Sunday, July 28, 2013

July 2013 Europe

July 18th, Europe 
After I arrived, George's pick me up, it is very sweet of him, everything smooth, full of love. 
First, we went to his uncle's place to book lobster, very nice house, fully decorated, lots of stuff inside house, a big yard, see 2 lovely turtle. Cooking last for a while, we had lunch after, uncle is very nice to me, he opened, red wine, white wine, pear liquor. Joking around, very friendly . Believe or not, George's said this is the first time they got invited and ate inside house. I found out a lots of first time after in this family. 
Went back to home, kind of late, have to meet jean Luke at the bar, I almost fall in sleep during the chatting and went back to home to take a bath, went sleep inside bath. Nape for 20min . Went to beach to enjoy ocean water. Sun still there, hot and water is warmer. Love the feeling of swimming in ocean, chilled water a little bit, but feel so fresh and a lots of freedom . Got tanned more. 

Dinner was so easy to prepare for him, even 17 people, only took him 30min. I always amazing with his ability of feeding many people at once . This is one of his asset. 

Salad is sweet melon, we did prepare 2 salad, forgot to eat one, lobster, chess, dessert. Lots of wine , champion. It starts at 7:00pm, till 10:00pm , people still all there, we have to "kick them out " at 11:00pm

He said this is he first time family reunion , like this everyone sit down, "fight" to talk , no time to lesson, huge noise on the balcony , family is really happen. George's even think about his father, as last time did this wad his father . Which is long long time, like 20years ago . 

His mum said "  thanks for the lobster " , I can feel this is from her heart. Every lobster are fully meated , all alive,  have to say big thanks to nick . T
All the effort I made is worth it. 

19th, wake up tired, went to coffe place I book hotel, we had a fight. He is very pain to work with, I never u delta d why he always. Ad decision so fast and does not care about cost. I tried to get a lower cost. ( we need 3rooms, 2nights) ,he just rush rush to book the one over $1300. I can not accept his way, but can not have 2 head in doing one thing, I gave up. As I expected, he never book therreso ,  he called. Full.  The, I got real piss off. I did everything to bring lobster when he wanted and that is his attitude for getting what I want ? He left, I was crying . 
He came back. Spoke with me softly, bought me to Pornic   Show me around the memorable places of his child hood : first kiss, worse memory ( a big boy beat up his girlfriend ). I felt the s all roads like Italy. Old, antique, quite, narrow space hidden garden . An very Nice tour . 

Lunch was at the Restrauant he believes the best in town, nice food. After, we went to shop together for his cloth, 100 cotten, all white, in a sort called " blanc Et xxx" I guess it means all white. On,y white cloth in store.  He loves it . 
Bought 4 for him. 

Then, went to another store he always go to buy wool sweater, he got his nice sweaters. All happy . 

Back to home and to the beach again, I swim far from beach and not scare to go towards middle of ocean . Very close with ducks, floats myself above surface , ocean energy wrap me around, recharge me . 
Drove to his friend jean Luke place for supper. It close to naute, a small city called Reze,  jean Luke really can do renovations , he did great job in turning his house into a nice open concept living space, feels like Caribbean style, he has 2 daughters , both have very pretty face, Jessica became very big somehow, she has a black boy friend from Martinique, Leslie is small me has a boy friend from Spain,. This normal family in naute has a multicultural combination, made me feel works getting so small and so connected . 8 of us in total, We have black, Chinese, Spanish   , french and Canadian . Interesting evening, George's and jean like spoke a lot, the are brothers. Long time did not see George's socialize like this . 
On the way is already 12:00 idle night, George's said his is the best vacation ever. I mixed well into his family and friends, even I do not speak french, 

20th, we leave the villa, go to Paris, Noah and me took train, rest drive,  
Paris has to the Frances, it is 100years Anniversary . Out hotel is next to champion Le lysis where the bicycle competition is just around .  Hotel is 4 star, because of To the France, Sunday night is extremely expensive. Noah and me arrived hotel first, bought the train tickets for kids to go Amsterdam , settled down, wait him to come. 
He got palpitation again during the dive , I was concerned he drive 3 kids for 5hrs to Paris. 
He booked hotel here for his cousins Sophie , she also got cancers live and work in Paris alone by herself, 40 yeas old no boy friend, still need to deal with cancer, hard life formed wield personality, not a happy person. I was kind of happy supper finished . 
Next day morning m I wake up at 8:00, found a nice place to do yoga. Feels good to own the only space I need, my mind and body feel rich, I started to like yoga more and more.  Depends on it some time to feel peace. 

Later, we took metro to Eiffel tower, so many tourist there, we switch to red bus to tour around Paris, last time he found out lily has boy friend on red bus, he upset and left bus--the starts of device. Tis time, kids and him all good, they are very happy and want to take it. He is so sweet, I feel lots of love from him. Paris is hot , very hot, over 35 degree, we can not stay long on bus, went back to hotel and relax. First time with boys tour around, feels good.  Easy to handle except for Arliss make trouble some times. 
Sophie came in the afternoon, we decided to drive her back, then, we made the worse mistake of the trip, toe the France is on Sunday, every street got blocked, nothing can go through, we are in traffics for hours, tour around Paris, first is ohm then, traffic stack too long to feel fun, after drop her off. W tried to turn a big circle to avoide the bicycle race and went back to hotel. It 10min. Drive turned into over 3 hours. 
22nd, Monday, time for kids to take the train, first time for the life they take train except for Noah( with me the first time ). , we drove to train station earlier, went with Noah to shop for his girl friend, they both want to give the virginity to each other, Noah is over 16th now, it can happen at time. Sweet. Te street we went full of marriage cloth, wedding stuff. Only 2 jewelry  stores  , we bought a necklace.  Train arrived, Arliss realized George's will not go, my god, he crys so badly, Noah had to hold his arm to let George's off the train during it movement, I thought George's will have to go with the train.  Lucky we bought business classmate , boys has WiFi . 
We left also with car, drive to Brussels, 3 hrs with speed at 180 sometimes, Europe has the free speed lane where you can drive 200 km if you like. I will never drive in Europe, the endless circles in Paris , the free speed in Germany, I will lost or kill myself easy. 
 Booked metropole hotel, very nice fire star hotel close to grand place, I wanted Chinese food, we eat the worse Chinese food ever , brussel is all Arabic , fell arabic more than white people , a little dirty every where, building not cleaned, compare to Paris, is day and night. We walk around grand place, lots of sweet stores, all chocolate, waffle is not cooked ! Arabic wrote Chinese words on store to attract Chinese customer and sell none-cooked waffle.  We went to a bar sell 2500 types beers, all packed with young people, very noises. He ate waffle again at Restrauant street behind grand place, restrauant one after the other, tables on the walk way, very busy. Wrought the best chocolate and macron here, ate together with his waffel desert, feels vacation. However, again, palpitation starts, he feels left arm pain. It is the symbol of heart attack, I a, worried. Can feel he is trying hard to support himself to walk back to hotel . He went back to sleep right away, I could not, kept on checking him till 1:00am.i knew how bad can it turns, I will ever want to be Nie Ying. 

