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Saturday, January 31, 2009

小朋友也有自尊心的!

實在太過份了!

昨天在時代廣場逛街, 在扶手電梯旁都有個位置讓人累了可以坐的地方...我在某層的那個位置裏竟然給我看到了一個大陸阿叔捧着一個大概三四歲的小孩, 然後地上舖了報紙讓他在大便耶!!!!!!!天呀! 公眾地方來的呀....人來人往的電梯口呀......有很多廁所的時代廣場呀.....為甚麼不帶小孩到廁所大解要讓他在眾多陌生人面前展露他的屁屁呀? 當然那個阿叔的行為是很没公德很不衞生, 但我想說的重點不是這裡....到底那大叔有没有考慮過他捧着的是人不是狗...為甚麼要讓他像狗一樣隨街便便在報紙上? 小孩不是人嗎?就是因為他才三四歲就可以不理他感受嗎?就算他忍不住没法子要就地便便, 不能帶他到隱敝一點, 人少一點的地方嗎? 我看見那小孩真的有流露出十分難堪的表情來....真可憐~

希望那小孩不要留有童年陰影就好了!

唉...很可悲!!

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Note back in Dec 2008

The 2008 December was a really good one:

The secret of the Pacific Place toilet is disclosed, it's so wise that I escaped from lesson and took MTR home on that particular Thursday and seized the chance to take that issue 133 of metro pop:

Thomas Heatherwick!!!!! Genius!!!!!!!

And this issue also lead me to explore the unreachable gents' toilet..cool~

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The first time to watch ballet, and it's the first time i learned the whole story about The Nutcracker. The show was good, the stage settings, the dance, the costumes, the Tchaikovsky's music together made a perfect night.

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Paksen invited me to her house party on Christmas and it's a very pleasant and hea-able one..lotta fun too~

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And unexpectedly I got some nice Christmas presents, and I bought myself sth, too:

My 2008 ended happily.

Following here is some info about Thomas Heatherwick I searched from the Internet:

Thomas Heatherwick (born 1 March 1970) is an English designer, often mislabelled as a sculptor or artist. He is known for innovative use of engineering and materials in public monuments.

Thomas Heatherwick describes himself as a three-dimensional designer. Considered “UK’s brightest young designer” in Icon magazine, an extraordinary selection of projects ranging from public art with England’s tallest sculpture, to a bag collection for Longchamps, a rolling footbridge and a collection about ideas for the Conran foundation, has been invented and produced by him.

His projects are diverse, innovative and breathtaking each in their own individual way.

Quite good looking actually...haa

Born in London, he studied three dimensional design at Manchester Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art, winning several prizes. Shortly after graduating from the Royal College of Art after a two-year furniture MA course in 1994, he was commissioned by Harvey Nichols department store in Knightsbridge to design a temporary structure for the shop's facade.

Heatherwick's design was a ribbon of laminated wood that wound through the storefront windows. The design was widely acclaimed and won him a D&AD yellow pencil (the gold award) in 1996.

He founded Thomas Heatherwick Studio (now called just Heatherwick Studio) in 1994 with his aim being "to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice".

Surprisingly, even the Hong Kong Southorn Playground in Wan Chai is also the work by Thomas Heatherwick!!! ( surprise 在修頓咁唔浮誇, 真係唔講唔知原來係佢嘅作品囉~) The followings are others notable projects by him:

B of the Bang, Manchester

他受委約設計一座紀念碑，紀念2002年曼徹斯特城的英聯邦運動會。最普遍，亦是最迂腐、最不費力的做法，是那些表現民族間和平友愛的象形雕塑 ── 你知道我說甚麼的 ── 中國城市要塞慣常用的那些呢。HEATHERWICK就是要提醒自己，不要，就是不要這些。「最頂級的運動，是完全無和平可言，因為運動競賽本身就是要異常進取的，所以我們給自己下的挑戰是：有甚麼東西是最進取、最有動感的？」海膽？！一個56米高，150噸重的，滿身尖刺的雕塑，在2005年初進駐會場旁邊，成為全英國最高的建築物。這個名為B OF THE BANG的紀念碑，遠看像煙花，其實是180枝尖刺從一條驅幹「放射」出來。我們懷疑，究竟有沒有人夠膽識從雕塑下面走過？也許設計師嫌未夠驚嚇，還將紀念碑離水平傾斜30度！

