Wednesday 29 July 2009

Tuesday 28 July 2009

再见了姨婆

今天在msn接到了表妹寄来的短讯

姨婆走了

人老了 身体的机器也开始老坏了

至少 她现在已脱离痛苦 应该和外婆见了面吧?

她的人生算是蛮担荷 从小就不能说话 也听不到

嫁的老公又很早就去世了 没儿没女

但姨婆带给人家的印象是她是个充满阳光的人

爱作弄小辈 然后自己哈哈大笑

这一辈子她辛辛苦苦筹的钱 就这样用在最后的这几天 把钱砸在医药费上

大家说 至少她死前享受了最好的

这叫享受吗?

她根本没机会去好好利用储蓄去做自己想做的事情呀!

在给她一次选择 我相信她还是不会花这一笔钱买自己想吃的东西

没办法 她过去的贫困告诉她钱太重要了

现在 我只希望她安息了

Monday 27 July 2009

甲型流感

Photobucket

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=2140886&id=616008167


(光华日报)疑出现甲型流感。瓜登又2校停课一周
2009年7月26日 晚上11:11

(瓜拉登嘉楼26日讯)瓜登又有2所学校疑出现甲型流感而受指示即日起暂时停课一周。
这2所学校分别是龙运理科中学,及马江登嘉楼孤儿福利组织宿舍。

掌管登州卫生、团结及州内事务的阿都拉曼医生今日对《马新社》指出,该中学一共有13名学生出现流感症状,至于上述宿舍则有10人呈流感症状。

他说:“因此,卫生局已发出暂时停课一周的指示,这两所学校的学生必须各自在家进行隔离,以免流感病毒蔓延开来。”

在这之前,龙运玛拉工艺大学及苏丹米占再纳阿比丁工艺大学也受指示停课一周。

火山和温泉配套 – Thirassia 享用午餐 *Package to Volcano and Hot Spring – Lunch at Thirassia (7 June 09)

上了火焰山,下了冷到会抽痉的海水,可以说是把我的这一副老骨头弄得快要散了!还好接下来的就是吃饭。之前有说过了,如果配套里没有到Thirassia岛的,那船会开回Fira ,然后船客得自己在Fira各自找吃的,省回一餐比较贵的午餐。来到Thirassia,导游会介绍船客到自己家人开的餐厅去。这一餐我们吃了€20.30.

After visiting volcano and hot spring, we were brought to Thirassia for lunch. We paid €20.30 for the lunch.


由于去火山到那一天我们只带了旧相机,所以照片拍得失水准了。这个看来像白饭的食物其实是pasta的一种。这一盘是pasta炒墨鱼,超好吃的。小华点的!
Hubby ordered this, it’s not fried rice, but it’s fried pasta with squid. This one was so tasty!



好几天了都是吃全海鲜或全肉类,吃到小华也感觉腻了,所以小华有多叫了一盘焖长豆。口味有一点像mamak档的长豆焖咖哩,很好吃一下。
Long bean, tasted like curry vegetable sell at mamak stalls.


我呢就会比较贪新鲜,喜欢尝试当地的出名小吃。叫了一个Gemista,这次是茄子里有牛肉然后拿去烤煮的。另外一个是当地相当出名 的炸番茄。炸番茄的味道就麻麻地。
I wanted to try everything special, so I ordered a stuff egg plant (stuff with minced beef) and a fried tomato. Both are authentic Greek food.



炸番茄大特写。
Fried tomato.



在这么漂亮的地方望着大海吃午餐,绝对是个好的享受。
What else can be more relaxing than having lunch at such a nice restaurant, facing the beautiful Aegean Sea?



餐厅里一部份的菜肴。
Part of the food served in the restaurant.





超大的八爪鱼须。
Huge tentacle of octopus.





照理说应该到Thirassia镇口看看走走的,但由于把火山已经把我们累坏了,我们不想再爬250个梯级(大概1km吧) ,只好在港口附近走走。
We didn’t climb the 250 stair cases to top of the hill to visit Thirassia town. We just spent some time walking around the port.







除了用走路上Thirassia小镇,也可以骑驴子上去的。但天气也太热了,真的没mood了,还是逗留在港口算了。
Tourist could also take a donkey ride from the port up to Thirassia town on the hill top.



