I kinda want to watch this... but most likely I'll wait for VCD/DVD... =P
I think the Taiwan trailer is better
If you haven't watch the TV series yet, you can watch the whole series here with Chinese subtitles =P
Someone uploaded parts of the TV series on youtube!! I like the professor a lot, haha!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Thinking about a new camera... just thinking!
The handgrip of my camera has fallen off, I don't even know when it did... Now I really want to get a new one, but the old one is still fully functional... And the functions are adequate for my use, I can adjust aperture, shutter speed, the biggest problem is just the noise control... plus it's small and handy as well.
I used to think if I were to buy a new one, I would have got a DSLR. After seeing my friend getting her "small" DSLR out from her backpack in our Jiuzhaigou trip, I'm not so sure...
Not that I'm buying, but the directions where I'm looking includes
Canon Powershot G10 (G10! and the control knobs seem pretty good, even with an ISO control knob)
Canon Powershot SX1 IS
Canon Powershot SX10 IS (not so good as G series? but really expensive!! lens range from 28mm to 560mm, I don't think I need another camera!)
Panasonic LX3 (obviously an upgrade of my LX2, I can probably get discount buying it, and a friend said the noise control is much better and the photos he got are even better than those using DSLR, and it's got ultra wide angle 24mm, and even f/2.0)
And the lightest DSLR of all- Olympus E-420
and just 70g more, Canon EOS 1000D
obviously for me to learn more on photography, but heavy and most likely need more investment on lens... $$$
Just thinking out aloud...
Actually kinda worried that my camera, with so many external parts broken, it may have some interior damage... what if it broke down during my trip...??
I used to think if I were to buy a new one, I would have got a DSLR. After seeing my friend getting her "small" DSLR out from her backpack in our Jiuzhaigou trip, I'm not so sure...
Not that I'm buying, but the directions where I'm looking includes
Canon Powershot G10 (G10! and the control knobs seem pretty good, even with an ISO control knob)
Canon Powershot SX1 IS
Canon Powershot SX10 IS (not so good as G series? but really expensive!! lens range from 28mm to 560mm, I don't think I need another camera!)
Panasonic LX3 (obviously an upgrade of my LX2, I can probably get discount buying it, and a friend said the noise control is much better and the photos he got are even better than those using DSLR, and it's got ultra wide angle 24mm, and even f/2.0)
And the lightest DSLR of all- Olympus E-420
and just 70g more, Canon EOS 1000D
obviously for me to learn more on photography, but heavy and most likely need more investment on lens... $$$
Just thinking out aloud...
Actually kinda worried that my camera, with so many external parts broken, it may have some interior damage... what if it broke down during my trip...??
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Planning on Peru trip (part 1)
Yeah, I know I still haven't left for my Christmas trip yet, hey, that's a trip for the idiots with my mom, so no preparations needed! Apart from paying for everything...
As many people know, the most famous sight in Peru is Machu Picchu (and I have wanted to go since I was in primary school), and you can hike a four day trail all the way there, or 2 day trail (and stay in the hotel at night time, no need to camp), or just take train + bus from Cusco to Machu Picchu.
I'm not sure if I can do the hike at high altitude for 4 days, the hardest part involves climbing 1000m in one day, not from 0-1000m, but from like 3000-4000m!
And March is the wet season in Peru, so you get lots of rain as well... (Wet season is from Dec-Mar, Dry season from Jun-Sept.)
