光与激光 (Light and Laser)

Light and laser, both are from the same family. Both produce the brightness. The main difference is light floods the area with brightness; laser brights the spot precisely and even burn through the spot.

This is actually our characteristic and applies to our daily life. Take golf as example: One picked up golf from 0. He Learned from book, friends, books; Went through all the training, practising, adjusting, struggling, thinking, playing, and become a golfer with handicap 15 in less than 2 years. Another picked up golf as one of his hobbies, played several years and still can't break 100 but he is quite content.

Read until here, you should know what I am talking about. I respect the people with "laser" towards things and I also happy to see people with "light" that bring the fun along :). As long as they all enjoy the moment. So my friends, are you the light or the laser?

Funny writing term from Gen-Y today

My Taiwan cousin told me two new Chinese writing expression on messenger, which makes me laugh out loud.

1）雷猴啊

２）猴塞雷啊

What does that mean???

At first I couldn't catch it, what thunder(雷)? what monkey(猴)? Then I figured that 雷猴啊 is actually the chinese writing that sounds like cantonese saying 你好啊...

What about 猴塞雷啊? monkey(猴) stuff (塞) thunder(雷) ???? what does it mean??? It is actually 好犀利啊！！！

I think this is somewhat quite useful. The mandarin speaking people will not be able to read/say in cantonese 你好啊 or 好犀利啊 when they see this writing. On the other hand, when they read 雷猴啊 and 猴塞雷啊 in mandarin, the pronunciation will lead to the meaning.

okok, enough entertaining myself here :)... good night.

IDEA Band practise - part 2

Today went to band warehouse to do a few musics to sooth our mind from the hectic work. Hit the drums to release the tension. Later the play, IDEA band members came for the practice. Enjoyed a few great live performance before heading home, happy...

Jesse, playing lead for Hotel California

IDEA Band in action!

Photos taken by my new camera phone - Nokia 6682. Hmm.. not bad from a camera phone. Should write some review about this :)

Meaningful words

"If you keep doing the same thing, what do you expect to change? Miracle?"

Example:
I play golf for a long while. Still can't break through the great result. After every game, looked at the score card, reviewed the stupid mistakes made, told myself not to repeat the same mistakes again. Next game on, same thing happened again.

"If you keep doing the same thing, what do you expect to change? Miracle?"

I strongly feel this today. I appreciate the friend who told me this.

Monday (different version)

6.29am - Woke up automatically (again) and with a cleared mind telling myself "it's Monday."
6.31am - Went online to check out NASDAQ, saw many "red"s, still managed to make some weekly "pocket money".
7.05am - Toasted 2 bread and coffee for breakfast.
7.30am - went back to bed and happily told myself "today will be a good day" and watched news.
8.00am - Brushed teeth, combed spikey hair, combed spikey hair.
8.15am - Alarm went off. Turned it off and laughed inside "hahaha, I woke up already."
8.20am - left house, saw my blackie outside waiting for me :) (again, happy moment every morning).
8.30am - Arrived office.

The day begins...

Oops ... I did it again (Mr rice stick in action)

I had the urge to cook one chinese food today - stir fried rice sticks! and I did it.
Can't tell how big the portion is from this angle.


3 adults, 2 big pans, = eat until almost faint!

Conclusion:
- Total cost, less than $10.
- Total time for preparation and cook, less than 1 hour.
- Spent time with housemates to eat and talk, priceless :).

To you with friends and housemates, not bad to give it a try :)..

Monday...

6.05am - Woke up and talled to myself "is it Saturday, Sunday?, no, it's Monday!!!"
6.30am - Went online to check out NASDAQ, saw many "red"s, ... #$%^!#&*%...
6.45am - Watched news a bit. Headlines "Bush caught on tape" for saying something inappropriate to British PM.
7.00am - went back to sleep.
8.15am - Alarm went off. Pressed snooze.
8.24am - Alarm went off. Pressed snooze again.
8.33am - Alarm went off. Woke up with heavy breath and pounding heartbeats.
8.34am - Drank a glass of water (8oz). Brush teeth, washed face, got dressed. (forgot to shave!!! Now I look like Andy Lau ... hahaha...)
8.40am - Drank coffee, ate 2 snack bars.
8.50am - left house, saw my blackie outside waiting for me :) (happy moment every morning).
9.00am - Arrived office. Say many "Good morning" to people and put up my smiley face for the day.

The day begins...

Band warehouse visit

Friday after work, went to Jess's band warehouse to jam a few songs.
Jamming is always better than playing alone :). We should do this more often.

Drum set, my favorite!
Jesse and Aaron on guitars!Show time... are you readyyyyy??
My happy instruments! Rhythm makes me happy. The bad thing is that I can only play each of the instruments at a time. Anyone to join me??

Nor Cal BBQ picnic

Today a few of us (the golf buddies) went for a picnic at Golden Gate Park. We had a great time, no doubt. It is always good to get together with some friends and talk anything other than work :).
Thank you friends... I always say "live your life colorful". With you around, life is really more colorful.

Note: For people who are thinking about going to BBQ there, call GG park to reserve the tables and BBQ pitts. Or if you have own grill and tarps and chairs... it will not be an issue (like us)!