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Thought of the Day

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:51:57 GMT

Why? Why? Why?

Why do I have so many near-death experiences? Why do I always survive?

I am not Bruce Willis in Die-Hard, why do I have to go through so much?

Whenever you know you might be killed, this stupid adrenaline will pump up to your brain. At that moment, everything seems so slow, you feel like you have all the time in the world. Your parents, your friends, your love-ones, good times, bad times, guild, pride, all flow around your mind. Your thoughts will be so damn clear, and regrets coming after you realized some low-B actions you did in the past. You start thinking about your life, thinking about how meaningless you had live your life each day. You dream of various better futures if things were not done the way they were done. Then you finally realized the things you really want and treasure.

Imagine yourself in that situation, several times..... and you'll become me.

The Long Awaited Update

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:06:57 GMT

To you,

Thanks for coming in and check on my update once awhile. Sorry, my mind is quite tired lately, I couldn't be bother to squeeze it more.

To Others,

Do you know how it feels when nobody understands you? Do you know how it feels when you have to pretend to be somebody else all the time?

I just want to be a simple guy, find a simple girl, and live a simple life. But obviously, my kind of guy would only attract crazy girls. Well, that's the rule of nature, opposite attracts.

I really don't want to be a bad guy, but if I am not that bad, you wouldn't love me. Why, Why, Why??? Can we just keep it simple? Why are you forcing me?

To World's End

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:23:48 GMT

I am so tired. Reporting is supposed to be doing work after month-end. Why am I so busy both before and after? and to top that, assignment was due this week, plus final exam is coming up in 2 weeks. Everyday, I have to reconcile a pile of figures, then at night, I had to read those stupid cases to understand the definition of some very simple words, such as "buyer, seller, condition, warantee, etc". Been for 3hrs per day only. 2 years ago, I thought sleeping 4hrs is the lowest I would ever get, but I was wrong, seriously wrong. How can anyone survive in this kind of environment?

I have no life at all.

The reason I came back to this city was that I wanted to build my family here. But with the job and girls being so demanding, I don't see it coming for another 10yrs. And don't even mention about having a baby, it might just never gonna to happen. My value with most ppl living in this city is just too different, we are like in the opposite ends of the world, eventhough the world has no ends, in reality.

Life is so meaningless now.

Weekend Update

Wed, 23 May 2007 18:29:44 GMT

Friday

The rain started to pour as I was getting off the bus after work. I ran all the way to my favorite chinese restaurant at the basement of my building. Everybody had started ordering the food without me, but they are not familiar with the restaurant and so, they didn't order my regular dishes. No comment on the food as the chef forgot to put salt on the batter. Anyway, mahjong again after dinner, but this time, Ricky strikes back. He won a hundred bucks back after his great loss last time. Afterwards, I ride in Hanson's car to drop everyone home before coming back to hung hom.

Saturday

Gym in the afternoon as usual. Dinner with Gloria at CWB. It's a Korean restaurant that I found on the openrice web. The place is lack of decoration, and the seat was so cramp. We had bbq prime ribs, spicy tofu soup, and fried korean year-cake. Both the rib and soup are very good, except the year-cake, which was not soft enough. Later on, we went to Dean's birthday K at CEO. What a surprise! They actually knew each other from sydney. "The World is not Enough." HK people in sydney are closely related in one way or another. Another surprise, saw SEC DCEO at the front lobby of CEO, she said CEO and FKY were joining her in another K room. I went to their room twice during my stay, singing K all the way till 6am. Then I had Mcdondon's breakfast with So-Fei to wait for the MTR to start. The rain continues......

Sunday

Basketball canceled due to the rain. Fishing was canceled as well, and so did the dinner that goes with it. Stay home all day and enjoyed my dad's cooking for both lunch and dinner. The prawn was not as fresh as previous times, the reason, he bought cheaper ones at another store, no more next time. Watched so many movies on TV for the whole day. Slept at 1:30am, but still feeling extremely tired the next time despite wasting a Sunday at home. The rain continues.......

Weekend update

Mon, 14 May 2007 14:06:37 GMT

Friday

Someone flew me an aeroplane for dinner. So, instead of going to Sai Gon, me and dog went to Jordan's temple street to try on the local seafood. We had field-snails, clams, squid, and some kind of sand shells. The taste is alright, but it is not as fresh as those in Sai Gon. Dog promised to treat me a meal there this coming sunday, so, I might bring my sister along to inflict maximum damage on his wallet. We then went to play snooker for awhile to kill the time before Mahjong. As I entered the room in CWB, a familiar face show up on the other table. I was in shock but I couldn't recognize who she was. I sat there for the whole night watching their play. Hanson showed up after midnight just to say hi to both tables. Then I realized that the girl was at the birthday party last week, and we are going to another birthday party tmr as well. The night was ended at Tsui Wah, Hanson's favorite restaurant for supper.