Here're some good resources for me (and maybe you) to start planning on this part of the trip
Inca Trail FAQ
Lonely Planet FAQ Machu Picchu and Inca Trail
And this blog written by a Taiwanese girl who went to Peru on her own, great photos and details on her trip
I think a 2 day Inca Trail is more within my capability, I can still remember the misery I had (cold and wet clothes, cold food, shivering under my sleeping bag) when I hiked under heavy rain during my secondary school days... though I suspect this trip will be easier as there are porters and cooks, still 1000m climb... if it' not a rainy season, then maybe ok, well, this post I just read from the Lonely Planet site (by antarticmango) is encouraging =P
"The trek is hard if you are massively unfit and overweight as I was, but there is only one deadline each day - make dinner. Dinner's usually around 6-7pm and I managed to make it every day by at least two hours and I was the slowest person on the trail from any group or company! We were often among the first starters in the morning and I got to meet almost everyone on the trail as they passed me at some point during the day - it was a great way to meet people. At the same time as I was slowly completing the trail a four year old boy walked/almost ran the whole trail so anyone can do it. SAS, my tour company, were very good, always making sure that one porter was always close by to make sure I didn't get into trouble - it worked to his benefit as he met a local female tour guide and they hit it off big time :-) Slow and steady will get you there."
As many people know, the most famous sight in Peru is Machu Picchu (and I have wanted to go since I was in primary school), and you can hike a four day trail all the way there, or 2 day trail (and stay in the hotel at night time, no need to camp), or just take train + bus from Cusco to Machu Picchu.
I'm not sure if I can do the hike at high altitude for 4 days, the hardest part involves climbing 1000m in one day, not from 0-1000m, but from like 3000-4000m!
And March is the wet season in Peru, so you get lots of rain as well... (Wet season is from Dec-Mar, Dry season from Jun-Sept.)
Here're some good resources for me (and maybe you) to start planning on this part of the trip
Inca Trail FAQ
Lonely Planet FAQ Machu Picchu and Inca Trail
And this blog written by a Taiwanese girl who went to Peru on her own, great photos and details on her trip
I think a 2 day Inca Trail is more within my capability, I can still remember the misery I had (cold and wet clothes, cold food, shivering under my sleeping bag) when I hiked under heavy rain during my secondary school days... though I suspect this trip will be easier as there are porters and cooks, still 1000m climb... if it' not a rainy season, then maybe ok, well, this post I just read from the Lonely Planet site (by antarticmango) is encouraging =P
"The trek is hard if you are massively unfit and overweight as I was, but there is only one deadline each day - make dinner. Dinner's usually around 6-7pm and I managed to make it every day by at least two hours and I was the slowest person on the trail from any group or company! We were often among the first starters in the morning and I got to meet almost everyone on the trail as they passed me at some point during the day - it was a great way to meet people. At the same time as I was slowly completing the trail a four year old boy walked/almost ran the whole trail so anyone can do it. SAS, my tour company, were very good, always making sure that one porter was always close by to make sure I didn't get into trouble - it worked to his benefit as he met a local female tour guide and they hit it off big time :-) Slow and steady will get you there."
Friday, December 12, 2008
Good! Why are we so concerned about the lives of celebrities??
I'm really not quite updated in celebrity news, I don't even read the entertainment news on newspaper.
Recently, the latest celebrity news headline is about the breakup of Ngai Chun and Vivian Chow. (It's all over the internet even when I don't read gossip columns.) Many people thought the statement she gave was classy, I just found that too fake. Breaking up with her boyfriend after being together for 19 years! And she was so calm? I highly doubt it.
I like what the "ex-father-in-law" said.
倪匡語氣明顯變得不耐煩：「那你要問甚麼？如何看法？你和你男朋友分手，你的家長可以如何看法！可以講甚麼！你想也知道答案了，對吧？（那你個人有否覺得遺憾？）話明個人感受，我為何要告訴你？這只是他們兩個人的事，為何你們傳媒一定要浪費時間關注這些小事，劉曉波坐牢這等國家大事你怎不去採訪？社會付出那麼多資源裁培你們，你們為何不做點有意義的事？他們兩個到底做了甚麼大事，是牽涉到人類命運還是經濟海嘯，你們一定要追訪？」告訴倪匡，雖然分手是倪震與周慧敏兩個人的事，但因為導因是倪震和城大女生在夜店熱吻，破了學校的風氣，亦對香港教育帶來負面衝擊，已不是純粹的情人分手，所以傳媒才會追訪，他更加生氣：「那你去問城大才對，問我做甚麼！完全搞錯對象！（那請問你覺得一個成年男人和大學生在夜店鬼混對嗎？）你不用套我，我食鹽多過你食米，肯和你說這麼多，我已覺得自己好低B！」一向予人嘻嘻哈哈的老頑童倪匡，第一次發如此大的脾氣。
You have to applaud the ingenuity of these reporters, HK education!!!!! And his reply, haha!
