The best husband...

When I heard about the movie 'Julie & Julia', I thought it's a movie about cooking and love between mother and daughter.

But na-huh! It's a movie about passion of what you are doing, passion of life.

And the most importantly, it's about love from a supportive husband that every woman is looking for.

In Amy Adams' interview, she described Eric, Julie's husband in the movie as the best husband you can ever asked for. 'He is a rock, the best way that a husband can be. He is calm when she is crazy and he is logical when she is... crazy. He loves her when she doesn't necessarily pay him sort of attention he deserves.'

I heard the last sentence then I suddenly had tears in my eyes... I always know that I have the best husband of the world but my mouth or word could be sometimes stupid, especially in English to make my points. So I'm glad someone could help to put that into words.

Lucky I am, my dear husband is exactly the kind that I've ever wanted like what Amy said.

He is encouraging when I'm frustrated. He is positive when I feel hopeless. Except in my case, I don't get crazy very much, only when I am drunk or having too much coffee and suddenly fluent in my 2nd language in high speed. In that case, he would just look at me, listen and smile, from the bottom of his heart...

His magic is he can always make me feel loved. I appreciate every moment we spend together.

Honey, thank you for the love and I love you very very much, too. Even while I wasn't listening to you ;)

Happy 33rd birthday, Baby! Wall-eye-knee~

P.S. There are millions other reasons of why I love you, not just the ones above, such as you are hot, good looking, an excellent athlete and good in bed. I was shallow ;P

when you live alone...

When you live alone, you can...

-　P in the shower ;)

-　起床只要將棉被掀起45度再放下床就可以保持原本的樣子!

-　cook one meal but easily to get two. Leftover for the next day, woohoo~

- keep the bathroom door opened all the time whether you are inside or not

-　have more space in the wardrobe! (VERY important) I can even hang on my pj now.

-　have more space in the shoe rack! (also equally important)

- place your shoes all around in a circle so you get to stand in the middle to choose which one to put on in the morning :)

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p.s. 今天的菜色是烤豬排,炒菠菜加我最愛的蒸蛋 ^^ 不過水加太多了比較像喝蛋湯...（果然兩個人變一個人的比例還拿捏不準哩）　飯後是鮮奶油核桃蛋糕加紅茶 umm...Yum!

我的獨立天...

回來了~

從一片雪景的加拿大，回到黃黃的Guadalajara... 從機上望出去，煞時還真不習慣，原來人是這麼容易習慣一件事的...

哈你留在加拿大找工作，我一個人獨自回到墨西哥 繼續我給抹西勾、米狗、應狗倫"磨練"的生活。說是這樣，不過果然人都是需要休息的。一回來，心情十分輕鬆，跟兩個禮拜離開去度假時那種"看不到明天"的心情差很多。原本很擔心會撐不下去的一月，應該不會那麼糟吧~ (knock wood...等到這星期五客戶來QBR叫囂完了再說吧!)

不知從何時開始，我變的容易猶豫不決... 就連個要回台灣的日子，我都兩天變三次(在我心裡啦)

這要從大四的敗家女時期說起... 算了! 太遙遠以前的事了~

靜下來想想，要是哈你在加拿大找到了工作，他留在加拿大，我就要自己一個人留在台灣申請PR了...要跟哈你分開這麼久的日子，說真的，還真沒仔細想過... 唉~ 也許有些決定就是要魯莽點的做，不然永遠前進不了吧。

不得以的分離必定是為了一個更偉大的目標...! 所以為了證明自己的獨立天沒白過，決定要每天都寫blog來記錄自己的獨立事蹟!!

今晚，把蕃茄麵+烤豬排配著"Julie&Julia"吃掉了~ 不過這部電影有讓你越吃越餓的效果...哈!

我對於劇中女主角客服工作被叫囂，和他跟她三個"成功"有地位的女朋友吃飯(地點在紐約)那兩段特別有感覺... 人生的路有時真的很難說，但不管你怎麼選擇，真的是沒有捷徑，辛苦和甜美的成果總是並存的，有機會嚐到的人就懂得它的可貴。不過看你怎麼定義成功的就是了...不一定每個人當了writer就認為自己成功啦~

我很愛blackberry 09年底這一系列的廣告- 'Love what you do. Do what you love.'

