Christmas in SB

It's been a bad time to visit the state to be honest. I seriously travel too much last year and also it's almost the worst weather in SB~~ cold and rain um... ahhhhh..... but it was a super sweet Christmas I've spent with Petra's family :) Thanks and sorry Darius and Felix, I totally forgot we should exchange gifts in Christmas dinner hahahaha.... I will have better preparation next year~ lol~~

Tron (6.5)

The only thing that worth you paying US$18 to go into cinema is the soundtrack and it is brilliant I have to say. It is so rich and tells a lot more than the visual. It's just so well done. It's reasonably entertaining and the CG is okay but I did expect much more for the visual when they spent an entire year to promote it. Something I can't understand and it's still in my mind is why is the door soooo low-tech in their fancy digital flat? and that's quite a lot of silly things going on which I shouldn't even ask why for a movie like this I guess. The main actress is stunning although her acting kinda sucks.
If you wanna see it, see it in cinema or don't even bother

Whatever works (6.5)

It's one of Woody Alan's very interesting movie. Very interesting idea as the name of the movie "whatever works". Life is full of surprises and unexpected and it's the norm. I actually like it from the beginning until middle to later half but I definitely hate that ending. I think it's very typical, using the whole movie to talk about one single idea but I am not sure it is the best way to talk about stories.

A Single Man (7)

As everyone said, it's a nice (but not exciting obviously) movie to see. It is pretty, it is a nicely written story and it is nicely directed.

It's a story happened in a day in California in 1960s. A 50+ years old gay man trying to kill himself because of his partner died in a car accident. Invisible life of gays at that time,

I kinda find the music a bit too upfront as a movie soundtrack. It created a mood of sadness even more than the visual could give and more than it needs I think. The tone of the movie keep changing during the whole movie but you dont find it too arkaward. haha anyway it's nice to see and it's Tom Ford movie, I guess I would put it into the must-see cat. coz of that.

Shortbus (6)

I seriously think it's not a must-see movie as a lot of ppl told me... It's just story of a bunch of sexualoholic and a lot of sex scenes and they are not even hot. um... yea... some ppl live like this, we knew it, and, thanks for telling us again with so much effort haha... ~~

The Hours (7)

Kinda deep and sad movie~ It's a good one and some people said he experience his whole life (that sounds pretty short :P) in this movie... worth a see~~ :D

Inception (8.5)

It's a very good and entertaining movie~ I love Christopher Nolan!!! hahha~~ lol

Sweden

20JUL Sweden
Swim in the morning
Pack and go to Stockholm
Met a Swedish girl in the airport :)
Talked so much random things with her~~ nonstop for like 3 hrs~
Arrived carina's flat at 1
More chatting

21JUL
Went to swim in the morning in the lake!!! How amazing!!! Relaxing morning~~ eaten a lot of Swedish cheese~~ woohooo~~

Antique store shopping!!!! It's an amazing shop just nearby the flat!!!~~ gonna come back and buy everything!!!

work at night.

22JUL
Went to alexander's flat where i will be stating in a few weeks~~

had swedish style harring~~ i prefer the holland ones tho

Jogging at night~~ felt quite weak and a bit confusing where to run~

23JUL
Went to the city centre and walk around by myself~~ bought gift for Marie~~ hohoho~~
Went to alex's flat again to pack carina's stuff~~
jogging again at night~~ feeling much more energetic tonight :)

24JUL
Woke up at 8 to catch the train to the Fornegård farm. arrived Borås, where carina studied her highschool, at 2 sth and had lunch there. Wait until almost 5 to take another bus to the town nearby and her mum drove us home from there~ arriving Fornegård farm at 7 sth!

Lovely dinner :) cream soap~~

Ride bike a bit around~


25JUL
Woke up at 10 in farm is unusual~

Rainy day~~ rain rain rain
Went to a jumbo sale thing which is not very nice :p I kinda like the rain here~~ u just got nothing to do and stay in~ very relax and calm~~ I sorted out quite a lot of photos.

Ålg for lunch!!! And all veggies from the farm! Super fresh potatoes were picked 30 mins b4 they are cooked~

Fixed some more photos and nothing much done~~ ate a lot and feel guilty about not doing anything but only eating~|

26JUL
woke up at 8 and everyone had breakfast already!

