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今期個人好懷舊，亦即是好out！哈哈！今個Easter 去咗北京玩，去之前半個月不停地唱已經out咗成年嘅奧運歌。不停強都迫身邊嘅朋友同我合唱。;-) 人生第一次去北京，唔知點解好興奮！











四日三夜行程緊密：胡同遊、故宮、天壇、後海、長城、晨咁早去天安門廣場睇升旗、人民大會堂‧‧‧等等。唔係講少，真係行到腳抽根！不過好好玩。



Jenna 重點推介--利群烤鴨 & $10講解器！



利群烤鴨韜韜都有介紹過。好地道、超好味！喺"前門"地铁站Ｂ出口步行約十五分鐘就到。隻鴨真係好正！個人認為好味過大董呀！聽聞利群先灌湯入隻鴨到，再用柴火烤製。所以肉汁鮮味！























十元講解器！去故宮同天壇都可以租用講解器。普通話同廣東話都有。其也外語要四十元。我真係愛死呢部機呀！一粒制都唔洗kam，內置RF detector, 行到某景點就有自動解說。又有地圖喺部机上面。仲有幾多個景點都一目了然。去法國羅浮宮都有部機，天過要key in。我帶住佢，上咗大半天歷史課。好好聽架！如果無咗佢，故宮同天壇可以悶一百倍。












BJ! I will be back! :)

Reasons why we're banned from Time Square 11th floor

Attention Soju Crew! Is it possible to drink all the soju in the house?? YESSSS

Now start singing out loud in the restaurant and taking random pictures with ppl sitting next to us! errr... and please stop saying the waiter looks like the guy from McD! Stop speaking in Mandarin with BJ tone. Stop asking for hot tea!! It's already in front of you. Oh... and can we have another bottle of prum wine?

Managed to get the puking drunkie outta the restaurant. Now why are we sitting outside of another restaurant??

When I say "roll on floor laughing" I wasn't kidding... See the vase on the right? that's one of the reasons why are're banned +__+

Don't know how long it took for us to get up, and get the wasted drunkie up. Now keep rolling on the ground, under Time Square's big screen. Nap all you want... it's not even 11pm yet! LOL

My dear Soju Crew, mission well accomplished. We need to look for another Korean restaurant for our next gathering because we are SO BANNED on Time Square 11th floor!

Hong Kong 柒s

Ok... i know it's been ages since the 7s were over. I've been way too busy to blog and was thinking to myself if i should blog about this out dated topic... and yes, here I'm talking about the 7s. One day when I get really old and wrinkly, I'd be glad I blog about this. It's just way too funny. heh. blah blah blah...




Thanks KL & JP! The Hawaiian girls get to go to the 7s this year :D


We went to the executive box level and each box has a "bouncer" guarding the door. It's very different this year, can't just get in and out of each box like it used to be. As we passed by the Coca Cola box, we asked KL if we can get in. KL's dad is like the top dog of Coca Cola who ran in the Olympics torch relay for the company. Since we asked, KL made a phone call to his dad as we stood in front of the Coca Cola bouncer.


Bouncer looked at us and said, "You have NOOOOOO CHANCE!"

We said, "We're making a phone call now, hold on."

Bouncer said again, "you guys have NOOOOOOOOOOO CHANCE to get in this box!!!! Try the Cathay box, it might be easier to get in. *evil smile*"

Then I said, "but his dad works for Coca Cola!" Pointing at KL as I speak.

Bouncer rolled his eyes and laughed, "so is MY DADDDD!!!"

"Seriously!!! His dad works at Coca Cola!!"

"Nice try! Now go try the Cathay box!!" and repeated "You guys have NOOOOOOO CHANCE!"


LOL!! Turns out that KL's dad wasn't inside the box. So we just walked away. This bouncer seriously thought we lied!! Muahhahaa... That's my HK 柒s! 柒!


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South Stand Madness:





How Jenna lost her voice:





(video by JP, captures by DC)

Last but not least, I was actually watching a few games this year other than just dressing up, screaming, box hopping, & drinking. Probably lost my voice cheering for the HK Team! A couple days ago, Yan asked if I'm interested in summer women rugby and I'm actually a bit tempted to try ;-)

Score 6 pts and get FREE DRINKS!!!

