2011年12月30日 星期五
Happy New Year 2012
今年是第一年在外地過除夕,
選了越南兩個渡假地方
﹣﹣大叻同芽莊,
本以為可以真正RELAX一番,
好像在泰國般的感覺,
SORRY。。完全錯了。。。
環境,空氣,所有配套,
都真不如理想,
由大叻到芽莊,
那一程三個幾小時的巴士路程,
疲累奔波到極點,
真是一次好差我旅行經歷。。
PS:已盡可能POST最靚的一面
2011年12月19日 星期一
2011年12月16日 星期五
各位早晨....
2011年12月13日 星期二
2011年12月6日 星期二
水墨畫之撞水、撞粉法
X'mas is coming to ....my home....
2011年12月4日 星期日
那些年後遣症
距離上次寫blog,
已有差不多兩個月的時間了,
我仍陶醉在那些年的時光中,
今日看到馬家輝寫的一篇文章,
<那些年的秘密>
真是道出了我中毒之謎,
"每五分鐘一個笑點,
每三十分鐘一趟哀傷,
像盪鞦韆般把觀眾的情緒上下推動,
年輕的心經不起如此折騰,
看完電影離場,
整個人像被拋散了,
魂魄仍然留在戲院內,
剩得肉身離開;
所以有不少人願意重看這部片,
其實是來拾回遺留的神魂.'
年輕的歲月,
永遠都追不回的,
正可能因為追不回,
我們越感到它的甜,
這份甜是無可取替!!
已有差不多兩個月的時間了,
我仍陶醉在那些年的時光中,
今日看到馬家輝寫的一篇文章,
<那些年的秘密>
真是道出了我中毒之謎,
"每五分鐘一個笑點,
每三十分鐘一趟哀傷,
像盪鞦韆般把觀眾的情緒上下推動,
年輕的心經不起如此折騰,
看完電影離場,
整個人像被拋散了,
魂魄仍然留在戲院內,
剩得肉身離開;
所以有不少人願意重看這部片,
其實是來拾回遺留的神魂.'
年輕的歲月,
永遠都追不回的,
正可能因為追不回,
我們越感到它的甜,
這份甜是無可取替!!
2011年10月16日 星期日
那些年 我們一起追的女孩
2011年10月5日 星期三
Stay hungry...Stay foolish..
Steve Jobs:
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.
2011年9月15日 星期四
Midnight in Paris...
Woody Allen的電影,
從沒有令我失望,
歐洲三部曲:
Christina Vicky Barcelona,
Midnight in Paris,
還有明年才會推出的Bop Decameron.
每個人都有懷緬過去權利,
但請別要駐足不前,
男主人翁因為迷失,
而回到1920年代的巴黎,
他找回了最光輝年代的文藝氣息,
常常流漣忘返。。。
換個角度看,
他可能只是逃避現實,
忘卻眼前的煩憂,
當他看到心目中女神,
亦跟他一樣留戀過去,
留戀在一個她認為更是‘黃金時代’的時空,
他恍然大悟,
他明白到無論過去有多麼的輝煌,
現實才是最實在,
最能望清自已是誰,
只有逃避現實的人,
才會認為過去的人,
過去的年代比自已生活得好,
只是念頭一轉,
他便可以活在當下,
美好的一天正等着他!
2011年9月12日 星期一
2011年9月11日 星期日
One Day....
獨坐婚姻介紹所。。
2011年8月14日 星期日
京都遊﹣﹣和服體驗
2011年8月1日 星期一
嘆息..橋
五月的歐洲, 風和日麗, 每日都是豔陽天.
第一次遊威尼斯的我, 已被這水上之都迷倒了.
宏偉如聖馬可大教堂, 小如岸邊一支燈柱, 彷彿都是一件精雕細啄的藝術品,
不得不駐足觀賞.
我身後的嘆息橋. 意大利文為Ponte dei Sospiri, 更是遊客必到的景點, 庭落於聖馬可廣場附近,公爵府側面的一座巴洛克風格的石橋, 據貢多拉船夫所講, 嘆息橋的兩端連接法院與監獄兩處,死囚通過此橋的時候,通常是行刑前的一刻,在窗前望出去, 看塵世的最後一眼, 因感嘆即將結束的人生而得名.