Next day, he woke up at 11:00, All fine again. We drive to diamond street in Antwerp,  it is always nice to come to Antwerp, nice old buildings ,  old church, clean street, of course nice diamond ! Most Belgium nice people are here plus Jewish  . I have to remember the day, lots of happiness, we came to fix the bracelet , change it into hard piece so it will not loose easy, however, George's propose to buy a necklace, I got a 0.8 carat E, it is an very bright piece, very good quality, I can see how shine it is from far, love this piece right away. Aviva told me I have " nice diamond " , love this word.  I did changed,when I head the price for €4500, I did not feel surprise at all.  
We went to lunch, Aviva showed us an very nice Restrauant next door - a place sale very nice chocolate and desert ( I was told it the best chocolate of Belgium ) , it has an 40 seating Restrauant inside with best food, the food is like art, came out from it, we went to get the beautiful necklace, man, feel like queen on cloud, i am the most luck girl, successful, rich and with a man love me and spoil me with jewelry once a while, so happy, like a bird, Feel like a real woman . Forget all the troubles . 
We drive directly to Knokle, a beach front for Antwerp people. There is only one little side of belgium has beach , beach front is an very luxury thing for Belgium. This town is like Florida for US, all retired rich Belgium goes there. Crowned , many buildings , people's on the street, bicycle , most old lady are pretty, kids are pretty too.  We can feel the money there. Beach is long but feel dirty, close to boat terminal, I will never go inside swimming, 16 degree , on top of it. We choose to enjoy the steam sauna in hotel in stand, only one good hotel here, La Reverse, 4 star, very expensive, but, close to beach and facility Is good, when you travel one city a day, most time you will spend is inside hotels a good choice will make a huge difference for the day. 
23rd, we heading to Frankfurt, 5 hrs drive , pain, arrived Frankfurt, lucky we booked Hilton hotel, nice place, we went to sauna again, have to record this memory : the sauna is naked for mixed lady and man, so, you go, naked, take an towel, wrap yourself , most man are naked, lady has to do same when you take cold shower, cold water is a well, man, ice cold, I have an very hard time to face the naked men and decide to gave up. Went back to room, dress up, he wanted to go Chinese Restrauant with me and choose one to go, however, palpitation start,  this time is a strong palpitation, we have to take 7.5 hours fly tomorrow, I decided not to go eat outside, he is resting, I ordered take out from the Restrauant , no take out, I went to pick up. It is a chance to tour around Frankfort downtown,  the Restrauant does not even have one customer, food is so so, fried rice is really bad, anyway, this is Chinese food in Europe , I will not try chinese food again in Europe . 

25th, George's wake up at 12:00 noon, I was hopping his palpitation is gone, it still there. The business ticket we upgrade this time is the most valuable, he will be fine for this flight in business class. 

Now I am on flight, will be in Halifax tonight, liu bin and his family are already there for 2 days, it will be very nice to be at home. 

June Harvard and Europe trip July


June 2013, Harvard and Europe trip

Time goes so fast, Seasy's 16th birthday is coming, however , she took a decision to spend 6 weeks in Harvard summer camp, again her birthday will not be at home , i decided to fly her over to Halifax on her birthday . July 4th, I went to Cambridge to see her. It was US national day, Cambridge is hot, over 35 degree, I arrived Harvard inn , very close to her dome "Canady hall" , less than 3 min.  Walk,  I went to her dome, chat with girls. They all go to see fire works. Seasy wants help to get some staff for the apartment , we went to target, bought a lot of things : mirror, speaker, carnage bin.....  Dome is very simple, a table , a book shelf and a bed, they rent a fridge,  that's all . We took taxi , brought stuff to Harvard door, only way to move in is to carry, we took trips , move little bit after the other to reach the dome . Girls were appreciated . 
Seasy went to my hotel, took a full shower and went under sheet to watch movie with me, I can imagine 2 weeks she spent in dome , 5 girls share 4 rooms. 4 apartments share one bathroom , only 2 shadower for about 10 girls. No air cool.  Over 30 degree every day. She must enjoy my hotel a lot. 
I am happy she has this experience, she starts to appreciated a lots of things . 

Movie was very fun, I like it too, Japanese animation . She must be back to dome at 12:30, we run to there, I saw her went inside. 

Friday , July 5th, we went to Boston , I booked a five star hotel langham in downtown so we can enjoy the pre-16th birthday. We took metro from Harvard square to arrived Boston, very convenient, got off right at down town so we talked to hotel , drop off luggage  inside room, we went to Taj hotel where i pre-booked a afternoon tea. Taj hotel is really a nice true 5 star, channel located inside , channel is so unbelievable expensive, I tried a couple of times, just can not do it. Even I have a lots of money, just have an very hard time to actually buy one . I felt the price is way out of line compare to the value. Will not try it again .  
Well, the place i booked was not a true tea place, just a replacement, the waiter is very nice to rebooked for me at right place on saturday . saturday afternoon tea at Taj is the number 1 in boston, limited seats, normally needs to book 1 month in advance . 
Along the Taj hotel is the shopping area, we walked cross street ABCD to prudential centre , before we arrived there, our hands already full of bags. Prudential is middle class, for summer cloth is too much, we ate sushi there, then took taxi went to a mall Seasy like, at Cambridge side.  It is a low end moor , more for students, Seasy bought more cloth. Now, our hands are really full. Very tired, we went to the Vietnamese massage place inside moor, enjoy a luxury package for Manicure and pedicure , massaged foot and arms, felt much relaxing after this 1 hour, it was needed. 
The cheese factory is also inside moor, we decided to try this Restrauant from "the big band  " series . Service is faster than I thought, many "big " people there. Food was good, no wonder it is so popular . 
Arrived hotel already late, we were going to see another movie, but I fall in sleep. All the way to next morning . 

Saturday, July 6th, we woke up went directly to china town, ordered a nice dim sum , we ate a lot. As always, she found her bubble tea in a nice cake store, the store make all kinds of cakes even an "angry bird" cake. 

Boston is hot, we walked on the street,just tour around, water front, tourist centre, there are 3 market, lots of tourist , then, walked back to hotel. Pick up luggage , went to afternoon tea, Taj tea only starts 1:30. W arrived earlier and got seated at 1:00pm, that gave us 1.5 hr to enjoy the tea.  It is an old Victoria style hall, antique decoration , high ceiling , nice tea pot made from high quality porcelain , very relaxing and luxury . No wonder Seasy dream to have an afternoon tea for her 16th birthday. Time goes so fast, have to go to airport. I sent her to redline stop and went to airport . 

My flight delay for 2 hours ! Man, I should always check flight before , I could spend 2more hour Best quality time with Seasy. Thanks god I did not book train from Paris to Nantes, everything delay ! I made a seriousness complain to Lufthansa. 
Stayed at lounge, doing business, read book , I took first class this time , very nice services , they even put a rose on my seat while I am sleeping . More over, they took me from air plane , with a "porch" , drive me through the airport parking ground, not through normal check in building, one attendant leads me to a secret channel , pass a small custom. Made the connection flight to Paris, I really felt like VIP this time . Like spy or secret agent in movie.  They said they do it for all VIP. Next time,I will take first class again. 

