the blog has moved

here
a seamless migration! It only took me about an hour, and the initial setup was only about 15 min. The rest was importing the blog and choosing a theme.
Ok I’m just excited now because I can play with the blog even more!

overheard at the office

(more specifically, from the next-door office)

how would you kill your children if you die?
discussion discussion dicscussion….blah blah blah
best answer: you can set them up to check periodically if their parent(s) are alive and commit suicide if false.

There are some Microsoft employees, supposedly, who work at the building next to mine, on certain floor or so. I’m pretty sure some of them are on the same floor that I work in, except at the other building, because sometimes I stay late and look at the offices out the window, and there are people there too. The kinda look like developer types too, like they have more than one computer screen, drink coffee, stare at their computer screen some more, have really bright lamp in their office, and are guys. Sometimes I’ll stare at them and they’ll stare back. Sometimes me and my office-mate will move our chairs close to the office door and stare at them together, and then they stare at us too.

bleh

wordpress threw up. i’m disgusted. i’m going to sleep.

urg

Chinese Student in U.S. Is Caught in Confrontation

yes I went to watch forbidden kingdom

funniest scene in Forbidden Kingdom. It doesn’t cease to be funny no matter how many times you watch it, unless I’ve watched it so many times I’m kinda getting to that point…

youtube is a goldmine of oldies…subtitled in random languages

link here in case wordpress is stupid
actually the second clip is really impressive. I don’t know which movie it is from, but it looks to be about sometime in the 80s (early or late?) Just think of the massive amount of choreography/coordination that goes into the stunt sequences at such a grand scale, even if it were shot in sequences. And that saving the baby from the middle of of the street thing, that’s such a typical Jackie Chan stunt. Actually I think Jackie Chan is really simple-minded (this might sound bad, but I don’t really think it’s a bad thing, actually I think I like guys who are really simple minded, ie. 展昭, Jay Chou, o-hanaya-san, just to name a few…and there are more). I can just imagine him thinking, oh yeah, it’ll be so cool to include this stunt in the sequence, and it’ll be setting a good example, etc etc. Just like how I can imagine Jay Chou directing his movie (or MV) and thinking, oh this will be soooo cool (when in fact it is kinda cool but maybe in an alternative way, just because it’s so different). For some reason I think Jay Chou is soo easy to figure out, like I think I know exactly what he is thinking at all times if I’m watching a video of him or something, but that is exactly what I like about him and I think that’s the reason I like his music…When I watched him in concert live, when he is singing, I felt like I could see right through his eyes, he’s so transparent in a way only little kids are. His songs are like that too, incapable of deception and transparent as glass and create entire worlds by themselves…
And like 展昭 when he thinks “I have to go and save this person” when in fact he just gets himself poisoned instead.

people going through the trash

someone goes through my apartment building’s trash can…I suspect freegens (aka. urban scavengers) or something. I know this because once I through away a half-used tube of face wash that was perfectly useable but I didn’t like it (i felt slightly guilty) and later I saw it on the ground, outside of the big trash can. There is no way the face wash could have jumped out of trash bag with the other trash (probably coming from the bathroom, urg) I threw away all by itself. I think I saw some other potentially “useable” things on the ground too close to the face wash. Apparently someone was digging through the trash can and found a tube of useable face wash but probably decided that the face wash didn’t suit their skin type (as it didn’t suit mine), but didn’t want to see it go to waste, so left it on the ground next to the trash can for other freegens to pick at. anyway this is all just what I imagine to have happened, but this incident makes me feel slightly scared about throwing away credit card checks that arrive in the mail either from Bank of America (aka the junk mail bank) or Citibank (aka the bank that denies me credit cards for some unknown reason), even if identity defrauders and freegans seem like distinct sets of people.
next up, random blog post about Capital One.

random post about Annie Leibovitz

I checked out one of her photo books from the library a while ago. Actually it’s like a giant Annie Leibovitz anthology…anyway one of the photos was a black and white photo of the I-5 exit at Mercer Street in Seattle, which is what I live next to. I really liked that photo (I can’t find it on the internet for show and tell since apparently it’s not so famous), it was raining and gray and it was taken from the inside of the car, and you could see the Mercer st. exit sign with the windshield wipers…I couldn’t explain what was so good about it, but I liked it…actually this happens to me with a lot of photographs which are just hauntingly beautiful to me (like most photos by a magnum photographer) but I couldn’t tell why. anyway i just thought when I saw that photo that even though I pass by that freeway exit like every day, I would never be able to take a photograph like that.

should be going to sleep..so tired

now organizing photos from travels some more, sifting and re-sifting through photos. ok now annoyed that out of all places I went to, Paris is the only place in which I took more than about 2 photos that I like, i.e. photos that I thought were good enough to post online (which they are now, on facebook). Well, maybe because Paris is the only place in which I actually had any time to take photos, in all the other places I was so hurried. Like in China all I wanted to do was to go down and take photographs of everywhere we passed, since it is near impossible to take any good photos of the outside from a moving bus…instead we just stopped at the tourist attractions (which are always full of people) and waited our turns to take photos of ourselves in front of tourist attraction photo spots…
maybe I just have too high of expectations, which is why I’m disappointed now. I took ~900 photographs, I like about 5 of them. Granted a large amount of those are just those tourist pictures you have to take to prove/remember that you were somewhere and ate something (ya that’s important), so the point was just that.

another day in the life

the guys in the office next door is having a discussion on who first thought of drinking cow milk. Their conclusion was that it must have been a woman (you don’t really want to know the reasoning behind that).

in other news, my office-mate thinks i’m a miser, because I told him I didn’t watch Forbidden Kingdom because I think movie tickets are expensive, and I complain about Starbucks food being expensive (and me craving Starbucks chicken pesto pasta salad).

a day in the life…

random conversation with (Indian) office-mate

office-mate: I like Japanese culture.
me: (ok…)
office-mate: You know what bushido code is? blah blah blah…
me: (umm…yeah…)
office-mate: Yeah samurais are so brave!
me: (don’t really understand…like how? )

Actually I really don’t understand, why do people think samurais are brave, exactly? I probably should have just asked him and get this all cleared up, but it’s too late now.
Now I think maybe if I watched “The Last Samurai” (which he also likes a lot) I would kinda understand what he’s talking about. Tom Cruise insights…
I think he would kill me if he found I was making fun of him on my blog…probably should make this private just in case, he’s already found his way onto my facebook page.