My Blue Heaven

Cliff hangers

Don’t you just hate em? I watched the final episode of Stargate Atlantis Season 2 last night. And they ended on the BIGGEST cliff-hanger. Arghhhhhhh! So cruel!!! 🙁 I have to wait until US summer (June) for season 3!! That’s a whole 4 months away. Nooooooo….. *sob*

Maybe I’ll just have to catch up on Seasons 6, 7, 8, and 9 of SG-1 while I wait. I can’t believe they’re up to season 10 now!!

In other news… its absolutely friggin freezing today! Top temp for today is -2 degrees C!! Brrrr!

Current listening :: “Taylor” – Jack Johnson

Flight tix booked!!

My flights to Sydney are booked! Myself and Kwai depart London on Sat 11th March and arrive in Sydney early morning on Monday 13th March. I’ll be there for just over 2 weeks, leaving on Tues 28th March to spend 4 nights in HK and going back to London on Sat 1st April.

So, get out your diaries and book us in! I’d love to catch up with as many people as possible. 🙂 As well as get in as much beach time as humanly possible. 😛

Hm. My to-do in Australia list currently includes:

• spend time with family
• catch up with friends
• visit WS
• go to the beach
• go clubbing
• go karaokeing
• go to dance classes
• stay over at friends place in Newcastle
• day trip to Great Lakes/Seal Rocks beach (maybe.. its only 1 hour from Newcastle)
• visit friends and Kwai’s relos in Melbourne
• eat as much Japanese food as possible
• play some piano
• hug my kitty cat Coltrane 🙂
• tidy/organise my stuff

Only 5 & 1/2 weeks till we go! Can’t wait!!! 😀

Current listening :: “All I Want Is You” – U2

I hate cigarette smoke

Seriously. I am really really REALLY starting to really really REALLY HATE cigarette smoke. In Sydney, I didn’t have much against cigarette smoke. It was something I put up with in clubs on occasion, but I wasn’t too bothered by it. I never really encountered it much.

Since arriving here, I seem to have developed a passionate hatred for cigarette smoke. I don’t think I have so passionately hated something in a long time. The reason is because it’s everywhere. Everytime I go to a restuarant or cafe to eat, there will inevitably be someone smoking nearby. And because London buildings aren’t exactly built for ventilation (keep the heat in and the cold out) the smoke just gets trapped in those tiny rooms. Its not so bad outside.. you can avoid it, stand up-wind, walk in front of them. But in a restaurant or building, there is no escaping those evil tendrils of smoke that ever so slowly begin to choke you. On Saturday night, I had to step outside (into the freezing cold) to wait for the birthday dinner to end because I just couldn’t stand breathing in any more smoke.

And to put the cherry on top of it all, people smoke at my workplace. I don’t know who or where, but I can ALWAYS tell when someone starts smoking. Because I start to choke. My eyes sting, breathing is more difficult, I start to cough and it gives me a headache.

I’m sitting here now, already with a cold and some seriously blocked up sinuses.. my body trying to fight the infection. I’m finding it hard enough to breathe as it is. And some selfish person is smoking. I’m sitting here typing this and I can feel my body’s health deteriorating. My cough worsening and my chest starting to hurt.

This is why I hate cigarette smoke (indoors). Its a bl**dy selfish activity. Harmful not only to themselves, but also those around them.

Current listening :: “Dreams be dream” – Jack Johnson

Gong Hei Fatt Choy

I can’t believe I’m sick. Again. I only just got better, for all of one week.. and now I’m sick again. Grrr. Sucks. 🙁

I didn’t even have a particularly big weekend. No partying hard or clubbing. It was just busy with normal activities – dim sum with relatives, a friends birthday dinner, Chinese New Year lunch and church. Ok, I did sleep a bit late getting 6 – 7 hours sleep, but no staying out late. It’s just that there was no chance to sleep in – which is quite important for me. I need to allow at least 1 weekend morning to catch up on sleep and recover from the tiredness that builds up over the week at work. Kinda sad really.. that work takes such a toll. A job that slowly kills you? I’m beginning to understand.

Photos from the weekend:

Lets play tag

Thanks to a l. 😛

Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
1) Waitress
2) Graduate programmer
3) Web developer
4) Contractor

Four movies you could watch over and over again (not to be confused with favourite movies):
1) Bridget Jones Diary
2) Star Wars Trilogy
3) Love Actually
4) Ever After

Four TV shows you love(d) to watch:
1) Stargate Atlantis!!!
2) Stargate SG1
3) Seaquest DSV
4) Star Trek Next Gen

Four places you’ve lived:
1) Hatfield, UK
2) Ermington, Sydney, Australia
3) London, UK
4) Frankfurt, Germany

Four places you’ve been on vacation to:
1) Paris, France
2) Verona, Italy
3) Phuket, Thailand
4) New Zealand

Four places you would rather be (or where you’ll like to visit? – ok changing my answers to where I’d like to visit):
1) Italy (I looove Italy! Rome, Milan, Venice, Sorrento.. wanna see em all!)
2) Southern france
3) Japan
4) New York

Four of your favourite foods:
1) udon noodle soup with teriyaki chicken
2) rich chocolate ice-cream/gelati
3) fresh salmon sashimi
4) authentic italian pasta

Four websites you visit daily:
1) gmail.com
2) kazzart.com
3) homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html
4) metoffice.gov.uk

Four tagged:
1) Vron
2) Nayfon
3) Gavin
4) Sam

Anyway. Home time! Yay! Me and my blocked nose have been looking forward to this moment from the moment I arrived at work.

Current listening :: “Don’t Panic” – Coldplay

I just saw..

A body floating down the Thames River! One of my work colleagues saw it first and pointed it out to the rest of us. We’re pretty sure it looks like a body.. face downward.. looks like he’s wearing workmans clothes. We called the police and reported. No idea where it is now.. floated onwards. Rather disturbing – not something you see everyday!! I didn’t even get a picture of it to send to the papers. I wonder if there’s gonna be a story about it in the papers. I wonder what happened..

Anyways. TGI Friday! This week has gone by really quickly for some reason. And that’s a good thing – I love it when the week passes by and before you know, it’s the weekend again. Yay! 🙂 I’ve got quite a jammed packed weekend coming up. Dim sum lunch tomorrow with almost all my relatives.. 2 aunts and various cousins – just so they can check out my bf (and probably report back to my parents). I think my parents are setting up a spy network rivalling the British Secret Service. Ok maybe not, but its a bit unsettling what I hear from cousins at times! Asian parents man. Youngest daughter moving out for the first time.. to the other side of world = parents freaking out at regular intervals!

Err where was I again? Oh yeh, the weekend. So after dim sum lunch, we’re rushing off to a birthday party for one of Kwai’s close friends. That’ll last till late. Sunday’s schedule involves a looong Chinese New Year lunch with Kwai’s parents in china town (gee it’s a full on Meet The Parents/Relatives weekend this weekend!) and then watching a movie (probably Zathura) in the late afternoon before going to evening service at St Helens at night. Phew. Hope I won’t be too exhausted come Monday. No time for a visit to the gym unfortunately.. which sucks coz I like going to the gym on the weekend. 🙁

I’ve started reading “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” again.. continued reading I mean. I’m now up to chapter 3.. and its only taken me 9 months!! I am absorbing it though, slowly but surely. I still think its a great book – very practical.

Anyways, lunch time now. Need. Food.

Current listening :: “Stay” – Lisa Loeb