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    October 02

    the full moon is shinning bright

    When seeing a friend’s photos of tempting moon cakes on Facebook, I just realized that this year’s mid-autumn festival falls on tomorrow. I start missing those old days when we celebrated mid-autumn festival with grandma and cousins. It’s exactly what people called: ‘每逢佳节倍思亲’.

    I still remember how we gathered to admire the mid-autumn harvest moon and how we ate moon cakes, and played lighting lanterns, candles and pomelo peel under the brightly full moon when I was a kid. This’s one of my most cherish childhood memories for sure. Char hasn’t celebrated it for 8 years, but I did eat moon cakes occasionally.

    The full moon is a symbol of peace and prosperity for the whole family. Its roundness symbolizes wholeness and togetherness. When I have my own family, I promise to buy my kids some colorful lanterns and keep celebrating the mid-autumn festival traditionally.

    The Dutch weather sucks these days. Hopefully, I’ll see the brightly full moon from my little home’s window tomorrow evening. I’m going to bring some moon cakes home to devour with bb as well.

    Have a brightly mid-autumn festival!



    August 29

    Summertime part I - HK Ocean Park

    Going to a theme park in the summer holiday wasn't a good option. The sun was burning and people was non-stop sweating like just stepped out of the shower.


    Luckily there's an escalator to help us to hike up the hill. This' s the longest outdoor escalator ride I've ever taken for sure.










    Got an egg buddy.


    On the way to Aquarium where the fishes are displayed.


    He said that he was trying to save me from the shark.


    I was astonished to watch jellyfishes' beautiful dance.


    We spotted the cutiest worm ever. I've never found worms cute before.


    Never seen fishes like this twingling dingling one.








    I'm in love with this one. I would play again if I didn't have to queue up.




    Buying lunch under an umbrella.


    We love Mac. We sat down in a shadow and started gormandizing.


    Don't sneak me eat.


    Mr.Seal is more handsome than you.


    Watching sea life shows at the ocean theater.


    A seal jumped out of the water and touched the ball precisely.


    Dolphins showed their talent.











    You can compare this tower to the one in Efteling in Holland.




    View from the ocean park tower.


    It's was nice to have a rest in an airconditioned room for a while.


    Taking the cable car to the lowland.




    Amazing view over the hills and the sea.


    We looked happy.









    When the cable car is reaching his final stop, we saw the huge hot air balloon rising as a sun rise. Beautiful! We couldn't sit in the hot air balloon, because we had to go before 6. So we just simply standed back to watch the hot air balloon light up the sky.


    Those sharp colors caught my camera's lens.


    I hoped one day I can sit in a hot air balloon with my dearest and...


    ...fly away.


    Going to giant panda's habitat.


    Giant panda sleeps like human. I would like to wake him up to see his dull moves.


    Cute panda decorations caught my eyes.




    Winbin & Charlene


    We had so much fun in the ocean park. We'll come back again when we're grown old.


    Summertime part II  is coming soon, guess where we flew to?







    August 16

    ❤ beach


    The beach was full on 1st July. We could rarely see the clear blue sea when sun tanning, but still relaxing.



    Char & Win on Scheveningense Beach.



    We got an healthy tan, but it ended up with some red sunburns.

    I'm currently busy studying for re-exams, wish me success. Plenty of my holiday photos is coming soon. =)  

     

    June 02


    finished the last piece of tim tam, bb promised me to buy more from Aus.yummm....



    received bb's lovely flowers for our 1 year anniversary. As well, a printed mat which contains 365 photos of us. It means so much to me. I'm going to frame it and hang it up in my new house.



    a sweet sweet message and a poem are written on the gift card.



    Char was like the luckiest girl in the world.

    I always thought love was only in movies and songs till I met you, my love. Thank you for
    everything you've done for me and for giving me the greatest feeling I've ever felt. I promise to cherish you and do my best to keep you happy. I just want you to know that I adore you so much and I'm looking forward to the life we'll share together. <3




    cute portrets of us, drawn by Kawing



    sweetie, who's gonna be a great artist =)




    big family photo, Uncle Wu's 75th surprise birthday party



    Char & Win in a render of bb's back to school project



    Kitty made this yummy cutiepie.



