08.10.10
Posted in Main Page at 10:49 pm by Tammy
Forgot this little pic in the last blog.
This was taken resting from a bench on Gulang Island side.
It was a hot day and I had just had a mojito earlier and some 4 hours of sleep the night before and I was feeling good and drowsy with the radiation of the heat(we were in the shade of trees) and the sound of the water.
Linda told me the other day, like an epiphany–she said:”I realized Xiamen is a pretty good place after seeing your pictures.”
Yo, you’ve been in Xiamen for 7 years now right?….
Anyways…my recent days have been quite uneventful. The only thing that’s keeping me laugh is the new seasons of “Curb your Enthusiasm”.
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08.02.10
Posted in Main Page at 9:28 pm by Tammy
My July biz+pleasure trip to Xiamen.
It was supposed to be all biz but while waiting for supplier’s work, me and customer got some time to kill, even managed to spend some hours on Gulang Island.
The difference this time is that I got to check out those little taverns on the island and the night clubs in Xiamen. I would’ve never done it alone but with company it was all fun:D
Surprisingly there are some really nice clubs in Xiamen but clubbers were 95% males and dancers were very lousy. Great music and great deco. price–20% less than same level of clubs in GZ.
For lunch on the first day in quanzhou, supplier took us to this private kitchen.
I really liked this house.
We had lunch in the room inside. Window opened to a yard. Hot summer breeze and bird’s chirps.
The yard.
Doesnt it pass out an ancient feeling?…
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08.01.10
Posted in Main Page at 8:25 pm by Tammy
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Posted in Main Page at 7:29 pm by Tammy
I haven’t been updating this dairy because I am LAZY.
Pretty much in a pissed mood these days again…it’s just these little things that get on my nerves…and the weather really doesn’t help! (Today it was at one point 39′c)
First of all the AC in Gordo’s study can’t keep up anymore. We had to change to a more powerful one. The installer drilled a hole in the wall in a way that it couldn’t be covered when the AC is hung. It is pig’s work.An absolute eyesore. It makes me VERY upset.
For a moment I looked at this hole and the two fugly new lights we replaced a few months ago and the old studs left on the ceiling from the replacement and the white scratches I accidentally made on the painted wall, I felt like tearing the whole thing down.
The paint is getting old in the apartment and the curtain in the living room is screaming for a change, but with the frequent visitors to the neighbor apartment, we feel it’d be wise to wait until it is sold and decorated. The problem is–When would that happen? and I can’t change curtain before we do the re-paint. –I don’t want to!
What else is bugging me…I found lots of dust on the cover of lights in the study’s. Pissed because apparently cleaner is not doing her work. The regular one passes a damp towel over things so randomly and so gently it almost like she was wiping her diamond with a piece of silk. The other one is better but so rough that she keeps breaking things.
Visited Gordo’s friend in Clifford yesterday. The wife cooked a perfect 6-dish meal to entertain guests.(5 ppl altogether). Everyone was satisfied including me. I was a little upset on the way back, probably because I knew I’d never be able to do that.(I could call take-out, that’s it.)So I pissed on Gordo–:”Don’t you think you should have married someone who cooks?!”
But he offered no comfort,like didn’t listen…
which pissed me off even more, so I tried to pick up a fight by bringing up an old girlfriend:”Why don;t you marry that bitch such and such she’d cook for you read local newspaper like you’d want call tv guy the moment tv is fucked and works way harder…not like me I don’t do this I don’t do that blah blah blah…”
But all he did was asked curiously–:”Why are you starting to put yourself down now??’
By the end maybe he realized that;s not the way to go, so he kind of said:”You are more fun.”
But it wasn’t enough for me so I histerically screamed out in the middle of the night–”I FUCKING HATE COOKING!!!”
To this he just made a dry comment–:”I thought you don’t like cooking but I didn’t know you hated it.”
Here’s the confession–I don’t know if it makes sense–I honestly think I am a horrible wife. I am NOT willing to change, but at the same time I am very upset the way I am. Sometimes I am quite miserable because of it.
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07.11.10
Posted in Main Page at 8:35 pm by Tammy
Finally a weekend all for myself!
I don’t remember what I had to do over the last 3 weekends, but I know for a fact that I didn’t have the break.
Used Sat afternoon to catch up with the sleep, turned out to be a super power nap, to the point I was still quite excited around midnight. After a nestle cold coffee, covering the game German vs Uruguay was a sure thing!
I like both teams and the good thing is I like them just the right amount. Therefore no bad mood if one loses and no uncontrollable cry-out of joys in the middle of the night if one scores. (Just the silent clenching of fists and “Yes!”, with legs up in the air since I am lying in a sofa lol). Was a good game as both teams played under relatively relaxed mood and without over-pressure they were able to better perform their strength.
But it also means the next day I was no better than a piece of junk, with a little over 3 hours of sleep–and not even quality sleep.
