終於"Shipped" 啦！

兩個禮拜前， 我在YESASIA 訂了四本書。我等了好久才收到消息他們終於processed了我的order然後今天寄出了。你可能會很好奇的問我： “ 你不是土生土長的加拿大人嗎？幹嘛訂中文書來看？你大概不會讀中文吧？!"  哈哈我告訴你，其實我可以寫和讀很多中文！這個也要感謝我爸媽多年來不計較地每一個星期六都載我去中文學校，讓我學中文。現在我可以用中文寫部落格都要謝謝他們啦！竟然我對中文很有興趣·，我就決定尋找一些有趣的中文書。最近，在網路上遊覽，發現一位非常有名的作者，名字叫桌韻芝。我看了好幾篇reviews關於她得作品，覺得很有趣，所以就決定買她的 prose pieces 來看。

I Miss Hong Kong!!!

Took this back in May 2013, during my HK trip.-- 幸好我回去的時候那個可愛的鴨鴨還沒被ｄｅｆｌａｔｅｄ！

剛剛過去的暑假我去了香港探望我的姨媽和朋友們，跟我一起從加拿大回去的朋友非常熟識香港（因她常常回去香港探望親人）就帶我去了大埔超級城裏面的一個書店看。我發現，我對中文的書感有興趣，所以從那天開始我就常常會去找一些中文書來看，希望可以讓我的 中文進步一下下。我覺得自從回去香港一趟，我對中國的文化的興趣大大的增加，真得很想從以些書籍裏面感受一次香港的生活和熱鬧的氣氛！

Fall Trends....秋季流行什麽？

嘻嘻，我最近買了兩本　ＥＬＬＥ　雜誌！

我常常會去買一些時裝雜誌來看。其中　“她雜誌”是我最喜歡看的一本。上個禮拜在我家附近的華人超級市場看到台灣版的ELLE雜誌，封面人物還是笑容迷人的彭于晏，於是，就買了回家看-- (T.T 對啦！我承認是因為封面的關係所以買了台灣版的ELLE)。我翻了好幾頁發現台版跟加拿大的版本有些不同。內容更加的豐富。可能是因為是中文版的關係吧，覺得很新鮮·－－而且還有一個我認識的大明星。說真的，我是一個土生土長的加拿大人，可是不知道爲什麽，　那些北美的明星總是不會惹我關注。從我開始懂得寫和讀中文以後，我就超級喜歡關注亞洲的明星－－－例如 Twins、 飛輪海、台灣的數多的演員跟歌星、還有日韓明星／歌星、等等。好像，他們都沒那麼的複雜吧。每一次看北美的娛樂星聞不是說某個明星跟那個交往了還是，哪個明星被起訴吸毒什麽什麽的。還有，好像中文的流行曲沒那麼多髒話。不管怎麼樣，我還是比較喜歡注意亞洲的娛樂圈吧！　

Anyways, 回到正題，我看了好幾頁台版的ELLE跟加版的ELLE發現今個秋季非常流行 attern design. 秋季通常給人一種微微的憂傷感，所以顏色也會從夏天的火辣顏色變得比較深沉和平淡。例如 beige、burgundy、white、black、 grey、 copper、 plum、 dark blue 、等等都是秋季熱門的顏色。可是，因為天氣變比較冷，也沒有那麼多的陽光，時裝就可以幫助我們讓我們的每一天變得繽紛一點。Wear pattern prints to brighten up your gloomy days. Yeah, the leaves are falling and the skies are turning grey, but you can be the one to brighten up the atmosphere. 今年秋季又開是流行千鳥格 <<mono houndstooth>> pattern。黑白色配起來有一點ＣＬＡＳＳＹ優雅的感覺。可是，我不那麼喜歡穿黑白色的衣服。我本人比喜歡warm一點的colours. 漸漸變冷的天氣讓我想穿warm colours. 譬如說，burgundy colour. 最近去逛了Forever XXI, 買了一件sweater 是burgundy colour with black /navy dary strip pattern prints（我超喜歡!）。我打算用這件sweater 來配我的denim blouse 和dark skinny jeans跟light-yellow brown ankle boots。　秋季真的是一個很好玩的季節，可以讓我們隨意搭配我們的裝束。天氣漸漸變得比較涼，我們可以穿多幾件layers來保暖！

看完 【分手合約】的感想。。。

 

最近不知道爲什麽，很想看一些電影。在網上翻來翻去看看找不找到一些好的電影。就在幾天前，讓我找到了【分手合約】　這部關於愛情的電影。當初在網上看到那部電影的海報的時候就以為 是一部有情人終成眷屬的電影。誰知道，看完了以候，我心裡覺得很悲傷卻又很感動！

