甜酸苦辣 we've gone through it all together.

Completely and utterly in lost for words to express how touched I am. I received a scrapbook full of photos taken over these past 2 years and seriously I wonder if anyone ever comes across a feeling such as this. My colleagues are sooooooo awesome and no matter what happens later on down the road, can you still please be my friend? I'm horrible at keeping in touch but I will try my best to email/write to you guys..

It makes me laugh and want to cry at the same time...sigh I feel so unworthy, deem gai you guys are so good to me? :( Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Thank you =*)

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Aren't these homemade cupcakes pretty?
After a night of rockband (beatles!), mos burger, whip ip movie, therapeutic baking time. *booyah! Once our babies cooled down, we spread the cream cheese icing and jeans did the honor of dotting the nipples and it looks pretty decent to me! hehe And darn do they make your heart sing like omgawd just like the stores if not better! Took a few of them home to share with dad and a few to share at work. =)


Few months back after my colleague knew that I would be leaving, she asked me what I wanted as my farewell gift or if I needed anything for my trip to Beijing. I thought about it for awhile and realized that ever since I moved back to HK, I have no dolls or cute things by the sides of my bed. With that said the inner kid-at-heart called for medium sized doll that I could bring on my trip and here is my new bearbear! Name has yet to be confirmed but its a girl and I'm glad she'll be around when I'm homesick missing my friends & family.. Xiexie Ling Yee.

And man..time goes by toooo fast. wth. Tomorrow is my last day..moved the dates because I absolutely need to buy and pack all my stuff or else I'll start freaking out. Need to buy warm hoodies and fleeces. Can't believe that after tomorrow no more BB, no more heels getting stuck on Central sidewalks, no more daily cup of coffee with a mix of chocolate, no more soho lunches, no more froyo at my disposal, no more emails, no more pinky and the brain, no more HH, no more PC. Feeling a mix of emotions.. Sometimes I have really bad memories when it comes to remembering minor things but in terms of people I meet or certain events in life, I can have a crazy photographic memory. I know I will miss y'all so much and hoping I'll cross your minds sometimes. Is it true that all we ever say is 'good-bye?' Sigh well more mushy-ness later, it's time for bed. Reminder to self: Must buy some warm PJ's from Marks n' Spencer. I'm still wearing shorts and sleeveless tops. Absolutely frickingfreezing.

Today was a fairytale - taylor swift.

Although its fairly effortless in others eyes, I appreciated it.
Short but sweet.
And will leave it as that.

"There you have it, young love..promise, full of hope. Ignorant to reality." =P

Will that be me few years down the road?? hehe Movie was good although most parts were reaaally predictable. I would choose this over Love Actually but New York I love you is better in my books :P I want to watch Hot Summer Days as well! So..people have asked me what I'm doing on Feb 14th and luckily CNY has saved me from the sad reply of: "umm...no plans at all, just stay at home watching Bridget Jones diary?" lol I'm not as extreme as Jessica Biel in Valentine's Day (which btw i love her because she's so gorgeous and goofy :P) but I WILL cringe when people ask me what plans I have with my 'bf' - which obviously I don't have because I'll be spending the whole of Sunday/Monday immersed with family activities + home visiting.

Anyways on the eve of CNY, I'd like to wish everyone a xin nian kuai le and a fabulicious year of the tiger!! To my friends who are working or studying, dating or still looking, I hope your dreams & wishes are answered in that each new day serves as a reminder that life has so much to offer you. Set some goals, don't give up and have faith in following your heart and courage to trust your intuition. I know this isn't a big issue for us youngsters but I actually know a lot of frail people around me who fall ill at 'least' once every month so just like to wish you good health that money can't even buy. To those who have found their other half, I wish y'all with unconditional love that wears through the thick and the thin as well as the ability to make compromises.. To those who are single or have been hurt.. to not be scared of falling in love because you just gotta live and learn. Treasure what you have at present but most importantly I hope this year brings about happiness that permeates and makes you full to the boot. hehe :D

It's so surreal. 5 more days until the last day of work and 8 days until I'm flying out. O_o I appear calm and yea of course I'm excited but subconsciously I'm pretty anxious. I told a few peeps, I had 2 dreams last week.. one was about me ravaging through through my room desperately trying to pack my suitcase and then forgetting some other must-bring item, then the other dream was me running through the streets trying to reach the taxi stand so that I could go home and pick up my luggage but my plane was due to depart in under 1-2 hours! Running and running but still taking forever to reach the bottom of central. Omg bu hao. heheh wo hao jin jiang ah... Don't know what to expect really.

