[Travel With Monkeys] American Express Membership Rewards Transfer Bonus to Avios (Amex 積分獎勵- 兌換Avios/BA 里程）

今天超級開心的，TGIF！ 在flyertalk論壇上面看到美國運通Amex的積分兌換Avios/BA 里程有25%的獎勵！鏈接如下Flyertalk！

正好可以用最低分加現金購買去巴塞羅那的單程機票了！希望去歐洲的夢想今年能夠實現！（哎， 猴子們已經迫不及待的付了郵輪的押金啦！）

申請Amex信用卡的鏈接如下- 麻煩大家要申請可以用我的鏈接，幫我賺點積分吧！

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Work with Monkeys - CPA in Canada

Just read this on the linkedin CPA group. A member post the following discussion:

CFE leave for CPA Students working in Industry

Hi All. I wanted to get some feedback on this topic. I was just talking to the CPA student in our office, and we discussed that it is common knowledge that CPA students in public practice are tying up loose ends before taking the summer off to study for the CFE. For industry students under the legacy programs there was no such thing as a summer off to study PA1 or 2 without burning up vacation time. Are there Industry managers out there dealing with how they are going to handle their CPA students asking for equal time to public practice students to study for the upcoming CFE's? I'm feeling pretty bad for the Industry CPA students.

ref: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/6744553-6016343509399859203

No offence, but this is so HILARIOUS 

1. Is this a Joke? Are there Industry managers out there dealing with how they are going to handle their CPA students asking for equal time to public practice students to study for the upcoming CFE's?

2. I need sympathic too! I'm feeling pretty bad for the Industry CPA students.

A. It is industry standard in Public practise that not ALL public practise firms give bank hours and over time pay for students during tax seasons! Therefore, the 2 days day off for CPA exams are kind of compensations for the busy season overtime, and it is much less than the time we worked!

B. No one in public practise ever have a easy day like only work 2 hours then chat with co-workers for 7 hours! We cant' even day dreaming! Every minute counts towards our work days and have to bill 7.5 hours! If not, what happened? With so many competitions out there, how dare you do it?!

C. Why there is a standard that Industry never want to hire a candidate from public practise? We worked our ass off and never compliant and asked for more ---> Look at the above discussion as comparison! We worked more, have more knowledge and competencies in all area than single industry candidate. So don't judge our experience by our public practice experience! 

看得泪流满面，生活中那些苦难与这个比起来真不算什么，停止抱怨吧！

Watched this, I am so touched and encouraged. I should stop complaining so much.

Travel With Monkeys - AwardWallet

Thanks to Miles Worker, I got the AwardWallet upgrade code from their website.

Can't believe I have never researched for any programs like this to manage my points. This is so convenience to monitor all rewards programs in one place with expiration date!

Now I am gonna spend my whole day (hopefully just few hours) to add all our membership numbers..

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[ TravelWithMonkeys ] Maui - Snorkeling at Kaanapali Beach

Shop with Monkeys - Credit Card

still organizing my photos, so just write something simple!

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Travel with Monkeys - Honolulu (Oahu) - Day 1

今天先用中文写吧。

tax season结束，终于可以享受一下假期了。这次本来只是去Maui 茂宜岛的，可是老公妹夫建议我们先去Honolulu 逛逛街，就傻傻的定了YVR - Honolulu & Maui - YVR的单程机票！

这个决定显然是很不明智的！虽然省去岛间再飞一次的时间，其实并没有省很多！什么逛街嘛， 美金一直在高涨，我们的加币明显不够用！实在没有兴致给多30%在美国消费。

连DFS 去了都买不了（因为买了也是要给税的）想到本来可以省个税，现在要给多即使5%的税, 也就没有去逛的闲情了。

当时定机票的时候在2月最忙的时候，看到westjet的特价机票，没怎么想就定下来了。当时忘记考虑时差的问题，以为夏威夷比温哥华快！结果定了礼拜五下午飞,晚上9点半到。单程加币$226/人。 这个选择十分错误，因为C6喜欢一早到机场，结果我要3点就下班陪他一起去！而且到了后又要取车，耽误不少时间。等到了酒店，就是10点多了。选择酒店也是个错误，这些错误的遗憾留到下次再改善吧。

所以第一天，就是晚上10点多到酒店，随便吃点就睡了！

这里提出几点建议：

1. 定机票一定要留意飞机带的娱乐设施！5个多小时飞机，westjet居然没有小屏幕可以看，要花$5 USD 租个tab 看电影！ 早知道背上ipad了。 C6还背了2个电脑，我们也没想到下载点电影。

2. 不要为了省钱定便宜机票。其实加航没有贵很多，这2间公司经常一前一后的推特价！起码坐加航可以积累点aeroplan 点数！

3. 还是住waikiki 吧！当时考虑到价钱，还有环境，选择住Ramada Plaza Waikiki, 其实离了20分钟路程。开车出去找停车也不方便。waikiki 跟vegas 很像，越中心越热闹，吃的多！！每个街口都是ABC store，东西也很便宜！下次带父母去，我一定会选择waikiki 上的酒店了！

