我的容容寶貝

我們家最近多了個寶貝, 就是我大堂姐的二兒子, 因為我媽已經退休所以有空幫忙帶小孩. 我這才發覺小孩子對家庭的影響很大, 一個禮拜中那兩三天就讓我們這個小家庭熱鬧很多. 尤其是上了年紀的老人家, 越覺得生活有了新的樂趣.


所以我也加入成為了帶小孩俱樂部的一員, 從小孩子互動的動作跟聲音就很多的樂趣, 我想現在肯定的是我已經不那麼排斥生小孩, 因為這真的是生命中另一種學習跟體驗.

上個禮拜我堂姐把他帶去剪頭髮, 誰知道他竟然給人家剃光頭, 這禮拜看到時是真的嚇了一大跳, 不過他說這樣頭髮會長的更漂亮, 所以就拭目以待嚕!!

Blog點名遊戲 -- 傳播幸福

謝謝Vega的抬愛及點名讓我不得不找個時間坐下來玩這個遊戲。

遊戲規則:
A. 被點到名字的要在自己的blog裏寫下自己的答案，然後去掉一個你最不喜歡的問題再加上一個你的問題，仍然組成20個問題，傳給其他8個人，列出其他8個需要回答問題的人的名字，還要到這8個人的blog裏留言通知對方——你被點名了，被點名者不得拒絕回答問題，完成遊戲的人將會永遠得到大家的祝福。
B.這8個人要在自己的blog裏註明是從哪裡接到的，並且再傳給其他8個人，讓遊戲繼續下去，不得回傳。被點到名字的人將會得到大家的祝福，並且所有美好的願望都會在不久的將來實現。

以下是問題開始~~~
Q1. 你認為分手後的男女朋友還能做普通朋友嗎？
A1. 我認為可以，但我有限的經驗告訴我幾乎不可能。
Q2. 遇到喜歡的人，但是對方已經有男/女友，你還會採取行動嗎？
A2. 不會。
Q3. 說出點你名的人的3個優點
A3. 直爽、樂觀、不輕易放棄。
Q4. 最想珍惜的人/事是什麼?
A4. 父母親及老朋友們。
Q5. 最大的煩惱是甚麼?
A5. 沒能下定決心請假去充電休息。
Q6. 你的夢想是什麼？
A6. 每天過著喜悅與滿足的日子。
Q7. 你為你愛的人做過最瘋狂的事？
A7. 只為了"可能"見他一面，馬上買機票飛過去。 (不過還是沒見到)
Q8. 你最想要那一個小叮噹的道具?
A8. 他那裝所有寶物的口袋。
Q9. 和戀人/老公/老婆吵架後，通常多久/幾天和好？
A9. 看狀況。
Q10. 戀人/老公/老婆讓你最欣賞的優點是什麼？
A10. 聰明、責任感、上進心。
Q11. 如果時光能倒流10年，你能改變一件事情，你會做什麼？
A11. 正好十年前的事，應該要對我第一任男友好一點，我當時應該非常嬌縱蠻橫還take things for granted。
Q12. 這輩子做過最笨的事情是什麼？
A12. 雖然清楚知道兩個人的個性不合或背景差異過大，還是因為母性想照顧人的本能而進入一段明知道會很辛苦而且沒有結果的感情。
Q13. 十年以後，你想過什麼樣的生活？你打算如何實現呢？
A13. 雲遊四海的貴婦生活，所以現在要開始努力賺錢、存錢及投資。
Q14. 接下來最想去旅行的國家或城市，為什麼?
A14. 法國巴黎，想去感受一下浪漫之都的丰采。
Q15. 如果可以自由選擇，你最想居住在哪個國家/城市？
A15. 每個階段應該都不一樣吧！不過一定是大都市。
Q16. 最懷念的年代?
A16. 大四每天喝下午茶的日子。
Q17. 一天當中最幸福的時刻？
A17. 剛躺下休息的時刻。
Q18. 如果有個天使要幫你實現願望，你目前的願望是什麼?
A18. Fortune, Relationship, Fitness.
Q19. 近期內最讓你感覺快樂的一件事?
A19. 終於Overachieve Target然後可以領獎金嚕！
Q20. 關於你的第一手消息,都是最先跟誰分享?
A20. 我媽或Jessica。

幸福傳播給:
1. Ceci
2. Grace
3. Betty
4. Michael
5. Ying
6. Gwan
7. Joanna
8. Ruby

我再抽空一一通知吧!!

Car Accident and Goes My GUCCI!

