blood donation

gave blood yesterday... haven't given blood for a whole year already... i went to malaysia a year ago and malaysia is a malaria pandemic area so they take only my plasma and not my red cells... now that a year is over, think i'll go back to regular donations...

in the questionnaire they asked about piercing within a year... i was so worried that my blood wouldn't be accepted again... remember babe had his nipple pierced some ages ago and he wasn't allowed to give blood... the nurse told me they actually accept my blood coz my piercing was done in hong kong and here we use disposables for piercing... right... i thought babe had it done in hk, too... perhaps they're discriminating babe becoz he had it in his nipple... but that doesn't quite make sense... even for nipple rings, i believe they also use disposable materials... and it's not a lifestyle and high risk kind of problem... in that case there's no time limit...

babe... perhaps it's your look... they don't like you...

day two

went to anthony wong & hk phil's concert last night... concert was kinda okay... those who went with me were fab... therefore i had a wonderful night...

had afternoon tea in a coffee shop in happy valley today... tea set with a slice of cake plus coffee/tea for only hkd 35... well spaced tables and sofa... magazines... it's called "the lobby", in hk sanatorium & hospital... haha... this hospital can always amaze me by all sorts of funny things... it's becoming more and more like a hotel now... it's not only the coffee lounge... in the elevator i saw this staff in uniform carrying a suitcase for the "customer" who's just "checked-in"... they even have bellboys... o gee...

how old are u

day one of my vacation leave... i have six days only, weekend inclusive... pretty short... there're a dozen of things on my to-do-list...

my grandpa has three sisters... they're the three "precious", the "fook, look, sau" of my family... i went yum cha with them plus my grandma today... they chatted about their herbal medicines, their joint pain, seeing different doctors and their children and grandchildren etc... very "auntie" kind of topics... i was kinda bored but i'm very happy to have arranged some kind of social activity for them... at some point they started asking each other about their age... and then they start to compare like u're 5 years older me and she's 3 years younger... very funny... remember i was small, people tend to ask how old i was...

look you only raise this question to people at the extremes of age... perhaps people are always curious about age... yet it's not too nice to ask someone how old he/she is... so we only get to ask people whom the figure doesn't matter anymore...

sweet are the days of girlhood

had a great night spent with my buddies, my "sisters"... long since i last came out for anything... i enjoyed the night very much...

on my way home i thought i'm so fortunate to have them... and i thought they're the ones other than my family and my rabbit with whom i'm so comfortable and relaxed... we know each other so well... i'm just myself in front of them... nothing to pretend... isn't it amazing... we have pretty similar backgrounds and different characters and we lead pretty different lives... but each time when we sit together... i can just feel there's something, some kind of thinking, that's linking us up...

then i met this old primary schoolmate... someone i haven't met for a decade!!! still looks the same... and we started to recall those days... it's been so long like we last met as a child and we're now grownups... so it's like getting to know a new person... pretty fun... i'm thinking of meeting my friends this month... there're actually a lot of people who comes up to my mind... i wanna see how they're doing... i wish i have the time and energy to do it over my holiday...