專一

老公從來都是個專一的人，這點我從來沒有懷疑過，從他只駕駛同一架車，為同一間公司工作，只與一個女孩拍拖，只娶一個老婆...等等，我都有理由相信他是一個重情義的人。

某周末早上我要去接機，心想讓老公多睡片刻，待我接完機後才回來與他吃午飯吧。於是臨出門前貼了一張post-note於浴室鏡上，告訴他我大概一小時後回來。回來時老公已梳洗完畢，正準備出外用餐之際，我發現他珍而重之的把那post-note放好。

我: 你不打算丟掉那post-note嗎?
老公: 你給我的東西，我從來也不丟的。我連你送給我禮物的包裝紙和絲帶也沒有丟掉啊!
我: (好sweet呢, 先給老公一個擁抱) 難怪你有那麼多的雜物清來清去也清不完啦!
老公: ......

我有理由相信，那些專一重情義的人，家中必定有許多雜物。

吳初雪

2006年11月29日是SaSa第一個生日。還記得去年的今天是入冬以來首次下雪，雪不是下得很大，但大家也很難忘，還說笑的說應替她起名叫吳初雪 (多麼有詩意的名字!)。結果SaSa不是叫初雪，而是叫天詠，她也很少被喚作ShaSha，而被喚作SaSa、Sa姐、阿Sa...她雖然沒有阿嬌在旁，但她自己的fans也不少，七姨婆、五舅公等，全都慕名而來一睹阿Sa的風采。阿Sa也常常開演唱會，不過不是在紅館，而且大部份觀眾也聽不明白她所唱的歌詞，她也習以為常了。

剛過去的周末拜初雪所賜，溫哥華下了入冬以來的第一場雪。SaSa的pre-birthday party於是在大雪紛飛下舉行，感恩的是SaSa 的御用delivery company - Sa叔Sa嬸 Delivery Ltd. - 也能平安運送食物抵達目的地，只是貪心的Sa叔還帶來了一鞋子的冰水...

今天是SaSa正日生日，沒有初雪，只有更大的雪。 Sa叔話SaSa不應再叫天詠了，她應該叫做吳小雪 (即大雪囉!)。

不知明年今日，溫哥華的天氣會如何? 我希望不會有雪崩...

落大雪

今早起床望出窗外看見整個世界像穿上一件白衣般，心想不知老公平安回到公司否，打電話給他無人接聽，還以為他去了開會，不久接到他的電話，原來他用了兩個小時仍stuck在後巷，於是我馬上帶同工具去拯救他。路面情況有點混亂，許多大樹也倒下，封鎖了一些街道。為了安全起見，我也取消了今天學生的課，所以今天兩口子留在家中，鏟雪、洗衫、打機 (老公嫌我level低，寧願自己打...)。

漫長的一天怎過呢? 想起結婚與honeymoon的相還未處理，於是動手入相簿。再次看那批相，實在有點想嘔的感覺，想起自己果晚身為主角但覺得超悶、想起自己身為新娘但碟碟菜都食光...不過也讓我記起一些朋友對我們婚禮當天的comment:

阿S話:
Any-Way，這個婚禮很好。
短，精，簡。我是來參加婚禮、分享喜悅的，不是來聽你爸/媽/弟/好朋友ABCDEFG表演的。
男的說得很動人。（為什麼連續兩個新郎都這麼sensitive呢？）
女的如常很冷靜。（？！）

阿D話:
There were 3 moments touched me:
When Peter and his wife Charmaine sang "Perhaps Love".
When Kenley gave a surprise speech to Janet. The speech was funny yet sweet, especially this line (approx):"I love you because of who you are and because of who I am when I am with you."
When Kenley gave thanks to me, my mother, and my father.

阿I, E, W, M...話 (之後於晚宴中告訴我們):
嘩!你老公篇speech好感人呀，我身為男人都聽到眼濕濕呢!你有無喊呀?
Ehh...(其實係感動的，但又未至於流下熱淚咁嚴重) 無呀，少少眼濕都有...我驚個妝溶嘛...
唔係嘛? 你講真? 咁都無喊? (講你又唔信，又問?!)

我自己就覺得當好友唱Perhaps Love時就最感動，其次係當老公多謝佢爸爸果part。老公對我講的speech，我覺得好笑多過感動囉!

