Sesame Street X Bossini

Can't wait till they are released next Monday!

I have wanted this Elmo t-shirt for a long time, but only find it through on-line shops that don't ship products out of America or ship them with expensive postage. I thought of asking the on-line shop to ship the tee to my cousin's address and then ask him/her to send it back to me. But then, the shipping is still too costly. Now, the tee will be available in Bossini starting next Monday with a number of other items too.

I am thinking to buy the whole set...may be two...one for wearing and one for collecting..haha...

Then, I find this place from the internet yesterday -- Sesame Place! I know that will be my favourite place, especially the new Elmo's World rides and the show Elmo's World Live!

Let's start saving up :(

Ah ya，痛到飛起

The red dots had come and gone, disappearing like they never had come. Unfortunately, my knee is feeling painful again.

It really hurts. I had a hard time when I was at grocery shopping tonight. I am actually feeling the pain for the last few days but I didn't pay very much attention as I thought it's only because of the change of weather -- it's really "wet" in HK during the past few days. But then I start walking not quite good, and getting worse and worse. I can't stand up right this afternoon again.

So sad. I put on the "ointment" the doctor gave me last time and hope it will get better soon. My doctor's appoinment is in August......

@ Jojo's Wedding Yesterday

That was Jojo and Daniel's wedding yesterday! Congratulation!

The heart-shaped cookies were made by the bride. I ate one pack and am still alive :)

Wall Painting at Prince of Wales Hospital

So finally I can upload the picture. This is the wall painting we did yesterday at the Prince of Wales Hospital. This is the part done by we five gals and the leaves at the left end, to the right of the stones were coloured by me :)

Well, when the other four were all fine arts graduates, all I could do was colouring.

The painting is located at the North Wing of the Hospital, along one of the busiest hallway. Other volunteers and the artist working out the original painting have been working on it for several weekends. We, in a group of five, had "coloured" all day from 10am to 5pm yesterday, and all we could finish was the leaves you see from the picture :)

That was the first day I participated in Arts in Hospital event, and it was quite an interesting experience. It's Sunday and the Hospital was not that "busy". Patients and families walked by and telling you how they were amused about your "good" work. Nurses and other hospital staff discussed and told you that they wanted a bird, a chicken and a duck (maybe because of the bird flu :) or may be some more flowers in the painting. A mom wheeled her son in a wheel chair to see us working to cheer him up... The painting was not yet done but you know what you are there for.

P.S. Below is the other end of the painting, done by other group of volunteers, one of them is a CUHK fine arts master!

Arts in Hospital

Today is the first time I joined the volunteer service of Arts in Hospital, and we finished a part of the wall painting at the Prince of Wales Hospital. I will upload some pictures later. There's something wrong with Blogger that I can't upload any pictures, and I am very tired now :(

HKCATS

Oh, I think I like this HKCATS, although cats for me are extremely disturbing:

HKCATS 於 2002 年 7 月 成 立 ， 03 年 8 月 得 到 香 港 特 別 行 政 區 政 府 批 准 成 為 慈 善 團 體 ， 宗 旨 是 為 貓 咪 謀 取 福 利 、 促 進 人 貓 之 間 和 諧 共 處 、 改 善 貓 兒 的 社 會 形 象 及 減 少 流 浪 貓 的 數 字 。 除 貓 兒 福 利 外 ， 我 們 更 透 過 與 小 動 物 接 觸 來 拉 近 人 與 人 之 間 的 距 離 ， 以 及 教 育 青 少 年 尊 重 和 保 護 生 命 的 意 識 。

(For those who can't read Chinese, the highlighted part said "HKCATS strive for the well-being of cats, promote harmony between human beings and cats, enhance public image of cats")

Rose, I got your T-shirt

I received the package when I was struggling with the credit card customer service, that had some problems verifying my signature to return me the extra credit, this afternoon.