July 7th, arrived paris, I have 2 hr in Paris, decided to go buy the white pant that I lost in Singapore, I bought the pant at this airport,  this is a stupid decision , I took taxi to go and come back, spent 45min, inside shop, bought a pant for less than $10,( later George's found a hole in my new pants ) while spent $60 for taxi fare. On top of it, I was so worry about miss TGV train. Will not be driven by the material stuff anymore. This is the last stupidity . 
Georges drive from Netherlands to Pornic, he can pick me up from Nantes,very cool . We are very happy to meet. He rent a nice BMW 530. Like a van, lots Of space . We arrived ste. Marie before supper.

The Vila is really nice , over 150years old, build by stone , over 12 rooms, 2 beds in each room, 4 floors, big back yard with a giant gate in front , very private, An old tree , definable over 100years old, standing in the yard, branches cover the 3floors of the house. Front house is street, we hear people talking all the time, huge balcony on 2nd floor, sit there eating  meal and enjoy ocean view under the shade, 6 of us only use less than half of this house. When it is quiet, noise constantly comes from no where, little cripy.  Georges yield to the noise "if you are ghost, make 2 sounds now" , we still got one sounds only ....

From 8th, to 11th, I stayed 4 days there, very relaxing ,truly went to vacation mood.weather is fantastic,just little too hot in the night.  Window all have big steel curtain to cover the sun,but no wind can come either .  I learned one thing : switch off light, open window to sleep, but next night, there is a bat went inside our room. 

Morning, who to  market , buy fresh bread and fish, back to cook lunch, always fresh food for lunch,then, after nape, go to beach , swimming , sun tan,read book.back to house after 6:00, supper again, the , work a little before go sleep. I have to try to find time do yoga, believe or not , my schedule is pretty full. I enjoyed a lot this type of doing nothing , stress free vacation, my body released all the accumulated tire, I sleep a lot, eat a lot. Think nothing .  Beach time is the best for me. I finished 2books, got sunburn, swimming I cold water, 18 degree, very refreshing , ideas come to my mind why I floating above fresh chilled water and relax.  Float on salt water is one of the best relaxing .boys jump from cliff to the ocean . Very active.  
From Nantes to Pornic only has small road,nori way, a 20min. Drive become 45min.,but, leases tourist, only rich people' castle here, most castle surrounded by stone wall, and big old tree grown inside to cover the castle . Government does not allow the castle own the beaches in front, a narrow walk path is build between castle And ocean front, very relax walking with fantastic view .  AtlAntic ocean is always cold, but still can swim.  Cliff all around ocean, many small beach in between the cliff. Water is clear, see through. Big sun
Shine above your head,  wet swimming suit can dry in 10min. 

No commercial noise , no car passing by, max. 50-60 people on beach , only one bar  , georges opened a tab for kids, they just go pick up ice cream, 2 a day allowance . 

A Paradise land . 

First time, I do gaga , facing sun, in a quite castle , birds around , ocean just 50meter away,feel addicted , want to do it every day.  I did yoga with a tower on stone floor, very hard, but feels great, I will appreciated yoga mat very much. 

July 12th, early morning 6:00am at Nantes, I am sitting on the train to Paris, after spent 5 days vacation at St. Marie,  i need to fly back for Seasy's birthday, i will fly from paris to frankfurt to PHL, then pick up my daughter, back to Halifax  , 
wake up 5:00 am, Georges sent me to Nantes train station. No breakfast, it closed, I went to business carte and sat down planing the trip, 3min. Before train leaves , I familiar hand showed in front of me , I raised head : it is him to send me breakfast ! So surprised , big smile in his face . I see love . I felt sleep on the train, 3hrs going so fast, now is arrived Paris airport. 

Transit at Frankfurt is very short, 25min. In total to boarding, have to go though immigration , very appreciated the immigration is so simple, I can not help to ask if this is custom . On board on time and will be in philidophia soon to meet my daughter. 

First time arrived PHL, airport is not big, lots of shops , well organized, hard to lost. I went to lounge , Internet is so bad, have to take a bus to another terminal to find a lounge with Internet . Time always goes fast when I doing business . Soon, her flight is coming, I went to meet her, so happy to see her, cool girl now, pretty . We went to gate , saw flight delayed 1 hour, went to lounge, reception told us gate changed, gate is closing in 5 min., we run to gate, thanks god, we made it . 

I did not prepare, She cried on air craft, there is too much stress, got to release and I am the one to take it.  We discuss a lot about future, life, effort , choice in life. I am happy she got this opportunity, this camp made her mature , truly easy for the world challenge.  Even through it costs her a lot . 
Wilber pick up us, like normal, he is late, we waited on the chair. 
Seasy is so appreciated home now 
"Wa, my own shower , alone  " 
" my own room, own bed , sleep under sheet. " it was too hot I'm Boston , no air condition. she was sleep with nothing . 
We arrived home 1:00am, she slept till 10:00am . 

13th, the day we decided for celebration the 16th birthday. 
Seasy's first gift : hair cut, she went to Clorox the hair with blond at bottom. 3 hours . 
I bought roses, bloom, prepare supper,  she went with Wilber and other 3 kids to water front for Jazz festival , I got chance to drive mum around to take photo for her english class. 
She came back at 6:30, we had a nice family dinner, thanks for Wilber, he bought the cake, we can not find enough candle, so we used one candle with 8, plus 8 candles to make it 16. Finally, mu daughter turns into 16. It is very nice Angela show up before we ate candle, Seasy is very happy with 2 friends cĂ©lèbre with her . 
She went out to walk after, came back late. 
14th, real birthday, Again, sleep late, wake up at 10:00. I drove her to downtown to meet her other friends. Lucky, she met two of them.  We plan to eat at her favourite Restrauant  for a true birthday lunch, when we arrived, found out it closed. Sadly ate at pizza place,  no one like it. 
Seasy stressed again for homework. It has to be a report of owner or something special in town. She has 2 hrs left to airport . What can she do? 
She cried, 2nd time in 2 days. I offered help. Glad I can help, I have an Apps on cell phone about all events in Halifax, showed her the report of Lebanese festival, her eyes start to shine . We drove to there, she hangs the Harvard key chain on neck, started her first journalist job. Spoke with organizer for the festival,  food, volunteer , 1hr past, she got all information she needed , on the way out , she met the real journalist from global TV with a Big camera to interview someone. She went there became the 2nd interviewer. 
Everything finished perfectly . 
Wilber drive her to airport. It has to be mentioned here. As she did not apply I20, she may not allow to entering US if they found out she is study there. I bought Wilber a ticket so he can go through custom with  Seasy together.  Wilber can not even lay with same flight with Seasy. I checked for days, only on 13th night, after supper, there is one ticket show up on Aeroplan for Halifax to Boston via New York, if I buy tickets,needs to pay over $1300 one way. Seasy really has good luck, I got one ticket for Wilber . He will sleep at airports and back next day 6:45 am to Halifax,  it is a crazy arrangement , has to write down to remember . 

Seasy arrived Boston , she took the metro, but wrong direction , final,y she arrived doom, but a. Surprise ! Roommate knew her birthday ! They went to china town together to eat Chinese food with her . Boston china town is small and all Cantonese speaking , they have to order chinese food with English .  But, I believed they have fun, life is so funny, for past 16 years, since she went to grade 1,  she never can have birthday party as it is always during summer vacation , I am glad we did celebrate a lot when she was in kindergarten . Now, Harvard only 2 weeks, she got a surprise birthday party . I am very happy for her . 

