tourmaline

The set of finger ring and ear-rings.  It contains red and green on each stone - "watermelon".

Stones bought and then set in yellow gold.

So lovely!

Anne Hathaway

Enneagram

1  Regulator
2  Supporter
3  Achiever
4  Feeler
5  Rationalist
6  Safety Seeker
7  Optionist
8  Protector
9  Harmonist

The 9 Personality Types

1  The Reformer
2  The Helper
3  The Motivator
4  The Individualist
5  The Investigator
6  The Loyalist
7  The Enthusiast
8  The Leader
9  The Peacemaker

content

Lunch with Mama and dinner with Min.

The Venetian

Galaxy

peridot/olivine

delightful

Beauty Glow.  Usual lunch at Wanchai.

Seeing Anissa.

Pingpong and dinner at home.

for children

Easy Monday

An easy Monday - rare.

Lunch and dinner with colleagues. 

A lovely pink Pacific Coffee thermo mug:
"To the world, you are someone;
 To someone, you are the world."

Our World

Rest Day

Time with children and grandchild.

40 minutes on cross trainer to make up the 5 days on trip. 

Anything described as "black sugar" in Japan should be "brown sugar" in English.

Elephant Trunk Rock

busy busy busy

Thursday : Lunch at Dynasty.

Dinner at Van's home.

Anissa has gone to Disneyland to start her summer vacation. 

Friday:  Lunch at Chiu Chow Garden.  

Taiji after work and dinner at home.

Tropical Storm Doksuri

We had dinner at Ning Po Residents Association, Central.

See the movement of Doksuri.

King Yin Lei & 8 Jackson Road

Near Stubbs Road.  A rich man's mansion once.

Supreme Court.  Brings back lots of memories.

leisure time

The House of Dancing Water

Excited.  I will be viewing it soon!

Ramen with pork & egg

A place in Central for the trendy & young.

Min brought me there.  Haha!  

risk-taker

If you are going to jump off a bridge, make sure you know how deep the water is.

Sometimes it's better to stand on a bank and dip a toe in, or paddle about a bit. It will make you happier.  

Get what you want when circumstances permit, but without paying as heavily for it as the past painful experience.

The water may look lovely now.  It is likely that it will turn out to be cold, murky, muddy, clammy and invariably wet.

Worthy?

sick leave

Jusco.  Flora Beauty.  Lunch at home.

30 minutes on cross-trainer.  Online Mj.

Judy came for dinner.  Dragon Boat dumplings.

Min stays at home for the whole day.

I am ill

Never ending illnesses, one after the other.

Okinawa

minor discomforts of all kinds

May I have some good rest, quality sleep & an appetite.

Very busy schedules!

story telling during lunch

A busy day.

Dinner with Min & Will at home.  So warm & comfortable.

No day without surprises

Accept.  That's it!

Death & Illness

When deaths and illnesses have become more frequent in our life, when we are getting older and older, when there is not much room for dreams and ambitions, when all the frustrations and regrets can never be undone, what should we do?  How should we face the setting sun?

Medical appointments & examinations, tablets of different kinds,  we start to concentrate on the readings of our blood tests like we were so concerned about the marks on our school reports.

A big sigh!  We really need to think seriously how to go through this passage with peace of mind and dignity and some joy.

aquamarine

March birth stone - aquamarine

Song of the Angels - to Ah Moon

RIP life is painful sometimes

Rubellite

Peridot

Jasmine Place

Birthday dinner.

Chuen Cheung Kui Restaurant

Dinner with colleagues and some retirees.

We had the traditional Hakka dishes. 

Travelling around are the main activities for everybody.

I must plan some for the summer vacation.

Queen Mary Hospital

I visited Ah Moon around noon.

30 minutes cross-trainer at the last session of the gym.

Min did treadmill.

Koala comes home!

Airport and Sushi Kuu.

4 generations together.  Can't ask for more.

Rolled oats & 10 grains

a funful Sunday - mj

Friends are essential.

Kingsui, Helen & Christina came to my place.  We had lunch, tea & dinner together.  Gamblers.

flaxseed meal

nice

frustrating

Must work harder and be more self-disciplined.

:(

Happy time with old friends.  Dinner at Telford.

fresh air & natural fragrance of plants

30 minutes on cross-trainer and 30 minutes walk in Sai Tso Wan Playground.  A warm shower after the sweating.

I brought Mama to Telford for wonton noodles.

Hair trimmed.

Will go to Beauty Glow and then dinner at KT.

single ladies' club

10 minutes pingpong & 1 1/2 hours taiji after work.

Estella came to my place for dinner.

A very busy Friday.  

The honey/oat + fruit bars are yummy & nutritious.

Alacria Swan

elegant

Alacria with diamonds & python strap

Alacria Royal

Alacria by Carl F Bucherer

English Breakfast

Earthquake in Italy

purple & white

Dark Shadows

Tim Burton + Johnny Depp

Morals:
Incapability to love is a great curse
Family is real wealth 
Dunn run into a witch & break her heart, the revenge is awful

Life is predictable

to be unpredictable.

A grandma had gone.  A maid had gone.  A dog had gone and a brother-in-law had gone.

All these have affected several families.

Kingsui's dog had contracted lymphatic cancer and undergone chemotherapy like man.  And like many people, the dog could not survive.  Shortly afterwards, her brother-in-law in UK had a sudden death because of heart attack.  She flew there to accompany her sister.  The latter was so shocked and had become very hysterical.  


So Kingsui has become depressed in some way. We had to tender huge apologies before she forgave us for being late.


I have booked pingpong for Monday evening. Have fun in the smallest, affordable and easy way.

