tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77840872011-05-22T16:20:27.054-04:00The Story of a Fashionable Librarian. From his love for New York to his Apple obsession, and everything in between.HAL9209noreply@blogger.comBlogger11181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784087.post-23459735500693804442008-10-09T19:00:00.000-04:002008-10-09T19:00:02.150-04:00

After 4 years having my blog on Blogger, today I'll be moving to a site of my own. Please follow me over there and let me know what you think of the new "place"! Thanks!!New address: http://hal9209.com/Feed subscribers, you will need to subscribe to a new feed at the new site as well. Thanks!

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What can I say about this year's birthday celebration? So far it's frustration more than anything else. I try not to let it get to me, but it's tough when 3 people cancel at the last minute, 3 people late for almost an hour, and I was waiting with just my roommate and another friend for the whole time at the bar because the restaurant refuse to sit us and eventually give away our table~ Then the

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Guess what's better than shopping in a clothing store? Well, shopping in a clothing store that has a robot to greet you!!!!! I went to UNIQLO today and there he is, Wakamaru! He can talk, walk around, greet people, play game, pose for picture, do execrise, etc!BTW, just like what the sign said, he do not understand English very well and seems to have a mind of his own~ hahaha

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It's like a bizarre dream looking at this 1939 map of the planned expansion for New York City Subway. Look at how the 7 line go all the way passed Flushing and go to two directions: College Point/Whitestone and Bayside! Then look at how there's another line crossed the East River to service Southside of Williamsburg or look at how there is a line go straight to Staten Island. What about the

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I think I mentioned it numerous time here that Lipstick Jungle was filming on my block and how excited I was to see Kirby in person!! Anyway, the new season is upon us and watch the free pre-air premiere on iTunes. As expected the episode already contain scenes filmed on my block. I challenge you all to spot my apartment in the episode!!!(hint: before or after the scene in the screencap

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The new TV season just started but I have already pick up 4 new shows to watch:1) Fringe – Latest from JJ Abrams. It got the same intensity with Lost but with a more X-files feel in it. The mystery of what's going on really hook you in, but might push you out the door as easy if it drag on like Lost and X-files. It's still intriguing and definitely worth to watch, Plus I miss Pacey…Joshua

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Now this is a rare dream….because it got a bit of political setting! (but of course it's my dream, so eventually it's all fantasy sci-fi to the end! haha) In the dream I was going to a political rally for Obama. This rally is to prove that Obama is still a bigger celebrity than that Sarah "drill-loving, pork-loving, private-email-loving, Russia-is-my-neighbor" Palin. I actually have an

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Given that I already got the iPhone and and iPod Classic (160GB! now extincted!) that is less than a year old, this Tuesday's Apple iPod announcement although interesting, are not something that I would get. My main focus is the software feature that they announced and a certain accessories.I am definitely interested in their new in-ear headphone. Their old one was a good try but eventually I

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I always knew NBC is petty, but man, they are getting lower and lower these days. According to this article, NBC refused to let their stars Masi Oka from Heroes and Sarah Lancaster from Chuck to appear on Scrubs finale~ How petty is that?? It's one thing if ABC steal Scrubs from NBC, then maybe they have a reason to be petty about it, but the fact is that NBC pretty much throw the show in a

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As a librarian (can I still call myself that even if i don't work as a librarian anymore?), this piece of news from Times magazine is disturbing:Stein says that as mayor, Sarah Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The

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Oh crap, now I remember I was such an embarrassment last night.I probably can't even blame the fact that I haven't drink anything for the past nine months. I am just such a pathetic lightweight! Seriously who could get so drunk by a drink that was made of pear, apple, pineapple, peach and champagne!! It's only one-fifth of the ingredient that is alcoholic!!! And I had a constant refilling glass

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Looks like after Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day can't stop singing! NPH becomes a shoes fairy completed with fairy wings, singing about shoes on Sesame Street, while Felicia sang with Mr Geeky, Jonathan Coulton.Watch this Sesame Street clip. (sorry, embed is disabled)and this:

