House Chores

Hubby just left for airport and heading to US. I am alone again. I did some cleaning, putting away all the winter stuffs. I know I should have done this long time ago but I have been busy for the past weeks.

I bought vacuum bag for compacting bulky clothes last night. I was trying to see if it works coz Winston told me his does not work.

This was how my winter sheets looks like.


I place them in the bag and used the vacuum cleaner to remove the air. The effect was indeed quite compact.



Ta da!!!! Big difference between the 'before' and 'after' effect. It really saves so much on storage space. Not bad, I have decided to get more of these.

Work & Fun - Tongli

Some of my friends are aware that I have been travelling from Shanghai to Wujiang at least twice every week, waking up early at 6am for the 1.5 hour journey. Very tiring.

After all these hard work, my boss decided to give us a treat - a small group outing at Tongli, a water village nearby Wujiang. We left Wujiang office at 3pm and head to Tongli Lakeview Resort. Nice place, very serene. I love this place and it's a good chance to get away from Shanghai's polluted environment.

Picture taken with Jane & Kathy at hotel lobby.


This picture is taken from my hotel room. Nice view, serene and peaceful.


Group picture of the project team taken at the resort.



This is Lida... the external consultant and the youngest in the team. She is usually quiet in office but on this day, very talkative and outgoing. Young girl and daring... she has some really outstanding pose for the cameras.


After checking in and taken a couple of pics at the resort, the team headed to Tongli watertown, and everyone's looking happy. After a 15 minutes walk, we finally reached the entrance of Tongli.




Me and Todd, our Project Manager who will soon be leaving back to the states in June.


Everyone's playing with DSLR... we have 3 sets on this day. Photographers spent a lot of time exchanging views and opinions and photography, taking pictures and having me, Jane, Lida posing as models. Yeah... lame, but we enjoyed the process as well as the results.







I like the following 2 pictures... of Jane taken by me and of me taken by Jane, both using my normal Panasonic Lumix.




Picture of me and Jane taken by Gordon, a natural piece.

We had a lot of fun. I will be staying at this place again for the coming 2 weeks... I kinda like this place and don't mind leaving home for a couple of days. :)

Jane, Carleen, Kathy and myself posing on day 2, before we leave for Wujiang factory.

Why I Love this so much

LeSportsac.... some bags which I don't think really worth the price tag, but I just love them! Each time I buy a LeSportsac, I will be so happy for that whole 2 weeks!! The feeling is even better than having a new Gucci hangbag which cost like 10 times more. Am serious!!

Why do I love this brand so much? Seriously, no idea. Each time I walk into a LeSportsac store, my eyes light up! Recently, Hubby bought me a tote bag for my day trip to Tongli. I love it so much! No regrets getting it despite it being a little pricey. All the girls love it as well and this bag came out so pretty in pictures.

My good friend Deisy knows that I am a LeSportsac brang crave and bought me a cosmetic travel pouch on her recent trip to HK.

I will be going to HK end of this month and in my list is another LeSportsac sling bag, if I managed to find the print design that I like. You can never have too many LeSportsac and never say 'No' to a LeSportsac! Hehe!

Being Late

How often do you turn up late for an appointment, be it a business appointment or a meet up with friends?

In my life experience, since during schooldays, I have friends who are always late. I really mean always... they are never on time. These friends are usually 20 minutes to 40 minutes late, no exception and expected, as always.

I don’t understand. What does it takes for one to be on time? And what makes it worst is that each time they are late, they give all sort of excuses. Come on… can you just be there on time without an excuse for being late, again? Excuses for being late is lame! No one believes especially if you are always late.

I get very nervous if I know I’m gonna be late. Being punctual is like a major thing to me. I am not pinpointing at a particular friend with this post. Just so happened that this incident happened again last Saturday that had me recall all my previous experience with friends who are always late. So sick with waiting, all the time!

I remember during schooldays, we always use the phrase; “Penantian itu suatu Penyeksaan”. This is so true!

Xi'An Day 2

Day 2 of our Xi’An trip started off with breakfast at McDonalds (haha!) Ok… we departed at 9am and headed to the Terracotta Warrior site. The ride took about an hour before we finally reached the main destination for this trip.

This place is amazing and me being the second time here, I still find it truly amazing with great stories and history dating back to 3000 years ago. We managed to hire a very, very good tour guide who told us interesting stories in his very own interesting way. He was so good that everyone stopped to listen to our guide, which actually made me feel rather agitated coz we paid him.

There comes to a part where the story really made me felt sad. Not far away from the site where they discoverer the Terracotta Warriors, there is a site where they found human skeleton, stacked up to 4 levels of skeletons. Most of them are in different positions, giving signs that these people were buried alive. They believe that these skeletal remains are the sculptors of the Terracotta. Emperor Qin Shih-Huang wanted to keep this a secret and therefore summoned for all the people involved in the sculpture to be killed. It is really sad.

Our next destination was the Huaqing Pool, where the famous Yang Gui-Fei (Yang Concubine) bathed. It’s like the Roman Bath… but this is the Chinese Bath!

Some foreigners trying on ancient clothings and posing. It's fun watching them.

Our last destination for the day is the Ancient City Wall surrounding Xi’An city center.

I love this particular shot taken by EC. Beautiful and natural. I felt like a model...





View from above the wall.

We were starving after the last destination and guess where we had dinner? Pizza Hut!!! Darn! We couldn’t find a better restaurant and also didn’t want to walk any further because we were all too hungry.

After dinner, we went to a pub near hotel and had a couple of drinks. We had a total of 18 bottles of Budweiser – just the 6 of us. Darn cheap… cost RMB240 only. (that’s RM120) A couple of singers sang there and they’re really good singers! We had a really good time.

I love this trip. I had so much fun with Mum. Mum is going home this Friday. I will miss her…