"Score 6 points tonite and I'll buy all of you drinks!!" Captain Cass said before the game started on Wednesday night.

"6 points??? We have only scored 2 points in the previous 2 games combined!" We're all secretly thinking to ourselves.

"but we've been practicing for the past 2 weeks!! We can do this!" Said Helen, while Jenna & Ida nodded with an assuring smile.

The other team started with only 4 players. We have a full team of 6. To everyone's surprise, we were winning 4:2 until the MVP showed up. Then 5:5, 6:5, 7:5.

"Com'on!! We're one points away from FREE DRINKS!!!"

Instead of shouting "DLS!" we started shouting "DRINKS!"

"SIP CHIN D!!!"
"AIM LOW!!!!"
"Good job girls!!!!!"
"GO TOGETHER!!!!"

"WOHOOOO! We scored!!! 7:6, BG 7, DLS 6!!!"


Joy to the world!!! DLS scored 6 points on Wednesday night!!!!!!! You have no idea how far we've come! We seriously SUCKED when we first started... oh well, we're all beginners and very GREEN compare to the rest of the league. We went from a very embarrassing score of 12:0 on our first game, 12:2 for our second game last week, to Wednesday's 8:6! Losing just 2 points to a VERY STRONG team in the league!! LOL! I know we still lost, but we were estatic!!! Yes we still suck, but we have improved a whole lot! As Captain Cass promised, we went to her place for a big bottle of Champagne while we watch the playbacks together. Palms were still sweating when we watch the videos!


We were the team on the far side:

世上無醜女, 只怕化妝師!

化妝係幾千年以來女人嘅恩物。信我！世上無醜女，只需要識化妝，醜女絕對可以大返身！珍娜米雪友情客串，為化妝師Lesley Ho影咗一輯before & after嘅相。勇敢地以零化妝素顏視人！希望大家睇完張"before"之後唔好發惡夢啦 =.=




今次輯相嘅主題係「清純自然淡妝」。影咗好耐都捉唔到「清純」呢個咁陌生嘅感覺 XD 一直諗住初戀少女喺草原上拉住頭巾奔跑嘅情景，原全錯晒！哈哈哈！小休之後轉個坐姿就自然得多啦。我呢個平民"磨dell"總算對得起Lesley，如果唔係就交唔到貨啦!







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after:




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3.12 Massacre

We all knew this is coming, but didn't expect the scale to be this big! Company announced that they're gonna cut 1725 jobs out of the work force of 6800. That's 25% cut, 1 out of every 4. That was announced on 3/11 evening (HK time). I stayed online to get the latest info from colleagues in the US. One by one, I heard that my ex-group of 15 now only have 4 left... BG, the one who spoiled me and gave me confidence got hit too! Can't believe he's gone... I fell asleep, woke up 4 hours later and went to work. It's Asia's turn.

3/12, got in the office, first we got news from Science Park design center, where I used to work just 6 months ago. The WHOLE team was gone! All 9 of them! One of them were my really good friend. So sad to know that all of them are leaving. Then One more from the other team. Then we heard from the Taiwan office, another 9 of them got affected! Then news from other sites, adding up to 28 of them. My office was still very quiet before lunch time. We all went to lunch, thinking "it shouldn't be that bad for us." Once we stepped into the office, T got called into a conference room right away. SHOCKED! Then B, and R! OMG!! Two of them sat right in front of me! Tears started to run down on my chics. When R came out, with a smile, I felt even worse! Just when I thought that my row should all be safe after T & R got hit, F got called. SHOCKED!!! All 3 ladies who sat in front of me got called! and it's not over yet, V, S, T, & C got called one by one... a lot of sobbing noises in the office. I couldn't take it anymore. Tried very hard to hide my sobbing face, until I realized everyone else was crying with me. It's really sad to see my colleagues being called into the conference room one by one. Then came out sobbing and packing... I walked up to R & F, didn't know what to say... asked if I could help them with anything... Meanwhile, good-bye emails from other sites started to fill my email inbox... A total of 41 employees were gone in Asia Pac within a day...



