X-Ray $60
Scaling $230
I am very happy and satisfied with the dental service I had today. The staff were friendly and the dentist was very good and honest. He was so kind and patient to answer all my questions. And...he said my teeth were good and clean. :D
I had dinner with mum & dad and Ah Mui tonight. :) I told them about this health centre.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Super Quick Lunch
Hurry up!! They are kicking us out!
The service was very bad in this cafe. We won't go there again! :P
We were gonna go to a Spanish restaurant for lunch but they were fully booked. Anyway, we went somewhere else for lunch. The food was OK but the service was very pushy and rude!!!!!
After lunch, we did some shopping in Wing On. :)
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Yum Cha at Home
I went out to Tai Hing Restaurant to get some dim sum but I was a bit late. The lady said to me there was no more dim sum after 11am. :( Well... I didn't know that.
Anyway... I went to Lung Wah instead. The dim sum was pretty good this time. :)
We had a very nice afternoon at home.
Anyway... I went to Lung Wah instead. The dim sum was pretty good this time. :)
We had a very nice afternoon at home.
Friday, September 26, 2008
好酸軟呀!!!
前排下面啲門牙好酸軟呀!! 我個牙醫要到十一月中先有得睇. 好慘呀!
But...I've already found another dentist. I will go there next Tuesday.
After that, I can see my mum and dad and have dinner with them. ^^
But...I've already found another dentist. I will go there next Tuesday.
After that, I can see my mum and dad and have dinner with them. ^^
Thursday, September 25, 2008
資生堂 Shiseido Tsubaki Shampoo
I've been using this shampoo for a month now. Hubby loves the smell of it and he thinks that my hair is smoother than before. :) So good! hehehe I will keep using it.
BTW, I bought it from Sasa. The price was $68.
Meowwwww We love the box! :-)
Sleeping :)
She is a bit too big to fit in there but she loves it. hahaha
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
New toy from Jusco
You are so pretty!
Orange eyes! :D
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Surprise......^_^
I found the choccy in my wardrobe! :) hehehe
今期 Mina 有好多嘢睇呀! 正! Thank you, hubby! :)
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
買咗個袋....
同佢一齊去咗坑口...我係ans到買咗個袋. :)
之後上咗媽咪到食飯! :)
今曰遇到一個好賤的小巴司機...佢唔比我係中環落車.
要我係上環落! 最後我趕唔到班船. 正一衰人! 賤格!
His number plate is EL1979!!!
之後上咗媽咪到食飯! :)
今曰遇到一個好賤的小巴司機...佢唔比我係中環落車.
要我係上環落! 最後我趕唔到班船. 正一衰人! 賤格!
His number plate is EL1979!!!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Hello Kitty Mooncakes
Green tea and cheese mooncakes! :)
I had some in the afternoon. :) It tasted quite nice but Taipan 大班 is still better than Maxims 美心.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Anniversary Gift From Hubby
The charm looks like a sweet! :D Yum yum! hahaha
I love it very much. Thank you, my sweet sweet hubby! :D
Sunday, September 07, 2008
WOohoo....
The cats are exploring our place right now. They didn't come out all day.
We are watching them! :) Very funny! :D
We are watching them! :) Very funny! :D
haha Tsz Yau is so cute!
My family came to our place today! :-) And we just adopted my sister's cats. 2 of them. They are hiding themselves in our chocolate room. I hope they will come out and play soon. :)
Saturday, September 06, 2008
御泰坊 King & I Thai and Vietnamese Restaurant
Birthday dinner for Mei Mei & Catherine :) The food was excellent. The table they got us was in a quiet corner. It was very nice. I liked the deco in there. This restaurant is very, very popular. We had to wait for half an hour to get ourselves seated, even though we had booked a table in advance.