After she left,  i went to French's with my parents. 
Monday ,  i worked in office, fixed a lots of things for business. 16th, tuesday, in office, i smell gas, asked colleagues, they said nothing, i spread my office with air freshener . 10min. later, power shit off, police came said gas leak on street, we have to evacuate the building . left office 11:00, bought whole office for a sushi in towm , took a taxi to pick up mum, went to dentist ,  her tooth. Is so bad, doctor removed 2 and have to fix the 3rd one with root cannel . I have i spent over $1500 . Never mind, I am glad I an fix mum's teeth. 

17th, I should leave to France again , we decide to being lobster for a party in france, i arranged lobster and asked my driver Denise to pick me up to airport. he is 15min, late. I run to airport, gate closed, I managed to go without check in  luggage , otherwise, next flight is 7:00pm to Montreal, I will miss France flight.  So, no lobster can go with me,. 
I ever give up things ,  called  nick in Montreal to meet me at airport with lobster . Luck me, he went to fish market, bought lobster, put into his suitcase --3 of them. And will give to me in airport. 
Story does not end like this. 
My flight to Montreal is late, I was have 45min. Transit,  there is a heavy rain in Montreal airport, flight delay, i was close o 30 in. late. 
run to the counter to check in. i was the last passenger , gate closed already , an very nice gentleman agreed to help me. Only gave me 3min.  But nick did not arrive yet ! I went outside to meet Nick, this 5 min. Longer than one year! 
I saw Nick finally with a tan top, strong body, never see this before. He came with 3 suitcases of lobster !  The guy let me in. Thanks god!  He did not even charge me for the luggage ! " this time, I let you go, remember gate close 1 hour Before, you are 15min.  Late, you will never get lucky again if next time happen . " 
I am so appreciated, my luck came back ! Finally , 
However, story still did  not finish:  I arrived security at 6:50, boarding already started . Rush, run ........ The dame hall is so long, I run and run, 20min. Still not there . Finally, arrived gate  60. Last passage onboard ! 
Sit down, sweat, constantly , oh, forgot to mention I was business class, this is the only reason, I can make the whole thing, I went to security with special entering, faster . 
My legs are sore still during the flight, thanks god I doing yoga daily, otherwise, run 20min. to gate will kill me.  I am so glad that my Heath is good . 

These lobsters are arrived with my running, sweat, stress, begging, bargain, and my luck. Hopefully he's people will enjoy it a lot. George's got to treat me with a best massage! 

Sill on the plane, fly to Nantes, direct flight, only 6.5 hrs. Let see how he behave when I arrive. 

June 2013 Harvard

June 2013 Harvard 

Seasy finished exam, she did very well, like all the other years, or even better this year. She started to put the smartness on the exam, I am very happy for her achievement, very proud of her, have her is the best thing in my life . Just regret I did not have another one .  The love. I have towards her is none replaceable by anything, I accepted her , take care of her and truly love her . 

It was my idea to have her experience the world best university experience, as I do not know how to lead her to choose IB. course, I know she will have a bright future if I can guild her proper, but I do not know how,  it is the time she has to find out on her own, I provide a plate form, she can go jump from there. I can not jump for her. This is the choice only she can make.  First year. She refused to go. 2012, she said she will go if another kid go. I was concern she is too young, did not push, but 2013, she will be 16, she can go now, i asked my friend, Mao yu feng to let her super smart daughter Betty to go. However, my judgement was wrong, the parents found out too expensive and did not provide the opportunity to Betty.  Seasy smart enough to take the chance and go alone. 

I remembered how happy we all are when we know she got accepted by Harvard , then we concerned a lot about how she will stay for 6 weeks in campus alone.  Today is July 12th, I am very happy to know Seady made it . 

Wilber and me flew on June 22nd to bring  her to campus, seasy is the last one arrived. She kept on saying other girls are so nice, Morgan is french/Korean mix. One Korean, one from Indiana , one black and Seasy. She is the only one from Canada, girls laughing at her accent . They choose Nero biology , chemical , physical , all different, but they all smart kids.  I have confident from then that she will like it and enjoy this 6 weeks.  She started to be nice too , there are 5 girls only 4 rooms, she decided to share rooms. She lets other girl choose first and took the left over up-bed.  We did not say anything, helped her to settle down, then, walk around the campus to get other stuff done with her . Campus is really nice,  nice talk solid building inside the wall, lots of green empty space with big trees, students lying down on grass under the sun, enjoy the knowledge . Outside of campus is Harvard square, Harvard coop store, this Cambridge town is build for Harvard , lots of positive energy , I feel young, excited, feel desire to get better in life . Seasy did not know what she is having now till later. 

We tried some restrauant in town, she is very happy she found bubble tea, I was very happy to know i a, young : no one believe i a, the mum of seasy, they all say we are sisters. oh, we met grammar school principle on first day in Harvard . He is getting student ID, same as seasy, so now she has a principle classmate, boston is hot, very hot, seasy doom has no air cool, but she is not allowed to stay in my hotel which is close to her doom, about 10 girls in one floor, with one bath room . I was concerned that Seasy will not be able to take it easy. She has her own bed room plus own shower since she was little, always hate people share her bathroom . 

next day , she was fine, just said it was hot, Breakfast, we went to have salad at market, walking distance from her place, has all the food she needs, however, no fridges she can not buy anything . We took fly back next day, in the flight, I realized deeply, this is the best things ever do for her. 

Problem starts from Monday , she does not like the course she choose: sociology. She found out every kid study very hard, spend every night at library , she became a dummy all of sudden , does not understand half do what teacher said, never have this feeling before, she always the best in school. All the pride are gone . She decided to change class, this means she has to take her existing class and other class at same time , she starts to lost organization : no time to eat; can not find class place; took wrong lesson and realized in the middle have to finish it and take right one again, every lesson is 3 hrs, she running out of time . 
"Mum, can I go back Halifax ?"
" yes, you always welcome home, but one day you have to facing real life, the late you start, the less time you have to prepare, you will run out if time. " 

" mum, too hot, I can not sleep, then, I got up late no time for breakfast, no time for lunch either" 
" remember , your health go first" 

" mum, I do not know which one to chooses, proctor told me can not help, no one can help. Can I go back home?" 

" mum, I have red eyes, maybe a fever, I went to CVS , pharmacy asked me to go to emergency. I called taxi, no one know where it is" 
I freak out this time, called management myself and left strong message. Harvard is not bad. Assistant dean offered help. He is an Indian , he helped Seasy to choose the course, fix the red eyes. Seasy starts to know there is a group that can help. 

Finally, she choose math and journalist. Fridge comes on Thursday , her most difficult first week past. Second weeks I will go visit her. Felt it really necessary to go. Seasy called me so many times the 1st week, I almost thought I made a wrong decision to let her be there. However, all other girls are similar age, they all fine. She should be able to make it. 

2nd week is smoother, nothing too serious happen. Math is 3hr daily lesson, plus evening do home work. Exams frequently . When I asked her what she wants for 16th birthday, answer is " tutor" . This camp indeed started to Change her life. 