I'm so optimistic that I took the little car accident I got 2 weeks ago as a POSITIVE thing. I was walking on the street and there was a woman riding motobike with her kid and crossing by my side. Not sure what happened but their backward mirrow caught up with my handbag holder and dragged me for a short distance. Luckily, there was no major injury for me and both of them. HOWEVER, the holder broke and the pattern on the surface got damaged because of the pulling force.

At that moment, I did not ask for any compensation as I felt it's not so appropriate to ask since I supposed that's a mommy riding the kid to school. I thought I would be very pised off but I just take it like a small accident and also because of this, I really decided to buy a new handbag which I was thinking for a while.

So YES, I got a CAR ACCIDENT but I also got my NEW GUCCI!!

舊的不去新的不來!!

Mt. Yang Ming Flower Season

Decided to have one day rest at home as I have been very busy and really want to leave work in office only. Besides, I haven't got chance to walk outdoor for a long while. Therefore, I asked mommy to visit Mt. Yang Ming together this afternoon.


The weather is very good. Sunny but cooling so we can really enjoy walking around and enjoy the nice scene and flowers. It's actually very convenient to go there from our place by bus. I think I would much more time visiting there and really enjoy the beauty of Taipei.


I was thinking of going for Hot Spring but mommy decided to go back home as my dad is staying at home. It's a pitty but I would definitely go again!!

二月書單

閱讀對我來說是一種很好的自我成長方式，可能也因為我本身比較喜歡靜態的活動, 就算是潛水及瑜珈相對來說算是動作不會太激烈的。上個禮拜去拜訪Maggie的新家，更發現我們兩看的書還有蠻大部分的重疊，讓我開始研究了一下我的書單。

在台南高鐵車站時就看到幾本有趣的書想買，但就想等回到台北的誠品在買還可以有折扣及積點。所以今天就買了好幾本書，等我一一讀完再來跟大家報告。

<胡雪巖 上下卷> 二月河，薛家柱
<波特貝羅女巫, A Bruxa De Portobello> Paul Coelho
<深夜加油站預見蘇格拉底, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives> Dan Millman
<我的孤兒寶貝, My Best Friend's Girl> Dorothy Koomson
<早上十點以前搞定工作> 高井伸夫
<恩寵與勇氣> Ken Wilber

Tainan One Day Trip

Visited Tainan today to meet one candidate before his meeting with our client. This candidate has been working in China and therefore we haven't got the chance to meet him in person. Therefore, we were thinking to meet him up before his meeting with client to have a better control and idea over his state of mind.

Originally, we would meet for lunch but he was late for almost 2 hours because of the traffic on high way. Therefore, my colleague, Mills, brought me to one of the famous and long-history local market, 永樂市場, to try the famous Tainan local food.

We first had 米糕 and 四神湯 at this shop which has more than 50 years history. Then the famous 燒肉 and 土魠魚湯, which has similar long history.



It's really quite interesting to visit different places but I need to find a good partner to go and share the joy together. Therefore, my new year resolution this year is to buy my first property as I want to change to a new apartment with lift for my parents and the second is to find my life partner or soul mate to share my life together.

Lunch Gathering with Cousines

I didn't really have chance to gather with my cousines especially for the past 5 years out of Taiwan. All of us have our own story and growing up process. It's really great to gather again after so many years and so many different developments. We started meeting for lunch once a while from last year. Last weekend, we organized another one.





Time really flies as I really haven't seen some of them for years. I can't really recognize them as the image I have toward some of them are still the little girl or boy in kingergarden but now they all grow up. I'm the eldest but smallest in size. What an interseting description!

Han's Wedding

Guess it has been the season for all the important events like Wedding or Baby. In the past one month, I have been attending 3 weddings and 1 more to go next weekend. The farest one should Han's wedding in Manila on 30th Dec 2007. We had quite a big group flying from Taiwan, US and China. We only reached one day before the wedding and visited one restaurant to try the "LOCAL" food. To be frank, I can't really tell it's "unique" Philippine food as it tasted like TW or MY food to me.


It was a church wedding in the afternoon. We just started the photo taking session while waiting for the transportation at hotel lobby.


The session in Church is the traditional Catholic ceremony and all of us were quite confused as we were not sure the process and meaning of each actions but that was quite an interesting experience for me as the previous church wedding I attended were Christian style.
There was a Pool Side dinner after the church one a nice garden villa they rented. All of us almost went crazy as we all drank a lot. You should be able to tell from how drunk I was from the picture as my face and body as really red. I really like the Photographoer they hired as they were so efficient to come out a video clip for the dinner. You guys can check out these 2 links for the video and pictures.
http://threelogyvideo.com/hahn-cari-ws.wmv
http://www.dinolaraphotography.com/darkroom/share/?n=hahncari

The next day was New Year eve. We had a great New Year Eve dinner as you can see from the previous post. After that, we walked back to the hotel and saw the count down party they had on the main street.

