Alive Not Dead

Giving a sign of life before Blogspot, Twitter and Facebook close my account.

Just in case you're wondering...I haven't post anything in weeks because I'm still not back from my one month trip and not because I'm dead or something.

I will definitely update everything when I get back (annecdotes and photos).

Heads up: you better save at least an hour to read the upcoming post (unless you're a close friend of mine...then I'll tell you everything personally). It'll take an eternity to update what's been going on for a month.

Anyway, the suspense have to maintain for another week. Please be patient. I promise to make it up to you with juicy stuffs.

Btw, I'm quite happy I haven't forgot my english and french after all that time. (forgive me if I did make mistakes)

Master Of The House

As the Master of my house (master of cleaning that is), I'm afraid I'll see inches of dusts the day I'm back from Heaven. -_-' What can I possibly do to prevent this from happening???

Make a simple-detailed-scheduled list of chores for my sister to follow. But...I can't stand next to her and make sure she does them correctly, right?

*headache*

In this particularly hard moment, my little genius came to help. The genius me brought up a wonderful plan. That is to give the list to my grandma and have her annoy my lazy sister until she does them ALL before letting her out of the house with her boyfriend. *sound of a million dollar winning slot machine from Sin City* Siiigh!!! Sometimes I do admire ideas coming from the other me. XD *thumbs up*

Foretaste of Beijing

I'm very excited to visit Beijing...the Forbidden City and Great Wall, etc. WOW!!! I'm wondering why I love those places that much? Maybe one of my long-time-ago lifes happened there? Who knows. Maybe I was even the Empress 武則天. *evil laugh* (think of Scar in Lion King) Muwahahahah!!!

Anyway. Remember how I was happy to learn that Kelly Hu is spending 3 months there to take mandarin classes? Well, looks like (with a 68 font size "I") I'll be there at the same time. HouRAY!!! She posted some of her interesting and hilarious anecdotes on her blog. This can certainly give me an idea and some tips on going to China. Take a look at what she wrote:

Just arrived in China yesterday morning.  Got my apartment all scrubbed up and set up in one day.  Let me tell you, it wasn't an easy job.  The Chinese idea of cleanliness is something I just can't get used to.  For example, I have little dogs on my floor which I thought I would love since I miss Mushu, right?  Well, the dogs are sweet enough but the owners think it's okay to let the dogs out everyday to do their business on the hallway floors!  I mean, WTF!?!  There's pee and poop right in the hallways.  I have to make sure I remember to look down before I step out of the apartment from now on.  Might be hard to remember with all the jet lag and morning classes.

On the subway home from class today, a young woman found the need to talk to me in Chinese.  She was using a hushed tone and I couldn't understand what she was saying but she kept pointing to her chest and my chest.  I finally figured out she was letting me know that my top button of my shirt was undone.  I left it like that on purpose.  Nothing falling out or anything, just your average low cut V neck, but then I remembered a guy staring at my chest in the elevator.  On the walk home I realized that women here have very small breasts and tend to keep them well tucked away.  No wonder people here are infatuated with my enormous B-cups.  Well the beautiful weather will start going away and I'll be covering them up soon enough.  Until then, let the Chinese men enjoy.

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Day 3 in Beijing started on my own catching the subway to my Mandarin class.  This time I was more conservatively dressed but I still stuck out like a sore thumb.  I think I'm just much rock-n-roll for Beijing.  Funny, I feel so tough compare to all the women here with my buckled boots and leather jacket.  In New York I feel like a wimp.  Small chance I'll be getting mugged here.

Figured out something very important today.  The subway map I downloaded from the internet before leaving LA is out of date.  Of course, the subway line I'm on has been completely revamped.  Thank goodness I remembered my guide, Mable, telling me in passing on day 1 that the subway station looks so new because it's only about a year old.  Unfortunately there are no new maps available at the subways station, so I spent the time on the subway jotting down all the differences, looking like a complete foreigner, once again.  After all of that, I realized I had my camera with me and I could simply take a photo, duh.

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Found a Wal-Mart here in Beijing.  Woo Hoo.  And Guess what!  They even sell live turtles!  Unfortunately not as pets but rather to eat.  Yuck.

Took my first cab ride today.  It was peak hour so cabs where super scarce.  Took me all of an hour just to get one!  I kept stopping caucasian people to ask, first, if they spoke English (all of them did) and then, asked their advice on catching a cab.  One guy told me  to go to a hotel to find one.  I asked what I should tip the doorman for getting me a cab and he said people don't tip here in China.  I love that!  The idea of tipping drives me crazy sometimes.  I love a society where you don't have to think about that.  Of course, I did end up tipping the door-person when she got me a cab anyway.  Just didn't feel right to leave without doing it.

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Watched some international ping pong tournament on tv today.  It's amazing how interesting ping pong can be when you don't have anything else to watch in your language.  People take their ping pong very seriously here.  I wonder if ping pong athletes in China get lots of ass like professional athletes in America?

Got this thing to make my internet stronger today and all of a sudden a whole bunch of backlogged email came pouring in from the past few days.  I was wondering why I wasn't getting responses from people.  Thought nobody loved me.  Missed some pretty important email's, too, including one from my agent saying they want me for another episode of Hawaii 5-0!  Guess I'll be jumping on a plane  next week to Hawaii.  Of course, just when I feel like I'm getting settled here and things are getting really good I have to leave.  But I'll be back right after I'm done.  Sooooo much more of Beijing to discover!

OMG. Remind me that I have to update my blog too, while I'm there.

The X Factor Season 7 Auditions

I'm a little behind schedule...just finished watching The X Factor's season 7 auditions. It is so far so good. Some of them really have potentiels...nice swagger, strong voice, and good looking.

