Monday, January 30, 2006

Stupidly discovering myself from quizzes

Your Birthdate: December 11

Spiritual and thoughtful, you tend to take a step back from the world.
You're very sensitive to what's going on around you, yet you remain calm.
Although you are brilliant, it may take you a while to find your niche.
Your creativity is supreme, but it sometimes makes it hard for you to get things done.

Your strength: Your inner peace

Your weakness: You get stuck in the clouds

Your power color: Emerald

Your power symbol: Leaf

Your power month: November


All of these seems pretty true, except for the 'power symbol' part. The leaf was my secondary's school symbol and I don't feel a bit powerful about it...

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You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy)

You're a great thinker and a true philosopher.
You'd make a talented professor or writer.


Ahh... just the kinda motivation i'm needing...

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Happy New Year - it'll be another year of dogging away at work :D

Hello everyone! Thanks for visiting this blog for the first day of this year 2006 on the lunar calendar! I wish everyone an amazingly prosperous new year and all your wishes come true! For those who are studying, may you be achieve wonderful results in all the coming year's examinations, best grades in the whole school and etc... :P

And I wanna wish myself to be able to find a wonderful job and get paid well!! Thank you!! XD

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Its not always that bad

I hate shopping for clothes for a few reasons.

1.) I know nuts about fashion/color-matching. Any salesperson who can babble convincingly that I look nice in overpriced clothes can earn a pile from me.
2.) Even though I should be considering following tips from magazines that have been paid to advertise marked-up-priced-products, I can't afford even a half a piece
3.) The salesman is gay.

It has not been a major problem in Singapore as not many people really care what I wear. Everybody pretty much dresses up very casually. You can actually go shopping around in shirt, shorts and sandals. On a date, I wear a shirt and a pair of jeans, smack up some cologne here and there and pretend that I've got good taste...

But thats for Singapore. I'm in Hong Kong right now and its winter; shirt+shorts+sandals is what beggars wear. Or some cute, fashionable & funky girl without fear of the cold. In any case, I couldn't take it anymore and went to get myself some decent clothes.

I went to U2 at Taikoo Shing after dinner. Tried on many combinations of clothes as suggested by the salesman(gay), I was convinced that I needed to spend HK$1k to advertise their products for them so that I might have a chance to look decent. He was a very good salesman who has spent a lot of efforts convincing me, or rather, my aunt who was with me. But he's very Gay, too, and the fact that he's gay means he can really, TALK, to women. You know, gay-women thingy... yeah. So instead of giving me advice, she became just a parrot for the salesman(gay!)...

Ahh well. But my aunt insisted on buying another of those shirt things...

and she paid for it too, as a late birthday present this year... hehe. Isn't that sweet of her? :P

thats my aunt and her bf/husband to be.... :D

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Who's your daddy!!!

Man.

This is gonna be a sucky week. And the week after isn't going to be much better. Let's see why ahfaii is getting depressed over this week and next...

1.) My dad called me just now and told me to bring my bro out to dinner a couple of days later. Not just 3 of us, but with someone that I don't really feel like seeing... my-so-called-stepmom. It's gonna be a disaster. I hope it is going to be, somehow.

2.) Dad made me go Macau to see my gramps for new year... even though I'm fuckin broke. He wanted me to skip Mom's birthday too... almost. Not that I don't wanna see my gramps, but I'm just freakin broke this month and he doesn't understand why. Tried to talk maths to him but it seemed pretty pointless.

3.) He's not getting my phone for me.

4.) He's gonna give my bro lots of pocket money for nothing, piss my mom off and make her scream around like a mad woman for a couple of days. Ooof.

5.) He wants me to go back and work for him in China... and then we'll have a debate session whereby 'should a person's son help his father?' again, again, and again.

OOOF.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Something different on the menu...going without backspacing.






No backspace was used in this entry. Byte-friendly post :D

Monday, January 16, 2006

First 30 questions from http://www.livejournal.com/~5000questionsur/ from lizzy's post in friendster...

1. Who are you?
I am known to ahfaii to most people.

2. What are the 3 most important things everyone
should know about you?
I can't do that. Its either because I have more than 3, or I have none... :
3. When you aren't filling out 5,000 question
surveys like this one what are you doing?
I usually do what others do. Other than that, I draw on my little book whenever I have ideas and thoughts that I want to remember, take photographs of delicious food and keeping it in a journal...

4. List your classes in school from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least (or if
you are out of school, think of the classes you did like and didn't like at the time).
I used to like English most. It was one of the easiest lessons and it was even better with Miss Lisa Ang who used to stay just below my apartment. Now that I think of it, I regret dropping art...