嘩!!多麼的慘美呢....
但, 在我眼前的嘆息橋, 為何變成這樣子呢? 一點也不像旅遊書中的景像啊? 兩旁盡是廣告版和修建圍欄....
後來從無數朋友口中得知, 他們分別在不同時間遊威尼斯, 但全都是看不到嘆息橋的原貌, 大多是被不同的名牌廣告板圍住, 進行修建工程, 一修便修了五年以上...
真的需要修建這麼長時間嗎? 名牌廣告就是不可以放過一條橋嗎?
作為遊客, 亦只有對橋嘆息吧!!
2011年6月27日 星期一
2011年6月17日 星期五
姊妹們。。
2011年6月7日 星期二
2011年5月30日 星期一
他她。。。
麥導的<偏偏vs他她>放映會,
我對她這短片,
感覺是比較大,
部份原因,
可能是主角是朋友吧!
片中有兩段場景,
印象特別深...
一:
是戀人們最吊詭之處,
但很寫實..
你有試過跟蜜運中的男女朋友傾電話,
傾至深夜時分,
大家要收線時,
那種依依不捨,
而在你講完byebye後,
仍聽到對方還未掛上電話,
你會問:為什麼不收線啊?
對方會答:我你都係啦,我不想你聽到我收線先啊...
如此類推,
大家便整晚都在傾電話...
二:
有時真的不知為何,
你還要keep起EX的一些物品,
信件相片也好,
一些他/她用過的物品,
又或是無聊到,
你跟他/她去買的衣服時,
剪下來的牌子呎寸名牌..
你執屋時,搬屋時,
還keep keep keep,
can i ask you one question?
FOR WHAT??
只要是戀愛過的你,
一定會明白..
2011年5月29日 星期日
不再讓你孤單
很久沒有看過一套完整的交藝文,
可能是怕悶,
又或者是太沉重,
總是提不起興趣。
今次總算沒有令我失望,
還有意外驚喜!
舒小姐永遠都無令我失望過。。
讓我輕輕的吻著你的臉
擦乾你傷心的眼淚
讓你知道在孤單的時候
還有一個我陪著你
讓我輕輕的對著你歌唱
像是吹在草原上的風
只想靜靜聽你呼吸
緊緊擁抱你到天明
路遙遠我們一起走
我要飛翔在你每個彩色的夢中
陪著你
我從遙遠的地方來看你
要說許多的故事給你聽
我最喜歡看你胡亂說話的模樣逗我笑
儘管有天我們會變老
老得可能都模糊了眼睛
但是我要寫出人間最美麗的歌送給你
路遙遠我們一起走
我要飛翔在你每個彩色的夢中
對你說我愛你
woo......
我不再讓你孤單我的風霜你的單純
我不再讓你孤單一起走到地老天荒
我不再讓你孤單我的瘋狂你的天真
我不再讓你孤單一起走到地老天荒
路遙遠路遙遠
我不再讓你孤單
2011年5月28日 星期六
2011年4月5日 星期二
單身男女
期待杜其峰加上韋家輝的作品已久,
繼上一套孤男寡女後,
今年是單身男女,
相隔十年,
依然可以讓我繼續發夢...
試想一想,
如果張申然同方啟宏同一時間追求你,
你會選擇誰呢?
在戲院中,
不斷有男女朋友融融細語
聽到不同男女各自的選擇,
大多數男性是選擇張申然,
而女性就多數揀方啟宏..
真的男女大不同,
亦是一種'你愛'和'愛你'的選擇!
張申然,一個愛妳,
但同時亦可以接受其他女性的花心大少,
肯花心思,
愛了妳很久的一個男人;
方啟宏,一個才華橫溢,
對妳痴心一片,
等了妳三年的一個窩心男人;
很難揀吧!
作為女性的我,
我是會揀方啟宏..
女性是最愛發夢,
最愛不切實施,
最愛幻想的一群,
但要為人生作一個終極抉擇時,
永遠是最冷靜最實際的動物,
不可少看呢!