Ride a bit around the house area~~

Salmon (from a neighbor's salmon farm) for lunch!! Nice nice~~

Helped (not that much help indeed) on the explosion for building the road~~

Swim in the lake nearby and it was super cold!!! Probably from the rain yesterday~~

Met a lot of cows!!! Went into the forest and had a bit of adventure~~ super nice day~~

Dinner and gone on Internet~~ Ho Ho Ho ~~


27JUL
Some more walking around the house.

Said goodbye to carina's mum and went to Borås at 11. Met Emma :). Bought gift for myself and carina's family. got on bus at 15:15~~ fixed photos for an hour n half~~
Chat on skype.


28JUL
Work at home~ went to the antique shop and more work~
Jogging
chat on skype.

29JUL
Raining. Work at home. Found post office in the rain. Its so nice to walk around the area. skype.

30JUL

Work. Moderna meuseet :) architecture meuseet!:) Shopping!! 70%off!! Dinner with strands and friends.
More skype.

31JUL went out and meet Felix. Sofia flat is kinda amazing!! Lunch with Sofia & family and Felix. Suck in the life while Felix was going to airport! Hahahhaa stupid kid~
Skype with Leo.
And more skype.


1AUG
Met Jimmy, Carina's Frd~~ he's cool!

2AUG

Sofia bday!

3AUG
Dinner at Krista's flat~~


6AUG
Run for 13 km~ and found it nothing~
Had halloumi salad with Carina in a nice nice cafe~

7AUG
Work in the cafe~

8AUG
Fotografiska, amazing photos~
Nice cafe with carina's frd

HK-Dubai-London-Paris-Provence-London

16JUN HK-Dubai
Best spacing on flight
Worst service >_<

Pixi store. Opera gallery. Nice French woman from Nice :) Went up to the tallest building in the world~ very impressing fountain show while hving a nice dinner. Probably seeing the biggest fountain show of the world~ outside the biggest mall in the world, under the tallest building in the world~ but I m almost sure I won't come back here again~ yea somehow~ I feel sick about this place~ im not sure whats this feeling but certainly a boring place here. I feel that it's a lot of things you can do in this place but none of those I would do over there~ haha how sad~



18JUN
Lakers Lakers Lakers!!!



Watched Yu Junk Bin!! Donald Junk is suspected to be a spy from literary haha. A real politician!

Another Pixi store, more picture more problems. Almost late for the flight~ haha as usual, caught the flight as usual~ Told Stef to a wrong airport!!! but he's smart enough to go to the right one!! Haha lucky lucky me~ I miss u Stef~~

19JUN
Super relax day hang around Sordich & bricklane~ vitnamese lunch~ Dinner with Barnard, Patrick, Cho & Casper~

20JUN
Crazy shopping with Charlie & Bernard~~ 2 pair of shoes!! Dinner in Thai square, food were okay, server was horrible!

21JUN
Brighton lovely day with Bernard, Charlie, Patrick, Cho, Tommy and Key(!) interesting combination, huh?~ haha Ride bike the first time in Brighton :) Shanghai dinner in Marble Arsh

22JUN
Stay home and work like crazy >_<>_< href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kinn/4847450865/" title="France-2010-0005-Paris by Kinn, on Flickr">

25JUN
Jogging in luxembourg park~~ Relax at home Walk around the area~ shop a little bit. Walk all the way from Odeon to Marais via Louvre. Thai dinner with QingTon and Nancy in Marais.




26JUN
Flea market! QingTon's bday BBQ party in paris' countryside. Chat with Ashley until 3!




27JUN
Flea market again!!! We keep chatting until 4 and talk abt travel experience! So much wanna go Sibadan for diving!!!



28JUN
Jogging. Visit and use Internet at QingTon's flat in Marais. Confirmed tour to southern France Hang around Marais area~ Unexpected nice Chinese dinner with QingTon~



29JUN
Laundry~ internet~ laundry~ supermarket~ rest at home~ saw Akara book in bookshop nearby and ate crepe~ another supermarket~ home~ such a maylan day :p

30JUN
Woke up late. Swim in the afternoon Late lunch Shopping a bit Back home and work 01JUL Woke up late again Swim until 2 cos of the swimming pool closed early :( Didn't hv wallet and passed by a random market. Missed BB's doll~ aiya~~ Shopping in region 6~~ bought ceramic cups n bowl~~

02JUL
YSL exhibition~ Work work work

03JUL
Couldn't exchange the shorts :( Spent really long to find the car rantel Loooooooong drive to Bordeaux Passed by tour, wine yard, :):):)~~ arriving at 11pm! Night visit Bordeaux Spanish dinner + ice-cream~


04JUL
Morning market in Bordeaux Wine tasting Drive to Arles in 150km/h average~~ Stopped by Carcarsonne castle~~ arriving at 11pm~~

05JUL
Arles Morning to beach side. Super strong sunshine, cold water Ashley ex-boss's frd dinner.