5. What is your biggest goal for this year?
To be able to earn a stable income to sustain myself and my family... wait, make that goalS. I wanna be able to have time to go study while earning my keep and also to help my brother improve himself, in terms of studies, character and thinking. He really needs help but he rejects it.

6. Where do you want to be in 5 years?
I want to be earning some decent money in my own business. Preferably around HK$40,000 ? Muahahahaha~

7. What stage of life are you in right now?
The part whereby a teenager really feels the adult crisis. I found myself in a bad situation; without the education that I could have gotten and developed a certain fear of becoming a failure in life, of which I cannot get rid of yet...

8. Are you more child-like or childish?
Child-like. I try my best to pretend I'm not that childish :P

9. What is the last thing you said out loud?
"**** la cheebye..."... to Jeremy... hehehe~

10. What song comes closest to how you feel about your life right now?
My life has so many facets. Its has to be a mix of songs! Anyway, The "Madonna - American Life" comes closest. Made me see many things that I never really noticed in my life.

11. Have you ever taken martial arts classes?
"Self-defense & takedown" course in the police academy so far I guess...

12. Does your life tend to get better or worse or does it just stay the same?
Its a roller-coaster and I know whats coming for me. Its going a lil downwards right now... preparing for the big plunge... >_<;

13. Does time really heal all wounds?
A wound is temporary. A scar is forever.

14. How do you handle a rainy day?
Hot tea, and a hot lover please :P

15. Which is worse...losing your luggage or having to sort out tangled holiday lights?
Losing my luggage has to be worse. At least I have a choice to discard the stupid lights :o

16. How is your relationship with your parents? Will you miss them when they are gone?
Well, parents. Hmm... I'll miss my mom if she's gone... that's for sure. I love my Mom. I hate my Dad. He sucks, but it doesn't mean I really HATE him to the core.

17. Do you tend to be aware of what is going on around you?
Subjectively, I can be tentatively-deaf/mute/blind to certain things/people... but of course, when I'm with an important person, I always look out... I don't want anything bad happen to her... just like before.

18. What is the truest thing that you know?
Nobody will like anyone/anything that has no value to them. My defination of value would be, the level of dependance on that thing/person.

19. What did you want to be when you grew up?
I was about four to six years old then... wanted to become a bus driver when I saw them do those super-pro bents on the super-duper-narrow streets of Hong Kong. Ahh well :P

20. Have you ever been given a second chance?
I had a second chance at almost everything. But I just keep screwing up :o

21. Are you more of a giver or a taker?
I can't give more than I take... a slight tilt to the taker side I guess.

22. Do you make your decisions with an open heart/mind?
It depends. When I feel that there's no better chance after that, I'd just give my all and go for it... I would have all the time in the world to regret it afterwards :P

23. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you?
oww... err, I got caught in the zip once. Never happened to me again ever after...

24. What is the most emotionally painful thing that has ever happened to you?
It was during this secondary 3 period. I was totally heads-over-heads with this girl of my dreams. She was so beautiful that Gigi Lai / Leung combined would probably lose!(She was freakin still beautiful the last time I saw her on my business trip). Anyway, it was her birthday and her friends sort of invited me to give her a gift. Nothing more than that... but it somewhat hinted that she might invite me to her party as well. Went to her place at 2pm with what she had wanted; the forever friend bear which costed me like, 2-3 months of stavation?

She opened the door, took the gift, smiled and thanked me, closed the door and continued with her birthday party. I hated her ever since...

25. Who have you hugged today?
I just gave myself a hug... yeah. Hahahaha~

26. Who has done something today to show they care about you?
A lot of people. Colleagues, my grandma, my cousin and some old friends of mine called me up and chatted. I'm still feeling warm from all that concern... :~)

27. Do you have a lot to learn?
Definately. But my concentration on learning says otherwise when faced with a lot of textbooks to memorize... :
28. If you could learn how to do three things just by wishing and not by working what would they be?
1.) The art of Wing-Chun
2.) Chinese Medicine
3.) How to sell anything to people

29. Which do you remember the longest: what other people say, what other people do or how
other people make you feel?
I suppose what other people do has the biggest impact on me. I'd like just simply forget everything about what other people say after a sleep and ...I wake up a new person :o

30. What are the key ingredients to having a good relationship?
Personally, I believe the following points are the most important (not in order, i think?)
1.) To understand differences between each other. Unlike the Americans way of thinking, I believe that each and everyone of us has got certain different roles to take on...
2.) Lots of love & concern. Lovelessness and lack of concern are the killers... you should know :p
3.) ...And having no other ultimate object of love to destroy the relationship... :o

Holy smokes.... @_@

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Dreaming

"We will never know until we tried
Commit suicide and check out the other side."

