Priorities and Faces

My Monday turned out to be a day full of priorities..

The First is the PRIORITY MAIL!!!

I finally got one of the friendliest gifts I had ever received.. Have you ever received a gift from anyone you never knew all your life but because friendship blooms anywhere, anytime from the hearts of good people, gift giving just came up? I am such a lucky one, a certain belle from America decided to send me something I will treasure forever..



Thank you so much my dearest REGGIE GIRL (http://midlifeandmenapause.blogspot.com).. Playing for Pizza, Bluesville and the wonderful card with kind words really warms my heart..

Second is to BE WITH MY HUBBY, He only have a couple of day offs every month so we always made sure to be together all alone.. And this Monday, we took a walk as sort of bonding moment from our home to the post office to get my Priority Mail. And while walking, we took turns in taking photos of important people around our neighborhood.

I considered taking the shot of FACES OF GOOD PEOPLE around our neighborhood as part of my Monday Priorities noting that I had promised the good girls of America (Patty and Reggie Girl), that I will show them the faces that made China tick. Opps, Did I say that..? Sorry folks, FACES shots has to be last Friday but it was kind of delayed but anyway here are the photos for you to see..

My favourite photo of the Chinese Soldier, isn't he cute..?
Optometrist taken after my hubby's eye check
Fish Monger when we dropped by the supermarket..
LPG GAS delivery man taken along our way
Mr. Post Man taken when we got my gift from Reggie Girl..
Factory Worker I took before I left our factory
Good old hawker..
Our friendly neighborhood Medical Doctor
Dongle Garden Security Guard, the guy who guards our home
The nearby Bankers
The Road Construction Worker
The Street Sweeper
The nearby Street Food Vendor
Our Traffic Officer

To get more information and for those who would like to join the Friday Shoot-Outs, kindly visit: PATTY of http://crisfieldnews.blogspot.com and REGGIE GIRL of http://midlifeandmenapause.blogspot.com..

WEEDS

My hubby used to surprise me with gifts when he comes home from work. The current surprise is the complete 4-Seasons of the American dark comedy television series entitled "THE WEEDS"



I can't come to our Hong Kong office without a passport.. So here I am enjoying my blogging time and yes, my WEEDS. You must get one too, just make sure the children are not around. The plot is kind of un-friendly to children and as wikipedia said, weeds is a DARK COMEDY.. I guess I can finish this in one seating.

I got various collections: All available seasons of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, GOSSIP GIRLS, 7th HEAVEN, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, DIRTY SEXY MONEY, GILMORE GIRLS, THE MISTRESSES, SWEET VALLEY HIGH and the love of our life JAMIE, THE NAKED CHEF..

I'm not sure when I could have my passport back but I don't mind, as long as I have another bunch of the best American series. Gotta get the next season of "GILMORE GIRLS", perhaps..? hmmnn..

And oh America, please give us more of the 7th HEAVEN.. the best series for the whole family!



WEEDS, the series
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Weeds is an American dark comedy television series created by Jenji Kohan, produced by Lionsgate Television for the Showtime network.

The plot revolves around a widowed housewife (Mary-Louise Parker) from an affluent California suburb who becomes her neighborhood's marijuana dealer to make ends meet. The title is a play on words, referring to both the slang term for marijuana, and widow's weeds. It also refers to the tendency of American suburbs to grow quickly and pervasively, with the dwellings and their residents being almost as indistinguishable as weeds; this is mirrored in the show's theme song "Little Boxes" and opening credits, and is a recurring theme of the show itself.

Weeds currently comprises four seasons that began airing in August 2005. It was the highest rated series for Showtime its first year; its fourth-season premiere attracted 1.3 million viewers to Showtime, that channel's highest-ever viewership; the season as a whole averaged 962,000 viewers.[citation needed] Showtime announced on July 18, 2008 that two more seasons of thirteen episodes each will be produced.[1]

Mary-Louise Parker won a Golden Globe for her performance on the show, and Jenji Kohan won a WGA award for her screenplay for the pilot episode. Season 5 is currently in production and will air in May 2009 according to the official website.[2]

Hearts and Friendship Awards

I was sitting and evidently bored while browsing in the net when I encountered this site (blogger.com). Just for the fun of it, I decided to join although 2L3Bs already got one in our Friendster.com.. What the heck, so I tried and it was then I realized this is much user-friendly and definitely more exciting! Here I am now, a happy and excited blogger always saying hello to my friends and always excited to meet new friends from all over the world!