06JUL
Greoux-Les-Bains Lavender museum Luberon, dinner at little restaurant n watched holland vs urguray

07JUL



Finding lavender~~ Amazing landscape~~ Stolen lavender!!! Killed 2 bees n 1 big spider~~ 2nd hand shop in little town. Wanna buy the lamp!! Germany vs Spain~~ dinner near by hotel~~


08JUL
St tropez disappoting beaches Canns great seafood dinner~
09JUL
Woke up at 12, went out at 1, wait for them to do girls shopping until 2!! Such a boring day >_<>_<>

Iron Man II (6.5)

It's nothing bad, kinda entertaining but not as nice as the first one.

I Love You Phillip Morris (7.5)

It's a fun movie, just find it and see it :D except Jum Carrey's over the top acting, everything are quite good :)

What did I do last year

People in my age should do some kinda review of what I've done for the whole year, haha... Let's start doing it from now on... it's never too late, ya?

My 2009 started with my Japanese trip~~ What a great start :D~~ I spent my first day of my new year in Kyoto~~ it's like ages ago but indeed just year passed.... haha... seems that I've done quite a bit of things this year~ Starting a year with traveling seems to be quite a good sign :D hahaha... We all love to start with traveling, don't we?

I thought it's still quite a lot of place in Asia I do wanna go and I still never (although I m planning my Europe trip for this summer :D) yea.. and it cost much less~~~ I so much wanna go Thailand and Philippine and I was saying I had to go to Singapore last year but never have a chance... so much wanna go there for diving somewhere, um... just not having a company to go with... anyway~~ I did have some nice trip around in 2009

Bali (MAR09)

This is the only photos we've taken together! haha...

I went there with Frederick in March, just before I went to California. It's kinda chill holiday after some hard work in HK... haha... ya.... Fred is a nice person but I guess he would be a good travel partner if he didn't complain too much during the trip :P haha.... and surprisingly, nothing really happened~~

California (APR-JUN)

I didn't go too much around this year as the schedule was tight but I did have some great time with Darius and Amber camping in Big Sur for a weekend!~~

Sai Kung and around HK(JUL09)
Went back to HK and met Stephane~ lol... found that Shek O is quite a nice beach to hang around even I was just back from LA~ haha... I also hang out with Arthur and Debby quite a bit in Sai Kung~ It did surprised me when I saw quite a lot of nice and beautiful places in Sai Kung.

TW - surf (SEP09)

It's quite an interesting trip indeed. I never thought I would go to TW by myself but I went to Yilan, Taiwan and had 2 lovely surf days~~ haha... seems that I m really extremely lonely.... no one even wanna join me... I wasn't entirely alone tho.. I met a taiwanese of mine who go surfing every week with her bf~~ waowao... and of course I met Joanne and she's super nice to me ^__^

TW - basketball (OCT09)


Went to Taipei for the basketball tournament! haha... how amazing~~ yea... I met some new dingding basketball friends and they were about going to submit the application~ Probably I was just tooooo much alone, I didn't even think about it for a second and decided to join~~ haha... yea... and I met Joanne again for a dinner and some drinks~~ :D happy happy... and I went to Taichung to meet WeiWei. We went to an amazing Motel stay for a super relaxing night... I hang around the I-dont-know-where part of Taichung and love it a lot... I would go there again someday for sure~~

And then, here are some important people I've met or very important to me this year.

Daat, Leo & Tracy are always the most important friends of mine... meeting them at least every second week on average~~ I am seeing Tracy much less then before tho... she's just super busy. I could hardly meet her although my work is so flexible. See? I m such a considerate person haha.... I probably spend 70% of my time in the office in CWB, being so flexible time-wise and never refuse you guys for meeting up... You guys really have to hit me up while I m in HK!

How amazing to meet Stephane again in HK! Everything on him are pretty much the same...

I met Marcus through Felix Wang~~ And Marcus is kinda the first "datable" I'd met for long time? haha... and it's just nothing happen. I guess it's not a bad thing tho. Anyway, he started my meeting-a-lot-of-possible-ones-but-none-of-them-for-real year.


