Jay Chou brings feelings of euphoria

Before any of you judge me and call me a fob (and by any of you, I only mean Stef), let me explain why Jay Chou brings feelings of euphoria. FYI: Jay Chou is a Taiwanese pop star.

Whenever I play his CD and listen to his music, I am reminded of that summer in Beijing.

For example:
the hot summer nights,
the dazzling lights all lit up on the streets,
the fun and adventure of exploring a city where I'm foreign to the language and culture,
the street vendors where you can purchase delicious treats (if you dare) and the latest Harry Potter book for less than $3 CAD,
the shopping craze that Ken & I went on while there,
the nightly walks I took around my neighborhood,
and most of all...the ridiculously fun time Mike, JoJing, her cousin and I had at his concert.

Listening to his music brings all these images to my mind...and more. (It may also be b/c his is the only Chinese music I listen to).

His music is GREAT! If I had any hesitants about going to his concert previously, they were all quickly banished. He is ONE talented guy!! So...it was after his concert, I developed a crush on him (sorry Ken but I know you love Jessica Alba and Kristen Kruk so we're even).


WOoo HOooo for Jay Chou!! WOoo HOoo for my attempts in trying to maintain my cultural identity!!!

Educational, Environmental & Entertaining - why did they take this show off?

"EARTH!"
"FIRE!"
"WIND!"
"WATER!"
"HEART!"

"Go Planet!"

"By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!"

Captain Planet, he's our hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero

He's our powers magnified
And he's fighting on the planet's side

Captain Planet, he's our hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero

Gonna help him put asunder
Bad guys who like to loot and plunder

"You'll pay for this Captain Planet!"

We're the Planeteers
You can be one too
'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do!

Looting and polluting is not the way
Hear what Captain Planet has to say!

"The Power is Yours!"

Can you keep a secret?

i have a confession to make. i'll probably regret this later and delete this post but for those of you who are lucky enough, you get to hear this one.

i love japanese anime. not all though. i use to follow the dragon ball series when i was young but since this past summer, i've been really obsessed with a show called naruto. seriously. i read the manga that comes out each week and watch its shows and AMVs that are on youtube. this show has me so obsessed that i'm secretly wishing that i was a ninja. (if you're wondering as to its contents, you can find all about naruto on wikipedia...i love wikipedia too).

just now i watched one of my favourite clips which has me so compelled that i feel that i must tell the world my little secret. but seriously this is an embarrassing thing so don't go around spreading this.

sometimes, i wonder what kind of person i would be like if i didn't have a brother but a sister instead. it's him who gets me into all these things...i'm BOYISH because of simon. if it wasn't for him, i wouldn't waste my life playing video games, watching anime and reading comics (hmm...actually, i think the comic thing originated from me because i love superheroes). i used to collect comics. i guess that's my second confession. i LOVE superheroes - the comics, the movies, the cartoons, anything. when i was little, i use to wake up just to watch xmen and spiderman on t.v. umm...maybe i was just born boyish?

Hong Kong cont'd

just wanted to add that evelyn taterak (some of you know her...was on FESA last year; intern to HK the same year i was in china) made similar remarks about the place.

when i told her ken's comment when we both came back to canada, she said, "when your bf divorces you after he gets his citizenship through you, i'm going to marry him and get my HK citizenship THROUGH him."

we had jokes going about that the whole year...

hmm...maybe it's not as funny to you guys as it was for me.

my love for Hong Kong...

so my friend, ev, came back from her vacation in Hong Kong last weekend. last night, we met briefly for a tea and cookie time to talk about her trip. in our conversation, i was reminded about how much i love hong kong as a city...and the beauty, sophistication and excitement of that place. i was thrilled to obtain my citizenship through my birthright two summers ago.

as ken said during our trip, "i LOVE this city. i'm going to marry you just so i can get a citizenship here." hehe, let's hope that ken wants to marry me for reasons more than just to obtain citizenship to HK.



The transportation system in HK is awesome! It's clean, fast and efficient. The TTC & GO bus pale in comparison. We are decades behind! I actually grimaced when I came back to Toronto and rode on the TTC...it took a while for me to make a transition back to our system here.

(The second pic is inside taken standing on the platform of the train station).