My Secret Garden

My very "romantic" work place:



















It's what you can see from my seat:



















If you sit on the other side, you can see this:



















P.S. Yes, there's no flower and no green. The name just came to my mind when I took the pictures.

Moved

View from my new room, from monitoring the main street to monitoring the secondary school.















My new room. The setting is more or less the same as the old one, except it's a few feet bigger because of the "window platform". It suddenly becomes huge!

Last Sunday morning on main street

Maintenance

The estate I live in is under major maintenance (changing new tiles on the outside building walls) lately. This is how it looks like now. We, the people, not the cars, need to "de-tour" going in and out of the buildings. Last Saturday, I almost couldn't find my way back home after having breakfast at the shopping mall!

Dangerous!

The previous tenant of our new apartment had left owing our landlord a few months of rent. Today, we received a letter from the mailbox asking the previous tenant to pay for their debt and it's the last call, in big red Chinese characters (It reads 欠債還$$$，最後通知 with the names of the tenant and a phone number).

Mom had already informed the landlord, and I will tell the security guard tomorrow morning, and probably will call the police just in case as well. Mom will be going for an Europe trip for 11 days and it will be just me in the house. Have to be very careful.

Some of the stuffs I threw away when I packed

We moved

Before we moved in...



















In the middle of the moving...



















We still haven't finished unpacking yet, and it seems a never ending story. Scary.

I took last Friday off to pack and yesterday was China's National Day so it's a public holiday today, i.e. I have a four-day holiday this weekend, and I almost forgot how the office world should be. A bit nervous about going to work tomorrow :(

Last mintue packing......

......busy......busy......

磁碟重組

Anyone can tell me what's 磁碟重組 in English? Problem of using Chinese Windows for so long.

So, that's what I am doing with my room (not my computer) lately -- throwing away stuffs that I don't think I will need in the near future, using different sizes of paper/plastic boxes to re-arrange the stuffs to minimize space to prepare for some new stuffs :) And of course, everything is done to prepare for the moving early Saturday morning this week.

Basically, what I am doing is to re-arrange the stuffs in different small paper boxes (those from IKEA) and put them on the bookshelves first. So when I have my day off on Friday, I can pack all these small boxes to the big ones.

Very good planning :>

I am taking pictures with stuffs I throw away, and I will put up the pictures here with pictures of the new apartment later. Hope you won't see the stuffs you gave me in the "throw away collage" :p

Oh, yes. I attended my first "Free Dance Stretch" class yesterday evening. Basically, it's taking out some modern dance movements and postures and using them as stretching exercise. So it will also have some music, and the movements look more beautiful than normal warm up exercise. I think I like it. I would like to do more stretching to make my muscles and joints less stiff so I guess it might work. It's slow and has some holding position, so it's very tired after class. But the problem is it also stretches my knee to the limit. I think I should slow down my walking speed again. I won't have my next medical apointment till November and the first physical therapy till February next year!

P.S. I am obsessed with Alvin Kwok 郭小霖's songs lately. Keep listening to it. My favorite is 他是誰 with some good-old-days memory. But I can't the lyric in the internet.

P.P.S. Check out the new links on the right. Do let me know if you know someone I should know that have a blog or a website.

So we are moving...

Finally Mom and I had found the right apartment -- moving from Block 38 to 37 of the same housing estate :P My new room's window faces the little crossing from the MTR station so I can "monitor" those who are coming home!!!!!

We will be moving on the 30th this month. Mom said that's a good day for moving so she tried her best to make it real.

In the mean time, my Uncle and Aunt 2 will be coming to HK from Edmonton next week and stay for a month. Let's see if I can meet them more frequent. I stayed at theirs (weekend only) during university time and had some great memory there (hehe...I still got their key)

BTW, I will be going to the HK Disneyland tomorrow, on the day of its 1st anniservary. One of my friends got free tickets so we are only planning to go for a walk :P My friend has classes at night so I guess I will also leave daytime and miss the firework. But I think we can't spend so long there anyway. It's a very small Disneyland after all.

Last time when I went to Disneyland in LA is 10 years ago. Oh, my god!

It's good for HK$200

See my bookshelf? No, no, no! Not the Elmo cookie jar nor the picture with me, Sara and Simon all wearing the same clothes! Look at my books. See what do I have?

Tonight, mom invited a contractor home to check out the price for our moving at the end of the month. (Yes, we are moving again, but we aren't confirmed where to move yet!) Mom said the lady looked around and saw this particular shelf with all the books I bought at the time when I was studying for my MSW, and asked "Is your daughter a social worker? It's so meaningful! I will ask for HK$200 less." So here we are saving HK$200 for all those I spent on tuition :P

P.S. Quite a few of my friends are leaving for long trip -- one going to Dubai for a half-year work trip (!); one going for South Africa for three months (!); and one go to all those places I can't figure out where they are until her money's all gone (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) So, have a nice trip, friends :)

P.P.S. The moving lady looked at mine and my sis' doors and asked mom, "One of your daughters likes McMug, and the other one likes Snoopy. Are they little girls?"

"Waterfront Park" @ Heng Fa Chuen

Here's where I have my evening walk. It's too cloudy that you can the "sea" on the left.

My new "chair"

Since I was being complained of not posting frequent enough, here I am showing you my new "chair", under my bed, for some leisure reading.

I used to have a bean bag sofa, also under my bed. Unfortunately, the stitches got loosen up a few months back and hence I had to find myself a new chair.

I had been shopping and shopping and shopping but still couldn't find a good one. So finally, I decided to dig out my big cushion (the one in the bottom, bought by Florence a few years ago when I was living alone) instead and buy a new cushion cover (the old one was stucked somewhere now that I couldn't find it). But then I found one cushion was too close to the floor, that was no good to my knee (i.e. I had to bend my knee in order to sit on it). Hence I bought another one and with Elmo (from Rita some years ago), those cushions together become a rather comfortable chair for some leisure reading.

So. I have been talking about "leisure reading". Yes, my new year resolution this year is to do more reading, especially reading not related to work. I knit and I do cross stitching. However, I find myself not reading enough and got quite "dried up". Hence, I set up my mind to read more. The first step towards my goal is to get off from work early, at around 6pm ideally; and the next step is to sleep early. Yes, to sleep early so I can read some pages during the trip on the MTR.

This is the first day I work towards my new year resolution. Hope I can stick on it for longer than a week :P