Had a date with Mr Minute straight after work. My cheap slip-on boots (really cheap, like HK$150 ha ha!!) were falling apart. Instead of paying HK$500 for another pair like silly-gurly did, I opted for something more economical - paying $120 to get them fix! Ha ha ha! This Silas Marner thing in me is going at full speed! 

I saw fire outside Man Yee Building. It actually doubled in size in the 2 minutes I spent waiting to cross the street.

A really pretty X'mas tree in Statue Square!! Dad and I wanted to have dinner at Mandarin but ALL restaurants were full. So we went to the taxi stand but the queue was loooong. In the end we went to the bus-stop outside Statue Square and took a 3-minute bus-ride ha ha! Dad's second bus-ride since the 60s ha ha!

Conrad and Shangri-La from where I was sitting for dinner.

Where mum used to work. Please excuse poor zoom. It is a phone afterall, not a camera!!

School this week : Tuesday through Friday!!

Speaking of silly-gurly : When are you going to collect your gift?

I had quite a busy day today.

I got up then met up with  to inspect (such a strong word ha ha) the new flat. The furnitures are slowly coming into place.

This is our dining table. The flat looks so much bigger now that the wooden tiles are removed and the walls, etc are all in the same tone. Behind  is the shoe cabinet. By the way I was really pissed off with the McDonald's meal.  said he wanted a Fillet-o-Fish meal so I got that plus a cheeseburger for myself. After taking this photo I decided to take more. When I came back he had already eaten 75% of my cheeseburger!!!  He said, "I thought you were being generous and got me an extra burger!"

Let me introduce you to 's baby - his 42-inch plasma tv. He cannot wait to sit in front of it night and day.

The kitchen. Everything has been tested and are working now. Gas supply to the cooker has been connected, washing machine running, etc etc.

Our bedroom is now carpeted. The mattresses have arrived and the bed frame should arrive on Thursday. We got two mattresses because a king size mattress cannot fit into the lifts to reach our flat ha ha!!

 is very proud of this door. I love the handle. I will take a close up photo next time.

Then off I went to school for 3 hours. Lovely!

Got a lift from my classmate DC to Central where I had dinner with Dad and my cousin and his family. I tested the night mode on my camphane on the way to dinner ha ha!!

When we were waiting to be seat we saw a bride tossing her bouquet. She dropped it on the floor and the flowers came out. No one caught the bouquet. They are all going to be spinsters for eternity ha ha! Ok not funny.

My cousin's wife babysits to earn extra cash. This boy was born in October. Omg he is so cute!

The following is for nothingnormal hee hee!!! I tested my Nokia 7390 last night and I'm sure he is interested to see!!

With flash

Night mode

No flash.

Will go to school again tomorrow. ZzzZzzZzz...

 had to buy 2 chairs from a shop close to my office for our new house and we had lunch together - a rare thing for us. We only have lunch together on weekdays for less than 5 times a year.

Anyway I had Hainanese chicken rice .. *slurp*... And he had clam chowder and a boring duck shepherds pie, as printed on the menu.

It fact, it shouldn't be called shepherds pie because shepherds don't look after ducks right? For all I know :

Mash with lamb = shepherds pie
Mash with beef = cottage pie
Mash with seafood = ocean pie
Mash with duck = Oh I don't know... lake pie? Wait... that should be mash with swan meat. Where do ducks live? Bathtubs? Ha ha!!

After lunch  had to go to Smartone to pick up his free phone. Coincidentally he got a new Nokia 6288 just 2 days after I got my Nokia 7373.

As we were walking into the shop, something caught 's eyes - The new Blackberry 8100. Then he turned to me and offer to buy me a phone.

It was really tempting, and I am weak when I am tempted... So he got me a new Nokia 7390!

This is almost the same as 7373, but it has a better camera (but not as good as my old Mitsubishi and Moto V3X) and it has 3G. I immediately joined the 3G plan so I can watch news with a flat-rate package of HK$128 a month.

I had to trade-in my 7373, and the total came to HK$1930 on 's bill.

I was running late for work so I thanked  and ran back to my office. I was really happy, thinking that I got a free phone again!

But then something hit me : Hang on. I still have to pay installments for my 7373 for the next 11 months!!

What Should I Get  for Christmas?

The new PlayStation3?

The old favourites / essentials - ties, cufflinks, etc.?

Our usual practice is to get him a present at Christmas and a nice dinner on his birthday in January. Likewise, since my birthday is so close to Christmas, the same applies to me.

Argh!!!

Meanwhile... more lectures at HKU...

I'm 120 but my joints are OK

From The Sun

I spent the whole of last week with Dad until he left for his golf games on Saturday. I feel loved whenever he is around, but it is sad to see him age. *Sigh*

Being the only child I will have no one to support me when things go wrong. This is precisely why I keep stressing to my married friends to have at least 2 children or none at all. Coco believes the same too. Please people. Give your (future) child a sibling or two, or three. Let him or her grow up alone and you will end up with a weirdo like me!! (Or Coco Ha ha!!) 

That said, we did have a good time. I took him on a bus ride - his first one since the early 60s when he left HK for Nothwestern Uni. Ha ha his first time in 40 years ha ha!! I think he really enjoyed himself. He said stuff like, "I didn't know there was air-conditioning on buses!" and "Is this bus a new model?" Hee hee!!!

School started again on Friday. I am beginning to miss my old phone which has a better camera... Hmm... Anyway for the next 2 weeks I will be having lessons in Tort. The timetable is horrible - from 1-Dec to 15-Dec I will only have 3 days off school! Argh!!

An acrobat @ HKU hee hee!!!

Went here with  and his folks on Sunday. My first boat show since birth. I didn't know such event exist until last month ha ha!! I was hoping to bump into Cheng Yee Kin at Marina Cove ha ha!!

Their new boat, which was one of the exhibits at the boat show.

Me on the deck. We took our shoes off many times yesterday going from new boat to new boat ha ha!!

So many boats ha ha!!

They also bought a speedboat. Not this particularly one, but similar.