Easter holiday (1)

One of the longest holiday of the year...

A good day with my colleagues and friend, especially playing Monopoly (just haven't played for ages!!). Suddenly I felt I'm much younger, haha...

Hope all of you are having a nice Easter holiday!

my snaps!

Just to announce I've opened a new blog for putting my snaps (you can also find the link on the bottom right):
http://wyliesnaps.blogspot.com/

Please visit them and your comments are always welcomed!

Tree Cotton

When I was small (actually not really small, should be during my teenage years) I remembered mama would picked the tree cotton flower in the summertime, for making soup after the flower was sun-dried... in order to remove 'wetness' from your body during wet seasons.

In the past I just hated those fallen tree cotton flowers, making the ground so dirty and you need to 'bounce around' to prevent stepping on them.

I have never noticed tree cotton are so beautiful, until I saw them on the bus on my way to work yesterday. They give a different 'taste' to the tree cotton, which is dull and lonely trucks when there's nothing on it.

Just take a look how beautiful they are! (hope they won't fall off so soon...)


Tree cotton dressed in red... longing for the summertime~


Old estate, old trees... will they be gone soon?

Sweeties gathering

Again a nice and relaxing gathering, although this time just four of us were available...

And, thx for all your suggestions... i really need to consider what is the best for me!


Same smile~ :)

Simple Love

To love someone is a simple feeling, but as your feeling towards someone 'builds up' it starts to get complicated – to an extent that sometimes you doubt whether you are in love anymore.

For an emotional idiot like me, I have sometimes thought too much even everything's fine. I have too many expectations and projections on someone, somehow making myself uneasy, while there's nothing wrong happened. I started to get suspicious of every of his act and lose my temper easily.

Just wanna jot this down when I'm conscience, and as a reminder to myself. Love is just simple – there's no need to make any sophisticated thought, and put myself in hell.

Agree, my dear?

EGG's last stop

I'm staying in-house for my design training! This is my last stop of my 3-year training.
(To those who cannot figure out what I am doing: throughout my training I need to post to different divisions within my department or private civil engineering firms to gain my training experience... so a bit like Gipsy...)

Frankly, to be seconded to private firms will be a good way to gain hands-on work experience, and a good way to have a feel of the 'dynamic' of the industry. But given that my training will last for 6 months only, I will be leaving the firm after I have get used to the working environment. Consequently, I am not be able to get full use of my time in acquiring required skills.

Though the scope of job is more limited in-house, I think it's better for me to equip with basic and simpler projects before I can work on sophisticated tasks.

What's more, I need not move my belongings to far far away... just one floor downstairs! :P

I just feel glad!

Hey, I just wanna say a big thanks to all of you, who 'keep track' of my OD everyday. :)
Hope you can enjoy here !

You know, ade, i really can't imagine u'll jot me a line, and there's more than one, hee, anyway, i love your words :D

5, just wanna say "I missss you so!!!". I feel so happy to see your comments here! I just missed our times in GHS!

I should really hold our 5F gathering la... hope my good hope sweeties are getting more smart and beautiful ("a mature lady" as said by Helen Law.. haha)

CPD

This is the most interesting CPD I've ever attended. Although I felt asleep in one or two sessions... :P

Today's CPD titled "Use of Natural Materials in Hong Kong's Engineering and Building Development". Other than technical aspects like testing of aggregates in cement and alkali-silica reaction in concrete, there were some sessions that relates to the use of Hong Kong's natural materials in the past, such as ore extraction (there are no mines in Hong Kong anymore!), reclamation development(with emphasis on the use of marine sand), and quarrying techniques dated back from pre-colonical times.

More interestingly, the speakers for these 'Hong Kong's History' sessions are foreigners! (Should I say it's sad?!) I think we native Hong Kong citizens should really know more about the history of our land, a place with lots of amazing "East meets West" stories.

Wanna know more about our place in our parents or grand grand parents 'good old days'? I think the best is to start with museums. The Hong Kong Museum of History and The Hong Kong Heritage Museums have excellent permanent exhibitions about our place. Just check out the following links:

Hong Kong Museum of History
check out the permanent exhibition "The Hong Kong Story": http://hk.history.museum

Hong Kong Heritage Museum
my recommendation: new town development in Hong Kong
http://www.heritagemuseum.gov.hk/

Self evaluation

I need to write a summary for my AGE application.

Frankly speaking, I think I didn't do well for my entire training period, mainly due to laziness and I'm always slow at work.... but yet I found that I've gained quite a lot during the time.

Mapping is the best thing I've gained in the meantime. Back to the school days, I was just hanged out and played around... But now I really, at least, know and understand what is mapping. By the way, this skills really needs experience. I'm just at the starting point! :P

For better or worst, I will continue to work hard for the rest of my training. :)

chat

It was a nice chat tonight.

It's so comfortable to talk about everything with you, just like the good old days.

I'm really glad that you are doing well.
Add oil and I'll support you always. :)

Pics for today

Just wanna post some pics here...

This is taken during my hike to Mount Butler. Nice scenary of the Eastern Kowloon.

East Kowloon View from Jardine's Lookout

This two snapshots are from the same bus stop:

The Arch 1


The Arch 2
Property developer really puts a lot on their ads! :P

Children

I helped with my department's exhibition held in a shopping centre today. I and my colleagues was responsible for a game booth with computer games for kids. Souvenirs (very stereotyped ones) were given when people 'wins' the game (and we gave them anyway :P).

Although I don't think the game is fun, the kids did enjoy in the game, and were happy with the souvenirs. By the way, children were just 'playing' without really knowing the aim of these games (although I've tried hard in explaining the reasons for the games, yet nobody noticed... sigh).

Kids these days are often nasty and disgusting, to name some:
1. rude and without courtesy - they just took the sourvenirs after playing the games without asking, seems they had the right to take everything that's free;
2. greedy - played the games for dozens of times to get lots of pens, erasers (the sourvenirs) and told us they just want to 'save money'.

I'm sure these behaviours aren't in-born. I have also met some well-mannered, polite and nice children on the day. However, i felt so sad that there are just few of them.

Frankly, children are just a 'photocopier': they saw how their parents or people nearby behave, and just do the same. To be parents are more than giving the physical needs to the children, you need to teach them - the right behaviour, the attitude towards life, and the courage to face difficulties and challenge.

Before deciding of having a child with your loved ones, I hope everyone can have a thorough hesitation. Your sacrifice and love are the prerequisite.

Busy...

The coming months will be very busy... report, exam and AGE interview...

Hope I can be more concentrated on my work and study.