Garden in Kyoto by Chantecaille

OK, I confess, I shouldn't have ordered this one, but it's just so pretty and I just can't take my eyes away from it.:) Plus, I am always in love with Chantecaille's colors.

After reading the novel of "Memories of a Geisha", I could always picture the young Sayuri standing under the cherry blossoms tree with a little paper umbrella on her shoulder, watching the falling petals all over the sky. Kyoto really is a mystery place to me and I'd love to pay a visit if I go to Japan next time.

This is a testing entry from Blogger Widget! :) It only has Bold and Italic features right now. Hopefully they will add the link, image, etc soon. Anyhow, still very nice!

Blogger Widget!

I'd say I have never expected this, but still a nice thing to have and glad to know Google cares about us Mac users. :) Speaking of caring about Mac user, I think Yahoo! really should upgrade their Mac version messenger, I miss the Avatars a lot... :(

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What are you faking about?

One of Mac fan plus designer made this fake ipod out, it's fun to see how he/she did it and the most funny part is the simplified Chinese character he got from the translation widget. This comes to his mind probably becasue he knows iPods are assembled in China now... OK, you are way too "smart", but please practice your Chinese handwriting first... (btw, someone has pointed out that this person is using Dutch safari browser...)

Watch it in action

Who's your idol?

I think Ace Young is the cutest one among the final 12 male contestants. His voice isn't bad, but there're few others sure better than him. Now we will see if the look really matters and how far he can go in the following runs. For girls, I like katharine McPhee so far, she's the one who kissed all the judges in the hollywood run, cute, huh? She has pretty face, good voice, somehow I think she lacks of passion, energy, just not unique enough to be an idol.

La Scala Bathtub with TV

Qouted from engadget "Complete with a floating remote control, the tub is big enough for you and your honey, and offers 10 adjustable water jets to make you feel good all over while you’re getting your TV on." Who's gonna getting these things? Celebrities?

I think this tub has the potential to be an all purpose place to stay all day long. By adding a mini bar, combining with a fridge, microwave, a floating bluetooth keyboard, a mouse, assuming the TV has online features. A build-in toilet too, of course it needs to be well designed, I can see a little challenge here. What else am I missing?

共产党 VS. 国民党 － “台湾好 中华民国在台湾”相声观后感

还是要感谢KTSF 26台，史东的night talk和中天频道，在他们的勤勤恳恳，悔人不倦下，我竟然对台湾的政坛情况比我亲爱的祖国还要熟悉。我不得不承认这表现方式太重要了，把政治话题弄的很娱乐性，吸引了一大批象我这样，不爱政治，却爱看热闹的人。”台湾好 中华民国在台湾” － 整台相声两个多小时，洋溢着一片泛蓝的调调，我除了几句台语没听懂 （意料中的），其余的都跟了下来，该乐的跟大家一起乐。倒是朋友的太太，虽说是土生土长的台湾人，据说平时不太爱看电视，她有些还没跟得上。另外还再给候冠群们加分，普通话／国语很是地道，一点口音都没有。最后他们的师傅出场，竟然还是侯宝林大师的徒弟，难怪呢。

一首叫做“台湾好“的老歌自始至终贯穿全剧，很是煽情，最后歌词上了大字幕，下面这段引来了哄堂大笑：

「我们忘不了大陆上的同胞，在死亡线上挣扎、在集中营里苦恼。他们在求救，他们在哀嚎…我们快要打回大陆来了…快要回来了。」

这其实是很公平的，在我们当时幼小的心灵里，国民党被形容成张牙舞爪的恶魔的同时，我们亲爱的党也被海那边描绘成了洪水猛兽。我还是有点被这歌词感动了，毕竟还是把我们当同胞，不论穷亲戚，坏亲戚，那份亲情当时还是在的。

我不讨厌GMD，这倒是因为外公的原因。记得我刚懂点事的时候，在妈妈口里得知外公竟然是国民党员，我第一个念头就是他怎么没被抓起来，我是怎么也不能把和蔼可亲的外公跟张牙舞爪的恶魔联系起来，当时真是把四，五岁的我好好的confused了一把。我到现在也没弄明白他是啥时加入的，当年从一江南小镇的穷书生到怀着一颗拳拳报国之心学成归来，一直都是在做他的学问，带他的学生，怎么会跟GMD挂上的？