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

April Asia trip 2013


2013 April Asia trip

At train station again, leaving Nanjing to shanghai , just realized I almost spent a week in Nanjing, did not feel the time pass by at all, just too many things to do and people to see, on the other hand, if this is my life, I should just slow down and enjoy what I am doing . Next time I know better. 

Took the flight from London and Frankfurt, arrived shanghai on 27th March, spent one night, slept from 2:00pm almost all the way to next day. long rest, i completely recovered from jet leg. 
28th, meet the gift company. Have a meeting with everyone, then, took train back to Nanjing with liu bin and yao yao, off the train, went to dinner meeting with 2 freight forwarder. very happy to meet every body. 

29th , we went to the hot spring, feels great , relax and happy. i was exhausted. Afterwards.  In the night, we had the family dinner, with my uncle together. He is 85 years old, not clear mind, live on his own, not easy. He is so happy to be with us.  I am lucky to have a big family. 

30th, he does not feel good on the stomach , we went to supermarket, bought food and went to my mum's place to cook break first . He impressed me without complain the cleanness of the kitchen . But I felt so bad and wish I can stay longer to replace everything with clean kitchenware.  Cook was fun, food he made is always good.  I really wish parents can live better, I got to do something when they come to live with me. 
Lunch with Wu ying yu, very nice and peaceful, afternoon, meeting with office. As normal, I push the team in a hard way, I know have to make a nice peace with the team, but I am always much faster and they are very slow, there is a lot needs to be done . To establish a company is an arts, I have so much need to learn, now is the time , I have to know accountant . 
Dinner with custom, found out some helpful information. 

31st, Sunday, Fabian arrived shanghai, he is quite excited, I can feel on the phone, we did not go to see him . George's does not feeling well, I have to fix accountant software . All the meeting arranged on Monday, I will go to shanghai on Tuesday to meet Fabian . 
Morning, we went to spent time again with parents, to cook breakfast , he felt very comfortable there, we stayed quite a long time,  we walked back to hotel, took quite a long time, he cut his hair.  i bought my cloth. 2:00pm interviewed a lady, then, we drive to see lin bin's son. he is so tired, i cam feel , sent him back to hotel and rest, I went to dinner with liu qiang's family, very nice , then, yao li came to meet me . He told me zhangjie went back with her child .  I am very excited and want to see her. 

Monday, 1st,started busy business day, first meet an accountant for training Tina, them went to software company Yongyou , then, back to office interview and final the software . Night, I went to see zhangjie, she is really something, 44 years old and got a son through tube.  Very cute boy . 

2nd,I am on the train again to shanghai so we can meet Fabian ,we have a nice lunch, them spent all the time to shopping. He bought so many stuff, t shirt, pants, sweater, suit, coat. Completely changed his closet. Night, I am tired, still went out to eat. 9:000pm, meeting again with my team, 

3rd, on the flight to Singapore, see Pierre Yve, our friend, we did not see for long time. . Singapore 1st night starts with a big surprise, i must say it is another memorable trip. My big surprise was arranged by him. He went unreasonable in china and lost trust on me. I am lucky that family are surround me, otherwise, we will have a seriously fight . He arranged this to balance with his bad behaviour . It was an excellent arrangement I have to say . 

Flight from shanghai to Singapore is longer than I thought, 5 hours flight, I did not feel comfortable as no preparation to fly so long . Arrived close to 9:00p, Got text message that someone found my purse at shanghai airport, i was so surprise as i did not even know i lost purse. there is over rmb 15,000 inside, liu inn said ever cent is there. Thanks god ! There is more good people in china, I remembered I ate lunch and then left purse there, it is good i did mot realized, otherwise, one more stress for the flight. no time to check in. Went directly to the surprise supper that he arranged, inside Sofitel hotel, 72th floor. Elevator is extremely fast, my ears felt like diving under 17meter, it is a direct elevator , arrived 72th floor in few second . 
Restraint called  "Jaan" .  The layout of Restrauant is normal, but our seats are specially reserved , facing an amazing view of Singapore basin , I believe this is the best view of Singapore .  Through the glass window is a basin surrounded by high raised buildings ,  the one caught my first is an outstanding building consists of 3 tower, top up with a boat , very contemporary and pressure , laser light shot out from the " boat ", form different shape / letter into the lake, if boys use this to make a heart shape , guarantee win the lady , laser light has kinds of colour , went very far, the top foe boat is shinning,I guess is a swimming pool .  Waiter told me this is the 14 billion dollar development -- mariner bay sand, 2500 rooms in 3 building, a casino and big shopping centre connected with the lobby , other side of hotel is a park still diet development, Manday bulk vessel parked randomly in the ocean .totally different than I imagined before .  Many over 200 vessels , just gear up on the ocean ,no need to close to the shore.  More towards the ocean side is a farewell , like "london eyes " ,  this is the only thing I can connect Singapore  with UK . 

Meal started , I have say it is very surprise.  Pierre yve knew the chef, we got per arranged with secret meals, I really means meals-- 12 dishes ! Everyone of them are surprise , During dinning, i felt same as diving -- my world of  food gets bigger, -- beyond imagination. 
--Start with champion and 3 types of small dish, herring , pâté and a fish roe
--Mushroom tea 
--Raw prawn sashimi with caviar
--Slow cooked egg in egg box on top of a dry ice tray, all the smoke came out during the meal , egg is cooked for over 5 hours at fixed temperature . 
--A fresh fish inside sea weed soup 
--Beef meat slid
--Garden salad : over 15 types of tiny cooked vegetable, 7 to 8 source displayed on the plate with all to different colour. It presents so pretty, I felt like shopping whole day finally see a most beautiful dress that I got to wear. I ate the dish right away. 
-- 3 Lamp meat : one of themselves lamp belly . 
--A foie gras cooked inside vacuum bag for over 8 hours , taste so tender . 
--1st Dessert : 3 types of sweet, ice cream dipped into pop candy make me felt so sex inside mouth . 
--2nd dessert come with a plate that is magnet , I can took the cup to hold on hand and put it back after . Can not remember what sweet inside , but the plate is very impressive . 

Chef showed up to say hello, I am not surprise he is less than 35 and full of free thinking .  The bill should be about $500 per person. We got an very good discount . 

The night is perfect . Next day, we moved into fairmont hotel, believe or not, this is not the best hotel here at all. in front of fairmont is one best hotel called Raffle hotel " ,  royal family lives here when they came to Singapore . After lunch, we tour around Singapore -- with bus.  George's just want to leave, hate to wait, so we just took any bus and got on to see the city, went to the end station and took another bus from starter station ,  it was fun, surprisely we found toysrus where we need to buy gifts to Pierre's kids . He also booked massages , the spa is very luxury , has it all. Most staff speaks Chinese which is very nice for me .  Time for dinner with Pierre and his wife, Restrauant located at old army camps, after army moved out, it becomes entertainment place,  very happy to see them again after 4/5 years, long time did not see them . He grabbed us and gave a big hug . 

