Monday, December 31, 2018

Goodbye 2018, Helloooooo 2019!

Hi guys!

Just as I usually do on 31st Dec every year, I'm writing a reflection on what 2018 has been. I know I didn't write much this year, and it's to do with all the web novels I read when commuting XD but I still wanna write this one for a quick 2018 summary :)

2018 was full of TV series and web novels lol In total, I've finished 10 TV series this year. I think my mandarin should have improved a bit from watching all those :P I also attempted to sub last 15 min of Yanxi Palace on Youtube as I couldn't wait for someone else to sub it. After doing it, I now have respect to all those freee subbers out there. Even if English and Mandarin are their main languages, the translating, editing and timing takes A LOT OF TIME. So guys, please don't be a jerk and get mad when the subbers miss the schedule time. They have real life to do and it's good enough that they spare a lot of portion of their life to let you enjoy those dramas.

I think the drama that I liked this year was The Eternal Love. It's light and funny and made me feel happy and forget all my worries. It was low budget, but the crew did their best and it was very enjoyable. Another one would be Ode to Joy 2. I think it was comparable to the 1st season. It was realistic and kinda opened the can of worms of things that people kind know not to do, but still do anyway. Hopefully that show can touch the hearts of some of the people and make the world a little bit kinder place to live in. When a Snail Falls in Love was good too, I liked it better than Love Me If You Dare. It's good to see Wang Zi Wen play a role that's total opposite of Qu Xiao Xiao (eventhough I really wish I could be more like Qu Xiao Xiao). She's really an underrated actress. The King's Woman was so so, but Zhang Bin Bin was refreshing to my eyes lol Not that handsome, but still eye candy lol

None of the web novels I read was finished this year. I'm currently reading The Concubine's Daughter is Poisonous, Princess Medical Doctor and Rebirth of the Malicious Empress from Military Lineage. The Concubine's Daughter and Malicious Empress are GREAT! I really enjoy them. Malicious Empress is nearing the end, and I'd be sad when it ends :( The Concubine's Daughter translation is of very high quality. Again, respect to all those translators and editors :) Thank you.

We finally had our second trip to Japan this year :) We visited Tokyo, Nikko, Yokohama, Takayama, Shirakawago and Gokayama, Kanazawa, Tsumago and Magome, Kyoto and Osaka. I tried the Onsen too!!! And surprisingly I enjoyed it so much! If I go to Japan again, I'd like to go onsen again hehehehe... I also went all out in Disneyland and USJ. I didn't get on outdoor roller coasters, but I did ALL of their indoor dark roller coasters!!! I'm very proud of this hahahaha... And we got on almost all rides we wanted in Disneyland on a 50k visitors day (the red indicator day)!!! VERY, VERY proud of this achievement too hahaha... and we tried the night bus from Tokyo to Kanazawa. It was very comfortable :) This time in Japan, we splurged more. Afterall, we're all still single and we usually are thrifty anyway. So I let myself buy more cute stuffs, Conan stuffs, Sailormoon stuffs and tried more expensive snack food lol XD No regrets!

My cousin got married this year, and I got to help her set up the wedding hall. That's an achievement you know! From blank canvas, we transformed the hall into what my cousin had in mind. The end result was an on time really gorgeous wedding :)

Honestly I felt I was really lazy this year. We had a cold winter. Even it started getting really cold in Autumn. So I pretty much hibernated from Apr - beginnging of Nov :/ and that's how I managed to watch all those dramas XD Hope I won't hibernate that long in 2019!

Work.... a lot of drama in terms of the work itself, and in relationship department. It ended up in eruption just 2 weeks ago. I'm still a bit down if I remember it. Hopefully there's a way out for me next year. Someone please save me... I'm too scared to leave eventhough I know I should leave. So please save meeeeeeeee

I did help someone for a weekend for his website. So I kinda had a feel of freelancing. Man it was hardwork. I don't think I wanna go down that path. I like my weekend reserved for refreshing!!! A local bus driver mentioned that he wanted to have a website and may ask my help for it one day. Oh man, I was SO SCARED of bumping into him! I even went as far as to go earlier to gym, and walked home to avoid his bus! Unfortunately, all those exercises didn't do much help to my figure >>>>___<<<< My weight stays the sameeeeeee TT_______TT

This year I'm more lenient towards myself in terms of money and things I want to do. Some people I know, either personally or through someone else, were affected with cancer this year. They were all young, probably only few years older than me. It kinda shocked me that it can happen to anyone anytime. Therefore, don't always think about the future, of course future needs to be prepared, but don't always think about the future and not enjoying your present. We all hope there's a future for us, but at least if there isn't, you won't regret it at the end of your life...