3/13, being a survivor feels even worse than being let go. Coming in to work this morning, facing all the empty seats in front of me, spirit hits all time low. I'm glad that Kendra is still here with me. If not, I don't think I'd have any reason to stay. Training on my new job responsibility to share the extra workload from R & F all day. Then around 6pm, another good-bye email hit my inbox! Can't believe L is leaving too!! I thought who should have been gone were all gone by Thursday. It's way too much to handle! L stayed til today so that she could finish up all the aftermath. I walked into L's office and gave her a hug.

May all of us find peacefulness in our heart.

Fishnet Partayyyy

Went to Shanghai last week and stayed the weekend at the Lins' gorgous appartment. They threw a house party when Doublechin & I were there. The theme for the house party was-- FISHNETS! All ladies came in sexy fishnets and guys supposed to dress in white. Before we flew to SH, DC suggested that we should dress as French Maids for the house party, the outfits will compliment our fishnets =P Our costumes were a surprise for them.



C&E's appartment was perfect for house party! It's nicer than a lot of places out there, roomie and cozy! We lighted candles everywhere in the appartment. Very much like the proposal scene from Friends. C even bought flowers for the snacks table. We washed the tags off the brand new martini glasses, and warm up the food before the guest arrived.



DC & I put on our FM costumes and they all screamed when they saw us! LOL! Our job that night was to open the door and greet the guests. Keep in mind that we've never met their friends and they didn't know it's a costume party.


"Welcome to the Lins! May I take your coat?"

Most of them were shocked and speechless! After a few seconds some even asked,

"Are they hired?"

Haha... Good laugh!

Then we turned the living room into Shanghai's Sahara! Miss K's great sheesha skill were put to good use! Sheesha, sheesha, cocktails, tequila shots, chicken wings, sheesha, chitchat, laughters, sheesha, burnt carpet!

Then we turned C's room into Backstage of Shanghai! Who would have thought the half drunken crowd could have so much fun with a piano. I was so suprised that everyone knew how to sing & play with the piano at the Fishnet Party. Everyone knew a song or two. We played one by one. Perfect live performances! They're all very good!! My first time to see two people JAMMING on a piano too! The crowd was soooo high.

We had 2 great photographers that night. Thanks for taking beautiful pictures for us! After 5 bottles of vodka, 1 watermelon, N jars of mixers, a bottle of tequila, 2 bottles of wine, a few breaken glasses, 2 injured fingers, & 600 photos... people were starting to spill drinks around. Don't worry kids! The French Maids had it all covered!!

Talented musicians, great cocktails, sexy legs, awesome sheesha, wonderful house party! =)

廟街塔羅B

神婆珍娜米尋晚陪個非常迷失嘅朋友去咗廟街搵塔羅B占卜。 基本上係去問下一d我都可以答到佢嘅問題。Theresa 嘅感情問題, 我聽過不下數百次。 過去, 現在, 將來走勢我都好清楚！叫左佢慳d$, 問我好過又唔肯。係都要去比錢塔羅B洗。

細個時跟亞媽拜神就拜得多, 但係去睇塔羅牌就真係第一次! 失禮晒! 記言Theresa想去, 我當然好樂意陪佢去啦! (其實好想去八下! hehe...) 仲叫埋Kendra去添。一去到就見到好長嘅人龍, 大家都係黎睇亞B架! Theresa早有準備, book左appointment。我地早到, 同亞B個秘書點名之後就去食我最愛嘅煎釀三寶+魚肉碗仔翅。攞住碗翅坐喺廟街公廁外嘅櫈仔上一邊食一邊等，超有風味！好正！啱啱食完就到我哋嘞！Perfect timing!

Kendra話佢好緊張，所以我陪Theresa問先。一坐底，塔羅B雙眼好有神，簡直有啲厲！不停地食M3，金髮，好型！Theresa只係比咗生日日期亞B，問愛情，detail嗰隻 (forgot if it's $150 or $180)。亞B就教佢按住幅牌，心諗住個問題，然後洗牌。塔羅B開牌之後滔滔不絕地講到晒Theresa單野出嚟！好多detail都中晒！而我哋就全程poker face，無比任何反應佢。亞B講完之後，我不禁爆咗一句 ﹕「中晒！」塔羅牌嘅預測，同我嘅對呢單野嘅預測一樣。Theresa聽咗之後好冷靜。其實佢比任何人都更清楚自己處境，只係需要親耳從第五者口中說出，才肯接受現實。