Maybe I should give a thousand awards to bloggers.com for giving us a chance to meet wonderful people like Debby of The Pink Bird House.

I haven't met her in flesh but fate had made us closer.. She brought me to her adoptive country and through her, I was able to roam around Germany for free...! See her site in http://thepinkbirdhouse.blogspot.com and you'll know exactly what I mean... Other than the free tour, she also awarded me with this Friendship Blogger's Award.. Thank you my dearest Friend for including me among the 8 awardees on your list..

Upon receipt of the award, the recipient must also share this to 8 wonderful people and keep the friendship blooms all around.. Kindly check the good people I listed below and hope you can visit them as well to make you realize how they deserved this.. At the bottom of the award, you must include the footnote below to make the readers realize it's worth..


"These blogs are exceedingly charming. The kind of blogger that aim to be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of the prizes are cut,even more friendships are propagated.Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight blogger who must choose eight more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award".

I highly appreciate and accepted this award and as the rules goes, may I pass this to 8 friendly people such as:

1. MS. RENIE of RENIE BURGHART'S WORLD. I believed that anyone cannot write anything good for the soul unless one is sensitive, caring, and loving enough like Ms. Renie. She's a writer, novelist and an author of number of articles published by the famous "Chicken Soup For The Soul".. I really admire highly acclaimed writers whose books and articles were published. Her blogs would also give you a lot of good lessons about life and friendship.. May I award this to Ms. Renie for up-lifting a lot of souls..

2. PATTY OF CRISFIELD MARYLAND. It's rare to find people here in our site who will travel from afar just to show the world how people suffers from war.. An honest, straigthforward, ever courageous yet highly sensitive and talented photojournalist from Crisfield.. I guess Debbie already gave her this award but why not another one?

3. REGGIE GIRL OF MIDLIFE, MENOPAUSE, MISTAKES AND RANDOM STUFF. She's not only super duper friendly to people and human friends but also to dogs and I guess stray animals around.. She always provides comfort to all her friends especially by her constant caring comments and sweet notes of love..

4. DEANNA OF TIMELESS THINGS. She's one of the very first sweet friends I'd ever got during my first week of blogging. I stumbled upon her site when I was browsing on the feedjit live and the rest is history.. She's so sweet the she will bring you to a lot of her Pink Saturday Trips and to many thrift shops that she famously adore..

5. MONA OF WSPRSWEETLY OF COTTAGES. I begun to follow Mona's blog when she left a straightforward comments to one of our common friends. She's so frank and honest. She's definitely the type of person I really want for a friend. I begun to follow her posts constantly and I realized she's such a super sweet and caring person underneath..

6. DOT OF DOT & CO. is one of our life's surprises. I met her when I was browsing via Feedjit live and realized we both came from our neighboring towns and yes, we already met.. Such a beautiful and friendly family. Just like meeting our long lost relatives from afar..

7. BETSY OF MY FIVE MEN. She is such a lovely woman with a caring heart. Having triplets plus the challenges she faces yet there she is, still lovely and compassionate to others as always.. A best friend to everyone and to her lovely family out there..

8. DANETTE OF HAND KNITS THAT BLOSSOMS. She's one of the kindest friend here in blogger site providing even a simple comment that will touch you. She's among the best here that took care of her family especially her lovely grandaughter and a best bet for a best friend to us here in blog land..

May I thank you DEBBY. This has been my second award from you so may I repay you by giving you this FLOWER OF FRIENDSHIP because you really deserve this:

watches

Are you wearing a wrist watch right now..?


Do you know that before it reach your wrist, watches and its components usually travels from far away land before it became an end-product..?


Try to look closely at its parts such as the crown, dial, bracelet, the clasp, straps, watch case, watch backs, etc. Has it been plated with gold, palladium, platinum or just a flash? Was it coated with Swiss Standard color such as 1N, 2N, 3N, or two-tone color being famous nowadays in 23, 18 and 16 karats gold? Or the modern coating such as the gun color, black, blue, white, gray, tobacco gold, antique bronze, pink gold and lot, lot more?