Not much craft, not much language learning. As I said, the cold winter made me snuggle in bed for months, so forget about getting my fingers to do craft :P I did start listening to Audio books for language learning, and they actually work. It gets your brain to actively work even when you're walking on the street. I'll continue doing it.

I had the opportunity to experience the power of teenagers in social media. My 13 years old cousin, actually managed to make me one of the winners of photo competition by getting her friends to vote for me!!!! It's pretty astonishing how easy it it to get her friends to vote for me, someone who they don't know, for a photo that's just okay, to end up being in top 3! I'm still dumbfounded until now. But thanks my dearest cousin *muachhhh*

I met my cousin and his wife who I haven't seen since 10 years ago in Melbourne. It was not planned. We just happened to be in Melbourne at the same time and I checked in on Facebook. He saw it and arranged to meet up. We ended up meeting for breakfast and dinner and now talk to each other sometimes on whatsapp. What a great coincidence :) For that, I truly grateful...

And last memorable thing this year was the game I am recently hooked on, Royal Chaos. What started from just curiosity, ended up giving me headache and joy and refreshment when I need some distraction from real life. I've got into a great community that's fun and supportive. Most of them are youngsters though, that sometimes make me feel old. But they are all very nice people and we can just talk about random stuffs or bitch about our common enemy XD I remember there's this list about what people should do to enjoy their life, it's to spend time with the elderly and kids. But I think spending time with people a generation younger than you is great too. It makes you see life in lighter way and not to take things seriously ALL the time. But man, I also didn't think that game can have so much dramas and politics too!!!! Sometimes I'm wide awake at 1 in the morning because of the drama or fights we have with the other party -_- But I won't wish to not get involved in this game in the first place.

So that's it for 2018 reflection. I need to prep the dish for tonight's dinner!!!

Bring on 2019 and please be kind but exciting and memorable and HAPPY!!!!!

Happy New Year 2019 guys!!!!!!! *hug hug kiss kiss*


Sunday, December 23, 2018

Pre-Christmas Drama

So, Christmas is in 2 days time. But this year's Christmas is filled with drama in the week leading to it. Let me tell you what happened this week.

Last Monday, Strawberry Cheesecake resigned. We, the girls, were so worried for her. As my readers would have known, my boss who shall not be named, has never ever ever ever ever handled resignation well. But surprisingly, he actually handled her resignation so well and even very supportive! The girls who saw her entering his office was confused as 1. the meeting didn't take long. And 2, where's the yelling???

Even Strawberry Cheesecake herself was confused. She said she couldn't remember much of the meeting as she was thinking "why he's not angry? Why he's taking it so well???" during the talk.

So it was good for her, and we're so happy for her.

Mon arvo, Prick came and talked to Creamer and Lao-er. Straight after, he dashed out angrily and went home. Creamer then asked me about the status of a task, to which I replied, I was working on it. He then said "It's due today". As typical of prick, always comes the minute it's due and angry coz its not done. Anyway we tried to do it, but it was too complex to finish in 1 hour so we left it.

Tue morning, just when we finished the stage 1 of yesterday's task, Taizi Fei came and told us that a bunch of emails to the new audience were sent out that morning. Shit. Creamer and I looked at each other and wondered how it could have happened. We went live with something yesterday yes, but we've gone Live 2 weeks ago with the same thing and all was fine.

The problem was, the client specifically requested NOT to send those emails to this new audience. We can't send ANY emails to them as we haven't officially launched it to them.

I straight away checked the code that sent out those emails, and I found that the code was correct. However, the placement of those codes was WRONG! Those emails should not be sent at that point in time!! I showed it to my Creamer, his face turned grave and said "This is bad, Purple Lady..." I said, "I know, but at least we now know how it happened". What I didn't know was, that it was going to be THIS bad.

You know who was extremely upset when he heard it. He was blaming everyone on how could the wrong code could go into the Live site. The person who coded it was Barbie's boyfriend. Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but he quitted some time ago. I can't believe how lucky he is.