    And I made this. Guess what? it's...............................a pizza from my microwave!
    It was a rare accident and
    I'm actually not that bad at cooking. I promised that I'm not going to take a shower when waiting next time. =(






    May 02

    Q'day Q'night


    Blooming cherry blossom trees which are close to my home have a certain rustic charm under the blue sky. Love them!


    Amsterdam

    3 days before Queensday, some buildings were ready for celebrating.



    A man was making huge soap bubbles in the air using 2 ropes, not only kids but also adults found it's awesome.



    Mum bought some living crabs for dinner
    . yummm~


    Queensnight in Zaandam
    We stayed in Zaandam in stead of in Amsterdam at Queensnight. Although Zaandam is much smaller and quieter than Amsterdam, we had a great night. Furthermore, this lil place should be much 'safer', because Mum told me before I left home:' don't go to crowded places. There're probably any pig flu virus!'


    At Dam. Not everyone has dressed up in orange, but the atmosphere was cosier and chattier than normal.



    me and Danielle



    me and Inge looked so naughty, alcohol did its magic work.



    Danielle & Inge



    fluffy photo of us.



    Queensday
    Had a walk alone the 'free' market stands in Veldpark. For those who don't know, 'free' market is actually not free, people are exclusively allowed to sell their stuffs everywhere on Q'day.   



    'free' market visitors' bicycles



    Once a year, Q'day brings plenty of people here.



    Orange flags swing swung

     




    fun fair in the background,







    In the end, I bought a pretty Japaneses rice paper lamp from these messes for only 50 cent . cheap~



    At Au Yeung's restaurant


    Thanks Au Yeung for the dinner, and Fai cooked very well!
    (Fai is a really good and handsome guy. Interesting, my single friends? let me know! =P
     


    Kit also loves prune wine.

    April 26

    Apr

    Yay! It’s May holiday. I can finally be off from those crazy workloads of uni for a while. 

    I made a 2 hours journey to mom lugging my heavy bags, reached home at 8:30 PM and was tired and hungry like hell. Certainly, nothing sounded better than mom’s homemade food at that time. The food was not only tasty, but also sweeeet. Char hasn’t had mom’s foods for 3 weeks la.

    Mom got a sweet b’day card from bb and she couldn’t stop laughing with joy when reading the card. Guess what’s funny? Bb had written ‘dearest mummy’ on the envelop and then Kitty childishly said:‘ oh mom, you have a son!’ bb has also pasted a photo of my family in the card which mom thought it’s hilarious, becoz mom’s hair is cut into a lemon shape. Thanks bb for bringing joy to my family and cherishing my family as his; of course the yummy Tim Tam he sent us as well!

    An exciting news is that bb’s coming in June to spend some beautiful summer days with me. Hitting sun, colorful bikinis, blue sky, fun and tons of love love love. =)

    Homework


    So much homework to do in the holiday. doing the interior of the local government offices currently. My brain is full filled with abstract colorful ideas like this.


    Ila


    had a funny crazy night at hmh =D





    April 04

    entry of spring



    love this first sight of sun rise of spring! have been living in this apartment for one year,
    didn’t know we have such a beautiful sun rise, becoz I always get up late or sth =P




    ordered an interesting book: Michelle: a biography.

    I don’t know since when I started following Obama’s news and searching for Obama’s info on Wikipedia. Michelle Obama is called ‘a boss’ by his husband and she is voted as the best dressed woman a short while ago. Interested to know the deeper story behind this American’s First lady, I decided to read her biography. As well, I thought I could probably find any tips for becoming a successful woman like Michelle Obama. I highly respect and admire her for being a successful carrier woman, a careful mother and a good wife who fully support his husband.

    More meaningful is that this book’s gonna be the first book that bb and I read together. I told bb about this book and my motivation; surprisingly, he said that he wants to read thie book with me and he bought it immediately. This is why I ordered an English one in stead of a Dutch one; due to this we can read the same page at the same time. I can’t wait to get it home! =)




    look at those bright corlours I bought

    Interested in the first Primark shop in NL, Kitty and I rolled into the shop to have a look and came out with bags of underwares, piyamas, bikinis, sunnies, shorts, belts... amazing! those prices were so small so you don't even have to look at the prices when putting them in your basket.   



    funky orange sunnies for Queensday. Kawing likes them so much!