I met popo from a boat trip organized by Sophie long time ago... (I went there with Mr. Lew btw.) and somehow, this time I went back to HK, we became very good friends :) she's an unbelievably innocent cute girl hahaha...

I met Willis again for the office~ He is kinda my VIP this year :) lol Obviously he rent me the place to work :) and he does help me a lot and give me advice on a lot of things... wanna give him a big hug anytime~ but he probably don't use to it although he's western mind...

I met a lot of dingding basketball friends this year... which is one of the happiest things in 2009. Most of them are very cool basketball players same as me :P... and some of them play very well too~~

I thought Wilfred could be the one but yea... He's super nice and kinda presentable too but it's pretty hard to get along with ppl are working in entirely different field I guess. And I think personality-wise, he's not what I can really get alone with. and he's a bit too nervous on everything...

I've met WeiWei from internet and met him in personal from my TW trip. He's pretty cool I think... He Studied and worked in NY for years in interior and back to TW and went into fashion.. balbalbabla... I never seen his work tho and we never have time to really understand each other... I think it's me (but not just me)... it's almost impossible to make it happen especially we are not living in the same place from the very beginning.

I think I would count German in as a proper one coz I really changed my status (from available to invisible :P) for him. Although I did found it wasn't a wise move within a few weeks, it's a few moment I really thought it's real this time. Anyway... he's super nice and care... um... but I just can't stand with part of his personality. It's not even a bad part of personality I guess, but just something I don't feel easy with it. um... anyway...

I met Rayn loooong time ago indeed on internet. Finally got to meet up at the end of 2009~~ yea... he's cute... and tall, and thin, and looking like a character in mega as Daat Daat said... um... yea... hahaha and he is a bit slow on everything... and... lalalalala~~

Lew is back from NZ! Shit! How could the feeling be so strong until now?! um... probably because I've never got it or I thought I've got it for some time but end up I've been told I wasn't really. But he said he might just simply doesn't need a relationships in his life. I don't know... I guess maybe his family? or it must be some reason that he say it. um... just let it be... as I always do.

Yea, and I met Jason Choi from a TV commercial project. He's a musician from people mountain people sea. He gonna help me on my animation which I've been working on for a bit too long~~ haha woohoo~~ it will be done this year 2010 for sure! lemme do some more research on competition today!

I've been a bit lazy on works this year. but I m not totally useless this year neither. :P

At least I've got my a107 registered finally! haha... although it shouldn't be seen as anything has been done, yea, it means something... means something to me only...

The "Love card book" is seriously one of the most upsetting project I've ever worked on.

A set of new packaging for pop has been done~ I still like the previous design I've done with Petra better but ya... as Petra said we may have to listen to ppl sometimes. Yea anyway... I wouldn't feel shame on showing ppl the products that's the key~

ooops... Watsons TVC with Sun-promotion... This is a project that I would feel shame to show ppl... haha wouldnt even let anyone know about I've done a project like this even... :P But it's not totally a waste of time to be involved in this project neither... I've met Jason and he said he could help me on my animation :D wooohooo~~

Poododoodo... I just remember we've been talking about this project for almost a year! It's been moving too slow seriously. If everything has to be perfect before it launch, i guess no business in the world would happen. Guys, let's get it started and see what happen. and keep it running if it works!

A project that's been moving even slower... my lovely cake project~~ I've been working on it since I was in London!!!! OMG... it's still on my computer and never release... it's not right like this... >_<

My saving target had been almost made. I am not sure if I should say I had made it indeed, coz if I count the money from Sun-promotion for the TVC in, the target was definitely archived. But the payment had been received on January 2010 indeed although the works' been done on 2009... haha... anyway... I now have some saving... see if it can help me building my business a bit... :)

Switch of my blog

Just found that the last 10 posts I've made, they were all about the movies I've seen... I think it's the most boring posts they are :P... and it's no one really read my blog anyway, but in case, it's still someone still interested in my life in US, please follow the link below, http://a107.com/us

Public Enemies (6)

Johnny Depp and Christian Bell is the 2 actors that I love the best, but they don't really help the boring story.. Well, I guess if it's taken like 20 years ago, it might be okay. I do understand why ppl said the story is like a HK ganster movie after seeing it... even having a good art direction, everything in the movie are nicely crafted and they all go in detail, colour was great, soundtrack was nice, Johnny keeps his great acting (Christian Bell is really not suit for the charactor). I know I don't need to see this movie but yea.. that's the movies we should see on the flight ya? :D haha...

