My Elmo Cookie

Like my Elmo Cookie?

This cookie is made in Australia. Do you know what Australian bakery I am most impressed? That is a birthday cake delivered all the way from Australia to Canada!

That was 13 years ago at my 19th birthday, my first year in university, my first year in HUB, and my first year living alone.

I think it's a couple of days before my birthday. When I opened the mailbox, I saw a package sent by Gigi. When I opened the envelop, it was a birthday cake! Traveled all the way from Melbourne to Edmonton in an envelop!!!!!

It didn't crack a bit and the shape was perfectly good. We tried to cut and eat it during the little birthday party of Caroline and I (we were roommates and our birthdays were just two days apart). However, no matter how big the knife we used, how hard we cut and we even heated it up by the oven, but still we couldn't cut it into pieces.

We somehow tasted it a little bit. I forgot how it tasted, but sure it's the most special birthday cake I have ever had, a birthday cake traveled from Australia to Canada.

It is my birthday again tomorrow. I want to be quiet and chat with friends. See some of you tomorrow.

Hong Kong Arts Festival 2005

The Hong Kong Arts Festival 2005 officially kicked off yesterday. This year, I will be watching seven performance:

The French Kiss
All That Shanghai Jazz
Come Out and Play
The Nightingale
i-City
Vassa Zheleznova
The Blind Boys of Alabama

I have an event on 8 March so I have very big a chance that I can't see "The Blind Boys of Alabama", which will take place on the evening of 7 March :( There's also one year when I was taking my Master of Social Work that I was so tired and pratically slept through all the shows I watched!

Four good weekends coming to watch all the above performances plus Rita and Billy's wedding on the 13 March! Then I probably will be busy with a work trip to Beijing at the end of April. I will tell you more on this later.

新春大吉

新春大吉！ How's your holiday? Distribute/receive a lot of red pockets?

My five-day holiday have finally come to an end. Tomorrow everything will be back to normal (if I still remember how to work).

What did I do? Basically nothing. I only have Chinese tea with my few relatives on the father's side on the second day of the Chinese New Year (my brother needed to work on the CNY Day); watched The Incredibles (and ate a lot of pop corns); packed some old books to donate to a charity sale; did some reading and knitting, watched a lot of TV and ate a lot (and gained a lot of weight). That's it. That's my CNY holiday.

Any thing excited? Well, yes, before the CNY. As in last year, I was at the HK Alliance's booth at the Victoria Park "Flower Market" on the CNY Eve and the weekend before that to help Mr. Szeto Wah to 寫揮春 to raise funds for the Alliance.

It rained a little bit on the CNY Eve so there weren't as many people as last year and so did our business, but Mr. Szeto still wrote a lot of 揮春. Many of the people came to the Alliance's booth every year to ask Mr. Szeto to write 揮春 for the family. One dad told us that their family has been asking Mr. Szeto to write 揮春 since his eldest son was in primary school and now the once little kid had already graduated from the university!

The most popular 揮 春 was still 身體健康. Little kids liked 大吉大利. Some weird ones included 日日爆數 (they were sales); 身懷六甲 (needless to explain, she's an A-level student taking six subjects); 查找不足 (not only for Tung Chee Hwa but for us to remind ourselves to do better), etc.

I stayed at the booth till around 2:30am and visited some of the booths closest to the Alliance's. Here's what I got:



I wanted to buy a big stuffed strawberry, which I saw in TV but I couldn't find it in the market so I bought some happy face flowers instead.

Here's my mom's "real" flower for the CNY:



Happy Chinese New Year again.

祝您雞年行大運

Happy Chinese New Year

Email

Finally I got an office email a/c today that can send mails outside the government. Yesterday it could only go inside the bureau :P

But I still need to get in the building with a visitor pass... ...

1st Day @ WoC

This is my "official" first day at WoC. (Yesterday, I was there to handover.) Normally, first day has nothing special and not much to do. (Trust me, I must have worked more number of jobs than you do.) So this is correct again.

Unlike CUHK, where we had to use a small heater to warm up the room, temperature in the new office is normal. Unlike CUHK, the new office is small and noisy. People keep talking on the phone, fax machine ringing and the photocopier running behind me. After working at CUHK for a month and the Cattle Depot for another month, I am perfectly used to quiet space all by myself. I almost can't concentrate this morning.

Do you know what we have the most in my new office? Secretaries! We have 12 people in the team. Four of them have the positions as secretaries, one for our boss and one for every two officers. They all seem to be much more busier than I do today :P

Usually I will take care my own IT business. I set up my computer and network printer all by myself at CUHK. But today, I called the IT support. Well, I tried to interchange the position of the computer and the printer (it's simply unreasonable to have the printer closest to me but the computer at the far end). It seemed to be easy enough. However, the cables all interlocked together so I gave up or I will need to wait till Saturday afternoon...when I have spare time. So I called IT support. It made me somewhat looked like an idiot.

I still don't have internet access. Hope they will get it done tomorrow.

忽然間，忽然間想起你