If it does then there might be a chance that we'd been a part of the process before it became a complete accessory now exquisitely strapped on your wrist.


Our company provides electro and ion plating services to number of famous watch manufacturers all over the world. We are the direct and in some instance indirect supplier to well-known and currently benchmarking watch brands and manufacturers all over Asia, Europe and America. If not plating services, at least the plating machinery, electroplating equipment and plating racks we supplied especially to European countries highly known for high-end watches.

(I'm with the European Component and Complete Watch Manufacturer)

(I'm with the Asian Famous Brand Watch Components Manufacturers)

We are servicing Rolex, Omega, Rado, Timex, Guess and some of the high-end brands. Some parts were mostly plated here in China before it arrives in Switzerland, America, and other parts of the world for the whole mechanical assembly process. The aesthetic parts of the watch were mostly done here to minimize the labor cost.


Believe it or not, but its true..

Church Friday

'Church Friday' was initiated by one of the respectable photojournalists from Crisfield Maryland USA, Ms. Patty Biegun of http://crisfieldnews.blogspot.com,http://www.breadandsalt.org; and equally respectable Ms. Reggie Girl of http://midlifeandmenapause.blogspot.com, for her dedication to save the dogs by building a "No-Kill" shelter termed as The Newman-Coweta Humane Society. They are actually inviting good friends out there who wants to share church photos..



I took the photo of this church during our recent travel to Macau, SAR last October 2008. Macau is about 3-hour drive from Shenzhen.

This church is highly historical and very close to our hearts because Macau is where our daughter was born and this church is where our daughter was baptised.



SE' CATHEDRAL, MACAU:
History Source:http://www.macau-traveltips.com/cathedral-of-macau.htm

The Cathedral of Macau, also known as Sé Catedral, or simply Sé, is the mother church of the catholic Diocese of Macau, which once included the Catholic parishes in China, Japan and Korea. The diocese was formed even before Macau belonged to the Portuguese. The church has stood on the site of the cathedral going back to as early as 1576, when it was a mere wooden shed built. This was replaced by a more permanent structure in 1622. http://midlifeandmenapause.blogspot.com/

idle..?

Lucky is the man who can use his time wherever... whenever, whatever, however..... during his office hour.

-who, me?

mugged

We were having our leisure walk in one of the busiest and known shopping district in Shenzhen when 3 men mugged my son. We were actually a group of five walking aimlessly to get to the subway in a jampacked Dongmen Street. I was near my son and was having a nice chat when suddenly a man from behind dropped a key. He was in the act of picking it when I saw that he was holding my son's left leg instead and that was when I heard my son shouted that somebody had snatched his mobile phone from his jean's right-hand pocket.

It was so fast that we barely saw what happened. Fortunately my son's celfone was attached to a neck chain. The chain made it visible so my daughter who was walking together with our 2 lady friends about a meter behind us saw the neck chain hanging from another man's arm folded underneath his jacket. My daughter pointed and shouted that the man standing between us was the culprit. In an instant, I approached the man and asked him to give it back..

We were so scared but I had to face the man or totally lose the celphone. By then, the man probably noticed that almost all the spectators from the street has been looking at him readily gave the celfone to me and walk away as if nothing had happened..

The muggers were composed of 3 well-dressed men in their early 30's who deem to walk among the crowded streets and pretended to have dropped a key. They were actually well dressed as if just came out from the office. The first man will drop a key from behind to distract the victim, the other one pickpockets while the third person will distract you pretending that he's holding the loot. This 3rd man will actually pretend to walk and run fast at you to make the victim think that he's the one who did it. So if the police happen to arrive at the scene, there will be no evidence to prove the charges.

That Saturday night is one of the scariest night we all had. It happened yesterday but we still felt the fear up to now..

We understand that pickpockets and muggers are everywhere in big cities like Shenzhen. The best way to do is to avoid crowded areas and if possible never to carry anything valuable when you're just having a leisure walk. We love Shenzhen but we cannot deny the fact that it is saturated with negative entities such as muggers, pickpockets and thieves. Shenzhen is a special economic zone which attracts some of the best and some of the worst kind all over China.

Another lesson learned..