    I finally bought it. Guess what? Haha…….only an ordinary laptop case. Yes, I even own 2 laptops but I didn’t have a nice piece of clothes for them. I only got a huge black nerdy laptop backpack from uni. It’s a such oversized object, so it seems like a tortoise shield on your back, especially for those ‘small’ girls like me.

    Since lappie was indispensable in uni. I used to lug my lappie to uni in a lightweight sleeve, after that in a big shopper bag with many drawing tools, files, draft roll, books… Sometime, this load would be too heavy to carry. Believe me, the shoulders were really hurting and felt like they're falling off! I preferred not using a protecting laptop case, becoz each of them weighs nearly 1 kg! Accidentally, I saw a light and pretty good looking one, and finally decided to buy it to protect those memorable photos and important files in my lappie.





    tnx bb for the sweet card and heart shaped candy <3






    March 23

    ❤ yellow potted plant


    His pronouncing sounded so funny. =P
    ‘hoo yer more gan …ik hayt winbin’
    ‘hoo.. gaart thet?... half elf...’
    ‘waknaap!’

    bb goes to Dutch lessons every Monday evening, although he’s busy studying as hell. Speaking Dutch may help him a little to get a job in Holland, and he’s learning the language for me as well (or not?). I still remember he showed me in the train that he can read Dutch newspaper. I was pretty surprising to see how many Dutch words looked like English one. Listening to bb speaks Dutch was pretty much entirely incomprehensible, but I’m satisfied with it at least he can correctly say ‘I love you’ in Dutch.



    got this yellow potted plant from him, waiting for all those little flowers to bloom =)


    and mr.lovely gave me mr.smiley to make me happy, i luuuuuv it!


    March 06

    ♥ funny scenes under the lights

     
    Char and Win played under the beautiful urban lights at Schouwburgplein. =P
     
     
    Char: 'will you marry me, baby?'

     
    Winbin: 'marry?!.. wow!!!...yesss, I do, darling!! =D Muahzz...'

     

    Hopefully one day we'll really marry to each other. =)
     
     
     

    September 16

    blabla...

     
     
    smelly delicious
     
    Yes, it was not aromatic. I could smell it from far away. Durian mooncake was smelly, but delicious. =P
     
     
     
     
    Yap, yap.....=D  I can't wait to skype you tonight.

    Changing internet providers wasn't a good option. It's was like a never ending wait period for me. Finally, i have an internet connection in Den Haag after 3 weeks of waiting. Everything is set. Enjoying my time with internet more now. =D
     
     

    bb is sick

    Bb is sick, but still works hard for uni. :(
    I know you're busy, but please take more rest! Sadly, I can't be there to take care of you...
     
     
     



    August 14

    ♥ Rainbow

     
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    There was a rainbow for you and me. bb saw a rainbow when thinking of me. It's like us, we seem to be far away from each other, but yet so closed.

     



    August 12

    ♥ diamond

     
     
     Phone-_HTC
     
    hehehe... Me got new phone!! I'm like so totally in love with HTC Touch Diamond. It has caught my eyes since I got it in the afternood. The design is beautiful. It's small, sleek and shiny, with very smooth angles on the back cover giving it that diamond touch. It's basically a touch screen PDA with wifi and all the little PDA features. I love the fact that I would do stuff on the internet while on the go. But the most important thing is that I can use it to skype with my dearst anytime and anywhere.  
     
     
     
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    My old Samsung F300 is a beauty and worked pretty well, still love it.
     
     
    Theory test
     
    I took my driving theory re-test today. Thankfully, I passed the test, as I told Winbin that I always pass the second time. Now I have to wait for the worst part of the test, known as the practical driving test.
     