We ordered lots of different things. We liked them all. Everything was well-cooked and really tasty. :) We will go there again. ^^
We ordered lots of different things. We liked them all. Everything was well-cooked and really tasty. :) We will go there again. ^^
My Old Cat
She used to come with me when I took the rubbish out. She was a very good cat. I loved her lots.I will never forget you and your craziness. :)
Friday, September 05, 2008
Thursday, September 04, 2008
20 examples of grammar misuse
1. The one that really annoys me is how people suddenly seem to confuse "have" and "of", as in: "I could of learnt how to write properly." There's no excuse for it!
Pete, Sheffield
2. The phrase "for free" is becoming commonplace and is used often on television and it's wrong. It should be "for nothing".
Mary, Basingstoke
3. That guardian of our language, the BBC, is full of solecisms these days; just one example: 12 pm. There is no such time; "meridiem" as in am ("ante meridiem" means "before noon") and pm ("post meridiem" means "after noon") means midday. The 12th hour is neither before nor after midday. So please, BBC use either midday or noon with midnight the correct term for the other end of the day. This is not being pedantic; in these days of 24-hour days, it is often not readily apparent what time 12 pm might be.
Mervyn, Usk, Monmouthshire
4. If you do something to change a situation, then you "effect" a change. If your circumstances are changed by an action, then the change has caused an "effect". You cannot "affect" a change in something, nor can you be "effected" by one.
Rob, Lyme Regis
5. I get annoyed at the reckless use of apostrophes, for example, the plural of CD can't be CD's.
Shahed Alam, London
6. Many people, including public speakers, incorrectly use "I" instead of "me". For instance, they would say "She said some very kind things about George and I", thinking that they are being polite or grammatically correct. An easy way to remember which to use is: if you would say him or her on its own, use me; if you would say he or she on its own, use I. For example, "She said some very kind things about him".
Lorraine, Aylesbury
7. Incorrect use of reflexives make my blood boil. I think that for someone to say "yourself" and "myself" when they just mean "you" or "me" is possibly out of a false sense of politeness, or maybe the insidious effect of TV soaps, or both. Those who use it correctly can give "themselves" a pat on the back.
John Self, Wisset, Suffolk
8. How about "none of them is" and "none of them are"? Most people would use the latter whereas the former is correct. "None" is short for "not one" therefore "not one (none) of them is" would be used. Most newsreaders still get it right though - on the BBC anyway!
Emily, Bristol
NOTE: Fowler's Modern English Usage says that "none" is not short for "not one" and although using a singular verb is more common, using a plural verb has also been an acceptable option since the reign of King Alfred.
9. Similar TO, different FROM, compared WITH. Not "to" used for all of them!
Susan, Brisbane, Australia
NOTE: Fowler's Modern English Usage says: "The commonly expressed view that 'different' should only be followed by 'from' and never by 'to' or 'than' is not supportable in the face of past and present evidence or of logic." It adds that "compare to" is to liken and "compare with" or "compare to" is used to point out similarities and differences. The BBC News website style guide differs with Fowler's on this last point. It says that when pointing out differences, "compare with" should always be used.
10. Here's one they often get wrong on BBC news! BBC reporter: "Then they opened fire on us". This is incorrect. In military terms there are two methods of shooting at an enemy, controlled-fire and open-fire. I.E. you are not opening anything so using the past tense of open is incorrect. The correct expression should be "Then they open-fired on us"
JWTH, Belfast
11. I find the increasing, incorrect use of "literally" annoying.... "I literally went blue with anger!!" "Really?" I ask.
Ned, Wallingford
12. The proper use of "its" and "it's" seems to confound many people, with "its" being a possessive and "it's" being a contraction of "it is". I've seen this mistake made even in some rather lofty publications...
Eric, Berlin
13. It annoys me when people use "due to" when they mean "owing to". But then I'm a pedant.
Guy, London
NOTE: The BBC News website style guide says "due to" means "caused by" and needs a noun, but "owing to" means "because of" and relates to a verb. Hence, "the visit was cancelled [cancelled is the verb] owing to flooding" is correct. So too is "the flooding [flooding is the noun] was due to weeks of heavy rain".
