「オレンジデイズ」というテレビドラマのかげで、最近時々手話で話してみる。聞き手はもちろん同じドラマを見た夫なんです。

昨夜、もう第八話の「オレンジデイズ」を見た。そういうわけで、簡単な言葉は手話で伝えられる。「わたし」とか、「あなた」とか、「好き」とか、「愛してる」とか、「キス」とか、「でも」とか．．．偶には自分で作った手話も使ってる。

よく主人に手話で話しているのは何でしょうか当ててみろ！

答案：あなたはバカだ！

主人は手話ができなくて異議を唱えなかった。　♪♪♪

夫に悪戯する以外に、手話は会話より相応しい場合もある。ある日曜、教会を出て行ったところ、劉せんせいがある兄弟と手を繋いで歩いてた。びっくりしたんだったわ！劉せんせいが結婚したことをよく分かったんですが、だんなさんはあの兄弟かどうかはわかんない。「あの二人、夫婦なんでしょうか」と手話で主人に尋ねた。「まぁ！そうかも知れない」と主人は答えた。わたしは一言も言わなくて、あの二人が議論の中心人物になったことに気付かずに歩きつづけた。手話は、なんてすばらしいもんだ！

だけど、インタネットで調べたら、日本の手話とアメリカの手話と全然違ってることを気付いた。こう見ると、日本の聾唖者とアメリカの聾唖者と通信できないようね。
 

It seems that everytime there is a worldwide pandemic, I will have to go to hospital.

When SARS broke out in 2003, I was in a hospital for nose/sinus operation.
When swine flu broke out lately, I went to hospital last Sunday and Monday for undertaking endoscopy, ultrasound, X-ray, etc. and is diagnosed gastroenteritis.

What's more, the Metro Park Hotel, where guests and hotel staff are all quarantined ever since a Mexican visitor is confirmed of being A/H1N1 flu carrier, is just a 2 minutes walk from my company.

Yet, I don't have chance to witness the hotel guests and staff to be released tonight because I am very ill and have taken sick leave today.  The renovation work in our office has produced so many pollutants in the air that has triggered off the allergies of my nose and windpipes.  I cough so much that I could hardly sleep for 2 nights already.  While I was on my way to the clinic today, I coughed to such an extent that nobody dare to sit next to me.  A lady approached me when she was getting off the MTR and wanted to lend me a mask.  Unfortunately I have very serious allergy that I can't wear a mask or I can't breathe.  It is very dangerous for me to travel without wearing a mask during this epidemic threat.  On the other hand, people may think that I am a great threat to them because they see me cough all the way.  I am still coughing after taking medicine.  ;_;

Last night my family and I have celebrated Wai Wai, my nephew's 5 years old birthday.  Wai Wai likes vehicle toys, and is a fan of Thomas.  So I have bought Thomas toys as his birthday gift, while Elsa has bought tram and mini-bus toys as gifts.  I asked Wai Wai which one he loves most, and he said "all three".  It seems that he knows how to please everybody even though he is so young.  That said, he unwrapped the tram toy given by Elsa first, and played along with the tram toy during the whole dinner.  このままじゃ、「電車男」になってしまうかな。^^;;

As requested by a relative, I have translated the lyrics of the Japanese song 初恋 into Chinese:

歌曲：初戀
歌手：村下孝蔵
作曲：村下孝蔵
作词：村下孝蔵
中文翻譯：Amy Lam
羅馬字拼音：Amy Lam

Today is the day the Administrative Department officially inspects the cleanliness and tidiness of each staff's working area.  所謂「上有政策，下有對策」, here are some of the countermeasures adopted by us:  :P

1. I have put all my photos, decorations, food, moisture lotion, etc into the drawers and inside the bookshelves. (i.e. places not visible by the authority.
2. Jade closed and locked her bookshelves, just in case the Head of Admin is so "crazy" as to comment on the tidiness of her bookselve.
3. Just before Jade said that, I have also locked the bookshelves behind me, as well as the shelves in our storeroom.
4. Vicky said that she has hidden her tissue box to places they cannot find.
5. We have already torn off the telephone lists from our partitions, because last week the Admin Manager have told many staff (not directly to me, though) to do so. 

1. Comment to Alice:  Too many books behind the seat.
2. Comment to Olivia:  The documents looks too old.
3. Comment to Myra:  Too many colors of file folders used by her.  The colors should be consistent.
4. Comment to Adam:  Too many stuffs.
5. Comment to me:  Very tidy.

Last Tuesday I was ill.  (In fact, I have been ill for a long time.)   Since I don't want to take too many sick leaves, I went to work as usual even though my brain was not quite functioning after a sleepless night.  I made an appointment to the doctor at 4:30pm, because I think that most important business will have been finished in the morning or at early afternoon.

Just before I went out at around 4:00pm, my senior (at Shanghai) called me and told me that we are going to hold a departmental telephone conference 5 minutes later.  OMG why didn't he inform me about the meeting, when he gave me a call earlier in the morning, so that I can arrange to see the doctor at another time?!  Since my health condition was quite unsatisfactory, I told him that I am going to see a doctor and I couldn't attend the meeting.  I thought the "story" ended there, but...

Last Friday I sent a certain kind of application form to my departmental boss.  Usually he will grant my application without any delay.  This time, however, he didn't reply me, even though I checked from our internal email system that he had read my application already.  I am afraid that he is upset about my absence in departmental meeting.  After all, I am not yet familiar with my new departmental boss.  I have never seen him because he is stationed in Shanghai.

My sisters in church suggested me to write a message to my departmental boss to explain the matter.  We also prayed together for the issue.  I didn't receive any feedback from my boss yesterday.  This morning, however, I received a reply from my boss.  He apologized for the late reply because he had just came back from a business trip from Sichuan.  He told me to take care of my body and there is no need to submit a sick leave application if I just go out to see the doctor for a short time.  I also received from him a small gift - a funny name chop with my Chinese name and the mascot of the 2010 Shanghai expo on it.  It seems that he is a nice and kind boss.  I have been worrying too much.  Thanks God for the "happy ending".  ^_^

実はさ、問いかけるたびに返事が来なかったら、 いろいろなことを考えて大変困っちゃう。この事件から見ると、わたしはハチ子（NANAというアニメの女主人公）と同じように神経過敏な人ですね。　^_^;;

This is the chop given by my boss:  XD