又睡觉!这次海水在海水旁而已,真是享受!
Again….


上船咯,就快去另一个站Oia了。看小华的脸就知道他刚睡醒。


人齐了!准备开船!


到Oia了!可是我们没下船,因为船只把我们丢在这里然后就直接游回Fira了。在这里下船的游客将乘坐免费小巴到山上,然后游客得自己乘坐公共巴士或得士回去Fira。船到Oia的时候才4点多,离日落的时间还很远,我们还是决定回Fira 小睡一下再驾车到Oia看日落。
Here we are at the 4th destination and also the last destination of the package– Oia. We reached Oia about 4pm plus, it was 4-5 hours before sunset. So hubby and I decided to take ship back to Fira, take a short nap at the hotel, then later on we drove to Oia again for the sunset. That was why we didn’t go down when the ship stopped at Oia port.



这张照片是在靠Oia港口的时候拍下来的。这里的屋子都建在山崖边,面对着美丽的爱琴海。
These are the houses built along Oia cliff and most are facing Aegean Sea.



船慢慢离开Oia港口了。。。。
Leaving Oia…



其他船客也累了。。。。
Everyone was tired, exhausted and fatigue…



从Oia前往Fira 是绕圣岛游的,很惊讶看到了那么漂亮的大自然风景,很炫!
Capture this photo on our way sailing around Santorini….



终于回到Fira港口了。看到那个Z型的山路吗?下了船后你可以选择走山路上去,又或者骑驴自上去,又或者直接达缆车上去。
Saw the zip-zap route from Fira old port up to Fira town? You could either walk or take a donkey ride or a cable car up to the hill.


和Fira 就港口的最后一张合照。
Last photo taken with Fira old port.


走路经过Fira的一间餐馆时看到了这个,笑到我不停!想去逛街买东西的女游客可以避免麻烦把丈夫免费的‘泊’在餐厅里!哈哈哈!很有创意的思构哦!
I was laughing like mad when I saw this sign pasted in front of a restaurant in Fira town. Women who wanted to go for shopping could ‘park’ their husband in the restaurant for free. Haha! What a brilliant idea to pull business!

What a great loss....

Photobucket
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=2137417&id=616008167


What a great loss.... (tribute to Yasmin Ahmad).

http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=36188

Thursday 23 July 2009

为游手好闲得日子写上句号

Photobucket

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=2128427&id=616008167


整整一年了在家里当个全钟的少奶奶

叹了超过365天的日子,家里的那张沙发已经给我坐扁了

是时候为这种好命的生活画上句号了

上个星期看到了大学又要请人了 我又写信去碰碰运气

我想我也蛮幸运的 明天是申请日期的止日

截止日期的前几个小时才发现这样的一个广告 也才匆匆忙忙的寄了email过去

第二天便收到回函安排个面试 还和我要了三个referees 的contacts

在这里找工作最麻烦的是一定要收到三个referees 的推荐书才可以算过关

在这里我想谢谢以前的上司校长Dr Tee, 以前的INTI老死Erda 还有之前在Law School 的supervisor Rachael

谢谢你们愿意帮我写推荐书

今天刚去面试 整个过程还好 我是非常有信心的

没想到回到家里没一个小时就接到interviewer 的电话

说我被录取了!

需要不需要那么快动作呀?不过也好,不用经历那种等待答案的心情

只不过这好像是第一次那么快拿到回复。。。

Special Thanks to Dr Tee MY, Ms Erdawati Bakar and Mrs Rachael Taylor... Thanks for writing in and being my referees, I really appreciate your help!

接下来要做的东西就是shopping买衣

一年里身材变化蛮大 是时候添新衣买鞋了

哈哈哈!刚好有reductions。。。一定买到很爽呀!

Wednesday 22 July 2009

希望上海明天的天气会好起来

Photobucket
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=2110093&id=616008167


我有一对朋友特地从英国搭飞机去上海,还带了自己的ka chang去看日蚀。问题大条了,明天上海天气报告有雷雨,我想他们现在的心情应该是很想去long piak。。。无论如何,希望明天的天气突然晴,祝福他们还是可以看到日蚀啦!

