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10月27日 My First Hand-Drawn PortraitYes I like the final work very much. I will keep it for ever. I appreciate the energy and perspiration you put in the transformation from what your soul feels to what your hands creates. It is a magic process. I am glad that the inspiration is now concrete on the paper! Like you said pencil/lead/charcoal drawing is the basic type of all. However, the contrast is sharp which emphasizes simplicity and serenity in the style. I will wait for a good occasion where you can hand me the original work, some day. :) I will be so glad and grateful. ...
Again, I love the finial work of my portrait. This is my first hand-drawn portait. I used to have one from my friend who drew with computer. I will cherish it forever.
10月26日 Today I am going to Biannial Art Show2. Uncle Sam's sketch...Stage 1. I am so happy!!!
The poster-like presentation photo you mentioned was a kind of high-tech method which projects the image on the ground to the screen. When I stand there I can see myself on the screen from 3 angles and I asked one of the visitor to take a photo for me. And there you saw the effect. The biennial 2008 in Shanghai is an exhibition of (Shanghai) urban life reflected on different media. A lot of novel ideas, avant-guarde technology, futuristic designs and concepts were presented to the audience and visitors. It was truly an eye opener and you feel the pulse of the city and it reminds life is so colorful and promising, despite the scandals, burst bubbles, economic crisis, etc. and that "mind over matters' because our minds decide how rich our life can be. It is all about how much grateful and passionate we are towards our life. 10月17日 美好的秋日周末！
今天拜访了GOODYEAR 和FAR EAST。 很好的公司。可以在那种电梯发出美妙现代音乐的大厦里办公真好！最喜欢PLAZA 66 恒隆（LV, NIKE, 等等）， 然后是CORPERATE AVENUE ONE 企业天地 (Oracle, Eli, Lilly, Dow, 等等）。幸福极了！再着，上海商城也很不错。BEAR的金茂，DASH的世界金融中心当然更加好！羡慕中。。。 照片是回来后和姐妹们在田子坊的午餐时光拍的。今天的主角是丽娜小姐，因为她烫回了让她无比快乐的卷发。哈哈。。。我们借光拍照。我呢，穿了我喜欢的新皮鞋。我们这群喜欢打扮的女孩们。呵呵。。。每天生活最大的亮点是：搭配衣服和首饰。。。 买了一个绿色的叉饰。很有特色吧。。。（可以挂耳环。但是不舍得把我的个人主义的耳环们暴露在空气中。）这个就是在那个可爱小猫的主人那里买的。我真的很喜欢绿色！和绿色的东西！谁还喜欢绿色？我觉得我的喜好很有特色。 我觉得适合自己的风格是西方且简单的，比如我的衣服通常不带蕾丝，花边，等等， 和丽娜小姐的东方美和风格形成反差。。。 今天这上衣恰巧是亨利帮我在衣都锦买的。呵呵呵。还记得是去年的冬天。 昨天天气冷穿得少，今天穿了厚的，天却热了。 有点小汗。 10月15日 Chia Sin't Blog- Easier Said than Done...You know that..my virgin blog hahaha12/10/2008 2:37 am
Seeing sun out of the dark clouds again……扑开云霄见月明
God finally listen to my prayer. I am feeling good yesterday, betting better until the end of the day. As usual, now in the middle of the night I am not sleeping again. (signs of getting better after an episode of depression lapsing)
Try to recall what happen today, want to keep everything in my “happy” journal recoding my happy feelings as to constantly explore my weakness in healing completely from this plague. “要不断的探索自己“，JoaAnne 的至理名言。
There is go… once upon a time… there goes Chiasin’s life…… blab bla bla…
Woke up around 7 30 am in the morning I started my day with a brief yoga practice, can’t remember when was the last time I practice yoga, …. long long time ago…. After hubby woke up, I asked him to bring me out for breakfast, before that I took 2 tablets of anti depressant (for future reference, clomipramine hydrochloride, I started to increase to 6 tablets/day for 2 days after my breakdown earlier this week. Advise from the doctor via my mum in law. She was worried about me and hence decided to visit the doctor herself as I didn’t want to go) - Chia Sin, I am so touched that your mother-in-law is such a kind woman.
I came back from out breakfast trying to arrange my messy bedside drawer for a while before we go to lunch at my in law’s. My husband decided to go back to office after lunch and since it’s weekend and I don’t want to stay home alone so I followed him.
I called JoaAnne there to kill my time and main purpose is to talk to someone. She’s my one and only close friend in Shanghai who is extremely positive thinking and outspoken. - haha that is true!!!!!We spent almost an hour on the phone but I can only remember 2 points after her wasting so many (much la!!) saliva and time giving me so many advices.
Point no. 1 Be good to yourself 要对自己好，爱自己！！！ ……哎呀又怎样, 我就是这样la…….(JoaAnne’s 口头禅in singlish) Do not self blame no matter how depressed you are. I know it’s one of the symptoms of depression it’s not easy to shift your mind but that’s the only way) Learn to love yourself more and you will be confident. Try to accept the fact that I am sick and I need the help of anti-depressant to go through tough times and YES THIS IS MY WEAKNESS, SO WHAT, I AM WHOM I AM !!!
