The end of May

Of course it's my being tardy...to blog about these days. :P
*chuckles* In fact there's always something happening every now and
then, but my figures just wanna enjoy the relaxing moment after work,
you know. But today I got to blog! Since I got a phone call for a
friend who I've known for many years...moved to the states and then
became an American citizen ages ago. I'm to have lunch with this friend
in the near future...and have a small...NO a BIG talk!! :D hehehe of
course I insist it's my treat; on the phone--I said, 'hey you got to
treat me well when I take a trip to America in the future!' :P See how
pragmatic I am heh.

Time to write a lot of stuff for students, yes...it's going to be the
end of this semester. Not only mark students' paper but do the
evaluation for each of them, need both hand-writing and key-in effort
@_@ so much fun, no? :P But the best is I will have my summer break
after being working hard for 5 months around. :D And plans for this
summer are made. *winks* Let me keep it in secret for a while. Tomorrow
is our Movie Club time again. Last week we watched Sky Captain and the
World of Tomorrow--ah it's ok...characters ain't attractive to me
there. This morning the class in grade 9 watched Star War III because
they had their CBT last weekend. Poor kids they did need to ease their
minds now by watching something fun. Thus...teachers can also have a
wonderful time in class with them. *a big smile*

Gua Sha

It's Sat and I still had a terrible headache...looked pale. My best
friend Sheila planned to pay me a visit. She asked me on the phone if
she should still come after she knew I was not feeling well. I insisted she
should since we had an appointment with a shi jei ( a lady ) who sells
crystals. Then Sheila was at my place in the afternoon. She assumed I
was 'zhong shu'--got sick because of the heat. Yeah it often hit over
30 C here in Taipei these days...and maybe my period's coming. More
troublesome to be a female :\ you know. She then did 'gua sha' for me
--using a litte plate made of bull horn to rub my skin, kind of
massage. Soon my back looked very 'interesting' :P like I'm being
tortured or such. (if my foreign friends saw this they'd scream I
guess. :P ) And I felt much better after the 'gua sha'.

We went to the shi jei's place later on. Sheila would get some crystals
for her husband in Vancouver. I like such stuff too and both of us
spent some money on the beautiful stones. Sheila got a purple crystal
original stone, which is from Uruguay. Purple crystal symbolizes
wisdom, and it's good for business and 'gui ren' ( assistance from
others. ) I got a 'jin dong', a small crystal grotto, around 3 kg. :P
The light purple radiation from the stone crystallized inside the
grotto glitters...looks so appealing to me. :D Hmm I shall take a pic
of it.

One more 'fun for today' :P I got Lay's newest potato chips--Green tea
flavour, which tastes o...k... I think I still prefer the lemon
flavored ones. The green tea ones are a bit too sweet. Green tea is
supposed to be sweet? I wonder...but I don't mind as long as I have
other choices. :D

Hot

This week I have to take over another teacher's duty, and the first 2
days were quite relaxing! Since grade 9 students have tests on Tue and
Wed, I got nothing to do but sat in front and watched them write.
Sometimes walked around to take a careful look of course. :P Quite
boring, I couldn't talk as well because it might bother students during
the test. :P So yeah...earned extra pay with my month shut then--not
very often I make money this way ( so quietly LOL~ )

The weather's getting hotter and hotter. Finally I decided to turn on
the air con in the evening and let it work all night. Thus I can sleep
sound...altho $_$ *sobs* you know. Well well...like what I said nothing
is perfect in life. :P Sleep is more important anyway. Oh my today is
already Thur--again I wanna ask 'how come life goes on sooooo fast!'
And it'll be a busy weekend @_@ I have to clean my place on Fri evening
or Sat morning. *sobs once more* means I cannot sleep in this Sat. :(

Rainy day buffet day

The weather's been unsteady these days--our rainy season. No school
this afternoon again because of tests. I went have buffet with friends
( another group, different from yesterday's party ) and all vegetarian
dishes there! In fact I have been to this restaurant couple of times.
But some colleague has its VIP card, which can get a discount on the
meal ( around 20% off. ) No wonder I'd rather go than snooze at home
even in a rainy day. :P It worths my time and money since I heard so
much interesting news and '8 gua' cheerfully. :P

In the late afternoon my shi jei, the Avon lady, came pay me a visit as
soon as I got home. She brought me a big gift--an oven. -_- oh no...I
wish I could avoid baking some stuff for good. :P Now I guess I have to
think bout what to bake for my family from now on. LOL~ or maybe I
shouldn't open the paper box at all? Just give it to another friend of
mine and no need to worry anymore. :D Well I'll ponder over this. By
the way I ain't to get others' presents without returning the favour.
hehehe~ that's why I ordered some veggie dumplings earlier and got them
on my way home. So my shi jei and I had dumplings for dinner today. :D~
yummy ones!

