这个星期每天都跟老公去钓鱼
走好远的路，爬上爬下，累！
原来因为鱼的数量减少了
为了保护与维持数量，今年不管你钓到什么鱼，有多大条
都要放生！！
瓦靠！那么钓来干什么？还要走那么远，最近天气又冷，常下雨，常常要走烂泥巴路去荒山野岭钓鱼，晕！
这几天因为家婆有约，为了不要因为准备晚餐而赶时间，我就说晚餐由我来准备好了。今晚，我准备了lamb kebabs，大家都喜欢吃，太好了。
明天晚上打算煮酱油鸡，星期五煮beef stew with ale,很期待回新国的时候煮给你们吃，
28 Oct 2009
24 Oct 2009
23 Oct 2009
3个月了，工作还是没有消息
申请了很多份工作都沉入大海，我每几天都会收到email或者邮差叔叔会交给我‘情书’。
亲爱的XXX小姐，
谢谢你寄来你的履历表，但是我们收到太多申请信件，所以你的申请我们这次无法接受，谢谢你对我们的公司的兴趣。。。
这里，如果你的年薪不超过37，400，那么你只要还20%的tax,但是如果你的年薪超过37，400的话，你的tax就是年薪的40%了！！超高！
所以，为什么这里有那么多人受到政府照顾的?没工作可以claim unemployed benefits,也可以帮孩子claim child support benefits，残缺人士可以claim disability benefits,没地方住，政府帮你房租让你有地方住。
记得看过一个报道，一个Ghana来的男人，来了英国后，以asylum seeker status获准居住在英国。没工作，政府养他，给他地方住还让他免费读大学！后来，他在Ghana的妻子也来了，本来说好他们会找工作养活自己，谁知道 孩子一个接一个生下来，妻子没办法工作因为要照顾小孩，据说老公也没找到合适的工作，然后他们住的房子太小,3个房间！！！所以要求更大的房子，他们找到 了一间价值2百多万的屋子，每个月租金要2千多！！政府帮他们付。难怪有那么多战乱国家的人民要来英国了，像他们所说的，英国的福利好，语言沟通也没问 题。这也是为什么那么多高薪的国民要到外国工作了，每年要纳税在至少40%，倒不如去外国工作还可以看世界！
申请了很多份工作都沉入大海，我每几天都会收到email或者邮差叔叔会交给我‘情书’。
亲爱的XXX小姐，
谢谢你寄来你的履历表，但是我们收到太多申请信件，所以你的申请我们这次无法接受，谢谢你对我们的公司的兴趣。。。
这里，如果你的年薪不超过37，400，那么你只要还20%的tax,但是如果你的年薪超过37，400的话，你的tax就是年薪的40%了！！超高！
所以，为什么这里有那么多人受到政府照顾的?没工作可以claim unemployed benefits,也可以帮孩子claim child support benefits，残缺人士可以claim disability benefits,没地方住，政府帮你房租让你有地方住。
记得看过一个报道，一个Ghana来的男人，来了英国后，以asylum seeker status获准居住在英国。没工作，政府养他，给他地方住还让他免费读大学！后来，他在Ghana的妻子也来了，本来说好他们会找工作养活自己，谁知道 孩子一个接一个生下来，妻子没办法工作因为要照顾小孩，据说老公也没找到合适的工作，然后他们住的房子太小,3个房间！！！所以要求更大的房子，他们找到 了一间价值2百多万的屋子，每个月租金要2千多！！政府帮他们付。难怪有那么多战乱国家的人民要来英国了，像他们所说的，英国的福利好，语言沟通也没问 题。这也是为什么那么多高薪的国民要到外国工作了，每年要纳税在至少40%，倒不如去外国工作还可以看世界！
12 Oct 2009
Finally, got to talk to Shane and Sean on webcam and after they had downloaded Skype, the network is so much better than MSN.We try to do a video conference daily usually before 5pm(+8 GMT) before their dad gets home and it'd be so inconvenient to talk.
Nothing on the job front yet. Applied for so many jobs in Aberdeen, receiving so many emails and letters saying that application is not being considered,etc etc. Now trying Edinburgh and if I get a job there, I'd move.
Hubby is away today for a week, will be home next week for another 2 weeks. Unfortunately, the timing doesn't coincide with my ovulation period, doesn't do me any good.
Nothing on the job front yet. Applied for so many jobs in Aberdeen, receiving so many emails and letters saying that application is not being considered,etc etc. Now trying Edinburgh and if I get a job there, I'd move.
Hubby is away today for a week, will be home next week for another 2 weeks. Unfortunately, the timing doesn't coincide with my ovulation period, doesn't do me any good.
11 Oct 2009
Hubby went to the Dee for fishing the whole day on Thursday with his fishing cronies and I went to the Stitch N Bitch Club in the evening to meet the ladies. Quite a few new ladies and lots and lots of wool!!!They also brought their pattern books which are very beautiful and a lot of them are very cute and challenging projects like toilet rolls, handbags, there are also crochet patterns for teddies,etc.
Made a Cheese cake on Friday,it's called Chanel. Using crushed digestive biscuits as base, mix egg yolk, cream cheese, whipped cream, lemon grind and juice, gelatine and yoghurt together,pour onto the base,keep in the fridge for 2.5 hours and then we had it on Saturday for Tea.Mum made very nice ham soup using a ham shank and lots of vegetables. For main course, she made beef oxford, yummy!!!!
Today, I'd be preparing the dinner, gonna roast the duck breasts and stir fry some vegetable with oyster sauce.