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Sorry, I can't help it~ Kirby is just too hot! Since he's filming on my block, looks like he's running around New York a lot as a result~ Here are pictures of him from the lucky people in Soho~[Photo credit: Bauer-Griffin]

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My likes and dislikes come in cycles. There are periods of obsession and then usually follows by intense dislike, fall out of favorite, then out of nowhere come back to top the chart of all my favorites. For example, in food, eel was one time my favorite that I have to eat it every single day. Then all of the sudden I stop liking them so much that I refuse to eat it. But now it's back on the

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The teaser for "New York I Love You" is finally out in the open! I have been waiting for it for a while now. The first film in the series "Paris, je t'aime" was a film that I really like a lot. This time around the setting is, as the name suggested, move to NYC! I did not just anticipate the film solely on the ridiculously large ensemble cast, but behind the scene talents as well. Numerous

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While I was rushing to work the other day, Lipstick Jungle once again is filming on my street. The empty storefront has been transformed into Victory Ford's boutique, completed with her name on the glass window and flowers. I was half-expected it is Victory again since I have seen here filming here before. But to my surprise it's her best friend Nico that was filming! She was facing me while

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To curb my potential spending in the way-too-easy-to-purchase-something App Store on the iPhone. I have been following some rules for myself regarding purchasing in the App Store. I just want to write it down here so that it's "set in stone" and be even more permanent.1) I can spend no more than 10 dollars per month at the App Store.2) If the price of the app is over 10 dollars, then

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Summer movies are all exciting and fun, but my August, I dunno about you, I am all tired of all the big actions and special effects. I was craving for dramas and indie flicks, so the last few weeks either in the theater or at home, I watched a few "smaller" foreign movies. (I wasn't sure which studios are behind these movies, but all the locations and at least most of the talents in front of the

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iPhone has the potential to be an awesome gaming platform, but so far most of the games available in the App store are generic cellphone games that got ported to the iPhone. There are some that take advantage of the unique hardware of iPhone like the multi-touch screen and the accelerometer to create a unique gameplay. Only a few that takes advantage of the graphic capability to create handheld

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I saw this comic online, anyone remember the cute Calvin and Hobbes comic in the days? well well, here's one with Calvin and his iJobs doll!! This is genius!! How adorable is that?

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Remember when Steve Jobs announced the transition to Intel Chip he mentioned how they have a team secretly running OSX on Intel chip for 5 years while they were using PowerPC chip on all their Macs? Well, I am doing the same to my blog! I am running two secret labs experimenting with other blogging platforms. As I mentioned in a previous post that I was frustrated with Blogger, so I have been

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My family has a surprise for me. They drove me to this empty lot right at the end of a snowy slope. Upon seeing the lot, I immediately recognized that this is the field where they have that Japanese female ghost lurking around with long, black, silky, moved-by-itself kinda hair! That ghost is long gone, however, this time I can clearly see tentacles behind the fence! Not wanting to go there,

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There is this cutie that I saw in the subway every morning (if I am on time!), he’s my height, a little buff, short blond hair, usually dress in shirt and reading a book. Today I saw him again and guess what? He was dressed in tee instead, still has a book in his hand, but couldn’t see the title due to the crowd. His tee is what caught my eyes! It’s a black short-sleeves and at the edge of the

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While working on my new wizard theme, I was increasingly frustrated by the lack of progress Blogger made in term of features. Granted they do add features and made progress on improving the system, but they are just too slow compared to the others. If you look at their blog post for the last 4 months, they did 4 bug fixes, add the feature of scheduling future posts, support for embedding Google

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The app I like the most so far (aside from games) is the Remote app by Apple. The ability to have an almost full feature control of your iTunes media is bloody awesome! It works like your regular iPod function in your iPhone, and yet it controls your whole library in your computer (or Apple TV if you have one). The best feature is that you can search and have visual feedback - which the

