香港嘅人冇地不發達

粵語有九聲，原來「香港嘅人冇地不發達」此九個字便是一至九聲順序。

well....咁難既，是但用個"ma"字去發呢九個音，後面幾隻字好似一樣咁濟~

年初四‧未有心情工作

年初四並唔係番工既日子，坐車、搭lift都好少人。原來香港d公司咁慷慨，或者係生意太差老闆把心一橫連續放一星期。


H&M係中港城第六座既大租戶，好似佔左第六座一半既tenancy咁，19/f就八成都係佢地既office，佢地d褔利真係幾好。過時過節好多公司都番足全日，我地放三點，佢地好似放全日咁，lunch time行過已經全office熄晒燈。聖誕節一早九點就開始party，平時間唔中全公司去picnic，又放一日假。歐洲公司係唔同d...


今年新年過得實在不經意，無過年氣氛、無食年糕同蘿蔔糕、無人講恭喜發財，只有三天假期同利是。正如聖誕節一樣，節日既意義可以慢慢neutralize，大家需要既假期同玩既機會！

要對自己好d呀!

女權主義抬頭既其中一樣副產品係大家既感情煩惱。以前女人社會地位無咁高，亦無咁多選擇，個老公唔好最多怨天尤人，最終都應該認命，it's done then。而家選擇多左，好既唔使多講，唔好既就係會揀錯，或者唔知點揀好。不過個籃入面rotten eggs比較多，四正d既可能係基，或者自己都食唔住，最終都吐番出黎。人越黎越多，蛋又越來越少，0係咁既環境下我都冇乜advice，add oil、you'll be great呢d客套說話真係一句起兩句止，爛到無朋友，不能講太多。

有一點好重要既係要對自己好d，要食既、買既、去既，想做就做，無人管住，唔使睇人面色，no one will complain even you want to be a slut, what a wonderful time!

自殺疑雲

昨日cynical的我又出現，同事們以為我受左大創傷，好似會自殺咁，哈哈，走埋黎問我有冇事。個trigger係一個同事既生日。

其實每個同事生日公司都會出錢買個蛋糕，係咁易吹下蠟燭同影張相。呢個活動本身有人贊成有人反對，已經有少少political。跟住下個月又係我生日，又要諗邊日食蛋糕、買邊款蛋糕、去邊度食飯，大家重緊張過我，又話一定要正日前，如果唔係補祝生日唔好......我好輕輕咁講，下個月先算啦，又未到，話唔定生日前死左咁就乜都唔使諗，今日lunch食乜都未諗就諗下個月，又唔係趕住訂位.....其實我對呢個活動冇佢地咁熱心，未至於諗住自殺既~

死，講咁耐都無重點，會比香港人歧視，始終大家"睇命中注定我愛你"大，新聞都係亞視高層內鬨、倪震偷食等等，慣左有個重點、高潮位什至大結局。生命有限，沒有重點既東西可以skip，尤如飛廣告咁.....brilliant!

Oh fxxk, still a cynical me today~

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Online music

傳統用賣CD黎賣音樂呢個渠道應該好難做番起，大勢所趨，而家興online music，除左香港有moov，原來其他地方都有類似野，台灣有kkbox，歐洲有deezer，美國有pandora，唔記得講全世界最大果個，itunes...

In love with Apple, in love with Steve Jobs

Steve0係史丹褔既演講，simple but wonderful，簡單d講既係：

1. Dots can only be connected backwards, not forward. At one point in your life you will finally realize what you have done so far can be connected together, you've got to find what you love.

He goes like "so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

2. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

3. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

(http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html)

精彩的珠海浸熱水之旅

呢個浸熱水之旅個差電效果非常好，搞手兼導遊既生鬼演出幫歡樂指數乘左N次方，多謝晒！

跟住番多一個星期就放新年假，感覺良好。

P.S: 老實講，大陸既溫泉應該只係加左咸味既白開水，去完呢次御溫泉呢個感覺有增無減。大陸人吸引人去浸白開水既掩飾方法係加不同既香味落d水度，例如有咖啡味、薰衣草味、菊花、當歸等等，so wonderful! 我未去過北海道浸溫泉，我估果度應該無綠茶味、小丸子味、麵豉味溫泉掛...

番大陸浸熱水

剛過去既星期一至三去左武漢出差，same old fucking Wuhan，好在唔凍，未到零下。原來零度都可以叫唔凍，全世界既標準只係a matter of comparison，人比人未必會比死人，有時會覺得自己都幾幸福。不過呢個做法好殘忍，全世界比到最尾果個人唔知同邉個比。That's right though, the world is cruel!

今個週末番大陸浸熱水(人稱浸溫泉)，何解唔係去北海道? 如果呢個係人生既最後一星期，我應該唔會咁樣過...

Well，是但寫幾隻字就知老子心情唔太靚，I gotta get rid of the negative energy in the trip~