Merry Christmas Eve in HK

Haven't spent my xmas in HK for many years already, well i didn't really feel so "christmas" this year, i remember the last time was better - we went to TST to watch xmas light and count down, and i rmb somebody on the street asked Ben to buy me a flower......haha, the good old times. Anyways... left the office at noon on xmas eve, then rushed back home to buy xmas gift for my cousin and some alcohol for the xmas party. Then went to my cousin's kindergarden to participate their Xmas event~ the kids are so cute... thanks them i actually felt more christmas after watching them perform and sing xmas songs. then went back to Central and met up with Ben and went to Jason's hse. We actually hesitated to go b/c jason is not home and Ben's mom won't be there as well, so we didn't know why we should go. But since i was quite curious how Jason's home look like, so i went~ and YES, HIS PENTHOUSE IS BIGGGGGGGGG AND GRAND AND EVERY ROOM HAS A SUPER SEA VIEW... one word to summarize is ---- RICH. The party ended up pretty fun~ Food was great, we played Bingo and lots of prizes as well~ then went to LKF to meet the ppl up... didn't really want to go cuz of the crowd and they're SO SLOW.... all arrived AFTER count down man.... :/

my cousin - 1st row 2nd from the right

we BBQ and dine outside on the patio... they got a BBQ stove outside the patio, so jeng

Lee Hom Concert with HKPO

王力宏興奮除鞋彈奏 千秋王子上身
(明報)12月24日 星期三 05:05

【明報專訊】王力宏 （Lee Hom）前晚跟香港管弦樂團合作，於文化中心 舉行第一場《港樂．王力宏音樂會》。極具音樂才華的Lee Hom前晚猶如《交響情人夢》千秋王子上身，不但一開場即任樂團指揮，表演第一首曲目外，又表演其擅長的小提琴、結他及鋼琴，更獻唱意大利 文歌曲。唱至興奮時，他更突然在台上除鞋，跑上台後的管風琴上彈奏，令人嘆為觀止，贏得觀眾多番掌聲。
安哥4次冧歌迷
前晚Lee Hom在管弦樂團伴奏下，唱出《Forever Love》、《龍的傳人》，以及於Boxing Day推出的新碟歌曲《Everything》外，又用廣東話跟歌迷說「聖誕快樂」。音樂會原定長一個半小時，本來只準備安哥一次的Lee Hom在歌迷熱情要求下，結果安哥了四次，最後自彈自唱一曲《唯一》。

Yes i went to Lee Hom concert yday night~ it was not the 1st day but basically the rundown is the same (((except we didn't get encore for 4 times :( )))...... so the above news is just like a summary of the concert~ he really looked like 千秋王子~~~~ by the way....i felt so stupid that when i bought the ticket, i didn't notice it was a crossover concert with the HK philarmonic orchestra, when i arrived i kept asking Ben why there isn't any glow sticks or bang bang stick for us?? but then when we entered the hall, i was like........errrr... why there's orchestra ppl here??? then i realized... hai wor... it's called 港樂, that means it's Lee hom with the Orchestra...-_- and that's why ppl dressed so grand..... but anyways... the show was great, the hall is not big so we are like so close to him, but it's a bit too short, only 90 mins include the intermission, so the ticket became relatively expensive. I felt sooooooooo touching when i listened him sing "Forever Love" live!!! I love that song so much and dunno why he always face our side for the whole concert, so it was like he's singing the song to me... super sweet. weeeeeeeee~ :D

from the Peak, to MK

since there's not much things to do in HK so me and ben become tourists and went to the peak yday. We took the train up and had a very relaxing lunch there. The restaurant offers sunday brunch so it attracts quite many caucasians and hikers. Unfortunately we could not afford a $500/pp buffet lunch so we ordered a la carte instead. The view of the restaurant was nice, yet it's not the best ones up there. It was actually recommended by a tour guide who was also from Canada we met on the train. He was wondering why two hongers acted so much like tourists but speak fluent Cantonese.... lol.

Then went to the Madame Tussauds wax museum and spent quite awhile inside. I think the best part of the museum was we can spend a lot of time inside taking silly pictures. Also went to the "dunno-why-there-is-a-haunted-house" haunted house inside, well it was actually scarier than the ones in Ocean Park!!

After spending the whole afternoon in the peak, we returned down to earth and had our dinner at MongKok. Although somebody just dropped two bottle of poison detergent the day before, MK still has a million ppl on the street. From the peak to MK, once again we experienced the contradiction of HK....

food poisoning (?)

felt a bit sick and wanted to throw up, thought i caught a cold so "very cleverly" had two panadol in the office, although it's the non-drownsy one i started "fishing" in the office from 9:30am to 12~ but since i got nth to do as well, i sat there and fell into sleep...LOL~ then felt no better so i went straight home and slept for few hrs again. Started to have symptoms of diarrhea in the late afternoon and went to see doctor. Doctor first asked if i'm pregnant, LOL, he said he had to ask that question to women who have symptoms of nausea wor... then he said maybe i ate some bacteria from my hotpot at "little fat sheep" but i am not really sure cuz it had been 2 days already. so later that whole night and the day after I at least went to "orrr" 10x times.... and as a result the excess water in my body are gone and my face became "sharp" again :> .... thanks for Mr. Virus in a positive way.

Had my 1st and (probably) last Xmas party in Credit Suisse on the announcement day of "Credit Suisse to Eliminate 5,300 Jobs After Losses". The rumor of laying off had been going on for a week already, ppl just dunno the actual number of eliminations. Now it's confirmed that it'll eliminate all the contract staff (about 1,400 ppl, including me -_-) and 5,300 full time staff, mainly from the Investment Banking division (which is the division i'm in -_-). I wasn't that surprised that my contract won't be extend, because it's already been anticipated. But I was surprised that the managing director actually called me and apologized to me, saying that they're facing a lot of pressure for the headcounts that's why they need to make the decision. In fact I didn't feel upset at all, b/c it's not something I want to do, but I was just a bit disappointed about losing the high salary v__v, also making me to consider to go back to Canada for awhile.....


anyways... although ppl are feeling upset in the office, we had our Xmas party yday! it was pretty fun and it's my first time to drink that much.... I'm still feeling so dizzy today..... @_@