Things to Bring Checklist (girls version)

 Packing Checklist

Essentials
passport / visa	wallet	car rental info.
air / train tickets	first aid box refills	travel insurance
foreign currency	emergency phones	keys for home
mobile phone + charger / alarms / watch	travek beck-pillow

Clothings
jacket / raincoat	slippers & pajamas	face masks
hat / bandanna / gloves	socks & shoes	sewing kit
extra bag for dirty clothes	swimsuit / scarf	handkerchief
jewellery	sport bras / tank tops / nippless	sunglasses

Toiletries
comb	hairgel	mirror
shower gel & shampoo	deodorant	cosmetics
toothbrush & paste	napkins / pantiliners	sunblock
facial cleanser	pills	contact lens
insect repellent	tissues & wet tissues

Miscellaneous
electricity converter	games / books	knife / spoon / chipstick
travel iron	snack, coffee, yakult	cups / bottle
camera , batteries	warm pad	tower for pillow
map	antiseptic handgel

June 2008, Shanghai - Go-kart race (2)

This is the team: MAPLE LEAF  This was about 10p.m. at night with loads of mosquitoes and crabs.

There's the board of results

Other teams' stalls

Toad that crawls not hops

The China National Go-Karting Race is of course nothing like any other international race, let alone F1

Ready for the race

And after the race

道德警察

公共汽車上，有人進食，有人喧嘩，你會：
A. 出言勸阻
B. 漠視
C. 加入
D. 乘搭其他交通公具

响餐廳內有人將 9 份報紙攞走，然後用 cell-phone 煲粥。作為其他顧客，權利受到剝削，你會出聲嗎？

一般市民有權或責任作出行動嗎？你會做導德警察嗎？

我會。但 1. 睇心情，2. 睇情況。

好多朋友都會話「駛セ為呢啲人嘮氣！」或「你可以改變到啲セ吖？算啦！」即係選擇 B.

我唔系英雄，亦唔係咩導德警察，但我唸 大部份文明嘅城市人都唔想坐一陣味或嘈喧巴閉嘅巴士或地鐵。致少我會為我所想做啲嘢。佢唔理係一件事；甚致殊多藉口係佢有問題。我唔系要講嬴佢 (嬴硬，有條例嘛，咁大個 sign)，我只系提醒佢。我可以問「先生，攞份明報睇吓得嘛？」「你個麵睇落好好食咁，不過呢到唔比食嘢。你都係 la la lum 啦。」我嘅經驗係致少 7 成人會你講セ，佢照做。(That also explains why most people choose B.) 5 成嘅人會表示歉意。即使當時人覺得無 face，野蠻地狠狠地响我噴一面屁，我會笑－－因為佢在意。下次佢會 think twice before (s)he does it again。咁唔系幾好咩？

講真。其實大多數人只系久而久之就 take it for granted。一個少少嘅 friendly reminder，分分鐘正系佢需要嘅。This may not be a big deal, but certainly, no one would want to embarrass oneself because others are too selfish to remind him/her. 尤其是小朋友，要從少養成好習慣。成人就真系面斥不雅。

June 2008, Shanghai - Go-kart race (1)

People: Me + Andy + 2 technicians (+ staff/cousin)

We hit the road on 27th June, just after the typhoon 風神 passed HK. We stayed at in 沙井, 深圳 for a night (to arrange the stuff for go-kart racing at the race track garage). Next we went to 平湖, then 汕頭 for another night. Starting a looooong journey the next morning at 7:35a.m., we headed to Shanghai and reached 南匯 (where the go-kart racing track is) at about 2:30a.m. We had already taken the new highway 杭洲灣大橋 (about 36km long) which only took about 20 minutes to get across with these wheels ...

It is supposed to have shorten the journey by half from 寧波 to Shanghai. The old route meandered along the incurved land. The bridge now goes straight over the sea. If not, we would have stayed a night in 温州. Anway, we ended up, of course, in a shitty "business" hotel - '03 Hotel. At least the bedsheets were white! I literally had to close my eyes bathing. 眼不見為淨！You know.
Next day, we checked out like prisoners. Well, this is some universities zone, so you can probably guess why there were all these teens checking out Monday morning (girls and boys of course). We tried the delicious 3 noodles, fried dumplings and soy drinks (牛肉麵、酸辣湯麵、炸醬麵、鍋貼、豆漿) around RMB20 for 4 people! Around the area, a huge outlet with Esprit, Escada, Adidas, Nike, Fila ... you name it -- time for shopping spree! I was dropped off to my sis's place in SH city that night. So, there's another crazy shopping the next day which I shall make another blog about it.
This is what we've been eating along the trip...