However, the people who could have gone live with it were me, Water Tap and Creamer. But honestly, and this was confirmed by the 2 of them too, no matter whoever goes live with it, he/she won't notice this issue. As we only code review the changes, not the original code.

Creamer had to run around explaining to the one who shall not be named, and Lao-er. And who knows if superexcited actually got what the problem was. After all he's not an IT guy. Just an old man who thinks he's very knowledgeable. *sigh...

Anyway you know who was very angry. And he wanted to have a meeting with the whole IT department re this issue. The meeting didn't happen on Wed, not Thu either. Honestly, me and Little Missy were feeling safe when it didn't happen on Thu. But who knows Fri just b4 lunch, we were all called for a meeting *sigh

It turned out better than I thought. Superexcited seemed to listen to our issues and suggestions. Yes he still ranted about the incident. But it was way better than me and Little Missy expected. So we thought all is fine.

However that night, Creamer said to me, "I know you like to talk to everyone. And I know you can't keep a secret(WTH????). But you have to keep this one. You cant tell anyone" I said, "O.. Kay..? ". He then said, "I've just resigned". First thing I said was, "No... "

He then said that he's been thinking about it for a while. And he's been trying to talk to Lao-er for a month, but Lao-er was so busy and couldn't talk with him. He said this week's issue wasn't the only reason, but it was the deciding factor. He said he's doing 5 ppl's work and felt not appreciated. Everytime someone's PC breaks, he's called. When someone only has 1 monitor, he's to blamed. When Crown Prince's personal laptop breaks, 5 times, who did they call? Him! He's a manager, but doing web developing and IT support as well.

He said he's so fed up with everything. He said, during today's meeting, this was what annoyed him the most.
Super excited: "New guy, do you know why we're here? Do you know the problem? "
New guy: *turned to Creamer*
Superexcited: "don't look at Creamer. He doesn't know the answer. Look at Water Tap, he might know the answer. Look at Little Missy, he might know the answer".

He's had enough. He doesn't think superexcited understands what the issue was. How it could happen to anyone who went live with it. How there is no bug free software. He just doesn't understand.

He said sorry to me, for leaving me behind with the websites that are still not 100% done. And he's sorry for all the time he dumped stuffs to me without properly explaining. He said he wanted to explain, but he didn't have the time. And he knew I would figure it out in the end. He also regretted, not supporting Water Tap's idea that much before.

If it wasn't because of the one who shall not be named, he'd have stayed on.

I don't know how many times I've heard that now. So many good employees have said that when they left. The best people we've ever had.

I think about things a lot. I was down a whole day yesterday thinking about this. There's nothing I can do, but I just can't help thinking.

I hope I can still have peace this Christmas.

Monday, November 26, 2018

Random Blabbering of the Day

Nowadays people are so into their mobile phones and don't care about other people and courtesy anymore. I think I liked it better when apple was only a fruit.

I got off a bus just then. I got off from the front of the bus, and tried to walk to the station. Because it was at the front, there were people queueing to get on the bus. However, they were standing next to the side divider of the bus stop, so there's really only enough space for 1 person to walk.

Then, right at the side of that divider, there was this one guy standing not really in line with the other people. So he was taking half of the space of us who got off the bus. He was (of course) looking at his mobile phone with no care in the world that he was taking the space for the people getting off. Us, me included, had our bags bumped to him as we walked past him. He, didn't budge at all. I actually bumped my bag to him purposely. Hopefully I hit him.

This morning we had a high school student doing 1 week work experience in our office. He's probably in year 10, very young. Poker Face took the boy to our IT area and introduced me and Creamer to him.

Little Missy and Drug were away sick this morming, and Water Tap working hours is later than us. Poker Face said, "Where are the others? They are all having a sleep in today I guess".

He said it lightly, making it like a joke. Then Creamer said, "Drug is sick today. Little Missy is having his surgery right now. And Water Tap comes in at 10 as usual. "

Seriously, what was he trying to say??? Both of them were legitimately having medical reason. And Little Missy was having surgery! SO inappropriate!!

Dunno if he saw it, but my look and Creamer's look clearly showed that we weren't happy about it.

Then later on, Poker Face was trying to make a joke with the boy. I guess maybe because the boy was looking awkward. Well what can you expect? He's young and in unfamiliar place. Anyway, this was what happened.

Poker Face: I heard from your dad that you're some kind of computer whiz. He said you might be able to help in the IT dept. So what languages are you familiar with?

The boy: English.