Kingsui's home - mj

Lost.  We chatted and had meals.  We all appreciate the togetherness.  

From Papa - so romantic

Pingpong & Taiji after work

A meeting in the morning.  Lunch at canteen.  

Dinner at Montecello.  Irene gave me a big piece of sirloin steak.

pingpong + cross-trainer

Standard items.

Red Admiral

Butterfly

Benchmark visit

Kwun Tong Swimming Pool.

One session ping-pong with Helen in HK Park Sports Centre.

Dinner home.

Anissa went to Disneyland today.

West Lake

be hopeful

Wing On - a family store

I enjoy shopping at Wing On.

30 minutes on cross-trainer.  Listening to music & sweating. A leisurely walk in the garden.  Pleasurable.

somewhere in time

Staub

I bought a set of 4 green bowls to please myself.

Further improvement resulted from Dr Ho's treatment.

We all need repairs and maintenance.

sweet as honey

A Happy Mother's Day

Thankful for all I have as a Mom.

To All Loving Mothers

Sabbath Day

I was so happy the notebook worked again this morning as there was no internet last night from 2 hours.

30 minutes on cross-trainer and the Ah Chi.

Lunch with Van & Anissa.  

Will have herb tea this evening for tonic.

Mandarin Laoshi remains fine.

new diction

Filibuster

Champerty

doctors doctos

I see one each day.  OMG!

30 minutes on cross-trainer and pingpong in the HK Park for one hour.

dancing ladies orchids

Van in Hangzhou

There is wifi in the hotel room.  How nice.  And a walk-in wardrobe.

Baby said "Good Morning, Auntie.  Happy Mother's Day" to Fely.

30 minutes on cross-trainer.

I start a fresh treatment plan with Dr Ho.

A peaceful day

30 minutes on cross trainer.  Really addicted.  I do enjoy the solitude, the music and the sweating.  Ritual of some kind.  Always a few guys around but we do not know each other nor do we want to make acquaintance. 

One meeting in the morning and one meeting in the afternoon.  

Van in Shanghai & Nanjing.  Safe journey!  Miss her.

RIP - Granny

busy Monday

2 meetings overlapping in the morning and 1 meeting in the afternoon.  Interview and emails.  Enough is enough.

Lunch with Estella.

I bought food from Great after work - muffins and cheese and scone and beef burghers.  Dinner with Baby.  No gym but 100+ steps walk.

Dark Tide

Movie by myself after dimsum with Mamma at APM.

Times Square in the afternoon and dinner at KT.

Chengs had been such a great host - warm and generous.  Very expensive & yummy food.  A Big Thank-u.

gym a must

10 minutes each time on cross-trainer on Friday night, Saturday morning and Sunday morning.

teapots

peony

Le Mieux Bistro - lunch

One hour taiji after work.

30 minutes cross-trainer 9:30-10:00 pm as usual.

Music makes the difference. The invention of ear-phone is great.

Fila bag

another funful day

One meeting in the morning and one in the afternoon.

Breakfast:  toast with fried eggs and a cup of milk + a cup of tea

Lunch:  1/2 plate of Bolognese linguine

Tea: 1/2 sweet potato bun + a cup of coffee

Dinner:  1/2 bowl of brown rice, 2 pcs of soy sauce chicken leg, some vege + 1 bowl of melon soup

1/2 pear & 1 mug of lo hon guo drink

30 minutes pingpong in HK Park after work and 30 minutes cross-trainer after dinner. 

Play time with Baby in the garden.

Chocolate rose cheese cake

a pleasurable day

I worked the whole day with tight schedules.

Lunch at Wanchai with the usual group.

I played pingpong with Baby at the Club, then I had 30 minutes on cross-trainer.

Delightful.

orchids

Labour Day

30 minutes on cross-trainer and 15 minutes cycling.

Lunch at Regal (TST) to celebrate Gunggung's birthday with family members.

4-6 pingpong with Agnes & Helen.  Dinner at KaiTin.

Content.

roadside beauty

dinner at home

30 minutes in the gym.

Edmond & Irene, both of you are so kind.

Hi

home sweet home

Red Rainstorm Signal

10 minutes on treadmill and 40 minutes on cross-trainer.

Listening to The Beatles and Shirley Bassey.  The first time when I listened to The Beatles was in Liza's home.  We sat on the sofa and put on the lipsticks of her elder sisters while they went out.  Sweet & innocent.  Time never returns.

Once someone said to me that God is our own projection.  When we are at peace with ourselves, we are with God.  Or when God's blessings are with us, we will be peaceful to be alone, yet not lonely.  No any other people may have that power to maintain our happiness, steady & eternal.


Worldly pleasure never lasts.  Human bonds are frail.  It sounds as if I would become a nun.

A day for maintenance:  Flora & Beauty Flow (Pin).

Dinner at KT. 

Disneyland Tokyo

illnesses, old age & death

More and more we will facing all these.  In respect of ourselves, our family members, friends and relatives.

How sad!  Unavoidable.

40 minutes on cross-trainer

Keep on losing weight.  Is it good or bad?

her masterpiece

skipped lunch for dinner

Pingpong for 10 minutes and taiji for one hour after work.

A dinner with all the chats & laughters.

Adidas pingpong balls very expensive - $48 for 3.

I bought 3 orange and 3 white.   Will test how good they are on Sunday.

a red dahlia

Queen Elizabeth Stadium

A talk on retirement.

Pingpong in the HK Park.

Xiao Nan Guo, Kwai Fong

A dinner with Tam who has been going through stress and worries.  

Glad that the situation is getting better.

Camellia

Barcelona