Point no. 2 “三天不读书面目可憎” by 鲁迅…. Another 至理名言- Well I am flattered! she shared another with me. Try to nurture the habit of learning something new everyday, not necessarily reading books, it can be a conversation with friend, a tv programme, The key is to extract something out of everyday in life which can benefit you in future when you keep them in your “life data bank” as such to broaden your experience in life. All life experience are gain this way. I suddenly have a dream that I want to fulfill. I want to write down my experience titled, tentatively as “Chiasin’s fighting with Depression” Ha ha how bout that…. Oh no .. I am serious … That’s my GOAL…. To write a book to tell people that WE CAN FIGHT DEPRESSION!!! That’s the battle of life !!! Sadly…. I wish to be like J K Rowling, earning a fortune out of it, after so much torture depression has given me. I deserve that, I have lost a lot and suffered over depression. Anyway back to the point. “Try to live everyday fruitfully and learnt new things each and everyday. Experiences are gain this way, there’s no other shortcuts to collecting life experiences. You learn over years over incident happened, over people we met, over sickness, over happiness and lots of lots of other things.
Back to my day, after our tele-conversation, I moved to help my hubby with his work. I gain more understanding of his work scope and wish I am able to brainstorm over the problems with him and thus creates common topics for us.
We called it a day after a good massage at a beauty parlor.
Today Today Today!I got up to see one of my eyes swollen.And my legs are so heavy and painful (everytime when I have menses, I have cramps which spread to my legs, which become very very weak and I can not walk fast. Fortunately, I have long legs and I still walk fast when I walk slow.
 )What to do? My mom said you should take one day off just to relax!
Still gonna go to work! Well, that is me.
Got a call at 8:30 while I was still putting on some foundation. lol. Some client companies work so early.
On my way, my mind was occupied of today's agenda: the emails to send, the people to meet, the figures to remember, and the poise to keep even in pains.
Met DT at Ascott who is such kind and helpful person. I am always impresssed by his friendliness.
Moved on to Hyatt J-Life for the lunch. Arrived some time earlier and called Bear who came down to see me right away and toured me around the building. My dear old friend Bear looks so much more mature than last time (one year + ago??). And he said 'come to my home? You know my mama misses you.' How sweet! We were so good when in high school! After I went abroad, we drifted apart physically. But the good thing is the distance between hearts is always close. It is such a nice place with such a good company. The next place for any kind of heart warming get-together!
Then we met Consul General of Luxembourg. I met Dr. Lee at the entrance who gave me a big kiss on the cheek. It is always great seeing him! And you feel like living in a foreign country every day work with those lao wai...
Paradise Garden is the upper version of Jade Garden. The decoration is superb!!!! I had no idea how much they paid for the lunch. The dishes were so luxurious! Abalone, sharks fin, fishes, prawns, steak, all presented in such delicate and half-royal way. God, they are my client and I am treated so well. In the end, the humorous Consul General said ' Well than you doctor for the free consulation today!', after the numerous assumption of himself having an heart attack because 'I like all the food such as ice cream, chocolate, cognac, meat, French flies, oh, I am a nightmare to the doctors. The lunch was laugh- filled.
Afterwards, I went to the immigration center. My new passport is ready! It is extremely fast processing. I asked the guy he said well you are so luck. Normally it takes ten days! (Mine took 2 days!). Likewise, it took half a month for the Singapore government to grant my PR (normally one month!) after first appllication.
I feel I am such a lucky girl today! There are other more pleasantly shocking news today! But I will share with you guys maybe a bit later!!!!!!
  Look at my passport!!! 5 years' difference! Always more beautiful!! LOL
Well, the truth is people say 'JoAnne has a very kind look. ' Or, 'JoAnne is so charming when she smiles!' So, KEEP SMILING, NO MATTER WHAT!
10月14日 Tomorrow Paradise Garden @ J-LifeThe General Consulate of Luxembourg is inviting me and Dr. Lee for a working lunch tomorrow at JinMao. I am very excited to revisit it.
It is one of the more generous consulate I have worked with really.
Here is some info. on the country. It is interesting. It is said to be the most developped/wealthy country in the EU. No wonder their office is in JinMao. :)
Imagining how nice life would be in those Countries like Danmark, Luxembourg, and New Zealand!
Last but not least. Today I want to share with you guys this very beautiful song: The Rose by Janis Joplin
The Chaos!! 华尔街最近流行的段子：
10月12日 Sentense of the Week - From VV's websiteGood love makes you see the whole world from one person while bad love makes you abandon the whole world for one person.
Makes Sense...
The Best Weekend in a WhileFriday was fun! I met the French gentleman after meeting him at the expat show for the second time. We had a very nice chat after work over a cup of coffee at Origin. It is always interesting to know new people and their life experiences, work, and views of life in Shanghai.
