sans titre

it would totally be too ambitious if i was to start over again reporting my Kansai trip.

i can't commit.

anyways, i will remember to write down cute little stories happened all along the trip.

maybe even share tips - like i have any to begin with. (rolling eyes)

well, for a start, it was a birthday present to myself.

i agreed with my friend almost 10 years ago that we'd travel together to Paris to celebrate our birthday this year.

turned out, we didn't go for various reasons.

but we did, start planning from Amsterdam and then around South France.

she even got guidebooks etc from Taiwan.

but we ended up heading north east to Japan.

spent a 2-week break in the mountains which reminded us so much of good old days back in sheepland.

here is a deer-shaped omikuji from kasuga taisha in Nara.

PIC of the day

had so much fun @ nishiki mkt, but didn't let my deep down housewife side get the better of me, unlike my friend, she's so gonna carry those rice all the way back to HK. ~ yeah

it's not about what you know but who you know.

sipping coffee and flicking through paper, something came to attention.

first here. then here, here & here.

what?! even here!!!

well, i thought it's a well-understood story that all high-level management posts are filled by such people. although i didn't expect that they were way ahead of my "understanding of the world in general" - they were already reaching out to hk offices, so long ago, too.

just another example of my finance professor's famous quote "the only way to get rich is to be rich to begin with." well i guess if you have a great dad/mum also helps enormously in this instance.

quoting TNYer, "there is a difference between 'knowing' something exists and seeing it laid out in the black and white of court files."

simple and naive me.

there are certain things you can't claim their non-existence just because you can't see them. e.g. wifi. 

quote of the day

yep.

sans titre

i've only realised that i haven't properly written anything about miss z's wedding. doh!

partially because i was so tied up with other random shit in life that i didn't bother making time recording this important moment of her life. (just joking.)

another part is that i still haven't adjusted to the fact that she's turned to a new page of life.

it was an elegant and exquisite wedding, minus the weather.

but lucky enough when she walked out of the car to get to the venue, it all stopped.

she walked down the aisle looking stunning in her champagne/ivory wedding gown being super careful (it was raining and the pebbled footpath isn't something on which hight heels are safe to walk), i was so happy for her.

when she took the vow, articulating each word, tears rolled down my cheeks. that moment, i felt like an old lady relative of hers who saw her growing up. and being so happy seeing her little cousin getting married.

i was honoured to be asked to deliver a speech, which, you would think was done ages ago and had had a couple of revisions already beforehand.

but truth to be told, i only did a 2nd revision night before.

i was having memory flashbacks all night, remembering the good old days of us skipping classes to go to all sorts of random places and the not-so-glamourous days of us being stressed and miserably unemployed - i will probably never forget about that horrible winter - all the rain and bad weather.

although i remember a lot of tears from her, and when we hugged, other than happy tears, i was crying on the inside, "gawd, why is this girl so skinny while i am so fat and still dig in every friggin meal."

till this minute, i am still waiting for the pictures taken by the very professional photographer on the day.

i promise to share with you some wonderful pictures when i actually get to see them.

the wedding took place at a vineyard and the environment was superb, english country club style.

big big heart.

i wish you a lifetime of happiness, z.

xxx

goodbye my friend

thanks for all the great time.

a dieu.

temporary tattoo, 2.

yup. being late again.

temporary tattoo

ditto.

get it from here.

i luuuuuv the watch tattoo, so random.

congrats mate!

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a new destination for your working holiday visa programme

喜聞樂見法蘭西終於也加入了工作假期計劃的大軍呢∼

所以現在除卻澳洲、加拿大、紐西蘭、愛爾蘭、德國，日本和韓國之外，法蘭西也榜上有名了呢。

說真的，那些英文國家真的會讓人感覺乏善可陳。

泡菜國，毫不吸引我。日本又會很貴，且畢竟離家太近，無甚挑戰可言。

德國和法國無疑是最吸引人的兩個目的地了！

趁自己浪費一整年的機會成本還不是很高的時候，走出門，換個環境，去異國深入地了解一下別人的文化和生活方式，的確很吸引人啊。

有過這樣的一段經歷，人生閱歷頓時豐富起來。

雖然將來，亦會在很多個無法入睡的夜裡，因為各種瓶頸感到焦慮，輾轉反側。

只是，當你回想起你在歐陸遊學的日子裡遇上的奇人奇事，一定會釋然。

做了別人想做而不敢做的事情——獨自遠走異國，放棄（高）薪（厚）職去面對一個全新的未知的世界。

這，難道不令人驕傲嗎？

adieu lady thatcher

i don't have much to say.

really.

maybe, stop making biographical movies about someone who's still alive?

え？

の。。のつ?

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