So many information needs to exchange,  3 hours went very fast,  they are so surprised to hear George's cancer and we found Fabian,  Ann-Sofia repeated told us how lucky they are to get 2 kids after 4 times fail with tube to get babe, i got to record this story, she married twice and did 4 trial, was told no way she can have babe, they decided to adopt a babe girl, choose the name Eleanor , Pierre's father bankrupt his company, Pierre moved to Dubai works for a supermarket,  they want to adopted a Russian , but the waiting list is very long, they needs to wait 3 to 5 years. Dubai is too not nice to live, pierre took the job offer from "Angliss " , a over 100 years old food supply company, to be GM of a new division work in singapore, , 2009, they moved and started to live in singapore, one of their friend introduced them to an agent there who suggest to adopt Vietnam girl, faster . 

Ann-Sofia went to Vietnam , live with in Hanoi , for few month, try to gain the trust of the Vietnamese , Pierre flew over every weekend.  They were told a girl was born at Feb.28th, which is Eleanor day , 4month later, they finally got the baby girl . A beautiful vietnamese babe Eleanor . The biggest surprise is, 14month later, Ann-Sofia astonish to find out she is pregnant ! At 39 years old, she delivered a boy Jean Gabriel   ! He is so cute,  greenish brown eyes with adorable face, blond hair like the mother. Very funny, I can look at him all day alone and be happy , we constantly met girls wants to kiss and hug him, took him from mum's arm just want to have the boy for one second . 

This is the Remembrance Day long weekend ,  Pierre planned a trip for us to Rawa island at Malaysia , leave Friday first thing, back Sunday night . 

5th, we went to the island with the family. Drove cross Malaysia border, took ferry, both kids threw up , one did inside car, one did on ferry.  4 hours later arrived the paradise island . 

This is a completely isolated island, located at pacific, different compare to Caribbean water, for the first time, we went to Asia and go to beach. Island is very small, like hai long bay in Vietnam , many small island close by. White sand beach, Clear warm water, coral, sea weed and fish combined to a beautiful ocean bottom.  Island covered by forest, monkey and peacock are live inside . Ferry landed at a wooden wharf , the resort build alone beach, mixed with nature so well, i felt the wharf is the only thing with human touch, rest are so harmony and peaceful. No cell, no Internet, simple room, one Restrauant only, no shopping . Really a paradise, no commercial , no stress. 

 There is less than 50 rooms in total, 30 employee, the Royal family was there for the weekend too, we saw army boat accompanied a beautiful boat arrived island with us at same time. the prince is there, his vila is more further to the wharf with privacy. Funny thing is, we saw someone operate Dome, a small toy aircraft can fly 15min.  and video record the ground while fly, player can remote operate it and get the whole video on iphone . There is no privacy anymore . 

Island is all inclusive , no need money, just sign room number, simple life. Pierre's room right on the beach, My room located in middle of mountain , surrounded by tropical  palm tree , flowers , peacock running between the trees, the court and roofs . 9 of them 3 white colour, 3 male peacock can open beautiful tail . We saw 2 open at same time, very pretty. Eleanor got crazy with peacock, she wanted to see them all the time.  She got so attached with me, follow me everywhere , stay with me all the time, want me to carry her and try anything to be close with me . I really felt I have a babe girl . Every one on the island believe she is my babe. 

The family plays on the beach , no big waves , extremely warm water, white sand goes all the way into ocean , many fish swimming in shallow water, very close to beach, even babe can see fishes when they play inside water. Eleanor saw a 1 feet long fish with nose like sward fish . 

We got 2 kayak , kayaking 45min. Tour around the whole island , there are many caves , we went inside one, very big, clean water show the beautiful bottom, crab, fish, seaweed , very nice.  At the end of kayaking, I was amazed by the beautiful coral , for the first time in my life, i saw such large area of beautiful coral. each of them like giant blossoming flower, one close to each other, all kinds of coloured fish, seaweed, jelly fish mixed in between. The coral covered the whole beach.  Inside clear ocean water, our kayaking moving slowly above colourful coral in blue water with white sand beach .  The natur beauty touched my heart, went inside my mind, carved inside my brain. It is one of the most beautiful things I saw in my life.  The coral also looks like stars in the night sky. Covered by a sheer of curtain , ocean water reflect the sun, move slowly with the wind, the beauty of nature is so powerful, made me drunk . 

Rest time again, on my own, I went to snooklin ,  my body went inside another world, see different things, feel differently, surprise, happy , amazed, I all of sudden think about movie aviator , finally understand where the producer got his creative idea. He moved ocean above ground , he must love diving in tropical ocean .
I spent hours to snookling there,  I saw a skate , big, grey colour with blue spot, a yellow dot at middle of each blue spot; I saw big purple seaweed like football size, inside purple wrap are lots of noodle size soft stick, orange colour fish "neno" lives inside;  many Black Sea urchin , long black needle, 2 green eyes , yellow , orange colour eye ball are all bright . Black colour stands out from colourful sea bottom.  Fishes are so colour full, thousands of them, all different colour , different size. A black fish attached my gargle , very aggressive . I went under the wharf, more fish there, ocean blue colour is darker than beach . Like foggy days , fish goes up and down inside creamy baby blue in the middle of big poles .  

Pierre went diving with me, i am little scared, but i am so attracted by this ocean and i do trust him, he hold my hand, we diving with no diving suit, first time again in my life . Coral gave me deepest impression there, the cliff under ocean are full of coral , I can not see rock. Just a massive field of coral . 2nd impression is jelly fish, we both got bites , Pierre almost jump when a big jelly fish bite his arm, the rash is about 5 inch long, 3 inch wide under his arm , terrified me. I got bite all over my body, and my hands touch the coral, got a lots of small cut , both hands are rough,  one rock scratch my batt badly when I flip my body inside water.  Now I understood why we need long sleeve diving suit . 

Water has 2 temperature mixed, for a couple of times, I suddenly felt cold after warm water. A total different feeling.  Good thing is Pierre dive 65 times last year, he full of experience, he gave me safe direction and monitor time, depth , I just busy looking around .  Surprised.  Sea booth is not as clear as top.  We dived for 1 hour.  

After snookling and diving, my body felt so sore. Did don't feel sore for long time.  The three days we are there, storm every day in the night, thunder light, pulling rain, but still give a lots of nice day time to enjoy beach. Weekend went so fast, we took the last ferry, left 4:00pm from island , went back Sunday night.  We ate together with Pierre and gave him the job offer.  We hired him as new CEO for our company.  This night, we stayed at mariner bay sand hotel, the best hotel in Singapore, we got to try it. 

Checked in at 7th night, hotel lobby is 180meter long, we are at 3rd tower.  42 floor, night view of Singapore is magnificent, lights everywhere, really more than Times Square, room is nice and big, very contemporary  .  We felt room moving with the wind .  Next day morning, we went to the boat shape roof .  It is a real pool here, used 50% space of the roof, over 100 meter long ,  I swim in the sky with all high raised building at background, have to amazed by human's imagination. One side of pool has chairs and palm trees like real beach, other side edge , water over floats , it is a different feeling to swimming outside on top of high building in downtown Singapore.  Front of the boat is a huge deck, I can run there, the deck standing out of the tower, no any support underneath , my hair stands up when I think about it . 
George's does not like it, too many people. He would enjoy more in RAWA island . I just kept been surprised by how far human mind can go. 

