How big can it be?

I watched a story about a big family in Discovery channel (again...). Can you imagine a family with 17 children, with the 18th on the way? They are Duggar family.

Do you have interest to know how such a huge family can operate well in good order? The key points are "dedication" and "buddy system" - each children have a buddy to support each others to accomplish goals. The kids are sharing housework and behave decently. The Duggar is really good in teamwork and management.

http://www.duggarfamily.com/

The Diplomatic Corpse

I am reading “The Diplomatic Corpse”. The book name sounds scary but it is not a thriller, instead, it is a female comedy, I think.

It is about Jeremy, the British Ambassador to Vienna, was found dead of heart attack. Her wife, Maggie grieved until she discovered he died in the bed with a beautiful Viennese blonde Mausie.

This was just the tip of an iceberg, from the diaries of her husband (this is extremely dangerous for unfaithful people to keep diaries); she discovered that his mistresses/ lovers were all over in Europe, in each country they stationed before. She decided to take revenge… in total hilarious and creative ways, with the great help of their Hungarian driver Zoltan.

Being a wife of diplomat, Maggie was instructed to behave in certain manner, make certain friends and dress certain outfits. Since she became a widow, ironically she started to feel good and she re-defined herself in her favorite ways. Like what French said, a woman feels good in her own skin!

The revenge journey brought Maggie to many cities – Vienna, Paris, London, Rome, Budapest. Maggie uncovered the real face of each place, and also herself. During the worst time in one’s life, she could still find something to amuse herself.

I still have 100 more pages to go. I could not wait to finish it as fast as I can.

I wanna quit

That is enough!!! Thanks her to push me to the edge and to make the decision faster.

Quote of the day

"Beijing has been giving very strong messages to Hong Kong to maintain safety. The pressure from Beijing could be even heavier than from the terrorists." from the Security Chief of Hong Kong, Lee Siu Kwong, commenting about the security issue of Hong Kong during the Olympic game.

Time flies....

This is my nephew Issac when he was one years old. Time flies, now he is six, and I am becoming a mother of two.

Hell and heaven

I felt totally frustrated in my job today. It is extremely difficult to deal with our highness, who thinks the world is running around her. She even disregarded the schedule we agreed with the clients, she wants to move the who timeline earlier. The only reason she will be around clients' country at that period!!! Hassles brought up today and she exaggerated it 10 times by sending everybody loads of emails with one can even fill in a whole page of word file, with words in font size 10.

I just get used to handle shits in these few weeks. Come on, I am getting used to it.

Although people in work piss me off, I feel I am being treasured by my family. The kids are expecting me to come home every night. The two to three hours I spend with my babies before sleep is really the most important time of my daily life. We treasure the quality of our time together.

Tonight, I worked until 8pm, then Jeff and Lucas waited for me in train station and took me for dinner. When Lucas saw me, he ran into me excitingly.

I know I am a lucky person. And, guess what, I will fight back, I am sure I can make change of my working life.

Great weekend with my family

Nothing is more precious than family life. I have just had wonderful time with all handsome cutie pies last weekend.

Last Friday, Jeff and I went to see the movie "Wall-E" after dinner, this was totally out of my expectation!!! What a great movie which delivering environmental protection messages by adorable robots. It is a good sign that environmental protection is becoming a basic education to our next generations.

After the film, we felt extremely hungry and had a second dinner. (We had two dinners at one night). We went into an exquisite restaurant & Bar at Salisbury's Road, TST, it is literally at a road because we sit along the pavement. We had ordered duck breast with caramelized apple, seafood Cesar salad, french fries and Creme Brulee. I also had a glass of strong Champagne cocktail, and Jeff had beer. We did have a fascinating late night supper until 2am!!!!! People passed by surely thought either we starved ourselves the whole day, or we wanted to double of weights.

On Saturday, Linus got running nose. Since he is a home lover and has no great interest to go out, we asked nanny to stay with him at home, then we bought Lucas to have almost all means of public transport ride (Bus, mini bus, MTR, tram, taxi, except airplane).

We had been Causeway Bay, Wanchai and Admiralty. In Wanchai, there was special Italian cuisine supermarket with dining place in the second floor.The interior design is cozy, I love the orange coloured walls. We took a rest there in the middle our exhausted trip. I was holding the sleepy Lucas for almost a hour, thanks god there was an air-conditioned place with nice European food served.

Lucas was totally content that day.

On Sunday, Linus was getting better, we bought the kids out for breakfast, and we went to the Museum. Lucas kept say Mu-se-um in the museum, to show off that he knew this word.

Lucas was highly interested to the exhibits and kept running everywhere. However, Linus seemed not very enjoy and kept vomiting milk everywhere. We wiped up the milk all the time...

In the evening, Jeff and I became chefs, we made delicious dinner.

What a weekend packed with events, I love family life.