Poker Face: ...

Me: *trying to hold my giggles 😂

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Melbourne Cup 2018

Nah, I didn't win anything :( but it was still a nice celebration. The bosses arrange for fruit and cheese platter for us and the cheese was so good! The blue cheese was strong too xD

Just want to record these funny conversations I had yesterday :)


*just before I left from work
Me: Creamer, are you going training?
Creamer: no, why?
Me: Should I go to gym or not?
Water Tap: You had cheese today.
Me: -___-

*on the way home to station with the girls
Me: ugh we didn't win anything
Colleague 1: My horse was the last!!
Me: My horse DIED!!!
Colleague 2: *couldn't stop laughing*

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

What an Unlucky Day

Let me tell you how unlucky I was last Saturday 😑

It started in the morning when we were at the airport, sending my parents off. We had Subway foe breakfast. The girl who served me heard my order incorrectly. I ordered ham, egg and cheese sub, but when she was about to put my sub into the toaster, I noticed that she didn't put egg on it. So I asked, "And the egg?". She then asked, "so you want to add an egg?". I said yes and she put it in the toaster and the rest went fine.

However, when paying, the total came up to $9.95. I was confused, coz I thought my sub cost $5.50ish. I did order a cookie, but it should come up to $7-8. I still paid.

But the more I thought about it, I felt even more off. So I came back and looked at the menu. The price was $5.85! The annoying bit was, the menu was on TV screen that kept rotating, so I had to wait for a while for it to change and couldn't point it to the girl before. Same thing when I went back to the girl and asked, we had to wait for a while for it to come up.

Then the girl said, it's because I ordered Ham and cheese sub with extra egg. I was like huh? @_@ ham and cheese with extra egg, is different to ham, cheese and egg sub? She called another girl out and she said it's because I didn't say "breakfast". WTF, I ordered an 8:30 in the morning. Your brain should have clicked by itself.

The other girl then asked, what exactly that I said. I said, "ham, egg and cheese". The original girl then said, "Oh sorry. I thought it was ham and cheese".

By this point, the other girl was already looking annoyed. She then said, "Breakfast only allows 4 salad. You had full salad." I was so angry. How would I know?? And I had 5 salad! So I said to her, "I had only 5 salad, so $2 for 1 extra salad?? ". Seriously I can buy a bag of spinach or a kilo of onions with $2!

She then said, "It should be veggie delete with extra ham and cheese". I said, "Ok". Then she asked, "Did you pay with card?". I said yes. She looked even more pissed.

Then, guess what she did? She slapped $2.85 on top of my receipt on the counter, turned around and went inside without saying a word. The original girl went along with her. Without a word. Not a single sorry for the inconvenience. How rude.

I froze there for a moment due to the shock of that treatment. I've never had anything that rude in Australia ever. Even when customer service in Australia is just so so. Then I took my stuffs and started to leave. But I was still so annoyed, so I turned around still in anger, looking to that direction.

There was another male staff serving a customer. Not sure if he saw the whole drama, but he noticed I was looking angry. So he asked if there was anything wrong. I asked if he was the manager. He said, no.. Not really. So I said, don't worry then if you're not the manager. He asked, "Are you sure?". I said, "Yeah, don't worry".

The other girl was coming out from the back and I so didn't want to see her face again, so I left.

Really, I was SO angry to the point I had the urge to throw my sub at them!

Arggghhhhhhh 😤😤😤😤

OK, moving on.

After my parents got in, we went to the toilet and I banged my hand on the toilet paper dispenser, hurting my finger a bit.

After that, we went to take a bus. We already saw that bus stopping in front of us on the way to the bus stop. But it wasn't the designated bus stop, so we continued to the bus stop. Then we saw people running to that bus. Turned out that it WAS the bus!! Dammmmnnn, we then ran back to catch it. So apparently the driver hadn't driven this route for a while, and last time he did, the bus stop was there. He didn't know it had been moved across 😩

OK, so we made it to the bus. I took a seat and OMG... The guy sitting behind me stank!!! 😵😵 can this day go any worse 😑
Luckily our stop wasn't far. We survived by using hand cream.

When I was getting off the bus, guess what? I was stuck between the glass and a guy with a huge backpack!!! The guy was standing in the middle of the door, I was behind him, and there was another passenger getting off in front of him. So, he stepped back to let that passenger off not knowing that his backpack was squeezing me behind him!!