The hotel has many nicest Restrauant , also connect with casino , we went inside to play for a while. Local residence needs to pay 100 sin yuan to go in for 24hours, only foreigner can go in free. The control is very striated. Singapore is the place with most control in the world, government control the car, the plate, taxi, the land . So this little country is well roger nixed , very safe, hard to get cheat by any one, local Singapore native people are all millionaire from real estate  business, every year, they remove some high buildings top replace with new one, there is no new land . We went to china town , India town, Dutch town, taxi driver said, construction keeps changing the look of the city , they removed lower buildings , keep on building something different .  


April 8th Malaysia stay, 
8th afternoon,  we took the flight from Singapore to kuala lamper, flight arrived, it already dark,  taxi to hotel, he started to count the hotel can be wrong, I was not happy as a lot of times he  wanted me to book and he complain. Taxi arrived, a beautiful hotel in front of us, I was very happy, went straight to check in- ops, I booked at resident side, not the hotel, drag the luggage, went thought 2 elevator,  arrived the other building, residents area, rooms with kitchen,  Arrived room,  newly built , definitely not a four star, wall is dirty, his complain started, we argued . 

next day, i wake up before 7:00am to get another hotel for the day, breakfast place, majority guess are Indian and muslin, first time in my life I saw a lady with black dress and mask to eat, can not help to wondering ow she kept on putting food into mouth without  being see, finally, I saw her drink coffee, her left hand left mask , right hand insert the coffee mug under mask, still did not see how is was drunk, but, I know the way now-- she got to lift mask all the time, both hands are very busy, she did very fast . Also saw a man with a couple of wife's, all with black dress all over body, plus long black mask to cover face. Can not even see the body shape, I felt so bad for them. George's kept on saying here has  bad karma . I went inside room to take bath, it is a turkey bath with 3 steps down to the bath tub , floor stupidly mad of wall tiles, when little bit water makes it wet, it extremely slippery , I flip and fall on first step on my lower back, bounce up, fall again on 2nd step. Slip down to bath top, tears went out right away, I was screaming of pain, George's run to me and shout loudly " oh, babe, babe" , I never heard this scare voice before from him, he hugged me for a long time to ensure i was able to move my back amd both legs, i was so luck, my batt is very tight and thick , i land on my batt , whole batt are purplish red, very hot, left check has a huge lump, over 50% size of the batt, a smaller lump at right side. He told me later he he saw the way i fall, truly believe I will be paradises or dead. His heart beat so fast, almost a perpetration.  Now, I believed the bad karma here and want to leave ASAP. 
Arrived new hotel, Mandarin oriental, true 5 star, beautifully build, located right aside the 2 twin tower, twin tower is the 3rd tallest tower in the world, 86 floor high , metal outside, build by petrol company , signature of the city. Lights in the night, very impressive . Rent rooms as office. Petrol here controls by government , corruption is very serious . Hotel is very nice, we felt better right away, 7 restraints inside hotel, after a nice lunch, we started tour of KUL. 
Internet said centre market is a must seen,  workers blow glasses inside market. we went there to see glasses blow, market build at 1936, lots of stores. Glass blower closed down. We bought a couple of cloth.  Felt people here similar as Vietnamese , not reliable . One store was nice, we got all the cloth there, but very pricy. we were told it is hand print, one cloth per print. all other stores sell similar popular cloth , flour print man shirt, made locally , cotton, looks like guy dress.  After drink a coconut, we went back to hotel . Called one customer, Tim , he said he will pick us up for supper . Local people eat supper very late here, after 8:00pm, sleep 11:00 to 12:00, wake up normal time, warmer weather leads less sleeping time I guess.  No wonder some of them are so fat. 
9:30, he picked up us from lobby, went to eat Hakka food, a southern china good, delicious fish, chicken , very nice. He is very interesting man, believe Buddha 2 years ago, main reason is he got black magic by some man, every morning wake up 4:00am and shaking constantly , his master teaches him to pray every day . He believes he killed too many life , as he sells live seafood, life is getting back to him. Lots of Interested  stories . He believes next life and previous life, believe ghost exist, believe Human spiritual body can move away by floating to anywhere he wants, his master can pray for 1 week without food. Very interesting , first time heard all these ideas. 
10th, needs to fly to Hong kong , time to do some business,  this time i learn, booked intercontinental hotel. morning , as planed, we went to tour around twin tour next to us, the next tour starts 1:00pm, we can not make it . we sat down at hotel lobby, drink tea and relax till 12:00 noon to leave to airport, 

now, we are sitting at KUL airport, wait for the flight to Hong Kong, take the time to write my story. 
I am getting old, this time again, I did not check the terminal and remembered a wrong flight time--one hour later,  we left hotel late and had to decided terminal on the taxi, everything is so rush. Hated . 
Every time I buy cheap ticket, I should remember it can be another terminal or airport. We left hotel at 12:00. Arrived a small airport at 12:45. Flight is 13:55 departure,  international flight , must be 2 hour before, I was in such a rush . taxi driver is nice, he drove 160km all the way to reach airport, itis 45 min. away from hotel . georges left to exchange money as we run out of Malaysia money to pay taxi. I went in with 5 luggage, airport is a mess, full of people, kios for check in is full, When it is my turn, found out they do not use passport to check in,only booking number, i am rushing to switch on roaming, retrieve email . my God, 3G is very slow here for sure, no time to wait any longer, got to go to counter, no sign anywhere to show me the counter, big screen did not show the flight some how, only display the flight till 13:40, ijust saw statues of flight kept on flip to " closed" one after the other. Man, I frock out. Believe I will miss the flight o matter what.  
Asked people around, finally arrived counter,  like 100people in front of me. No choice but to line up and wait. 

In the middle of mess and smelly people, I really think I will never come back ere. This is too much for me. This country has. 42% Chinese , rest are Indian and muslin , lady wear mask, only show eyes. Only 1.8 million in KUL , but I felt all of them are at this airport,  airport is old and not clean . 

Thanks god , they opened another counter for last minutes check in, we can make it now,  got boarding pass, need to pass custom and security, line up again, nothing is right. But, after I run to the gate : gate is not open yet, all passage are still waiting . Ok, now, we made it. Truly. George's is very cool in the all process, I do need him to calm down,  can not imagine what I will do if he is not there to calm down, I will shout out to someone for sure. 

Check in time, to my surprise again, when we went out counter, there is not gate, we were told 52, then, airplane parked in front of us.  people just randomly walk outside, flow the sign , go towards airplane parking lot. It must be so many passages took the wrong flight. 

On board , not finish yet, the exit seat I bought does not recline . Can not wait to leave here and will not come back.  Plane is moving, George's asked me to move to 2nd exit roll behind , hi, these seats can recline, finally, our bad luck started to flip to good luck. 

My flight now arrived Hong Kong . I am so happy that I got intercontinental hotel.  This can flip the bad thing into a good thing, Nightmare did not stop, I arrived HK , luggage missing , all George's 2 pieces arrived and mine disappeared . Do not know how many times I said this , but I mean it , I will never visit Malaysia again . This experience is bad . 

Tim's words keeps on coming back to me , maybe it is because of my bad attitude towards this city . To know more is really not a good thing . Easy to have more doubt . 

There is many flight to HK , hopefully I can see my luggage first thing tomorrow. 

