Parents back!

Saturday: Get up at 10am. Make the Portabello Mushroom fried rice till 11:30. Then went to the makeup appointment at 12. Went to hair salon afterwards. Back home about 2pm. Then go to the airport to pick up parents. My Dad is coming too! He hasn't been here for long time! Help them to unpack the luggage. Dinner with the in-law family at 8pm in Sun Sui Wah. It's surprised that even though there is wedding banquet outside, the dishes still came quick and plenty of staff to help us out. It's great dinner. The steam rockcod is great too!

Sunday: dim sum with mom's friend. She said that I look more chubby. I saw her about half a year ago but my weight is not as much difference from now. Hm....This is the 2nd comment I got that I look more chubby in 3 days... >_<
Off to work after dim sum lunch, till 8pm...dinner in Bauhinia Restaurant.

I got waken up at 7am these day by the pipe construction outside. Why do they start work so early???

House cleaning Completed

Just on time before my parents landed. :)


Didn't post the status of house cleaning since last week because ever since Monday, I guess I'm not supposed to do any "heavy" work. But still, I did clean up master bedroom. And my hubby helped out to mop the master bathroom floor and clean the shower stand, and I mop the kitchen floor. Didn't clean the fridge at the end.
Also made a trip to Ikea to recycle battery and those energy saving light bulb, and went to Home Depot to get the house number sticker. Mom has asked me to put the house number sticker on the gate facing the back lane for long time.

Now, house is in good enough condition for review.

Overeat...

These days I ate a lot.

I was on diet but last month I ate lots of ice cream, and stuffed myself a few times.

Yesterday friends came over to my house for gathering. I bought quite a few snacks and of course I had those chips as well...

Oh well...

矛盾

本來有點信心，因為順利成章的理應如此。

但到真正可以知道結果的時候，我卻猶豫。我怕失敗，不想承受失敗的感覺，寧願選擇不知道。

不知還須知。

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House cleaning day 5

Clean up my craft room (except desk top).
Mop the main floor and basement bathroom

Before friends arrive tomorrow:
Pick up a few loose items in the living room
Clean the crystal chandelier

Pending:
Master bedroom
My craft room - desktop
Fridge

House cleaning day 4

Basement bathroom
Kitchen fan hood (both)
Plant trimming and clean up the window bay area

Pending:
Floor moping, misc item on the main floor
Master bedroom and my craft room
Fridge clean up

House cleaning day 3

Master bedroom jacuzzi
My bathroom. Finally I the fan filter as well, it's 80% covered by dust and I do think the fan have a hard time sucking up air.
Powder room
Coffee table in living room

Next: remaining items in the living room/family room area
Basement bathroom
Vacuum/mop the floor

Pending: Master bedroom clean up
Master bedroom's toilet and shower base
My computer room aka craft room
Dusting both kitchen fans

House cleaning day 2

Mom's bathroom vanity and counter top. The dressing mirror.
Glass cabinet in the living room.

Labour day

Friday: dinner at home (which is a bit unusual these days)

Saturday: plan to have dim sum lunch @ Aberdeen center but all booked until an hour later. So we decided to head to Gingeri in Lansdowne mall instead. The reason to have lunch along sky train station is that I'm asking my husband to go to Point Roberts to pick up my parcel while I can go home by skytrain. Since I'm taking skytrain anyway, I decided to head to the Nespresso boutique so that I can take my coffee pod to recycle. After that, I shopped in Oakridge for a bit before heading to attend the Taiwan Fest in downtown area. My SIL got some VIP ticket from her workplace so we are going to watch a fashion show (which is part of the opening ceremony). We got there around 5:30 and had some snack before the opening ceremony starts at 7:30. The fashion show is great, unlike the one I have been before. I can even recognize some familiar faces of the model. I think they are popular model from Taiwan. Some bridal gown show I have been before is not as great as this one.

Taiwan Fest Fashion Show

Sunday: Starts my house cleaning project. It's actually a HUGE job since my house has been a mess for some time already. The stuff that I bought are lying on the floor, the bills from last April are still waiting to be filed. Anyway, I try to tackle the den first, since that's the worst place. I clean up all the newspaper (from last month), and then started to file the bill/statement. And my hubby clean the stove and shed his own bill/statement. I clean the bathtub too. Took me so much energy since the soap scum has built up for quite a while. After my hard work, the bath tub is once again shiny. :) At night I went to friend's place for steak. It's Wagyu steak ordered from Costco online. Although it's not as tasty as the Japanese one, but still very good! And huge too! I was soooo stuffed!





Monday: Continue to clean up my house. Den is 90% done. Living room 80%. And the recycle paper and stuff almost filled up half of my kitchen. Hubby said if someone tried to break in at night, he/she will sure trip over and get hurt! Had Peking duck dinner with friends...YUM~

Pending: Mom's room, my room, computer room, mop the floor, trim my in house plant...

P.S. Took me actually one hour to carry all the recycle material to my cars, and then to recycle depot and dump them...Very good workout!

A bit crazy...

It's a bit crazy....to drive to Oregon coast and back in the same day.
Yes I have been to Oregon many times but still seems like there are some places worth dragging me there.

This time, is the steam train ride at the Oregon coast.

My hubby is an engine fanatic. Or I should say, he love things which is engine related: car engine, steam train engine, and even big machinery...

For me, I love the scenery. Last time when we plan our trip to Oregon to enjoy the ocean and beach, it's the rainy and the coldest day within August. As we are disappointed, we want to go again this time, as we are sure that it's sunny as promised by the weather forecast!

But in order to save the hotel cost, we decided to go as a one day trip! Aside, I feel a bit bad that I can't join the my coworker's housewarming party...

Anyway, we took off at 6:30am and arrived at the train depot at 1:20pm (train departed at 2am), with only 1 stop. Time was a bit tight at the estimated time by the navigation software is originally 2:30. And NO, we didn't drive super fast. I'd believed that the software is giving out too generous estimation...And I was also surprised to see there are at least 5 cops within 10 minutes drive across the border. They do start early!

Anyway, the ride is a bit short but I do enjoy the scenery. I guess I should try the dinner train next time as the route is a bit different. Will definitely see sunset along the way...

Sunday: give up another house warming party... :(
We are quite tired from the trip and also I am going back to work for a short time.
In the end, we went dim sum lunch, then movie, then work, then go to night market for dinner. To my surprise, the night market seems pretty good this year. The layout is better, and there are actually two stages for performances. I am seeing more locals and it does becomes an multi-cultural event, which is good. The other good thing is we are able to find a street parking spot near by! Bought some DVD, cute socks (5 pairs for $10), and we had young coconut, grilled squid, rice roll with mix sauce, squid ball, dumplings, and the best one, is the twist potato! The whole potato is sliced (like potato chips) but still linked by a bamboo stick and then deep fried. We chose the favour (ketchup or with cheese powder) and it tastes great!