I'd be alone for a whole week again as hubby is going offshore tomorrow. The payment for the maid's levy is due in a few days,worried.....
Made a Cheese cake on Friday,it's called Chanel. Using crushed digestive biscuits as base, mix egg yolk, cream cheese, whipped cream, lemon grind and juice, gelatine and yoghurt together,pour onto the base,keep in the fridge for 2.5 hours and then we had it on Saturday for Tea.Mum made very nice ham soup using a ham shank and lots of vegetables. For main course, she made beef oxford, yummy!!!!
Today, I'd be preparing the dinner, gonna roast the duck breasts and stir fry some vegetable with oyster sauce.
I'd be alone for a whole week again as hubby is going offshore tomorrow. The payment for the maid's levy is due in a few days,worried.....
9 Oct 2009
From the mouth of Babes
Went for the Stitch N Bitch meeting last night, Lara was sharing a story about her 6 year old daughter. Lara was putting her daughter to sleep and they had the following conversation:
Daughter : Mum, can I not go away to college and live elsewhere when I'm 18?
Mum : Why,dear?
Daughter : Cos I love my bunkbed and I do not want to sleep on other beds.
Mum : But,honey, one day you will get married and I'm sure your husband would not want to sleep in your tiny bunk bed.
Daughter : I do not want to get married, I want to be a lesbian.
Mum (trying to stifle a laugh and keeping a neutrel expression) : Why would you want to be a lesbian?
Daughter : I do not want to share my bed with any men, women smell nicer,like you, men are so smelly, like daddy.
Mum : ........................
My nephew,Finlay, had a slight redness on his 'little brother' one day and his dad applied some medication on it before bringing him to the playground. It was a nice day and there were a lot of kids and parents there. Finlay got on a see-saw and soon he started shouting 'My penis is infected, my penis is infected' You can imagine how embarressed the dad was and the looks that they received from the other people there.
Shane, my younger boy,often suffer from flatulence. He often farted and it's not the odourless kind, probably can bottle it as sort of a smelling salt. Anyway, when he was 4 or was it 5, we were in a crowded lift, suddenly there was this awful odour and everyone covered their nose and looked around them. Shane looked at me and said,' Mum, you farted again, it smelled terrible, told you many times not to do it in public!' Everyone gave me the dirty look and I wished there was a hole for me to sink into.
Alicia, a distant niece was 7 when we were buying chicken in the supermarket and having this discussion.
Me : Do you know where does the chicken come from?
Alicia : From an egg of course!
Me : And then what happened after that and how did it get to the supermarket shelves?
Alicia : The eggs will hatch into chicks and when they grew older, they will become chickens. Then they will be delivered to the Supermarkets where their feathers will shed, head and neck will drop off naturally before they are packed into boxes and arranged on the shelves.
Me : .........................
Daughter : Mum, can I not go away to college and live elsewhere when I'm 18?
Mum : Why,dear?
Daughter : Cos I love my bunkbed and I do not want to sleep on other beds.
Mum : But,honey, one day you will get married and I'm sure your husband would not want to sleep in your tiny bunk bed.
Daughter : I do not want to get married, I want to be a lesbian.
Mum (trying to stifle a laugh and keeping a neutrel expression) : Why would you want to be a lesbian?
Daughter : I do not want to share my bed with any men, women smell nicer,like you, men are so smelly, like daddy.
Mum : ........................
My nephew,Finlay, had a slight redness on his 'little brother' one day and his dad applied some medication on it before bringing him to the playground. It was a nice day and there were a lot of kids and parents there. Finlay got on a see-saw and soon he started shouting 'My penis is infected, my penis is infected' You can imagine how embarressed the dad was and the looks that they received from the other people there.
Shane, my younger boy,often suffer from flatulence. He often farted and it's not the odourless kind, probably can bottle it as sort of a smelling salt. Anyway, when he was 4 or was it 5, we were in a crowded lift, suddenly there was this awful odour and everyone covered their nose and looked around them. Shane looked at me and said,' Mum, you farted again, it smelled terrible, told you many times not to do it in public!' Everyone gave me the dirty look and I wished there was a hole for me to sink into.
Alicia, a distant niece was 7 when we were buying chicken in the supermarket and having this discussion.
Me : Do you know where does the chicken come from?
Alicia : From an egg of course!
Me : And then what happened after that and how did it get to the supermarket shelves?
Alicia : The eggs will hatch into chicks and when they grew older, they will become chickens. Then they will be delivered to the Supermarkets where their feathers will shed, head and neck will drop off naturally before they are packed into boxes and arranged on the shelves.
Me : .........................
6 Oct 2009
Happy 4th Month Wedding Anniversary.
Apparently, hubby wasn't big on celebrations nor would he remember. I don't see why I have to remind him.
To him, it's just another day. I wish he would make some effort, go for long walks, go out somewhere,just the two of us. Spend some quality together, do something romantic.
4 months, still in the honeymoon period. Unfortunately, I don't feel bridal nor newly-wedded. Nothing to contribute to the feelings.
Woke up this morning, cooked bacon,eggs and mushroom, did the laundry, cleaned the room, went online to search and apply for jobs,another boring day.
Apparently, hubby wasn't big on celebrations nor would he remember. I don't see why I have to remind him.
To him, it's just another day. I wish he would make some effort, go for long walks, go out somewhere,just the two of us. Spend some quality together, do something romantic.
4 months, still in the honeymoon period. Unfortunately, I don't feel bridal nor newly-wedded. Nothing to contribute to the feelings.
Woke up this morning, cooked bacon,eggs and mushroom, did the laundry, cleaned the room, went online to search and apply for jobs,another boring day.
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