奇異的伯娘

今晚食生果的時候，想起遠在香港老公的伯娘 (即老公的父親的哥哥的太太)。

話說這次返香港我們住在伯娘家，伯娘雖然獨居，但家中水果種類多得像一個生果檔，有橙、蘋果、香蕉、碌柚、奇異果、提子等等。伯娘的水果又大又好味，我話大係真係巨大果隻，例如D提子size接近奇異果，奇異果size好似橙，橙size又大到好似碌柚咁! 我同老公都唔明點解伯娘可以買D咁巨大的水果，老公話伯娘可能去了大人國買! 仲有仲有，伯娘若果知道你鐘意食某一種食物 ，不論健康有益與否都會大量入貨。有朝我食了兩個奇異果，當晚已經有六個奇異果等我，然後伯娘差不多每天都會叫我食果D奇異大的奇異果，一個接一個，足足三星期...我快食到D奇異果斷貨了...

雖然三星期內吃了N個奇大的奇異果，但心裹仍很感激伯娘熱情的款待，她實在很好，我愛奇異的伯娘!

昏迷的滋味

由於之前於香港沒有好好睡過一覺，甫下機吃過午飯便倒頭大睡了五個小時，晚飯後老公也開始頂唔順，於是兩口子晚上十時便就寢，馬拉松睡眠比賽正式開始! 醒來時已是下午四時，算一算手指，原來我們睡了足足18小時!!! 若果我加埋之前那小睡的5小時，那我差不多睡了24小時! (可想而知我倆在香港的三星期有多累) 自己也有點驚訝，因我從未這樣昏迷過。

這次馬拉松睡眠的後遺症是之後三晚良久也不能入睡，也許是時差作怪，更應該是因為我們睡得太多之過!

另一種司琴

今天去了一個喪禮，其實我與主角並不相識，但倒認識其家人。昨晚牧師來電說找不到司琴，所以即使明知我與主角並不相識也找我，看看我能否幫忙。我想，當婚禮司琴也有N次了，喪禮的司琴倒未試過，難道我只可與喜樂的人同樂，卻不可與哀傷的人同哭嗎? 正因如此，今天下午第一次於喪禮擔當司琴的角色。

喪禮過後，心情有點不一樣。天空的灰雲開始散去，像提醒眾人天色雖非常藍，但主恩足夠我們每天面對各樣事情。感謝主這次寶貴的經歷，讓我更深體會人生雖短暫但神仍看顧的心意。

幸福唔係必然

有晚教完琴返到屋企，老公已經煮好飯等我，突然覺得自己幾幸福，起碼我嫁比一個肯煮飯的男人。食緊飯時覺得自己好幸福，因為老公煮既菜很美味。食完飯老公自動自覺去洗碗，我覺得自己勁幸福!

我從來都不相信幸福係必然，佢一定預謀緊一D事，不過未開口而已。

彈琴的手

今天與父母談起保險，他們說我應為雙手購買保險，因為我是以雙手 "維生"云云。這點我真的沒有想過，不過這對話讓我想起半年前的某天...

話說有次於教會Alpha事工參與事奉，我負責司琴及茶水部，老公則負責幫手洗碗。通常洗碗部都會比較遲走，所以我等老公 "落更"時會幫手抹乾碗碟。

有次阿甲看見我在抹碟，驚訝的說: 哎! 乜攪到要司琴洗碗呀! 你對手要來彈琴嘛，快出返去等我攪啦! (我未及回應已被人推出廚房外)
行到去教會office 見到大家在剪紙，走過去幫手一齊剪。過了大概十五分鐘阿乙走過來，語重心長的說: 不如等我幫你啦，你對手係用來司琴，唔係個個都可以好似你咁彈到一手好琴架!

有丁點兒覺得無奈，我從來都不認為司琴的手是特別高貴、特別優越。神給我雙手不是只為彈琴，也可為其他職份吧。幸好我明白甲和乙也是出於好意才會這樣說，但在我認識的人中，確實有人只肯作司琴、不肯作詩班員，更甚的，連摺紙也不肯，說得自己的手那麼高貴。又有些司琴主觀地認為自己彈得好，不肯接納指揮和別人的意見。看見滿有恩賜的人變得自滿，我實在為神的家心痛和難過。難道神找不到謙卑的人為衪作工麼?

事奉無分大小等級是耳熟能詳的道理，聽道後能否行道卻又是另一回事。願神多多提醒我要珍惜每個事奉機會，用心的去事奉，謙虛的事奉。

阿Sa坐飛機

2006年10月22日，這是一個吳家上上下下也不會忘記的大日子，因為這天是 SaSa 第一次坐飛機!!!

