In threes

Got a tag-back from Maria for this meme. Without fanfairs, here goes:

three physical things you like about yourself:

1) easily tan skin

2) legs

3) height

three physical things you don’t:

1) lack of hair

2) bad eyesight

3) nose

three things that scare you:

1) poverty

2) not able to see

3) being in a car driven by Leah’s dad 🙂

three of your everyday essentials:

1) computers

2) iPod

3) sugar rush from coke/chocolate/sweets

three things you are wearing now:

1) watch

2) Lance Armstrong wrist band

3) eyeglasses

three of your favorite bands or musical artists:

1) Perl Jam

2) Alanis Morissette

3) Blue Man Group

three things you want in a relationship:

1) desire

2) friendship

3) trust

two truths and a lie (which is a lie?):

1) I miss my relatives

2) I love eating

3) I love my job

three physical things that turn you on:

1) sight

2) sound

3) words

three of your favourite hobbies:

1) computer programming

2) reading

3) sports (golf, tennis, etc.)

three things you want to do really badly right now:

1) vacation

2) win lottery

3) drive

three careers you are considering:

1) photographer

2) chef

3) law enforcement agent such as FBI or Secret Service (but not before I fix my eyesight and get my citizenship first)

three places you want to go on vacation:

1) Italy

2) Japan

3) Oz

three things you want to do before you die:

1) learn to sail

2) learn to fly

3) drive a McLaren F1

three people you are throwing this to next:

1) Flaming Zinc

2) Badly Dubbed Boy

3) Neatly Sliced

DVD meme

I didn’t even know I got tagged to do the DVD meme by badly dubbed boy until Leah told me last night. So here goes.

Total number of films I own on DVD/video: At last count a few minutes ago, 72. This doesn’t include Leah’s own extensive collection though.

The last film I bought: Lost In Translation. Why didn’t Bill Murray win the Oscar for his role? Is there no justice in this world?

The last film I watched: That’s easy one. Star Wars Episode III. Bad acting but great movie.

Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):

Contact: Probably the best Sci-Fi movie I’ve seen. Forgetting the possibility or impossibility of alien contact, the deeper question is whether you will volunteer to go or not despite the risk? Me? Definitely a go.

Forrest Gump: Tom Hank may not be the best actor ever, but his portray of Forrest Gump was pretty spot on. But it was the story that made this movie works. There isn’t another movie (that I know of) that digests recent American history that well.

Top Gun: I know it is cheesy and it is Tom Cruise. But when you were a bored teenager spending a long summer school break in Hong Kong without much spare money to spend, Top Gun was great movie to pass time!

The Original Star Wars Trilogy: Enough said.

Band of Brothers: I know this is not a film but since we are talking just DVDs… Easily the best TV mini-series by a long margin. The camaraderie of the paratroopers and the scarifies they made for the greater good can made even a grown man cries.

And to pass this on…

Flaming Zinc
authenticgeek
nada mas respira
Neatly Sliced

ex-Com(GS)municated

The AMEX letter has arrived yesterday with details on where I have to send my damaged Treo to complete the claim. I’ve just dropped the package off a Mailbox etc. on a UPS 2nd Day Air. So now I won’t have a cell phone for at least two weeks. Even the extra old cell phones we have in the apartment don’t help since they are locked to the old AT&T network and now I am with Cingular. Damn those stupid phone locking business! The whole point of GSM is so we can just use our SIM card on any phones in the world but no, these American carriers are too short-sighted to see the advantages and stuck at the revenue models of the mid-90s.

Painful Read

I’ve read many books of difficult subjects for the past 10 years. Ranging from scary (The Hot Zone), to hopeless (Deliver Us from Evil), to heroism (D-Day : June 6, 1944) and many in between. But, no books is as difficult for me to read as the The 9/11 Commission Report.

Reading history as recent as 2001 and as involved as I did, it was almost like reliving that day again. And memory I have of the WTC is as vivid as 2001. I can still remember the shopping mall layout in relationship to the Chamber Street subway station exit, or the Courtlandt Street station exit. I remember the shops that were next to the stations. I remember the lunches that we had in the courtyard between the towers. I now understand why the relatives of those who perished that day won’t want to listen to the FDNY/NYPD/PAPD radio conversations, or the audio tracks from the four hijacked aircraft, let alone released to the public.

But read I must because I am a information/history freak, but more importantly, how else would I be able to make informed decision without the necessary information to put my decision in correct context? Am I suppose to just trust the American media to inform me?

Wow, 16 years already

I was 13 when Tiananmen Square happened. No more need to be said.

And here is the CNN coverage. I am kind of surprise that they devote such a long piece to an event that has no major American interest.

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