到Kendra問嘞。好簡單，問前景，唔太detail個隻 ($60)。Kendra按住幅牌，問問題，然後洗牌。一開牌，亞B又講得到Kendra嘅過去同現況！又比咗個簡單嘅預測。佢話塔羅牌只可以預測未來三至六個月嘅事。太後嘅事睇唔到架喎！

廟街塔羅B真係好掂！未來預測唔知準唔準，但係起碼講到晒過去同現況。預測反而係其次，心理輔導先至係大家嚟睇佢嘅最大得着！

A Day in Lantau With the Kids

Who: The kids... all of us =)

When: Yesterday

Where: Lantau (Longcoast & Tai O)





We stopped by Longcoast for lunch and some afternoon fun on the beach. The Thai restaurant there was quite good.










It's so humid yesterday, but not too sunny.

There, Miss Munchkin meet her littly friend. Romantic swing for two. They're so cute together! Thanks for baby sitting Miss Muchkin for us while we chill on the beach little man ;-)

Then we went to great grandma's house in Tai O. Picking wild star fruit at grandma's backyard! There's also banana, grava, and oranges. It was a lot of fun! Little Munch picking a baby star fruit:

That's the "fertilizer's hut" in the backyard. What goes inside the hut helps to grow these star fruits in my hands! hahaahaa... It's no longer in use though.






After fruit picking, we took a short walk along the shore. Where Miss Munchkin collected same beautiful sea shells.




Spectacular sea view from grandma's house, a very nice spot to watch the Sun set too!

Then we had chicken at the local vegetarian restaurant XD and ended our lovely family day.

Dodgeball Madness!

Have you ever watched the movie Dodgeball or the old school cartoon 熱血高校? Yes, dodgeball is a real sport!



Captain Cass formed a dodgeball team a few months ago and 12 of us signed up without knowing what we're getting ourselves into. After 4 practice games, I LOVE IT! hahaa... it's a lot of fun and it's such a team sport! I love team work!! Although i don't throw hard enough, can't aim, can't catch, always think I can catch instead of dodge, and always let the other team catches my ball... I still love to play! One thing I'm good at, is to pick up the balls off the court for my teammates =P Great exercise!



We gave ourselves an interesting team name-- DLS! Any idea of what it stands for?
- D!u La Sing?
- Dodging LadieS?
- Dodgeball LoverS?
- Dog LoverS?
- D!ck LoverS?
- D!ck L!ckerS? XD
- D!ck Lover S!uts? :D
- Daddy's Little Sweetheart?
Other inputs are welcome!




When we ordered our jersey, we didn't realize it's gonna look like the Lakers jersey! I swear! I'm sticking with my lucky number 35! It was my class number back in middle school =)






MUST STRETCH
I didn't stretch last time and I pulled my right Gluteus Maximus muscle a.k.a. my left butt! LOL!! So stretching is VERY IMPORTANT! It's amazing how much our body aches after each practice. It's a lot more intensive than we all thought.





THE GAME
The object of the game is to eliminate all opposing players by getting them "OUT". This may be done by:
1. Hitting an opposing player with a LIVE thrown ball below the shoulders.
2. Catching a LIVE ball thrown by your opponent before it touches the ground.

Definition: LIVE: A ball that has been thrown and has not touched anything, including the floor/ground, another ball, another player, official or other item outside of the playing field (wall, ceiling, etc)



THE OPENING RUSH
Game begins by placing the dodgeballs along the center line – three (3) on one side of the center hash and three (3) on the other. Players then take a position behind their end line. Following a signal by the official, teams may approach the centerline to retrieve the balls. This signal officially starts the contest. Teams may only retrieve the three (3) balls to their right of the center hash. Once a ball is retrieved it must be taken behind the attack-line before it can be legally thrown.



TIMING AND WINNING A GAME
The first team to legally eliminate all opposing players will be declared the winner. A 3-minute time limit has been established for each contest. If neither team has been eliminated at the end of the 3 minutes, the team with the greater number of players remaining will be declared the winner. Details on overtime can be found in the NADA Rule Book.



Sorry for messing with your eyes with this blurry picture! I'll bring a better camera next time... or bring a friend who has a better camera with photography skills ;P


Go Team DLS!!!




credit: Official Rules found on http://www.dodgeballusa.com/rules.html