臨出發前 Sa爸、Sa媽、Sa叔、Sa嬸確實有點期待，但期待中也帶點緊張，有點兒像楊利偉臨上太空前廣大中國同胞的期盼心情吧? ! 各方各位已準備就緒，但SaSa會唔會暈機浪呢? 飛機起飛降落時，SaSa耳鳴大哭怎辦? 這些都是大家關心的問題。Sa叔一早明言如果SaSa大吵時，他會扮肚痛收埋自己於洗手間內，實行置身度外。Sa嬸好一點，她說她會自備baseball 棒上機，隨時打暈SaSa，那就天下太平了。Sa媽說若果SaSa失控，她會用Sa嬸支baseball棒打暈自己算了!

結果? Sa叔無肚痛，Sa嬸Sa媽無用baseball棒，SaSa順利完成今次測試，平安抵港，感謝主!

睡在街上的感覺

剛剛外遊回來，身心靈確實有點累，所以許久也沒有更新這個blog，請見諒。這次三星期回港之旅，行動如像先鋒部隊，每朝大清早約五時半便被電車伯伯叮醒，於半睡半醒時開始聽到小巴阿叔的飛車聲，接下來還有巴士阿哥的剎車聲、狂燥的士大佬的響安聲。要是此時還懶在床的話，便會聽到樓下報攤三妹開檔聲，甚至張師奶與陳嬸的對話聲。天啊，我是否睡在街上了?

每早起床後好像也有一大堆的tasks需要去完成，回港第一個星期便是要為我們在港的婚宴作最後準備，感謝主有許多朋友的幫忙，特別是茱莉和馬太，多謝您們啊! 婚宴中各方親戚好友也相約見面，順理成章第二個星期我們便十分忙碌的約見姨媽姑姐三姑六婆，期間亦不忘抽空購物。第三個星期，亦即最後的一個星期了，去了拜山及做一些遊客應做的事 --- 觀光。三個星期過得很快，好像來不及欣賞多一點的人與事便要回來。這次旅程當然有不少趣事啦 (可別忘記我們與Sa Sa一起呢!) 留待下次再update吧!

誰曾應許

誰曾應許，一生不撇下我？每段窄路，誰陪我去走過？
誰還領我，於青草恬靜處躺臥，豐足恩惠比海沙更多？
誰曾應許，天天看顧著我，晝夜眷佑，連頭髮也數過？
誰還以愛驅走心裡懼怕，怯懦那懼路途捲動著漩渦？
因你是我主我避難所，我盾牌和詩歌，你是我的高臺我隨時幫助，來吧，用信心讚頌和高歌，你永在我心窩，唯你有永生江河，除你以外不倚靠別個，我究竟算甚麼，神你竟這般顧念我。

我真的好鍾意這首詩歌，當唱着這首詩歌的時候，心裏不自覺地由衷的去感謝神，感謝他的看顧。第一次聽這首詩歌是當老公和我在 honeymoon trip中. 老公很好, 去 honeymoon 前預備了mp3。當時在巴士上望出窗外看週遭的事物，呆呆地坐著 走一段很長很遠的路，聽到這首詩歌時有着很深的感動。我看看身邊的老公，想起他在許多的事情上為我作了很多，心裏很是感激他。 但畢竟人是有限的， 就算身邊最親的人也不可能像神一，連我的頭髮也數過吧？ 因為神這般顧念我，我更要去珍惜生命中曾經擁有過的，多多數算主恩典，感謝神，讚美神！

因為在巴士上的路很長，聽完 N次的我，大概已懂得背這首歌的歌詞了！每次當我想到這首詩歌，都有一份用言語也說不出的感動在心中運行著，願神繼續提醒我多多倚靠他，事奉他。

Cooking

Those who know me and Kenley long enough know that he is a good cook but I know nothing about cooking. So for the last couple months I started learning cooking, provided that I have the time and mood (this is very important, haha!).

It is a really painful learning process especially when the finished product turns out to be a mess (which is always the case). Not only that I have to clean up the kitchen, but also I have to eat the so-called food. Many of the times I just don't understand how come I can only make the food from "raw" to "cooked", while Kenley can cook the food so delicious with flavors.

I have dinner by myself tonight so I decide to try something new. I stir fry the bak-choy and steam a plate of fishpaste with tofu. The bak-choy is alright, at least it is not as salty as my first time. The fishpaste with tofu looks good, but the texture is so weird. Sigh! Lucky that Kenley has to pack lunch tomorrow, so half of the dish goes into his lunch box. By the time he discovered how awful the taste is, he has no choice already, am I smart? haha...

Well, practice makes perfect. I will keep trying, don't worry :)

Steam Pork Buns

Kenley made a dream the other day. In his dream I make breakfast for him, no, not those ham, egg, and toast breakfast, but one of his favourite food - Siu Lung Bao. It is a dream apparently.

