Huh?

Last Friday night as I was sitting in my assigned seat, waiting for my red eye flight to take off, the flight attendant went through the special safety instruction for the people a few rows in front of me. Basically it said that if there were an emergency, those people has to help open the doors for evacuation over the aircraft wings. Easy right? That was until the flight attendant enquired that any of those passengers spoke english! Two of the passengers apparently did not so they had to swap seats with another two passengers who do speak english.

Huh? Why does one need to know english to know the plane is crash landing and when it finishes crashing, one has to open the damn door so everyone can get out?

At least this incident provided some comic relief for those of us tired bodies that night.

June 22, 2003 0

I'm singing in the rain

Rain, rain, and more rain…

June 21, 2003 0

TiVo

With Leah back in the UK and I just found out I have to travel to my company’s HQ on the west coast for a week, I finally decided that setting VCR and cable box timers are just no fun. So I went and bought a TiVo today.

It is the series 2 – 80 hours version. The 80 hours is a bit misleading as it can only achieve that if I set all my recording using low quality setting. With highest quality, I can get around 24 hours out of it. Still not too bad.

Only took me about an hour to set it up, with me spending 30 minutes just to wire it between cable box, VCR, and the TV. The software setup was a breeze. Same with setting up TV programs to record. Especially with the Season Pass feature, where you just select one show and it can work out and record all the remaining episode for you. Nifty.

June 13, 2003 0

Hollywood & Homicide

Last night was the preview of the Hollywood Homicide in NYC. Leah and I of course went to see it. I had below average expectation because Harrison Ford in comedy? To my surprise, the movie was actually very funny and strike a very good balance on humors and plot line. Both Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett gave subtle but comedic performance. One especially funny scene was when both of them interrogated by the internal affair. The final car chase scene was pretty exciting too, though not as good as The Italian Job, or The Matrix Reloaded. It is a comedy after all.

June 8, 2003 0

Red Hook

After nearly two years, I’ve finally developed the B&W slides that I took during a camera club field trip to Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York. You can see them in details here.

Here is a taste for you.