Time

I'd bet you know who sketched this. Yup it's me. I have this pinned on my partition because I want to remember the first day I started work in the Venetian.

I've been in Macau for approx. 27 months now... things have turned tougher these days but I'm still hanging here. Got to know so many interesting friends. Although some have already left the place but I do continue meeting different people. Every so often I realize that I'm around mostly Mat Salleh/Gweilos when I'm socializing. Sometimes it feels like I'm one of them and yet I'm not... strange feeling. Yes, I'm an expat here but I'm not very different from the major population here -- Chinese. However, not many Chinese hang out with Mat Salleh let alone Chinese girls. I would sometimes look around me and find that I'm the only Chinese girl in the crowd. Some friends even call me Gweipo...

I know I'm not an average girl all my life. I live a very different lifestyle from my closest friends back home. Sometimes I feel like an outsider around them. Some of my theories or my concepts are alien language to them. Despite all these, I still manage to make some really good girl friends here -- Mendy, Edith, Luria, Jane and Chin. In a way, we are all the same -- crazy and yet we make sense -- we are some of the most sensible girls in the region. hahaha!! At least that's what I think of us.

"If your man doesn't appreciate you... he's a stupid dumb arse..." that's what I've been told. And my reply was, "If he doesn't appreciate me, he doesn't deserve me..." hehehe!

I will hang tough and stick around until one day they no longer need me here and I will show the other parts of the world my charm hahahahahahaha!!

T8

It was the 6th of August... I woke up, well, half conscious, but I could still tell that the rain and the wind sounded louder than last night!! We (well almost everyone I know) prayed very hard(I just hoped, didn't really pray, because I don't really have a God to pray to... and borrowing one didn't sound normal...)that T8 hoisted so that we can all have a day off!! hehehehe yup T8=no work!! (Brian kept looking at the weather updates on the web the day before anyway! hahaha!!

We don't have Typhoon in Malaysia... well, at least our umbrellas don't "transform" into shapes like this in the wind... maybe we have better brollies...

Why did they insist using an umbrella like that????????????????

Anyway, it was a nice day off -- the moment I saw T8 on the TV screen(turn on the TV and they will have a small little log on the top left of the screen that tells you if it's T8 or something else or nothing...), I switched it off and then fell back to sleep... mmm... nice and sweet... mmm... zzzzzz....zzzz...zz..

At approx. 8:11am, Brian texted me and said, "In case you didn't know, it's T8 now and we're are not required to work but if it turned T3 before 2pm, we will need to go back to work... bla bla bla..." ya, ya... not bothered!!!

... we anxiously waited and hope that T3 comes after 2pm... 1:30pm "Babe can you please check the TV and see if it's still T8?" and I shouted back to him from the living room, "Can you please check the internet while I check the TV just to be sure?" and this exercise went on a few times until just after 2:00pm and "Yes!!!" we're off the rest of the day!! hahahaha!!!

It was a lazy day. Very lazy! We slept, watched TV, ate, slept a lot more, watched some movies... mmm... mmm... hahahahahaha!!

Some said that there will be 3 Typhoons in August... I just hope they came during the week... not weekends please!! hehehe

New Born!!!!

Good news arrived yesterday afternoon at about 3pm, I've become an antie again!! My brother's 2nd son is born!

I thought my brother could have taken a nicer photo... hmm... look at this ugly wrinkly little thing!! Hahahaha!!


According to my mom, he's got bigger mouth than his brother and cries louder than him! I just can't wait to get home and give the little thing a big big hug!

Some Engrish Menu!

I have been receiving emails about how Chinese (not only PRC Chinese, but Taiwan Chinese, HK/Macau Chinese, Japanese, Korean...) is translated to English wrongly... They call them Engrish.

Guess What me and Adrian found? We went shopping new the St. Paul's Church one weekend and saw this... but they do sell very delicious food and had asked us to help to correct the mistakes and of course, we did...

(click on the images to view larger image)




I'm not gonna translate... just ask me if you want to know what they are hehehe... For those who read Chinese, don't you dare to ask!!

One more!

Found one more as I was looking through the files...



"Fat area" is what it says in Chinese! I wouldn't want to live there for sure...

New discovery in Macau!!

I've been in Macau since August 2006, that means that I've been here for 1.75yrs now... and still, it's a very exciting adventure! Every now and then I have new discoveries!!

Here are some funny street names I came across lately...



I don't know about the Portuguese words but the Chinese words, pronounced "die law hong" (English pronunciation) or "dai loh hong" (Malay pronunciation), which means "Big Butt (bottom) Alley" in Cantonese!!!

and this one...



The Portuguese means "little hide out of pirates"... hehehe in Cantonese, it means "little thief area" ... hahaha

Love 'em!!

Top 3 spots for photos in the Grand Canal Shoppes, Venetian, Macau

I have been thinking about blogging this since not long after the Venetian’s Grand Opening…

When we walk around the mall, the gals and I found some really strange things… the things that we normally wouldn’t do…

And so we have concluded that the following spots in the Grand Canal Shoppes are the 3 most popular spots for camera shots!

3rd Place (outside Edo Japanese Restaurant, well comprehensive coz it has a very stunning backdrop)



2nd Place (the posters they put up on hoardings as displays so that they won’t look so plain... but to pose in front of the thing and take a picture??? come on, the real canal is just right in front of you!!)


1st Place (there’s a stage in St. Mark’s Square for Streetmosphere performances, when the stage is not in use, a black fabric panel will be placed right in front the stage, to prevent tourists/shoppers from staging themselves… erm... what's so special about a black fabric panel??? Ahhhhhh~~ Venetian's Logo!!!!)



Look!! I actually caught somebody in action!!!

Hahahaha!!

Thomas baked cookies again!!!

Thomas (the one in blue shirt) – the ultimate baker of the office… he bakes cookies occasionally and brings them to the office to share with all the colleagues. A very impressive action I must say. He’s the only man I know who bakes cookies!!

Today, he bakes again. Have a look, I just luuuuuurve the way they look… “These are bloody racist!!” says Brian hahahahaha…





and they do look yummy...



But... erm... 9 out of 10 gals think the same!! The last one, she was too...

Anyway, I must thank Thomas for all the cookies he has baked for us, they tasted wonderful! and I'm sure the guys would enjoy the cookies better than the gals this time... hehehe... ya ya ya, I know I know, I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!