Saturday

Lunch with grandma and uncle at this shanghai place near my home. The food is not that great, but they didn't want to go all the way to MK for lunch. I went to the gym by myself after my appointment with my boss was cancelled. Jogging for half an hour, then other exercises for half an hour, and sauna for half an hour. Dinner was at Tao Heung with Anita, Gloria, and Philip. We had a nice little chat during the meal and a lot involved the debate between Anita and me. I found that her thinking is quite similar to mine, but too bad she's on the other side of the force. Singing K with them afterwards and other people started to join in. After a while, the room is totally fill with philip's friends and we had to change to a bigger room. Well done, philip.

Sunday

Basketball, then lunch with our team. nothing special in the afternoon. I was too tired to do anything else. The gym and sauna on Sat, together with basketball on sunday is just too exhausting. Dinning out was cancelled, and we ate at home instead. The food was originally prepared for Monday, so, Dad was concerned if they would be ready to eat a day earlier. Usually, my Dad will spend 4-5days to prepare for a meal, but anyway, we are not in Africa any more. The only draw back of the dinner was the sea-cucumber with shrimp eggs and oyster sauce. I am still hook to the spiky sea-cucumbers instead of the fat ones. After dinner, I met someone really unexpected on msn. Like I have always said, Life is full of uncertainties.

Weekend updates

Tue, 08 May 2007 01:59:21 GMT

Sunday, woke up at 10:30am to play basketball. After a whole week's OT and social events, I felt super exhausted during the games. It took me a few games to get warm up, but then my stamina declined a lot faster than usual. Well, running around is still better than sleeping at home.

We played till around our usual time of 1:30pm, then went to Kowloon city for lunch at our usual tea restaurant. Upon our usual weekly chat up during the meal, I spotted a lady sitting on the next table. She looks very familiar, however, I am not sure who she is. Then the face of a manager in my company suddenly matched up with hers. But the possibility of meeting someone from my company in Kowloon city is almost next to impossible. She looked clueless as I smiled at her, so, I moved my attention back to my table to continue our girl-chasing theories(Ok, they were chating about NBA play-off, I was the only one trying to change the topic to girl related). (I walked by the manager on Monday, and told her that I saw someone exactly like her, she confirmed that it was actually her but she couldn't recognize me in my basketball jersey, she said I look very very very very young and she couldn't possibly link my face to our company.)

After lunch, Kin and I went to MK for his mobile pickup. It's a nokia E65, the business class slide phone. I don't really like slide phones now, ever since I bought my SE-W850i. It is quite inconvenient to keep in your pocket, it always auto slide when you don't need it, and never slide when you needed it. Then we went for a drink at the same bubble tea place I went on Sat. There was no air-conditioning, but we managed to stay cool after our ice-drinks arrived. Saw some kids trying to hit on the waitress there, made me wish I am still their age and asking the waitress out myself.

5:45pm, I was a bit early arriving at Sai gon ferry. I am meeting up with Gloria and friends for a golfing trip on one of the islands. We've met previously on Sat in the volunteer event. It's such a coincidence that we meet in such a way, that's why I've mention so many times that life is very much unexpected and strange, or maybe it's just my life. Kelvin came along per my strong persuasion before hand. The others thought we've known for a long long time, but in fact it's just been a day. The buffet dinner had already been started as we arrived on the island. The food is below average, everything tastes very funny. Anyway, food is not our main objective. We left for golf even before I could start my desert. The floor of the driving range is so hard, you couldn't possibly swing without thinking that the club might break if you hit it on the ground. So, some of us(including me) had to use the Tee to give the ball lift above the ground. We played for a couple of hours and it is quite fun watching other girls swing. After all, it is nice gathering and we have organized a K dinner next sat.

Weekend Updates

Mon, 07 May 2007 07:14:23 GMT

It's been a long while since I have this weekend update. It had been quite boring in the previous weeks, I didn't want to write the same events over and over again each week.

Ok, let's get on with the topic.

Friday night, dinner at the pork chop place. After almost a year, I revisited the place with great expectation. It didn't fail me after all. There's Jacky, Roly, Jenny, Kin, Hanson, Ricky, and me. As usual, informed by Roly, Hanson is always late, and in fact, he was really late. We ordered some appetizers and finished them off before Hanson got in. Then we had deep-fried oysters, scallops, pork chop, pork tenderloin, and prawn, together with the suishi boat that Jenny ordered. The scallop is a must-eat, it's so big and juicy. I am recommending it to anyone who'll wish to try that place.

We met up with Judy in MK for mahjong after dinner. 2 tables back to back. However, as Kin is not allow to gamble due to his religion, he substituted for me while waiting for Dora to show up, and I had to play on her behalf on the girls' table. What surprised me was how professional Judy played, even the guys were constantly peeping on her hands(tiles). On the other hand, Ricky keeps on losing his hand to others even though we traded him to the girls' table after Dora had arrived. We played till 6am in the morning.