But as usual, I have greater moments enjoying the bads by laughing myself out. I mean...how can those people not hear themselves and realise how bad they are? Why on earth can't their family and/or friends tell them, instead of let them humiliate themselves in front of thousands of people AND (most important of all) torture the audience? What did we do to merit that???

Anyway, at the end, I still have to admit that I can accept bad singing people as long as you have a great attitude and seem to enjoy yourself. But...

This is PHE-NO-ME-NAL/UN-BE-LIE-VA-BLE/LE-GEN-DA-RY. Call me small potato or whatever you like, but I've never seen something similar before.

Ear Dropping

I don't know if people are concern that it is not quite polite to ear drop. Yes!!! OKAYYY!!! Fine!!! I confess that I like to do that when I'm bored in public transports, restaurants, or bathrooms. (at least I'm being honest, right?) But I didn't know that one will actually give her own comments out of nowhere to some strangers. *chuckles* Can you be more obvious about it? It's literally telling everyone else that you're listening to their conversation and don't have a functional brain to shut your mouth or at the very least say something which makes sense.

Where do those people come from??? Was I having the same education as they have? I'm starting to fear the future.

Birth Of A New Blog

This blog came to life after the death of it's 3 siblings.

I voluntarily killed the oldest *ashamed*, the second was stolen by an unknown jerk, and the third one will be terminated by Live Spaces. *sob* I hope this little baby will stay with me for the rest of my life.

It took me ~10 hours to import all memories from others to this one (still not done and not to mention that I can't import comments from previous posts). What's left??? Try to put back my photo albums and lists. Ohlala!!! My eyes burn, my back hurts and I can't feel my fingers anymore.

I’m Alive

Just feel that I have to write something to keep my page alive. (even if it’s not significant) Isn’t it funny how I’m suppose to be doing more activities and go out more often during summer time, but have less to share? Siiiigh!!! Guess I’m just spending my time on intensive tv series watching.

A whole day of churh visiting in Quebec City with aunty and cousin from HK. Thank Goddess it didn’t rain a drop. *claps* Photos should follow, the moment my not-too-fast-working aunt decides to send them to me.

  

For supper, after long non-decisive discussions, we finally went to Europea (one of those classy retaurants I’ve always wanted to try). It has a keuwl interior design, nice waiters, great concept and good food presentation. Anyway, all this just to say that everything’s a sugar to my eyes, but when it comes to taste…it can’t be compared to Cavalli.

Hope to have the opportunity to try more exotic/special restaurants. Lets save some $$$.

You Think You’re Smart??? (Part VII)

Why can’t all Countries be on the same region and use the same voltage???

Now I’m FORCED to buy a region-free bluray player and an universal AC adapter converter.

8.31 Incident

The month of August ended in disaster/catastrophee…not the way I would wanted.

Long story short: I had some tensions with a close friend of mine because of some ridiculous incidents and people.

Long story long: If we trace back the origin of the problem…it all started with the Visa.

To be able to get into China, we have to get a Visa (I hope you know that) and thus my kind aunt went all the way to Ottawa in order to save everybody some $$$. The glitch here is that she won’t be able to go to Ottawa herself to pick them up. What was her solution? Give the receipt to a friend, also a high school friend of mine (who happens to work in that deserted city), so this person can bring them back to Montreal when she’ll be back (on Friday night) for the weekend. Do not think that this plan is working in splendor. The little complication is the fact that my friend wants to go to Vermont with her Honey Bear (leaving Friday afternoon), which requires a passport (I hope you know that too) to get through the US boundary.

This wouldn’t be such a big deal if my aunt’s friend/my high school friend have nothing better to do than go to the Embassy, pick up our passports and post them back. But…life isn’t always going as well as we wish it will. Worst case scenario…my close friend will have to go to Ottawa and pick them up.

Looking from another angle, it is completely understandable if that Ottawa friend refuses to do it, because it means that she has to spend her lunch/personal time to do us a favor. I was surprised that she ended up accepting the demand. Muuucho gracias!!!

My close friend and I had an argument on that, because she was so frustrated that she said not wanting to go to our trip anymore. At first, I was on my nerves too, because I did everything I could, trying to make things work…and all I get in return was dissatisfaction. After a moment for meself to calm down and think over the situation (put myself in my friend’s position), I can understand why and how important this is to her. I kindly apologized for being a little rude over the phone…and things are back to their initial state. *strongly hope*

Ha! That’s not all. Don’t you dare think that it is over. There’s a part 2 to my miserable journey.

We have to also book flight tickets (for a small group of 6 people) to go from Shanghai to Hong Kong. The website was malfunctionning:

• It keeps saying "your session has expired" at every 2 minutes
• It indicates Sold Out after me booking for 3 tickets -_-’ What am I suppose to do? Have the others take the following flight? Nonsense.
• Called the help line (stayed on the phone for ~50minutes) and had a hard time understanding his accent (at least he’s kind)
• Finally found out that there are places left…just not shown on the site. WTH!!!
• That representant tried to put the total on MY Credit Card *exhales* Do I look like I have enough $$$ to pay for 6 tickets???
• Received an email with only our names…no total and no detail
• Sent an email back to ask for a proper receipt and when we’ll be receiving our etickets…still waiting for an answer

Did I tell you how much I *with a dictator’s voice* HATE waiting and knowing that someone’s mad at me??? Well...

You Think You’re Smart??? (Part VI)

(read it somewhere on a website) Here’s an interesting question for YOU…smart arse.

If drinking and driving is illegal…why do bars have parking spaces???