背景配樂 'All you need is Love.' 真是太深得我心了~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VGTcHH2Bo&feature=channel

明天也要加油!

Patsy died...

其實道理我們都是清楚的...

人老了 就會生病，生病醫不好，有一天身體受不了了，就會死掉...是去了另一個更美好的地方也好、解脫了也罷，我們只知道再也見不到了...

Muriel一定很難過，她堅強的朋友，在與胃癌抗戰了好幾年後，還是離開了...

星期天是Muriel最後一次同還清醒的Patsy說話

她對著在病床上虛弱的Patsy說 'I love you, Patsy.'

插著管子的Patsy無法說話，她看著Muriel，開口無聲的回應: 'I love you, too.'

失去意識後兩天，今早Patsy離開了病痛，也離開了朋友&家人，到天堂去見Reuben了~

現在沒有每天蹓狗到Terry&Muriel後院的Patsy了...

珍惜我們身邊的人，在生的時候，好好的愛...

盡情的付出，讓我們的人生更圓滿。

Bye Bye Patsy, we'll miss you~

遇見Sophie

真的是用"遇見"來形容的...

我們兩個很奇妙的相約在鳳凰城，我，是因為U2的演唱會，Sophie是因為我...

哈你和我從LA轉機(是個錯誤，警告大家永遠不要從LA轉機，容易丟掉貴重物品)，12:34pm會抵達鳳凰城。

在LA工作的Sophie和我約好星期六日一起在鳳凰城玩一玩，但是可憐的她，因為星期天突然缺人，咱們號稱雄領巾、雄怕ㄅㄧㄚˇ的台灣人，當仁不讓的接下了星期天的工作，但還是很夠義氣的決定要飛下來在機場跟我吃個中飯、下午5點再飛回去。

為了這麼緊湊的時間，我自認為很organized的把我的飛機時刻和手機號碼傳給Sophie，手機特地還換了台灣的sim卡、開通漫遊... 到了機場很緊張的找無線上FB看sophie的回覆，結果看到"Don't worry. I know how to find you." =_= 於是.........

我除了猛check手機和FB、在機場晃來晃去 + 一整個盯著所有黑頭髮的人瞧一外 (包括一個低頭看書背對我的黑人，就在我巧巧從背後接近時，被哈你冷冷的一句 she's black凍住了) ，就只能trust Sophie了...

下午2點，肚子餓的受不了的哈你，到機場附設的中國餐廳點了兩碗飯，我上上下下再去繞個三圈後，終於放棄、回來坐下吃我的飯...then...奇蹟出現了...

哈你突然噴飯猛個站起來往前跑了兩部，然後又退回來拉著我指著外面喊 "your friend!!" 我心跳加速，筷子一丟衝了出去大叫"秀琴!"~~~~~~~~ 現在回想起來，那時候的心情，真是難忘~ :D 上次見面是1年8個月前的事了... Sophie始終還是達到了她的目的，給了我個超大的驚喜! 哈~

<<幕後花絮>>

這個傻小孩看到我的班機時刻，發現我是跟她坐同一班飛機，所以打算給我個驚喜~ 結果這傢伙睡過頭、開車到機場後，把手機忘在車上...

她最後一個登機，上了飛機沒見著我(我坐第二排、第二排耶! 這麼好找~)，領行李那也沒找著我... 她上上下下找，後來坐在角落的Starbucks喝咖啡懊悔(我轉那麼多圈根本沒發現這間Starbucks)...

總而言之啊~ 我們終於見到了... 也很開心的聊了近四個小時，然後送sophie上飛機... Q_Q

相聚的時間總是太短，雖然成語"弄巧成拙"用在這時候很貼切...不過Sophie這份用心和浪漫，我由衷的感動，更是非常的感謝~

也提醒了我，在現代忙碌的社會中，在不斷衝刺、為生活奮鬥的同時，不要忘了這份情懷，在我們年輕個10多歲的時候，大家都有的那份真誠及浪漫的情懷~ :)

Thank you, Sophie~ 為了你這份用心，我會考慮一下再光臨一次LA這個爛機場的... e_<

the day I made my mom proud

話說咱們台灣小吃的文化，怎不讓每個嚐過的外國人讚不絕口、不讓我們台灣人引以為傲呢?!
溫刀哈尼也不例外...