East Beach Cafe, Littlehampton

Harvey Nichols, London (UK)

The Rolling Bridge, Paddington Basin, London

Model for the temple in Kagoshima, Japan

More stunning photos about his projects in the website of his studio: www.heatherwick.com

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

2009 yr plan

1. TIDY UP MY ROOM!!!!!!! This keeps on failing... so I make it the No. 1 goal to achieve! MUST ACHIEVE WITHIN THIS YEAR~

2. KEEP ON GOING ...dun think about the old him. BE POSITIVE!!!!!

3. 坐　．言　．　起　．　行 !

4. This year is supposed to be a year of "study". Though actually I'm not too fond of studying...but should get myself put effort on it. At the end of the day it's for my own good. um... this is complicated... in fact I'm not really aggressive on my job...but the senior keeps on pushing me to get the master done... to me, I just want to finish it asap, in one way to "fulfill"my senior's perception on me, not to make her feel that I'm not 上進 and thus after that i can use my spare time to learn things according to my hobbies, without the pressure from her...on the other hand, hopefully the course can enrich my professional knowledge la ha...after all these yrs of work I hope I can have a picture in my mind what it's talking about in the teaching material, unlike the time that I was just blank in uni.

5. Keep my schedule. I'm making myself keeping an organizer again. I realized that my life is too messy. Many things that supposed I should do but I just let them undone. I'm trying to make a To-do List monthly, probably i cannot get them done in the end, but at least I've a list to guide myself wat's gotta be done....

6. Daily review. With the organizer I'm trying to write a review everyday. Mostly i aim at my work performance review, or the things that I've learned in that day....I know I'm not doing my best in my job n thus i wanna improve, at least i don't want to keep on making the same mistake again and again. By thinking over about what had happened in the day and jotting it down i hope i can remember the lesson better, and can do the revision from time to time.

( with point 4 & 5 i wanna make my days more meaningful. )

7. Train up my EQ. Not to be easily affected by nonsense comment about me or any other stupid colleagues' temper. Control myself not to be pressurized by them and perform my normal standard of work.

8. Because of the study, I guess going on a trip is difficult this year. Anyway, I still hope I can go on one or two short trips maybe... even to Macau.

9. Voluntary work..... in action.

10. Pick up leisure reading again.

11. Buy a new lamp in the house.

12. Accept invites for gathering and be sociable (as much as i can ).

13. Constant contact with friends I love.

14. Try to get some exercise.

15. Investment...if i have spare money.

16. Donate blood.

17. Spot for a flat.......(mostly can't afford to buy it i know..)

The above sequence is not following their level of importance btw.

My most loved miffy schedule from Milk...accompanying me all thro' 2009

Friday, January 16, 2009

The BIG things in 2008

Here are the things happened in 2008 that worth mentioning :

1) Mom had gone thro' a big surgery...and this deeply reflects how my mom is important to me. without her at home my life is just so messy. For god's sake i dunno wat hv i done tat makes ants come walking everywhere...but after mom's recover and got back in charge of the house they were all gone again.... There must be sth that only mom knows how to do.

2) Mom's surgery also makes myself clear that how should i behave in front of those fake people in the other families, without regret.

3) Also this consolidated tat i should seize time, before it's too late, doing things that i really want to do so as to try as much as possible to make my life without regret in the end. No one knows wat's gonna happen to urself next and life is fragile.

4) I've bought an insurance for myself based on my own decision, which i think n i hope it's a right thing to do.

5) I've completed the graphic design course and gained the opportunity to take part in the graduation exhibition and my work were being published.

