We overcome the challenge

We overcome the challenge. This can be said as a little challenge because eventually we get a good news.

My family and everyone knows it are so happy for me.

Thanks everyone of you. Including my family, my friend and my company.

Now I have mood to read book. And I schedule to watch Little Miss Sunshine this weekend... and go to park with Lucas... and have a big fat crab dinner at home...

Sometime, life is like a roller coaster

This is one of the biggest challenges I am ever facing.

Jeff and me hold each other's hands tight.

We believe a good news will come eventually.

Becoming Jane

I've seen Becoming Jane last Friday, Jeff was with me. It's good that he didn't fall sleep even we watched the movie at 9:45pm.

I love Jane Austen a lot. Her first book I read is Jane Eyre when I was in Primary school.

I love the movie because I like Anne Hathaway a lot, even someone criticized she is not an ideal person to act Jane Austin as she carries no idiosyncrasy (thanks Sam for teaching me this word) of a witty British female writer in 18th century. Anne is my most favourite Hollywood actress since her 'Princess Diaries 1', the movie which made a breakthrough in her career path. She is never in drop-dead-gorgeous type but I just think she is cute.

After the movie, I asked myself, do I have gut to become Jane? To give up status and fortune in order to pursue my dream? A dream that no one believe you can achieve?

The best quote of this movie is from Jane's mother. When Jane turned down the proposal of Mr. Wisley, her mother was furious and said 'Affection is desirable, but money is absolutely indispensable!' Oh, she reminded me the figures in my bank account, the credit card payment... ahhhhh.

Good learning - Adversity Management

A good lesson over these two days, Jelly shows me that he is really a market research guru.

Usually, we faced many hindrance, difficulties, obstacles in our projects. Sometimes we just have bad luck, other time the study is too difficult to acheive, sometimes just a simply mistake can spoil the whole thing, etc, etc. We name all these as 'WOKs' (yes, the wok for cooking in all Chinese family, wok also carries a symbolic meaning, it means shits that require someone should be responsible to or to deal with it).

The wok we face this time is, we work with an agency in on island in Pacific Ocean which quality cannot reach our expectation. It cannot complete our tasks and had late responses all the time.

The client started to complain and kept calling me and Jelly last night.

Then this morning, Jelly came up with some ideas, he implemented all damage controls within several hours - we got a new agency, checked their costing and capacity, communicated with the client, got the confirmation, cut the crap done by the original agency, discussed the final charge... We completed all these in one single day. If we are lucky enough, we can get what the client needs over this weekend.

Through the process, Jelly's aim is simply problem-solving, no blaming, no fighting, no name calling, Sometime you don't need to act like a bitch or pull your hair if someone has just ruined the work. We worked things out step by step like waltzing. I feel so good because we really work as a team!

He is a good role model to me!

Another nice book - The Other Side of the Story

I am currently reading 'The Other Side of the Story' by Marian Keyes. Three women's lives (Gemma, Lily and Jojo) intertwined and formed a fiction with humor, happiness and bitterness. The same story is narrated from three different angles.

This book contains more than 500 pages, I am just in Pg. 68, still reading Gemma's portion. I would spend more time on it in the coming long weekend.

Gemma is a party planner in Dublin and she used to spend her all her single second in work. However, her life was just flipped up-side down when her dad left her mom for his 36 years old secretary. Her mom is suffering panic attack all the time and she even has difficulties to left her for work.

Gemma is a single child, she understands that one day she should take care of two parents by herself, if there is no shoulder from any life-long partner to take the burden, but everything just comes suddenly and she doesn't know how to do.

On the other hand, her ex-best friends Lily, who stole her love has just written a novel 'Mimi Remedies' and entitled the national bestseller. Even her sobbing mom loves this book.

It is worth for me to spend time on, Marian's writing is less girlish than Meg Cabot and full of dark humour.

My New Blythe - Hawaiian hot babe

Aloha, welcome to my Blythe family!!

I am planning to run a beauty contest for all my Blythe. Will come soon.

I know I am crazy, so what!!

Struggle

Are you a workaholic? I was, but I am not. Precisely, I cannot afford to be since I have my own family.


Working 9 to mid-night in weekdays and having business trips always, for me, is a sacrifice, not a challenge. It is because I cannot leave my husband and kids behind and eat up our family time for job.

People can never be satisfied, when you greet others, you will say 'All the best', because you wish them to get everything the best. I know I am already a blissful person because I have such a lovely family.

I know it is unrealistic to expect blossoming career development in my current working place, because I choose a happy balanced life. However, can I get what I want in another place? Any opportunities out there?

I have to do some searching.

Obsessive compulsive disorder

If you have watched the TV series 'Monk' you know what 'Obsessive Compulsive Disorder' means. It is a psychiatric anxiety disorder. People suffers from this illness tend have repetitive behaviours which they feel forced to perform.

Do you have this kind of problems? For me, I am quite obsessed to check my email box during work (in every 15 minutes or more often), thanks to the malfunction email receipt notification. Sometimes, that little envelope in the bottom right hand corner of my screen just pops out from no where suddenly...

Since the day you have come to this world, the sky is more beautiful

I watched the last episode of Mother at 14 in Pearl channel tonight. It is a happy ending. Since the day her baby arrived this world, Miki feels the sky is clearer and more beautiful.

I think if I am not a mother, I could not share her feeling. However, once I gave birth, the world is also different to me. No matter how pathetic the world is, I can still see hope.

This is the beauty of being a mother, you could not feel unless you experience it. The process of labour and delivery is extremely suffering but I discover the miracle of life, and unconditional love - I love my baby for no reasons.

Toxic air

We were planning to have outdoor activities with Lucas today, but I guess we should cancel it, because the new report claimed that Hong Kong air pollution today reached health-threatening level, even though now is the National Day gold weekend in Mainland China. Apparently there are still many manufacturing activities ongoing......

Sigh......

Obsession in facebook

I know I should control myself. I am just wandering around facebook mindlessly when I have time or feel boring. Thanks to all user-friendly applications in this 'social utility', you can send friends surprise gifts or delicious desserts effortlessly. It is really hard to resist the temptation.

Now once Jeff and I arrive home, we occupy a computer immediately (we have one desk top and one note book), then I will login in facebook, he will go to all stock market websites.

My goodness, what kind of couple are we?

Anyway, my daddy had just joined facebook and my sister and me bombard his profiles page by all those little plants, messages, holiday gifts and some bizarre applications. Let me know if you also wanna be his friend! He is a really hip parent!!!!!

WWF Walk for Nature @ Mai Po 2007

A findraising program of WWF. It aims at arousing our consciousness of climate change.

Date: Oct 28
Starting time: 9am-2pm
Venue: Mai Po

Please click the subject to access the link. Let me know if you have interest. Jeff and I will join!

Diary

正在讀大學的小表妹也有寫blog，其中一條posted link，是她參與的大學組織的網上留言板。

我在HKU時是drama society的一份子。Society其中一件很重要的資產，就是所有會員也可留言的DIARY。它是一本硬皮簿，內容不限。寫diary的習慣一代傳一代，巳承襲多年歷史，大家很踴躍地下留下點點的無聊事，重要事，所思所想，好及爛的gag，甚至駡戰......好一個大學時代，大夥兒談話劇，談兩性，談人生，談社會，就是不談讀書，多爽。

未知HKU drama society 的DIARY是否變成網上運作？但我希望它仍是一本硬皮簿，有著它所質感，載著每位筆者所字迹，每一筆的力度 。