I have just finished my part time teaching which was conducted for migrant workers in Hong Kong. I could not believe my students gave me a gift. I did not expect this and hope nothing from them.

I am always worried about their being, working in Hong Kong as domestic workers, 21st century slavery is just hard. Some of my students have to accept the non standard salary and sometimes harassment too. How could I accept their gift without feeling guilty?

I have been in the house for the last three days cleaning, cooking and facebooking. Now, I am blogging. Isnt this great?! I have just finished the semester and cannot wait for the new semester abroad.

What I am planning to do is doing a photo project in the house, some kind of sill photos project. I will try to put things in front of my camera, things that are ordinary but they can look mysterious and interesting if they arrange in the right position. Yeah I will do it today after I finish with the teaching materials prep for this coming Sunday.

Eventually I have my freedom from studying and testing.

The last test that I did is on language proficiency for language teachers, it was OK, actually I dont know for sure. The thing is that I didnt really prepare myself for the test and ended up regretting the whole thing. My carelessness, stupidity and ignorant. I thought it was going to be easy or at least medium to easy level, but it was not even closer to medium level. It was hard!

Now, that I have finished the whole semester, I need to catch up with my writing and reading.

There's a feeling of uncertainty growing inside me each day. As I realised how many years I've spent studying for a range of different subjects, from tourism, hotel management, public relations and now education. Pheww...seems that Ill never work and earn something.  

I didn't know what to expect but a free fall at 14,000 feet was quite quick and very expensive to do.

If you think you want to do it and you have the guts for it, just do it, but remember the journey up is totally different to when you free falling.

The journey up for me was too scary because they opened the rolling window to let people jump at different altitude and at the same time we all watched the plane went up and up higher.....

At the end, when we landed, I felt a sudden rush of excitement and felt that my whole body reunited, but the whole thing was too fast...so no wonder people jump for several times.....

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Shsshhhh..be quiet please, birds have ears too!

This is not my best shot of the beauty, its difficult to get a good shot when people around you just yell and shout!

Photos were taken with 70-300 Nikkor lens

9th of May, 2009

We have been hunting for a house for two years ....well before it was like just LOOKING and started to think maybe we should apply for a mortgage. We did and successfully accepted. Now, we are looking at different twenty something websites so far and down to five houses.

It was a hard work.

We bumped into this one:

http://www.vebra.com/home/search/vdetails.asp?src=agent&fd=418&bd=0&db=1&cl=578&pid=15682974

Judge it from the look of it, its cheap right? But why it hasn't sold?

Take a good look at the map and check what's in front of it?

Now you know.

We couldnt really make up our mind what we want to start with. We started with a general idea of 3 to 4 bedrooms, en-suite, a garden and a garage. However, as we browsed for more sites and looked for more houses available out there, we started to like the idea of a cottage. Then, we looked around the midlands, which offers a great selection of black and white cottages.

Then, we looked at barn conversion and their massive kitchen and modern living area, we thought, yes that's it, that's what we wanted!

Oh no....we wanted a different one this time.

Try this one:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-25323827.html

Oh no, not this one either....take a look at the building next to it.

How about this one?

Ahh I wont tell you just yet....