2007 New Year Eve Dinner

A few of us continued to stay one more day after the wedding. So we really slept in on the New Year Eve because of the crazy party the previous day and we just relax and walk around the Makati city in the afternoon.

This area is the only downtown area in Manila City and it looks like KL Twin Tower area to me because of the hotels and shopping malls. I did walk around but didn't really buy anything because I'm not really interested in those cheap items and the brands I'm interested in are so much more expensive.

However, we found a very nice resturant for the dinner. We were walking around Green Belt to find a nice place and we come across this one. I like it becuase of the setting and the bright atmosphere. Therefore, I went there to check out the detail. At the beginning, they told us they are fullly booked and we have 8 people, which is not easy to get a table on New Year Eve. But thanks for the nice waitress, they helped us arrange one table becuase it's only reserved at 11pm. Then we can enjoy our dinner.



We order 8 sets of their New Year Dinner with 4 each for one of the main courses as we are thinking to share but the waiters are so considerate to ask the chef to arrange the split portion for us so that we don't need to split the food by ourselves in the end.





A very good dinner and I really enjoy the service. That's the only place I found "Quality Service" in Manila.

Smith & Hsu

After Maggie resigned in end Sep and her East Europe trip in last Oct, we haven't really got chance to have a good talk compared with our previous 8 months' close working and living relationship.

Therefore, we had a date this afternoon at Smith & Hsu as I've heard some good compliments about their teas and food. It's really quite full as there are only 16 seats. The service is OK only as we waited for almost 30 minutes to place our order. They actually have a few people but not sure what they are busy with. However, their score is really good.

We discussed about her Business Plan for her new start-up business. She wants to start up some business based on a platform providing "INSPIRATION" to people. We also talked about my work and some advises to me as my ex-supervisor as well as our relationship. That was really a good chat and sharing. We two somehow are very similar in terms of our attitude, approach towards life and relationship. Guess that's the reason why we really take her as my sister and one of my role models.

Christmas Coming!

Time really flies. I only realized it again yesterday moring when I was leaving office as they have already set up one Christmas Tree at lobby. I can still remember my last Christmas in Singapore. I visited a few symbolic places to really have a good feel of Christmas there as I know I probably won't be back any time soon.

The most impressive Christmas Tree I have seen so far would be the one at Ngee Ann City, Singapore. Christmas is a very big event there as it's not just a big shopping season but also a happy festival. This year, I would be in Taiwan for the Christmas. Got to come out a plan to enjoy my first Christmas back at home.

Cloud Gate - Nine Songs

I have been thinking to watch Cloud Gate's performance for a long time because it has earned a lot of compliments and respect from different part of the world and the most importantly they are from Taiwan. 2 years ago, they did have a performance in Singapore but I wasn't able to attend because of traveling schedule . Therefore, this time once I know of the Nine Song performance, I decided to go right away.

To be frank, I didn't really understand the whole performance as there are a lot of different factors here with a Chinese historic story, Taiwan local aboriginal music and dancing. However, the dancing, the stage setting, the music and the performance itself was really impressive to me though I didn't understand the story or there is even no story actually. ;Q

Actually, I met Mr. Lin Hwai-min in person at FSA VIP dinner. He delivered a speech about Cloud Gate and the different factors in his performance. I can really feel his enthusiasm when he was talking. It's really great to know that there are still a lot of people from Taiwan dedicating in their life. It's not just about politics here.

Wedgwood Tea Room

Had a long day today as I can't really focus and got a few conference calls and interviews. Besides, I have been feeling the stress from work for the past 2 weeks because of the few projects on hand and the pressure to open new accounts.

Therefore, I decided to leave earlier today and messaged Cindy and Sandy if they got any plan tonight. Cindy actually went for a concert today. So Sandy and I just met for dinner. We went to Wedgwood Tea Room at the new Sogo. I have been thinking to come as I like their bone china and we only want to have a light dinner.

We ordered one set with salad, sandwich and tea. The tea is really good as it's so refreshing and teasty. It has been always packed during weekend and even afternoon for weekdays as this is a popular place for those Tai-Tai.


I really start to consider switching my life to be a Tai-Tai if possible. I believe I would enjoy this kind of life to take good care of my husband and kids as well as myself a lot. However, this goal might not be that easy to achieve then.