Saturday, 10:30am. South Lotus pond garden at Diamond Hill. It's a volunteer event to get some eldly folks out to the garden for fresh air and interact with us young kids. I had to take care of a 90yrs old guy who was once a sailor. He owned a mini-store prior to the entering of the elderly home. I told him that I am a street racer, and explained the concept of drifting in the cartoon "initial D". But I didn't actually practice drifting with his wheelchair, I just push him really fast down the track. It rained after awhile, so, we got stuck in an exhibition hall of smooth stones. That's the place where I met Kelvin, a funny guy who came with his ex-colleagues. We then went on to have a vegiterian lunch at the garden restaurant. My "client" was indeed a big eater, others were served by their care-taker, but my guy eats like a hurrican and forced me to eat everything that he served me. After lunch, we walked around for a bit longer then we took them back to the carpark for the ride back home.

Cannis and I headed back to MK to meet up with Erine, She needed my guidance on buying her replacement DC. It's always a crowded during saturdays in MK. We walked left and right for price checking, and she bought it at a bargain in one of the more professional shops. Cannis wanted a MacBook, but my friend was on day-off, so, better luck next time. We stopped by for a glass of bubble tea before handing back to Sheung Wan for her delayed birthday dinner.

We ate at this "smelly lotus" restaurant which is some sort of a historical place and serves traditional food. The food was not up to my standard for such a reknown place. The price is quite cheap though, for less than a hundred bucks per person, however, I won't recommend any one to go unless they like the historical value of the place.

Next, it was H&M in Central. It's my first time being to the shop. Shirts and pants are at a very reasonable price, but I didn't buy anything because I don't need anything, except maybe a new T-shirt to replace my stinking one due to the morning rush at "South Lotus Pond garden". Anyway, I just went home for a shower and changed instead. Hahahaha, I am always the typical me.

Went to eastern TST to meet up with "black ghost" before heading up to causeway bay for Jenny's birthday K. There were more than 30 ppl in the room. I only know about 5 of them. Luckily, there's a WII in the room for us to play. Playing the new console for the first time, I tried most of the games, such as bowling, golf, tennis, and boxing. Lost to the birthday girl in boxing, believe it or not, it is not an excuse, but I did let her win out of good faith. Played till around 1am, Kin called and told me he's just next door. I went over there and wow, another 30 people in 2 rooms. I saw 2 girls surrounded by 10 guys in 1 room, they must feel special for themselves, hahaha. Kin was complaining about how everyone thinks that there are more single girls than guys, but it is not the case when you come out to meet new people. Well, I think it's just about where you are meeting them, should go to a church if you really want to meet lots of girls. We left K at around 3am for supper in causeway bay. Got home at 4am and basketball starts at 10:30am on Sunday.

To be continue.......................

Half day off

Fri, 04 May 2007 05:13:07 GMT

Finally, a month's OT and studying is paid off by leaving work at lunch today. Compensation leave for the afternoon is just what I needed the most now. I had a comfortable lunch near the small city of North Point, away from the usual crowded restaurants of Central. I feel refresh again, although I am actually as tired as anyone could get from being hardworking. Going to get my passport soon, it's been delay for 2 months already. Have a happy day, my friends.

Story of the day

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:21:51 GMT

Once upon a time, there were 2 monks living in a temple, the older monk being the master and the younger one being the pupil. One day, the older monk led the young monk down the temple in search for potential believers and financial support from others. They were walking down a stream where they met a young and beautiful lady. She was very helpless as she couldn't cross the river because of the strong current. Maybe she just wants other's attention, who knows. The older monk offered to take her across the river on his back and there they went. After reaching the other side of the river, the girl went on her path. The younger monk, being jealous and confuse, asked "Master, why did you carry the lady on your back? We are monks, how could you do such an inappropriate act?". The master then replied "I've let her down by the riverside, why haven't you?"

The moral of this story is "there's always an excuse for getting close to a younger girl, so, don't miss any chances".

The Dummies Guide for Counter Strike

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:45:11 GMT

For the past few weeks, I have been staying at home playing this old FPS game called "Counter Strike".

Mostly play as a counter-terrorist, I have to use a standard hand-gun and bullet-proof vest for the first few rounds to save money. Some guys would rather buy the Desert Eagle on the first round, but I think the vest can safe your life when you encounter a gang of Terrorists. In one-on-one situations, the guy with the stronger gun has a better chance of killing the opponent.

I usually follows a group of CTs to storm an area. The more people you have, the least chance of being killed, and the higher chance of taking over the place. But obviously, my main objective is to grab a machine gun from the dead guys.

When aiming at the opponent, you must aim at their head and press the trigger one by one. If you hold the trigger on for auto-fire, the accuracy will be greatly decreased. Moving sideways is also recommended to avoid being shot severely. You must also be awared of snipers. They are little bastards that hide unexpectingly and kill you in an instance with 1 single shot with their powerful riffle. Mind you that the snipers can shoot through thin walls and they are the ultimate type of players in the game.

The terrorists usually win in the beginning, their standard hand-gun is more powerful and their cheap AK-47 can be widely affordable at 2nd round. However, with good tactics and team work, CTs should be able to turn the situation around after the purchasing of M4 is no longer an issue. After all, this game is about man-power and fire-power.