The Black Friday Sales

Written by CooKies™. Posted in Misc

25th November 2010, Thursday. Today is Thanksgiving Day. So all of us here were off for 2 days, if including weekend, it’s a straight 4 days off. XD Anyway, I got nothing to do except relaxing at home, tidy up my stuff, and watched some dramas. Actually I already bought most of the stuff before that, so the sales don’t really attract me a lot. In fact, I just want to go there to see and ‘feel’ what is so call “Black Friday”. 😛

十一月二十五日,星期四。其實今天是感恩節,所以這裡的人都會有兩天的假期,如果加上週末就是四天連續放假。:P 不過,雖然是假期我也沒什麼地方去。哈哈,只是在家裡休息,整理屋子、電腦東西,還有看戲等等。其實,在今天晚上所謂的‘黑五’促銷雖然來勢洶洶,但是也沒什麼吸引我,因為我都已經在之前買了大多數的東西了。不過,基於難得,我也想到各促銷地方去看看和感受一下何謂“黑色星期五”,嘻嘻。所以,在六點左右,我就搭了同事的順風車到了Woodburn那裡去看看,結果到那裡時已經是人山人海了,應該說是車才對,因為很多車都還在外面塞著。畢竟真正的開放時間是晚上十點,但是七點就這麼塞車了,真的汗。。。而且,更恐怖的就是Coach的名牌店,老早就看到很多人(大多數女人)在那裡排隊,而且是繞著幾圈排著隊的那種哦,簡直就是讓我見識到何謂女人的名牌!

Wood that burns your $$…

Written by CooKies™. Posted in Misc, Travels

Woodburn, is a city in Oregon. And, this Woodburn Company Stores in Woodburn is actually an outlet mall with many name-brand clothing companies like Adidas, Nike, Gap, and Banana Republic.

Woodburn, 是俄勒崗州的一個小城市,而這Woodburn Company Stores就是在Woodburn很出名的名牌聖地。這裡有很多很出名的名牌商店,至少有一半以上都是我所不知道的“名牌”。(只因我不常購物,也不看名牌,所以不知道吧。:P)

The Black Friday is on the way…

Written by CooKies™. Posted in Misc

“Black Friday”, this is the term that I’d learn over here recently. Do you know what it actually means? 😛 Initially I thought it was an ‘unfortune day’ for Americans, but it doesn’t really mean that. In fact, it seems to be a good day for them. Here are some FAQs that I’d copied from some sites, and of course a wiki:

"黑色星期五",這就是我最近才聽到和學到的詞語。你知道它的意思嗎?一開始時,我還以為這是指他們美國人所謂的不好的日子,不幸運的一天等等。原來卻不是,黑色星期五反而是他們很喜歡的一天喔。我從一些的論壇中看到一些的資料關於黑色星期五,就直接拷貝了放上來讓大家看看吧,嘻嘻,當然還有就直接的資料來源:維基百科

The Flight Plan (Part 2)

Written by CooKies™. Posted in Misc

Ok, do you see the above envelope? Here’s the story how I got it and how it related to this ‘poor’ story.

看到上面的圖片嗎?那是由聯合國兒童基金會所推動的一項捐款運動。主要就是要求人們用他們所剩餘的零錢來資助一些貧苦的兒童。所以就叫做“零錢布施”。這個的信封其實是我在前往三藩市的飛機上所拿到的。那時,我本來也想放一些的零錢進去,但是後來才發現我身上根本沒有零錢。有的就是那些五十和一百的美元鈔票。其實,我還有兩個港幣,就只有25分,信封上註明的是美元,沒有硬幣就算了,不可能用港幣捐那麼少啊,因此,我就打消了念頭,而那個信封就這樣被我收了起來。。。

The Flight Plan (Part 1)

Written by CooKies™. Posted in Misc

對於我來說,整個飛行的過程還真的出乎意料地辛苦。很佩服那些常常搭長途飛機的人,說真的,實在有夠“顯”!因為我在整個飛行的時間裡面,真正好好入睡的時間沒有多少,尤其是從檳城飛往香港的三個小時。睡又不能入睡,想動一動身體都有點難,因為位置實在有點小。除了看著前面那沒得選擇的過時影片以外,就沒什麼好做了。那時真的覺得時間過得好慢!~五個小時。。。

Unexpectedly, the whole flight from Penang -> Hong Kong -> San Francisco -> Portland was a torturing process for me indeed. I was unable to sleep well and hard to move my body around due to the limited space available on my seat. Especially the flight from Penang to Hong Kong, 3 hours of flight got nothing to do except watching the outdated console infront of me, which having no choice of movies or games or music…… I was like feeling why the hours going so slow… =.= 5 hours to go…