     
     
     
     
    August 11

    ❤ our meaningful songs

     

    Our song

     

    陶吉吉-愛很簡單

    忘了是怎麼開始

    也許就是對你有一種感覺

    忽然間發現自己

    以深深愛上你 真的很簡單

     

    愛的地暗天黑都已無所謂

    是是非非無法決擇

    沒有後悔為愛日也去跟隨

    那個瘋狂的人是我 喔

     

    I LOVE YOU 無法不愛你 BABY

    說你也愛我

    I LOVE YOU 永遠不願意 BABY

    失去你

     

    不可能更快樂 只要能在一起

    做什麼都可以 雖然世界變個不停

    用最真誠的心 讓愛變得簡單

     

     

    I LOVE YOU 我一直在這裡

    一直在愛你

    I LOVE YOU, OH YES I DO

    永遠都不放棄 這愛你的權利

     

    如果你還有一些困惑 OH NO

    請貼我的心傾聽 聽我說 愛你

    YES I DO

     

    LOVE U 永遠都不放棄 這愛你的權力

     

     

     

    The song you always sing for me

     

    Bon Jovi - I'll be there for you 


    I guess this time you're really leaving
    I heard your suitcase say goodbye
    Well as my broken heart lies bleeding
    You say true love is suicide
    You say you've cried a thousand rivers
    And now you're swimming for the shore
    You left me drowning in my tears
    And you won't save me anymore
    I'm praying to God you'll give me one more chance girl

    I'll be there for you, these five words I swear to you
    When you breathe, I wanna be the air for you
    I'll be there for you
    I'd live and I'd die for you
    I'd steal the sun from the sky for you
    Words can't say what love can do
    I'll be there for you

    I know you know we've had some good times
    Now they have their own hiding place
    Well I can promise you tomorrow
    But I can't buy back yesterday
    And baby you know my hands are dirty
    But I wanted to be your Valentine
    I'll be the water when you get thirsty baby
    When you get drunk, I'll be the wine

    I'll be there for you, these five words I swear to you
    When you breathe I wanna be the air for you
    I'll be there for you
    I'd live and I'd die for you
    I'd steal the sun from the sky for you
    Words can't say what love can do
    I'll be there for you

    I wasn't there when you were happy
    And I wasn't there when you were down
    Didn't mean to miss your birthday baby
    I wish I'd seen you blow those candles out     I guess this time you're really leaving
    I heard your suitcase say goodbye
    And as my broken heart lies bleeding
    You say true love it's suicide

    You say you're cried a thousand rivers
    And now you're swimming for the shore
    You left me drowning in my tears
    And you won't save me anymore

    Now I'm praying to God you'll give me one more chance, girl

    I'll be there for you
    These five words I swear to you
    When you breathe I want to be the air for you
    I'll be there for you
    I'd live and I'd die for you
    Steal the sun from the sky for you
    Words can't say what a love can do
    I'll be there for you

    I know you know we've had some good times
    Now they have their own hiding place
    I can promise you tomorrow
    But I can't buy back yesterday

    And Baby you know my hands are dirty
    But I wanted to be your valentine
    I'll be the water when you get thirsty, baby
    When you get drunk, I'll be the wine

    I'll be there for you
    These five words I swear to you
    When you breathe I want to be the air for you
    I'll be there for you
    I'd live and I'd die for you
    Steal the sun from the sky for you
    Words can't say what a love can do
    I'll be there for you

    And I wasn't there when you were happy
    I wasn't there when you were down
    I didn't mean to miss your birthday, baby
    I wish I'd seen you blow those candles out

     

     

     

    This song is for you

    Keyshia Cole - Heaven Sent 

        

     

    Sent from heaven.
    Sent from heaven.

    Now you can wait your whole life wondering
    When it's gonna come or where it's been.
    You may have got your heart broken
    A few times in the past
    Never last strong as it used to,
    Don't feel as good as it used to (before)
    And all the things you used to say,
    Things you used to do, went right out the door

    Oh no more, will you be the one
    That's what you tell everyone around you
    But you know they've heard it all before
    What more can you say
    When love won't let you, walk away
    And you can't help who you love
    And you find yourself giving it away
    When you think you're in love

    I wanna be the one who you believe
    In your heart is sent from (sent from above)
    There's a piece of me who leaves when you gone
    Because you're sent from (sent from above)
    I wanna be the one who you believe
    In your heart is sent from (sent from heaven)
    There's a piece of me who leaves when you gone
    Because you're sent from (sent from heaven)

    Now you can wait your whole life tryna change
    What the fear from what it's been
    You may have put your whole life into a man
    Loving what you thought that could've been.
    notice when you change
    When you don't feel as good as you used to (before)
    And everything you used to say,
    Everything you used to do clear right out the door