故事大概是這樣的： 話說，女主角 何俏俏和交往多年的男朋友李行分手，理由是因為李行不能給她物質上的滿足，所以，就立下了一份 分手合約。合約條件是如果雙方彼此在五年內都沒有找到另外一半 就會結婚。 五年過了，沒有跟別人交往的俏俏收到了李行的電話。心裡以為李行還是單身的她興高采烈地接了電話。但是，李行卻告訴她，他要結婚了。傷心又氣的俏俏決定從上海飛往北京看看李行和他的未婚妻，表面上是去祝福他們，心裡卻抱著希望--希望可以跟李行複合。 到了北京， 抱著極嫉妒心情的俏俏和李行發生了一連串的搞笑事情。後來，在李行給俏俏喜帖的那一天，俏俏卻發現，喜帖上面的名字是她跟李行的。原來李行一直都沒有變過心。五年來，他一直努力地改變自己，希望有一天俏俏會再次接受他。可是，當俏俏和李行決定在一起的時候，俏俏的癌癥又複發了 （真的是天作弄人！）。李行後來透過俏俏的好友毛毛發現原來五年前，俏俏只所以跟他分手是因為他得了肺癌，怕他會傷心，所以才跟他分手的。所以，在俏俏離開之前李行跟她結婚了。

雖然，這樣的故事好像沒有什麽新鮮感，這樣的橋段好像在許多電影或者書都有出現過。可是，我覺得這部戲含有非常感人的信息。 俏俏和李行的愛讓我明白，如果你真的愛一個人，哪怕你們要分開五年還是十年，你都會願意等他／她。如果你還在等著你人生中最重要的那個人，請不要急，因為那個愛你、疼你的人也是在等著你。我雖然還沒有找到我的那個 “他”，可是我相信，總有一天我也會遇上一個懂得珍惜我，接受我的優點和缺點的人。

在此， 我祝福所有情侶幸福快樂！也祝所有還在尋找他們的幸福愛情的人.....不要放棄，幸福會在你不知不覺的時候出現的！
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 "Little Did I Know"... something funny to share

 好七八年前我媽很喜歡看台灣劇，常常會告訴我有一個演員是她最喜歡的－－－他就是彭于晏。當時，我還在吹著飛輪海的風的時候（～ＬＯＬ～）都不會理會其他的台灣演員。我媽常跟我說，“那個演員真的帥，他的眼睛很迷人！”　我聽到的時候就翻了白眼，心裡在想，好一個師奶殺手呀.... 我媽又來了！可是，現在，七八年後，我開始注意他演過的戲覺得他蠻帥的！有著一張 baby face 的他卻又從滿了很MAN 的體型，我想很多女生都喜歡這種類型的吧，連我這個不怎麼留意他的小　fans 都忍不住開始留意他的戲了。So don't ever judge your mom who thinks a certain actor is good looking because sometimes, what they say can be true，　because over time, you begin to get used to their looks.....哎呀！是否我也開始老了，我的ｔａｓｔｅ好像越來越像我媽了！(Just Kidding!)

祝所有visitors 有一個愉快的晚上！


God Bless!
Little Stars

I am "Me"

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Every morning you wake up and the first you probably due is head to the washroom to get ready and when you're there you'll wake up to see yourself. YOUR TRUE SELF. Messy hair, no make up, no heels or nice clothing. Just you and your comfortable PJs. Nowadays, so many people focus on how important their image is and stress about how others see them. Numerous advertisements, in  fact, promote and sell the idea of the "perfect" image. Young boys and girls whom are now attached to their hand held devices such as smart phones and tablets etc are exposed to such ads everyday. You click on YouTube on your iPad or computer and you'll be forced to look at an ad of some sort, and out of the thousands of ads you'll probably be exposed to  one that talks about how to achieve perfect hair, skin, body structure etc.

I don't think many of us can step outside without wearing a nicer piece of clothing, not wear any facial products or makeup, and have our hair fixed the right way. It's true, no company, no public place would accept the fact that a person heads out looking like a bum.  If there was a person who just wore a big t-shirt and baggy pants or just PJs with messy hair and bare face, people would probably look your way and judgemental thoughts would be racing through their minds like " what's wrong with him/her?" right away.We cannot control that. However, there is one thing we have control of, our acceptance of ourselves. If you can accept that maybe you don't have the perfect skin like the model of the Olay ad does, or maybe you don't have the perfect wavy dark brown hair the model of Pantene does, or maybe you don't have beautiful blue eyes with  curled eyelashes like the model on the mascara ad in the magazine does; you have learned to love who you are. If you can look in the mirror in the morning and say, "Hey, I actually look pretty good without all that product slapped on my face." Congratulations, you have learned to accept your true self. You have learned that no one else is as special and as unique as you are.... you can be proud and say "I am "Me" and I am unique!"

Love yourself, have fun!

Little Stars

Summer... the splash of fun begins!

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I love the summer months, with the hot weather we can enjoy lots more activities, foods, and the best part... staying up late while the sun is still up when its 21:26 at night. AWESOME. Summer in my opinion is the most colourful, liveliest, and exciting seasons of all with bugs all over the place, people wearing short shorts, eating ice cream for breakfast, and just having the permission to be lazy and relax. I am a summer baby... I was born in August and so to me the Summer like "my season" I feel like I am more involved and I actually have something to look forward to!

Somethings I really like to do during the summer months is waking up early and heading to the pool and excercising, second of all evening walks after dinner (yah, even when mosquitoes feed off of you like you're a piece of juicy steak), and thirdly, the numerous possible things you can do with your wardrobe from mix and match to patterns, to the basic plain t-shirt and jeans with a pair of ankle high sandals. =^___________^=

While the warm weather is still around, head out and have your splash of fun before it's too late!!!!