14. As a secondary teacher, I'm beginning to despair when it comes to "they're", "there" and "their"; not to mention "to", "two" and "too". Why are we so afraid to correct these simple mistakes which make all the difference at a later stage?
Alexandra, London
15. There is also confusion over lend and borrow. I keep hearing school children asking "to lend your pencil" when what they actually mean is to "borrow" the pencil.
Ian Walton, Bedford
16. I cringe when I hear BBC reporters say "amount of people" when it should be "number of people"!
Jill Thistlethwaite, Leyburn, UK
NOTE: Fowler's says "amount" is used with nouns that are not countable, such as "amount of forgiveness" and "amount of glue" - but "number" is used with countable nouns, such as "number of boys" and "number of houses".
17. I don't like it when people say: I can go there "by foot" instead of "on foot"....the right preposition to use is ON.
Daniela, Urbana, IL
18. The usage that I find particularly irritating is that of a single noun with a plural verb, for example: "the team are happy with their victory", or "management have congratulated the workforce on the recent increase in productivity". Team is a singular noun so it should read "the team IS happy..." or "the team members ARE happy", the same applies "management HAS congratulated..." Also, what has happened to the word "versus", abbreviated "vs"? Now all we see is "v"; it is even read like that in sports announcements.
Lucia, Horndean, UK
NOTE: The BBC News website's style is that sports teams and pop/rock bands are always plural.
19. A classic confusing rule is the one that states that one is supposed never to end a sentence with a preposition. While this is easy and appropriate to follow in most cases, for example by saying "Yesterday I visited the town to which she has just moved" instead of "...the town she has just moved to", it becomes troublesome when the verb structure includes a preposition that cannot be removed from it, as in "At work I am using a new computer with which my manager recently set me up", which cannot correctly be changed to "...I am using a new computer up with which my manager recently set me".
Philip Graves, Stockholm, Sweden
20. Stadiums, as a plural of stadium, rather than stadia.
C. Matthews, Birmingham, UK
NOTE: Fowler's says that when dealing with modern sports grounds, rather than ones from the classical world, the plural is "stadiums".
Pete, Sheffield
2. The phrase "for free" is becoming commonplace and is used often on television and it's wrong. It should be "for nothing".
Mary, Basingstoke
3. That guardian of our language, the BBC, is full of solecisms these days; just one example: 12 pm. There is no such time; "meridiem" as in am ("ante meridiem" means "before noon") and pm ("post meridiem" means "after noon") means midday. The 12th hour is neither before nor after midday. So please, BBC use either midday or noon with midnight the correct term for the other end of the day. This is not being pedantic; in these days of 24-hour days, it is often not readily apparent what time 12 pm might be.
Mervyn, Usk, Monmouthshire
4. If you do something to change a situation, then you "effect" a change. If your circumstances are changed by an action, then the change has caused an "effect". You cannot "affect" a change in something, nor can you be "effected" by one.
Rob, Lyme Regis
5. I get annoyed at the reckless use of apostrophes, for example, the plural of CD can't be CD's.
Shahed Alam, London
6. Many people, including public speakers, incorrectly use "I" instead of "me". For instance, they would say "She said some very kind things about George and I", thinking that they are being polite or grammatically correct. An easy way to remember which to use is: if you would say him or her on its own, use me; if you would say he or she on its own, use I. For example, "She said some very kind things about him".
Lorraine, Aylesbury
7. Incorrect use of reflexives make my blood boil. I think that for someone to say "yourself" and "myself" when they just mean "you" or "me" is possibly out of a false sense of politeness, or maybe the insidious effect of TV soaps, or both. Those who use it correctly can give "themselves" a pat on the back.
John Self, Wisset, Suffolk
8. How about "none of them is" and "none of them are"? Most people would use the latter whereas the former is correct. "None" is short for "not one" therefore "not one (none) of them is" would be used. Most newsreaders still get it right though - on the BBC anyway!