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The result of this test made me sound incredible naive! :( And the worst thing is that it's kinda true! damn!You Are a HeartYour life philosophy can be summed up as, "Love like you've never been hurt."Your greatest wish is to have harmony in all of your relationships.You can't help loving people, even when they're incredibly flawed.You are a true romantic, and you are willing to give almost

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top: Wizard v.2; bottom: Wizard v.1It's been 4 years since I started this blog. Last year to celebrate the occasion I gave the blog a total facelift with 4 switchable designs. I wasn't going to re-invent the wheel so quickly, so for this year I set my eyes on improving the existing themes. With the switchable system in place, the update was much easier than ever before. Therefore, to

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The boundaries of New York City's neighborhood is always difficult to figure out. No one can tell you for sure the boundaries between East Village, LES and NoLita, or for a even more confusing fight between the Greenwich Village, West Village, Central Village, and Noho~In North Brooklyn, it seems much easier because of a natural border of McCarren Park - South of the park is Williamsburg and

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The night before Voldemort was hunting me down. He first came to my apartment when I wasn't there. Who knew he would play some childish tricks by messing up my apartment? I came back home and turn on the water, well it's not water anymore, it's dirty sewer water! Of course my roommate was mad about that, but I was like, it's not me! You know who did that, it's my nemesis Voldemort!When I get

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After a week of the use of the new iPhone 2.0 software, my impression is actually mix even if I love the ability to install new apps. The biggest problem I have is that now it takes 40mins to an hour to backup every time you connect it to iTunes. It seriously takes more time to backup something less than 8 GB than let's say, a clean install of OSX on a Mac! Ridiculous!Other than that, I am

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Ever since I started my new job, my cheap Japanese lunch choice has been cut in half. My usual choices when I was working at 43rd and Madison were Oms/B, Zaiya and Zaiya in Kinokuniya. Occasionally Chiyoda and Yagura. Now that I work right on the same block as Oms/B by Lexington, it's way too far to walk to Kinokuniya at 6th Ave. The regular Zaiya, Chiyoda and Yagura are doable even though

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昨晚我又再哭了，只因是自己傻。安裝了一個Whitepage的App在我的iPhone上。打開這個App看見放名字的空格，不其然地便放進了他的名字。誰想到真的找尋到他的資料。 原來他搬了，搬到他以前常提到最理想的地方。不知怎樣，心一痛眼淚已經不知不覺地流下。或者是因為這令我驚覺他以前提到將來的生活，我已經不包括在內，已經 無法參與了。雖然四年以來我還是有斷斷續續地和其他人來往 ，但是對他的記憶我還是無法忘記。是我真的這麼長情嘛，還是自己愚笨，根本不懂得去忘記過去? 他早就已經不在我的身邊，但是原來每一天他還是在傷害着我。到抵是他在傷害着我嗎 ?還是自己沒有停止過去折磨自己?真的不知道原來自己是這麼的恐怖， 還是在渴望可以再一次去遇見他。

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Apple's marketing department always come up with something simple and yet to-the-point, elegant promoting materials. Just look at their promote teaser for their first store in Beijing, China: I just love the simple graphic of Apple's iPod earbuds that got twisted into the shape of a lantern!Now when will there be an official store in Hong Kong?

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Looks like Feist can only count to 4! lol

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I was running down the heavily wore out staircase. The maintenance staff was trying to figure out which piece of the wailing fell out. I told Janet the piece that she has in her hand should go on the side. We chit-chat a bit and she mentioned the condition of the staircase will get worst when the security will station permanently on the staircase itself on the 3rd floor. I walked down to the

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This dream takes me straight into Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, where the accident-prone Bella once again face another dangerous location – the Laundromat! I wasn't sure why she would be in a Laundromat, given that her house would definitely have a washing machine. But here she is, putting all kind of clothes in the machine, no matter if they are light colors, dark colors, big or small.