The new Nano Gordo bought for use in the car worked well. We tried it on the way to finding a birthday gift for Mira. Cannot give out the info as Mira might be reading my B.S. here out of the blue…
So Sunday after I had another power nap. I am afraid I have created a vicious cycle. 8:30pm now and I am starting to feel the finals is not mission impossible lol…This is self destruction considering tomorrow morning I have to be up at 7am and do pure physical stuff. *___*”
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07.09.10
Posted in Main Page at 8:03 pm by Tammy
The good news is a different diagnosis was done to my mom from another hospital. Apparently it is just an enlargement of the parotid lymph node. No operation is necessary and the doc told my mom to come back in 2 weeks for a re-check. She claimed the nodes has become smaller today.
I am about to say something very cliché now–Health is something you ignore when you have it, (well…like many other things…)but u appreciate the hell of it when lose it.Everything seems powerless and meaningless without a good health.
As for my brother–He has also safely landed in the U.S.
With these 2 things off my mind I feel much lighter.
I am a terrible relative and friend in general but when it comes to family and closest friends, I tend to worry too much…
Continues to be super hot in GZ. Masochistically exposing myself in the sun with no sunscreen and no umbrella everyday, I have become very tanned in just a little over a week. Looking pretty scary with 2 braids+ dark skin+dark eye shadows. >__<
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07.07.10
Posted in Main Page at 9:22 pm by Tammy
World cup is getting to final stage–in fact, ever since the game narrowed down to top 4, it’s pretty much “game over” for me, because going to bed at 4+am and waking up at 7am sharp simply isn’t something my willpower could dictate. Well…speaking NOT of the finals. (definitely will still do this once on the coming Monday morning…).
It’s sort of going to a “now what?” situation–like when you’ve been watching a great TV series and suddenly the season comes to an end. Life would still go on but there will be a short period of time that you don’t know what you are going to do and you got to adjust.
I should say I have been having a breezy time this past month. I feel grateful…was telling Jenny Hu that it is a great happiness for a girl to be able to dance everyday…even though I had to rush back for my afternoon chores,and the rain storm and the following heatwave…It’s just nothing, compared to what we’ve been able to do.
On the other hand, talking about spreading the joy, my students in Clifford requested the center to add one more class per week. I only have a few students but it is great to know that they would be looking forward the whole week just for an hour’s class and they’ve been working hard.
I will have to cut short my own training though, by a few days. Mom called and told me she has been diagnosed with mixed tumor of parotid glands and needs an operation soon. Theoretically it is not a life-and-death situation but an operation is nevertheless an operation. Anything involved cutting you open isn’t that cool, not even on the face. There is a risk of pulling the wrong facial nerves and coming out with a crooked face. I’d pray for her but only now I realize I don’t have any religion. I need to grow some faith.
Having people that you actually care is the ultimate good, but the other side of the coin–not having them is spiritual freedom.(selfish…yea I know…) was telling my girl friend–why the rush falling for the guy if he doesn’t fall first? lol…
So…as it looks, coming 2 weeks would not be breeze, 4 days on biz trip and some more days at hospital.
Dreading it but I wish everything pans out all good…
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07.06.10
Posted in Main Page at 10:33 pm by Tammy
P.S: Roger is in Canada. Funny right? 
The loss of Brazil team had pretty much put some negative energy to my already not-so-thrilling day-to-day life.
What can I say…don’t wanna repeat complaining. Thanks God my heart CAN be repeatedly broken.
It wasn’t a good Friday night, being the only one in a Brazil team uniform in a sea of orange under this terrible heat, and it wasn’t the right thing to say–”Yea right, if Brazil would lose, I would dance naked.”
By the time the second ball scored by the Dutch, Dirk was telling me:”Ok now you can start by taking one piece off..” and Jenny showed me a message Chuck wrote:”Let me know when Tammy starts her dance.”
Of course I ate my words. It took me 3 nights to recover from a sense of frustration. But look at the bright side, it seems I still have some passion left in me eh?
Saturday I finally went to my stitcher’s and got my dresses back. This time, after practice and readjustments, all the dresses fit pretty nicely. It’s show time:
Designing for myself is easy. I’d practically wear nothing if it’s hot enough. lol…
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06.25.10
Posted in Main Page at 3:10 pm by Tammy
Last night went to bed at about 11pm, due Gordo had to catch an early flight today, and I was specially exhausted too.
Couldn’t finish Slovakia–Italy (I said before sleep if Italy continued to be so lousy I will stop being its fan…not even their nice suits can change my mind!)and today I went to see the result–Italy what?!
Tonight my favorite 2 teams will be playing against each other. It’s gonna be interesting!
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06.24.10
Posted in Main Page at 4:13 pm by Tammy
I should quickly update my posts so I don’t see those delicious oysters too often!
It makes me wanna go there again, but right now I don’t have time.
Even if I had the time, I wouldn’t have the energy to go in town.
With my intensive training, I come home exhausted everyday.
Bellydance doesn’t make you grow boobs, but it sure gives you a belly. (That is if you DIDN’T have a belly before, like me.) On the contrary, if you already HAVE a big tummy, it will trim down the size.
It’d be a lie to tell everyone that it is an exercise for you to lose weight.
But who cares, when you are already in love, right?
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