Golden 30!

Happy Birthday to my dear husband! This is your first birthday as a married guy. You're turning to your 30! A big milestone in your life. 30s is the golden time when you're still young but now more mature and responsible, know yourself better and have a clear direction in your life. I'm sure when you look back, it's the age that you'll miss a lot.


To celebrate Hadi's BIG birthday, I gave him a little more surprises on top of the cards I made and birthday presents I bought. I flew to San Francisco unexpectedly on his birthday to have dinner and cut cake with him and the family. Then before the clock struck the last few minutes of his birthday, I gave him birthday cards sent by his friends from Hong Kong and Macau. I knew Hadi always misses his friends. So I asked them to write him cards, sent them to me first and then I gave them all to Hadi on his birthday. Hadi was really surprised and delighted by his friends' cards. They even took some videos which were not expected. Thank you all guys. I have to special thank to Mo Leung who was the coordinator of all these. Really appreciate your BIG help!


We made Hadi's birthday a long weekend vacation cause we both took the following Monday off. We improvised a weekend getaway to CalPoly San Luis Obispo where we both studied at. It happened that the annual show of Architecture graduation students took place over that weekend. It was worth a drive cause Hadi ran into his classmates whom had not seen since his graduation day. And now he is in touch with them again. We spent the night at Santa Barbara and went biking the next day....it was really a fun and relaxing birthday weekend.


Mr Koo, you still have the supreme authority to enjoy in the rest of the month cause you're the King of this Month! But after the last day of May, I will be back to my throne and be the Queen of the entire year. Haha!


Welcome to the 30. Happy Birthday!

New BFF

One word - Lazy.

What have I done? What have I been doing all these months and being so lazy to update our blog.


Well, I just don't feel like blogging. Have been just being with myself a lot. Hm... may be too much. Yes, being with myself but no one else (of course except my husband. We still try to keep our schedule to meet every other weekend. Either I fly or he comes). I didn't see any friends or relatives. Just wanna go home straight after work or stay home alone on weekend. O, but I found a new friend...

Now I found out when a person HAD to BE alone, with nothing particular to be busy with (another word - no goal to pursue. Unlike when I was immersed in our wedding planning. Woke up every morning with only one word "wedding" in my mind), one would discover something new that he/she had never realized such thing could be so interesting before. In the past few months, I had finished the Twilight saga (yes, all four books in the series. And yes, I am now a fan of Robert Pattison. Oh, should I claim myself fan of Edward Cullen instead? Will that sound less crazy?). I had also read Wuthering Heights as well as Revolutionary Road. These two books were both finished in one weekend respectively. I kept reading and reading. Suddenly realized there were too many books I could read. Too much to finish in one's life.

I never like reading. Before the last few months, reading was like a task to me. Basically I read because I had to. Usually for school or exam. When I was still a student, I didn't find reading a hobby like lots of other people did. School had already given me too much to study. I rarely picked up a book unrelated to school. Time didn't give me a chance to taste the fun of reading.

Now I found it an enlightenment. Besides pets which are the general options, I think books are another dependable form of companions to humans. There's a lot of time in a person's life when he/she has to be alone. When it comes to a point that loneliness hits the bottom, and there's no power to turn on your computer/TV/video game......books may be your true friends.