Susie's Blog

Love to upload some photos here. Yiching always harrass me to upload photos cause she doesn't like to read (can you see a bossier sister in law there? ) I still don't know how. Apple is too advance for me. As richard said, is it so easy that you find it hard? I jsut don't have the patient to learn how to use it. Surely one day i can do everything. Just like I phone. I couldn't do anything on I phone when I first got it. Now after a year I can do everything on I phone. You just learn with time. So let me just float with life. Surely i can use macbook soon.

This year is a very good year. Who says if it's the year of your Zodiac year, it will not go as smooth?  This year my business is so much bigger my holidays are so much longer and my family has so many weddings. I just got back from Taiwan last week. And 7 weeks later for term 3 school holidays I am going to New york for 10 days. Then after 10 years term 4 I will be off to Singapore and taiwan from 14th Dec till February. My job is a happy one that pays well too. And everyone does what I want them to do. The only thing that is not smooth is that I am still single and in no signs of getting married or with anyone. However funny enough this is the first time i feel truly happy. even without anyone I am happy. I just knew that even if I never get married or with anyone I will be ok. I used to be happy but at the same thing hoping it will happen and i will be happier. Now I am happy as it is and knowing if its not happening I will still be happy. This really comes a long way and I hope the high spirit will stay that way!!

This week I spent quite a lot of time calling and visiting around some venue trying to book a theater for our end of year showcase. This year I can feel it's going to be even bigger. So I am looking at a theater with a proper stage, green room, comfortable sitting with 200-300 people capacity. Man. I really should have done it earlier. Zenith theater in Chatswood is totally booked out till late dec. It's aroun $1540 for 5 hours. Theater by the sea in Manly fits around 300 people. They are $200 each hour and i will need 5 hours at least as well. They booked out totally. Independent theater in North Sydney. Still available and beautiful professional recital venue. But they are more than $2000 and I have to get their ushers and managers too plus ticket sales.....shit man how much is that going to cost me? No way. The interesting thing is that after to speaking about 10 mins with the event manager on the phone he asked for my name, I said "Susie Wang". He then said "Oh my god. You are not the Susie Wang I know are you?" I was thinking...yeah right. Who are you... then he suddenly said "Susie!! You stayed at my house twice in London!! and I stayed in your brother's room when I came to sydney remember!!" Oh my god. That's my friend Los. 2 years I haven't contacted him and He is English so I didn't know that after he married an OZ girl they moved back to Sydney!! And he got a job as the event coordinator at independent theater!! What a small world. I told him I can't afford his theater I will keep looking but it was awesome to chat with him for a long time on the phone. Small world. what a small world.

Going to New York is something that I have been wanting to do for years. I want to see Ivy. At one stage I almost really need to see Ivy. Imagine how much fun we can have together. New York has the best singing teacher. I know exactly who to go to and so look forward to hear what she can do. New York has the best flamenco teacher too. Broadway musicals!! I can see one a day everyday. I can buy the music scores that you can never buy in Sydney or Asia. Since this Monday I have been around all travel agency trying to find a good deal to go to New York. It's never cheap to go there. Finally today 5 mins before teaching, I checked Qantas website for fun. There is a ticket for $1660!! Qantas is never so cheap to go New York and it's Qantas. Just before the kid is coming in, I booked it with $25 deposit. After teaching when I checked happily I realised gees. I spell my own name wrong. Thank God I didn't pay for the full amount. If I have to lose it I will learn from my own stupidity. After teaching I went dinner with friends first. Then at 10:30 pm I called Qantas. No hassle. They changed for me just like that and the 25 dollars can be refunded. So I paid in full straightaway. This time my name is right. And New York here I come in 7 weeks.

We went to balmoral beach for coffee and cake after lunch. There must be some festivals going on there cause there were heaps of people crowded like mad (i can't upload photos yet let me figure out how to do it later). The desserts here are really impeccable. So rich so strong. I love the western dessert. It's hardcore. Ah we also found out a new taiwanese bento place in Maroubra. Took at least 30 mins to drive there but gee the bento was big. Quite authentic too. As soon as we arrived sydney we went there for dinner. Call us real hot blood Taiwanese.

We went to see this documentary style movie called every little step. It's the audition process for the broadway production of A CHORUS LINE. That's a diffuclt musical cause all actors have to be able to sing act and dance all brilliantly. The audition process was amazing. Started with 3000 people down to the final 6. This movie was shown in the art theater at the rocks. This makes me want to go to New york to see broadway musical and also give me lots of good ideas to train my performers. Sometimes I think no matter how hard I learn to sing play act and dance it will never be enough. there is so much to learn.

Sydney is freezing. Coming back from boiling Taiwan sydney is too much to take. It's great to come back too because everyone is sooo happy to see you. The kids would shout from downstairs as they open the door (I always sit upstairs and look through the TV monitor) and run up to give me a massive hug. We would spend the first 10 mins laughing and talking about crap (yes and I got paid for it). So it's all good.