And Xiao Pang eunxpectedly called me to have dinner together. It was such a nice soul to soul talk in the restaurant until deep into the night. Even I was really tired and suffering from my regular headache, I felt my heart was filled up again.
I had a very good Saturday,in the way it was productive and thought-provoking. I was doing housework the whole day doing laundary and ironing my autumn clothings and I realized how tiring it is to keep the house clean. Afterwards, even peeling apples makes your fingers aching! I always took it for granted for the routines my parents conduct every day. At the end of the day, I had a regular detailed talk with J and reached a good peaceful conslusion. I was happy and went to bed.
My lord! I thought I would sleep very well. AGAIN?! I had a very stressful dream again last night about improving my work flow and rushing report and meeting deadlines.
I am not sure why I am so 'serious' even this wields no rewards as I am no sales person with incentive scheme.
I was talking to my boss and presenting him with my ideas. I was anixous to know if my ideas are effective when they are implemented. I was contemplating so hard that when I woke up I felt so weak and tired again.
Maybe as I said to my boss at the end of last week that it is part of my character. I am never relaxed when at work. I am just very responsible and want to get things done properly and well.
Today I agreed to go to shop around with YaoYao. We are childhood friends living next door. This is the type of friend you feel so relaxed and comfortable walking and shopping together. We had a lot of light hearted talks and shared a lot on the facial products. The girl talks were so fun and blissful!
The best part is we watched Painted Skin together. I have already heard a lot about it from critic Lina and Bei. I was expecting to see it for myself. There is humor at the beginning. But the plot turns sharply. And at the end I was so emotioned and moved that my tears are running over... But I told myself, stop being like this. Movies always overstates the nobility of love. Come on jojo, come back to the reality. So I contained my tears. :)
It is a most productive and fun weekend in the past few months. Good night! Tomorrow will be my annual performance review day! Judgement Day! hahah...guess I need to be myself and that is all.good luck 99!
10月11日 父爱今天一早7点就起身吃早饭。爸爸把面条煮好了。主要是有好菜，昨晚没有吃。谁会像我周六7点起来吃面条？呵呵。。。
然后就又回去睡了。大概8点，爸爸说你快点起来，已经要迟到了。
我说没有今天是周六！
他说啊呀！我帮你衣服统统洗好晒了。早知道，我就让你自己偶尔动动手了。
我大声笑，跑去抱住爸爸说爸爸你真是对我太好了！
感动。。。
其实，爸爸妈妈每天都是那样默默地为我安排好日常生活一切的。说来简单，其实真的很辛苦很不容易。非常感动。不仅此时。 10月10日 Stress?This morning my team member was choking and crying out to grasp for air because she was out of breath after a sleepless night.
I heard about it when I reached office as I was also home feeling very sick in the early morning and asked for late coming in.
I was very worried and later she came back with the diagnosis 'anxiety crisis'.
I think it is all from stress. I was dreaming the whole night last night debating (in English) with the Chinese American Nobel Laureate Dr. Qian. Maybe in the daytime, I was listening to the radio covering his profile and feats to the fields. It was a dream full of witty challenges and in-depth ponderings. When I woke up, I was so weak and my head was very heavy and spinning.
It is interesting that I have nightmares nonstop during National Day holiday. I was crying when I woke up...
What happened to my life?
I feel so puzzled what is the meaning of life?
10月8日 Small Briefing @ Dulwich CollegeGonna do similar in Amro next Monday for their VIP Club. Interesting!
Tomorrow I am gonna go to Vienna Cafe for lunch! http://www.viennashanghai.com/
Looks a very European style cafe. "Chengdu Guy" Just FunnyHi Bad Old Man,
Yes I feel it rocks! I am always so amused by your lightheartedness and sense of humor. I still recall the time when you told us the story about your encounter with the masked woman in Italy. It is so blissful. It is good that you slept like a baby. And I am not surprised you will treat your ayi dinner as you are such a fair and kind person.The dinner place sounds very exotic. Waiting for you… Bacia Bacia!
JoJO
Hey Kid, Isn't this internet thing rockin? Well, yesterday I bought a new mattress to replace the 3 cm bamboo and stone one that came with my apartment and I slept like a baby and my ayi came today and we had lunch with amazingly good sichuan food under blue skies in a restaurant with no doors, just open and well,.....life feels much better, just like My Jo Jo predicted! Have to leave....waiting for me.... S.
Dear Chengdu new citizen S,
I laughed first when I read it. And then my eyes are bit warm… I am sorry to hear about your lonely life but maybe it is just a beginning. Have you read this article by one of our doctors as attached? :P Hope my email mitigate your loneliness… Surprisingly, actually very little English is spoken in Shanghai as well just Shanghai is much larger so the chances are higher. It is a matter of settling in because sooner or later you are going to find your friends (good ones) and ayi to help with the nice but dirty apartment. I do not understand why there is no hot water. It is really getting cold… I will attach some info. I have about Chengdu for your reference? More later… Jo
I shall fly to see you after Nov. I am flying to Singapore first to see my friend.
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