人在國外，最懷念的就是台灣的食物了... (也可以偶爾有一點點想家啦...喔,媽 乖後~) 每次要返台前一個月，日夜都不忘的一件事，就是開始列 list... 從鹽酥雞、50嵐、大腸麵線、牛肉麵、雞排、麻辣火鍋、鹹蛋炒苦瓜...etc. 一樣也不放過。
哈尼看我這樣也都會硬要湊熱鬧家一些他們阿豆仔喜歡的，但我不一定非吃不可的食物，起司培根蛋餅、Finga's base camp sandwiches、竹山 night market sandwich (第一次跟他去竹山夜市的時候揭曉答案-沙威瑪啦!)、竹山 night market dumpling (福州包)、蘿蔔糕、your mom's food (媽~ 你看 你看! 這個女婿很ㄍㄤm心後~?這樣我也是非吃不可的喔!)

於是，在不知哪裡來的靈感和感召之下，我提議來包水餃... 提議了三個禮拜後，終於...在 偉大的2009年9月5日這一天，我第一次獨立包水餃ㄟ... (獨立=Rebeca一起包+Rebeca講什麼我做什麼+Rebeca後來自己包 我煮水)
Anyways, 包水餃的學問真的很大，不過我這麼發狠，溫冷郎也不過包了近100顆 .... 母啊~拎幾咧郎包ㄍㄨㄣ霸顆喜阿那辦到的啊？
我們做了一部分水餃、一部份煎餃....　外加好心貝卡提供酸辣湯+豆腐...

好滿足的一頓喔....　吃的超開心，還有我最愛的沙茶醬喔! ^_^　
p.s.　雖然龜毛貝卡覺得不夠好吃，我個人是吃的非常開心和滿意...更別提吃到冷凍水餃都說讚的哈尼了... 感謝貝卡大力贊助...
以下是成果發表...

後記: 出門在外，才知道有媽媽的可貴啊~ 剛下咧 阿母... Q_Q

My early birthday gift

It is always good to be home and meet up with old friends. Selina and I met up in Taipei for lunch and coffee near Taipei 101. Surprisingly we were BOTH keen for KFC that day!! This time she didn't bring her big camera bag but a small delicate brown handbag.
Finally I popped the question during coffee: 'Is this one made by you, too?...' She smiled and nodded. I screamed and gave my compliments on the bag. Then she shared the happiness with me.
About Selina... She saved money for an SLR Nikon in highschool when other girls were concentrating more on boys, clothes, hair, cosmetics...etc. (In my case, it was vollyball and basketball.)
Then we both grew up and got into the future that we never expected we'd have when we were in highschool.
Even we went to very different major in uni in different cities, we ended up both being sales in electronic industries. Yup! Just like a lot of other students in Taiwan, we went into the department where we had no idea what we can do for a living afterwards. When it turns out the job you can apply for is not that interesting to you. You turned around to work on something has nothing to do with your major.
The busyness keeps most people fully occupied to think about what they really want to do, but not for Selina.
She quit from the electronic company and went to work in a computer learning center because the employees got lessons for free.
Then she finally bought her first DSLR camera and started her own business on the internet.
And now she has found her talent for handicrafts & designs... She is doing all the things she LOVES!
She is definitely the one that can inspire a lot of us if we don't like our jobs and lives, we should go out and make some changes for it. :)

The day I was leaving Taiwan (May 22nd), she called and told me that she made me a bag. More than a month later, I got it. A little card says it'd be my early birthday present this year :)
It's an elegant brown handbag with striped of all the colors I love.
Excitedly I took the bag to the backyard and took a whole bunch of pictures of it. I love my early birthday surprise.
Moreover, I love my old friends~ Wish them all the best in Taiwan.

呦~ 嬌滴滴的耶...


a bag with my NAME in it... (yeah, in it, it's better than on it)


me with the bag...