I've never thought of making breakfast for my loved one, not even when I was at 17 dreaming fantacy. Now after I become Mrs. Ng, Kenley's breakfast is cereal, cereal and cereal. Not that I don't love him anymore, but I just love sleeping so much. So I educate him over and over that cereal is a healthy breakfast and he gladly eat the same thing over and over again without any complaints.

Then one day he made a dream of having Siu Lung Bao as breakfast. Psychologist says this is unconcious desire. May be I can do something, I tell myself. Afterall, it is not something so big that I can't handle. So I grab some frozen Siu Lung Bao, wake up really early today, and cook steam pork buns for him! In fact I slept at 1:30am last night and I'm so sleepy, but I know he is going to appreciate a lot when he sees a plate of hot, juicy Siu Lung Bao waiting for him!

Sometimes it just requires small effort to make other people's dreams come true. Why not be Aladin today? It's going to be A Whole New World.

Performance

My student invites me to a concert where she will be part of the joint-school choir and perform on the stage of Chan Centre at UBC. It is indeed my honor to be invited to this concert. As a teacher, I've always long to build a relationship with my students, a relationship that is more than just teacher and student, but a relationship of trust and friendship. It is always not easy and it takes time and patience to listen and understand them. Thank God that my student are willing to share with me their daily lives, like the gossip at school, the fight with mom etc. I feel honored to grow with them and just be there listening to them when they want to share their problems with a big sister.

Here is the family background of the student who invites me to her concert:
Her mom runs a store on her own and works 6 days a week, 10 hours a day.
Her dad is a construction contractor and works 7 days a week, ??? hours a day.
Her parents seldom joined any school activities because of the above schedule.

It is her first time to perform at Chan Centre and she invites me, isn't that touched? I'm more than happy to reschdule my other lessons to make myself available that night. You never know how significant and supportive your attendance is to a child when she performs on the stage. I think if my other student has similar performance in the future, I would probably do the same thing too. I feel honored to be part of the audience because I treasure this relationship so much, yes I really do.

Honeymoon

Kenley and I just come back from our honeymoon. We don't have honey nor see the moon in Europe, but we did have a very great trip.

We joined a tour for the first 10 days - a very typical Chinese tour. You wake up early, eat, sleep on the bus for 3 hours, get off the bus at the attraction and take pics for 30 mins, get onto the bus again for another 3 hours ride, eat again, and sleep. We call this "The Life of A Pig". So with this group we went to Netherland, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Vatican, Monaco, and France. It was rush, but we managed to capture all the main tourist attractions.

The highlight of our honeymoon is the following 2 weeks, when only 2 of us can really enjoy ourselves in Paris and London. We stayed in Paris for 5 days and London for 7 days. It was not rush, and we see what we want and eat what we want.

Enough said, check out the link below for our pictures.

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/554582096HzzmSU

Life after married

Many friends ask me how is the new life after married. Life is pretty much the same to both of us, nothing excited happen, well at least no fights yet. The routine goes on: I teach piano, he works hard for the gas company. The biggest difference probably is the place we both called home now. We have moved in for a month already and the reorganization process is slowly working in progress. Believe me, I still can't get a stamp or a paperclip in a minute. If you really want us describe our new life, we can only say thankful, thankful, and thankful. Thanks to the Lord for this little hut. It is a place for us to rest after each day's hard work, it is also a place where we can share our lives, not only between two of us, but among others. I am thankful that since we moved into this new place, there were times where I prayed with the despaired, offered listening ears to the discouraged, and shared laughters with the joyful. Thanks Lord, for this little hut and your blessings.

La Pelay

I was dreaming to start a piano studio. My friend suggests calling it La Pelay Studio.

It indeed sounds more fancy and sophisticated than Chan Lee Mo Chi Memorial School. I thought it is French, but the creator's translation is "The Play". It sounds more pro, but no one knows what it means actually.

This is how marketing affects our mindset. A product named Botanical Anti-aging Purifying Essence sells 10 times more than something simply called Body Lotion, though the ingredients are identical. If there is a product called Mineral Anti-aging Vitamin-Enriched Purifying Facial Serum with Lavender Essence packaged in a fancy 25ml glass jar, I beg it will sell 100 times more. Ads condemn you having osteoporosis. You keep taking calcium pills because they made you believed that you at 25 years of age have already carried a skeleton of an 85 years old man. Years over years, we put unknown chemicals onto our face and intake unknown drugs. We thought we treat our body well, are we?

My bf never uses skincare products but he is younger than Alan Tam. He looks like 18 every year. My grandma is over 80 but she never take supplements. She is still alive.

Afterall, La Pelay is just Chan Lee Mo Chi Memorial School.