    Oh no more, will you be the one
    That's what you tell everyone around you
    But you know they've heard it all before
    What more can you say
    When love won't let you, walk away
    And it can't help who it loves
    And you find yourself giving it away
    When you think you're in love

    Everybody say
    I wanna be the one you love
    I wanna be (sent from heaven)
    Everybody say I wanna be the one you trust
    I wanna be (sent from heaven)
    Everybody say I wanna be the one you need
    I wanna be (sent from heaven)
    Everybody say I wanna be the one who sent from above

    I wanna be the one who you believe
    In your heart is sent from (sent from heaven)
    There's a piece of me who leaves when you gone
    Because you're sent from (sent from heaven)

     

    August 05

    ❤ lil hamsters

     
     
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    let me introduce them to you all, our 2 weeks old little hamsters. they look pretty baby-liked, very cuddly and uber active. heheh... 
     
     
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    my favorite is named 'mango'. she's pricess-liked and is the only one who has golden fur and cherry red eyes.    
     
     
     
     
     

    July 29

    ❤ Parcel

     
    bb is loving & caring, without him i would be pitiful...
     
    Surprisingly, I received a parcel from bb this morning. He sent me a lovely wrist rest for doing maya & autocad comfortably, a nice heart-shaped nailset, a meaningful photo and some pure white sea shells he found for me underwater during his holiday.
     
    Reading your letter, I can actually feel the love and warmth from you. I can't stop thinking about the scences when you're preparing all these stuff and writing this lovely letter for me. I can't stop thinking about you. I hope we'll soon be together again and never be parted!!! 
    I love my dearest, i can't wait to see you again...  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    July 20

    Our dear hamsters gave birth

     
     
    Hamster's noices waked me up in the morning. I wondered what they were doing, because they usually sleep during the day and wake up in the evening or night. I was totally surprised when seeing our hamster carried a baby in her mouth running around the cage. My mom adopted 2 little hamsters a month ago. I couldn't expect that they're having babies so fast.
     
    It's something great that our two dear hamsters have given birth to 5 little hamsters. The 5 new babies didn't have any fur on their body yet. Their skins' were red and moist, which looks like what you skin would probaly be after it has recoverd from a scrath. The baby hamsters' eyes were tightly bounded by a layer of skin. They were wriggling and twiggling in the cage. I love them!! I couldn't take any clear photos of the babies, because the interior of my hamsters' cage was dark, or else I would disturb the babies and the mother.
     
    The mother runs wildly around the cage and climbs like monkey. I started worrying about that she will hurt the babies by moving the them around and all of the non stop running since she gave birth. I read online to take the running wheel out because she may forget about the babies and just want to play. But I worried about her health more since she just had babies and I didn't want her to hurt any part so outcame the wheel. This seemed to upset her, like I say she really loves it. 
     
    Let's wish their family's 5 babies the best of health as they grow and develop into mature adult hamsters.
     
     
     
     
     

    May 11

    happy mother's day

     
     
    It's the day of the world's most wonderful woman.
    虽然我有时候不爱听你的话, 但是我很爱你, 妈咪!!
     
     
     
    April 23

    Forgive me

     
     
    What you  told me today was right. I don't know since when I've became a such selfish person, even didn’t know that I had done these wrong things and broken people’s hearts.  I’ve been thinking of your sentences all the time. Finally, I cried.
    想到自己变成一个只有外壳的人觉得很可怕, 害怕渐渐地变得像魔鬼那样冷血。最后,心被丑陋侵蚀了。
     
    华,让你心痛了。  
    珊,又让你失望了。

     

     

     

        

    February 24

    ...

     
     
    最熟悉的陌生人. 最亲的仇人.
    2 different stories.
    Which story belongs to you?

    the misery that you've caused, do you know? it's time to make it end!!
     
     
    August 07

    Happy B'day Kitty!!

     
     
    you're currently celebrating your first b'day without me and so far, far, far away from me.  
    just wanna say happy b' day, Kitty. here' re aVerjaardagstaartand a Cadeau met strik. and then a Rode lippen and a Rechteromhelzing.