Emily, Bristol
NOTE: Fowler's Modern English Usage says that "none" is not short for "not one" and although using a singular verb is more common, using a plural verb has also been an acceptable option since the reign of King Alfred.
9. Similar TO, different FROM, compared WITH. Not "to" used for all of them!
Susan, Brisbane, Australia
NOTE: Fowler's Modern English Usage says: "The commonly expressed view that 'different' should only be followed by 'from' and never by 'to' or 'than' is not supportable in the face of past and present evidence or of logic." It adds that "compare to" is to liken and "compare with" or "compare to" is used to point out similarities and differences. The BBC News website style guide differs with Fowler's on this last point. It says that when pointing out differences, "compare with" should always be used.
10. Here's one they often get wrong on BBC news! BBC reporter: "Then they opened fire on us". This is incorrect. In military terms there are two methods of shooting at an enemy, controlled-fire and open-fire. I.E. you are not opening anything so using the past tense of open is incorrect. The correct expression should be "Then they open-fired on us"
JWTH, Belfast
11. I find the increasing, incorrect use of "literally" annoying.... "I literally went blue with anger!!" "Really?" I ask.
Ned, Wallingford
12. The proper use of "its" and "it's" seems to confound many people, with "its" being a possessive and "it's" being a contraction of "it is". I've seen this mistake made even in some rather lofty publications...
Eric, Berlin
13. It annoys me when people use "due to" when they mean "owing to". But then I'm a pedant.
Guy, London
NOTE: The BBC News website style guide says "due to" means "caused by" and needs a noun, but "owing to" means "because of" and relates to a verb. Hence, "the visit was cancelled [cancelled is the verb] owing to flooding" is correct. So too is "the flooding [flooding is the noun] was due to weeks of heavy rain".
14. As a secondary teacher, I'm beginning to despair when it comes to "they're", "there" and "their"; not to mention "to", "two" and "too". Why are we so afraid to correct these simple mistakes which make all the difference at a later stage?
Alexandra, London
15. There is also confusion over lend and borrow. I keep hearing school children asking "to lend your pencil" when what they actually mean is to "borrow" the pencil.
Ian Walton, Bedford
16. I cringe when I hear BBC reporters say "amount of people" when it should be "number of people"!
Jill Thistlethwaite, Leyburn, UK
NOTE: Fowler's says "amount" is used with nouns that are not countable, such as "amount of forgiveness" and "amount of glue" - but "number" is used with countable nouns, such as "number of boys" and "number of houses".
17. I don't like it when people say: I can go there "by foot" instead of "on foot"....the right preposition to use is ON.
Daniela, Urbana, IL
18. The usage that I find particularly irritating is that of a single noun with a plural verb, for example: "the team are happy with their victory", or "management have congratulated the workforce on the recent increase in productivity". Team is a singular noun so it should read "the team IS happy..." or "the team members ARE happy", the same applies "management HAS congratulated..." Also, what has happened to the word "versus", abbreviated "vs"? Now all we see is "v"; it is even read like that in sports announcements.
Lucia, Horndean, UK
NOTE: The BBC News website's style is that sports teams and pop/rock bands are always plural.
19. A classic confusing rule is the one that states that one is supposed never to end a sentence with a preposition. While this is easy and appropriate to follow in most cases, for example by saying "Yesterday I visited the town to which she has just moved" instead of "...the town she has just moved to", it becomes troublesome when the verb structure includes a preposition that cannot be removed from it, as in "At work I am using a new computer with which my manager recently set me up", which cannot correctly be changed to "...I am using a new computer up with which my manager recently set me".
Philip Graves, Stockholm, Sweden
20. Stadiums, as a plural of stadium, rather than stadia.
C. Matthews, Birmingham, UK
NOTE: Fowler's says that when dealing with modern sports grounds, rather than ones from the classical world, the plural is "stadiums".
Monday, September 01, 2008
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