Where the Wild Things Are (8.5)

I so much didn't want to see this movie on the flight! But it's 14 hrs here, how could I hold myself back?! haha.... yea... Where the Wild Things Are, I've just seen it on my flight to LA... I so much feel sorry for all of you dont have a chance seeing it in HK guys... hahaha... it's such an amazing movie seriously~ The moster are super nicely done on the details, as well as the motions and especially the facial expression! I do love the place they built with Max's commond. I haven't seen any of the original comic and I can't really compare, but I do like the randomness of how does he get along with the mosters :D Yea... How great is it when you say you are the king, then you are the king :) Btw, where the movie taken is probably very close to where I m going and I m sure I've been in some of the scenes in the movie. It does add value to me :D Maybe because I've been there and I so much feel lucky that I've been those place in my life.... Maybe if you never been there, you wont feel how amazing it is. but well, it's such a beautiful place anyway no one would dislike it I supposed. I do find it jumping from the "real" world into (and out of) the moster world a bit too fast... I didn't like what happened in that real world really. It didn't really tell anything or maybe what it tells didn't impress me... I dont know... it's just going too fast and Max (the kid) randomly running away from home. And the ending too, he just suddenly feel that he has to go home and he leaves... If I were the director, and I has to have him starting the adventure so quickly, I would take off all the lead in part... It's not a rational move anyway... I will definitely see it again, probably find a DVD or something. So, let me know if you wanna borrow from me when I'm back :D

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (8.5)

Really can't understand how could ppl make such an ugly poster for such a cool movie! this is almost the only acceptable move poster I've seen around and it's from Japan obviously. What are those American doing (sorry it's only to those American who does that ugly poster<--(click on this and you see why I m so bothered)?!

It's such an highly creative one. I wouldn't say all the scenes inside are super great but from the whole idea to every little parts inside the movie, it's just full of weird imaginations~~~~ Nothing really needa to explain in this movie, just go and see it and enjoy some imaginations from these people. nice art directions, and I do like that randomness of how everything happened even the name of the movie. Maybe it means something but I bet it must be add-on afterward for some other reasons.. Btw, it's quite a lot of Dali's scenes in the movie which makes it quite surreal but a bit familiar~~~ love it love it~~~

Whip It (8)

A move that I thought from the same director of Juno before going into the cinema. It doenst really matter, really... I do find it interesting. Probably the subject itself, the roller derby, is very interesting thing to know about. It does help~~~ and Ellen Page is so cute :)
It's just a very very teenage movie, haha and it always good to see (to my age). It reminds me a bit our age... haha, nono... probably because we are in this age and we all experiencING it that makes it so real to see :D:D hahahhaa~~ Anyway this is about how we grow up, this is about our first love, this is about us~~ and you must love this movie if you are not too far from this age forgetting what's just happened on us~~ lalalala... seriously it's a good movie.

Winged Creatures 同逃幸運兒 (7.5)

An interesting movie. Everything started with a murder in a restaurant and ended there. It's a nice story I have to say... it's like a butterfly effect. The way they edit the movie does help the story become more interesting. It keeps us watching. The ending wasn't that surprising but I did enjoy the whole movie. Yea~~ give it a go if you find it.

A Simple Noodle Story 三槍拍案驚奇 (7)

I actually found it an interesting story and we see that a bit crazy mind of the director. I think he handle this kinda story between a few ppl better than those massive thousand ppl scenes. What I like this movie was it does has it own character that you wont see it from other movies... the colour and the location chosen (middle of nowhere) and the timeless background, which makes the movie more interesting. The weird ending, the
What I didn't like this movie was those supposed to be funny movements. I dont know... maybe I just don't get that too mainland Chinese joke or what. That's not funny to me~~ I think it's good that Zhang Yimou get back to this kinda movie making the Chinese movie industry more interesting.

Sherlock Holmes (6.5)

I guess it's not a bad movie, but I just don't like it. I so much wanted to leave the cinema after an hour. I dontk now why I felt it so strongly coz I didn't find it that bad. Maybe the actors act in a way that I don't like, or maybe the story is just totally totally fully very very too much predictable, or maybe I dont know... It's just too chessy I guess. Everything... everything in the movie, each move of the actor was just trying (too hard) to say we are cool, we can we are pretty damn smart, we are so unbeatable, we can do everything, we know everything, all details, no one single thing that we don't know. I just hate that feeling.... hahaha... I dont know, Leo likes it, Daat likes it..... probably just me but I kinda felt bad after watching it.