My god.. At this point, I knew it was my unlucky day.

Then we went to the mall to shop before movies. I checked out some leggings in Big W, tried them on and when paying, I just realised that the price was $30, not $12 😕 I went back and check, and turned out that the price was right. It was just because I started browsing at $12 rack and made my way from there, I just assumed that I was still at the same rack. I was already at the register man...

We then went to cotton on. I saw some sunglasses with a sign on top saying 5 for $10. So I thought hmm that's good. So I picked 2, and got some bath bombs too. They were all in the same rack. Got to the register, and the girl said, only the bath bombs are 5 for $10. I said "oh? I thought the sign was for everything on that rack". She said, "The sign says Fizzies 5 for $10". Damn.

Twice in a day. Hm.

Lunch wasn't nice too.

Then we went to buy our movie tickets. The lady serving was an older woman, so she was a bit flustered. She asked which movie and for what session. We said Small Foot, 4:15. She pressed some buttons and asked what time again. We wanted to use 2 prepaid vouchers and 1 ticket using my points. But she said we didn't have enough points. Strange, because when we bought our first movie tickets, the girl said I had 1 free movie to redeem. We weren't fussed at we could the points next time, so we paid. Oh, she asked what time again.

Got our ticket and we left. I checked them and the freaking tickets were for 2PM!!!!! 😑 long story short, we told the lady, but she was in the middle of serving coffee for a customer so we had to wait for a while. She knew she stuffed up and wasn't angry or anything. Just even more flustered. Then finally she exchanged our tickets, but still asking "What time?". My sister was already sick of saying 4:15 so many times. In my life, I've never said 4:15 so many times within 15 minutes.

We still had time before the movie. So I looked for a news agency to buy a lottery ticket. Hopefully after so much bad luck, my luck has finally turned.

Thursday, September 20, 2018

First Random Post in Ages

Hi all!!

I haven't written for such a long time!! It's just I kinda lost the urge to write and I just started getting into this whole Chinese web novel hehehe... Therefore my writing time a.k.a travelling time is spent reading those novels hohoho XD

I think lately, girls are hooked up on web novels. Even though it's annoying as chapters get released only once every few days, or even once a fortnight! But we can read it anytime! Including during our toilet break hahahaha xD the one I'm currently reading is The Concubine's Daughter is Poisonous (which had been made into Princess Wei Yang drama series in 2016. I finished the series when I was sick at home for few days), Princess Medical Doctor (this is not that great, but still entertaining), and Rebirth of Malicious Empress from Military Lineage. I read Genius Doctor: Black Bellied Princess or something, but dropped it in the end. Out of those, Concubine's Daughter and Malicious Empress are my favourite. Storyline, probably Malicious Empress is more entertaining, and more cruel, but in terms of translation and writing style, Concubine's daughter if way more elegant.

Plus, I have more data allowance now, so I can listen to some language learning podcasts too :D and watch YouTube sometimes. See? I'm busy!

I read an article headline the other day about why parents should let their kids be bored sometimes. Then I realised, when was the last time I was bored for 5 minutes? Usually if I'm bored, within 2 seconds I'd be browsing through my mobile to find something to do. Even when I'm walking down the street, I'm restless too! The reason I started listening to podcasts was because I felt I was wasting time to walk 20 minutes without doing anything else! Is everyone the same as me?

They say, ideas come when you are bored, when you let your mind wonders. It could be the reason why I haven't been writing for ages, coz I never just sit or walk without doing anything else?

Sometimes I missed the time when everything was not on your finger tips. When we had to put a little bit of effort to do something. Now I'm so used to getting everything fast, so if my page doesn't load within 3 seconds, I close my browser and take my Kindle out! It's selfish, but I wished it's happening to everyone too.

Ah, sometimes I think superexcited might regret asking me rhetorical question 😅 one morning I was having tea in the kitchen when superexcited came in. He saw the dishwasher sponge laying in the sink and the dish washing liquid has spilled out (the sponge is the one with a handle that you can put washing liquid in). This has happened million times and I mean it literally. Everytime it happens, superexcited, Lao-er, and Pharaoh would go berserk. I have no idea why they go crazy over spilled washing liquid. It's not that it's spilling out on the floor?! It's only IN THE SINK *banging my head on the sink*

Anyway that morning was the same. Superexcited saw it and started yapping, "These people here are stupid! I've told them multiple times to put the sponge standing up! Fucking stupid! And I wasn't the first one to step into the kitchen this morning!!" In my mind, "Obviously. I was sitting here when you came in. What are you trying to say??" *eyes roll* "These people are retards! Tell me Purple Lady, what should I do?? Should I just throw this thing away???"

