I'm engaged!

After high school, I've never envisioned my own engagement, not even after my bf leaked the fact that he was getting me a ring a month ago. However, envisioning probably could not have prepared me for it. Not only was it in my own house (how many engagements happen in your own house???), there were loads of people too (complete with cameramen; my dad was hanging around the house somewhere too). My bf was also wearing a suit (I don't know what he would be wearing but definitely not a suit). The ring sparkled under an LED light (the box had a fancy light). I will upload pictures later, possibly when I start a wedding blog/site.

It all felt like a dream, especially on the Monday morning after the weekend, that for some reason, felt awful.

Step 1. Get in the elevator

Step 2. Get on the first shuttle bus and fall asleep

Step 3. Get on the second bus and fall asleep

Step 4. Walk up the stairs, eyes half open
Step 5. Walk blearily down the quiet hallway to work, caffeine of some sort in hand.

Step 6. Begin daydreaming/working at desk until 5:30.

Bad translation. I don't think they know that 'enzyme' isn't very delicious sounding.

Fishy biscuits!!!! They were in a different packaging than what I was used to. Curious, I investigated and eventually realized that this one came from Morinaga, a Japanese company whereas the one I eat regularly come from Korea. Parrots outside their cage. Wonder why they don't just fly away.
Piranhas
Ocean park's new attraction.
Fishy biscuits from Japan come in more shapes than Korepab (the fishy biscuits from Korea) but doesn't taste as good.
Ugly spider. I hate spiders. I think I'd jump five feet into the air if I saw this thing outside its cage.
Diving show off from a super high platform. It was somewhat scary.
Crocheted plane

I finished the stamp card, but the day I went to claim my free drink, the original shop had already been taken over by another bubble tea shop.

OP + indian food x5

Guess where I went?







The highlight of this month was going to ocean park, and having my monthly fix of indian food (at ocean park). I think this is the 5th time I went to ocean park this year. I'm still recovering from a particularly traumatic workweek. But like many things life, even bad weeks at work can turn into good ones eventually... (or at least that's what I tell myself). I was attacked vehemently by "Phantom" (name of first boss in Devil May Cry, which was quite challenging), the unpredictable fire breathing spider with a poisonous breath, and have sustained a lot of injury. He will take a 'rest' in the next few weeks, giving me some time to recover. One day, I hope to escape his castle. In the meanwhile, I'm just trying to survive.

The plush is as fun to look at as the real deal.

The cooked version is also quite good. (set out for some visitors from saudi arabia...I asked them to serve me camel meat if I came to visit them.)

Floral fishes
A giant aquarium
Birthday surprise for Kelvin (it's not a dinosaur or a crocodile or a penguin ... it's cyndaquil, a pokemon). Before I added the limbs and blue stripe, it looked really uncute... I was starting to get worried (below picture taken one day before birthday, so I was working on a tight deadline).
But it turned out okay!
Pudding in the shape of a fish. Can you tell that I've been eating too much these days?

A fat and probably dumb fish that rich people probably like to own.
It's cute from over the glass. I wonder if I'd feel the same if I was in the amazon.
Living peacefully next to the croc is a white carp that I named "Jelly".

plushies, squished together, being cuddly
Hiding in the bushes attending to nature's call, when companion comes over to spy...
Panda pretending to be fish...
I spent like ~$450 canadian on various pieces of underclothing.... hey... it was buy 10 get 2 free!


One issue I've been thinking about recently is children (attended a christian seminar about childless marriages). Since according to my religion, we have a choice in this... I'm thinking...Should I have one later? I don't exactly have 'mothering' characteristics or 'gravitate' towards children. I'm also uncomfortable around loud noises (ie squealing babies). However, most adults I know strongly recommend having them. I want to decide before 30 as infertility and health risks associated with childbirth are increased after that age. If so, how many children? Another option is adoption, but I wonder what it takes to go that route...

Unibrow is everywhere

First of all, a disclaimer: I do not hate this person nor do I bear any ill will towards him just because he is balding and has a uni brow, and once induced a dream where I grew a uni brow and could not wax/pluck at it because I just had eye surgery.

Uni brow is my colleague. He shows up nearly every other morning in the elevator no matter what time I choose to head upstairs from napping on the coffee shop sofa/chatting half-asleep with my boyfriend. Sometimes I see him pop up in the hall after lunch or before I go. I don't understand this uncanny ability of his to be everywhere I go. I don't bump into my other colleagues with such astounding reliability.

If he merely said 'hi' to me, it would not be a problem to see him so often. But English is nowhere near his first language, so when he sees me, his mind goes into "red alert! immediately switch to English mode!" but he can't switch fast enough, so something incoherent like "mghhpghh???" spews from his mouth to which I respond with a curt "and good morning to you too".

In the afternoon, he will ask me one question that I don't think he actually cares about, but for the sake of making conversation, will ask: what are you eating? when it is clear-as-day that I am eating a chicken Caesar salad at my desk.

Very nice guy. Very polite, and a good scientist. Just makes me go -__-'' sometimes.


Life Updates:

- Apparently whales have songs of their own that travel around like a popular pop song. See article here: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/04/15/how-whale-songs-rocket-to-number-one/

Listen to them sing here:

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/31370.php?from=183196

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/31371.php?from=183196

- I decided to fast from facebook for Easter.

- I celebrated finishing my dissertation presentation with nights of crocheting, and failed mochi (I was so disappointed that I forgot to take a picture). I was still in the beginning of my "be gentle with it, I didn't use any stitches" lecture when my student squeezed the angry bird after throwing it into the air a few times. I decided to take it back home to make some reinforcements before handing it to this child. I turned a rat into an owl (the ball of yarn was getting bigger than I had expected, and a rat of that size would have been a bit too scary.)

My beautiful hand-drawn cell, used in the presentation.

- A fashion and beauty magazine distributed very very pretty free octopus card holders, which was enough incentive for me to pick it up (also as entertainment during lecture since I forgot to bring my laptop). The very next day, I lost the holder along with the octopus card. I think it was stolen. It must have happened between me finishing lunch and returning within 10 minutes to scour the area around my eating tray (which was not picked up yet), to see a girl sitting directly in front of my tray, responding nervously and quite suspiciously to my inquiries.

- I went to pam's ocean-baptism at the beach. TRES COOL!! ~

- Three weeks in a row with long weekends!

"The fee for sitting in the booth without taking a picture is 100HKD" says the sign.

It's time for indian food again. This is starting to get routine.

The photo type on the far right is only $5 so I opted for that option in the booth (I mean, it was for making the ID of my chinese class pic) and I thought I'll just cut my face out. BUT, the options that were actually there on the screen were all very strange ethnic pictures of real people with their own faces cut out (the point was to put your face where theirs were). I wish I could show you the result of that but I am afraid I already lost the picture. I ended up paying $40 for a row of really really ugly pictures that turned out even uglier (my student card).
Ocean park pictures. This is becoming routine as well.


Yay, rides!