大家又會怎樣選擇呢?
2011年2月14日 星期一
2011年2月11日 星期五
2011年2月5日 星期六
新年澳門遊
2011年1月28日 星期五
2011年1月26日 星期三
Yoga .....
2011年1月19日 星期三
國事訪問
2011年1月15日 星期六
非誠勿擾2
2011年1月11日 星期二
無戀愛世紀。。
從我十幾歲開始,
懂得看日劇戀愛世紀,
BEAUTIFUL LIFE。。
亦舒,瓊瑤等愛情小說後,
我一直嚮往既浪漫又激烈的愛情,
可說是戀愛大過天!
今日看到一份報紙,
說日本新一代男女,
走上一條由戀愛世紀走向無戀世紀的路,
真的令我感到有點心酸。
現在的我,
雖已不是盲目推崇生死轟烈的愛情,
簡單平凡的愛情,
亦不失細水長流的感動,
簡單不等如沉悶,
平凡亦不等如乏味,
愛情能滋潤我們的心靈,
豐富我們的人生,
只要有信念,
無論經歷幾多次失敗,
也要有追求真愛的決心,
'THE ONE'遲早一定遇到,
為何就此放棄呢!
輯自某報章:
宅男:足不出戶,經常在家玩電腦或看漫畫的男子,不愛應酬,但仍會追求異性
宅女:愛靜,足不出戶,經常在家玩電腦的女子,不愛應酬,對親友的感情不是特別強烈
毒男:原指欠缺異性的單身男子,逐漸演變成指具備一些不受異性歡迎特質的「樣衰男」
乾物女:對戀愛提不起勁,認為很多事情都很麻煩的女子,追求懶散生活,放假在家頭髮隨意夾起,愛穿寬身衫,不修邊幅
電車男:內向怕事,足不出戶,經常在家玩電腦或看漫畫男子,衣着老套、不敢追求異性
敗犬女: 30歲以上,高學歷、高收入、事業有成,但在感情上一敗塗地,沒有着落,即「剩女」
草食男:在愛情上不主動的男士,沒有自信,對感情及結婚持「沒所謂」態度,覺得追求異性很麻煩
肉食女:沒有異性追求,但渴望愛情,惟有主動出擊,一見心儀男士就如狼似虎追求
懂得看日劇戀愛世紀,
BEAUTIFUL LIFE。。
亦舒,瓊瑤等愛情小說後,
我一直嚮往既浪漫又激烈的愛情,
可說是戀愛大過天!
今日看到一份報紙,
說日本新一代男女,
走上一條由戀愛世紀走向無戀世紀的路,
真的令我感到有點心酸。
現在的我,
雖已不是盲目推崇生死轟烈的愛情,
簡單平凡的愛情,
亦不失細水長流的感動,
簡單不等如沉悶,
平凡亦不等如乏味,
愛情能滋潤我們的心靈,
豐富我們的人生,
只要有信念,
無論經歷幾多次失敗,
也要有追求真愛的決心,
'THE ONE'遲早一定遇到,
為何就此放棄呢!
輯自某報章:
宅男:足不出戶,經常在家玩電腦或看漫畫的男子,不愛應酬,但仍會追求異性
宅女:愛靜,足不出戶,經常在家玩電腦的女子,不愛應酬,對親友的感情不是特別強烈
毒男:原指欠缺異性的單身男子,逐漸演變成指具備一些不受異性歡迎特質的「樣衰男」
乾物女:對戀愛提不起勁,認為很多事情都很麻煩的女子,追求懶散生活,放假在家頭髮隨意夾起,愛穿寬身衫,不修邊幅
電車男:內向怕事,足不出戶,經常在家玩電腦或看漫畫男子,衣着老套、不敢追求異性
敗犬女: 30歲以上,高學歷、高收入、事業有成,但在感情上一敗塗地,沒有着落,即「剩女」
草食男:在愛情上不主動的男士,沒有自信,對感情及結婚持「沒所謂」態度,覺得追求異性很麻煩
肉食女:沒有異性追求,但渴望愛情,惟有主動出擊,一見心儀男士就如狼似虎追求
2011年1月3日 星期一
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