I woke up saying that line to myself. A line that I got from my dream last night. I didn't remember anything about it though. But I believe that it was really trying to tell me something there; it does not mean I should really commit suicide, but rather, just take a big risk at the upcoming chance that I have.

I'll leap at it.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Knick Knacks~





All that childhood toys...

Part two : The AvP'd


The HK$500 'lottery' ticket.

The queue.

The moment of waiting.

"Mr Yeung, please come to the office to collect your result slip..."

I was pleased with the result. I passed :)

Monday, January 09, 2006

Its an avp day everyday...

I woke up a little late at 12pm today, which is half an away from my driving lesson.
At the lift, I watched my neighbour smashed the lift button simultaneously like it had killed her son. I wanted to thank her for trying to get the lift to me asap, but I figured that it would be better/faster if I went down by the staircase instead(since the elevator has been like stuck at the 6th floor for like 1 whole minute...).
I had to wait about twenty minutes for the bus and the bus was crowded. I had to help the driver to get it going...
I saw my driving sifu waiting at the meeting place. He was not very happy and had a grumpy face because I was about 15 minutes late...
I took my driving test afterwards. It was a Monday. There were many car case s around on the road. I was careful not to bang into them. I had a slice of cheesecake after I finished my test...

*rawr*

Could ahfaii possibly pass the driving test? Stay tuned!




Friday, January 06, 2006

The money machine

Has anyone ever told you how can the Automated Teller Machine give people money just like that?

In a dream, someone explained how the ATM works; I was a lil kid in there and there was another person, pointing to an ATM...

Some1: "That nice machine prints money and gives it to nice people."
Me : "Then why do people still have to go to work?"
Some1: "Like who?"
Me : "Mom and Dad. '3rd Aunt', '5th Aunt', '7th Aunt' and '8th Aunts' and '2nd Uncle', '4th
Uncle'. In fact, everyone."
Some1: "That's because they're all bad people, little fai. They did the wrong things and so the
machine won't give them money to buy all the toys the want."
Me : "What did they do?? And how come I don't get to press the keys and get money from
it?"
Some1: "One question at a time."
Me : "Ok. So what did my parents do?"
Some1: "Too many things. One of them is bringing you to this world, nurturing you and giving
you all the wonderful things you couldn't possibly have without their help."
Me : "..."
Some1: "Repent and repay the debt..."
Me : "...but what about my aunts and uncles? They didn't have me or any kids!"
Some1: "I told you that bringing you up is just one of the many things they did wrong."
Me : "Okay, name a few examples then."
Some1: "They didn't break out of 'the spells', awaken from 'the hynotising', escaped from 'the
deviants'..."
Me : "What are you talking about? Stop talking in riddles... I HATE GUESSING!!!"
Some1: *fades away* "I am you, the riddle. And I'm the riddle that you must guess someday if
not now. Go ahead and hate yourself if you want to...HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

The end of the dream. It just doesn't seem to make sense. Just like what tends to spill from my mouth anyway.

Bah.

Dogging for ideas.... ideastoikea ideastoikea ideastoikea...




This week's special resolution for the 2006 : Turning Ideas to Ikea's!

Christmas came quickly and left so quickly...time to move on.

The first day of 2006, 10:00 hrs.

The Golden Zodiac Coin (Dog) that I spent 15 minutes in cold water for...

...

And then a couple of days later , I went to my cousin's SOHO(small-office/home-office) at Chai Wan..."My job is to turn Ideas into money and then money, to Ikea."

That's just one of the things I wish I could say some day, soon.

And I want the whole Armani Exchange Collection in my closet. And a brand new car to wear brand new firestone-tyres out. A lot more money than he makes. A bigger place...

*Alight with burning ambition...rawr*

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Meanwhile I'm sitting at the office during lunch...

Waldorf Salad from the Canteen. Not bad at all even though it doesn't look too appetising in the photo... :P

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

The past few days :o

from the 23rd of December 2005...

Baby Big-Q! Cutest baby ever!!! CHAK~ XDMerry Christmas!!! :DOn the second day of Christmas we went cycling for about 30-50km...
The next day, I went there again and cycled with my colleagues...

...and after that we went for dinner and I had that wonderful, perfectly-chocolated cake. PERFECT!!!

At the farewell-to-Alice lunch on the 30th.
The countdown to 2006. Thats how it ended... :AWWWWWWWWWWWWZED.

Monday, January 02, 2006

motivate!

There's been weird reaction of people when I tell them I'm not listening to music on my iPOD, but motivational speeches.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/169306

Its really good. Try listening to them for a couple of days and you'll find yourself a different person... :)