2nd Visit to Hong Kong soon.

Hello,
I have confirmed my leave from 23 Oct to 27 Oct.
It will be likely a visit of 6 days 5 nights, from 21-26 Oct or 22-27 Oct.

Tell me if you have advice for my visit.

I look forward to meet some of you. See you soon.

Musical : Cabaret

Last night, I attended the Musical : Cabaret, starring Fei Xiang & Emma Yong. The acting and singing is good, but the songs are not as breath-taking as the more famous Broadway classics. The ending is a bit rush too. Overall, I will rate it above average. The setting is in Berlin, Germany during the rise of the Nazis, and it is about the people living during this age of darkness. It contain adult themes and thus is restricted to above 15 years old.

P.S. : At last, the 'Lake House' and 'The lady in the water' begins to show. I wish I have time to watch them. Also, due to a lot of unhappiness recently, I picked up my book 'Being Happy' (by Andrew Mattews) and read it again. It has begin to work its magic on me already, feeling much better.

Karaoke

Last Saturday afternoon, I went to karaoke for 3.5 hrs. I have not sang for more than 5 years easily, I never knew I still have the courage to sing, thanks for not critising my singing. I sang a few chinese and cantonese songs, but English songs is always my weakest link. Haha. I especially like Ronald's '无赖'.

That day, you seems to be sad although you did not show it. Is anything bothering you? You will be flying off to China on early Thursday, have a nice trip and make sure you enjoy it, ok?

Zpop Concert 2006

Today, I am very frustrated with the progress of the vendors, and they never even keep me updated and they do not know what changes has been done and what is the impact. I have to manage this project and yet I am not suppose to enter the server room because my new role does not require me to have the access. My direct boss is asking me to return the project after a milestone, I will be 100% glad to do so. But my former boss will be on a 1 month overseas trip soon. I guess I will try not to burden her while she is on it. So, that will means I will have to take care of it for another 1.5 months. Sigh...

This incident did spoil my mood in attending the Zpop Charity Concert 2006. Staring Jeff Chang, Harlem Yu, Fish Leong and Jolin Tsai. I find Harlem singing especially well, although my favourite is Jeff and Fish. My friend feels Jeff is the best. Well, guess I have listened too much Jeff's music on CD and the sound system at the concert is not good enough to come near to his standard I expect. Overall, I enjoyed it although my mood is still gloomy. (I know , it is not healthy. That is why I blog! To release my emotion. I will feel better after this)

The songs I like most is Fish's '可惜不是你', I feel so touched and fragile that tears basically filled in my eyes. (Yeah, I am a cry baby, I know. I may look tough outside, but I am extremly fragile at time. I have put up the song to share with you, click play at the top if it doesn't.)

这一刻突然觉得好熟悉
像昨天今天同时在放映
我这句语气原来好像你
不就是我们爱过的证据
差一点骗了自己骗了你
爱与被爱不一定成正比
我知道被疼是一种运气
但我无法完全交出自己
努力为你改变
却变不了预留的伏笔
以为在你身边那也算永远
仿佛还是昨天
可是昨天已非常遥远
但闭上双眼我还看得见
可惜不是你陪我到最後
曾一起走却走失那路口
感谢那是你牵过我的手
还能感受那温柔
那一段我们曾心贴着心
我想我更有权力关心你
可能你已走进别人风景
多希望也有星光的投影
努力为你改变
却变不了预留的伏笔
以为在你身边那也算永远
仿佛还是昨天
可是昨天已非常遥远
但闭上双眼我还看得见
可惜不是你陪我到最後
曾一起走却走失那路口
感谢那是你牵过我的手
还能感受那温柔
可惜不是你陪我到最後
曾一起走却走失那路口
感谢那是你牵过我的手
还能感受那温柔
感谢那是你牵过我的手
还能温暖我胸口

Destress

One of my way to detress is to watch VCD/DVD/Movie.

Last night, watched the box office buster : Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
I like the first show a lot. This is good too, but I still prefer the first one better. I do not like some parts of it, especially when Elizabeth chained Captain Jack Sparrow on the black pearl and leave him for that. That is just super discouraging when a coward such as him is willing to be the right things for once, all he get is a betrayal? Sigh... There is just not enough good people out there, there isn't any reason to discourage them anymore that it does not payoff to be nice. Sigh...

Just now, watched a VCD that was bought 2 or 3 weeks ago. It is the 'il mare', a Korean movie about love. The title, Il Mare, means 'The Sea' in Italian, and is the name of the seaside house which is the setting of the story. It is the original version of 'The Lake House'. It is a slow and beautiful story with nice music, but that is provided you are calm enough to enjoy slow movie. It took me so long to look for a day to feel calm enough. haha. It is perhap the calmness before the storm. Good luck to me tomorrow then.

Depressed

Have not updated or read blog for sometime.
Feeling very depressed for this few days due to work pressure.
Hopefully, things will get better.

My handphone holder

I have never use a handphone holder before, but I saw this cute one last Friday and decide to give it a try. It is now on my office desk, still I think I did not use it really frequently, only mostly during charging via USB. Well, it is still a good decoration to my desk.

Thought : Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee in most cases, just more expense and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... and then began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee."

We drink the coffee, not the cups..........enjoy your coffee.... enjoy life...

A evening at Esplanade

I have a relaxing night at the Esplanade last night. I have dinner with my best friend at gutton bay food center and have a couple of drinks at the Aria Bistro and Wine bar, follow by a short walk and rest along the seaside, enjoying the sea breeze while admiring the skyline of the financial and business area of Singapore.

The dinner is so-so, as it is a self service food center. When I have the Sambal Stingray, the chicken wings is getting cold, and when I have the satay, even the Sambal Stingray also began to get cold. But the drinks at Aria is great, we have the whole place to ourself and it is so cosy, and two of the drinks are also free due to 1-to-1 promotion. The walk is great too, it is windy and cooling (but not as windy as I like compared to last Thursday's jog there).

The only issue is that it took a long time to get our taxi even when the queue is so short. Other than that, I enjoy the night.

Congratulation to Hong Kong's 5 day working week.

I wish all my Hong Kong Blogger friends enjoys the new poilcy and have more time for family and friends (Blogger too, rite?)

Best Wishes

Replacement

Today, I took down our photo at last, which also symbolise the end of a certain feeling. It is replace with a photo with a boat beside a lake. To me, it seems like a new journey is about to begin.








The stitch in the room is also replaced with another photo with a small jetty. Fitting huh? Boat and jetty. May be this time, the boat will reach the jetty safely.