Recently, the latest celebrity news headline is about the breakup of Ngai Chun and Vivian Chow. (It's all over the internet even when I don't read gossip columns.) Many people thought the statement she gave was classy, I just found that too fake. Breaking up with her boyfriend after being together for 19 years! And she was so calm? I highly doubt it.
I like what the "ex-father-in-law" said.
倪匡語氣明顯變得不耐煩：「那你要問甚麼？如何看法？你和你男朋友分手，你的家長可以如何看法！可以講甚麼！你想也知道答案了，對吧？（那你個人有否覺得遺憾？）話明個人感受，我為何要告訴你？這只是他們兩個人的事，為何你們傳媒一定要浪費時間關注這些小事，劉曉波坐牢這等國家大事你怎不去採訪？社會付出那麼多資源裁培你們，你們為何不做點有意義的事？他們兩個到底做了甚麼大事，是牽涉到人類命運還是經濟海嘯，你們一定要追訪？」告訴倪匡，雖然分手是倪震與周慧敏兩個人的事，但因為導因是倪震和城大女生在夜店熱吻，破了學校的風氣，亦對香港教育帶來負面衝擊，已不是純粹的情人分手，所以傳媒才會追訪，他更加生氣：「那你去問城大才對，問我做甚麼！完全搞錯對象！（那請問你覺得一個成年男人和大學生在夜店鬼混對嗎？）你不用套我，我食鹽多過你食米，肯和你說這麼多，我已覺得自己好低B！」一向予人嘻嘻哈哈的老頑童倪匡，第一次發如此大的脾氣。
You have to applaud the ingenuity of these reporters, HK education!!!!! And his reply, haha!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Central December 08
This photo is bad, but the advertisement is grand...
Not many people here in early morning, but I spot 3 other "mo liu" people like me taking photos =P, 2 with SLRs =P
State-of-the-Arts Gallery (I like both the name and the building.)
Really difficult to take pics of these skyscrapers... this is the only ok one... not good, but ok.
Not many people here in early morning, but I spot 3 other "mo liu" people like me taking photos =P, 2 with SLRs =P
State-of-the-Arts Gallery (I like both the name and the building.)
Really difficult to take pics of these skyscrapers... this is the only ok one... not good, but ok.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Finished Buffy Season 7
I have finally finished all the seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It took me like half a year to finish all the episodes, mostly because it got quite boring in the middle and I stopped watching it. =P
I have wanted to watch it for many years, but since it wasn't shown in television here in Hong Kong, I didn't have the chance to watch it. And one of my favourite writers love the TV show, and since she also loves the West Wing (one of my fav TV show), I thought I would love the show, so I got the DVDs. (China version =P)
Even though the basic plot of a superheroine who fought vampire, but fell in love with one herself is so cliche =P, the good dialogue and the gorgeous and cool heroes made up for it. =)
As I have mentioned before, the hero in the first 3 seasons- Angel (David Boreanaz), Buffy's first boyfriend, is good looking and cool.
The second one is so boring, I won't even mention him...
The third one- Spike (James Marsters), is really breathtakingly gorgeous. =P
Since I started reading about James Marsters on the web, I found a lot of interesting stuff about him. He graduated from Juilliard, he is actually an American (his British accent in the Buffy show is just an act!), and he is a singer and guitarist with his own rock band.
And this quote of his impressed me a lot.
"I don't know much about the internet, I'm afraid.
I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.