Recommended: Wasabi 鱈魚麭 -- the one bitten -- délicieux!

嘴裹的開明

要種瓜嘅種瓜，要種菜嘅種菜。種菜嘅話唔種瓜，種瓜嘅就谷氣。奇怪！

老公問我做セ唔去插香。我話「咪講過唔再做啲咁嘢啦，就咗咁多年重唔夠呀？」

「咁咪坐吓囉。」

「我安排咗嘢做嘛！」

重系一副唔滿意個樣。

「哦，你唔去就要我去。我唔去就我唔啱呀？哦，佢比說話你聽，你就比說話我聽嘞。」

「咁系咪以後呢啲嘢唔駛預你吖？」

哪哪哪，呢啲位要小心－玩捉字失。「呢啲嘢即系乜嘢？如果齋燒香就真系唔駛預我嘞。坐吓呢就有時間咪坐囉。」

依然一副唔滿意個樣。

得得得，我自已去講。

「亞媽，吓次呢你要早啲通知我。我啱啱安排晒嘢做。」唔去要填 form 申請。

「哦，我要早啲話你知。咁你唔好話你唔插香呀！」

「咁唔插香又系另一回事喎。我真系唔再插香嗰啲嘢喎。」

「但系你唔好咁樣講。(咁應該點講呢？唔通漏咗多謝佢嘅邀請？) 過嚟插支香啫，好快啫。又唔系住得遠。」原來插香嘅意義在於住得近唔近。奇怪嘅邏輯！得閒就老馮要走嚟走去插香。

「我之前已經同佢 (指老公) 講過。佢無話你知啫。你可以信奉你嘅宗教，我咩都唔信亦系我嘅信念。」

「咁即系以後呢啲嘢唔駛預你啦？」哪哪哪，好明顯老公只系照抄。應付唔嚟就想瀉落我到。

「有時間坐吓無問題。無預早通知就有機會唔得囉。唔系有惡意嘅，今次系咁啱啫。」

唔想插香都要大條道理、推得大方得體乎？又唔糸挖山墳，燒祠堂。駛唔駛咁 hard feeling？又話自己好開明。得個嘴開明。

How to Use A Squat Toilet 1

Wearing the right clothings are very important. It can make the whole process easier and more enjoyable. First find some pants with this (finger pointing) device.

If that's not your fashion, then roll up your pants like this.

And remember, choose pants with elastic band waistline, because jeans is so clumsy -- you can't spread your legs to squat.

I know it's a hassle, but you'll not wear your piss-soaked-pants later. So, roll your pants up, up, and up... until you're like going down the rice paddy field.

Besides rolling up, you also have to drop your pants down, so this totally crushed pants places just above your knees. Don't think of placing it at the thighline (i.e. joints of your thighs and butt) cos' it's so thick, you can't squat. If you place it just above your ankle, your pants will touch the poo and pee. HOLY!

Stop laughing. This is tiring ... to be continued ...

-ia 病

失眠 insomnia

貧血 anemia >< 失憶 amnesia
兩個好鬼似，小心啲呀！或者咁記 m for memory 所以 aMnesia 系失憶！

老人痴呆 Alzheimer's disease 亦可以話自已一時唔記得，笑自己 having some senior moment

恐懼症系 phobia﹕
acrophobia 畏高
agoraphobia 廣野恐懼症
autophobia 怕一個人
aviophobia 怕飛
claustrophobia 幽閑恐懼症
glossophobia 怕講嘢 (好多男人都有)
gynophobia 怕或增恨女人
hemophobia 怕血 (hemo- 血的 -- 記唔記得？)
mysophobia 怕細菌
sociophobia 都好明顯怕咩啦 (socio-)
technopohia 老人家都怕 -- 科技
trypanophobia 怕打針或尖嘅嘢
xenophobia 怕外國人

Ketchup and Jetso

原來 ketchup 系原自中文「茄汁」咖！

中學家政堂 (home economics)，拍著 (partner) 個儍婆 J。為咗唔想再嘥時間同 J 補鑊，比咗一份簡單差事佢辦。準備時，我忙到一頭煙。茄汁呢？J 嘅差事。J 响邊？同人哋 team 緊油。
「J，你做咩呀？」
「帮 W 油。」
「咁茄汁呢？」
「揾唔到。」
四圍望。就一支獨戙响老師枱到。
「果支咪系囉！」
「旦系果支寫 "catch up" 唔一樣。」*
「...... 咁佢係咪茄汁吖？」
「唔。」
「咁就得啦。攞嚟。」
「吓。唔同串法咖喎 ......」
-- 撞鬼！--
* 解：食薯條嘅茄汁系 ketchup﹔飲嘅系 tomato juice﹔炆牛尾嘅系 tomato sauce。美極出品嘅 ketchup 寫成 catch up 作 gimmick (噱頭)。catch up 意思系趕上 / 講吓近況。e.g. Catch you up later! / Let's find some time and do some catching up.