Guess what I said 😊 "Yeah, just throw it away. It's not good anyway. The normal sponge is better." *silence* After few seconds of silence, he continued complaining while cleaning it up 😆

Let me tell you a secret. I, moi, yours truly, actually saw that leaking sponge when I filled in the kettle. I saw it and started to put it straight up, thinking he would go crazy. But then I saw the pool of dish washing liquid and thought, if I put the sponge up, it'll be obvious someone put it up and didn't clean it. The sin would be even heavier in you-know-who's eyes. So I put the sponge back down to where it was before 😎 I wasn't the one who use it, I wasn't bothered with the leak, so why should I clean it? And my prediction was 100% right 😄

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Random blabbering

2 things came in my thought this morning:
1. Our life is full of great books, comics, movies and series. I want to live for a long long time to enjoy them all!!

2. I read a comic where the side character is really poor so that his bro who's still in year 3 is the only one who doesn't have a game in class. His older brother's friend recalled a memory of the same thing happening to the older bro when they were in primary school. But when he wanted to lend his game to him, he said, "I have no interest at the moment. If I want to play a game in the future, I will make it myself". Reading that, I feel proud of myself. I can't make a game, but I can buy games with my own hard earned money yayyy!!! XD

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Ode To Joy - CDrama

I have been watching this modern contemporary Chinese drama, Ode to Joy. I don't know what contemporary means, but that's how all the news describes this drama category.

It's a story about 5 young women who live in Ode to Joy apartment building level 22. Andy is a successful CFO, graduated from USA, beautiful, rich, capable, but antisocial. She's an orphan and spent some of her childhood in an orphanage before being adopted and taken to USA. Her mind is too simple, and growing up in USA doesn't prepare her on how Chinese society works. If a stranger says to her that he's lost his wallet and can't go home, she'd hand out money without thinking. It never came across her mind that he could be a Scammer. She doesn't understand why people do this kind of thing. When she was slandered on the internet, she didn't have a slight care. She didn't think that gossips can bring people down. For her, gossips are just gossips. Her family has a history of mental disease, that's why she planned to live alone forever. She even went as far as preparing her will, earning as much money as possible, and entrusted all of her assets to her best friend, so he can arrange for her treatment if one day she goes crazy.

Xiao Mei is beautiful, poor, loves expensive stuffs, but when someone gives her expensive stuffs, she sniffs it, enjoys the smell and brings it to a pawn shop to exchange for money. She then goes to a counterfeit store, buy the same one and send most of the rest of the money to her selfish useless good for nothing family. Her focus is to marry a rich husband. She cares about her flatmates and acts like a big sister to them.

Qu Xiaoxiao, is someone you either love or hate. She is a hooligan. Well, not exactly, she's a 2nd generation rich girl. She graduated from unknown university in USA where she really didn't study anything and just partied and shopped and being rich. She came back to Shanghai to prevent her half brother getting all inheritance. So she worked hard on her own company to prove to her dad that she's better than her brother. She's a nice girl, loyal and VERY brave to voice out her opinion without any care of what other ppl may think about her. However, she doesn't hesitate to employ dirty tricks sometimes. She's a good person, but in my favourite phrase, very human, as she has many faults and can be angry, explosive and selfish sometimes. But she sets her own limit of good and bad. Even though she thinks Xiao Mei is a gold digger, she still helps her out and stands up for her when she has problems. She also willingly admits her respects of Xiao Mei's good attributes. I love her and out of the 5 women, she is who I want to be.

Qiu Yingying, is the one I want to slap SO.MANY.TIMES when watching this drama. She's a cute girl, don't get me wrong, but man she's so damn stupid and even more stupid when she falls in love. What makes up for it is how good her heart is, she cares for everyone and no matter she agrees or not, she supports her friends wholeheartedly. Yeah, that's the right word to describe her. She does her work wholeheartedly and always goes the extra mile in her job. She goes out to find new clients on her days out, when she was hospitalized she still managed her work online shop (she works for someone), that online shop was actually her idea. When she started working for that cafe, she had 0 idea about coffee. She spent nights trying every single coffee variants to the point of couldn't sleep coz she'd drunk too much. I think you get the idea. That's also her style when she falls in love, to the point of stupidity.