I have not, just because -- see this brings up a very interesting thing, I don't have a computer, because it so -- it's like bourbon, going to a fan site you know, it makes you feel so puffed up about yourself and so cool, and I promised myself when Joss asked me to come on the show as a regular, I hung up the phone after screaming like an idiot and then like I didn't even pretend to be cool, I sat down and I was like 'okay, I'm gonna be getting a lot of money, I'm gonna be getting a lot of fame, but the most important thing is if I can keep from becoming an asshole'.
What I noticed was that when I go on the Internet, or used to, my head would swell. Why am I an actor? God knows but some of it has got to be the need for acceptance and stuff, right? So I'm just drawn to that stuff like honey and at some point I just had to say, 'James, get off the 'Net, go back, clean your toilet.' Now I find I'm like a mentor to the guys in the band because they're tasting it now too. And I'm like, 'Charlie, get off the Internet. Get off your fan site now. You're losing it.' And he's like, 'Yeah, boss, right.'"
I have never thought much about this, how celebrities would react to the "good" stuff people write about them on the net. I like this guy even more when I read this.
Plus bad boys are far more interesting than the good ones. Just compared Buffy's two vampire boyfriends with her human one (the second boring one). =P
I have wanted to watch it for many years, but since it wasn't shown in television here in Hong Kong, I didn't have the chance to watch it. And one of my favourite writers love the TV show, and since she also loves the West Wing (one of my fav TV show), I thought I would love the show, so I got the DVDs. (China version =P)
Even though the basic plot of a superheroine who fought vampire, but fell in love with one herself is so cliche =P, the good dialogue and the gorgeous and cool heroes made up for it. =)
As I have mentioned before, the hero in the first 3 seasons- Angel (David Boreanaz), Buffy's first boyfriend, is good looking and cool.
The second one is so boring, I won't even mention him...
The third one- Spike (James Marsters), is really breathtakingly gorgeous. =P
Since I started reading about James Marsters on the web, I found a lot of interesting stuff about him. He graduated from Juilliard, he is actually an American (his British accent in the Buffy show is just an act!), and he is a singer and guitarist with his own rock band.
And this quote of his impressed me a lot.
"I don't know much about the internet, I'm afraid.
I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.
I have not, just because -- see this brings up a very interesting thing, I don't have a computer, because it so -- it's like bourbon, going to a fan site you know, it makes you feel so puffed up about yourself and so cool, and I promised myself when Joss asked me to come on the show as a regular, I hung up the phone after screaming like an idiot and then like I didn't even pretend to be cool, I sat down and I was like 'okay, I'm gonna be getting a lot of money, I'm gonna be getting a lot of fame, but the most important thing is if I can keep from becoming an asshole'.
What I noticed was that when I go on the Internet, or used to, my head would swell. Why am I an actor? God knows but some of it has got to be the need for acceptance and stuff, right? So I'm just drawn to that stuff like honey and at some point I just had to say, 'James, get off the 'Net, go back, clean your toilet.' Now I find I'm like a mentor to the guys in the band because they're tasting it now too. And I'm like, 'Charlie, get off the Internet. Get off your fan site now. You're losing it.' And he's like, 'Yeah, boss, right.'"
I have never thought much about this, how celebrities would react to the "good" stuff people write about them on the net. I like this guy even more when I read this.
Plus bad boys are far more interesting than the good ones. Just compared Buffy's two vampire boyfriends with her human one (the second boring one). =P
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Christmas- one of the songs I love most
It's December and Christmas is coming.
I have loved this song since I was in secondary school and heard the Chinese version the first time. Just wanna share this song.
This is the version with scenes from the Passion of Christ, if you are squeamish about blood, you can watch the next video, the song is the same, but video different.
I have loved this song since I was in secondary school and heard the Chinese version the first time. Just wanna share this song.
This is the version with scenes from the Passion of Christ, if you are squeamish about blood, you can watch the next video, the song is the same, but video different.
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