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The problem with the Journey's End is that the resolutions of everything came just a bit convenient: Sarah Jane Smith was saved by Mickey and Jackie who happened to teleport just by her car? Okay, fine, I accepted it. The Doctor just pointed the regeneration energy to the severed hand after he healed himself so that he won't be fully transform, fine, that's okay too. But to have Gwen and Ianto

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After watching the series 4 finale of the new Doctor Who, it's safe to say that I still would rate series 2 finale Army of Ghosts/Doomsday as the best out of all 4 finales. Series 4's Stolen Earth/Journey's End is a close second. Given we won't see the next series until 2010 and all current creators of the show are stepping down after this year. I am giving an overall review of all 4 finales

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The good thing about being in New York is that you can run into a celebrity or a film set in the most ordinary day and place. You don't need to goto the hottest new club or restaurant. (but of course if you do u will meet even more celebrities~) So let me recap the recent celebrity sighting.1) Lance Bass? - this is I actually not so sure about since it was only seconds before I realize who he is

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Not sure why but yet another dream with friends and food.In the dream I was in a wedding reception. I was talking to this guy that I like. He's Eastern European looking and nice. Then there's this chatty person showed up and immediately talking to me before I can acknowledge him. I was trying to be nice so I had no choice but to talk with him, although I did make the conversation as short as

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June 29 falls on a Pride Sunday again. The last time it happened was 5 years ago in 2003. He hasn't been on my mind, at least not consciously. Memories of him doesn't affect me like it used to. Time has its power to make things faded. But it doesn't mean he's gone. I know no matter how hard I try, he is always in my head somewhere, lurking until a day that I would be emotionally weak. He

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I think I like Doctor Who as much as Buffy/Angel now. As the 4th season of the new Doctor Who series slowly coming to an end, (Just 2 more episodes left!) I can't help but want to talk about it.At first it's hard to compare DW to B/A, even though DW has 26 years of classic episodes, the new series is entirely different experience. If we only counted the new series started in 2005, DW is fairly

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Now that I started to read New Moon, the second book in the Twilight Series. I think I need to talk about the first book – Twilight a little more before I move on. At first I really don't understand why the book was so captivating to me. As good as it is, in term of young adult fantasy series, it doesn't have the depth of His Dark Materials, nor the complexity of the Harry Potter world. But

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Even though Spore won't come out until September, but the creature creator for it is available (trial version)~ many of the options are locked but still, it's more fun than I expected! You can create the creature, test drive it by making it sad, happy, angry, dance, sing, etc. You can record a movie, take a picture as well, everything is build in~ I am very impressed and can't wait for the real

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It's amazing how "real" Pleo feels! I know it's just a robot with a plastic skin, but man he's adorable! I dunno if it's the little noise he makes or he little gesture like waging the tail and giving a sad face, or when you hold him and he fall asleep in your arms. It just make you believe he is real. It makes you feel so proud when you teach him how to shake hands or balance with two feet. My

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I think the first time I mentioned Pleo was back in 2006! so you can see I wanted it for quite some time. As you know Sharper Image is closing and obviously sale is inevitable. They are one of the few retail stores that actually have Pleo...With an attractive price...I got it! More pics and video to follow, but right now because it needs to be charge for 3-4 hours, I am just gonna leave you a

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When I first heard of "Twilight", all I know was that it's another young adult series that got greenlight into a movie starring Cedric from Harry Potter. I didn't think too much about it because the description was just pretty much another vampire movie. Months passed and then the first trailer and poster start popping up online, the buzz gets louder. The trailer doesn't show anything we

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This is an awesome movie ad!!!! How cool is that?? They probably have to pay the government too since it "bloody" up the road as well~ hahaha~~ Okay, it also reminds me, where is that ultimate special edition Kill Bill DVD that Tarantino promised us???? I am still waiting after 5 years!!!!

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While searching for clips of Anne Hathaway in the upcoming movie Get Smart, I found this old clip of her in this year's HRC event accepting an award. Her speech was simple, and yet incredibly touching. She's amazing and I think this country need more of Anne Hathaway!

