Mouse

Today, I disconnected the mouse and see if I can survive without that.

The main reason for not using a mouse is my desk is too small. Getting rid of it would save me a little more space. Second, should be more important but actually not the main reason this time, is more wrist hurts again.

It all begins when I was working on my MSW dissertation back in 2002. I had to rush it through the deadline, and I wrote much more than required. The worst part was I got lots of tables (more than 40 or may be even more) in my dissertation. I kept using the mouse to drag the information here and there, change format to make them easier to read, etc.; and at the end my right wrist hurt so much that I couldn't even hold a pen. I thought I couldn't write any more.

Then, it gets much better later on, but it hurts again one day when I woke up last week. May be I am doing to much knitting lately (yes, knitting and knitting to rush the a Christmas present for a pair of twin boys). I hope not using the mouse and depending on commands can be a relief for my wrist.

So, I am going to the doctor again this Friday. Have to prepare for it. I guess after this visit, I shouldn't need to go again anymore until the next pain hits me. My knee's getting better and better, except walking up and downhill too much, and after the first half hour of the stretching class. However, I also notice that since I am not doing enough "exercise" (well, I didn't do any in the past, but at least I used the stair!) for a year, I am not as "strong" as in the past. It's hard work simply walking a few steps up.

P.S.(1) Back to work tomorrow, after Chung Yang Festival long weekend. No more public holiday until Christmas :(

P.S.(2) I am reading "The Historian". Critics said it's comparable to the Da Vinci Code, but I find it not as attractive though. I will try to find a copy of 1984 to prepare for the HK Arts Festival next year (there's a 1984 drama performance). Last time I read it was in Grade 12 as English 30 reading, and I am twice as old now! My goodness.

The bird outside the office

Can you see a bird outside the window?

I heard a bird singing while I was at work this afternoon. Our office is at the 10/F, so very often we can see birds flying beside us outside the window. At first, I thought the bird would fly away soon. However, it kept singing for a while, so I stood up and looked out the window -- oh, there you were!

So I took up my mobile, turned it on and took this picture. I tried to zoom in more but by that time the bird was gone.

The bird sang for longer than a minute. Nice music in the middle of a boring afternoon.

Can't wait to show you this

My 2007 Elmo diary!

I saw more than 10 different sorts of Sesame Street diaries at UNY tonight. Never see so much at once before, and I stood there for quite a while before I could finally make up my mind. Too bad they are not in different years :(

I think I will take a picture with Elmo :P

杏花新城芝麻街We嘩大派對

內容：表演及教小朋友製作芝麻街面具、南瓜及填色等攤位遊戲，並有Elmo與Ernie跟小朋友見面

日期：10月29日(周日)

時間：下午2:30至3:30

地點：杏花村杏花新城

P.S. That's the shopping centre at the housing estate I live.

Oh my god!

...... I lost my bank card again. Have to check with the bank tomorrow to see if there's any strange transaction.

...... oh my god!

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.

yeah yeah yeah! i will receive my pink ipod nano tomorrow!

So I will be very available if you buy me breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, late night snack, etc :P

P.S. Extremely tired after stretching class tonight, a sub teacher teaching something entirely different.

P.P.S. Mandarin exam on 22 October. Still haven't start studying :( Nervous.

Thumbs up for HP technical support

OK. After an one-week long struggle, I finally fixed my all-in-one HP Officejet 4355. I haven't installed the driver yet, but at least it doesn't tell me "paper jam" any more and I can hook up with the phone now. Never imagine this kind of telephone technical support can work. I planned to bring it to the maintenance at the beginning.

Also thumbs up to the frontline staff of the Leisure and Cultural Service Department. I am an annual pass holder for LCSD museums. Staff there are always so nice and cheerful and of course very helpful too. They always make my experience there extra fantastic. Also big thanks to the library girl (also under LCSD) who made all the troubles to make a roving exhibition of mine possible around major public libraries in HK. Although it's part of her work, by pushing her alone I know it's a very ignoring and tedious job. I think I should write to the Director of LCS to compliment her (or his? can't remember) staff.

The day after Mid-Autum Festival

I had lunch at the flagship store of Charlie Brown Cafe at TST today, on my way to the Science Museum. The best thing of the Cafe is it didn't have many customers around 12:30pm to 1pm so I could have a nice sip of coffee and read some pages of book.

I then visited the DNA exhibition at the Science Museum. It isn't so good in the sense that you could read all the materials from a book and don't need to go to the exhibition.

However, I saw that the Illusion exhibition is part of the regular exhibit now, although in a much smaller scale. If you haven't visited it when it's on, I strongly recommend you to go. It's simply amazing and fun.

I then went to the History Museum just across the platform. There's no special exhibition today but I always like the regular exhibit of "Hong Kong Story". Again, if you haven't been there before, I strongly recommend you go at least once. It's so fun. It's already the fourth time I was there. Last time I had to leave in the middle cause it needed to close for the day. Although it's a regular exhibit, I think some of the items are new that I have never seen them before. Lots of students were at the two Museums for school works, and the History Museum is always full of tourists. I plan to visit the Heritage Museum after Mandarin exam on 22 October. There are some interesting exhibitions going on there, but it's so far far away for me that I have to plan ahead and find a date that those I want to see are on at the same time.

Festival dinner tonight. I wanted to buy that small cheese whole cake with the sugar Charlie Brown on the top. But when I looked at the price closely, the sugar Charlie Brown piece is charged I bought some cakes from the Charlie Brown Cafe for dessert as we are having Mid-Autumn HK$30 extra!!!!!!!!!!!! (Not to mention the cake itself is rather expensive.) So forget it. I bought some sliced cakes instead.

I also plan to have a walk at the "water front part" tonight after dinner to see kids playing lanterns :) Last night I went too early (8:30pm to 9pm) that the kids only came when I left :( I also have to resume this evening walk thing again as I finally had to face with my increasing weight last night when I tried to buy a pant :(

Family pictures

Aunt and Uncle 2's visit 2006








Aunt and Uncle 3's visit 2005








The Lam family's visit 2004








Although I don't want to admit it, but we sure do look older and older each year :(

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 :(

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I just transferred my blog to beta.blogger.com, and some Chinese are therefore missing. I will take care of that after I settle down in the new apartment.

Back to packing now, or mom will start yelling.

Last mintue packing......

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

Tulips banner

Inspired by the Action Blue Sky Blog, I finally managed to change the banner of my blog. Do you like it? I also added a website counter at the end. Make sure you keep on clicking in!

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.

Disneyland Today!!!!!

So I went and it kept raining heavily all day :( Well, the HK Disneyland is so small that the rain actually made our stay longer or we could leave by noon!

Today is the 1st anniversary of the HK Disneyland. However, I guess 2/3 of the guests were using complimentary tickets like us, cause most of the people we saw were elderly from elderly service centres, people with mental disability from hostels and students and parents from special schools. We rarely saw tourists or people out of those groups, and except the "Winnie the Pooh ride", we didn't need a fast pass at all.

This is the second time I had been to a DisneyX. Last time is the LA Disneyland 10 years ago. I think during the last visit, I (or we were) was more exciting. Today, I only found Disneyland is not something that should appear in HK or Mainland. It totally doesn't fit here.

BTW, if you haven't been to HK Disneyland, my advice is "DON'T GO". It doesn't worth the HK$300+ per ticket.

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?"

Keep coughing...

...skipped Mandarin class today...so sad...tired...