HK is much colder than I expected,  or maybe we just left 30 degree city, hotel is cooler than outside, I felt frozen. First night, George's wanted to save his dinner to eat at intercontinental , we Lu have Michelin 1 star, he went to other intercontinental , ate t Spoon, a famous french Restrauant . Spoon faces Hong Kong bay, water and high rise building form a nice night view scien in front of us  . Deem light, beautiful wine, delicious food, wonderful night, meal is 6 courses, we spent 3.5 hrs in eating, chef came to talk to us and get our business card.  We are so full . 

11th, Thursday , got up 8:30 to meet Kenneth, he is little chubby now, gained some weight, but still looks sharp, very health.  Long time no see, so happy to meet old friend, love the business and friends ship in this way, no misunderstanding . Trust only. HK is raining, we walked to "wing an department store" to buy cloth and make up, I steel hate KUL for this, LancĂ´me sets , cad800. Do not know why I have hard time to spend , just felt this costs a lot. But, George's supported, he sat aside, ask lady to put on my face so I know how to use it for future . Very sweet. 
Got 380 free coupon, we tried to use it, spent another 800 to use the coupon, this is fun . We realized that 3hrs past. 2:00pm, time to see joe. To my surprise, joe has big operation, very interest man to work with . We have to do business with him . 
I kept on calling airline, want my suitcase back, the answer is : they flew to Macau , will need to return to KUL, them to HK, no way, I ca get it before I leave HK. Hate KUL so much. 
During supper with Kenneth and his beautiful bitch number one wife . I started to realize have to let this go, forget about my stuff and buy new, 
Kenneth prepared so much food : red crab, oyster, abalone, lobster, grouper ( best fish ever, 3 days fish from catch, so delicious) , again we fully stuffed ourselves , he got stomach ache .  Evening is beautiful . We agreed to meet in France this July. 

I met a taxi driver, he has 10cell phone in his car, 4 speaker, 2 blue tooth in each ear , i can not help to ask questions, my god, he came from Nanjing ! first time, i met Nanjing people in outside china , he was born on Jan. 1st, right after 0 'clock , learned 8 years in SAOLIN. he was too naughty at 5 years old, father sent him thereto train. Very funny, happy guy.  12th morning , we ask his taxi to send me to Shenzhen ,  before I left room, I found a message in my phone , called front desk, ---my suitcase arrived ! I am so surprise and happy ! Felt so good to put on the clean cloth 3 days later ! 
I changed cloth with a big smile, thanks god, I love to use my own stuff. This make be believe a little : if you remove the hate, things will change to a better way . 

our Shenzhen hotel is at nan shan (south mountain ), a tourist place , very relaxing , far from downtown , did not realize how big is SZ now, over 45min. Taxi from hotel to JinTai.  Tina bought the gift : 2 bottle of liquor, one is Louie the thirteen , cad4000 ! Meet buyer, ate again. George's felt bad again, looks like he now easy get sick in china . Our hotel is at windows of the world, lots of lights in the night, we ate inside hotel,  he brought nice cookie and chocolate, camomile tea, we watched movie inside room, very nice feeling. He said one sentence " hi, the best feeling is to making love or get massage, is to have some one touch your ear and hair" , we are so in love to each other, I told him I will add this in front of my book of this dairy in future. 

13th , we changed tickets gain, wait till the owner to show up and gave him the gift, meeting is successful , lots of things to do after I am back to Canada. 
Night flight to Beijing, sunday at beijing, I will leave Beijing to Canada on Monday.  I miss Seasy . 

Arrived Beijing in the night, not that cold, liu qiang booked Novotel , a french hotel chain, 4 star, but was really bad compare to all the one we stayed, small and old, kind of dirty, steam sauna only open from 2:00pm to 2:00am, a milk cost $8.00 Canadian . D not like it, but our favourite Restrauant is inside, very nice food again. Next day in the morning, liu qiang came, brought our cloth for colder weather, they managed to bring from shanghai to Beijing . They really care about me . 

Lunch at tang palace, not as good as shanghaied but, very nice . Xiao Bo came to pay an visit of 20min, he is very nervous some how , I felt bad for him. Afternoon, we take it easy, shop a little , Georges choose ice Restrauant again like normal : duck Restrauant for 800years, first time, I heard another method of cook duck , the oldest way in china, heat up oven to certain degrees , switch off the fire , close the door, duck is cooked inside with the heat, people can stuff lotus and vegetable  inside duck and get cooked too. The Restrauant has a couple patten of marinated the duck before putting into oven , duck comes out with favour. Food is fantastic , lucky was funny. Georges opened a wine, but Lucky paid for the meal. 

The last day of our trip,15th, we went to lobster house , a place sell lobster , made an very nice menu for all types of lobsters , very expensive but taste so so. Owner is a chinese from US, opened Restrauant in US, I am very surprise he is thinly one in Beijing and doing ok .  He is opening the 2nd one, we went back to liu qiang's apartment to wait, our flight is 2:00am. His place is nice, 10th floor, has elevator ,  big enough for 2 to stay, I enjoyed time with them.  Georges does not feel good,  the pollution in china can kill him, he got pain n past 3 month in his stomach , he felt something grown again, do to know what it is, but believe cancer going somewhere . Next scan is April, 22nd, just one more week, we will have the answer. He wanted to smoke,  even one zip can make him feel great. He begs me to get him a cigaret , he really can do anything to smoke. I am worried for him. He does not want to call kids so they do to have to feel they need him, when he is gone, less hurt kids. I knew it is stupid, but do not know how to explain to him. Will let him do the things he like the most.  I know my love is increasing daily, when he leave, my heart will broken into hundred pieces . But, we both know , I will survive of this . Maybe because I saw mum's operation too early, the pass away people seems does not hurt me a lot. I also know how much i need him and love him. I  am-not ready for this, does not matter when it is happen, Hopefully,  he will be there forever, 

Took the flight to frankfurter , then, London to Halifax, total only 22hrs, business class, I should not complain . 

I must gain 3kg in 3 weeks, time to get rid of all the fat, bye nice food, bye, my family, time to go back to Seasy. This is one of the best trip, no rush arrangement, we are kinds of get vacation but a lots of business is done also. 

Time to be back for the business and for Seasy, I can take a break also . Home Sweet home. 

Bought parents tickets, no business class, I will keep on trying to get one . But now is direct flight to Halifax, short transit at least, they will like the short time for sure. 

Flight arrived London, I am ready to transit now.  6 hours fly is very short after first 10hrs from Beijing to Frankfurt, few movie brings me to Halifax already. I did not work, to my surprise, I just let myself to be relax and go with what I want . Watch nice movie in fact is relaxing, I can get encourage and learn life principles from it, what I have learned up to 45 years old is not enough. I love Seasy so much, but can not give the love proper, she answered my text today with started "love you" , i was touched . The rest 2 years, I will do my best to make us, both Seasy and me into a nice person. Teach her the best I can , learn the best from her, to get brother less from outside and give her my time. Really, I have tO enjoy the time left with my daughter . This idea is getting so strong in my mind.  My parents too, this time will be the last time they come to live with me, I have to enjoy it and spend the most with them I will arrange a best birthday for Seasy, we all flight to boston then drive to New York .

Flight is about to landing now, I will go pick up Seasy today. Also, have to check my cherry , My car is not ready, I am going to find a way. Now, I am happy to be back to home,