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The brand new Muji store in the New York Times Building is smaller than I thought. Don't get me wrong, it is spacious, but I guess after Uniqlo's store in Soho, nothing is big enough~ Still, the new store is bigger than the one near Chinatown. One unique thing about the store is that it is surrounded by glass, not only from the sidewalk but from the lobby and the garden of NYT building as well

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After 18 months continuous usage (I hardly EVER shut it off), my iMac finally experiencing problems and need to take a trip to see a genius. Unlike my powerbook, the iMac is a 24" screen giant monster, so a trip to the Apple store for me is a logistic nightmare. Without a car, my choices of Apple store is limited to the accessibility of public transit. The 5th Ave store is immediately

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Many people suffers from impulse buy, me included, but i believe it doesn't affect me as much as I thought. Maybe it's because of my obsessive research everything nature, most of the things I bought I usually have my eyes on it for weeks if not months. Most of them are on my shopping list way before it ends up in my hands. Take yesterday for example, I went out to do some shopping after I

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One thing that I did not expect about myself is how obsessive I want to be stylish. I am not even good looking. I don't have a face or a body that is good for fashion - unless everyone want to be ridiculously skinny without any muscle. Continue on with my fashion craving after the spring scarves, my focus now is on finding a better summer look - the season that I hated the most and the season

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Sometimes people could surprise you. I really did not expect the strong reaction from everyone at work about my leaving. I know I am dependable and always get things done, but the reaction I got this month is just overwhelming. From my boss' genuine tears, to the surprise party she planned, to the book that she waited on line in the store to get autographed for me, I just did not expect she

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Guess where is that escargot going? answer: straight to my stomach!!! hahahaha

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This is by far the funniest take on the Office! My opinion is that the revival of funniness on SNL in the last few years was mainly because of these wacky digital shorts.

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I dunno why but every once in a while i would have dreams about zombies~ I tried to avoid most horror films anyway, so I really not sure why. I had another one last night, luckily the zombies didn't make an appearance at all in the entire dream, but it was the threat of them, the knowing of the city is isolated and surrounding by zombies, that makes the dream scary.Anyway, I figure if I read

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Another reason for me to get excited at Pixar's upcoming WallE! apparently WallE's love interest in the movie - Eve, her design was the result of consulting Apple's design guru Jonathan Ive! No wonder she's all white and round and all integrated and can see no obvious moving parts! She's so Apple that I am so eager to see if I can spot an Apple logo somewhere on her!! haha~BTW, I will probably

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This is by far the best music video!!! It combined a song that I really like - Again and Again by the Bird and the Bee - with a demonstration of every feature you can find on a Mac!!!! It's bloody brilliant!!!!!!

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I still want a Pleo even though I decided not to buy one for now. Mostly hoping for a battery improvement in version 2. But in any case, it is so adorable that even dolphins take notice! Granted someone point out that the video is shot after the trainers get the dolphins' attention and pointed them to Pleo first, but still, they could easily swim away after the first minute or so if they are

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The Olympic Torch passes thru Hong Kong created all sort of excitement and trouble all at the same time. For a person who is not into sports at all, I seriously don't see why the big deal is this at all! But apparently people cared a whole lot, from the list of people who would be carrying the torch, to the route, to the way people run, or even how they hold the torch become a point of criticism.

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Apparently AT&T is replacing T-mobile for Starbucks' hotspots faster than I thought! Just look at the map of wired Starbucks near me!Now the news is that they are providing free Wi-Fi for iPhone!!!! I am smiling!! hehe~~ need to check that out later~

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My apartment was without internet for 4 days or so thanks to Time Warner's incompetence. To recap, I have some crazy dreams I need to write down:1) watch this video first:It's a Scrubs' version of Charlie Brown Christmas. I haven't watch it for a while but I dunno why I had a dream about it. Exact same plot but with the actual cast of Scrubs dressing up as Peanuts' characters!!! It is

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One of the character, Robin, in How I Met Your Mother was a Canadian pop sensation back in the late 80s to early 90s. Yesterday's episode uncovered one of her lost music video from the past! It's hilarious because the music video is filled with cliché of songs from that era, completed with an appearance by Tiffany!! Robin is such a different person now in comparison only makes it even