茄喱啡 carefree
但行行企企果啲角式其實系 extra(s)

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「著數」比一張 credit card 攞嚟作名用 -- 香港人怕蝕底心態。

話說老媽子去釣魚，到附近釣魚用品店買啲嘢。老板嘍佢買啲唔知セ。
"Okay, if I buy, what jetso you give me?"
"What?"
"Jetso. I buy, you give me jetso."
"Jet-so? How to spell?"
"I don't know."
有一個唐人走入去。老板向佢求救。唐人答老媽子 "Jetso 唔系英文嚟咖太太 "。
老媽子唸「唔系英文嚟？咁系咩嚟？」

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曾經有同學仔响高考 oral mock 嘅 discussion 用過一個新詞 kidult。我話佢唔應該用。同學追問「但系電視廣告都有喎。」
「電視廣告有好多嘢，創意吖嘛。但唔等如可以用。你有無做啲功夫深入了解吓個字先用？」
「無呢個字咖咩？但系依家好流行，其他同學 (一齊考嘅三個) 都明喎。」
「咁系佢哋比分你定系考官比分你？」
「考官。」
「咁你肯唔肯定佢都明呢個字系乜？咁你肯唔肯定佢都應為你哋用呢個字屬於恰當吖？」
「......」
「咁咪係囉。」
唔系話呢啲字有問題，但朋友，take your own risk。

Seeing Doctor

醫院係 hospital 診所就係 clinic。一開始當然係 register (登記) 啦。响香港公立醫院收好平嘅診金 (consultation fee) 同藥。但系外國好多有政府貼嘅 health insurance policy 醫療保。所以出國時，記得買定有得睇醫生嘅旅遊保，如果唔係有起事就要「大出血」啦。(cost an arm and leg) 咁又檢吓體溫 (take temperature) 同血壓 (blood pressure)。Body check (檢身) 先會抽血 (take/draw blood)。

首先同醫生講吓病徵 (symptoms)：
"swell" 腫咗 versus "bloat" 一般講肚呀胃呀有水腫漲或類似感覺
-- I twisted/sprang (扭傷) my ankle and it swells.
-- Girls usually feel their tummies bloated when they have their periods (月事).
dizzy 暈酡酡 faint / blackout / lose consciousness / pass out 失去知覺 coma 昏迷 (刻薄話植物人 vegetable / veggie / veg，甚至 carrot )
itchy (adj.) 癢
bruise 瘀咗
burnt 燒傷或被燒嘅感覺。一般感冒勁時啲關節位都有被燒嘅感覺。
bleed 流血 (hemorrhage 流血不止；hemo- 血的)
serious cut 嚴重割傷。咁就要聯針 (stitch) 再打針 (injection / shot)

攪完一輪，醫生會斷症 (diagnose；斷錯症 misdiagnose) 開藥 (remedy 治療，藥物)

消毒藥 antiseptic感染infection
抗生素 antibiotic
並發症 complication

Home and Guest

响 The Island 一戲當中 Mac 要向兩個 human clones 解釋佢哋係為咗有錢人要 replace (取代) 一啲 organs (器官) 而 exist (出現)。但果兩個 clones 話佢哋記得好清楚佢哋係有家人嘅童年。以下係 Mac 解釋果啲記憶係點嚟。

No. Memory imprints. I've seen them. A buddy of mine is a programmer at the Institute. He showed me. They change around little details, but they're all pretty much the same. The life you think you had before the "contamination," it never happened. Come on, don't look at me like that. At least you had a bike. Wanna trade your rosy memory implants for my shitty childhood, be my guest.

memory imprint 印啲印象落個腦到
buddy 老友 = pal
pretty = quite
"contamination" 係一個似 (因污染) 世界未日嘅時期，作出嚟握班 clones
come on 喂 / 拜托 / 唔該你啦
wanna = want to
rosy 光明美好的
implant 移植，灌入
shitty = shit 嘅形容詞式。差勁的，劣等的

be my guest 唔好客氣 / 請隨便
-- "Can I try your dish?" "Be my guest."
-- "Your husband is so sweet!" "You think so? Take him. Be my guest."

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make yourself at home 當自已屋企一樣得啦
即係叫客人隨便，令自已舒服就得嘞
-- In the visit, just make yourself home.