I bought a new macbook in Taiwan. pretty cool cause it costs me only $59900 with all the softwares installed. They don't let me bargain even one cent but the dude gave me all the stuff and installed them all. I don't have a freakin ideas what they are but as long as they are free they are fine by me. The problem is. I have no idea how to use it. Not even macbook. I found it very confusing and i have no patience to read instruction. Susie never reads instruction of any sort. Anything over than 10 words i got to go. So I checked the free seminar at apple store but the seminars are on saturday morning I got kids coming.

So now the solution is that I turn on my old computer still. Cause all my stuff are there and I can still download and print slowly in the speed of a turtle. Then my new macbook is on right next to it. Cause I can e mai, msn and write blog (can't upload photos yet. no idea how). Then my i phone is there too cause I can do facebook. I am very busy. I look so high tech. and yet so retarded. All at the same time.

My computer is so slow. it takes 40 mins to start. And I can't see anyone's blog. I haven't read all you guys' blogs for a while cause my computer just didn't function. I do everything from I Phone. Sometimes I can't imagine how life can be going on without i phone.

It's ok I will get my new laptop soon. I made the deal today but they haven't got the stocks so I haven't paid anything. If they still can't get the stock by friday then I will have to get it in Taiwan eventually......AH>>>>how did life work out when internet was still not existing....

lucky me. Always just tag along and taste goodies.

There you go. We finished the first Wang family wedding. Straightaway there comes the second one. Busy indeed.

I love it when William Paid. HAHAHA. What a wonderful dinner.

I put all the photos on facebook and also the photo album here as well. It was such an exhausting two days but we were very happy. Such a beautiful wedding.

I think my bro Richard will agree with me that I phone is really very addictive. I said it more than 100 times but it is! I clicked that facebook icon so many times a day. It's free anyway why not? I bought this Expense thing (forgot the name) for 6 oz dollars from apple store on i phone and i found it really was awesome. I started to record all expenses with it. Then each month I could see clearly where the expenses went, budget and etc. It's sooo good. I also bought this optus mobile usage for 2 dollars and it didn't even work!! kept saying my user name and password are not right!! I am really not happy. Maybe when my voice gets better I could call somewhere to do something (call Optus or call apple store?) Anyway I do everything with I phone i reckon my life will be so lost without it.

I have never staying in bed for such long time. So I tried to do things while staying in bed too because I just can't sleep for that long. Lucky I got this audio CD book called "The Firm". I always love to hear stories about lawyers. Their world is just so different from me and it absolutely fascinates me. Then meditation CD too so that I could learn to relax.  I have to cancelled nearly a week's work makes me think about my work direction too. I lost all these money in a week while not working. This is not good. What if one day I can't work anymore then that will be the end. But I can't think of what else to do too. Today I finally feel much better and able to control the cough so I went to the gym this evening for the yoga class. Yoga was good cause at that 75 mins session I didn't have to think that hard.

I have been cancelling all students and in bed for three days. Thank God it's getting much better and I can start teaching tomorrow afternoon! Andy's wedding is this Saturday so everyone is anticipating it now and guests are arriving too. Andy and Yiching have been delivering lunch dinner and medicine for me nearly everyday. It's really nice of them especially their wedding is in a few days. I really appreciated it thank you mua!!!

Three days ago I got my sore throat. However with bad sore throat I could still talk and sing very loud. Yesterday it was so bad by the time I went to bed you could hear the change in the voice. Today I started to cough. chesty cough, not often but strong cough and I couldn't talk now. I don't want to see a doctor because they are going to tell me the same thing like andy said, rest sleep drink water. And there is no way I will like to wait in the medical center for advice like that.....damn i might have to cancel all students tomorrow.....how long is this going to take to recover ah....i feel very good and healthy though. But this losing voice is costing me money.This is the tool that  i live for!!

Today I drove back from Chatswood, suddenly passed castle cove. And I didn't know why my hands just turned the steerwheel and drove in. It was more than 10 years ago since I turned left to castle cove. It was more than 10 years ago when 10 of us were uni studentsand gathered together at Tom's house nearly every week. I couldn't believe that I could still follow the bearing and arriving in front of his old house. Wow. it must be 1995 when I was there last time. Tom's dad died. Tom's sister went to USA.Everyone has their own family and own lives and we never get together anymore. Today Tom is practically not a friend of any of us. I saw him with his wife and two kids last week in chatswood from far away and I wasn't sure if it's him because my good old friend looks so chubby and tired! Today I sat in my car looking at this house for 5 mins and it was raining outside. The house was sold long long time ago but it still looks just the same as before.  This house brings me so much memory and how we were before.  I don't feel that I have changed much but the world changes around me so dramatically.

I found this two brother and sister look so alike. exactly the same faces. just one boy and one girl. cool ba.

I took the kids for exams. This time the ANZCA modern piano/singing exam takes place in a teacher's studio. Her house is rather small but obviously she has small children so she builds a paradise for the kids in her little backyard. Look, a tree house! The OZ kids are so lucky. Normal asian family probably won't do anything with those trees apart from cutting them off....