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I had a weird dream about friends, road trip, and Japanese restaurants:Just like in real life a bunch of us are in a car driving to someplace to shop or eat. Herbert is always the one that's driving. We were driving on a long boulevard that never seems to end, and it's one of those road that goes from wide multi-lanes avenue slowly getting narrower, until to the end, the road and the sidewalk

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Another celebrity sighting happened today after lunch when I was in H&M searching for vest and skinny tie. However, I doubt anyone would know who he is~ Anyone saw the movie Love Actually? that British romantic comedy with tons of characters? Well, one of the smaller character, the ordinary guy named Colin who's obsessed with sex and wanted to go to America to date women that dig British accent!

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I think Judy Greer is terrific, I love her in all her supporting roles in those romantic comedies. I was surprise she showed up in Apple's Get A Mac ad though...cos it never really featured any other stars no matter big or small other than Mac and PC themselves. This wasn't a particular funny commercial comparing to the previous Get A Mac ads, but if you see the next ad I am showing after, you

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I think becoming liaison to the fashion department at work is not doing me any good at all. Cos given how serious I take my job, you know I am going to spend a lot more time getting to know the subject matters so that I can communicate with faculty and students better. Now I know I have fashion sense, but I don't have any formal training nor knowing any terminology or methodology of the

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The world needs more of this type of cute robot that actually do things in the house! It's 2008 already! When will Asimov's robot dream come true??

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I come across this new product - Nubrella - a hand-free umbrella that make you looks like a bubble boy.  Part of me think it looks silly, but then the lazy part of me think it's brilliant that I don't have to hold an umbrella not to mention it's not gonna invert and break like a regular umbrella when facing the wind.  In my opinion it lacks a killer feature that if they have it built in I will

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Now that I am officially the liaison for the Fashion department at work, and with the compliment I received last week.  I expected I will get a question eventually.  So I have prepared a statement just in case someone somehow ask me THE question.Q: What's the secret to my style?A: It's no secret really, my style is easy and affordable.  I have a formula for my style: It's a little bit of hipster,

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I needed to fill out a complicated form which would require me to put in as much as 12 different references.  I am luckily enough to have many friends that knows me well enough to help.  But still the process is tedious.  They required all these references from different period and aspect of my life.  Putting the right person for the right area of reference is like playing a game of sudoku!

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Best compliment of the day:"You look like you just walk out of a GQ magazine!"--- My #1 & #2 boss from Jersey, upon seeing how I dressed when I was about to walk out the buildingIf only guys feel the same about me...

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A week off comes to an end, so what did I do? I am too lazy to write a detail post, so here's a list:Museum: Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - what's more fun than taking naughty pictures with wax figure of your favorite celebrities?Movie:Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who - Surprising good!!!!! Steve Carell and Jim Carey are funny as hell~ and a very touching message of tolerance that hits close to

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Even though iTunes doesn't have a Chinese store, I have always know that the US store does contain some Chinese music in it. When I found out about it a couple years ago, there was only some old "Best of..." albums. Nothing really exciting, not to mention the cataloging was a mess, not to mention the song names are difficult to guess with names like "Yu Zhong Di Lian Ren Men." Seriously, it

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I have always fascinated by the DJs and the mixing they do. Every time when I am in a bar my eyes would always search for the DJ station and see what equipments he uses and if there's a Mac or an iPod in operation~~ So once I found out about this little gadget here i just think it's the coolest thing ever~ This device is called the Tonium Pacemaker, it's for DJs to mix and do all kind of club

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It was around this time last year that I started to contemplate a major update to my blog that lead to the current incarnation with 4 switchable themes. By large I was quite satisfied with the result. Of course there is always room for improvement, and now looking back these rooms are actually huge! So I am thinking it's time to lay out the plan for this year. It will not be a major overhaul