最遙遠的距離

早上因為有新同事的training進了辦公室，本來跟斷食營的同學約中午碰面，但臨時取消。才發覺我真的除了工作就沒什麼個人生活的，除了跟一兩個還在台灣的朋友碰面還真的沒什麼事做，辦公室對面的華納威秀就變成了我最好的去處。幸好最近還有些可以引起我興趣的電影，一段時間沒看國片了，看到這個片名的時候就想去看看，因為大學時就對這首詩有些感觸，看完之後更覺得距離不是絕對的或是我們的眼睛可以判定的。

世界上最遙遠的距離
不是生與死
而是我就站在你面前　
你卻不知道　我愛你

世界上最遙遠的距離
不是我就站在你面前　你卻不知道我愛你
而是
明明彼此相愛　卻不能在一起

世界上最遙遠的距離
不是明明彼此相愛　卻不能在一起
而是
明明無法抵擋這股思念　
卻還得故意裝作絲毫沒有把你放在心裡

世界上最遙遠的距離
不是明明無法抵擋這股思念　卻還得故意裝作絲毫沒有把你放在心裡
而是
用自己冷漠的心對愛你的人掘了一條無法跨越的溝渠

不知道你是否能愛我像我愛你一樣
也不知道是不是只要努力就可以得到幸福
我只知道
不論會變的是不是你
永遠不變的是我

或許我真的是太過理智，面對感情，我最衝動過的動作也不過是為了想再見他一面，馬上從上海飛回新加坡然後再飛香港，只因為我知道那時已不再是亞洲兩個國家間的距離而是兩個大陸。但其實真正的距離並不是兩個人的所在，而是兩個人對這段關係的定位，不過我想這些都已經是過去了。雖然前兩個禮拜在將近一年之後再次見面，雖然在聽到他的消息、在網路上看到或接到他的電話還是不禁地會讓我心跳加速。雖然我心中很想釐清過去發生的種種，但我知道那並不會改變什麼，最多只是解了我心中長久的疑問，所以我還在想到底有沒有必要去問，如果結果並不會有所不同。

Anyway, 再次見面後的感覺多了些許不確定，老實說，我對他的了解真的非常有限，再加上我這一年在新工作上的急速成長及未來可見的跳躍，很多事情應該都很不一樣了。不知道我是不是又再次過於理智，或許感情上很多東西不該用道理來分析，但或許這就是我吧﹗

幸福

近來漸漸感到生活有點空虛的感覺, 其實還沒回來前就知道我的生活方式及對生活的想法跟家人有所差距, 尤其是我會想要有個舒適溫暖且屬於我的空間, 這樣我才能好好休息, 但我想短期內這是不太有可能實現. 但對想要有自己空間的想法卻又漸漸增長, 尤其最近看到一個介紹室內設計的電視節目"幸福空間", 就讓我更想要有個屬於自己風格的空間.

我現在就已經可以開始想像我想要的空間, 我一定要有個好廚房, 衛浴及一個有陽光的閱讀空間, 這三個會是我絕不妥協的必需品. 尤其是廚房, 我其實是個還蠻愛煮東西的人, 尤其是看到大家吃完那種滿足的感覺, 那真是種享受. 原本不認為我會是個居家的女人, 但漸漸的我發覺我會是個想要好好照顧家人小孩的人, 所以要是聽到我真的作個全職媽媽也不用太驚訝吧.

昨天在一個blog上看到人家在介紹"廚房之歌"這本書, 這其實是本食譜但就參雜了一些生活的筆記. 訴說這再不同國家的生活尤其是與小孩在廚房及食物上的互動. 看了好舒服, 好想有個屬於自己的家庭及空間, 就在廚房裡準備美物的食物給我愛的家人.

或許真的是年紀到了再加上身旁許多朋友也有了家庭, 那種幸福的感覺讓我也想步入家庭. 每天早上在心愛的人身邊醒來應該是在幸福不過的吧.

My New Toy - SE K810i

Currently, I'm using 2 phones: Dopod for the company number and SE for my personal number. My previous SE phone has been about 4 years old and got some problems. That's the reason why I'm considering getting a new phone these 2 months. I have been considering either SE K810i or K850i as I want to have a phone with good camera features so that I don't need to bring my camera along. In the end, I decided to go for K810i as the price difference to K850i is quite substantial and the major difference in terms of camera feature is only the mega pixel. Besides, K810i got this red color which is more for my style I guess. :)

I bought one at Shih-Lin this evening and the phone is just nice for me. Maybe it's because I have been used to the user interface of SE and the camera feature should be quite OK for normal shoots. Then I can take more pictures to share on my blog soon.