4. 选择白天的时候到吧！ 下飞机就看到美丽的景色，会开心很多！这是第一次到外地是晚上，还是工作了一天以后。真是看到黑天黑地的，十分压抑！

5. 租车！ 谁说出门坐bus的！有钱就打的！不要为了省钱什么的浪费美好的时间等公车！ 虽然很便利，但是去远点的地方（包括diamond head) 还是建议开车去！光是走上去就已经累死我啦！这次租车是在costcotravel 租的avis. 只是提前2个星期定的。没想到只要$70美金3天。真是很划算。当时还给我们选择加$10/天 升级到敞篷，结果C6 说没必要。大家可以试试取车的时候再要求升级。价钱似乎便宜不少！

6. 至少5天吧。我们喜欢走马观花的，不按行程走。这样比较休闲不会太大压力。这次只有3晚2天半时间，最远去到 diamond head 而已，又是一个再回去的借口！

Cruise - Last Minute Deal - Alaska 7 Nights $449 only! (阿拉斯加7晚只要$449美金！）

wow! what a deal. only $449 for outside! Although I have not compare this price to the historical prices, and I have never research for the Alaska cruise, I still believe this is a great deal for last minute escape!

Unfortunately, I don't think I could take any more vacation before September.

在上网找秋天的东地中海邮轮，无意中看到7月1号加拿大日去阿拉斯加居然只要$449美金海景房（就是窗口不能打开）！
7个晚上平均不到$90/晚每人，包括吃住。还真是很便宜呢！
可惜我刚放假回来，估计9月前都不可能再拿到长假了！

Multi-blogs

I am still learning how to use the blogger and add users. However, I have no idea how to add users to my original blog - lovethemonkeyspot.blogger.com. So I have decided to move all posts to my old blog. It might be confused for first few blogs, I will try to write as little as possible. 

Brainstorming -准备事项

So many ideas that I want to put into my blog, but it really takes time to learn how to create and design the blog. I haven't been created website and wrote blogs over 10 years. Ever since there are wechat and weibo, I am just getting more and more lazy.

Ok, I really need to go to bed and get up early to finish my work (before get to the office)

Here are some of my ideas - just in case I forgot tomorrow:

1. Food blog - I have been thinking about writing food/restaurant reviews for decades! As a food lover, same as C6, we want to share all our experience and favorite dishes to everyone. So this is our main focus for this blog!

2. Travel reviews/tips - I used TripAdvisor a lot to on hotel and attractions reviews, and am a contributor of several reviews. So why not share in my blog as well?

3. Saving tips - to be honest, both C6 and I are high rollers on food. We spent all our money on restaurants, but I do love finding good deals, even just to save a penny. So, I will share my findings here.

4. Cooking recipes - I really enjoy cooking, but don't like to clean up. Ever since I moved in with C6, I haven't cook delicious dishes for a while. I really need a dishwasher to clean up my mess. But, given I have more time than before, I should start cooking more for the family and save more money for our trips!

5. to be continued

我的小学生级别英语应该很通俗易懂（看不懂的请原谅我的语法）从来都是语法超级烂的！再不睡觉就起不来上班了。狮子座的人是不是都是想做一件事情巴不得马上做好！（工作除外）。我希望通过blog记录一下平常的吃喝玩乐，分享给大家，所以列出几个重要事项提醒自己。通常我睡醒就不记得自己前一晚有多么的热血了！最近工作比较少跟同事说话，请原谅我比较话痨了！

About The Monkeys

The first picture was taken in Vegas on top of the Linq in July 2014. It's the first time we brought all monkeys to travel! （from the left, GG, 3G, Bibi and DD) And after the trip, C6 got 2Gor (the 2nd pictures) back from his 5 years old niece, added 5th Monkey to the family. So during our trip to Hawaii this year, I have to put all 5 monkeys into my backpack!

We really love those monkeys and think each of them has different characters! And we hope to use our Monkeys to show you guys the restaurants, food, sight seeing, good deals tips in Vancouver, Canada, as well as our travels.

Since English is my second language, please bare with me for my gammas. I will ask C6 to input more English when he has time to contribute to our blog! And we look forward to introduce more about us and our Monkey family!


为了吸引更多人的眼球，所以只好中英文一起发了。当然说回自己的母语，必须打多点的！ （其实是英文不好，想说多点也写不出来。）

首先介绍一下我们的猴子家庭吧，其实我跟C6都不是属猴的呢，也不姓候啊！但是自从他的侄子有一只小猴子后，C6突然疯狂的买了一只又一只！左边照片是4只 ，右边这个叫2Gor，其实是第三个加入猴子家庭的，可惜后来被侄女夺走了！（也幸运的一直都保持非常干净！） 我们觉得这些猴子做的非常逼真，每次看他们眼睛的时候都觉得有灵魂的，而且每个猴子感觉都有不同的性格。 

所以我们（其实就是我）希望，可以用这些猴子代替我们，为大家介绍加拿大-温哥华的美食，美景，好康！也会不定时的发我们的游记（希望越来越多吧）。

猴子妈每天对着一堆数字，天生语文不好(英文也不好），请大家多多包含，觉得我废话多了就跳着看吧！

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