家里的第一次“ 共 VS. 国” 是在爸妈结婚后不久，顺便提一下爸爸当年也是热血青年，18岁就入了党。他一次去北京出差，当时有个“总理遗言”事件，感觉那时的严重性跟“64”性质差不多。爸爸大概是看了还是也抄了一份，回家途中停了下上海去看老丈人，也许闲聊是提起过这事。回到家没几天，组织部来人找他谈话，说是老丈人在一次例行汇报中（文革间，“反动派”都是要例行汇报，还都得有内容）供出了女婿有抄写“总理遗言”之嫌，上海组织部勒令地方调查。最后这事也大事化小，小事化了了。多年后，爸爸跟我提起还是悻悻的说, “那个老国民党竟然把我这小共产党给告了!”

说起统一的话题太沉重，看完后朋友的太太感慨道，"大陆的人都希望国民党能当政，这样就能谈统一了。"

"其实也都无所谓啦。" 声明，纯属我个人观点。

朋友立刻接了下去，”看，人家才不在乎呢!"

SE W950 - coming soon!

I changed my mind again this morning after reading XJ's email, I pinged him couple days ago on checking if he can get decent price on W900 since he's with SE... :P he replied me back with the news of W950 is coming within 2-3 month. The W900 is too bulky comparing to this one, plus it's Symbian based, what does that mean? It's indeed a smart phone, yeah!!! :) I hope I could feel smart while holding it, just like the feeling while I am drinking the "Smart Water"....

Post V-Day Thoughts

This past V-day was the only time I didn't get the roses, though R showed me the prove that the 1-800flowers did screw him up and they tried to deliever it again on 15th (of course I asked him to cancel it, so embarrassing.). That makes me wonder wether or not it's a bad sign, after 7-8 years consecutively almost error-free, why this time? (don't kill me, hon)... I have to admit that the Proflowers did screw him once few years ago, they sent it on 13th, people in office were teasing me on - oh, is that for the v-day eve? But having flowers are surely better than having nothing, really?

Do I really care about the flowers or just the fact the flowers represent his love and care which I care more about? If that's the case, why I need the flowers to prove it? And if that's the case for him, why he needs to keep sending it every year to prove it?

I asked Calvin the other day that what he would get for his wife for v-day. He said "Nothing" right the way, his theory was it's really a marketing strategy for businesses so they come out such holidays, why we fool ourselves to buy stuff just for the sake of it. Oh yeah, I really hope your wife thinks the same way, and if that's true (and I believe it), what a lucky man he IS!

Zhang & Zhang - The Offspring of Dragons - 2006 Olympics LP

"The Olympic spirit at its finest." I am proud of her!

花田錯 + W900i

Saw the MV 花田錯 from grouper, and felt in love with Leehom's phone. I can tell right away that's the SE one, so it's easy for me to dig it out from their site... ;)



Apparently, it's only for sale in Asia Pac, and I did check on ebay and it's around $600, OK, let's forget it for now, I will wait once it's FREE for T-mo or Cingular... and are we talking about a year or two later? Here's a full shot of W900 in black, I'd go with the white one.

Mac mini in the case of SE/30

What else I can say, sigh... 强，就一个字 (plus, 小日本! heng!), 不服不行。。。read on at here.

Sony Ericsson's M600

Here's another SE one, and a little bit iPod looking... well I have to say that it looks like Zen too (that little ugly basXXX)... I just think they should be able to come up with a new design, or at least something more interesting. A square phone with square buttons?! Its not all that bad, but can't you be more creative? :)

发如雪 (周杰伦)

狼牙月伊人憔悴我举杯饮尽了风雪
是谁打翻前世柜惹尘埃是非

缘字诀几番轮回你锁眉哭红颜唤不回
纵然青史已经成灰我爱不灭

繁华如三千东流水
我只取一瓢爱了解只恋你化身的蝶

你发如雪凄美了离别我焚香感动了谁
邀明月让回忆皎洁爱在月光下完美

你发如雪纷飞了眼泪我等待苍老了谁
红尘醉微醺的岁月我用无悔刻永世爱你的碑

View the MV here

What's my next phone?

Still considering myself a Sony Ericsson phone fan, but am not very happy with what they have for last couple years. So, what my next phone will be? An another SE? I am really hoping there will be some kinda of iPhones, well, not Moto's iTunes phone, tho... Here's the Sony Ericsson's Wilma / k800i, not very impressive, still...