my 3rd birthday wish

I had a wonderful birthday on 4/23 with 3 cakes, greetings from friends and coworkers, and lovely birthday songs from two little cute nieces.

As convention in birthday parties, I was asked to make three wishes, speaking out the first two and keeping the third one for myself.

My third wish... this picture tells it all...

煩

忙到透不過氣來的感覺很糟 偏偏今年來老是覺得如此
換到新部門快一年 卻在最近幾個月被工作壓到喘不過氣來
一方面是組織大調整 新老板們還在摸索部門方向
一方面是業務量增加卻仍人手不足
我這個半新不舊的PM除了既定的工作量 還得接下去年部門欲拒還迎的專案
問題是我的 learning curve 還沒走完呢

Learning from doing is quite a nice idea if having a reasonable workload. Yet, having the heavier workload while crawling in the learning curve makes me feel frustrated and step into my down time. Start worrying about my quality at work. The feeling of running after workload and trying to catch up with those seniors is just so sucks!

Moreover, I have had a totally different view towards life since last Christmas.
我越來越清楚想要的生活
I want to be free, free from work.
想要多一些時間給自己 給我喜歡的人
開始面對自己　開始想打理自己的生活　經營與喜歡的人的未來
Yet, how can I reach this?
Keep saying this but haven't found a good way yet...
aarrhhh...
煩...

mom's niuroumian

Mom doesn't eat beaf for her religeon. Yet, she knows her kids love it (yup, yup... though we are already decades away from being a kid, we are still kids to her). She bought this cooked beaf from a shop by her friend's recommendation and added this new dish in her menu.

Tasty niuroumian indeed... ^_^

Taiwan earthquake

What the earthquake happened on Dec 26, 2006 brothers me the most is that, I lost the international SMSs function to communicate with my dear friends in France and annoyingly have to wait a few weeks for its recovery!

However, a bit amazed to read the news that this earthquake has resulted in a loss of 10,000 Internet Domains in China. Also, a column is written under the title, The world is down, saying that this earthquake also affects the banking, telecommunicating and internet in Asia, etc. As a trivial global citizen, I feel a bit "竊喜" (sorry, I shouldn't!) to read these news that, okay, the world finally gets some awareness of the importance of my island... ^_*

And just while I was pleased for these news, another news grabbed my attention that...
A new guide co-produced by France's Tourism Ministry advises businesspeople not to mention Tibet, Taiwan and the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators when negotiating with the Chinese.

Ha, this reminds me of a Taiwanese saying, "西瓜偎大邊" (xi quei wei dua bing), referring as Climb onto the bandwagon...