Guan Guan is a typical ordinary girl that people do not notice. Just like me ._. In her own words, she's the girl who guys never take notice of, and the one guys consider to marry only because she has good education, good family background and good wife and mother material. They don't consider her for her. She's hardworking and listens to her parents very much. Can't be helped though, her mum nags so much! She moved to Shanghai because she felt she won't grow up if she stays home. Even after she moved, her mum calls her often and tells her to go home when she's out at night, complains when she doesn't pick up her phone, you know, mum stuffs. Her mum sets her up for blind dates without asking, and just drags her up to the restaurants to meet the guy.

So all of these girls live on the same floor. Xiaoqu and Andy live alone, while Xiaomei, Guanguan and Yingying share an apartment together. They visit each other often, either when they're happy or when they have problems. Each has problems of their own. Since they all have different background, they are very relateable. You might argue they are too different and it's impossible for this situation to happen in life, but hey 1 it's a drama. How many dramas you've seen that are so realistic? There would be something not realistic, if not then it would be too boring and people won't watch. After all we watch dramas to escape from our boring life. 2. I actually can see it happening in real life. Each of them though can seek each other, but in their hearts there are some stuffs they don't like about each other. But since they are friends so they can overlook it when required. Isn't that what we experienced day to day too?

The other day I watched Guanguan talking to Xiaomei. She said, before she found this boyfriend, she was prepared to live single for the rest of her life. She said she has good income, enough to support herself and she can take care of her problems herself, so she can face the world herself, she doesn't really need a man. Xiaomei was surprised listening to her. She's never thought this way. She was always trying hard to find a rich guy to marry. Later on that night, she thought about it, and realised that she is actually capable to live alone too. She has better income than Guanguan and more than capable to handle her own affairs. She even takes care of these girls' issues! She doesn't need a man?!

The difference between the 2 is, Guanguan never attracts guys. While Xiaomei is like a flower who has butterflies keep coming and coming without her even making a move. I guess it's like a habit. She's used to always having guys chasing her, so she can't imagine life without a guy. No, it's more like she's never thought of possibility that she could live without it.

See? Very realistic right?? :D

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

First Random Blabbering of 2018

Yelloooww my beloved readersss!! How are you?? Hope you're all fine and missing my rambling xD

I haven't been writing for a long time, have I? Well, work has been hmm how should I say, either normal, or too depressing to write. As I said long long time ago, I wanna keep my happy and interesting memories, instead of the sad/depressing ones.

So, let's start with the happy one! My sisters and I went on holiday to Japan last month!! Gosh! It feels like a lifetime ago! Work has been busy since I arrived till last week, thanks to my manager who's learnt how to lie instead of estimating how hard a project is -_-

Anyway, Japan was AWESOME!!!! I want to go again!!! XD this time we went to Tokyo, Yokohama, Nikko, Kanazawa, Shirakawago, Gokayama, Takayama, Aware Onsen, Tsuruga, Kyoto, Magome, Tsumago and Osaka. We also went to our first Disneyland ever and Universal Studio Japan ^^ We tried onsen too hehehehe... How awkward, but OK if you don't go with people you know :P I don't know how to describe it, it was JUST AWESOME!! XD everyone should go to Japan, but don't overcrowd it ok? I don't like crowds :p

Yesterday and the day before, Surabaya was hit by a couple of bombs and up to last night, 4 people died. Not gonna say much about it, as good people have the same opinion as me, and bad people will never accept my opinion. So, why bother? But I just want to say that I'm glad that at times like this, I realised that there are still good people in this world who are brave enough to go against the bad guys and protect other people. A guy died trying to prevent the suicide bombers to enter the church. As the results, the bomb exploded outside the church and not as many people were injured. Even though I don't know if he ever thought about bomb, and if he'd still do it if he knew it was bomb. But still, he knew those guys were bad guys and still went in front of them. Hope he rests in peace.

In the other explosion, a guy ran straight to pick up a confused little girl after the explosion, and carry her to safe place. He didn't know the girl, but he still ran to her without thinking. Turned out she was a daughter of the suicide bombers. Only 8 years old! I also don't know though, if he'd do it again if he knew this fact. But I guess that shows that maybe humans in general are good.

Whoops, time for work!