So, thanks Rose. It arrives safely and shorter than two weeks :) Please tell your dad the Canada Post is very reliable :)

My "next desk" colleague suggested me to wear the Elmo-tee with a long-sleeve T-shirt underneath. I guess I will try it on this Saturday, on that, I plan to visit the Arts Museum after work :P

In addition to receiving the Elmo-tee, things also begin to get normal. The customer service woman finally, successfully verified my signature after I signed four times. My arms and legs are also getting better, especially the arms. If I got darker skin, maybe the dots are even less visble. This afternoon when we went to "drink Chinese tea" for lunch, the three of us could only order chicken and Chinese mushroom congee, tu-fu, vegetable and BBQ pork bun, cause two out of three of us needed to stay away from a variety of different foods!

For my cousins, yesterday morning we went "bai shan" of our great grand mother (my dad's grandma). We were supposed to meet at 7:30am (!) at Fan Ling Kowloon-Canton Railway station. This means we (i.e. Sara and me) needed to travel on MTR from HK Island East (home) all the way to the west of the Island, then across the harbour to get on the KCR and travelled all the way to Fan Ling (i.e. north-east of New Territories)!!!!! It should take us around an hour, much shorter than during "day" time as the trains were pratically empty in early morning of Sunday. But then, we came across a guy that for some reasons fell on the rail when we were in the middle of the way to Fan Ling and we got stuck on the train for half an hour! We all said we should stay in bed longer instead :(

We finally arrived the KCR station at 8am and then took a taxi. I haven't been to "bai shan" for quite a number of years, but I still could remember those pictures of elderly beside our great grandmother :)

We left at around 10am and arrived home at 12:30pm something. The first thing we did was to rush back to bed!

P.S. Suddently I think that maybe the irritation is due to the dry weather...you know, old people are more sensitive to the external environment. When I was young, I didn't even put on body lotion in Edmontion!

A miserable day

I haven't blogged for anything "interesting" for a long time, but I am going to tell you a series of bad lucks I had yesterday, all happened within eight hours.

In short, I lost my bank book yesterday. According to the teller, I had to close my old account and open a new one. I stood in the bank for an hour, and when the procedure was almost done, the bank book was found! [Things always happen like this.] I dropped it in the shopping mall of my housing estate on the way to the bank, and someone picked it up and returned it to the bank before I walked the same route twice to search for the bank book :(

And then, I tried to transfer some money to my mom. But well, the ATM machine told me I didn't have enough money! No enough money? I am always left penniless but I am not that poor to have less than a few thousands dollars. So I checked out the transaction for the past month, and I found that when I paid for my credit card balance, I paid one more zero...i.e., if it's only HK$1,000, I had paid HK$10,000!!!!! I called the credit card customer service centre and they promised to send me the extra amount in a bank draft in seven working days :(

So all this happened in late morning. When I left home again at around 2pm to watch a drama, I found that my right wrist had some red dots on it. I put off my jackets and saw that both of my arms were full of red dots...scary...

I spent two hours for the drama, went to the office to pick up some personal stuff I left behind and went to a hospital out-patient clinic. I waited for about 45 minutes (All day yesterday was about lining up and waited and wasted the whole day. Good that I always have a book with me.), and answered no to almost all questions the doctor asked about possible cause of irritation (no to new pet, no to new cleaning items, no to any known allergic, etc.). So. The doctor's conclusion was that it's either an irritation or sign before a big flu. He gave me nothing. No pills cause he couldn't confirm what it was yet; and no cream cause it was not even itching...

So. That's my day yesterday.

For the red dots, they seem to get better when my skin is not scratching with anything (e.g. clothes). My arms are much better cause I wear short-sleeves T-shirt at home. My legs are also a bit better as I wear loose pants but worst when I wore jeans this morning and yesterday. I will see how it goes and decide if I need to see a doctor again.

For my new bank account, still a lot to follow up...chaning all the autopay accounts (especially the salary part!), apply for a new "pay by phone service" account...etc.

:~

P.S. So I know now where my money goes -- the doctors and taxi drivers!

I was sick; and I recover now.

I caught a cold over the weekend, and slept for 16 hours straight from Saturday evening till Sunday noon. But since I am busy at work, I went to see the doctor first day I felt wrong and I am as strong as I always am now.

Lesson learnt -- go to see a doctor early, especially if you have medical insurance!

Jesus! May be I should stuck in the field when I was young!

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Elmo B-day Cake :)

I have my eyes set on an Elmo cake this year ;>

But it's too big that I think we can't possibly finish it :(

Ida doesn't go to Lamma Island

Here's my friend's explannation on my explannation of not going to hiking in Lamma Island. Buddy Rita does know me really well.