David Tao Taipei Concert

On my way back from Tainan last Friday, Cindy called me and told me that she got tickets for David Tao's concert in Taipei on that night. I was thinking if I should go as I actually need to go back to office in the afternoon though I was still on leave. However, it's too temptating to have a FREE ticket so I decided to go.

Actually, I met David Tao in person once as we took the same flight back to Taipei about two years ago. My only impression then was he is quite small size. However, after the concert, the only thing I can say is he is really very energetic as he kept singing for 3 hours non-stop.

Cindy and I enjoyed a lot about all the old songs that we sang back in Uni though there are some new ones that I only heard about it first time. Overall, it's quite interesting experience as this is my 2nd concert experience after the May Day one in SG 5 years ago.

We decided to arrange more activities from now on as I really believe that my life is not only about working after the Detox Camp.

Detox Camp

After reading an article on Business Weekly about some celebrity women's experience in a Detox Camp, I decided to go once I got chance. Three weeks ago, after I brought in 2 new cases, I decided to take one week leave last week for the camp as I knew that I won't be able to have this kind of chance again.

Therefore, I was in Tainan for 7 days. As the name indicates, there are some treatments or programs to detox our bodies. The main program is Fasting. Every morning, we would drink 2000 cc of Warm Lemon Water with Salt to clear our body. For the 2nd and 3rd day, we drank only water and for the 4th day, we didn't even drink. The purpose is to have the body concentrating on detoxing as most of the time our body is working on digesting the food we eat.

For me, it's really a total relaxing, reviving, purifying experience and of course I made some good friends there. I would highly recommend everyone to go for this kind of camp if you want to keep a healthy body and especially for hose people with Health Issues. This would be a good alternative treatment as I have seen a few good cases with symptoms such as high-blood pressure or heart problems improving during the camp.

CAVARALLI CAFE

It's my first time sitting at a cafe for a weekend afternoon after back at Taipei for more than 9 months. It has been a crazily busy 9 months as I was trying very hard to pick up everything I need to perform. Finally, things are getting better after hard work and learning.

However, it's really a trade-off. I have spend most of my time on work including weekend. 75 hours week seems not a big deal. Therefore, I decided to have some change to try to have a "more" balanced life (anyway, it's all relatively). So now I'm sitting at a nice cafe shop at 永康街 and ordered a Rose Milk Tea.

Ya, I'm going to enjoy my leisure time though I still need to work on my research for potential companies to approach.

Ariel's Wedding

inkCongratulations to Kevin and Ariel!! Ariel is the first one to get married among the 5 of us. Kevin and Ariel have been together for about 8 years since we were still in Uni. It's really great to see them getting married and stepping into the next stage of their life.

Cindy and I are the bridemaid for Ariel. We need to reach around 7 am as the groom would reach around 8am and we need to finish the ceremony so as to leave the house before 8:45am.

We were supposed to play a few games with the groom to get the process a bit tougher for him. However, the first thing Ariel told us in the morning was to ask for easier game for the groom as he was burning the midnight oil the day before and very tired. Besides, there is time limitation as we need to leave Ariel's house on time. So we only get Kevin to play basketball up to the 2nd floor, answer a few questions and sang a song, whhic were way too easy.

We need to leave Ariel's place before 8:45am and can only stepped into Kevin's place at 10am, but they stay so close to each other as it's only a 5 minutes walk. So we can only drave around the Taipei city for one hour and 15 minutes to kill time.


Cindy actually got tons of serious misquito bites while waiting for Kevin to at downstairs of Ariel's place. It's either those mosquitos were too hungry in the early morning or Cindy is just simply too delicious.

Thanks for Ruby's offering as we went to her place to have some snap. We got up really early in the morning and we got another full evening session to go on. Really need some rest and we fell asleep immediately after touching the bed.


Ruby and Chris were also back for Ariel's wedding. They are another couple since uni time. Our relatioships are a bit extreme; either very very long or just simply very short.

Before the dinner ceremony, Ariel arranged one of her friends to do hair and make-up for Cindy and I.




It's quite different to see myself with full make-up. That's really quite good to have a refreshing me but it's not often to have this kind of occasions


We knew that Ariel was dying to drink some wine as everyone was hoping her to drink grape juice. So we get Ruby and Chris to demonstrate 交杯酒 so to get Kevin and Ariel to finish a full glass of wine.


The dinner vanue is at Grace Hill, a dedicated and very popular wedding venue in Taipei. I like the bride dressing room a lot as it's my ideal design for the living room.


We actually met up for dinner yesterday as that could the last day to have Ariel and Ruby in Taiwan at the same time. Besides, we also want to celebrate Cindy and Ariel's birthday later this month.

Congratulations and Happy Birthday la.. :)