Holiday: Well-earned? Well-planned?

I am on my week-long annual leave. Big news is that I've finally get my online photo album published to my family and friends: http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymondwoo/.

So here it is. At the pacific coffee and mid-way thru the week. This week is without a plan and without a proper schedule: want to do a lot of things but end up just slacking thru most of the time.

I sure say this holiday is more of a "well-earned" after 7 months of non-stop busy works. But my selfish retarded mind resists anything like sticking to a "meeting friends" schedule. The result? is probably getting my friends mad once they heard the "oh! I dun have time for dinner with you guys, sorry mate!"

It seems I am such a hopeless a selfish bastard! cheers!

World Cup Fever + Cars

World Cup is over. Zidane headbutted that Italian guy. Who insulted whom? who knows... but it certainly extend the world cup fever by a week.

And it caught me! Assigned to a ghost-related project and all in a sudden I felt like weak and sick for 2 days. Royce gave me red pocket for some comfort. Funny enough my layout wasn't scary at all. Jerry joked I am too scared to draw my fear. I suspected the cause was related to: a) World Cup; and b) the project I spend over-nighting for the previous 2 weeks that eventually got pending.

Over the weekend I saw Cars, the PIXAR's animated feature. Funny enough it's already 10 years since Toy Story. Remembered the year 10 self saw both Poccahontus and Toy Story in 1995: I barely stand the first one but fell in love with the latter. The emotion tighted in even further with its sequal, which I went with, then only a friend, my now-fiance Seaze.

Critics said Cars was not as emotional or educational as previosu Pixar's movies. I say not. This movie can fairly related to those saw Toy Story when they were only 10-12 years old kids. For those now in their early 20s, and I believe also there are the arrogant and selfish bastard years, it would strikes them with the right moral in preparing for the real-world. Learn from the elders, accepting failures and be brave for changes: Very similarly to what I felt when I re-saw Star Wars back in 1997.

Anyway, enough said, check out my latest flickr photos @
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymondwoo/

Smooth E Baby Face Foam

This ad won the best in Asia-Pacific Ad Fest~ MUST SEE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QXh8VvOdoM

No more an undergraduate

Seaze had her final exam last night. Finally finishing the 3 massive years of part-time undergraduated studies. Reflecting on the previous 3 years, the cycle of "term in", "test" and "academic paper" had slided into a repetitive pattern. Repetitiveness has always been a "down-side" on my mind, taken things granted...

This is just a reminder to myself: everything has a cause and everything will have a consequence.

p.s. England played very poorly last night, though at the end they won.

Proud to be an Australian

I have never been so proud of being an Australian since Sydney 2000 Olympics. The socceroos beated Japan 3-1. We did a "Liverpool-styled" comeback from 0-1 down until the 84th minute. Cahill and Aloisi scored~! Amazing! Fantastic! I just wish I was able to be a part of the green and gold wave in Germany. Screaming all the cheers "Aussie Aussie Aussie O! O! O!"

Been reading the latest issue of TIME: US marines had killed the Iraqi Al-Qaeda leader Al-Zarqawi. This news have never reached the ears of average HKers. But hey, what a big news it is. Being in Hong Kong and its media coverage would blind HKers into a sub-standard news person. Let's hear what happen in the world, HKers~! Otherwise we will all be simple moron controlled by the unimaginated TVBers and HK-tabloiders.

Go Aussie Go~ next up we will show who is the true green and gold to the Brazilian.

Change is good ~ if you can handle all the bads

My girl's planning for a change in jobs: had an offer from a better school;
My best mate broke up with her girl. It was a time bomb that waiting to happen if he didn't return HK sooner. And the bomb went....
My job is still fresh enough. But sticking in similar types of work is getting me into repetitive mode: I don't find it bore but I dare for bigger challenges.

As always, I told them, and I told myself: changes is inevitable; and change can bring better outcomes. Changes means new opportunities; change means finding a side road that may lead to treasure. But changes would bring along bads (in forms of bed temper and pressure).

As long as you can handle, if help or not, all these bads: Change is good~!

Long Time no Blog

It's been a while since I last blogged. Work are as busy as *normal*. Definite moments of the past few week are:

1. Finally finish the horrified photo album project (Phrase 1 only)
2. Coaching at the apcc 2006 camp
3. Grandma's place refurnished
4. Bought a new Australia Soccer Team jersey (go. Aussies Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi)
5. Seen the new Australia "bloogy" ad yet?
   (http://www.wherethebloodyhellareyou.com/)
6. Al Gore global warming docu: An Inconvenient Truth
   (http://www.climatecrisis.net/)
7. Hong Kong Uncle Bus clips
8. Listening to a lot of Putumayo CDs (thanks to my girl)
9. and coming bank project....