Friday Five 30-July-2021

It was a busy week, but I've got a good post for later too.
Let me deal with the Friday Fives first :-)

Questions from thefridayfive

1. What's your favorite color this week?
I don't know. I've always been partial to purples and the minty greens (aquamarine?) I do have my manicure this month as a minty green too!

2. What job would be very unsuitable for you?
Any customer facing job. Well... I don't know. I probably could (if I'm thrown into it), but if you ask me to choose, I'd never choose a front facing position.

3. What's your favorite Olympic sport?
I don't really watch much Olympics. I watch if it happens to show on TV and I'll stop and watch for a bit, but I do not have any favorites.

4. Have you ever found yourself stuck out in the rain?
Oh how many times? LOL

5. What does the tooth fairy do with our teeth?
Not part of my culture growing up, so I have nothing to say about that :-)


And then it's questions from F.riday5.com

1. What word do you love the sound of?
I don't know. I have no idea? erm.... Laissez-faire? I remember at Uni we learnt that in a Business class and we just loved saying that as "Less Affair" LOL (I know it's an imported word from the French language)

2. What word do you hate the sound of?
Again, I dunno. Bureacracy maybe? It's language, how can you like or hate a sound of it? LOL

3. What word do you always have to look up because you can’t remember how to spell it correctly?
There's loads of such words, but I'll stick to the seemingly easier ones. Queue. Because I always wonder if it's Qeueu or Queue. And then certain words as they change from noun/adjective/adverb/whatever. Like, it's "to pronounce" a word, but it's "a pronunciation" of a word (I keep trying to spell it pronounciation), also maintain vs. maintenance (I keep trying to spell it maintainence). Oh and having an English education but the world seemingly using American system, parlor/parlour, color/colour and so on and so forth always gets me too.

4. What are some individual words to describe this past week?
Busy. Hectic. Manic.

5. What’s a word you know that many people don’t?
That's easy and at the same time tough. The general public don't really have a thorough English education, so they may not know many rather complicated English words, but I've found that the people of the older generation here, despite never seemingly to speak English, are able to write in really beautiful flowy complicated English. But, the bar I'm basing on is the general public, and they don't know a lot of English, or even if they know, they don't know certain less-commonly-used vocabularies. And one of those that I love is...... lackadaisical. Don't know why I like it so much. I suppose it's also somewhat influenced by that quote that "If the English language made any sense, then lackadaisical would mean something like lacking flowers" hahaha.

開張大吉 | Lion Dance for your viewing pleasure

It was really a busy week. My Boss' birthday, I'm still waiting for the photos coz there's one photo I'd really like to post but the event photographer has it. Here's a nice night view at the Lisboeta property. Should have gone a little more to the left so it catches the whole mural.

There were 3 cakes. A colleague tried to make me order a cake to shape like the boat but I staunchly refused. She has an event planner, she can plan the event. It was her idea anyway. She can't use the shoddy reasoning that "I'm his secretary" and dump all the work to me (like she had done MANY times). She's used this reason enough times.

Had a couple of big meetings as well. Had to have the meetings then rush to get those minutes out ASAP.

And then yesterday morning was the Grand Opening of the Grand Lisboa Palace. I had participated in the initial of this project, then I got transferred to another boss at the time (my ex-Boss) who didn't really let me touch much on this project (while he was working on this project), and then he jumped ship, and I got transferred to my current Boss and also wasn't much involved in this project. Anyway, it's nice to see the project completed (LOL with my ex-Boss I helped him prepare a Critical Path document that said 2H2017 opening hahahahahaha). Certainly a project with some delays.

Again, I am digressing.

So, it was the opening yesterday (partial still), and they had a Bai-sun ceremony (Chinese style praying to gods ceremony). As openings go, they had the Lion dance ceremony as well. Basically, the lions are "not alive" and when they dot the eyes (eye-dotting ceremony) the lions come alive.

The part where I'm laughing that the lion got chopped in half? Usually they erect a structure where the back legs of the lion (the second dancer) would climb up as well, but I guess they didn't have enough trained young men for that? Even the head of the lion when he was climbing up the pole he had to remove the lion's head... again, if it were a properly trained guy they would be, I don't know, not go "out of character". Or maybe they didn't erect the proper stand, I dunno.

Enjoy the ka-ching ching music and the rhythm of it all!

It's a pity that I was just in the spectator side and couldn't get a nice angle. Also, after the dance when the people were just waiting around, the guy in the lion was doing a pretty good job of being a bored but inquisitive lion, twitching the ears, blinking the eyes, tilting the head (like what dogs do hahaha) but I just wasn't standing in a good spot to take a photo and proper video of him.

Hope you enjoyed the Lion Dance!

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