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While continuing my research to improve on my Project Monochrome. I come across this very unique way of book shelving... (viaFreshome)How cool is that???? but really...who has enough books to fill up different colors of the rainbow?? What about books that doesn't fit in the rainbow? put them in another room? throw them away? paint them a

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Phase 1 of my Monochrome project is completed. Overall it is a success! My workspace is now a 100% mac altar - purely white and just the giant 24" iMac and matching accessories and furniture and nothing else. The 3 drawers chest is also doing its job to provide some needed space for my ever expanding and overloading wardrobe! The new card-broad boxes are also much classier than the original

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One of my favorite author passed away today at the age of 90. Arthur C. Clarke, one of the last of the sci-fi literature giants, who is also a visionary in technology that conceptualized communication using satellite. His best known work is 2001 A Space Odyssey. Although I didn't like the movie, but I absolutely loved the book and the entire series. His other works such as Childhood's End and

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I never really consider buying a case for my iPhone because I know I am a very careful person, I'd never drop it and the back of the iPhone is not a mirrored finish like the iPod, so it's not going to be scratch up easily at all. The iPod is another story though, of all the iPods I have, none of them ever leave their cases. Seriously if they were left on their own in a second, the precious

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At a friend's house I found a gigantic Bumblebee from the Transformers movie. Not only he's transformable but he can also talk and move! Well, not so much transformable unless you can find the manual - none of us, even the owner of the robot can't figure out how to completely transform him back to a car~~ He is actually quite a scary robot, holding him while he's all moving and talking and

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Sorry, I know I am obsessive, but just one more post about the iPhone~ just look at this awesome jailbreak app for the iPhone - iAno! Any music instrument playing person should be very interested at this. All I can say is wow! Check it out yourself!Hopefully it will become an official third-party once June roll around~

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Unlike all other Apple events, this week's iPhone SDK event didn't really get my attention as much at first. I didn't sit behind a computer during the event, keep on refreshing all the live blogging page of news media finding out what Steve was announcing. I didn't catch any news until late at night when I get home. Mostly because I know the event won't unleash something that I can lust over

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It's been a month since I was on Accutane. The effect is strikingly noticeable. I haven't have a real break out since then, and if there's anything, it die down and disappeared right away like I never had them. My face is all cleared up. If only the old marks fade away quicker, then I am all set! But there's another thing though, the side effects of this drug is also tremendous! My lips are

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After watching Lipstick Jungle, I thought it is indisputable that the hottie in the show Robert Buckley (Kirby) looks exactly like Scott Speedman (Ben in Felicity and in the movie Underworld). However, my roommate totally disagree!!! He think Robert Buckley looks like Topher Grace in Spiderman 3! To settle this dispute, I am letting America to decide! I am counting on you!! So look at the

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I often dream about all kind of weird fantasy stuffs and zombies are definitely one of the running joke in all of it. I could not stop laughing once I hear this song. The video isn't that funny, but just listen to the music! This Jonathan Coulton guy is awesome to write all these witty lyrics! Not only on zombies but on all kind of things from IKEA to code monkey to evil genius to Flickr!

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A show that name after the main character of the show. A show that the main character is a lawyer who hear music and hallucinate real singers singing in the apartment. Not to mention whatever the hallucination is, it often related to the plot of the episode. Yeah, it's true that it is a description for Ally McBeal, but no, it's not what I am talking about this time, I am actually describing a

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近排我將這首歌不停地重播因為我覺得這首歌似講緊我同某人的關係.楊千嬅 - 只談風月不談戀愛來坐低 談論亦舒的作品內裡角色都流行 看破情感共你能坐低 閒談電視「２４」劇情的震憾內裡底蘊 逃避說愛你餘下題目別要緊雜誌又報導女星結婚就這樣退下覺得無憾你話 別要盲目到為愛犧牲為你講東講西再為你講到地理天高海深從何時得出這天地其實是不甘心談論我怎掛念你若要拖多一刻我就要講到物理憑物質分析心理下個題目應該說布拉格傳奇也不想 涉及你來坐低 延續辯論上次曼聯的佈陣令你興奮 從未會待我同樣強烈地上心亂說日報上那經濟版預算大市近況很平淡再淡 未夠談論愛更加心淡尚要講東講西議論到煮餸料理中式西式從何時更改你口味其實是不甘心談論我怎掛念你若要拖多一刻我就說掌相命理從沒有這種福氣下個題目應該說你婚嫁日期也不敢 碰運氣彼此之間講到去上世紀而情懷總要拼命迴避難得放下了跟你是與非