You must learn Ida's physical and mental condition well.

1. She can't take ferry and she'll vomit like old lady. [Ida: Star Ferry is OK, although I don't like the speed. Going to Macau is killing me.]

2. She's super scared of those cute animals like cats and dogs. [Ida: The list also includes birds, rabbits, hamsters...pratically everything.]

3. She can't walk too far away although I also agree Lamma Island is a great short family hiking trial. Only 1 hour but I think Ida's knees will complain those uphill / downhill portion. [Ida: Doctors said no more going up/downhill/stair for me forever!]

Crazyyyyyy

Happy Chinese New Year!

Well, it's never too late to send everyone a greeting, and it's not even 15th of Chinese January yet.

I accidentally had a half-day off this afternoon, so I did some crazy shopping :) and some New Year cleaning.

The cleaning was supposed to be done before CNY but somehow it got postponed till today. I took out all of my clothes and washed all of the drawers. It hasn't been washed so long that I don't even want to tell you when's the last time. I cleaned, and I re-arranged the clothes in different drawers. So, now, I have a whole drawer empty for new clothes in the summer!

Updates and more updates

To follow up my previous post, I found my old cushion cover after I bought a new one. Also, I got an email from PCCW today about exchanging gifts with phone bill points, and I found in the catalog the dream "cushion chair" I was looking for.

Things always happen so unexpectedly.

Some updates on my knee too. I feel much better lately -- I can walk quickly and smoothly even other people can observe it. I stop going to the physical therapist or the private specialist. All I am doing now is to take health supplements (glucosamine) for joints recommended by my doctor. Unfortunately, as I am busy with the "end of the year cleaning" these couple of weeks, I always need to bend my knee and it starts to hurt again. I have to be careful. My appointment to the government specialist is in August!

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

Melanie trapped in my mobile

Kid size 出前一丁 instant noodle

Interesting discovery during leisure grocery shopping. Good to eat less to reduce some weight (well, shouldn't eat instant noodle at the first place).

Merry Christmas

Sara's graduating from her master...

...so Mom had collected all her three masters...

I was wearing shorts in winter! Well, I had a doctor's appointment before that.

陳日君主教對世貿和平示威者被捕的聲明

2005年12月19日, 10:30 a.m.

本人昨晚收到本教區勞工事務委員會、正義和平委員會及其他兩個亞太區天主教組織的新聞稿，抗議警方不人道對待被扣留的反世貿示威人士，並要求政府立即釋放他們。

本人知道勞委、正委職員正在灣仔，就馬上去了馬師道為了解情況，有不少傳媒也在那裡，本人向他們發表了一些意見，現在更準確表達如下：

『本人早已說過本港政府根本不宜請世貿來此開會，因為以這個小城市的警察力量並不一定能應付像在別處發生的反世貿抗議行動。政府既已作出邀請，也該適當準備，但事實證明政府根本沒有做足功課，警方很不恰當地處理了這件差事。

警方說本來還有九龍區豐富人手沒有出動。為什麼不用更多人手保證警員安全？在部份示威者用暴力時又未能立即拘捕他們，卻在事後拘捕大批和平示威者。拘捕行動竟用了十數小時！有被拘捕者竟被困車上數個小時，看來警方根本沒有準備地方安置他們。

警方嚴重疏忽了對被拘捕者應負的責任：食物、水、防寒物、衞生需要。警方拒絕向被拘捕者的伙伴，友好和社會交代被拘捕者的所在。也拒絕讓志願律師及翻譯員探訪被捕者。還有善良的修女受到侮辱性的待遇。這一切是我們香港人的羞耻，我也向韓國和平示威者道歉』，這一切嚴重損害我們國際都市的名譽，有關人士應為此負責。

警方既提不出控訴，應在今天下午3:00時前釋放所有被拘捕的和平示威者。

本人今晨前往觀塘法庭尋找被拘捕的修女，受到警方高級官員的粗暴待遇，並在等待兩小時後也不得知悉修女和兩位神父的所在。本人保留對此提出控訴的權利。

陳日君主教
天主教香港教區主教