs on the wall, that is why the story had such a funny name. Highly recommend if you have not read it!!

Thank you!!

I would like to dedicate this diary to the one who waits for me back home from work patiently, and cooks me dinners all the time. You let me feel that I will never walk alone, not matter how tired I am, no matter how desperated I feel. I know that you always support me unconditionally. You, I had known for only 8 years, but had been willing to make a comittment, and promised to take care of me always. I am so lucky to have such as good soulmate like you! Thank you!!

Free vs. Less
From the book 'The Family Way', I learnt two terms - Child-free and Child-less. Both words describe the same phenomenon - Someone do not have kids, but it means totally different subjectively. One is free of burden, and another is filling with emptiness. Wow what a marvelous contrast. What about carefree and careless, or penny-free and penny-less?

Cat, one of the heroines in the novel feels so proud of her singleton, 36 years old with a hippy job (the manager of one of the most fabulous restaurants in London), an 'infertile' boyfriend, and the smallest flat along the glittering Thames River bank. Her 'infertile' boyfriend let her to be 'carefree to remain 'child-free'.

But I am sure the story will develop in an unexpected way... at least Cat could not imagine, because her destiny is totally depended on Tony Parsons, he is not her boyfriend, but the author of this book.

Mr. Right and Mr. Right Bastard -
What is the relationship between these 2 terms? Lot of women in their early thirty are hunger for Mr. Right. Another bunch of women in late thirty realize that the one they assume are Mr. Right turn out to be Mr. Right Bastard. I learnt it from this book as well, sounds so pathetic, but extremely hilarious!!!

Blythe & Spider

Her pet is spider! She is going to walk the spider at the playground.

Bookworm

Last week I finished the Anthropological book 'Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong, by Jean-Nenoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow', which I had read for almost 3 months.

Now I am reading a novel called 'Ther Family Way' by Tony Parsons. It is about 3 sisters, 3 couples, and 2 pregnancies. Tony depicted women's feeling delicately. Frankly, I can't believe he is a man.

My daddy bought me the latest hottest book - 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price by J.K. Rowling. I always say Dad is so hip and so trendy. He keeps abreast of the trend. This book will be one of my before-bed readings!!

What book you are reading right now?

Breakfast At Tiffany's

Tonight Jeff and I saw the film 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', starring by Audrey Hepburn & George Peppard.

This was a wonderful night. We sat on the 2-seat sofa, I snacked 3 pieces of Mrs. Field Cookies. Yes I knew they would filled my stomach with sugar and fat, I just loved to do it.

Haven't heard Moon River for a long time, it sent me a sweet feeling when I heard it from the movie again.

Moon River"
music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer

Moon River,
wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end-- waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.
© 1961 Paramount Music Corporation, ASCAP
Hear Audrey Hepburn sing "Moon River"

I cried a bit at the end, when seeing Holly and Fred finally found the cat in the rain at the end of the movie. Jeff pat my head gently.

This was really a wonderful night.

Tai Ping Shan

Tonight I went for hiking at the Peak, Hong Kong.

I haven't been so healthy for a long time. I had exercised 5 times this week - yoga on Monday, pilate on Tuesday, swimming on Thursday, hiking on both Saturday and Sunday. Cool!!

Surprisingly, I found that my front stroke swimming is even better than when I was in the peak of my physically capacity. I could swim even smoother, faster and longer. When I was a life-saving team member in teenage, I felt that I had limitation to swim front stroke more than 100 m in each practice, that was why I kept swimming breast stroke. But now, without the burden of competing with others, I free my mind and practise any form I love, I could swim happier.

Remember that when I was a teenager, I spent all summer holidays in swimming pool or beach, I got sun-tanned and well-built every summer. The smell of pool water drove me nervous when the swimming gala or life-saving competition approached, but the scent of Coppertone sunblock always comforted me and made me feel good.