Tuesday 21 July 2009

Monday 20 July 2009

火山和温泉配套 – 跳船游往Palea Kameni自然温泉 *Package to Volcano and Hot Spring – Visiting Palea Kameni Hot Spring (7 June 09)

我一直觉得导游这样安排行程是对的:先上火山,再下温泉。原因很简单:上了火山后全身大流汗,又热又粘。火山后能直接跳入海里游泳绝对可以很舒服,直接摆脱了累与汗水,让身体又从新的活跃了起来。

Palea Kameni是个自然温泉,位于两座山的中间。由于这里的水位比较浅,船无法泊得太靠岸,只能在离温泉大概200米的地方停泊,然后有兴趣下温泉的乘客都得跳船,然后再游过去。这里的水应该深过12尺,根本踏不到底,只能从跳水那一刻开始游到温泉为止。因此,不太识水性的朋友最好在跳船之前先深思熟考才好跳到水里。虽然说200米的距离并不是很远,但上下火山一轮后毕竟身体已消费了很多精力。如果你问我会累吗?我会说完全不会!哈哈!别忘了我是拖着鱼尾的魔蟹,加上小时候在水里被魔鬼式的训练了几年后,下水对我来说只有乐趣!

一跳下海的那一刻海水是冷的,大概只有10-13摄氏之间。但只要一游过温泉的边界线,就会感觉到海水变温。温泉的水是33摄氏,水温刚好,是很舒服。只要一游到温泉旁,就会发现那里的水面上浮着金黄色的小颗粒,在阳光的照耀下这些颗粒会发亮 。这就是所谓的硫磺。听说在这里浸温泉对皮肤很好。怎么好法我不是很清楚,只觉得水的颜色怪怪的,又有一种化学成品的味道。 有几个女游客还和我说她们感觉到很不安,一来水的颜色太深,看不到海底;二来温泉的底部是烂泥,脚踏到的底部时感觉软软的,感觉上好像水底有水怪(我听到这个后和身边其他游客一直大笑不停);三来水的味道怪怪的,有一个还说她没喝过那么难喝的水!

温泉的最尾部有 一座亭子。我想这个亭子是给游客们休息的地方吧?很可惜站在船上的那个角度是拍不到亭子的。。。

Palea Kameni is a natural formed hot spring. It is formed in between two volcanic islands, in the middle of Santorini Caldera. The boat can't pull up to land since it is too shallow. Therefore visitors will have to jump off from the boat and swim about 200 meters to the hot spring. The sea water was around 10-13 degree Celsius, but when I reached the hot spring, I could feel the water was warmer. According to the tour guide, the water temperature at hot spring normally remains around 33 degree Celsius and it contains sulfur that is good for the skin. I really enjoy swimming in the muddy hot spring, it was so refreshing after a tiring and exhausting climb to the volcano.

The water at hot spring was very milky. Small brownish particles were floating at everywhere; the water smells a bit strange, like containing chemicals. This particles shines under the sunshine, it is believed these golden/brownish particles are sulfur. There was also a small resting platform placed at the end of the hot spring.



跳船咯!虽然海水只有10-13摄氏,但顿时还是感觉到很舒服!Yohuu!! It’s so refreshing to swim in cold water after a tiring and exhausting climb to the volcano.


船和温泉的距离就那么远。。。应该有200米吧?
This is the distant from the ship to the hot spring…


看到山崖边的山羊吗?
Can you spot goats on the cliff?


褐色的海水拥有高量的硫磺。
The area with brown water contains golden/brownish particles, which is believed to be sulfur.




Saturday 18 July 2009

Drawing with Two Mini Light Bulbs

Hubby drew this with two mini light bulbs...


Drew by hubby as well.... cute isn't it? :)

With some simple photoshop effects....


Hubby and I drew this together... I drew the stem and the leafs, the rest were drawn by hubby. Love this one the most!







Friday 17 July 2009

可疑吗?

Photobucket

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=2076771&id=616008167


非常可疑。。。。

Kirkstall Festival at Kirkstall Abbey (11 July 09)




The second kid from the left was almost crying, he must be afraid of height.... poor kid!


Human hamster???


This girl was in the process transforming to become a 'lion'....


Bouncy castle... how I wish I could have a big jump on that too....











Hammer it and get your prizes!!!