6) I've done the shanghai travel myself and joined my sister in the koh sammui trip which was wonderful

7) Because of the help by Facebook i've met lots of old friends...esp. those in YWGS...though we're not really keeping in touch but it's fun seeing each other again after all these years

8) Finally i've made up my mind n applied for a master course, though it's some how reluctant for me to take it but i'll be serious on it...coz at the end of the day it's all for my career.

9) The worst thing was stepped into a ridiculous relationship...but i'm glad it ended so quickly and i recovered so fast as well tat i wasn't really too upset about it now. I've learned a lesson again n i promised myself not to fall into this kind of trap anymore.

10) Designed the wedding card and logo for quinnie...though actually not really satisfied abt the quality of the printout ...also i'm not happy with my design being "modified" but ignoring my consistency behind which i think it does matter ... but well as i'm not really a "pro" n as long as the couple is ok with it ...n tat's the first n maybe the only design task n i've completed it.......tat's fine i guess.

OK..while now thinking all over again, it seems tat my 2008 wasn't really too bad. At least there seems more good things than bad and for the bad things, i've learned sth from them....quite nice!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

First of all, the 2008 review

okay here comes 2009... time really flies~ Go straight to the point let's do a review of my 2008 first, n here's my last yr's plan:

2008 Year Plan

This first thing strike onto my head this year.....and I dunno why.....is to get myself into some charitable organization support.....either volunteer work or donations....... maybe I think I'm wasting too much of my time doing meaningless things while others are suffering in the other side of the world..... and ppl say time is money, right?....maybe to compensate for myself letting time or money lose i'd better support those charitable organizations to help others.... ( um... i've put effort on this... n i've targeted some organizations that i wanna join or ...just that still hvn't really send out the application yet.... )

The second thing that comes clear is that I wanna get myself into the stock market to made myself earn some instant money......this isn't a good attitude but I realized that I've wasted money too much in the daily commute and if I dun cover this expense I won't have extra money to spend....( yea.... I know I should say I gotta sleep earlier and wake earlier and dun get a taxi to work .......but this is the toughest thing that I can achieve if I made it as one of the goals~)and every time with the money I earn from stock market, I gotta in return make donations to some charitable organizations to help others.......I believe I should add a bit of meaningfulness to this profit making game... ( Still i hvn't step my feet into the stock market yet... the whole system is too complicated for me...but on the aspect of not taking taxi to work, i think i've improved a bit, like now i'm taking bus to work n taxi is just in case i got up late...)

Also, since I would like to travel to more places.... and travelling need money, I really need to earn more.......I've 3 annual leave slots this year and I hope I can spend them all in travelling......and at least one of them will be travelling with my mom and her expenses will be covered of course by me..... that's why I need extra money in order to cover these travelling plans... ( this is GOOD!! i've been to shang hai myself, then to Northeastern Japan with mom n sis and finally to Koh Samui...all wonderful experiences~)

and I really wanna buy my Rolexxxxxxxxxxxx......... ( urrr... forget abt this maybe.... )

My design course will be finishing this year... I hope I can hand in all the coursework and complete the portforlio exhibition project ( Yes i completed it...n took part in the exhibition!!!!!!!)

I hope I can contiue my work out in gym and make it a routinue like doing at least 2 times a week....by achieving this I hope I won't be ill too often....I realize I'm always sick these days....like once in a month..... my physical condition is too poor.......sigh~ ( total failure...n the membership had expired already~)

These are the things that I really wanna acheive in 2008....and of course those failed to achieve plans in the past like tidying up, getting myself organized, waking up earlier etc etc......ummmm..... it'd be good if I can beat them too....but well... let's see........... ( continue to be a failure)

alright, later on i'll put up my important highlights in the 2008 together with the 2009 yr plan too... i'm on my leave this week thus i've lots of time to do so~

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

A Brand New Year

Can't believe i havn't put anything in the last month of 2008..... there's actually lots to share just that i'm too lazy to load the pics n write sth here... i regret n i'll write as much i wanna share as i want asap...

i'll put back the photos, n most of all the past year review, coming along with the 2009 year plan ....

i need some more time...

must make myself to do so asap...

i promise~