bikes, there is a new 14″ bike designed for young women and children called the Sweet Pea. Maybe there is a bike for middle age men in the works which shall be called the Split Pee?
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Archive for February, 2005
A first paving the way for Commander La Forge’s?
A radio DJ just referred to a news about an old lady fainted just before the Chinese New Year holidays from over-exertion preparing for the year end family dinner. The DJs discussed how we should take better care for our elderlies and that we could either order out, potluck, or go out for dinner instead.
Just so happened that as dad was planning for our year end dinner this time around, as he was finishing off one of his personal biological waste disposal business, while getting up he fell right back and broke the seat. Fortunately, he didn’t hurt himself.
While dad and I am fond of practicing the art of cooking, he has never really asked for my help and even refused my offer to help. This time was no different. Part of the problem being a self-indulging cook is that we enjoy cooking for a group of people and would not consider the work done as work. We consider the work as pleasure. M’s mom loves to cook also, and enjoys having her grandchildren over for dinner. M’s eldest brother J either does not understand this concept or he simply doesn’t want to bother his mom no matter how she enjoys it. So J and his mom ended arguing over cooking or eating out all the time. Funny thing is, J never gives in. But then what’s the point? If the intention was to not bother mom, why then make her mad instead?
While I know it is a lot of work for dad to cook and he doesn’t like either I help out the cooking or even having my maid over to help out, I’d just let him cook and have my maid over to help out his maid cleaning up. Work has been done; food and quality time have been enjoyed; peace and harmony have been achieved.
On the other hand Leo Ku is quickly becoming to be a very competent singer. His latest medley of various old songs from other artists is excellent - makes one want to hear the full version of each and every segment of the song by him.
Well done.
said Alec yesterday when he was going to stay at grandma’s place for the first time for 2 nights. He was eager to go there because they have computers with broadband Internet connection in their condo’s resident club house, so he thought he could play computer games all day without M and I nagging him to study.
This has been a weird experience for me. Kind of like a sudden temporal flux. As I am still technically on Chinese New Year holiday, without having Alec around at home for the first time seems like he has grown up to a son-going-oversea’s-age-and-time kind of feeling for me. With M going over this afternoon to make sure Alec studies his school books I ended up coming back to the office cutting my holidays a day short.
Although Alec has much less experience being independent than I used to be at this same age, kids still seem to be growing to damn fast. It seems like only last week that I had to sing him lullabies. Maybe I should recalculate my remaining temporal continuum moving everything up a few year earlier.
In searching for a digital photo, I got frustrated looking through hundreds of CD-Rs which I have saved my digital photos. Which brings me back to my original concern that CD-Rs or DVDs is not the answer. I have been avoiding from buying a DVD recorder as I do not think any of those shiny discs are the solution for long term storage.
A couple of years ago, I had started duplicating a few older CD-Rs as I’ve found two disc already needed special techniques to recover what was in them. Then, I got tired of duplicating them. I mean, to what end would one need to do so when they started dying only 2 years after they’ve been burnt with new files?
I have spent most of the night recopying those digital photos from CD-Rs back to a blank harddisk. It is my intention to store digital photos on HD and duplicates on HD as well. This should allow much faster and easier retrieval as well as longer lasting than CD-Rs.
As I was copying, I found a batch of the same brand CD-Rs with a film of “fog” on the data surface. I suspect it is the front side that gives out some sort of vapor causing the fogging to occur on the data side of the stacked disc on top. I have lost several photos from one fogged disk, some on another unfogged disk of a different brand, and a whole disk of yet another brand. They are all within 4 years of age stored in cold places without direct sunlight. This confirms my suspicion of CD-R not being a long term storage solution, and DVD is basically the same medium only larger - more files to be lost. Stacking is one culprit, but individual boxing or even enveloping is out of the question. It would have taken too much room.
I have been warned by many others that HDs take up much more room than DVDs, but the fact of the matter is, a single 60GB stores 4 of my most intense photo shooting years’ of work. A second for duplication is not too bad. And Picasa could sniff through the entire 60GB HD in no time. Beats burning and switching DVDs while searching.
Given the price of HDs falling monthly, cost wouldn’t be too much of a concern for saving photos on HDs.
Lame.
The movie Alien vs Predator is every bit as I had expected from a movie with a Heavy Metal music theme in its movie trailer. The actual movie had a better and non-Heavy Metal theme music though.
Without a Ripley in Alien nor a Dutch in Predator, AVP lacks the excitement from its predecessor movies. More unfortunately, both creatures have been so overexposed in the previous movies, AVP also lacks the thrill in a thriller.
At best, AVP only added a bit of a storyline to the fictitious human history. However, Stargate did a so much better job at such it overshadowed AVP into more of a children story and a “copycat” to Stargate than an archaeological Sci-Fi thriller.
is on tomorrow morning at 07:00hr HKT. I have never watched it all these years in HK even when we had Cable TV which had ESPN. Now that we have a digital projector and ESPN is on NOW TV, and while we are closing up for the Chinese New Year holidays, I think I’ll stay and watch it.
A Korean TV soup, dubbed Cantonese by the Mei Ah channel, NOW TV. (The Mandarin version on DVD is not as funny)
Normally, I wouldn’t recommend any romance soup let alone reporting one. But LIP is funny, outraging, fairly philosophic, yet not so much a sad kind of romance soup. It was the actors and actresses performances that really made it worthwhile. Also, the sense of freedom and coolness changed into obsession, then helplessness, unsettling, outrage, and then regrets of the “brother/nephew” character was brilliantly written and perfectly executed by the actor Lee Dong Gun.
A Nice title theme song also.
WhaUSay?!