Ode To My Family

by The Cranberries … I really love this song

Understand the things I say, don’t turn away from me,

‘Cause I’ve spent half my life out there, you wouldn’t disagree.
Do you see me? Do you see? Do you like me?
Do you like me standing there? Do you notice?
Do you know? Do you see me? Do you see me?
Does anyone care?

Unhappiness where’s when I was young,
And we didn’t give a damn,
‘Cause we were raised,
To see life as fun and take it if we can.
My mother, my mother,
She hold me, she hold me, when I was out there.
My father, my father,
He liked me, oh, he liked me. Does anyone care?

Understand what I’ve become, it wasn’t my design.
And people ev’rywhere think, something better than I am.
But I miss you, I miss, ’cause I liked it,
‘Cause I liked it, when I was out there. Do you know this?
Do you know you did not find me. You did not find.
Does anyone care?

Unhappiness where’s when I was young,
And we didn’t give a damn,
‘Cause we were raised,
To see life as fun and take it if we can.
My mother, my mother,
She hold me, she hold me, when I was out there.
My father, my father,
He liked me, oh, he liked me.

Does anyone care?

Dyverse.org

I have been working on Dyverse.org since July.

hongkong.dyverse.org

It is coming together and need some beta tester to get it going. It is not open for registration just yet because a lot of spams were coming in when the registering page was open.

The facebook page is up at facebook.com/dyverse.org

T10 in Hong Kong – Severe Typhoon Vicente

Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal(s)

	Warnings and Signals	Issue Time		Cancel Time
		hh : mm	dd / mon / yyyy	hh:mm	dd / mon / yyyy
	Hurricane Signal, No. 10	00:45	24/Jul/2012	Now in force
	Increasing Gale or Storm Signal, No. 9	23:20	23/Jul/2012	00:45	24/Jul/2012

Thunderstorm Warning

	Warnings and Signals	Issue Time		Cancel Time
		hh : mm	dd / mon / yyyy	hh:mm	dd / mon / yyyy
	Thunderstorm Warning	00:15	24/Jul/2012	Now in force

Landslip Warning

	Warnings and Signals	Issue Time		Cancel Time
		hh : mm	dd / mon / yyyy	hh:mm	dd / mon / yyyy
	Landslip Warning	01:10	24/Jul/2012	Now in force

T9 in Hong Kong – Severe Typhoon Vicente

Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal(s)

	Warnings and Signals	Issue Time		Cancel Tim
		hh : mm	dd / mon / yyyy	hh:mm	dd / mon / yyyy
	Increasing Gale or Storm Signal, No. 9	23:20	23/Jul/2012	Now in force

Thunderstorm Warning

	Warnings and Signals	Issue Time		Cancel Time
		hh : mm	dd / mon / yyyy	hh:mm	dd / mon / yyyy
	Thunderstorm Warning	00:15	24/Jul/2012	Now in force

The Body Song

I really love this song that Clem’s class was singing for their K2 graduation.

I have got fingers on my hands, I have got toes on my feet.
I have got skin on my bones and it keeps me neat.
I have got hair on my head and a bottom for a seat,
you will never find anyone who’s just like me!

I have got freckles on my face, I have got color in my cheeks,
I have got ears to listen and a mouth to speak.
I have got eyes in my head and a smiling set of teeth,
you will never find another one who’s just like me!

I have got muscles in my arms, I have got bumps on my knees,
I have got blood in my body and my lungs to breathe.
I have a brain in my head, and I am totally unique,
you will never find another one who’s just like me!
You will never find another one who’s just like me!

Charity movie : Late Autumn

I was invited to a charity movie viewing benefiting an organization called Zigen (translated to nourish root) for their “water-related” project in Shanxi. The money raised will go to the improvement of infrastructure of water shortage problems in two villages in Shanxi.

 

Some spoilers:

I have no preconceived idea of the movie and I watched it with an open arm. I loved the movie. It has a quirky character dynamic. Tang Wei played a love loss woman with an abusive husband and Hyun Bin portrayed a gigolo on the run from a client’s husband. The movie is trilingual in English, Korean and Chinese. The one scene I really loved in the movie was in the setting of a Chinese restaurant after Anna’s (Tang Wei) mother's funeral where everyone gathered for lunch. Hoon (Hyun Bin), Anna, were joined by Wang Jing (Jun-Seong Kim) and Wang Jing’s wife (Danni Lang) at the table. Wang Jing’s wife was asking Anna how China was (not knowing that Anna came out on bail from prison from killing her late abusive husband in self defense). Anna was about to respond, but was interrupted by Wang Jing (knowing what happened because he was the ex lover of Anna who had basically caused the whole situation to go out of control in their relationship) with stories about how everyone likes Anna or ask for Anna when she was working at this restaurant. Hoon then goes on with the story of how Anna and he met. Wang Jing’s wife was called away by the cry of her baby and Anna by her siblings leaving Hoon and Wang Jing at the table. Wang Jing asked Hoon how he met Anna and Hoon continued on with the fantasy story that was not good enough for Wang Jing to handle and a fight was stirred up. And Wang Jing tells Hoon to leave Anna alone cause she has gone through a tough time as it is. The fight escalated to punches and soon broken up by one of Anna siblings. Anna asked Hoon why they were fighting. And Hoon replied that Wang Jing took his fork without asking and used it. It was a very awkward moment, but yet humorous as Hoon delivers his line. There was a pause of silence and Anna then asked Wang Jing in a very serious manner why he had taken Hoon’s fork? And she fell down on the ground crying hysterically as Wang Jing apologized. Some people would say the chemistry of the main characters were off, but I say it suits the storyline. They are people who are lost in the world of wanting to be loved.

My first concert at the AsiaWorld-Arena

Jacky Cheung 1/2 Century Tour - Hong Kong

張學友1/2世紀演唱會最終站 - 香港 

May 22, 2012

First off, Jacky Cheung is my favorite out of all the Hong Kong pop singers. And he is an oldies. Most of the audience were in their mid 20s to 60s. You gotta live the 80s and still be his fan. 

The Arena is really huge, but I have to say the seating at HKD 600 a pop were not that great. I would rather go to the Hung Hom Coliseum. The stage was placed on the left and I was sitting facing the audience on the other side of the Arena and I basically had to turn my head to the left to watch the whole performance. 

When the shows starts at 8:15PM it literally starts right on the dot. I didn't stay till the end cause after 2 hours my neck called it quit. But Jacky kept on singing till midnight. He really never stops singing not even an intermission break in between. It was just awesome even at the 149th concert tour. His last day will be May 30th, 2012.