Ahh time flies...I always feel so. How come life goes on so fast? :P

Rainy day, free lunch day

We had no school this afternoon. An ex-colleague treated some old
friends lunch today in a cafe. It was raining ( is still raining now )
so I drove them to the cafe first then went park my Justy in a building
nearby. 40 NT for an hour... Anyway it's fun to eat and chat with good
friends. They said some ex-colleagues fell very sick and had operations
these days after they retired. :O Health is real important! I told them
my plan after I retire is teach some poor kids in the elementary
schools nearby for free. Since teachers in Taiwan will get the pension,
I guess I won't worry about my finance a lot that time. Therefore, it's
great to do something helpful for our society! But, my friends are
reasonable, or pragmatic enough to 'splash some cold water on me'. :P
'Oh come on you don't know if you are still able to when you retire...'
LOL~ o...k... :P

When it's time to get my car I asked the guard how much the fee was--
remember it's 40 NT for 1 hour. Justy had been stayed in there for 3
hours, so I asked him twice with a smiling face, 'how much?' He
pondered for a while and answered, '100 NT' woo~ Friends listen to me!
Always wear a smiling face and you earn more! :P

Back home I needed to find some info for my Movie Club. -_- Some boss
said we didn't keep the record well enough! @#$%! ( done my swearing )
And I was smart enough to find such info for all the movies we've
watched so far. *coughs* all right I admit I ain't so smart but our ol
friend GOOGLE! :D ( wait...is it old enough? since when it appeared
online...? google it! )

The anime School Rumble is fun ( watched ep.2 ) but the sms from Martin
isn't fun at all. :P I was so...I felt so...funny? ridiculous
maybe...to see my degree 3 celly got an sms this afternoon. And not
long after that it rang--private number. *blinks* I didn't answer it
for sure and soon I switched it off. The first thought came to me was I
got to discard this number...I can't win this estate agent!! HE IS THE
ONE WHO NEVER GIVES UP!!! >_<

Extra

Not much for today. Still I had good news! :P I took over another teacher's duty and had 2 extra sessions. It's a class in grade 9--I remember I have taught them once or twice before. I saw their homeroom teacher was still in their classroom when I was approaching. :P As soon as I stepped into their classroom, students applauded and 'yeah!' Then...*blushes...I am shy* :P Anyway done the 2 sessions well and it means I'll get extra money. woo~ :D

A red dot on my Justy

Some interesting events for today. At work my colleague sitting next to me told me some 'bad' news. Some teachers would like me to be the leader of homeroom teachers in grade 9 from next semester. Well well...they came to me and said they wanna see a 'mei nuu' to represent them. LOL~ :P But too bad I ain't to represent any other person but myself. :D And, yes...as you know, I am very practical--it's impossible for me to do something useless or worthless like that. Thus, I had to turn them down very nicely... *sighs* :P

On my way home, I found a very bright red dot moving on my car window, right in front of my sight. I was driving along, but still felt curious...I moved closer and see very tiny legs walking on the glass quietly. ( of course :P ) It's a very small spider! The first time I saw a spider with such colour...fun! :D

Mother's Day cake

It's a trend to have cakes on Mother's Day in Taiwan. Therefore my family also ordered a cake--chocolate pudding with lots of fresh butter! :D~ And you guys can see there's a flower, which is carnation, on the top of the cake. We also took some other pictures, but my sis threatened us that we must not post them on our websites. Why? Since her hair wasn't set up well. LOL~

Allergy or flu?

Long time no blog? :P Well I found it's hard to live without tissues these days. Previously I thought it's my allergy...got a runny nose for a couple of days. Students heard my 'urm sorry if I stop to wipe my nose later in class' from time to time. It lasted for a week or longer...weird. Then I found my throat hurt -_- hm... A friend on MSN said all his family, including himself, got flu. Thus I wondered maybe I got not only allergy but flu! Usually it's fast for me to recover from allergy, atmost 1 or 2 days. Of course I still insist that I don't see a doc, neither do I take any medicine. *chuckles* yeah yeah won't complain when others tell me off for that. :P I'm afraid of the smell of medicine! The only 'medicine' I can accept and I would take is chinese herbs, but very limited kinds...I mean not heaty ones. Otherwise, something like 'dang gui' ( very heaty ) will make my voice disappear for a while. And you know I pretty much rely on my voice in this field... :P

As for my entertainment, watching more TV is a good way to kill time recently, especially after I got a flatscreen TV. :D oh the colour is so bright and beautiful...comparing to that old TV set. The only flaw is I can't watch anime I d/l on there since they are all avi. you know. My boy student Jacky knows how to transfer avi. to VCD, but I dare not ask him to teach me...( don't wanna go to jail LOL~ ) However my NB can do a good job, and my pc has only 10 GB left!!! Awww is it the time to get a bigger HD now? *sighs* :P This pc was bought in Jan 2004. Oh another old pc came in 2000...and it's still in the living room--how come there? :D hehe we got a TV box for it and then the second TV appeared!! That's why life is still very busy altho I have no bf. *coughs* ( ain't complaining ok :P ) Anime for these days, Air is real boring so far...Honey & Clover is more interesting ( and more cute young guys in there :P woo. )

Today is Sat...tomorrow is Mother's Day. I'll go out later to look around and go shopping maybe in a night market. I prepared flowers for my mom already...no other gift for I gave her a red envelope with 6000 NT in it last week to wish her happy birthday and happy mother's day. hehehe :P And I wish all the homeroom teachers, who take care of students at school just like mothers to their kids, a happy mother's day too!! :D