"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it." - Elizabeth Gilbert

Once upon a time

I've realized that I have a pet peeve at work and that's when people send out visually unappealing emails to me. When something has the potential to be 100% but I see it being done half-heartily I really want to tell them...can you fix that before you send it out?? They're old enough not to be told off about these things but seriously is it because they don't notice it or is it because they just don't really care? Eye sore for disorganization.XP


Just another Saturday.
A chill day with Karen and Pinky at Discovery Bay - their first time there? We had a late lunch at Zaks, hung out by the beach before heading back to causeway bay for arcade fun + yakitori dinner. Will always have fond memories of our shared times together. You guys are everything that I could ask for...and more. Like 2 big sisters always taking care of the youngest one. heh

Once upon a time...is so passe as everything I've known before about steady (faithful) relationships is now relative thing of the past. I want to believe that someone right is out there for me but I'm becoming increasingly skeptical as to whether I'll ever fall in love again.. My friends/colleagues might laugh and tell me that I'm a silly girl but really I'd rather be cynical than completely wrong. ='(

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My tears well up when I watch this. Knowing how it feels like to complete and reach the finish line, can you imagine running for your country and have a hundred supporters cheering you on? <3 The singer is only 15..amazing.

Wow, time flies..Toronto girlfriend will be back next week!! I'm so happy..and sad at the same time because I'll have so little time to hang out with her. It's going to be such a busy week before I go that it's almost stressful. I'm looking forward to all the food, dancing and gatherings. This time I'll make sure my good-bye disclaimer is written in fine print that I might pull another 'peggy'. hehee :)

2015. See you there at you know where.

Slightly sunburnt : )

Absolutely gorgeous HOT weather this past weekend..trying to enjoy the sunshine as much as I can and sat/sun was definitely one of them! I don't know what's gotten over me but I'm like so hardcore all of a sudden. Trying to jam pack my days with outdoor activities hehe :P On Saturday went biking in under 4 hours (plus lunch break) and Sunday was the much anticipated 'beat the banana run.' It was so much fun and the sun was pretty scorchy by 9am which luckily didn't affect us too much because our run was so brief.

Nehoo dad drove me to Central ferry at 7.45am because I kind of woke him up and and I was able to snap a few shots along the pier side. Pretty huh? I kinda tweaked the colors in the first picture, there's no way the sky looks like that in the morning. :P


So..I can proudly say that I beat the banana!!!!! No I did not run under 10 minutes but the guy ran much slower to let the normal runners catch up. Yves was ahead of me and I could see the Banana right in front of her and I kept laughing because the scene was just too funny. Right before reaching halfway I was able to run ahead of him and I turned back and gave him 2 thumbs up sign. :) I bet he was melting in that costume. hehe

After our quick run, we walked over to Elements to grab some food from 360 before taking the train to Tung Chung! And yeah, we spent most portions of our day wearing/carrying our frog balloons as ornaments. :) We saw some ppl with balloons twisted into the shape of a tiny monkey and it was really adorable so we asked these 2 volunteer to make the same for us. They were both holding on to a half finished green balloon and they paused awkwardly and asked us if we wanted frogs instead. LOL. Sure :P We named our balloons Herbert & Percy. Totally random names. heeh

When we arrived at Tung Chung we took the New Lantau buses to Tai O (no. 11 costing $19 dollars). Neither of us have ever been to Tai O before and we got off the bus after we passed Cheung Sha Beach and Shek Kip Reservoir. Kinda felt like Amazing Race without the team competition. How awesome would it be if we were on that show?! *Dreams.. heh So we began our hike at Lantau Trail Stage 5 and although we meant to do stage 6 as well, I guess we sorta went offtrack during the remaining 2.5 km - the signs weren't very clear. Didn't see that many hikers at all apart from some young adults in the beginning and 4 mountain bikers. They were really friendly and we sort of had a brief conversation with them and they commented on our bright yellow t-shirts, took pictures of us (one guy carried his bike over his shoulders to look like a macho man *chuckles ) and they also commented how it's hard to find 'beauties in the woods.' lol. Guess we should haven given him extra props for his confidence to openly compliment strangers. heh Overall the hike was very much like Dragon's back but there was just one section where we both instantly responded like this: 'O....M.....G...' *GASP, DESPAIR, DUBIOUS.. We were both expecting a really easy trail but when we saw this huge inclination, seriously I was quietly swearing to myself. This picture doesn't do it justice. +_+"

@ Tai O - the fishing village.
First things on our minds when we arrived was an unanimous desire to eat ice cream.=D After we found & finished our frozen popsicle whilst meandering through the streets, we stumbled upon this cozy lil cafe in one of the stilt houses. Had some mellow music playing in the background and the sunshine was able to peep nicely through. Perfect place to hang out.

Although it was an extremely tiring weekend and suffered from a slight heatstroke but twas the perfect way to end January. =)

If I was around in March, I would join this: http://www.orbis.org.hk/walkforsight/
If I feeling splurge-like I would buy a plane ticket and bring myself back to HK to do the SC 10km run on the 28th. Even if it means running alone and staying only for the weekend :P
If I really wanted to have a good time, I'd go to Thailand / Philippines and get a nice tan over CNY.

Countdown: 20 days.