P.S. Please pray and support Albertans affected by the Flood 2013 that occurred in June! Help and support is much appreciated for numerous families who have lost their homes due to the severe damages of the flood.

Thanks!
Little Stars

Back from HK and Japan!

Finally back from a fun filled trip full of adventures and fun! At the end of April I jetted off to Hong Kong to visit my Aunts I haven't seen for 12 years and got to squeeze a tour to Tokyo for 5 days during my 3 weeks stay in HK. This year was really a year I solely traveled alone with my childhood friend (of 18 years)...no parents! Let's just say without your parents behind taking care of things, you become a lot more cautious and careful. But then I must emphasis how much fun I had...no curfews and no pre-made plans, just me and a friend and we would go wherever we wanted!

Just wanted to say thank you to that very special friend of mine for a fun trip! It was really a great trip and I look forward to more adventures with you in the future!

I will hopefully pull some time out of my work schedule and update the travel log page with some funny things that happened during my 5 day stay in Japan!

Cheers!
Little Stars

6 More Days Till the Fun Begins!

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Stress. Exams. Anticipation. Hope. Excitement. Nervous. All of these words summarize what I am totally feeling right now. Just six more days till I get to go see my Family in Hong Kong and enjoy traveling all over again! For some of you who have visited my blog before or know me personally will probably know that one of my favorite things to do is to travel. This year, I will be able to travel back to Hong Kong, and possibly Japan or Taiwan (during the trip) and enjoy my summer which will be in less than 6 days! One of the unfortunate things are that the original plan of heading to Korea are being put on hold once again due to some insecurities occurring over in that area. However, I guess, that will just give me more hope that in the near future I will be able to go!

Some recent adventures... well, first of all FINALS have started. Oh yes, the joy of stress all over again, and the lack of motivation to study! But well at least I know one of my most important subjects have been done and over with and I only have one exam left to prepare for....trying to ignore the fact that  I will heading onto a plane pretty soon with my awesome childhood friend/sister.

I am extremely excited, stoked, and at the same time a little stressed out that I still have exams and am totally not fully packed for the trip yet. But well I have to admit, I do like the anticipating sensation that is running through me these days, it keeps me motivated.

Cheers!
Little Stars

Got tickets to Hong Kong and Seoul!

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 I love traveling. Better yet, traveling with friends! For the past 3 years I have been wanting to travel to Seoul, however, after many attempts to save money it failed. However, this time, my friend J and I are actually going! This will be awesome because like my Spain trip, I went to two countries at once too, Portugal then Spain. BUT instead of destination Europe, its destination Asia. This is super exciting for me cause I will get to meet up with my family from Hong Kong as well as my Teacher who now lives in Seoul!
(T.T) the down side to this is that I am so distracted with planning and day dreaming about my trip, I haven't been staying focused. So, I promised myself that after this blog post I would concentrate... well hopefully.

Any recent adventures... to be honest, not really. But I finally went to Starbucks and tried out their refreshers. The Berry Hibiscus drink. It was actually pretty good. I don't really get why people kept saying they dislike it. It's the last few days of Reading week and right before my midterm. I am acutally quite pissed off at myself for procrastinating so much this break. I just hope I can review everything before the test. Seriously, I like cardio anatomy but I am not a fan of Cardiovascular physiology. It makes me want to ZZZZZZ.

Anyways, I better get on with studying. Don't forget to visit my other pages! I will be updating some new music, recipes, and faith sharing pretty soon.

Have a great day and don't forget to SMILE.
Little Stars

First Post of 2013!

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Hello Everyone!
Welcome to my blog! And yes, welcome to 2013! We have survived the so called "end of the world" and we are all here for a new start and a new beginning... yesterday, because I was in a rush of making a quick post before heading out for a New Years Eve Party, I made a really small post with regards to new years resolutions. Well, since I have lots of time today, I thought I would start my first post of the year with a list of goals and dreams for this year...

1.  To spend more time with my family and friends.
2. To do super well in school
3. Strengthen in Faith and care for those in need
4. GO TO KOREA and visit my awesome teacher Amy
5. NOT PROCRASTINATE
6. SAVE MONEY and be financially smart
7. Get an iPad... wait that kind of contradicts the previous resolution....
8. To meet new friends
9. To exercise more and stay fit!
10. To get good a sleep every night!
11. TO STAY organized!
12. Get my drivers license 
13. To be HAPPY and accomplish my dreams and goals 
14. Get my braces off. Seriously, I think I have had enough of them
15. To smile everyday
16. To face obstacles like eating cupcakes.... BRING IT ON
17. To master my Chinese Zither playing skills
18. Read more awesome books
19. Watch more awesome movies
20. To SMILE everyday even when the blues come!

Well that's it for now. Well there are a lot more other things I want to put on this list but well there is just so much I could go on for like 10 more posts with the list. I hope you will also be able to achieve at least 5-10 of your goals you have set this year!

With a smile and a wink!
Little Stars