I haven't used Coppertone sunblock for centuries, as I knew there were some more powerful sunblock from Sofina and Clarins existed in the market. However, Coppertone is not replaceable in my heart, its unique scent, especially mixing with seawater, is always whiring in my heart.

Tonight I will go to mom's home, she will cook for me, yummy!!!

Long Island

I have been Cheung Chau today.

Today the sun was shining fiercely. The sky was perfectly clear and we could even see the half moon with snowflake colour hooked on the sky.

On the sanpan, I enjoyed the smell of sea water, the scent that I loved so much and was almost forgotten, as I have not been so close to the nature for quite a moment. I also saw the multi-layers of mountaineous landscape, numbers of fishing boats, some sun-tanned fishing old folks. The whole scene was very exotic to gwai-los, but for me, it is so homely and cozy.

Hong Kong is so beautiful.

Tonight I saw the film 'Bleu' with Jeff. In one of the scenes, there was a close up to show the heroine soaked a piece of sugar cube with coffee, then through it into the coffee. I remembered one of my drama friends obsessed in these kind of presenation so much.

There are 2006 calendars available in Page One, my goodness, is time running that fast? Now is just in the half of 2005. One set of calendar uses 'Worst Case Scenario' as the theme. You could see there are 365 examples of worst case scenario and each one has a solution right next to it to teach you how to solve the problem. Jeff said it suit me a lot as I had anxiety and negative thinking all the time. He believed all those demonstrated solutions could sooth me psychologically. #$%^&*()(*&^%$!!

Continuing Education

I think I love to torture myself. I am planning about studying a part-time marketing dipolma. Although I keep screaming about how I feel tired afterwork, but I think it is still very worth to work extremely hard in 9 months in order to nourish my marketing sense.

As I had been in marketing field for quite sometime, I still don't have a solid fudamental concept of every marketing term, therefore it may be a good moment for me to enhance my knowlege, before I make the next step of my career development.

However, I should consider the timing carefully to strive for the balance of everything.

Yuen could not agree more about my plan, he feels that even though I may be exhausted to study a part-time course, it is still much worth than working overtime, as somehow he thinks OT is a kind of exploitation.

There is a quite relevant marketing diploma which is co-organized by HKU space and CIM, which will kick off in October 2005. Hopefully I could manage to take it. Once I commit in it, I will try my best to stick with it.

A Grief of London

What make people slaghtering each other? July 7 was supposingly a great day of London, it was just confirmed that 2012 Olympic game would be in this charming city, lots of celebration was planned on yesterday. However, the deadliest terrorism attack happened on this piece of soil at this moment.

I felt so upset to read the news, I keep my eyes on BBC news, I support all Londoners mentally, and I am sure they should be proud of themselves, they shows their courage in front of those coward terrorists.

May god bless England!

A beautiful mind

Last Saturday I had a long and serious girls talk with four of my secondary school schoolmates, which I rarely did in the past 10 years. We just figured out how we walk our path in such diversified ways.

Our host named this gathering as 'Sex and the City' - it was similar as a scene of chit chat what Carrie, Samatha, Miranda and Charlotte were in TV. Our topics, on and off, were about love affair, seeking for a partner, marriage, career and future.

Somehow our personality shaped our destiny. I felt upset for my friend who hurt herself by the rotten relationship, but as a friend, what I could do is giving her support, and to accept that everyone has different set of value.

But, anyway, what I believe is, if you have a beautiful mind, you will be beautiful and cheerful eventually!!

Last weekend, I bought a book - Bobbi Brown beauty in Page One. I love the brand Bobbi Brown so much as Bobbi Brown, who uses her real name for her own brand, always advocates the sense of enhancing natural beauty. I appreciate her more as I knew that she is actually a mother and a fabulous and one of the best make-up artists at the same time. In this book, she pointed out that only confident women are charming, and every woman has their own attractive points.

Girls, let's beautify yourself by simply boost up your confidence!!!