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I stayed home this entire weekend because I was trying to save money. I calculated that I spend an average of 60 dollars if I hang out on a weekend, so by staying in, 60 bucks saved. So why the sudden urge to save? well, it's because I realize this year I have 2 weddings to attend in LA, one in the summer, one in the fall. I look up the price for the plane tickets, it's in the range of $400-

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My friend recently renovated his tint apartment and it looks totally refreshing. It's amazing how a fresh coat of paint and some rearrangement can do to the space. Of course that inspired me with a million idea about my own place. I never really invested a lot to my own apartment. I have always viewed it as an intermediate step toward my own place (since right now I am sharing it with my

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After hearing the news about every standalone Starbucks (7,100 of them!) will be closed for 3 hours from 5:30-8:30pm on 2/26/08 for a supposedly "training session." I can't help but thinking what will the training about? and did all the McDonald closed for training before? what about Dunkin' Donuts? Isn't the whole thing just a little bit strange? Some humorously put it as something evil is going

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It's V-day again. But more importantly, it's also the 3 years anniversary of my powerbook. It's actually kinda sad because it's the end of the Applecare so from now on, if he breaks, I'll have to pay to fix him. He's still in a pretty good condition, and tonight I'll give him a nice "wash" to make him all pretty and clean.I got myself a little treat too, well, not so much little, but

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Even though I have been to a fair number of concerts, this is actually my first ever Cantonese concert! so I was very excited, not to mention Eason's friends with Miriam. I kinda feel like I am one step closer to see Miriam in concert~ :)The concert was in Mohegan Sun Casino in Conn., the same place I went to last year to see Leehom Wang's concert. Since this time we are driving instead of

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Finally have a chance to watch Resident Evil: Extinction. I have always found the Resident Evil series to be entertaining and usually a good B movie, this last of the series is no exception. (they will probably make a fourth eventually, but until then~) It's a refreshing take to the genre because this time most of the film take places in board daylight, in the dessert - you know, a setting more

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The writer's strike is finally over! so the big question is will the shows that I watch have any new episodes this season? I found a list on TV guide, but here are the ones that I cared about:Awesome news: 30 RockExpected to shoot 5 to 10 new episodes to air in April/May.Brothers & SistersOne pre-strike episode remains. Expected to shoot 4 or 5 additional episodes to air in April/May.Gossip

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I was talking with a group of friends and the topic somehow become how we put personal touch into our work environments. One talked about how he put Ikea furniture into his lab, while another one talked about how much that he re-arrange his classroom that other teachers started comment on it. Those are extreme cases to have such an autonomy to do that, i think most people some pictures are

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I love discovering new artist. I guess when it come to new music, it's just like new gadgets for me, I am an early adopter~ I usually listen to new singers before they become mainstream and before anyone know their names. So here is another unexpected new discovery:I was watching the latest episode of Cashmere Mafia, where Lucy Liu's character have a thing for her friend's new sexy "manny" Adam

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When I read this list about how things happened in movies and TV that are not rooted in reality, the funny one that caught my eyes are the geeky ones:17. If you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts, your opponents will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around you in a threatening manner until you have defeated their predecessor.18. If a microphone is turned

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The writers are still on strike, so what did the late night talk show hosts do to fill their time? Well, create an argument that would last multiple episodes and eventually led to a crossover between the talk show hosts! I love Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert! They are just awesome on their own already, but with this feud, it's a once in a lifetime moment for them to crossover in

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